A promotional short film about the National Cash Register Company (NCR) of Dayton, Ohio, as seen through the eyes of a chemist employed there. The film touts the benefits offered to NCR's employees, the technological…

This short film dramatizes the use of Krilium, a soil conditioning product invented by Monsanto in the 1950s. The film features a husband and wife who learn how to enhance their garden soil from their older, wiser…

Silent film showing life in and around the Dow Chemical plant in Midland, Michigan in the 1950s. Footage includes the interior and exterior of plant buildings, and the production of salt, petroleum, herbicide, plastic,…

Promotional film for several herbicides manufactured by Dow Chemical in the 1940s. The specific products shown are the Dow Selective, Contact, 2-4, and Esteron 44 weed killers.

A short film about industrial chemistry or chemical engineering and how it is used in domestic applications, specifically coatings, finishes, and other treatments that enhance the durability of various materials.

Promotional film for Plexiglas, a clear plastic manufactured by Rohm & Haas during World War II. This film focuses on using Plexiglas in the home for interior design and furniture.

Promotional film for Mylar, a clear polyester film product invented and manufactured by DuPont, which presents its physical properties and potential uses.

One of a series of short films on industrial processes, this one covers the plastics industry. Specifically, it illustrates how plastic products are made and their many applications in the domestic, military, and…

A promotional short film about the creation and manufacture of plastics and the many ways plastics were used in daily domestic and military products in the 1940s United States.

This film about technological innovation at textile mills was produced for the textile industry. It mostly concerns new uses for electrical power and systems which would increase the quality and quantity of textiles and…

This 1950s promotional film about the textile industry is aimed at the American public, showing how important textiles are in daily life. It explains the textile production process and how textile mills contribute to…

World War II news coverage of American General Lucian Truscott overseeing the destruction of a German I.G. Farbin explosives factory.

This film teaches children about the dangers of explosives using a skit in which a group of friends find a blasting cap in a garage and report it to the authorities. Blasting caps are small detonators which can be…

This 1950s educational film warns about the dangers of explosives through a skit in which children play a prank with a blasting cap. Blasting caps are small detonators which can be ignited with an electric current in…

This educational film from the Institute of Makers of Explosives covers non-violent uses of explosives, like urban construction work; the creation and extension of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River; and the…

This video was originally distributed as a CD-ROM included with the 2000 book of the same name, written by Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers, Jr. Narrated by Arnold O. Beckman's grandson, Arne W. Beckman, this short film…

Atoms for Peace is a 17-minute film describing how atomic energy is used in the oil, automotive, power, medical, and agricultural industries.

Atomic Energy As a Force For Good is a dramatization of a town debating whether or not to allow the Atomic Energy Commission to build a nuclear power plant nearby. Community members initially afraid of nuclear energy…

Atomic Power at Shippingport is a tour of America's first nuclear power plant devoted entirely to peaceful uses, located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Includes footage the plant's construction and work done at the…

Plowshare is a short film about the U.S. government's Project Plowshare, which ran from 1957 to 1977, and explored peaceful uses for nuclear explosives, mostly around earth moving and construction.

This 1-minute short film shows the opening of the Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power Plant in Alameda County, California. This plant was a boiling water reactor and the first privately owned nuclear power plant in the…

Pick of the Pod is about pea farming and the vegetable canning process, specifically promoting the Del Monte brand of the California Packing Corporation.

The Miracle of the Can uses skits to show the development of canning technology throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries and how that technology was a boon to American farmers, the economy, the employment rate,…

Alaska's Silver Millions is about the many natural resources in Alaska, but focuses on the salmon fishing and canning industry. Narrated by Father Bernard R. Hubbard, "The Glacier Priest."

Filmed for the Leaders in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series XII, this talk from Gordon E. Moore (1929-2023) covers the history and future of the semiconductor industry (as of…