Anyone know where to obtain those old movies they showed in gradeschool (especially in the 60’s and 70’s)?
Many of them I seem to remember as being Disney-made.
Remember Hemo? “Hey, I can feel my pulse in my ankle!”
I know Atomic Cafe is a good documentary on the 50’s cold-war stuff.
Oooooooh!!! “Hemo the Magnificent” I saw that several times in grade school. And there was another one about the weather, a combination of animation and live action, with two scientist guys ad an animated woman who was some sort of Greek goddess. She developed a crush on the older of the two guys, and visualized him wearing a toga and laurel wreath.
Sorry, I don’t know where to get them, but I wouldn’t mind myself seeing them again.
Go to the Prelinger Archives. All the good ones are there.
Holy crap, KoalaBear, great link! Thanks!!
Ok, I admit it – I still show Hemo the Magnificent to my high school biology classes.
I always preface it with a warning that I do indeed know its corny, and I cut it off before the whole mystical Crhist is our savior ending, but I justify it because it really does have some great stuff.
Hemo was part of the Bell Telephone series, which have been re-released by Rhino. My wife got me the whole series a couple of xmases ago. 
Hemo was directed by Frank Capra, believe it or not.
Other titles in the series include Unchained Goddess (the weather one), and Gateway to the Mind (the senses, which I also show). There are a bunch more, and are worth seeing.
Oh, and how come nobody mentioned Our Mr. Sun! Also from the series, and the subject of a Far Side cartoon.
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I’d forgotten the old Bell Telephone series! I remember one which was done up as a mystery – dealing with cosmic rays, I think. Great line by one of the puppets: “This is literature?”
Well, no, but the were fairly entertaining, and I do indeed remember the description of blood as a functional replacement for sea water from the Hemo series, which I saw 35 years ago, so I guess they were educational as well.
Don’t forget Our Friend the Atom. Loved those “Nuclear Fission Mousetraps!”