CD-ROM AND LASERDISC INSTALLATIONS Saturday, January 8 through Friday, January 14 TO NEW HORIZONS: EPHEMERAL FILMS 1931-45 (1987-92). CD-ROM with program notes. Produced by Richard Prelinger and Robert Stein. Published by The Voyager Company (800/446- 2001). In My Merry Oldsmobile (excerpt) (Fleischer Studios for Olds Motor Works,, 1931) Master Hands (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1936) We Drivers (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for General Motors Corporation, 1936, black-and-white with Technicolor sequences) Chevrolet Leader News: Vol. 2, No. 3 (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1936) Relax (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1937) Precisely So (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1937) Extra (Unknown producer for Standard Oil of New Jersey, ca. 1938) Breakfast Pals (Cartoon Films, Ltd. for the Kellogg Company, ca. 1938, Kodachrome) Three Smart Daughters (Jam Handy Organization for The Singer Company, 1938, Kodachrome) Oxydol Goes Into High (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Procter & Gamble, 1938) 'Round and 'Round (Jam Handy Organization for General Motors Public Relations, 1939) Back of the Mike (excerpts) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1938) Leave It to Roll-Oh (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1940) Home Movies (Excerpts from home movies photographed by members of a New York family at the New York World's Fair, 1940) To New Horizons (excerpts) (Jam Handy Organization for General Motors, 1940, black and white and color) Let Yourself Go (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1940) Magic in the Air (excerpts) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company, 1941) To Market, To Market (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for General Outdoor Advertising Co., 1942, Kodachrome) News Sketches by Max Fleischer (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization, ca. 1944-45, unreleased) Saturday, January 15 through Friday, January 21 YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE: EPHEMERAL FILMS 1946-60 (1987-92). CD-ROM with program notes. Produced by Richard Prelinger and Robert Stein. Published by The Voyager Company (800/446- 2001). A Report to Home Builders (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Stran-Steel Division of Great Lakes Steel Co., 1946, Kodachrome) Shy Guy (excerpt) (Coronet Instructional Films, 1947) Are You Popular? (excerpts) (Coronet Instructional Films, 1947) Technicolor for Industrial Films (excerpt) (Unknown producer for Technicolor Corporation, ca. 1949, Technicolor) Meet King Joe (excerpts) (John Sutherland Productions, Inc. for Harding College, 1948, Technicolor) Dating: Do's and Don'ts (excerpt) (Coronet Instructional Films, 1949) The Last Date (excerpt) (Wilding Picture Productions for Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company, 1949) A Date With Your Family (Simmel-Meservey, 1950) Treasures for the Making (excerpt) (Pathescope Pictures for Certo and Sure-Jell Divisions of General Foods Company, 1951, Kodachrome) What To Do On a Date (excerpt) (Coronet Instructional Films, 1951) Young Man's Fancy (excerpts) (Jam Handy Organization for Edison Electric Institute, 1952, Kodachrome) Eisenhower for President (Roy Disney for Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon, 1952) Mother Takes a Holiday (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Whirlpool Corporation, 1952, Kodachrome) Sniffles and Sneezes (excerpt) (Audio Productions for McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955) Two-Ford Freedom (excerpt) (Filmways for J. Walter Thompson Co., 1956) Design for Dreaming (MPO Productions for General Motors, 1956, Anscocolor) The Relaxed Wife (excerpt) (On Film for Pfizer Co., 1957, Kodachrome) American Look (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation, 1958, Technicolor) A Wonderful New World of Fords (Filmways for J. Walter Thompson Co., 1960, Eastmancolor) Saturday, January 22 through Sunday, January 30 CALL IT HOME: THE HOUSE THAT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE BUILT (1992). Laserdisc. Produced by Keller Easterling and Richard Prelinger. Published by The Voyager Company (800/446-2001). A program booklet accompanying CALL IT HOME (available at the installation) lists and describes the 17 moving image clips and over 2,800 still images appearing on the videodisc. Unlike the other programs in this series, CALL IT HOME is not composed solely of material from the Prelinger Archives. Rather, it's an attempt to recollect and reconstruct a poorly understood twentieth-century phenomenon: the planning of, construction of and migration to the suburbs. Assembling a panoply of underexamined evidence, the disc offers primary resource materials for the consideration of all interested in constructing their own histories of American suburbia -- architects, planners, social and cultural historians, policymakers and interested members of the public. Call It Home is a time capsule of suburban history as told through the interplay of film clips, ephemera and official documents. It tells an unfamiliar story about a familiar phenomenon: how suburbia came to pass and what it could have been. Americans think of the suburbs as the land of tract housing, two-car garages, tree-lined streets, and avocado- colored appliances. Yet the real history of suburbia lies buried in an intriguing tangle of New Deal politics and a compromised legacy of land development practices. We don't really know how it happened, and we can't really account for suburbia's peculiar, blank arrangement of house, lot and neighborhood. Who made our mid-century suburbia, and why does it look this way? Call It Home begins in the Depression when the federal government fashioned suburbia into a major U.S. industry to stimulate employment and prop up the banking system through the federally insured single mortgage. It shows how houses and lots were shaped by banking formulas and traffic calculations, the demands of the homebuilding industry and the dictates of federal agencies like the FHA. Call It Home examines post-World War II suburbia as well as the alternative vision which preceded it, a vision in which suburbia was often seen as a tool for preserving land and organizing regions rather than a tool for land abuse and sprawl -- a suburbia we might now wish to reclaim. Film segments on Call It Home: Better Housing News Flashes (excerpt) (Path News for U.S. Federal Housing Administration, 1935) The City (excerpt) (Civic Films, Inc. and American Documentary Films, Inc. for American Institute of Planners, 1939) Homes for Veterans (excerpt) (Century Pictures for National Housing Agency, 1946) A Report to Home Builders (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Stran-Steel Division of Great Lakes Steel Co., 1946, Kodachrome) According to Plan (excerpts) (Jam Handy Organization for Asbestos Cement Products Association, 1951, Kodachrome) Once and Forever (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute, 1956, Kodachrome) The Quiet Revolution (excerpt) (Ford Motor Company, Tractor and Implement Division, ca. 1956, Kodachrome) A City Is Born: Levittown, Pa. (excerpt) (The March of Time, 1953) The Mullinaires (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Mullins Manufacturing Co., 1953) Design for Dreaming (excerpt) (MPO Productions, Inc. for General Motors, 1956, Anscocolor) The Road to Better Living (excerpt) (Jerry Fairbanks Productions in association with Film Counselors, Inc. for National Association of Mortgage Bankers, 1959, Eastmancolor) The Smart Sell (excerpt) (Masonite Corporation for National Association of Home Builders of the U.S., ca. 1959, Kodachrome) Give Yourself the Green Light (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for General Motors Public Relations, 1954, Kodachrome) Two-Ford Freedom (excerpt) (Filmways for J. Walter Thompson Co., 1956) Community Growth: Crisis and Challenge (excerpt) (Creative Arts Studio, Inc. for National Association of Home Builders of the U.S., ca. 1959, color) Once Upon a Honeymoon (excerpt) (Jerry Fairbanks Productions for the Bell System, 1956, Technicolor) American Look (excerpt) (Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corp., 1958, Technicolor) .