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A crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
A crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0105 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

This documentary tells the story of how our civilization's addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. The film visits with the world's top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion - our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. You needn't be a conspiracy theorist to see a connection between America's current obsessions with the Middle East and national security, and the world's looming oil crisis. The frenzied search for alternative sources of energy now being pursued by the largest multinational energy corporations makes it clear they also believe a crisis is fast approaching...

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A Date With Your Family
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3001 · Item · 1950
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Advises children to do whatever is necessary -even lie- to achieve harmonious family relations. "These boys treat their dad as though they were genuinely glad to see him, as though they really missed him...". (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)

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A Welcome Guest in the House
A Welcome Guest in the House
ES ES-OVNI INT-S002-SS010-0003 · Item · 1957
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Tribute to television as servant of the public in the Cold War era. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)

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A Wonderful New World of Fords
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3006 · Item · 1960
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Ford commercial linking new compact cars to futurism and the space frontier. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
Adventure Thru Inner Space
Adventure Thru Inner Space
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0005 · Item · 1967
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Now fully updated with new interviews with 4 Disney legends, BOB GURR and X Atencio, George McGinnis and Richard Sherman. A complete history on the Monsanto involvement with Disneyland, featuring glimpse of The House of the Future and The Hall of Chemistry, and a documentary look at the making of the Adventure thru Inner Space attraction.

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Are You Popular?
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2665 · Item · 1947
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of "good" and "bad" girls, courtesy to parents, and an analysis of what makes some people popular and others not. A scream and a sobering document of postwar conformity. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
Choco Banana in North Carolina
Choco Banana in North Carolina
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0010 · Item · 2003
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

See America from the point of view of the Israeli ice cream truck vendor. This film is a documentary that portrays the neighborhoods of America through the point of view of the Israeli ice cream truck vendor. The film follows several such vendors in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina . The film follows the characters in their daily routine in cross cutting (in a parallel narrative). Throughout the film we learn about the different neighborhoods of Charlotte, and America - some segregated, some mixed. We learn about the vast differences in behavior, mentality, culture and way of life ? but when the ice cream truck comes to the neighborhood, everyone acts the same and wants the same thing: ice cream

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Design for Dreaming
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S003-SS002-0024 · Item · 1956
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

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". The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

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Disneyland - Promotional Films
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0067 · Item · 1965
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Promotional Films from Florida and Disneyland are the following films: 1965's Florida Welcomes Disneyland: a unique film that was used to get people in Florida excited about Disneyland coming to Florida; 1972's Country Bears and Whinnie the Pooh Bear Country; 1974's Disneyland Promo film featuring America Sings.
Eisenhower for President
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3000 · Item · 1952
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The "I Like Ike" animated television commercial, produced by Roy Disney and Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)