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Walking to School
    Safety film aimed at very young children on the subject of pedestrian safety.
    Run time: 09:48         B&W

Wartime Nutrition
    Wartime work of public welfare agencies in the field of nutrition.
    Run time: 10:04         B&W

Wastage of Human Resources
    How crippling disease, avoidable accidents, crime, war, old age, alcoholism and poor living conditions waste human lives and their potential. This film grew out of the effort to build a better world out of the devastation of World War II.
    Run time: 10:15         B&W

Water
    John Kieran explains in his inimitable style the basics of water, sustainer of life.
    Run time: 09:43         B&W

The Way You Want it
    Promotional film aimed at car customers. The film focuses on the toughness of Chevrolet cars and the pleasantness and excellent quality of the repair staff at your local dealership.
    Run time: 08:15         B&W

Ways to Settle Disputes
    Everyday incidents at school and at play teach Alice, Jerry and Eddie to resolve conflicts by compromise, by obeying rules, by finding facts, or finding opinions.
    Run time: 10:01         B&W

We Drivers
    Early driving safety film showing good and bad sides of a driver's mind.
    Run time: 10:27         B&W&Color

We Learn About the Telephone
    A young man sketches a generic human (“Mr. Man”) who takes us back through history to show us how humans developed a need to communicate and the devices to do so. Then shows us how telephones enable the modern mid-Sixties world.
    Run time: 22:27         Color

We the People
    A 1940 Republican National Committee film for candidate Wendell Wilke is largely an attack on Franklin D. Roosevelt for daring to run for a third term.
    Run time: 14:55         B&W

We Use Power
    Uses small models to explain how power is generated to run machines.
    Run time: 10:49         Color

We Work Again
    How the New Deal benefits African Americans.
    Run time: 10:51         B&W

A Welcome Guest in the House
    Tribute to television as servant of the public in the Cold War era.
    Run time: 22:52         B&W

The Welding Operator
    Methods of welding and occupational prospects for welders.
    Run time: 10:24         B&W

What About Drinking?
    Open-ended discussion on teenage drinking.
    Run time: 11:04         B&W

What About Juvenile Delinquency?
    Jim leaves the gang after it attacks his father, and joins other teenagers at City Hall to argue against the imposition of a curfew.
    Run time: 11:11         B&W

What About Prejudice?
    Pioneering film that encourages youth to look into themselves for the causes of prejudice. 
    Run time: 11:08         B&W

What About School Spirit?
    School spirit and its social function for teenagers.
    Run time: 14:10         B&W

What Is Business?
    Business produces Mother's pen, the bread on the breakfast table and the pop-up toaster into which the bread goes. 
    Run time: 09:45         B&W

What Is Money?
    Following the journey of a five-dollar bill through many transactions, the film shows how money functions as a standard of value and future payment, a storehouse of value and a convenient medium of exchange.
    Run time: 10:28         B&W

What It Means to Be an American
    Much discussion about how Americans can feel free to speak openly without fear. Stresses value of cooperation and independence.
    Run time: 21:58         Color

What Makes a Battle?
    Strategy and successes of the Marshall Islands battle in World War II.
    Run time: 14:30         B&W

What Makes a Fine Watch Fine?
    History and practice of precision watch making at the Hamilton factory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
    Run time: 20:28         B&W

What Makes a Good Party?
    Shows teenagers how to plan and attend a party, suggesting games to play and songs to sing ("Jimmy Crack Corn"). 
    Run time: 10:28         B&W

What Makes Us Tick
    Cartoon promoting the stock market as the engine of America's prosperity.
    Run time: 11:16         B&W&Color

What Mr. Bell Had in Mind
    Aimed at salesmen concerning appropriate use of the telephone. Its two main points: 1. use the phone to identify prospects, not to sell, and 2. try to come across as a normal person, not an overbearing salesman.
    Run time: 10:42         B&W

What to Do in a Gas Attack
    Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties.
    Run time: 13:10         B&W

What to Do on a Date
    A high school senior learns how and where to ask a girl for a date, where to take her for a good time and how to avoid spending too much money or being bored by commercialized amusements.
    Run time: 10:38         B&W

What You Should Know About Biological Warfare
    How can we protect ourselves against the threats of germs and toxins? Cold War America gears up to fend off threats from unconventional bio-weapons.
    Run time: 07:10         B&W

What's It to You?
    Dramatic demonstration of the properties and uses of Mylar.
    Run time: 23:23         Color

Wheels Across Africa
    Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars.
    Run time: 51:22         B&W

Wheels of Progress
    Operations of the Rock Island Lines. Includes shots of high-speed "Rocket" freight trains, the operation of classification yards and scenes of agricultural and industrial areas served by the railroad.
    Run time: 18:44         Color

When the Circuit Breaks: America's Energy Crisis
    Explains that all forms of energy have circuit breakers; when demand exceeds supply, the circuit breaks; when several circuits break at the same time, we have an energy crisis. Examines the traditional sources of energy, looks at the present to show how demand is steadily gaining on supply, and looks to the future to see what new sources of energy show the greatest promise. Expresses the ambivalence with which Americans and their government have addresses sustainable energy issues.
    Run time: 27:30         Color

When Work Is Done
    War plant workers flood the town of Sylacauga, Alabama, and the town constructs facilities and organizes activities to make them feel welcome.
    Run time: 08:51         B&W

When You Are a Pedestrian
    Pedestrians and motorists share the responsibility for accident prevention. Filmed on the streets and sidewalks of Oakland, California, and on a tabletop with model cars and dolls representing pedestrians.
    Run time: 09:42         B&W

When You Grow Up
    Film for middle-school children about vocational choices and opportunities in the U.S. Great shots of early 1970s children and adults pursuing everyday activities.
    Run time: 11:11         Color

When You Know
    The parallels between safe flying and safe driving. With footage of Army Air Force cadets studying Morse Code, having their reaction time and depth perception tested and doing classroom work.
    Run time: 08:24         B&W

Where Does It Get You?
    Temperance film showing how alcohol impairs agility, stamina and judgment: the qualities necessary for successful living.
    Run time: 16:10         B&W

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea
    Introduces the city of Santa Monica, showing its amenities and the lives of its residents.
    Run time: 26:45         B&W

Where the Sun Reigns
    Tour of the scenic Miami-Dade County area. With many views of attractions at ground level and from a helicopter.
    Run time: 12:37         B&W

Which Way This Time?
    Shows how disastrous inflation during and after World War II was prevented by government controls. Depicts the depressions and misery that post-war inflations have caused.
    Run time: 09:24         B&W

White Ammunition
    How milk is made, transported and processed.
    Run time: 24:21         B&W

White Magic
    The physics, science and applications of light.
    Run time: 07:22         B&W

White Wonder
    Salt, its extraction and uses in national defense, industry, agriculture and the home. A feast of late-1950s imagery of everyday life, culture and industry.
    Run time: 27:34         Color

Who Are the People of America?
    Explains how the United States came to be a diversely populated nation.
    Run time: 10:01         B&W

Who Shall Reap?
    Insects or humans? Weeds, diseases and other pestilence that confound farmers and threaten the world’s food supply. 
    Run time: 27:40         Color

Who's Right?
    Dramatization of the experience of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on mutual understanding. 
    Run time: 17:49         B&W

Why Braceros?
    Produced to justify the bracero farm labor program to the general public, especially American citizens in California who felt threatened by the influx of workers over the border from Mexico. 
    Run time: 18:14         B&W

Why Kill the Goose: The Profit System
    Sings the praises of the American profit system, arguing that profits, although much smaller than generally believed, make possible a continuing stream of technological advances and new and better products which contribute to the rising living standards.
    Run time: 10:11         B&W

Why Play Leap Frog?
    Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.
    Run time: 09:16         Color

Why Study Home Economics?
    Two teenage girls learn how a knowledge of homemaking can contribute to the enrichment of life. 
    Run time: 09:10         B&W

Why Study Science?
    Family discusses how the study of science can help son and daughter make intelligent decisions on problems they will confront in the world.
    Run time: 11:42         B&W

Why Vandalism?
    Life of a teenage outsider, what makes him that way and how his anger flares into violence.
    Run time: 16:02         B&W

Why We Respect the Law
    Ken and three friends steal boards to make backstop for baseball field. Ken suffers from guilt and sees family lawyer who helps him develop respect for laws. Ken then helps other boys settle accounts with the construction company. Explains the importance of law in keeping order in a society. Shows that respect for the law is developed by a realization that law represents accumulated wisdom, that it is in harmony with laws of nature and that it is necessary to prevent trouble.
    Run time: 12:45         B&W

Wings for Roger Windsock
    A story about Little Roger, who loves airplanes; the main point is that air travel is changing everything about modern life for the better.
    Run time: 14:20         B&W

Winning Against Odds
    Caterpillar Tractor Co. presents this WWII-era story of their program to hire handicapped workers. There's an overview of how the program works, followed by brief bios of about 20 men.
    Run time: 10:31         B&W

The Wise Use of Credit
    Teaches about consumer credit through the use of a "Learning Machine".
    Run time: 10:55         B&W

With No One to Help Us
    Documentary demonstrating how the formation of a food-buying club by a group of Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community.
    Run time: 21:43         B&W

WJR: One of a Kind
    Story of radio station WJR, Detroit. Many shots with local radio personalities in studio and people listening to the radio at home, in the ballpark at work and outdoors. 
    Run time: 22:11         Color

The Wonder of Our Body
   
Functions of the human body explained with special emphasis on the senses of sight and hearing and the individual's responsibility to care for the house lived in. 
   
Run time: 11:44         Color

Wonderful World
    A travelogue film with the thesis that people everywhere have their own unique ways of living the "good life".
    Run time: 42:54         Color

The Wonderful World of Wash 'n' Wear
    Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure.
    Run time: 22:18         Color

Wood for War
    Forest production and its strategic importance during wartime.
    Run time: 06:19         Color

The Woodworker
    Woodworking in mills, construction and cabinet-making.
    Run time: 10:34         B&W

A Word to the Wives
    How two women trick a husband into buying a new kitchen.
    Run time: 13:03         Color

Working Dollars
    Animated explanation of how the stock market works, told through the story of an Everyman named Mr. Finchley.
    Run time: 10:36         Color

Working Together: A Case History in Labor-Management Cooperation
    Union and management cooperate in a Hoboken, N. J. pencil factory.
    Run time: 22:09         B&W

World at War
    Portrayal of the steps that led up to Pearl Harbor and total mobilization of World War II.
    Run time: 43:06         B&W

The World at Your Call
    This film deals with the wonders of long-distance telephone communications.
    Run time: 09:12         Color

The World Through Stamps: The Stories Behind Postage Stamps
    Great moments in aviation history as told through postage stamps.
    Run time: 11:57         B&W

Writing Better Social Letters
    While a teenage brother and sister write a thank-you note to their grandmother after visiting her on vacation, we learn the five parts of a friendly letter and more about why and how to write one.
    Run time: 10:22         Color


 
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