Transfilm Incorporated

A BAFTA award nominated animation advertising "Time" magazine.

This animated film features an average fellow who meets the Devil (or his envoy, anyway), who has a plan to turn his nice neighborhood into a slum.

This short, black-and-white animated film from the early 1950s was produced by Transfilm Incorporated for McGraw Hill Book Co. for use as a training film for salesmen.

Explains that the foundations of successful selling is a systematic method of locating prospective customers. The methods of three successful salesmen are illustrated; one keeps his eyes and ears open through personal observation, one uses an initial sale to get a prospect for the next, and the third uses friends to give him additional contacts.

Demonstrates an effective method of closing a sale. To do this a salesman must demonstrate the product, overcome any objections, restate the points which have the customer’s agreement and finally persuade the prospect to sign a contract, emphasising the advantages of immediate action.

This Shell Film from 1953, "Oil The Invisible Traveler" looks at how petroleum is brought from producing regions to the market. It starts with the challenges of oil transportation, notably that it is a lot harder to transport a liquid. This is followed by a short history of oil transportation including barrels, carts, and floats, and how these eventually evolved into tanker cars on trains, tanker trucks, ocean tankers, and pipelines. Then the US pipeline system is explained as well as how oil is transported in an example case from Texas to New York. It ends with all the benefits that oil products bring to daily life.

The methods employed by a salesman of industrial lubricants in making a very difficult sale is illustrated. The film emphasizes the need to acquire the pertinent information about a perspective client before the sales interview and adjusting the sales plan to suit the ideas and personality of the customer.

Created for the U.S. Public Health Service to be distributed by the National Heart Association.