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Browse 31 movies from John Sutherland Productions
An overworked housewife struggles to survive in an old house with an inadequate electrical supply and out-of-date appliances.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
This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
Mar 1948
Color animated film with audio. Begins showing a man named Stanley McGrokel and highlights his dependence on oil and oil related products then highlights what his life would be without these products. Illustrates that oil runs our nations agriculture, economy, and national defense. Shows where oil comes from and how it is extracted. Gives the odds on finding oil breaking even and discovering a large oil field. The film details the Depletion Plan of 1929 and how this helped spur investment into the oil industry and other extractive industries.
Dec 1953
Animated industrial movie about the steel industry.
Dec 1959
Cold-War propaganda film where the importance of research and development in capitalism is stressed.
Nov 1951
Educational film about B.F. Goodrich man-made rubber and its many uses.
Jan 1954
The video explains how gasoline, like a genie, provides energy from oil deposits to make life easier and move goods.
Jan 1959
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 short film featuring Reddy Kilowatt, reusing some footage from 1946's Reddy Made Magic.
Jan 1958
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
An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumers.
A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity — oil and free enterprise.
Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.
Feb 1950
Advertising film illustrating Frigidaire’s plans for convenient, high-tech appliances for the “housewife of the future.” Animated sequences explain the woman’s role as helpmate and how man’s inventions have made her housework easier. Looking ahead 25 years, Living Unlimited predicts even more innovations, including the computerized meal planner, the flying car, disposable bed sheets, the ultrasonic dishwasher, the videophone, and the automatic spanking machine. Included is live-action footage of the “Kitchen of Tomorrow.”
Jan 1951
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
Cold War propaganda allegory about farm markets.
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
In this cartoon film directed at the non-medical public, cancer statistics are given, cancer myths are refuted, cancer warning signals are presented, and the growth and effect of cancer cells within the body are shown. Cartoons illustrate: normal cell function in the body; the appearance and growth of neoplastic cells and their destruction of normal cells; cure of cancer by surgery, radiation therapy, and radium implants; spread of untreated cancer through the lymphatic system to the circulatory system; and the danger signals that indicate that cancer is present, e.g. any sore that does not heal, irregular bleeding or discharge from any natural body orifice, progressive change in any wart, mole, or birthmark, persistent indigestion, hoarseness, persistent cough, difficult swallowing, or any change in normal bowel habits. A pathologist is shown examining tissue under a microscope.
Jul 1946
The Dragon Slayer is an animated cartoon in Technicolor., and is the first film of Peanuts director Bill Melendez. It was commissione by Du Pont to explain its security plan to company employees. The story revolves around Sir Evans, a knight of old, who goes forth to battle the menacing dragons. Only through the protection of armor made for him by his trusty squire, D.I.R.P. can he slay the dragons without being singed by their fiery blasts. But knights in legends aren't the only ones to fear dragons. Most of us, like Ed Blevins, hero of this tale, have the modern-day dragons of insecurity to reckon with. But Ed, like Sir Evans, also has the protection of D.I.R.P., in this case the Du Pont Industrial Relations Plans, which are outstanding examples of how a company helps its employees help themselves.
Mar 1956