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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.
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.
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.
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.
John L. Lumley, Pennsylvania State University, Quintin Brown, Abraham Morochnik, Alan H. Pesetsky, R. Paul Larkin, Charles L. White, Jr., Frank Meagher, John J. Barta, Stanley Corrsin, The Johns Hopkins University, Dave Fultz, University of Chicago, Ascher H. Shapiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kenneth Jones, David Kohlman, Kevin Smith, Charles R. Conn, Educational Services Incorporated
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Concepts of rotation, strain, principal axes, and deformation rate by analysis of patterns marked on the surface of glycerine moving in a rectilinear Couette flow.
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.
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.
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.
Shows how fruits are formed, and then classifies them as dry or fleshy. Discusses the selective breeding of fruits, including cross-pollination and grafting.
Considers whether man can find a way to make strong, permanent commitments in the face of constant change. Relates that in the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution wrought great changes in man's scientific, political, and economic life which many people felt heralded a permanent, stable utopia--a "golden city." Shows that in the twentieth century, vast new fields of knowledge have made man even more uncertain of the world he knows, and instead of a final utopia of nineteenth century industrial achievement, man must change his concepts to accept a still-changing universe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Lee Wickline, Bert Van Bork, David Harvey
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Shows how various types of simple machines are used in building a house. Explains the principle of the inclined plane, lever, pulley, and wheel and axle. Stresses the idea that simple machines make work easier for us.
Reviews Eric Hoffer's views on man as a truly free being. Describes check of absolute power and struggle away from the animal in man as prerequisites to freedom. Reveals play as one of the best times for man to receive insight.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Margaret McKibben Lawler, William Kay
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Describes the life cycle of a solitary wasp, using macrophotography to reveal the intricate processes of growth and development of a wasp through early stages of metamorphosis. Points out changes which take place between the egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages of an insect. Features a tube, especially constructed for observation, to reveal the dramatic changes in body organization that normally occur within a cocoon as a wasp larva is transformed into a fully developed winged adult.
William C. “Bill” Smith of Oregon Educational Broadcasting, who hosts and narrates this group of programs, takes youngsters on a day’s jaunt to an Oregon “egg factory,” a dairy farm and a dairy manufacturing plant to show them that, though milk, butter and eggs still come from the same old reliable sources, the ways which they are processed have changed considerably. On a farm where 100,000 laying hens produce enough eggs in one day to feed cities the size of Schenectady; New York; St. Joseph, MO; and Kalamazoo, Michigan, we see how eggs are gathered, cleaned and graded, and sent to market. On the dairy farms we see modern milking methods and milk being transported to a manufacturing plant. Processes involved in bottling milk and making cheese are seen, and the ice cream bar section is visited.
Reveals the intense feeling for the weak individual and the place in society which Eric Hoffer has achieved. Describes working as source of power for these people. Focuses on Hoffer's systematized mode of living with its inherent difficulties for the weak individual.
Presents, in fable form, the philosophical question of free will versus determinism. The mannequins in a store window come to life and threaten the window dresser. Cartoon figures--symbolizing man--watch the action in the window and react in various but accepted ways.
This program considers the role of the unaligned nation as defined by the late Dag Hammarskjold. Sweden, the narrator notes, remained neutral in both World War I and II, and has maintained a unanimously supported policy of non-alliance since 1945. This policy, however, is based on strong defense, and the country is taking an active part in all forms of non-military international cooperation. Sweden joined the United Nations in 1946, was the founding members of the Council of Europe, and belongs to the Nordic Council. The program also traces the history of Sweden from the days of the Viking to War World II. Among the participates in this program are Bertil Ohlin, professor, leader of the Liberal Party, and member of Parliament since 1938; and Erik Rosengren, colonel in charge of one of Sweden’s two military academies.
Follows a doctoral candidate on the day he must defend his dissertation--in a public session, as is the custom. Turns attention from higher education to the Swedish educational system in general. Indicates the changes which Swedish education is experiencing today.
Explains how the development of the computer has made possible the automatic control of routine tasks in government, industry, and general business. Includes demonstrations of the use of computers by the Social Security Administration, by a medium-sized industrial plant, by a machine corporation, and at an oil refinery. Comments on the value of computers in administration and management.