Entertainment and meeting break films, circa 1910-1991, bulk 1970-1982
Part of collection: DuPont Company films and commercials (1995-300)
Dates
- Creation: circa 1910-1991
- Creation: bulk 1970-1982
Scope and Contents
The Entertainment and meeting break films series includes films whose production is not affiliated with the DuPont Company, and contents do not relate to chemistry in any serious way. These films were owned by the DuPont Company and were used as entertainment or a way to introduce a break during a meeting. Notably there are five reels of Jim Henson’s Muppet Meeting Films, each containing three or four skits featuring various muppets in work situations. There is an animated short titled The Magician which humorously introduces that it is time to take a coffee break and a reel with a Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update sketch about chemistry.
There are a few reels containing silent film footage. One is a reel of silent film era skits involving automobiles, Buster Keaton’s Cops, a re-release of The Bangville Police - The Keystone Cops, and a Pathe News reel containing very short clips of significant events occurring between 1916 and 1945. There is a short reel of W.C. Field’s skit “Card Trick” and a clip from The Jonathan Winters Show of the skit “Smiley's Super Service Station.”
There is a copy of the feature film F. Scott Fitzgerald and the 'Last of the Belles’ and an episode of television shows: Sports Bloopers II with Warren Miller, NBC Experiment in Television, Infinite Voyage, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, and part of an episode of The Lucy Show. Additionally, there are a few reels of Plimpton! which features journalist George Plimpton (1927-2003) documenting a day in a life of various professions, in one episode he spends the day with a trapeze artist, in another he is on a movie set.
Extent
From the Collection: 70 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Additional Description
Access to Collection
No restrictions on access; this collection is open for research.
Film material is located in remote storage. Please contact staff 48 hours in advance of research visit at askhagley@hagley.org
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository