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- A spoof of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.
- What would happen if we had never existed?
- The Wilds is a park dedicated to the preservation and breeding of endangered species, built on about ten thousand acres of reclaimed strip-mine land in southeastern Ohio. This interactive web-based documentary gives a history of the park, and a history of the land and the people who lived and worked on it before the park came into being. Topics covered include: coal formation in the geologic past; the burial practices of the Adena and Hopewell and the history of more recent tribes; first settlement of the land by white Europeans; a history of the mixed-race Lett Settlement and their civil-rights struggles; the farmers who worked the land and their loss of livelihoods to the coal mines; what it was like to work for the Central Ohio Coal Company, including operating "Big Muskie", the largest single-bucket digging machine ever built; the community leaders who created effective strip-mine-reclamation laws and supported the creation of The Wilds; whether grass or trees are better for reclamation; taking care of the animals in The Wilds; studying and managing the ecosystem to provide the greatest species diversity; and connecting youth with nature at WildeCamp.
- How close are we to building a real HAL-9000 computer?
- The birth of a new aircraft.
- Earth-crossing comets and asteroids may threaten the extinction of human-kind.
- Footage of the renowned Norfolk and Western J-class 4-8-4 steam locomotive number 611, the last of its kind, back in action.
- An animated pixie named Coily grants a man his wish that all springs disappear...a wish that he soon regrets.
- Chronicles Frenchman Louis Bleriot's English Channel crossing in 1909, the first ever, and charts his grandson's attempt to re-create it in one of Bleriot's original planes.
- Promotional film for McCormick-Deering farm tractors, emphasizing the excellent service provided by local dealers.
- A video tour of rural, scenic Adams County, Ohio.
- One night at a seedy dockside pub, a crusty old pirate tries to earn a free tankard of ale by telling a scary sea story to his mates, but he is thwarted by a young sailor who claims to have already heard every story. The youngster finally goes too far when he prevents the telling of an especially risque tale, and the other pirates take their revenge.
- Daffy Duck hears a duckling crying, arousing Daffy, so he asks the duckling why he is so sad. The duckling is short-tempered and cried, until the hunter succeeded in stealing the satchel reads a note finding out why the duckling is so sad.
- A history and celebration of the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system on its 50th anniversary, serving the communities along the southern coasts of Alaska from the eastern terminus at Seattle (later Bellingham) Washington to the western terminus at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, a distance of 3,500 miles.
- Notable events in Alaskan history.
- The fascinating story of the rediscovery of the Sub Marine Explorer, built in New York in 1866 by immigrant German engineer and inventor Julius H. Kroehl to harvest pearl oysters on the sea floor. Its abandoned rusting hull was spotted 135 years later, by archaeologist James Delgado, sitting off the beach of San Telmo in the Pearl Islands south of Panama. The Explorer is claimed to be the world's first modern working submarine, making use of compressed air and a double-hull design to dive and surface.
- Harlan Ellison is honored at the first public screening of the movie about his life, Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008).
- A surprising discovery found at the former site of Ohio's oldest and largest Shaker village.
- Science-fiction giants and lifelong friends Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury meet in front of a studio audience to relate anecdotes from their life and work together. Their shared love of dinosaurs led to an appreciation of many early science-fiction films, most notably Willis O'Brien's classic 1925 film "The Lost World". They first met at the age of 18 at Clifton's Cafeteria where meetings of the "Rocket Society" were held. Mr. Bradbury relates how his short story "The Fog Horn" led to John Huston hiring him to write the screenplay for "Moby Dick"; the story also became the inspiration for "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" which Harryhausen animated. Ray Bradbury describes his joy on the night he presented his friend with an honorary Oscar. Mischievous as ever, Bradbury promises to pry up his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and move it next to his dear friend Harryhausen's star.
- This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments to describe and discuss its detailed investigation into the March 23 2005 explosion of the ISOM (isomerization) unit at the BP (British Petroleum) refinery at Texas City, Texas. The explosion killed 15 workers, injured 180 others, and cost BP billions of dollars.
- The story of "Smoky", a four-pound Yorkshire Terrier found in an abandoned foxhole in New Guinea during World War II. Smoky eventually becomes the property of Corporal Bill Wynne, who teaches her tricks which entertain his fellow GIs. Bill also discovers that Smoky is able to lift the spirits of GIs stricken with illnesses in military hospitals. Smoky proves she is a real war dog by pulling a string through a narrow 70-foot-long pipe under a runway, allowing a communication line to be quickly laid and preventing exposure of troops and equipment to enemy fire. Twelve monuments to Smoky, the first documented therapy dog, exist around the world. Many years later the elderly Bill visits one of them near his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
- The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only, and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence.
- A look at the temporary cemeteries erected in memory of the Iraq War's military casualties.
- Searching the skies for a cosmic 'bullet'.
- The creators of Babylon 5 (1993) discuss how they developed the future technologies and societies portrayed in the series and the movies, set 200 to 250 years after today. Items discussed include: the use of Gerard O'Neill's space-habitat concepts for the Babylon 5 station, rotating to generate artificial gravity and featuring "greenbelts" and fast-closing guillotine doors; faster-than-light travel utilizing hyperspace and "jump gates" for entry and exit to normal space; design of the Starfury fighter, combat and weapons in space, and the nagging question of whether to use sound effects in the near-vacuum of space.
- In this behind-the-scenes featurette, its first section records the dedication of Phelps Mess Hall on May 4 2006, located on the U.S. Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms, California. The building is named in honor of Lance Corporal Chance R. Phelps, the subject of the movie Taking Chance (2009). We learn about Chance, the person he was and the circumstances of his death, from interviews of his family members and squad mates. The second section of this featurette contains an interview with the Marine officer who escorted Lance's body to his funeral, Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl (Retired). LtCol Strobl relates how he kept a diary of his trip, which he used to write an essay titled "A Marine's Journey Home", sharing it first with Chance's family. The essay was later developed into Taking Chance (2009).
- Highway safety film promoting the use of seat belts.
- Moira Brooker and Philip Bretherton (Judith and Alastair from As Time Goes By (1992)) host this behind-the-scenes look at the work of the writers behind many of our favorite "Britcoms" (British situation comedies), revealing how their ideas make it to the screen.
- The story of the Minuteman strategic missile program, focusing on the Cold War years. From the 1960s onward, up to one thousand nuclear-armed ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) have been deployed in hardened silos in the northern United States, on the Great Plains near the Canadian border.
- Promotional film for the Farmall F-20 agricultural tractor, emphasizing the many improvements over older Farmalls.
- The drugs, tools, and techniques of American Civil War medicine.
- A look at the present and future, the challenges and probable solutions, of electrical power generation in the USA. Will we be able to meet the ever-increasing need for electricity in economical, reliable, and environmentally-sustainable ways?
- The first excursion run of the restored Union Pacific 4014 "Big Boy" steam locomotive, on the 150th anniversary year of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
- This educational film emphasizes the importance of good grooming and personal hygiene habits. Clothes should always appear clean and neat, and should be appropriate to the classroom setting. (Inappropriate dress makes you uncomfortable and conspicuous, not a good thing!) The functions of the skin are examined in scientific detail. Methods for cleaning the skin are demonstrated. Besides maintaining skin and body health, good grooming habits will help you "fit in" in various social situations, and may even help a gal attract a boyfriend!
- Promotional film for the Bolex Stereo Kit 3-D lens system for the Bolex film camera and projector, enabling even the amateur photographer to make and view high-quality 3-dimensional movies. To demonstrate its versatility and quality of images, we see 3-D footage of beautiful people and places from around the world, including the first-ever 3-D underwater scenes.
- The enduring political and social legacy of the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and election.
- While walking down the center of the street, Bonehead sees there is a sale at Gourmet Records, and he walks in. Bonehead uses a unique method to find the music that meets his tastes. He samples several vinyl albums before making his selection.
- The story of how ships, airplanes, missiles, steel from the World Trade Center, and nuclear weapons cores, having reached the end of their useful lives, are sent to "boneyards" to be stored, reused, sold, disassembled for parts, or scrapped and recycled.
- Film and music critic Bruce Eder discusses Arthur Bliss' score for Things to Come (1936).
- A profile of the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) particle-physics laboratory, its Large Hadron Collider, and a discussion of experiments designed to explain the origin of mass (and the scarcity of anti-matter) in our universe.
- Footage of CSX railroad trains and facilities taken in the decade of the 1990s. Most of the footage is in Kentucky along the Ohio River, the rest in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
- Summer-camp high jinks.
- A phantasmagoria of colors and shapes.
- The history and romance of 20th-century commercial passenger aviation.
- A student suffers the consequences of cheating.
- Fred the orbiting Russian monkey had tricked Worm into believing the Moon is made of chocolate. When Worm travels to the Moon and finds out it is made of dirt, he vows vengeance on Fred and zooms back to Earth to find him. But Fred has an even-bigger lie to tell Worm.
- Cultural historian Christopher Frayling discusses the design and visual style of Things to Come (1936).
- 1971– 1h 30mTV-G7.7 (296)TV EpisodeThe life and works of a legendary animator.
- The history of how Pan American World Airways served the Allied cause during the Second World War, especially in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters.
- International Harvester (IH) promotional film for the medium-duty MV-series gasoline engines used in its Loadstar and Cargostar trucks. We see engines being built in a new highly-automated state-of-the-art IH engine plant in Indianapolis, Indiana.