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- After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
- A cautionary training film for those who operate and repair heavy equipment. Vignettes show men taking short cuts in their work, doing things they aren't trained for, neglecting to warn a less-experienced worker, using the wrong tool or a tool that's in disrepair, ignoring proper safety practices, trying to appear macho in front of fellow workers, thinking their reflexes are quicker than they are, working while distracted, and generally putting themselves and others at risk. The film is punctuated by the song, "Shake Hands with Danger," the story of Three-Finger Joe. Filmed using Caterpillar equipment.
- Calvin the elf is always getting into mischief. One Christmas Eve, Calvin stows away on Santa's sleigh and winds up in the possession of a little girl named Kim. Her brothers kidnap him, putting him aboard a remote-controlled toy airplane. Santa travels incognito in order to rescue Calvin, and return him to the North Pole.
- A Primer for sensible food shopping and understanding the complicated food gradings.
- Don and Nicky journey to the big city one night, and pick up two trashy girls who smoke cigarettes and--even worse--wear eye makeup, so naturally they have sex. The next night Don, newly un-virginized, persuades his girlfriend Betty to have sex with him, too. Soon Don and Nicky discover that they have sores and itching "down there", and Don goes to see the school doctor. He is told that he has syphilis, and to tell Betty and have her get examined. It turns out she has syphilis, too. Can their disease, caused by Don's outrageous behavior--which, as the doctor sternly notes, "is condemned by society"--be successfully treated in time?
- A teen drops out of a gang when they mug his father for his pencil.
- A high school student really likes his shop class...perhaps a bit too much!
- The film provides insight into the public health efforts to combat the spread of syphilis. The infection has gotten out of control in a small town where local health officials seek assistance from the state health department. Help comes in the form of a health representative who interviews young people who are infected in order to identify others who are at risk of being infected. He then attempts to notify those exposed so that they can obtain testing and treatment. Though techniques have been refined and modified, this public health strategy is still utilized by health departments today for a variety of infections.
- Sarah, a pretty young high school student, doesn't want to associate with the other students at school, preferring to spend her time at home by herself, doing homework, etc. The other kids think she's a snob because of her behavior, but a fellow student's mother convinces them that all she really needs is for people to be friends with.
- The life and legacy of Leo Beuerman. A disabled and disfigured man living in Lawrence in the 1950s and '60s.
- Susan, a pretty high school student, has everything going for her--except popularity. She can't figure out why she is so "out of step" with the rest of the crowd. How can she fit in?
- Sisters Janice and Carol are trying to decide which classes to take next semester. Janice wants to take home economics, which leaves Carol stunned. "Why home ec?" she asks. Carol proceeds to take her to Miss Jenkins, the home ec teacher, who explains the virtues of learning cooking, sewing, and shopping ("present-day textiles cannot be judged with confidence just by casual examination"). Janice is convinced that her choice is the right one.
- Barbara and her family move into a new neighborhood, and Barbara tries to make friends with her new neighbors. However, soon she realizes that no one wants anything to do with her. She can't understand why, until one day she overhears two of the local girls talking about Barbara's problem: she had bad manners!
- Cindy, a 12-year-old tomboy, is devastated when she learns that she hasn't been invited to a neighborhood birthday party. That night in bed, her fairy godmother visits her, tells her enough with this tomboy baloney, gives her a frilly new party dress and some rules on how proper young girls are to behave at parties.
- A student suffers the consequences of cheating.
- Old short about the importance of good platform posture and how we can improve it through the simple knee test.
- At Thanksgiving, the Johnson family is awaiting the dinner hour, but Mom and Dad have some bad news--because of increased expenses that month, there's no money to buy a turkey. However, instead of feeling bad that they don't have a turkey for Thanksgiving, the family begins to think about all the things they do have to be thankful for.
- The joys of secretarial work as a career for young women are illustrated in this classroom training film. Secretaries (all women) are shown to be the ones who transcribe the ideas of their bosses (all men) into "perfect and permanent form" via the training they get from Gregg Shorthand Books (which just happen to be published by McGraw-Hill, the producers of this film). In addition, this film shows how a good secretary, in addition to her office duties, also knows how to take care of her boss' personal needs, such as getting him coffee and reminding him when to get a haircut. At the end of the film, as a little "bait," the boss is shown with a well-dressed young woman in a mink stole--obviously his wife--who just happened at one time to be his secretary. As the "wife" winks at the secretary, the narratr asks, "Will you be the one that every bright young career man of tomorrow hopes to find?"
- A young Eastern couple fall heir to a Kansas farm, on which they must reside for a certain time in order to qualify for inheritance. Their visits to well over a hundred scenic and historical points of Kansas lead the couple to permanent residence there.
- High school student Mel spreads rumors and gossip about others, trying to turn them against each other. He may learn the error of is ways when he turns his verbal attacks on the beloved football quarterback in front of the loyal students.
- An animated bike named Ike explains the safety hazards of bikes, chanting "I like bikes" as he moves through various settings, then following live-action bike riders. One falls over in the street and is nearly hit by Lisa's parents. Ike then narrates Lisa's interest in bikes through to her teenage years when she gets a car to see if she can be attentive now that she's not using hers as much.
- Mary Wilkens, an elderly, retired woman, begins to feel ill and consults a Dr. Forrest Jacksburg, whose unusual healing methods that don't seem to help Mary at all make Mary's husband Fred suspicious. Fred goes to Dr. Jim Stewart for help, and they write to the American Medical Association to get any information on Dr. Jacksburg. The AMA uses its advanced research skills, looking through their files of all medical doctors in the U.S. and Canada. It soon becomes clear that Dr. Jacksburg is a medical quack whose license was already revoked once in the state, and once Mary testifies against him in court, Dr. Jacksburg's clinic is closed and a warrant is put out for his arrest.
- The joys of a career in the field of "distributive management"--apparently some branch of retail sales--is extolled in this classroom training film.
- An educational short film based on Your Marriage and Family Living by Paul H. Landis that offers tips on resolving marital issues by presenting a series of dramatized potential conflicts. The film follows two couples, the Kanes and the Addams, who have parallel arguments in their neighboring homes.
- Cook School in Flint, Michigan is in trouble. All the students are getting killed, arrested, yelled at and injured because after-school activity facilities are always closed. Finally, the school wises up and soon there is no more chaos.
- Betty Ann, a perky high school student, is friends with George, a dour sort who is always complaining about life. Betty Ann's friends can't see how she can hang with a "wet blanket" like George, and eventually Betty finds herself more and more taking on George's attitude.
- When he is complimented on his town's school spirit, a high school student relates the tale of how their school spirit began to get out of control until Bob, the senior class president, stepped in. He put an end to such insanity as painting the school initials "where they had no business to be!" and such disgusting displays of pagan perversions as snake-dancing in the streets. He taught the students a valuable lesson: that school spirit can be fun and enjoyable as long as it's under the command of a central authority and tightly controlled.
- A family that is sloppy, careless and doesn't care much for home safety is continually getting "aches and scars" from accidents they have in the home. They finally realize the errors of their ways, stop running around the house and begin to "whenver possile, use blunt tools" and presto! their home turns into a happy and healthy place to live.
- Pretty, bright high school student Jean is in no hurry to start her homework--not when she has comic books and the radio to keep her occupied. Her mother is tired of Jean's procrastination.
- From the director of Carnival of Souls comes this short film providing safety tips for trick or treaters. The film offers tips about eye holes in masks being large enough to see out of clearly, carrying a flashlight, traveling in a group, etc.
- This classroom training film teaches elementary-school students about the benefits of a neat appearance and good grooming.
- The high school press club is awaiting the teacher's decision about the new editor-in-chief. As they wait, they make mental judgements about other students. The film ends with discussion questions.
- Ray, a high school student, is one of those people who wins at everything. He enters a speaking contest, and magnanimously decides to gave a few tips to Marilyn, a young girl who has also entered the contest. To Roy's surprise--and anger--Marilyn cleans Roy's clock and wins hands down. Roy begins to harbor dark thoughts about Marilyn. The coach of the debating team, noticing this, decides to sit Roy down and have a talk with him about winning and losing, before Roy does to Marilyn what the contest judges did to him.
- George Johnson and his wife, Annabelle, have moved to the farm to live what George terms "the good life." We discover that George has several unusual ideas on how a farmer can "clean-up" by "throwing a few seeds around" for "it's natural for things to grow." Annabelle's kitchen garden proves a success, but George's first corn crop produces only nubbins. George then meets an elfin character, Mr. N (played by Billy Barty of Hollywood) who shows George the way modern fertilizers are utilized in farming whether in the citrus groves of Florida, peach orchards of Georgia, winter and summer pastures, tobacco land of the Carolinas, cotton in the southland, and wheatlands of Kansas. Through the operation of the Marshall brothers in Missouri, Mr. N illustrates good farming techniques in raising corn. As Mr. N concludes his "preaching" George asks why he never heard of him before. Mr. N assures him he would have, "if you'd been a real farmer." George hurries to tell Annabelle of his strange experience and starts his explanation of how to grow corn. Annabelle interrupts to show George "her green thumb," a sack of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
- The students at East High are upset that Bruce (who is actually never shown) is allowed to attend their high school, and that he is an undesirable element whom their parents have told not to associate with. However, an incident soon occurs that makes them rethink their ideas about prejudice.
- The election for student council president comes down to a dead heat. On the one hand is Lloyd, a conscientous, respnsible teen. On the other hand is Hank, a sneering, greasy-haired, irresponsible lout. The school's principal asks the audience, as he holds the tie-breaking vote in his hand, which candidate they would vote for, while reminding them that the best candidate is one who is "capable, educated and responsible" (and who, of course, doesn't look like a motorcycle-riding, quite possibly devil-worshipping parent's worst nightmare).
- Tommy is an average teenager, but he can't punctuate worth a darn, and doesn't see any need to worry about it. He writes a letter to his father that is completely devoid of any punctuation at all. His dad thinks it's humorous, but begins to worry about Tommy, because his letters will soon be read by "more critical correspondents." As if to drive the point home, two teenage girls read a letter Tommy had written and laugh uproariously at it, dismissing the writer as "childish" and saying that is exactly how girls would consider him. However, they soon read a letter from Tommy that is correctly punctuated, and begin to smile and swoon about what a "right guy" he is.
- Glenn, an angry teenager, lashes out at society by rampant acts of vandalism (throwing rocks at cats, for example), which shock his neighbors. One night Glenn is visited by his fairy godfather, who shows him how it's much better to be a good boy than a creepy little thug.