Vintage Reels

Examples of broadcast advertising from the 1950s and 1960s.

Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.

Lively children illustrate the results of good nutrition, affection, and intelligent care.

Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future."

Bunker Hill, LA - "waiting to be leveled, to make way for a new world of concrete steel and glass" Shows old homes on Bunker Hill, destruction and reconstruction

This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.

Screen ad for instant laundry starch.

Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.

Wartime work of public welfare agencies in the field of nutrition.

Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration with Stewart A. Koser, Ph.D, Department of Bacteriology and Parasitology, the University of Chicago, Warren Everote, Producer. 0595 PA8087 Bacteria: Friend and Foe

Structure of the skin; good cleanliness habits; the proper way to wash; the correct use of soap.

Opportunities for employment servicing America's vast motor fleet.

Epic history of industrial medicine in the first half of the 20th century, showing how manufacturers and the medical profession came to terms with one another and culminating in GM's rehabilitation program for returned World War II…