Archive.org has a lot of these educational films. Here’s a fun one on Forest Rangers. " FOREST RANGER " & CONSERVATION FOUNDATION CARTOON 1950s EDUCATIONAL FILMS FOREST FIRES XD6587 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
That’s because the url was misspelled with a T at the end. The actual link is:
Ooh, they have a number of School “Health Class” Films from the '40s and '50s:
“Junior Prom”
“Margaret believes that a girl shouldn’t make it difficult for a fellow to ask for a date…”
And the dorkiest:
“A Date With Your Family”
(This was one of my favorite clips on MST3K!)
Hemo the Magnificent is one I saw as a kid in school
I remembered it well enough that when excerpts showed up in “Gremlins” I recognized it.
Hmm… do you like cryogenic liquids?
How about, knot theory
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OI-To1eUtuU
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IrlaVaATiOY
Fun, well made and educational-
Bathtubs Over Broadway is a fun documentary about this subject from a few years ago.
I half thought I had imagined seeing this in elementary school, until it came up in the “suggested” feed a while back. Viewer discretion advised.
I couldn’t edit the above and keep the link. It ends with two crime-scene photos, which commenters say came from a double murder that happened in 1962.
They made us watch that in Cub Scouts. I wonder if they’d still do something like that today
I did a little sleuthing, and found out that the girls, who were 7 and 9, lived across the street from each other, and one of them had just moved there the previous week! Their murderer was an 18-year-old who already had a long juvenile history of similar crimes; he was sentenced to a state mental institution, and died there in 1977 at the age of 33.
Delicious Dishes (1950) is a wonderful, fast-paced demonstration about preparing vegetables. It was shown in theaters that gave out the twelve tools demonstrated, one each week. The salesman is a smooth talker, and makes you want to be as skilled as he is at making delicious (vegetable) dishes. Plus, he’s a real hoot to watch.
Man, there are a lot of replies! I haven’t had the opportunity to watch the links! But…
I’ve seen this one.
You can’t have a discission of educational films without including at least one of the many, many illustrations of atomic fission using ping pong balls.
I saw Delicious Dishes one day while scrolling on TCM. They have lots of these shorts, and classic cartoons too, especially Saturday mornings. They’re like going to the movies in the 1950s and seeing what was shown before the main movie.
How to use a telephone, including how the phone system works, for 70’s kids: Telezonia
Disney animators explain syphyllis and gonorrhea. (We watched this in Grade 9 Health class.)
My favorite still has to be Julia Child Shows you How to make Primordial Soup (1973), made for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum origimnally, but now shown occasionally at the Julia Child exhibit in the historical and cultural building. I’ve aso seen it at the Boston Museum of Science., and on a VHS tape called Federal Follies.
The science is kinda outdated, but it’s still fun
This first animated versio of Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland (1965) is pretty cute, too