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Your Social Security (c 1940s)

Explains how SS, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems work, focuses on the helpful SS workers, strongly encourages workers to file for their SS cards; also shows some of the inner workings of the giant system We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have […]

Your Teeth

Uses animation to show how the first teeth form and are replaced by larger, permanent teeth. Shows the way decay can start, and stresses the importance of good dental habits and good food. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage […]

Your Thrift Habits (1948)

Presents a lesson in thrift and budgeting. Points out the value of setting up a budget for systematic savings by careful buying without extravagances, and choosing between immediate and future satisfactions. We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested […]

Your Town (1966)

Introduces bank services for the individual – checking accounts, savings accounts, installment loans, mortgage loans, trusts, home improvement loans, vacation and Christmas savings and education loans. Shows bank services for the community–business, construction and agricultural loans and business services. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com […]

Your Town: A Story of America (1940)

As Jerry passes the local Manson factory, a crowd is gathered outside. He stops to see “the fun.” Someone on a soap box is shouting “down with this, and down with that” and then a stone is thrown through the factory window. Jerry would have gotten into the brawl that followed, but Mike, a policeman […]

Yours for a Song (1954)

Shows a backyard bird sanctuary in Berlin, Conn., which was established to attract migrating and resident birds throughout the year. Explains that birds are attracted to yards and gardens if they are provided with food, water, and shelter. Includes views of twenty-four different species of birds. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V […]

Youth Physical Fitness (1963(

Demonstrates the need for a regular physical fitness program in the school classroom; explains how appraisal, identification, daily exercise, and achievement underlie all physical fitness programs, and how any classroom teacher, without special training in physical education, can initiate a program of physical fitness applicable to any classroom with no need for the purchase of […]

Zoology: Animal Intelligence (ca 1940s)

Kids leaning over fence at zoo looking at animals Mother hippopotamus and son in pool at zoo CU head of hippo resting in water; small male hippo swimming around, resting on her nose Cow operates farm pump handle with her head and drinks water, in perfect rhythm (good) Chimpanzee shining shoes at shoeshine stand (this […]