1950s In Film

How to Date 1950s (Instructional Video)

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Duration: 10:46
Updated: 23 Dec 2012

Please visit www.simplywebsearch.com and http An instructional video from the 1950's. How to date, its full of the do's and don'ts to have a socially acceptable, mainstream date. Interesting to see how casual dating has changed over the years and the acceptable activites for dating have advanced.

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What The Butler Saw (1950) Rare Hammer Film

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Duration: 60:12
Updated: 26 Dec 2012

This era of Hammer films is frustratingly under-representated on DVD. The films are out there amongst collectors, but few of them get shared unless money changes hands. So I thought I'd post this one up complete, in the hope that other fans might do the same with rare titles in their collections, and stop those who don't own the rights from making a fast buck. Of course, I don't own the rights either and will remove this video should the copyright holders request so, or if the film actually comes out on DVD. Okay - anyone out there care to post up 'Celia', 'Meet Simon Cherry', 'The Adventures Of PC49' etc.?

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Remington-Rand Presents the Univac

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Duration: 17:32
Updated: 05 Dec 2012

UNIVAC is one of the earliest commercial computers and was easily the most famous computer of the 1950s. This film, produced between 1950 and 1952, shows how the UNIVAC computer was used in business, defense and by the census. The film shows several of the important portions of the UNIVAC system at work, including the high-speed printer, the UNISERVO tape drive, the UNITYPER, card readers and the mercury delay line tanks that served as main memory. The programming process is fully discussed and a business problem is demonstrated. These films served a promotional film as well as a way to demystify computers to the average person.

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I Feel Like Saying A Beatnik Poem 1950's B Movie Style

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Duration: 3:00
Updated: 19 Dec 2012

A great clip from the 1958 teen B movie High School Confidential. This clip features Phillipa Fallon as a beat poetess. That's Uncle Fester, AKA Jackie Coogan on piano behind her. Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum. Tomorrow... drag xoxo

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Swimming Cap Fashions (1950s)

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Duration: 2:59
Updated: 20 Dec 2012

Swimming Cap Fashions (1950s) taken from the British Pathe reel 'Swim Caps'. Check out the Vintage Fashions Channel: ‪www.youtube.com Check out the British Pathe YouTube Channel: ‪www.youtube.com Follow us on Twitter: @britishpathe (‪www.twitter.com Join us on Facebook: ‪www.facebook.com All 90000 British Pathe reels can be viewed and enjoyed on:‪www.britishpathe.com‬

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Journey by a London Bus (1950)

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Duration: 8:04
Updated: 22 Dec 2012

Very much beloved of Victor Lewis-Smith, this production by the Colonial Film Unit tells those finding themselves foreign, how to use London's bus service. Note to writers of American television programmes: this is exactly what life is still like in Britain, and you are quite correct to groundlessly assume that everyone still speaks in either a plummy BBC accent, or is a cockney urchin. And yes, the terms 'Britain', 'England' and 'London' all refer to exactly the same place.

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Racism in America: Small Town 1950s Case Study Documentary Film

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Duration: 30:16
Updated: 26 Dec 2012

Racism in the United States has been a major issue since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy burden on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latin Americans. European Americans (particularly Anglo Americans) were privileged by law in matters of literacy, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure over periods of time extending from the 17th century to the 1960s. Many non-Protestant European immigrant groups, particularly American Jews, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, as well as other immigrants from elsewhere, suffered xenophobic exclusion and other forms of discrimination in American society. Major racially structured institutions included slavery, Indian Wars, Native American reservations, segregation, residential schools (for Native Americans), and internment camps. Formal racial discrimination was largely banned in the mid-20th century, and came to be perceived as socially unacceptable and/or morally repugnant as well, yet racial politics remain a major phenomenon. Historical racism continues to be reflected in socio-economic inequality. Racial stratification continues to occur in employment, housing, education, lending, and government. The 20th century saw a hardening of institutionalized racism and legal discrimination against citizens of African descent in the United States. Although technically able to vote, poll taxes, acts of terror (often perpetuated by ...

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1950's Allis-Chalmers promotional film for WD-45 tractors

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Duration: 9:31
Updated: 23 Dec 2012

This is a promotional 16mm. film showing how the tractors are made in the factory and their special features. The film is entitled "A New High". It is slightly longer than 10 minutes so the last part will be in a separate video.

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1950s Palm Springs Tourism Video

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Duration: 18:35
Updated: 23 Dec 2012

A look at the past of Palm Springs

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Funny Office Safety Training Retro Video! Hilarious!! 'You and Office Safety' - Safetycare free prev

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Duration: 8:05
Updated: 23 Dec 2012

You and Office Safety! is the most hilarious video on Office Safety you will watch! Made in the 1950s, this film is perfect as an eye-catching ice-breaker when delivering office safety training. Although the fashions have long-gone, and some of the behaviours in the workplace have changed, this program still addresses the following topics which are just as relevant today as when You and Office Safety! was made: •Good Housekeeping •Slips, Trips and Falls •Manual Handling •Electrical Hazards •Fire Safety •Correct use of Office Furniture •Being Responsible for your Actions Its easy to consider the office a perfectly safe work environment, and forget about the hazards that can exist. Just because you work in an office, it doesnt mean you shouldnt be concerned for your own health and safety, and that of your colleagues. Copyright Safetycare For funny and serious Safety Videos and DVDs - go to www.safetycare.com

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Duck and Cover - 1950s Nuclear Bomb educational film

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Duration: 9:16
Updated: 22 Dec 2012

The (in)famous film of the 1950s, which taught people the dubious advice of "Ducking and Covering" if the United States were subject to a nuclear attack. NOOOOOO, if you duck and cover in a school bus, the gas won't ignite from the blast and cause the bus to explode.

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Harry Enfield - Women know your limits

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Duration: 2:20
Updated: 25 Dec 2012

Hilarious clip from Harry Enfield and Chums

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"Premakes" The Empire Strikes Back (1950)

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Duration: 2:54
Updated: 25 Dec 2012

What if Star Wars was a 50s 3-D Movie? Let's turn back the clock, shall we? Back to a distant time in an alternate universe far, far away... The 50s! It was a simpler age of 3-D movies, and robots named Robby, Gort, and Tobor. A hidden gem of this period in cinema is a little film called "The Empire Strikes Back", the second chapter in a planned three-part epic science fiction trilogy. While the preceding and succeeding episodes were never actually produced due to budgetary constraints, "Empire" shines as an example of 1950s 3-D space opera. The re-release of this trailer coincides with the 60th anniversary of this amazing film. But, seriously folks... ever since I started cutting these premakes, I have had constant requests for a retro version of Star Wars. This is a little thank you gift for everyone who has been watching my work. Here is the recipe for the trailer: Flash Gordon (Deadline at Noon, Conquers the Universe), The Phantom Planet, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Invasion of the Animal People, Man Beast, Lunar Walker, Golden Bat (Ogon Batto), The Mysterians, Captain Midnight, First Spaceship on Venus, The Flying Saucer, The Fighting Devil Dogs, The Outer Limits (Second Chance, Soldier, I Robot, The Sixth Finger), Things to Come, Space Patrol, Atragon, Terror in the Midnight Sun, Forbidden Planet, Rocketship XM, Latitude Zero, Space Flight, Metropolis, The Jetsons, Devil Girl From Mars, Tobor the Great, The Alligator People, The Return of the Fly, Abominable ...

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1950 - What Makes a Good Party

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Duration: 10:33
Updated: 22 Dec 2012

1950s educational video about what, infact, makes a "good" party.

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Quicksand (1950) FULL MOVIE

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Duration: 78:36
Updated: 24 Dec 2012

www.zazzle.com Quicksand (1950) is a United Artists film noir starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre in a story about a garage mechanic's descent into crime. The film has been described as "film noir in a teacup... a pretty nifty little picture" in which Rooney "cast himself against his Andy Hardy goody goody image." Rooney co-financed Quicksand with Peter Lorre but their shares of the profits were reportedly left unpaid by a third partner. Most of the film was shot on location in Santa Monica, California, with a few exterior scenes at Santa Monica Pier. Swing era bandleader Red Nichols and His Five Pennies are seen and heard in a nightclub scene. A display box of Bit-O-Honey candy shown by a cash register soon after the film begins is an early example of product placement. Bruce Eder of Allmovie wrote Rooney "...gives what many consider to be the best performance of his career" and characterized Quicksand as "one of the more fascinating social documents of its era." Directed by Irving Pichel; Produced by Mort Briskin/Samuel H. Stiefel; Written by Robert Smith Starring: Mickey Rooney; Jeanne Cagney; Barbara Bates; Peter Lorre

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Dangerous Playground - Southern Pacific RailRoad 1950's - Educational Safety Film about Trains

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Duration: 11:39
Updated: 21 Dec 2012

This is an educational safety film released by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1950's showing the dangers that face unsuspecting children when they use the railroad property as a playground. Also shows other unacceptable behavious such as throwing rocks at trains or putting objects on the tracks, and their potential consequences including train derailment or personal injury. From a rail forum on "Altamont Press" I've learnt the sequence with the boy crossing the trestle was filmed on the NWP's Tiburon Branch (trestle over "Blackie's Pasture.") and the scenes of the PA with the kids and the engineer were filmed at SP's East Oakland yard. From en.wikipedia.org The Southern Pacific Transportation Company (reporting mark SP), earlier Southern Pacific Railroad (1865--1885) and Southern Pacific Company (1885--1969), and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or (from the railroad's initials) Espee, was an American railroad. The railroad was founded as a land holding company in 1865, later acquiring the Central Pacific Railroad by lease. By 1900, the Southern Pacific Company had grown into a major railroad system which incorporated many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, and which extended from New Orleans through Texas to El Paso, across New Mexico and through Tucson, to Los Angeles, throughout most of California including San Francisco and Sacramento; it also included the Central Pacific Railroad ...

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Better Use for Leisure Time (1950)

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Duration: 10:32
Updated: 20 Dec 2012

A 1950s Coronet instructional film detailing how teenagers should spend their free time. It's quite humorous, in that campy, 'this should be on MST3K' sort of way.

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1950s Housewife in LSD Experiment

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Duration: 8:46
Updated: 26 Dec 2012

From a television programme, circa 1956, about mental health issues. Dr Sidney Cohen, was dosing volunteers at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. Dr Cohen, seen sitting at a table and wearing a lounge suit - his legs crossed in the classic I'm-a-scientist pose - interviews the unidentified housewife, who is dressed in her best black frock. She tells the doctor: 'My husband is an employee here at the VA and he said they were looking for normal people, so I volunteered.' Dr Cohen asks: 'How do you feel about coming here and drinking this strange material?' She replies: 'A little nervous, perhaps.' In the unintentionally comical manner that seems to be the preserve of 1950s training films, the camera zooms in on an innocuous-looking glass of clear liquid on the table, as the good doctor says: 'Well, I think it's time for you to have your lycergic acid. Drink this down and we'll be back after a while and see how you're doing.' As the housewife obediently drains the glass and Dr Cohen smiles benevolently, a dramatic voice-over explains: 'This is a glass of water, colourless, tasteless. It contains 100 gamma of LSD 25. One tenth of a milligram, the equivalent of one 600th of a grain. 'An ounce of this material will make 150000 such doses. Let us observe the affect some three hours later.' Unsurprisingly, three hours later the housewife is insanely high. She says: 'Everything is in colour and I can feel the air. I can see it, I can see all the molecules - I'm ...

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3rd Avenue El - early 1950's

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Duration: 10:38
Updated: 02 Dec 2012

What is a 3rd Avenue El? It's the elevated train that used to run up and down Manhattan until the mid-1950's, when it was decommissioned and turned into scrap metal. Despite this, you can still experience the trip through New York City that vanished over half-a-century ago, not only from the overhead view of the train window, but through the actual neighborhoods and with the authentic people who road it daily. A beatnik photographer with a tripod, a stumbling drunk from the old Bowery, a giddy little girl traveling with her father, and a couple on a romantic excursion help create a loose narrative. For the soundtrack, a sprightly rendition of Haydn's Concerto in D for Harpsichord is accompanied by all of the real sounds of a metropolitan elevated subway trip. Along with it's superb photography and creative editing, a viewing of '3rd Avenue El' is like taking a ten minute vacation to a place that is no more. See more films at: www.weirdovideo.com

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Tulsa Oklahoma in the 1950's - Cities in America Documentary

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Duration: 15:25
Updated: 24 Dec 2012

A US Government educational film for the 1950's showing the history and role of Tulsa as a marketing center for Oklahoma's farm region and the oil industry. Discusses Tulsa's emergence as a boom town after the discovery of oil and its development into a meatpacking, grain and cotton center. The film also explains the oil industry's impact on Tulsa's economy, families and educational facilities. We see students from the petroleum engineering school at the University of Tulsa visit local refineries and many scenes of typical 1950's life in America. This film has been made available to the general public thanks to the US Government Fedflix program.

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Talyllyn Slate Railway (Wales) circa 1950 - "Railway With A Heart Of Gold"

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Duration: 14:29
Updated: 20 Dec 2012

This film is an account of the Talyllyn Railway, a historic narrow-gauge slate carrier in Tywyn, Wales, and its operation by a preservation society who saved it from being sold for scrap. Although the release date is 1965, it was actually filmed in the early 1950s. Academic Film Archive of North America director Geoff Alexander visited the railway in June, 2009 as part of the process of preparing the film for uploading: "Opened in 1865, the Talyllyn railway was the first narrow-gauge steam railway opened specifically for industrial hauling by steam. Since saving the railway in the late 1940's, hundreds of individuals have been involved in keeping it running, and visitors are welcome to ride (www.talyllyn.co.uk) The passion for the railway on the part of the Society is extraordinary. Volunteers are classed in three groups: adults, adolescents, and children, and a significant number of marriages and children have happened as a result of the social interaction among society members. I found the Talyllyn experience to be a culture with a passion for preservation. Filmmaker Kit Davidson gave the Society the right to use this film to raise funds, and they sell the DVD in their shop. When I arrived, the four people cleaning the locomotive spontaneously started whistling the theme to this film, written by Judd Woldin. The railway is easily visited by rail from virtually any point in the UK, as connections can be made to the town of Tywyn, in Wales, where the Talyllyn Railway is ...

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Control Your Emotions (1950) Part 1

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Duration: 8:17
Updated: 22 Dec 2012

This bizarre film is hosted by an unnamed "psychologist." While spouting Pavlovian claptrap such as "Fear is triggered by loud noises" and "Your emotions can be your own greatest enemy," he repeatedly interrupts the story of "Jeff," the film's protagonist. Jeff -- who looks like a heroin addict -- has a lot of trouble controlling his emotions, and the psychologist is always ready to pop in with statements such as "If this kind of behavior is repeated often, it might lead to a permanently warped personality." Control Your Emotions doubles as a lesson in behaviorist psychology and an admonition to postwar American children. "Before man learned how to control fire and put it to work, it was man's greatest enemy. In much the same way, your emotions can be your own greatest enemy." Similar messages percolate throughout the social guidance films of the 1940s and 1950s (see, for example, A Date With Your Family, where the narrator intones, "Pleasant, unemotional conversation helps the digestion"). The links between the effort to manage and regulate outbursts of feeling and the national offensive to smooth out adolescent behavioral excesses often seem obscure. There is no doubt, however, that the architects of Fifties consensus (psychologists, educators, the judiciary, sociologists and advertisers) wished to discourage "unproductive" and negativistic behavior. "Severe emotional stress," says the narrator of this film, "often decreases efficiency." What seems clearest is that for ...

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Buying Food (1950)

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Duration: 11:15
Updated: 24 Dec 2012

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Harry Enfield
Harry Enfield at the 2009 BAFTA Television Awards in London
Born	(1961-05-30) 30 May 1961 (age 51) Horsham, West Sussex, England
Medium	Television, Film, Stand up
Nationality	British
Years active	1984–present
Genres	Sketch shows, Character comedy, Satire
Influences	Dick Emery, Ben Elton
Influenced	Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse

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Name	Harry Enfield
Alternative names
Short description	Actor, comedian, writer
Date of birth	30 May 1961
Place of birth	Hastings, Sussex, England
Date of death
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