For those who may have seen (or responded to) my earlier posts about am ephemeral film series at New York's American Museum of the Moving Image, I'm posting the schedule for a partial revival at Yale this weekend, jointly sponsored by the Yale Center for Film Studies and the Berkeley College Film Society. For further information, email me at <[log in to unmask]>. Full program notes are available via email by request from this address. Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives, New York --------------------------------------------------------------- OUR SECRET CENTURY: REVELATIONS FROM THE PRELINGER COLLECTION A partial revival at Yale University All screenings will be at Davies Auditorium, Becton Center on the Yale University campus (lower Hillhouse Avenue). Rick Prelinger will introduce all screenings and lead discussions. Sunday, April 24 at 1 pm SOCIAL GUIDANCE CLASSICS Eight of the funniest and most frightening films on dating, behavior, etiquette and popularity. If you missed the postwar behavior offensive, now's your chance to experience its full force. Are You Popular? (Coronet Instructional Films, 1947, 11 min.) Shy Guy (Coronet Instructional Films, 1947, 14 min.) A Date With Your Family (Simmel-Meservey, 1950, 10 min.) How to Say No (Coronet Instructional Films, 1951) The Griper (Centron Productions for Young America Films, 1954, 12 min.) Boys Beware (Sid Davis Productions, 1961, 10 min.) Girls Beware (Sid Davis Productions, 1962, 10 min.) Last Date (Wilding Picture Productions for Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co., 1950, 20 min.) More Dates for Kay (Coronet Instructional Films, 1952, 11 min.) Sunday, April 24 at 4 pm THE RAINBOW IS YOURS This all-color program celebrates the sheer theatricality of American design. Unashamedly Populuxe, these films link desire and commodity, flirting with reality and gender roles in the manner of the Hollywood musicals they emulate. American Look, a SuperScope spectacle, repositions us in the wide, new, colorful era of Eisenhower, Sputniks and tailfins. Design for Dreaming (MPO Productions for General Motors, 1956, 10 min., Anscochrome) Once Upon a Honeymoon (Jerry Fairbanks Productions for the Bell System, 1956, 14 min., Technicolor) Frigidaire Finale (Jam Handy Organization for Frigidaire Division of General Motors, 1957, 4 min., faded Eastmancolor) A Touch of Magic (MPO Productions for General Motors, 1961, 10 min. Technicolor) In the Suburbs (On Film, Inc. for Redbook Magazine, 1957, 20 min., Kodachrome) American Look (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Division of General Motors, 1958, 26 min., Technicolor, SuperScope) Monday, April 25 at 1 pm BREEDING OUT THE UNUSUAL: GENDER AT MID-CENTURY There's nothing nostalgic about these films concerned with men's and women's roles. They reveal behavior not yet unlearned, conflicts not yet resolved and contradictions that continue to haunt our culture. But can anyone resist the fascination of the "Marriage Development Board," a fairy godmother who teaches courtesy, or the women's physics class learning about toasters? Easy Does It (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet, 1940, 8 min.) Cindy Goes to a Party (Centron Productions for Young America Films, 1955, 11 min.) As Boys Grow (Medical Arts Productions, 1957, 15 min.) Molly Grows Up (Medical Arts Productions, 1953, 14 min.) Are You Ready For Marriage? (Coronet Instructional Films, 1950, 14 min.) Who's Boss (Alexander Hammid, Affiliated Film Producers for McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1950, 16 min.) The Home Economics Story (Film Production Unit at Iowa State College, 1951, 30 min., Kodachrome) Monday, April 25 at 4 pm FILMS OF MENACE AND JEOPARDY Safety films have been frightening and shocking audiences almost since motion pictures were first invented. Although some of the most effective storytelling shows up in auto and industrial safety films, do they actually prevent accidents? Audiences seem to sit spellbound through these sad narratives, but what they're really doing is waiting for the accident to happen. That's the payoff, and all too often it seems to be the reason for the film's existence. No matter Q you'll remember the films in this program perhaps more than any other. This revised program broadly refigures "menace and jeopardy," including films about one thriving menace (the cockroach) and one endangered species (the middle-class brainworker). Days of Our Years (Dudley Pictures for Union Pacific Railroad, 1955, Kodachrome, 20 min.) Live and Learn (Sid Davis Productions, 1951, 10 min.) Safety Belt for Susie (Charles Cahill and Associates in association with the Institute of Traffic and Transportation Engineering at UCLA, 1962, Eastmancolor, 10 min.) More Dangerous Than Dynamite (Parthenon Pictures, 1941, 9 min.) Goodbye, Mr. Roach (Velsicol Corporation, 1956, 10 min.) Social Class in America (Knickerbocker Productions for McGraw-Hill Films, 1956, 14 min.)