Contributor:
Jam Handy Organization, Inc - Avil, Gordon - General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division
Date:1936
Film, Video
[Home movies from Freud Archives, 1938-1939--Sigmund Freud--home movies]
Freud, Sigmund--home movies from Freud archives, 1937-1938 | Sigmund Freud--home movies
This color film consists largely of segments shot in the Freud garden at 20 Maresfield Gardens in London. Appearing in the film are Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Ernst L. Freud, Martha Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham, Paula Fichtl, and a variety of grandchildren, among others. In various scenes, the chow Lün and Pekinese Jumbo play, members of the household garden, and Sigmund...
[Home movies from Freud Archives, 1939--Sigmund Freud--home movies]
Freud, Sigmund--Home movies from Freud archives, 1937-1938 | Sigmund Freud--home movies
The film was made in May 1939 on a day celebrating what would be Freud's last birthday. The largely color film shows preparations before the party, including Paula Fichtl tying decorative collars and messages around the necks of the chow, Lün and Pekinese, Jumbo. A table is prepared to hold gifts and mementos. Other scenes take place during the party. Family members and guests...
Contributor:
Bonaparte, Marie
Date:1939
Film, Video
Television
Sponsored film promoting television sets and briefly explaining the technology and process. Demonstrates how mobile broadcast units work, and shows extended demonstration of cinematography of a live orchestra.
Contributor:
Ullman, Frederic - RKO Radio Pictures - Radio Corporation of America
Date:1939
Film, Video
Bullet-proof!
Four Frigidaire salesmen discuss their tactics for selling Frigidaire refrigerators. They highlight five features: dependability, lower operating costs, superior ice making ability, versatile storage space, and food protection. The ideal refrigerator sales pitch centers on these five features making Frigidaire refrigerators the perfect package.
Contributor:
Toomey, Regis - Jam Handy Organization - Beddoe, Don - General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division
Contributor:
Paramount Pictures, Inc - Nolan, Edward - Fleischer, Dave - Germanetti, George
Date:1936
Film, Video
Working Catholic Youth's Second National Congress and Convention of 100 Marriages, Montreal, 1939.
The Jeunesse ouvrière catholique (Working Catholic Youth) in Quebec produced this silent film in 1939, which depicts the Congrès des cent mariages (Convention of 100 Marriages) on the occasion of its Second National Congress. The film is in the Fonds d'archives de la Jeunesse ouvrière catholique (Working Catholic Youth Archive) at the Quebec National Library and Archives. The Canadian group was modeled after the...
Contributor:
Young Christian Workers
Date:1939
Film, Video
A better America
Shows WPA projects being carried out on a nation-wide level during the depression. Includes sewage disposal plants and sewer construction, medical services for the indigent, sewing rooms where women make garments for needy families, education projects, and nursery schools.
Contributor:
U.S. Government Films Collection (Library of Congress) - Pathe News - United States. Works Progress Administration - United States. Work Projects Administration
Date:1937
Film, Video
[Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon--home movies].
Footage showcases the Lyons with friends and family in a California beach house setting. The next segment reveals Bebe and Ben at home, lounging and dining with their respective mothers, showing off their infant daughter Barbara and visiting Bryce Canyon with family. This is followed by footage of "Bebe Daniels - In Person" appearing at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco with Ben on...
The oasis
Frigidaire refrigerator. Oasis--theater commercial
Discusses the hardships felt during the July 1934 heat wave in the Rio Grande region. American Indian dancers are shown performing in ceremonies or rituals meant to change the weather. The Frigidaire refrigerater and its super freezer are presented as a way to better preserve food and save families during the harsh weather.
Contributor:
Frigidaire Corporation - Jam Handy Organization
[La Bergasse, Vienna, hiver 1937--Sigmund Freud--home movies]
Freud, Sigmund--Home movies from Freud archives, 1937-1938 | Sigmund Freud--home movies
The movie was taken at the Freud home at Berggasse 19 in Vienna in the winter of 1937. It opens with close-ups of Sigmund Freud in his study. He poses as if sitting for a still portrait. The contents of the room, including Freud's desk and antiquities collection, are filmed as well. Other scenes depict Anna Freud's rooms, including her bed with a Madonna-like...
[Loretta Young studio footage, 1934-36--Loretta Young--home movies].
Loretta Young--home movies
Behind the scenes footage of Loretta Young on the sets of various films including Bulldog Drummond strikes back (1934), Caravan (1934), White parade (1934), and The call of the wild (1935).
Always kickin'
Comedic short film depicting a young football kicker trying out for a college football team. He receives advice from Jim Thorpe and eventually wins the game for his team.
Contributor:
Gleason, James - Dunn, Eddie - Educational Pictures (Firm) - Hendrian, Dutch - Paddock, Charles W. (Charles William) - Rogan, Florence - Gleason, Russell - Lewis, Ralph - Pallette, Eugene - Thorpe, Jim - Hammons, E. W. - Gleason, Lucille
Date:1932
Film, Video
[Flash Gordon serials--trailers].
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files. Trailers for the first two Flash Gordon serials spliced together on one reel. Original serial based on the comic strip by Alex Raymond. Sources used: Kinnard, Fifty years of serial thrills, p. 129-161; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 25, 2013; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed October 25, 2013.
Contributor:
Crabbe, Buster - Middleton, Charles - Afi/Triangle Laboratories Estate Collection (Library of Congress) - Rogers, Jean
Date:1936
Film, Video
[Le Professeur Freud de Vienne à Londres par Paris--Sigmund Freud--home movies]
Freud, Sigmund--home movies from Freud archives, 1937-1938 | Sigmund Freud--home movies
The film, "Professor Freud from Vienna to London via Paris, Part One," opens in the summer of 1937 at the home of Ruth Mack Brunswick and Mark Brunswick at 19 Hasenauerstrasse, Vienna, Austria, followed by scenes of the Freud family in their rented villa in Grinzing, Vienna, Austria, where they summered in 1934-1937. Visits by writer Arnold Zweig, his wife and son; psychoanalyst Max...
Contributor:
Bonaparte, Marie
Date:1937
Film, Video
The river
Depression-era documentary which chronicles the exploration and exploitation of the Mississippi River from the Civil War through the 1920s.
Contributor:
Van Dyke, Willard - Afi/Sheerin (Robert M.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress) - Chalmers, Thomas - United States. Farm Security Administration - Zochling, Leo - Nosler, Lloyd - Lorentz, Pare - Crosby, Floyd - Woodard, Stacy - Young (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress)
