04 August 1940 Factual 11 mins
Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.
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21 September 1940
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The coming of the pioneer settlers in 1840, the making of their first homes in the wilderness, the gold rushes, the Maori wars, the stage coaches, and the frontier towns.
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25 April 1940
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Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch.
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