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Ephemera
see all genres ›Ephemeral cinema refers to films produced outside the conventional contexts of art and entertainment: home movies, advertising, newsreels, industrial and educational shorts.
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Across the Border
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces. The film’s position against U.S. intervention in the third...Start your free trial to watch
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Am I Trustworthy?
Are you trustworthy? Do you return things that you borrow? Do you complete the things that are asked of you? If you're like Eddie, you will. You'll even strive to do better. Maybe you'll even make a chart to track your progress. Maybe you won't. If Coronet has any say in it, you will.Start your free trial to watch
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As Others See Us
Are you dressed correctly? Are you eating properly? No. You are doing it all wrong. This short will correct your behavior. Or else! Produced by Social Science Films in 1953, you'll know exactly how others see you within ten minutes. It won't be pretty.Start your free trial to watch
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Cette nuit-là
CETTE NUIT-LA presents Jacques Tati in a screen advertisement which was projected in French cinemas. Film ads in Europe predated the American practice by several decades. As with newsreels, commercials were often left behind in theatres as the producers did not request return of the prints.Start your free trial to watch
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Clo-cloche
CLO-CLOCHE presents Michel Simon in a screen advertisement for cigarettes which was projected in French cinemas. Film ads in Europe predated the American practice by several decades. As with newsreels, commercials were often left behind in theatres as the producers did not request return of the prints.Start your free trial to watch
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Dance, Little Children
Remember Lynn. You will see her again. The legendary Herk Harvey (CARNIVAL OF SOULS) knows how to bring fear to a small town. Fear, here, arrives with two initials: the letter "V" and the letter "D" (and I think we all know what that means). Unfortunately, Lynn falls for the wrong guy. Things go a bit too...Start your free trial to watch
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The Decision is Yours
"It only takes once." Really? Yes, really. Something doesn't seem quite right in this U.S. Navy-produced tale of what you should do and what you shouldn't, relationship-wise. Should I do this? Should I do that? THE DECISION IS YOURS. "Everyone? Out having a great big orgy?" You tell him, voice-of-reason.Start your free trial to watch
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Dewar's
In 1897, two years after they expanded out of Scotland and opened their first New York office, Dewar's Scotch commissioned the Edison Manufacturing Company to produce this advertisement to be projected onto the roof of a building in Herald Square. Featuring a single shot of kilted men dancing a happy jig (perhaps due to the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fears of Children
Why are children afraid? Where do their fears come from? In FEARS OF CHILDREN, a young boy is afraid. His parents have difficulties with his fear. In turn, their son unexpectedly resolves these issues in unusual way. It is the 1950s after all. Things were different then. Or were they?Start your free trial to watch
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From Rugs to Riches
Ever wondered about rugs? Ever wondered about how to sell a rug? If so, as a rug salesperson, did you ever wonder how to sell more rugs? More rugs than ever before? In this training film for Caprolan nylon rugs, the great Jonathan Winters shows sales-folks how to do their job better. How, indeed, to go...Start your free trial to watch
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Improve Your Personality
What is "personality" exactly? How would you go about improving it? You're in luck. You might've thought that your personality couldn't get any better. You'd be wrong. You, too, can IMPROVE YOUR PERSONALITY with help from this educational short.Start your free trial to watch
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Jews
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of the past. Children mug for the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Joy of Living with Fragrance
The advertising team at Avon pulled together this ersatz part-travelogue to demonstrate where fragrance comes from and how fragrance makes all of our lives better. They succeed, in part, on the first. They fumble the second. Fragrance, in this context, gives women a certain "uniqueness." Fragrance, in...Start your free trial to watch