41. Building birdhouses (05:48)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows, through the interest of a boy and girl in birdhouses, the construction of different types of houses for different birds. Tells what materials to choose and how they can be used most effectively. Shows children putting up houses in the early spring, and pictures the bluebird, martin, tree swallow, and house wren in houses constructed for them.

42. Courtesy for beginners (10:22)

Date:
1952
Summary:
A third-grade class decides who will be the week's host, shows one youngsters pretending she is a visitor while another acts out the part of the host. Pictures children making introductions, and using "magic-words" such as thank you, excuse me, and please.

43. Flying a kite (07:07)

Date:
1952
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.

44. Flying a Kite (07:06)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
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.

45. Frank tends the garden (06:43)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows how Frank and Jean Baxter enjoy watering their garden, and afterwards put on bathing suits and take showers under the hose. Penny, the dog, joins them, but Fluff, the kitten, watches from a distance.

46. It takes everybody to build this land (21:04)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
R.Y.L. Associates, Oscar Brand
Summary:
Shows that the early pioneers had to make their own tools and clothes, build their own houses, and raise their own food. Describes the development of specialties and the trading of one man's work for another's. As the settlements became cities, concentrations on lumbering, mining, manufacturing, and farming grew up. Accompanied by folk singer Oscar Brand, singing the title song.

47. Rumpelstilzkin (08:26)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
World TV Corporation, W. Lee Wilder
Summary:
A performance of the classic fairy tale popularly associated with Germany. A local miller brags to the King that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She can not actually perform this feat so she employs a dwarf to do the work for her. The dwarf agrees to do the work if the girl promises he can have her first child. The girl marries the King when he finds all the straw spun into gold and the two soon have a baby. After the baby is born the dwarf comes to collect the child. The Queen is so upset by this deal, the dwarf gives the queen a second chance to guess his name. When the queen correctly guesses the man's name the dwarf disappears.

48. Safety on the street (11:00)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Shows the contest between Fred and Judy for a position on the safety patrol. During the contest they learn not to play in the street, not to run into the street from between parked cars, and how to cross streets safely.

49. Skipper learns a lesson (10:08)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
Paul Burnford
Summary:
When Susan, who is about eight years old, moves to a new neighborhood, the children invite her to play with them; however her dog Skipper refuses to go along, because he does not like the looks of their dogs. When he falls into some paint, he learns that it is not only looks that count.

50. The lighthouse (11:50)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
New Horizon Films, Cynthia Chapman, Hal Albert, Wilbur T. Blume
Summary:
A small boy tells how he helps his father tend a Coast Guard lighthouse. Explains the importance of lighthouses and shows the boy and his father as they shop for supplies. Also pictures the boy as he plays on the beach.