Digitized selections from DVDs and VHS cassette tapes donated individually to the Science History Institute. This collection does not represent all of the DVDs and videos held by the Science History Institute. Other items that were donated with collections of manuscript or paper-based materials may be found in those collections.
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19M 38S
A New World Through Chemistry
Box 6- 1940
This film from E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company promotes several of their inventions by showing how they are made and (using actors and film sets) how useful they are in everyday life. Products include: Neoprene,…
- Producer Scientific Films
- Creator Of Work E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- Subject E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Rubber, Artificial, Rayon, Lucite, Nylon
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26M 54S
Analysis by Mass: An introduction to the Mass Spectrometer
Box 8- 1962
This educational film explains how mass spectrometers identify elements in compounds using the different masses of atoms to distinguish between the elements. It also introduces different kinds of mass spectrometers,…
- Creator Of Work Associated Electrical Industries
- Subject Mass spectrometry, Mass spectrometers, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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14M 44S
Portaspec spectrometer sales video
Box 8- 1970s
This is a sales video for Pitchford Scientific Instrument Corporation's Portaspec, a portable x-ray spectrometer. A traveling field service representative for a steel company discusses the instrument's features and…
- Creator Of Work Pitchford Scientific Instrument Corp.
- Subject Spectrometer, X-rays, X-ray spectrometer, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Promotional films
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1H 01M 26S
R. B. Woodward Remarks at Harvard Chemistry Department Alumni Symposium
Box 10- 1978-Mar-06
Talk given by R.B. Woodward at an alumni event for the Harvard University Department of Chemistry shortly before his death in 1979. This informal talk begins with the ringing of a gong and Woodward being carried on…
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10M 46S
AATCC: Your Leader in the Textile Industry
- Standards for the Textile Industry
Box 4- After 1980 – before 1993
Promotional video produced by the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists to encourage new membership. Features then-president of the AATCC, William R. Martin, Jr. The AATCC is a professional organization…
- Creator Of Work American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
- Producer Horizon Video Productions, Inc.
- Subject American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Textile industry, Textile chemistry, Career development, Congresses and conventions, Chemical industry, Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers--Testing
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8M 37S
Delaware Valley Science Fairs
Box 4- 1980s
Promotional video for the non-profit organization, Delaware Valley Science Fairs, which hosts a regional science fair for students from Southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey.
- Creator Of Work Delaware Valley Science Fairs, Inc.
- Subject Science fairs, Science--Study and teaching, Science and education, Science--Experiments, Inventions, Education
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20M 36S
American Institute of Chemists in China
- Scientific Exchange Tour 1984
Box 4- 1984
This video is a narrated slide show of photographs taken during the American Institute of Chemists' tour of China in 1984. Photographs were taken and the slideshow is narrated by organic chemist Peter Throckmorton and…
- Creator Of Work Throckmorton, Phyllis, Throckmorton, Peter Eugene
- Subject China, American Institute of Chemists, Petroleum industry and trade, Communes (China)
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14M 46S
The National Lake Survey
Box 2- 1984
This video presents the Environmental Protection Agency's National Lake Survey, conducted in the early 1980s as part of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program. The goals of the survey were to see which of…
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14M 17S
Proposition 65: Troubled Waters for California
Box 3- 1986
This film produced by the group Californians Against the Toxics Initiative encourages Californians to vote against Proposition 65, formally titled The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This bill…
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12m 44s
Science History at Priestley House
Box 8- 1986
This film about Joseph Priestley and his life in Pennsylvania was created by chemistry students at Mifflinburg Area High School in partnership with the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit television station and the…
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1H 13M 53S
Henry Taube lecture at Brooklyn College
Box 10- 1986-Mar-19
This talk is part of the H. Martin Friedman Lecture series at Brooklyn College, which was intended to introduce high school students to careers in chemistry. Introductions to the talk and speaker are given by Leon…
- Creator Of Work Taube, Henry, 1915-2005, Brooklyn College
- Subject Chemistry--Study and teaching, Taube, Henry, 1915-2005, Nobel Prize winners, Lectures
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1H 10M 36S
A Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the American Chemical Society Publication, "The Journal of Inorganic Chemistry"
Box 8- 1986-Sep-10
Speakers at a dinner celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, held at the 192nd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting. Remarks at this lively event mostly focus on the history…
- Creator Of Work American Chemical Society
- Subject American Chemical Society, Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Inorganic--Research, Periodicals, Chemistry--Periodicals, Hawthorne, M. Frederick, Parry, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1917-, King, Edward L. (Edward Louis), 1920-, Pimentel, George C., Lippard, Stephen J., Stucky, Galen D., 1936-, Kaesz, Herbert D., Shriver, D. F. (Duward F.), 1934-, Bowen, D. H. Michael, Congresses and conventions
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50M 13S
NASA: The First 25 Years
- NASA: The 25th Year
Box 12- 1987
This is an overview of NASA's history, beginning with its founding in 1958 and leading up to its 25th anniversary in 1988. This video contains footage of many important moments in NASA's history, including the first…
- Creator Of Work Goodtimes Home Video Corp.
- Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Project Mercury (U.S.), Project Gemini (U.S.), Project Apollo (U.S.), Skylab Program, Viking Mars Program (U.S.), Artificial satellites in telecommunication, Space flight, Voyager Project, Columbia (Spacecraft), Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)
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12m 51s
Perkin-Elmer corporate video
Box 9- 1987
This video was likely shown to new hires or at recruitment events for Perkin-Elmer in the late 1980s. The video highlights the accomplishments of the company, including its technology being used to fight air and water…
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57M 04S
Chemical Instrumentation Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Symposium in Celebration of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
Box 10- 1987-Nov-05
Video of a symposium held for the opening of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. The event includes remarks from Arnold O. Beckman; Arnold…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Price, Charles C. (Charles Coale), 1913-2001, Proctor, Stanley I., 1936-, Long, Franklin A., 1910-1999, Good, Mary L., 1931-2019, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Eliel, Ernest L. (Ernest Ludwig), 1921-2008
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1H 23M 37S
Interview with Glenn Seaborg
Box 2- 1988
Raw footage of an interview with Glenn Seaborg about the periodic table and his discovery of new transuranium elements. The interview is conducted by two different unidentified men. This tape is a "window dub" of raw…
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26M 13S
The Raritan River
- The History of the Basin
Box 12- 1990s
Educational video about the Raritan River Basin, a river system in central New Jersey. This video covers the features of the river, its history, and ongoing protection efforts.
- Creator Of Work Raritan River Consortium
- Subject New Jersey--Raritan River, New Jersey--Raritan River Watershed, New Jersey, Rivers, Stream ecology, Water--Pollution
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32M 05S
Catalysis: Technology for a Clean Environment
Box 2- 1993
This video explains the process of catalysis: using a catalyst to increase the rate of a chemical reaction. It argues that this process is good for the environment because it will reduce the production toxic of…
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26m 58s
Passing Through: An Introduction to Plastics
Box 11- Circa 1993
A high school student who is nervous about failing his chemistry test is transported to a vaguely Middle Ages, high fantasy castle where he meets a wizard trying to invent better armor for a knight. The student teaches…
- Creator Of Work National Plastics Center and Museum
- Subject Educational films, Plastics, Middle Ages, Wizards
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5m 53s
Passing Through: Behind The Scenes
Box 4- Circa 1993
This is a promotional work created by the National Plastics Center and Museum to advertise their educational video, Passing Through. Passing Through is a film for teenagers and high school science students in which a…
- Creator Of Work National Plastics Center and Museum
- Producer WAVE, Inc.
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Plastics, Educational films, Middle Ages
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7m 50s
Othmer Library
Box 1- 1994-May
This is a promotional video made by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later to become the Science History Institute) in 1994, ahead of the renovation of and move to its current location at 315 Chestnut Street. The video…
- Creator Of Work Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Libraries, Science museums, Glass harmonica music, Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Museums
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27m 36s
Fields of Promise
- Sowing the Seeds of Biotechnology
Box 11- 1995
This video, produced with funding from Monsanto Company, presents the science behind genetically modified crops, beginning with Gregor Mendel and leading up to the mid-1990s cutting edge research in drought and…
- Producer Image Base
- Subject Transgenic plants, Genetically modified foods, Agriculture
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25M 41S
Chemistry Is Cool 2
Box 10- 1996
Video of a performance presented by COSI (Center of Science and Industry) during the 1996 Ohio Chemical Council annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. In this performance, host Krista teaches the audience about chemical…
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11M 04
Get A Life As A Pharmacist or Pharmacy Tech
Box 12- 1996
Part of a series designed to educate viewers about different careers, this installment focuses on pharmacist and pharmacy tech roles and their educational and skill requirements.
- Creator Of Work Vocational Video, Inc.
- Subject Pharmacists, Pharmacists--Training of, Career education, Drugstores
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26m 23s
Making the Connection
- Careers for Chemical Engineers
Box 11- 1997
This video is aimed at college students interested in chemical engineering as a degree or a career. Recent graduates and early-career chemical engineers from a variety of employers and industries share their experiences…
