Promotional film introducing self-service long-distance dialing using a prototype service in Englewood, New Jersey. Demonstrates how direct dial and the new area code system enable callers to make contact instantly without operator assistance.
The University (2016)
On a NASA research base in Silicon Valley, there's an organization that's changing the world ... Singularity University (SU). Created by renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, with support from NASA, Google, and others, the university brings in some of the smartest students from around the world, and gives them a crash course in the most powerful exponential technologies on the planet. The students are then given a challenge: create companies that will impact a billion people within ten years. The film follows the students and their companies over five years, as they use the support of scientists, astronauts and billionaires in their attempt to make a dent in the universe.
Tractor Ted Massive Machines (2016)
Tractor Ted shows us massive farm machines at work in the fields. There are tractors with huge wheels and caterpillar tracks as big as a car. There are two massive muck spreaders at work. Farmer Tom and Milly are collecting Jack from his friend's dairy farm where Les is helping out. Watch out Les, there's water about! Songs, fun, massive machines and real life farming - the perfect introduction to life on the farm for young children.
Dream Catcher X (2023)
A narrative/documentary/experimental hybrid about a man who buys a new technology to record his dreams. Created in December 2023 for the FILMMAKING 1: FUNDAMENTALS final at the University of Pittsburgh.
Tractor Ted Combine Time (NaN)
It's time to harvest the wheat on the farm so Farmer Tom shows Tractor Ted and Midge the dog the combine harvester that he needs for the job. It's so gigantic that Midge can't even see over the wheels.
How to Rob a Bank (2024)
In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
Decision for Chemistry (1954)
Surveys the role of chemistry in American life and the central role of the people, products, and plants of Monsanto.
The Singularity (2012)
Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human? Director Doug Wolens speaks with leading futurists, computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts, and philosophers who turn over the question like a Rubik’s Cube. Ultimately, if we become more machine-like, and machines more like us, will we sacrifice our humanity to gain something greater? Or will we engineer our own demise? THE SINGULARITY is a comprehensive and insightful documentary film that examines technology’s accelerating rate, and deftly addresses the resulting moral questions.
Tractor Ted Moooovie Time (NaN)
Find out what cows are fed and how their meals are prepared with the massive mixer. Farmer Tom and Les get the cows beds ready and then bring them in to get their yummy food. Watch out Farmer Tom; Les becomes a bit forgetful!
Tractor Ted Hello Ewe! (NaN)
Tractor Ted joins Farmer Tom who has gone to his friend’s farm to help milk the sheep! Did you know you can get milk from sheep (ewes)? Les has a terrible time trying to keep the sheep still to check its feet and cheeky Midge races about seeing if the sheep can catch her.
The Butterfly King (1995)
Educational Docudrama: Two caterpillars struggle to survive the first four weeks of their lives.
Play Ball with Babe Ruth (1920)
A serial of short instructional films using footage of Babe Ruth to explain the fundamentals of playing baseball.
Where the Heck is My Period (2024)
The Documentary follows the journey of 11 African women, who struggle with Polycystic ovarian syndrome. PCOS, a hormonal disorder that can cause irregular periods alongside unwanted physical symptoms, affecting 1 in 10 women of childbearing age worldwide. It highlights the struggles caused by the syndrome through interviews with gynaecologists, pastors, public figures and native African doctors.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Data (2015)
Traces the historical evolution of these structures that make-up “the cloud”, the physical repositories for the exponentially growing amount of human activity and communication taking form as digital data.
Another Side of the Forest (1974)
This documentary looks at developments in the Canadian forestry industry from the 1970s. Turning a Newfoundland bog into woodland, fostering British Columbia seedlings that withstand mechanical planting, inoculating Ontario elms against the bark beetle, devising ways of controlling fire... these are some of the experiments shown being carried out in laboratories and in the field to protect and conserve the country's vast forests.
Peyton Manning's Training Camp a Nutrition Odyssey Video (2000)
NFL's Peyton Manning shows a younger generation the basics they need to succeed both on and off the field.
Be Prepared! (1924)
Svatopluk Innemann’s film Be Prepared! presents the early Czech boy scout movement through a simple narrative. The film extols the virtues of hard work, honor and cooperation just as it displays the fun of wilderness exploration, group cohesion and outdoor leisure. Troop 30 visits numerous historic locations on their travels, such as Orlík Castle and St John’s Rapids.
How William Shatner Changed The World (2005)
William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell phones, medical imaging, computers and software, SETI, MP3 players and iPods, virtual reality, and spaceship propulsion.