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1. [Football Game and the Marching 100] (03:16)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
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2. A city of Cathay (25:03)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Presents the people of the Sung dynasty in everyday activities in old Cathay through the use of a photographic representation of a famous Chinese art scroll. Uses music and narration to bring the ...

3. A giant people : the Watussi of Africa (10:53)

Date:
1939 (Creation date: 1939)
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; George Herzog
Summary:
Reveals the activities, customs, and traditions of the Watussi, an African people characterized by their advanced culture. Shows the ruling prince and royal family and activities in the royal house...

4. A glimpse of the past : prehistoric American Indians (09:34)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Presents phases of prehistoric American Indian life as revealed by archaeologists who study the features of early village sites and materials obtained from exploring them. Describes the structure o...

5. A new Zion (29:23)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Tells the story of the Mormon Settlement at Nauvoo, Ill. Explains how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Book of Mormon came into being. Outlines the movements of this native r...

6. A Paris (18:06)

Date:
1936
Summary:
Produced by Jean Brerault for use in French elementary schools. Complete French text with marginal vocabulary notes is available. Glimpses of the economic and cultural life of Paris. After a view f...

7. A political animal (29:27)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Portrays an imaginative situation in which an individual is confronted by two "salesmen"--representative of democratic government and a representative of totalitarian government. Presents their arg...

8. A survey of children's speech disorders (29:20)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Uses animation and illustration to show how children learn oral communication and to demonstrate the process involved in learning how to talk. Pictures children who exemplify oral communication pro...

9. A tale of today (10:44)

Date:
1972
Summary:
Presents the philosophy of the 'new-consciousness' generation's reverence for life, exploring alternative lifestyles and questioning traditional societal life styles. Pictures rural communal living...

10. A visit with cowboys (11:01)

Date:
1949
Summary:
A city boy visits a real western ranch for the first time and sees cowboys rounding up, roping, and riding horses; watches cowmen roping and branding calves; meets a fence rider at work; helps to s...

11. A young girl's dream by Corot (15:06)

Date:
1957
Summary:
A young girl is playing Chopin’s Nocturnes on the piano. The music brings back recollections of her childhood – which was painted by Corot.

12. Abel Gance : hier et demain (29:08)

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...

13. Abortion (38:58)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Discusses in detail the most common types of abortion procedures, aimed particularly at the woman who has already made the decision to have an abortion. Focuses on the need for post-abortion follo...

14. Abortion Clinic (1:03:03)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Examines the controversial issue of abortion with an in-depth look at abortion clinics and women making abortion decisions. Considers the psychological and physical ramifications associated with a...

15. Achimota (19:23)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows the teacher-training school established by the British government at Achimota, on the Gold Coast of Africa. Describes student life, which is organized cooperatively, academic activities, the...

16. Acting : how it began (29:36)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the actor and where he came from. Describes the Greek theater in terms of the actor, his equipment and techniques. Explains the theater of the Middle Ages with its strolling players, li...

17. Acting : the Renaissance (29:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Arnold Moss presents the renaissance of acting as the re-birth of humanism. He discusses the actors of the Comedia del Arte and the age of Shakespeare. He believes that the test of a true actor is ...

18. Acting comes of age (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Arnold Moss discusses the social position of the actor in the romantic theatre and the relationship between the theatre, the actor and the birth of democracy. He explains the origination of the “st...

19. Adaptation in animals (13:47)

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.

20. Adaptive radiation : the mollusks (18:16)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Defines mollusks and tells how classes are named, and pictures examples of each class and illustrates how the general form of mollusks is adapted in various species. Relates how mollusks reproduce ...

21. Addition is easy (10:56)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Billy learns to add his savings, consisting of various coins, and the prices of things he wants to buy, in order to compare the totals. Explains the units place, the tens place, and the operation ...

22. Administration of projective tests (18:34)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Explains the theory, advantages, limitations, and administration of projective tests including the thematic apperception, word association, sentence completion, free-drawing, and the Szondi tests. ...

23. Adult education (18:49)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows night classes and activities attended by adults at Bryant School, Woodside, Long Island. Arts and crafts, mathematics classes, shop courses, and other activities are pictured. Students in a ...

24. Afghanistan moves ahead (11:02)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows Afghanistan's traditional way of life, and pictures its efforts to develop and improve its agriculture and industry. Shows how the new knowledge and techniques brought in by the UN Technical ...

25. After work (10:54)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows such leisure-time pursuits as bowling, swimming, dancing, sketching, sewing, and carpentry available to workers during World War II. Pictures study groups and recreation at a Workers' Educati...

26. Aggression and destruction games : balloons (17:33)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Two boys, both between the ages of four and five, are subjects in a study of aggressive and destructive impulses. The film shows how differently two children, but a few months apart in age and fro...

27. Agricultural engineering : profession with a future (14:22)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Describes the work of engineers who seek practical solutions to the problems of food and fiber production and processing. Includes scenes of pineapple and sugar-cane harvesting in Hawaii, the new T...

28. Agriculture USA (28:50)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Correlates the growth of farming in America with the country's progress in becoming a great nation. Illustrates wildlife, land, and cattle in pioneer days. Describes homesteading and the establis...

29. Agriculture's showcase abroad (14:07)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Visits a number of international trade fairs and identifies their purposes and contributions to the United States agricultural program. Illustrates ways United States agricultural products are intr...

30. Air all about us (exploring science) (10:45)

Date:
1955
Summary:
A floating feather and an experiment with a balloon arouses a young boy's curiosity about the physics of air and the usefulness of air pressure in suction cups, in bicycle and automobile tires, and...

31. Air around us (14:37)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Describes the properties of air, where it is found, and how it is used by man. Points out that we are living on the earth at the bottom of a thick ocean of air. Demonstrates that air is matter, f...

32. Airplanes and how they fly (14:24)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Explains basic physical principles involved in launching, flying, and controlling an airplane. Uses animation to demonstrate how the shape of the airfoil produces lift during flight. Also features ...

33. Airport in the jet age (11:32)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Pictures a young boy as he takes a helicopter to the airport and boards a jetliner. Includes views of the work done behind the scenes in order to make the boy's flight possible.

34. Alaska : a modern frontier (revised) (10:42)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Presents many aspects of life in Alaska today, featuring agriculture, air transportation, and mining. Shows modern Eskimos, several cities, and a variety of scenery.

35. Alaska : USA (22:39)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Surveys Alaska, the 49th state, showing its size, location, industries, people, natural resources, climate, cities, typography, and history. Shows the three main geographic regions of the state and...

36. Alcohol and the human body (13:46)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Describes graphically the content of alcoholic beverages and defines fermentation and distillation. Then illustrates diagrammatically the effects of alcohol on the liver and brain. Dramatizes the ...

37. Algebra in everyday life (10:42)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Jim shows Grace how she can use algebra to find out the quantities of red and yellow paint she needs to make enough orange paint to complete some stage scenery. Demonstrates the algebraic steps of ...

38. All in a lifetime (29:02)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Depicts the changes which have come about in the American school system during the life of a senior citizen. Shows changes in buildings and in philosophies. Compares functions, needs, and objecti...

39. All in the game (22:30)

Date:
1971
Summary:
Presents the importance of play in the development of a child. Emphasizes that each child passes through stages of play at varying rates dependent on maturation, not personality. Uses an observati...

40. All our futures (29:06)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Shows UNICEF responding to the crises of children and parents in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with health care, food, medicine, birth control, education, vocational training, and tools and equip...

41. Allelism and lethals (29:41)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents examples of multiple allelism in man (ABO blood types), Drosophila (eye Color and wing venation), rabbits (coat Color), and tobacco (self-sterility). Discusses the way multiple alleles act...

42. An Air Raid Warden's Report (11:37)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows the importance of accuracy in the information a warden collects at the scene of disaster and the exact manner in which he should transmit information to the control.

43. An alternative to imprisonment (29:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman outlines probation as a special alternative to the criminal-making influences of the prison system, stating that probation can effectively replace de...

44. An animal life cycle (26:54)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes the development of the sea urchin from fertilized egg to pluteus larva and metamorphosis into the adult. Shows the reproduction experiments with sea urchins possible in a laboratory. De...

45. Ancient Mesopotamia (11:15)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Presents a brief history of the development of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. Shows through animation the occupation of the land by the Sumerians, Semites, Babylonians, and Assyrians, and illustrates...

46. And so they live (24:16)

Date:
1940
Summary:
Documents the tragic poverty of families in the southern mountains, the poor land, the lack of proper diet, inadequate housing, absence of sanitation, and the complete lack of adaptation of the sch...

47. Angry boy (31:27)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Dramatizes the story of Tommy Randall, who has been caught stealing at school, and who is sent to a child guidance clinic rather than being of an emotional problem. Traces the disturbance, through...

48. Animal habitats : the relation of animals to their environment (10:35)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Shows some of the animals that are found in each of four environments--deciduous forest, evergreen forest, desert, and arctic tundra. Presents the habitats of such animals as sidewinder snake, timb...

49. Animals : ways they eat (11:12)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows in detail how the body parts of various animals are related to their eating habits. Includes such examples as the cirri of barnacles, the mouth parts and legs of crayfish, the teeth of lions...

50. Animals in deep water (29:33)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Shows how marine animals living in deeper water offshore are adapted for survival in their particular environment. Uses film sequences to demonstrate the technique of dredging for better living ani...