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While man is blowing trumpet at beginning of film we see, at left, Peter Fraenkel in white suit and Herman B Wells in dark suit.
At the 1:18 mark we see the unfurling of Indiana University's World War II service flag.
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after World War II, and to his research and teaching and professional activities as a member of the faculty of Indiana University.
Traces the important role of the research chemist in developing new products, and the skill of the chemical engineer in planning, constructing, and operating a production plant. The production and use of elemental phosphorus illustrate the role of chemistry in modern life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Shows Chilean mountains, deserts, glaciers, mines, ports, pastoral areas, and an estate in the agricultural Central Valley. Here the role of the estate is seen in relation to the visiting owner and his family, the farming population, and Chilean agriculture generally. On the family's return to Santiago, varied aspects of Chile's capital city are featured. Includes some Spanish dialogue.
Shows the general characteristics of elephants, how they are trained, their physical features, food, and methods of eating, drinking, and cleansing themselves. A full-grown elephant is put through a series of tests for a circus buyer, who engages the trainer to condition two young elephants. These are shown learning to stand on their front and hind legs, sit on barrels, walk a plank, ring a bell, and obey other commands.
Erpi Classroom Films Inc., Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Theodore D. A. Cockerell
Summary:
Extreme close-ups are used to detail the queen, worker and drone, Ranges from the task of collecting nectar, to feeding the young, air conditioning the hive and swarming to begin another hive. Includes a model of the worker bee.
Describes a journey on a streamlined Diesel-electric passenger train from a large city through a picturesque countryside. Depicts the duties of the engineer, the conductor, the cooks, and the pullman porters. Shows the important track signals which the engineers must observe. Stresses the comfort and safety which the passengers enjoy while traveling to their destinations. An instructional sound film.
Tells the dramatic story of two young people whose lives are interrupted and threatened by tuberculosis. Shows modern tuberculosis case-finding, diagnosis, hospitalization, and rehabilitation after the cure has been effected.
These films are part of the John and Hilda Jay family papers. They likely date between 1939-1946.
This film has no sound and shows clips of the Jay family and friends boating at a lake shore, working and playing in the yard, at home for Christmas, and taking portraits on the IU campus.
These films are part of the John and Hilda Jay family papers. They likely date between 1939-1946. This film has no sound; shows residential and campus life in Bloomington.
These films are part of the John and Hilda Jay family papers. They likely date between 1939-1946. Silent home movie of family and friends playing, cooking, and eating together.