This promo film from the 1960s “Ideas and Film II” is presented by Bell and Howell Industrial Audio-Visual Dealer Company and produced by Telecine Film Studios, Inc. in Park Ridge, Illinois. The film was intended to convince contractors that industrial films had a place in their communications plan. “How Many Ways Can Film Serve Us?” is the premise of this movie — and it shows many different industrial uses of cameras and camera technology. This includes high-speed and slow-motion photography of shattering light bulbs, SNARK missiles, ejection seats, and even atomic bomb explosions. Bell & Howell was formerly a leading manufacturer of motion picture machinery, and was founded in 1907 by two projectionists. The company pretty much exists in name only today, with its marks licensed to makers of various electronic consumer products.

“Ideas And Film” title banner (00:07). Credits (00:13). Spewing lava (00:23). A Northrop SM-62 Stark ground-launched cruise missile (00:27). A control panel (00:55). Views of the guided missile (00:57). The missile lands (01:13). Cameras, films, lenses, and projectors (01:25). Informational text overlay (01:40). Two men are working in a film studio (01:57). A light bulb (02:02). Slow-motion footage of the bulb being shattered (02:12). A ship sails into an industrial harbor (02:27). A bascule bridge closes (02:38). Cars and trucks drive across the bridge (02:44). An airplane flying (02:49). A pilot is ejected in an ejection seat from the front of the aircraft and falls through the sky (02:50). The pilot separates from the seat (03:05). Men wearing goggles (03:11). An explosion (03:16). Magnified footage of spherulite crystals (03:44). A rocket (03:56). Sound waves (04:01). Footage shockwaves around a model airplane in a windtunnel (04:08). Aircraft flying over a snowy landscape (04:23). A vehicle is launched at high speed until it explodes (04:27). An airplane is launched at high speed (04:43). Two men are working at a factory connecting parts (04:45). A truck is loaded with raw material (05:02). Spewing lava (05:21). Bell and Howell Filmo 70 Model J movie camera (05:49). A Bell and Howell Filmosound 535T 16mm sound movie projector (05:53). Possibly a convertible Oldsmobile Delta 88 driving (06:01). Possibly a 1960s Buick Special (06:13). A vehicle driving through water (06:26). A map of the United States of America highlighting the location of Bell and Howell offices (06:34). Chimneys (06:48). A power plant (06:51). People entering a large building (06:53). A factory worker using a machine (06:55). A factory (07:04). Factory workers using machines (07:10). A man is explaining a board displayed on an easel (07:15). A black-and-white clip of U.S. soldiers viewing an army film (07:26). A new factory worker is taught how to work a machine (07:43). supervisors oversee factory workers (07:50). The back of a worker and a screwdriver in his pocket (08:00). A hand grabs the screwdriver (08:02). View of the two men performing mechanical work (08:04). An illustration of a hand (08:06). A woman shops for a laundry machine (08:13). A tractor-pulled baler is making hay bales on a harvested field (08:28). A field is harvested using a tractor-drawn combine harvester (08:43). Large equipment/machinery (08:59). Children ice-skating (09:10). Children horse-riding (09:16). A conveyor belt with raw materials, seemingly soil (09:23). A company (09:31). Possibly a Bell and Howell Filmo 70 Model J movie camera (09:34). A Bell and Howell-Gaumont 606 8mm film projector (09:41). Film accessories (09:45). Bell and Howell Filmosound 535T 16mm sound movie projector (09:50). Cameras, films, lenses, and projectors (09:55). Views of an astronaut entering a space capsule amongst technicians (10:03). Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket launch (10:15). Astronaut of the Mercury-Redstone 3 spaceflight Alan Shepard (10:21). Views of the spaceflight (10:27). Credits (10:38).

Motion picture films don’t last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we’ve worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies — including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you’d like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below.

This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com