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Sharing and taking turns with others can be the best way to play and Brushy and Susie-Q show us what happens when you don’t play this way. They never had any fun because they fought over things they wanted to play with. But, mother taught them by sharing they could each have more fun.
Bash Kennett tells about the art of craving the figureheads which graced the prow of sailing vessels in the past. She shows figureheads of all types and sings “Pretty Kitty” and “Wanderin.”
Explores the principal ways in which people go about finding information, by following a boy who discovers a baby bird as he asks advice from a man in a pet shop, learns by observation, consults various materials at the library, conducts an informal experiment when teaching the bird to eat adult food, and explores a community resource to find a home for it.
Fignewton Frog (puppet) and Dora (person) hold a contest where children (puppets) have to guess the parts actors (also puppets) are playing based on their costumes. The children also have to guess what type of theater is being referenced in a number of tableaux.
Bash tells of fishing in New England, where the fishermen fished close to the shore at first and then went all the way to the Grand Banks in their small craft. Examples of the ways in which various fish are caught includes the lobster trap, the use of lines or purse seine nets and the use of dredge nets. Songs include “Sarah,” “Hulla Baloo Belay” and “Crawdad.”
Defines movies as glorified shadow shows and traces the motion picture revolution from a simple shadow on a wall to modern movies. Presents a history of the development of the movie camera, film, and other photographic inventions. Includes Al Jolson, Lon Chaney, Laurel and Hardy, and sequences from The Great Train Robbery and a Conquest of Space.
Uses animation and live-action photography to show sources and uses of electricity, to explain that electricity is a flow of electrons, and to show the need for a circuit. Pictures dry cells and generators as sources of electricity. Shows that the flow of electrons from the source, through wires, and back constitutes a current of electricity. Revised version.
Tells of the adventures of the Baxter family on a picnic. After Frank and Jean fly their kite, a goat tries to eat it. Frank's dog, Penny, keeps the goat from it and is then rewarded by the children.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Willard Abraham, John W. Barnes, Gordon Weisenborn
Summary:
Tells of the adventures of the Baxter family on a picnic. After Frank and Jean fly their kite, a goat tries to eat it. Frank's dog, Penny, keeps the goat from it and is then rewarded by the children.
The changes of season are described in terms of what the animals of the forest do during these times. Bash tells how each of the animals live during the four seasons. She sings “Saturday Night,” “Mr. Rabbit” and the “The Fox.”