A Modern Guide to Health

Sleepy-Time Squirrel

June 1954 •English

Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep.

Shuteye Popeye

October 1952 •English

Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.

Vitaminy

January 1948 •Czech

The Story of Cholera

December 2011 •English

This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of cholera.

Trap Happy Porky

February 1945 •English

Porky can't sleep because mice demolish his plates. A cat offers help and gets the mice out, but invites some friends so Porky still can't sleep.

Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle

May 1941 •English

Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves.

The Alphabet

February 1969 •English

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Black Jack: The Movie

November 1996 •Japanese

Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!

Comfy

June 2000 •English

Solutions to one problem can bring their own problems. In the middle of the night, a solitary sleeper awakes in bed. He's uncomfortable, his bed is too short for his body; in fact, his legs stick straight up at the end of the bed. To deal with this and ensuing challenges to his comfort, he takes extreme measures with his extremities.

Sleeping Beauty

February 1959 •English

A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.

Health for the Americas: Cleanliness Brings Health

June 1945 •English

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.

The Sleepy Revolution

October 2009 •Swedish

In the eighteenth century the mystical midnight hour disappeared and the modern night was born. We now aim to keep sleep at an efficient minimum, but experiments show that we quickly return to the old sleep pattern if given the opportunity. So what is the 'natural' way to sleep?

Animated Hero Classics: Louis Pasteur

June 1995 •English

The great French scientist, struggling with his own limitations from a stroke, is not deterred by scientific criticism nor failed experiments. Pasteur had the courage to look into the unseen world and his perfected vaccines are his gifts to mankind.

Alice in Wonderland

January 1981 •Russian

Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.

Goodbye, Mr. Germ

September 1940 •English

A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.

Sick

Invalid date •German

Pico discovers black spots on his neck. He goes to the doctor. A trip to hell begins. His counterpart is a young and arrogant doctor, eager to make money. Pico starts to doubt in the decisions of the god in white.

Defense Against Invasion

August 1943 •English

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease. Animated sequences depict the body metaphorically as a city, defended by the blood cells, which are stimulated by vaccination to amass arms and ammunition, in order to defend the city when it is invaded by germs.

Electronic Control System of the C-1 Auto Pilot Part 1: Basic Electricity as Applied to Electronic Control System

January 1943 •English

Animated training film depicting the fundamentals of electricity and how electrical signals can be used to keep an airplane on correct course and altitude through an autopilot.

Sniffy Escapes Poisoning

January 1967 •English

A boy travels with his sick dog Sniffy to his medicine cabinet, where pills and other medicines sing the dangers of taking medicines without adult supervision.

Foods and Fun: A Nutrition Adventure

September 1980 •English

A little orange bird needs to build up his strength to fly south for he winter, so he consults a wise old owl who teaches him about nutrition.