# Are old gradeschool movies available. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948 "2003-03-21T00:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/1 "2003-03-21T00:51:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/2 "2003-03-21T01:43:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KoalaBear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@KoalaBear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KoalaBear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/3 "2003-03-21T01:52:15Z")
Go to the [**Prelinger Archives**](http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php). All the good ones are there. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/4 "2003-03-21T11:33:48Z")
Holy crap, KoalaBear, great link! Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![mycoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mycoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mycoman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/5 "2003-03-21T13:58:43Z")
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. mycoman ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/6 "2003-03-21T14:11:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-old-gradeschool-movies-available/162948/7 "2003-03-21T17:03:07Z")
Don’t forget [_Our Friend the Atom_](http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.1/3.1pages/3.1langerdisney.html). Loved those “Nuclear Fission Mousetraps!”