Selected videos from our modern, circulating library collection.
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17M 08S
Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence
- 2000
This video was originally distributed as a CD-ROM included with the 2000 book of the same name, written by Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers, Jr. Narrated by Arnold O. Beckman's grandson, Arne W. Beckman, this short film…
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17M
Atoms for Peace
- 1950s
Atoms for Peace is a 17-minute film describing how atomic energy is used in the oil, automotive, power, medical, and agricultural industries. This version is taken from a DVD copy and not from the original film.
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27M 30S
Atomic Energy As a Force For Good
- 1955
Atomic Energy As a Force For Good is a dramatization of a town debating whether or not to allow the Atomic Energy Commission to build a nuclear power plant nearby. Community members initially afraid of nuclear energy…
- Creator Of Work The Christophers
- Subject Nuclear energy, Atomic bomb, Nuclear medicine, Nuclear power plants, World War (1939-1945), Cancer--Treatment
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28M 59S
Atomic Power at Shippingport
- 1958
Atomic Power at Shippingport is a tour of America's first nuclear power plant devoted entirely to peaceful uses, located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Includes footage the plant's construction and work done at the…
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28M 17S
Plowshare
- 1961
Plowshare is a short film about the U.S. government's Project Plowshare, which ran from 1957 to 1977, and explored peaceful uses for nuclear explosives, mostly around earth moving and construction.
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53S
First Private Atom Power Plant Opens
- 1957
This 1-minute short film shows the opening of the Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power Plant in Alameda County, California. This plant was a boiling water reactor and the first privately owned nuclear power plant in the…
- Creator Of Work Universal newsreel
- Subject Vallecitos Superheat Reactor, Nuclear energy, Nuclear power plants, Boiling water reactors
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20M 54S
Pick of the Pod
- 1939
Pick of the Pod is about pea farming and the vegetable canning process, specifically promoting the Del Monte brand of the California Packing Corporation. This version is taken from a DVD copy and not from the original…
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1H 10M 41S
The Miracle of the Can
- 1956
The Miracle of the Can uses skits to show the development of canning technology throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries and how that technology was a boon to American farmers, the economy, the employment rate,…
- Creator Of Work American Can Company
- Producer Caravel Films, Inc.
- Subject Canning and preserving, Food industry and trade, Vegetables--Preservation, Housewives, Canned foods industry
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Alaska's Silver Millions
- 1936
Alaska's Silver Millions is about the many natural resources in Alaska, but focuses on the salmon fishing and canning industry. Narrated by Father Bernard R. Hubbard, "The Glacier Priest." This version is taken from a…
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1H 00M 49S
Nanometers and Gigabucks
- Gordon E. Moore, Intel Corporation
- 1996-Jan-26
Filmed for the Leaders in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series XII, this talk from Gordon E. Moore (1929-2023) covers the history and future of the semiconductor industry (as of…
- Producer University Video Communications
- Creator Of Work Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023
- Subject Semiconductors, Moore, Gordon E., 1929-, Intel Corporation, Integrated circuits, Computers--History
