# Vintage Promotional, Industrial, Educational films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 26, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084 "2025-12-26T23:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/1 "2025-12-26T23:14:57Z")
Last year I posted a failed thread for the short, _[Santa In Animal Land](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-in-animal-land-1948/1012143)_[(1948)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-in-animal-land-1948/1012143). I’ll try something similar for this thread, but not as specific. Let’s share vintage Promotional, Industrial, Educational films, and other vintage shorts that are just weird. I’ll start out with this promotional film from 1968: _[MatchYour Mood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_d2-G9_INM)_[with Westinghouse (1968)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_d2-G9_INM). Who knew Westinghouse was so groovy? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/2 "2025-12-26T23:19:13Z")
Here’s one. > **[This Is Hormel | Vintage Educational Film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDVAjDUeoo%2F)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/3 "2025-12-26T23:19:30Z")
And if you want the Rifftrax treatment: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EagPzmaVc38/hqdefault.jpg "RiffTrax: This is Hormel (Full FREE Short)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagPzmaVc38&t=262s/) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/4 "2025-12-26T23:24:33Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RXJKdh1KZ0w/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHeAoAChgKKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDH5wXmTBE-whWYA-_94SKYfzNneg "Rockwell Retro Encabulator") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/5 "2025-12-26T23:36:51Z")
I’ve seen this one on both TCM, and C-SPAN 2’s “About Books.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kbPjGl0vii4/hqdefault.jpg "Wonderful World of Tupperware - 1960s - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbPjGl0vii4&t=78s/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/6 "2025-12-27T00:03:52Z")
Didn’t someone here ask about this educational film parody fairly recently? I first saw it on the inimitable “Night Flight” in the 1980s. May be NSFW. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Cipo4iwVU-g/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cipo4iwVU-g?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDCipo4iwVU-g ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/7 "2025-12-27T00:23:58Z")
In the educational category, the first two that come to mind are Disney’s [The Living Desert](https://youtu.be/HgiuRjDGhSM?si=sDVZkWW6d_OV9JbI) and [The Restless Sea](https://youtu.be/GzBoKA-U-C4?si=ouPdLVEFiWg83oJZ). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/8 "2025-12-27T02:21:08Z")
I know this ain’t what you are looking for, but it’s “topic adjacent”. [Winnebago Ma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnebago_Man)n If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a kindness and check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/9 "2025-12-27T02:36:27Z")
I watched the Westinghouse one earlier this evening. Crazy. My Sister actually covered her fridge with contact type stuff once. Looked pretty cool. I never had much luck with Contact paper except for temporary masking. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/10 "2025-12-27T02:44:34Z")
Oh my, want a _Night of the Lepus_-sized rabbit hole to go down? Have a look at the Prelinger Archives: [https://archive.org/details/prelingert](https://archive.org/details/prelingert) For general WTF there’s: > **[Found Footage Fest](https://www.youtube.com/@FoundFootageFest/videos?app=desktop)** > > Champions of VHS since 2004, Joe and Nick from the Found Footage Festival resurrects old VHS footage from thrift stores and garage sales and serves it up in a live touring comedy show and a weekly live show, VCR Party, every Tuesday at 9pm ET. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/11 "2025-12-27T03:00:56Z")
Also topic adjacent: This movie, which also got aired on Night Flight. Its plot was described as “Aliens steal the formula for a popular soft drink” and that just about sums it up. I definitely noticed myself that the cars are all from the 1950s, while the hair and clothing styles are all from 1982, when this film school project was made. The monster puppet was reused a year or two later in a ZZ Top video, because one of the people who worked on this worked on that video as well. > **[I Was a Zombie For the F.B.I. (1982)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy-3yXCvmMA%2F)** > > A pair of criminal brothers survive an airplane crash and discover a plot by aliens from outer space to conquer Earth by turning human beings in zombies. The... ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/12 "2025-12-27T03:02:00Z")
To those who clicked on the Prelinger link in the Internet Archives: it originally had scads of videos, but a few minutes later was denied access. I went back and regained access via the [main menu](https://archive.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/13 "2025-12-27T03:11:00Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4ttYlcrA7ys/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC0z_tCNPTOnNZtSft1orhHaauanw "A Case Of Spring Fever (1940)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttYlcrA7ys) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/14 "2025-12-27T03:12:28Z")
Did you use this link? Yes, I know it looks like it hasn’t been updated since about 1995, but it has been. > **[Rick Prelinger](https://www.panix.com/~footage/)** Here’s the FAQ page. > **[Prelinger Archives: Licensing, Access, Collections](https://www.panix.com/~footage/prelarch.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/15 "2025-12-27T03:18:41Z")
“I’ll show Coily! I’m gonna digitize everything!” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/16 "2025-12-27T03:46:56Z")
No time to check for individual films, but those that MST3K featured were great! Especially _A Date With Your Family…_ teaching kids to plan a date, but with their parents and siblings. Awkward. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/17 "2025-12-28T06:01:08Z")
_Bicycles Are Beautiful_, hosted by Bill Cosby who is famous for loving bicycles and nothing else. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bx9oWZQ0RhY/hqdefault.jpg "Bicycles Are Beautiful with Bill Cosby (1974) Part 1 of 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9oWZQ0RhY) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/18 "2025-12-28T06:39:49Z")
Here’s a film made by the Chicago Board of Education in '45. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3JzD9oYLVzY/maxresdefault.jpg "Chicago in the 1940s—A Film by the Chicago Board Of Education") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JzD9oYLVzY) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/19 "2025-12-28T06:42:18Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/flOFDxY50Yg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC6AKKAgwIABABGGUgUShDMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCMbAFWA3MoJ_ltUbVkC43P16_N4g "Flintstones 1967 Busch Beer Advertising Cartoon Complete #Flintstones #BuschBeer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOFDxY50Yg) ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/20 "2025-12-28T07:06:31Z")
That may have been me. I remembered pieces of it but not the complete short. Also, I had no idea it was the girl from Airplane! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084.md?page=2)