Format: Moving Image / Date: 1963 / Collection: IU Audio-Visual Center

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Focuses on the life of French filmmaker Abel Gance and examines his contributions to the motion picture industry. Explains that Gance pioneered such film techniques as polyvision and the use of the picturegraph and the picturescope. Illustrates these techniques through excerpts from some of his films, including Napoleon and J'Accuse.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Explains methods of adaptation which are characteristic of mammals and birds which live in an around the sea. Emphasizes movement, the capture of food, eating, and protection.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Presents a tour of Paris, indicating points of interest and picturing Parisians as they go about their everyday tasks. Views Paris from atop the Eiffel Tower. Shows a diagram of the city and locates various points on the diagram. French language narration.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Explains the types of behavior of various forms of animals and discusses the organs in animals that effect behavior.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Uses experiments to show the great reactivity of bromine with metals and non-metals; and explores the chemical equilibrium of an aqueous solution. Develops a procedure for the extracion of bromine from a dilute soduim bromide solution, pointing out the essential steps of the process. Shows the principles which have been demonstrated in the laboratory in operation in a commercial plant which annually extracts millions of pounds of bromine from sea water.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Shows the daily activities of a small boy who learns to do things at home and at school by watching others, by learning from his mistakes, by asking for help, and by practice. Points out the satisfactions of self-reliance and the fun of learning.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Compares the nervous systems of the hydra and earthworm with the complexity of the human nervous system. Details the physiology of the reflex arc and explains the activities of certain brain centers. Pictures laboratory experiments in which the encephalograph is used and explains its functions. Shows application of knowledge to actual techniques in brain surgery.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Surveys the purpose, functions and parts of flowers. Treats the various kinds of pollination and reproductive systems, selective breeding, and the growth cycle. Briefly discusses the classification of plants.

Date:: 1963
Summary:: Shows how fruits are formed, and then classifies them as dry or fleshy. Discusses the selective breeding of fruits, including cross-pollination and grafting.

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