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Browse 31 movies from John Sutherland Productions
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Oct 1948
Animated industrial movie about the steel industry.
Dec 1959
An overworked housewife struggles to survive in an old house with an inadequate electrical supply and out-of-date appliances.
Jan 1956
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
Aug 1948
A musical cartoon detailing the woes of a new family in a neighborhood beset by credit wolves. A wise owl comes to the rescue by organizing a Community Action Program to boycott the unfair merchants in the neighborhood.
Jan 1967
A Way Out of the Wilderness is a 1968 American short documentary film produced by Dan E. Weisburd. It describes and illustrates steps being taken by the Plymouth State Home and Training School, Northville, Michigan, to bring mentally impaired children out of the wilderness into the mainstream of life. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Jan 1968
Educational film about B.F. Goodrich man-made rubber and its many uses.
Jan 1954
The devil poses as a business tycoon to try and raise the price on home living to start another war and it's up to John Q to stop him.
Feb 1952
Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.
Feb 1950
Pepito approaches a beautiful senorita who icily rebuffs him, but he is persistent and she allows him to take her to an upscale restaurant, where Pepito can not pay the bill. The consequences are realized later when he finds himself at the altar, about to be married, a confused victim of a misunderstanding.
Apr 1946
The video explains how gasoline, like a genie, provides energy from oil deposits to make life easier and move goods.
Jan 1959
Cold-War propaganda film where the importance of research and development in capitalism is stressed.
Nov 1951
An optimistic overview and explanation of the stock market with animated examples.
Jan 1952
A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity — oil and free enterprise.
This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
Mar 1948
Albert, an auto mechanic is listening to a radio broadcast about a society based on the "coordinated cooperation of ants". He becomes excited about the idea, and becomes a little careless. The hood of the car, crashes down on his head, knocking him out cold. While unconcious, he dreams about being a worker among ants in the state-controlled nation of Antrolia. At first he is enthusiastic, but soon becomes disenchanted. When he threatens to strike, the soldier ants drag him before a firing squad. Just as he is being executed, he wakes up. He jumps into the car, races to the radio station and assaults the speaker, who is still extolling the virtures of state-planning boards and a controlled, planned economy. The speech, on red paper, flies into the air, as the mechanic grabs the microphone to give the audience "the real low-down on them ants".
Aug 1950
Cold War propaganda allegory about farm markets.
Jan 1951
General Electric sponsors this explanation of atomic energy, detailing some of its uses besides the bomb. Using animation and an off-screen narrator, the film describes the atom, elements and isotopes, the discovery of transmutation, experiments in artificial transmutation, and the reasons for the power of nuclear fission. The film argues that now, besides war, the atomic age holds promise for energy, farming, medicine, and research. The promise of the atomic age will depend on human wisdom.
Jan 1953
Features the alien clan under the guidance of a leader called Ogg who has Stalin-like qualities. Leadership of the Ogg people is portrayed as egotistical and fallible.
Jan 1960
An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumers.