1. Our food : fruits and vegetables (27:25)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Fruit and vegetables are the familiar products examined in this program. Bill Smith journeys to the farm to see how peas are harvested, processed, and packed – a highly mechanized operation. He visits a strawberry patch where the luscious, red fruit is being picked. As a side trip he visits a carton factory to see how frozen food containers for peas and strawberries are made.

2. Sailing I (26:59)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Provides beginning sailors with a general overview of the principles and terminology of elementary sailing and the effect of wind upon the sail and boat. Illustrates the functions of the mast, boom, rudder and centerboard housing. Emphasizes that each person must know how to swim and shows the correct way to use a life preserver.

3. Big Boys Don't Cry (09:03)

Date:
1973
Summary:
Shows a young boy, carrying an air rifle, walking through the woods. Uses scenes from old westerns to illustrate his fantasies of shooting and fighting. When he shoots a bird, he begins to understand the finality of death.

4. Birds of a Feather (07:17)

Date:
1972
Summary:
A bored, dejected little bird asserts its spunky individuality in this non-narrated animated tale illustrating some basic principles of animal (and human) behavior. Paralleling the experiences of many people, the bird's adventures will encourage viewers to take a closer look at their own concepts of conformity and experiences in being "one of the crowd." Based on the book by Willi Baum.

5. Our food : eggs and dairy products (27:25)

Date:
196u
Summary:
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.

6. Safe living at school (second edition) (09:42)

Date:
1969
Summary:
Stop-action photography of common school mishaps illustrates potential safety hazards and ways they can be avoided. Points out that a school building is constructed for maximum safety: accidents are caused by people. Stresses the individual child's responsibility for accident prevention.

7. In search of space (29:01)

Date:
1968
Main contributors:
Ralph J. Tangney
Summary:
Tells how three boys write a report titled Doomsday 2000 after they lose their ballfield to an apartment project. Analyzes problems of air and water pollution, expanding population, and lack of recreational facilities. Shows the boys preparing a second report recounting how small plots of land are being used to make life more pleasant for children and adults.

8. Sailing II (27:02)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Presents a beginner's guide to smooth and efficient sailing by investigating the effects of weight placement, wind, and sail adjustment. Demonstrates the rules and courtesies of navigation and gives several examples showing which boat has the right-of-way under various conditions.

9. 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 some of the most modern aircraft in the world.

10. Flicks #1 (27:43)

Date:
1965
Summary:
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.

11. Doing things for ourselves in school (11:02)

Date:
1963
Summary:
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.

12. Making Work Easier (10:33)

Date:
1963
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Lee Wickline, Bert Van Bork, David Harvey
Summary:
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.

14. Finding information (11:45)

Date:
1962
Summary:
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.

15. Frere Jacques (15:04)

Date:
1962
Summary:
A French language film for beginning French classes. Recreates the story of the French folksong about Frère Jacques, the monk who had trouble getting up in the morning on time to ring the monastery bells.

16. Frontier boy of the early Midwest (15:23)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Presents through the experiences of a boy, insights into numerous aspects of frontier life in the Midwest. Illustrates the importance of the school, the self-sufficiency of the settlers, and the developing economic system evidenced in peddlers, the country gristmill, and stores in frontier towns using barter to acquire and sell goods. Social life is pictured through scenes of a quilting bee, men discussing politics and market prices, games and a spelling bee. Everyday events in the life of a Midwest settler's family from a child's viewpoint. School and community activities as well as home life.

17. The community (11:20)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ralph Buchsbaum, William Kay
Summary:
Defines "community" to be somewhat like that of a human community and examines three natural communities, comparing them in terms of their similarities of ecological systems. Describes the western pine forest, the grasslands community, and the intertidal community on the California coast. Shows niches within the biotic community as occupied by herbivores, carnivores, and scavengers. Describes how the "pyramid of numbers," the food chain, and food web interlace into a complex system.

18. Flow of electricity (11:50)

Date:
1961
Summary:
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.

19. A newspaper serves its community (14:32)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Describes the ways in which a newspaper brings information and service to a community and traces a news story and advertisement from their beginnings to their publication in the paper. Follows the reporting of the arrival of a baby elephant for the city zoo and shows the step-by-step process including the writing, editing, typesetting, proofing, printing, and delivery of the paper in which the story appears. Shows the variety of news sources, special features, and services the newspaper must use each day. | Shows how the daily newspaper is published and explains the work of each department.

20. All in a summer's day (15:10)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Rain does not always evaporate immediately after falling. Dora tells a story of some raindrops with the help of Mr. Robinson's illustrations of some raindrops who had a series of adventures on their way to a distant lake where they learned how to do the "dance of the happy spray."

21. Wedges (14:58)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Uncle Wonder show that a wedge is both a simple machine and inclined plane, and he uses the wedge to separate his logs. He also shows the boys and girls that a jackscrew which is used to life automobiles is also an inclined plane and a simple machine. Uncle Wonder shows us that screws are also inclined planes and tells boys and girls that he is going to make a birdhouse; and as the series progresses, he will show the birdhouse from time to time.

22. What shall we paint? (10:54)

Date:
1959
Summary:
A teacher takes her primary class on a walk to find suggestions for painting. Shows each child painting what interested him in his own special way.

23. Archibald Ant likes to play baseball (15:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Audience learns how to make an ant puppet of varying size. In the Make Do Theatre play, the story of Archibald Ant is told. After playing baseball, he eats too much honey and his stomach gets really big. After it goes down in size, he vows to never tell anyone what happened.

24. Children of Scotland (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of a day in the life of two boys and a girl living in a small Scottish fishing village as seen through their own eyes. The children are followed during the day as they walk through the village, buy fish, attend school and gather with other family members for meals. The highlight of the day is a trip aboard the father's fishing boat to a nearby town where on the children's tour they explore an old castle and here "through imagination" a Scottish Bagpipe band appears and briefly plays.

25. Dolls, puppets, and diversion (30:20)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In all societies, children have a need to play. The doll, made in the human image is a universal toy. The puppet, made in the human or animal form, is another means of diversion for children, as well as adults. In some non-technological societies, puppetry has been developed into a high art. Shari Lewis examines the variety of ways in which man, using materials at hand, has created replicas of himself for fun and amusement.

26. Blossom Possum (15:04)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Hand puppets with lively personalities tell this original story by Tom Tichenor of Blossom Possum, who forgets where she puts things. When she receives a phone call from Grandma Rabbit, she can't find the phone. Grandma asks Blossom Possum to hurry over with the hot water bottle, and Blossum Possum has trouble remembering where she put it. When Blossom arrives at Grandma's she forgets who is ill and puts the wrong person in bed. Blossom returns home to put her three children to bed but has forgotten where she put the littlest one. Lots of fun for the youngsters in this story with a comedy of errors.

27. The bears bargain (15:10)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Hand puppets enact the story of a man and wife who were too lazy to plant their own pear trees. Their neighbor tells them they may have all the pears that fall from the tree on their side of the fence.The husband goes to fetch wood and meets a bear who agrees to carry wood to the wife if he can have some bread pudding. The selfish husband and wife eat all of the pudding before the bear arrives. When he sees he has been tricked, the bear upsets everything in the house and leaves. He comes to the pear tree and decides to take the pears. Just then the wife sneezes, the bear thinks they are shooting at him so he drops the pears and runs away. The neighbor comes by and recovers the pears that were dropped, leaving the lazy man and wife with nothing.

28. Exploring your growth (11:19)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Uses simple animation and photomicrography to explore the process that makes a person grow, explaining how food is digested in the mouth, stomach, intestine ; how the digested food is carried by the blood from the intestine to the cells of body ; and how food allows cells to grow and divide, causing growth. Educational consultants, Herman Schneider, Nina Schneider. Correlated with "Heath Elementary Science" by Herman & Nina Schneider.

29. Balanced aquarium (10:53)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Follows the step-by-step activities of two elementary school children who become interested in fish as they discover the difficulties of keeping tropical fish. They set up an aquarium, select the fish, and learn the importance of feeding the fish properly, cleaning the aquarium, keeping the temperature constant, and maintaining the proper balance between plant and fish life. Live action, animated drawings, and underwater photography.

30. The freight train (11:08)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Paul R. Hanna, Milan Herzog
Summary:
Follows the journey of a freight train from Kansas City to Chicago. Describes the assembling of the train, shows the number of people involved in its operations, and explains why freight trains are important to many people.

31. The little black lamb (10:51)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., Paul A. Witty, Hal Kopel
Summary:
A little girl who wanted a white lamb for a pet overcomes disappointment and learns to take care of a black lamb which is given to her.

32. Your table manners (10:41)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Uses an attractive home situation to put across its message - that eating together is more fun when everyone remembers his table manners.

33. Arabian children (15:20)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Shows the experiences of children in a family and a community in the desert land near Jordan. Pictures their roles in the family and shows how they help their parents in house-keeping and farming. Surveys the educational program. Depicts the family's dependence on the camel and on the meager water supply for its continued existence.

34. Eat for health (10:56)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Ralph learns that eating can be fun and eating the right foods each day will help him to become healthy. He recalls the food rule that he learned in school by using each of his five fingers for a kind of food. After following the rule for a time, he notices a gradual change for the better in himself.

35. Your friend the soil : keep it or lose it (06:55)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
Conservation Foundation
Summary:
Uses animation and live photography to show several of the benefits of good soil and some of the undesirable consequences of poor soil. Pictures a small girl in a super market buying bread, milk and beans. She discovers that good soil is essential for the production of these products. Later she earns that poor farming practices may result in soil that is incapable of producing the various things we eat.

36. City pets : fun and responsibility (10:49)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Illustrates the need of pets for adequate care, urges children to care for their city pets and shows by example how such care is administered. Portrays the kinds of pets that are conveniently kept in city apartments as Jimmy and his dog take a walk in the park and visit a pet shop. Encourages pupils to tell and write stories about the pets that are shown.

37. Mammals are interesting (12:31)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Paul Burnford, Harold Davis
Summary:
Discusses the characteristics of protozoa, and sea anomones, fish, reptiles, birds, and insects, and explains how they differ from mammals. Shows how hoofed mammals, carnivores, rodents, and primates are basically alike and describes the charateristics which are peculiar to each group. Collaborator, Wilbur L. Beauchamp.

38. Understanding the law (equal justice for all) (12:38)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Robert K. Carr, Milan Herzog
Summary:
Explains the right of individuals to be protected from the law and by the law, and dramatizes a felony case to illustrate step-by-step functions in the due process of law.

39. Birds that eat fish (06:29)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows many fish-eating birds and indicates how the characteristics of each, although different, enable them to catch and eat fish. Emphasizes such characteristics as the long neck, a strong bill, long legs, toes that are sometimes webbed, and the ability to swim and dive underwater.

40. Birds that eat fish (06:29)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows many fish-eating birds and indicates how the characteristics of each, although different, enable them to catch and eat fish. Emphasizes such characteristics as the long neck, a strong bill, long legs, toes that are sometimes webbed, and the ability to swim and dive underwater.

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:
See Other Contributors
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.

51. 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 a portrayal of his family lie, to its source. Shows how Tommy's mother learns to understand him and how Tommy himself becomes adjusted through the work of the clinicians.

52. Atomic alert (elementary version) (11:11)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Shows several youngsters finding shelter upon hearing an air raid alert. Then portrays Ted and Sue, at home when the alert sounds, taking the necessary precautions against an atomic bomb. They cover windows, check the kitchen for fires, and go to the basement to wait for instructions over the battery radio. Next pictures what to do in case of a bombing without warning, as demonstrated by Ted and Sue. They are commended by the warden for their good work.

53. Howdy Doody's Christmas (08:57)

Date:
1951
Summary:
It's Christmas Eve and Santa hasn't come yet, so Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy, and Clarabell The Clown (Bob Keeshan soon-to-be "Captain Kangaroo") decide to take the Rocket Doodle as transportation and head for the North Pole to see what's happened to Santa. When they get there they find out that "Ugly Sam" (Dayton Allen later of "The Steve Allen Show") thinks that Santa is the "Bearded Bandit" and has captured him. So, it's up to Howdy and the Crew to prove differently.

54. The beginning of picture making (05:49)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Examples of tempera painting by children aged three to seven show the development of skill and ability to express ideas in creative painting.

55. Sleep for health (11:11)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., Nathaniel Kleitman
Summary:
Shows children why sleep is important to their health and happiness, emphasizes their own responsibility in the formation of good habits, and considers dreaming as a normal part of sleeping.

56. Woodwinds and brass (12:07)

Date:
1950
Summary:
The various instruments of the wood-wind and brass sections of an orchestra are characterized as to appearance, tone, and use during a children's concert conducted by Eugene Kash, Canadian violinist. Then demonstrates the effect of both sections combined.

57. Woodwinds and brass (12:07)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Eugene Kash, Gudrun Parker, Denis Gillson, Joseph Champagne, Eldon Rathburn, Thomas Daly, Guy Glover, Peter Jones, Margaret Ellis, National Film Board
Summary:
The various instruments of the wood-wind and brass sections of an orchestra are characterized as to appearance, tone, and use during a children's concert conducted by Eugene Kash, Canadian violinist. Then demonstrates the effect of both sections combined.

58. Circus day in our town (15:27)

Date:
1949
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Grace Storm
Summary:
Follows the circus train from the time it arrives in town until the end of the matinee. Shows the elephants working to help put up the huge circus tent poles, the clown getting ready for their performance, and the various feature acts of the circus.

59. Synthetic fibers : nylon and rayon (13:38)

Date:
1949
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Malcolm Dole
Summary:
A chemist explains to two boys how a spider's method of spinning a web compares with the manufacture of synthetic fibers. They shows in detail the processes by which rayon and nylon are made. Pictures briefly the manufacture of nylon hose.

60. The common cold (10:58)

Date:
1949
Summary:
When John catches a cold from his friend, the family doctor tells him how colds are carried, how to guard against them, and what to do to cure a common cold.

61. 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 of carrying over.

62. Fun on the playground (11:12)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Shows a group of children playing three types of games: those which they invent themselves, those learned under supervision but carried on alone, and those dramatic activities which grow out of school activities.

63. Making bricks for houses (10:56)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., R. K. Hursh
Summary:
Portrays the story of brickmaking from the digging of the basic material, shale, to the loading of finished brick into freight cars for shipment. Shows how the materials are assembled, pulverized, and mixed; then how the bricks themselves are shaped, cut, dried, baked, and finally graded for color and quality.

64. The doctor (11:04)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Shows the day's activities of a child specialist in his office, on a home call, and at a hospital. He makes a physical examination, vaccinates a baby, visits his hospital patients, and diagnoses a case of measles.

65. The hare and the tortoise (10:55)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Grace Storm
Summary:
Aesop's fable of the race between the braggart hare and the persistent Tortoise is portrayed by live animals and told by a narrator. Other characters include a squirrel, a goose, a skunk, a rooster, and a raccoon.

66. What is money? (11:20)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Details the economic steps from the use of barter to modern money. Explains how money is made, how far a dollar goes, and traces the real value of money.

67. Brotherhood of Man (11:20)

Date:
1946
Summary:
An animated cartoon which explains that there are no basic differences between the races of the world. Uses small green demons to caricature prejudice and racial hatred. Relates the history of mankind to point out that dissimilarities in peoples result from superficial environmental influences. Based on "Races of Mankind" pamphlet by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish. Uses an animated cartoon to prove that differences between the human races are superficial, accidental, and environmental. Explains how through the driftings of the first people of the earth, there developed the three separate races of mankind. Points out that though there are four distinct types of blood, all are found in all races, and therefore its difference has no more racial relevance than does differing skin color to intellectual ability. At the end, all racial groups march forward together.

68. Elephants (11:05)

Date:
1940
Summary:
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.

69. Birds of Prey (10:52)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, T. Gilbert Pearson, William L. Finley
Summary:
Portrays the nest life and other activities of representative species of owls, vultures, eagles, and hawks in their natural habitats and at various stages of development. Depicts the carnivorous habits of birds of prey and shows how they are equipped with strong talons and sharp, hooked beaks for carrying and tearing apart their victims.

70. Boats (10:32)

Date:
1938
Summary:
Portrays the experiences of a boy and a girl going by boat from Albany, down the Hudson River, to New York City. Along the way, the children see many types of water craft, including a sailboat, a cabin cruiser, a fireboat, a barge, a police boat, and a huge ocean liner. At the captain's invitation, they inspect his wheelhouse and engine room.

71. 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 from the air of l'Ile de la Cite, we quickly pass into the thickest of modern traffic around the place de l'Opera. Then we see in close succession railroad stations, an auto factory, the big early morning markets, department stores, different "quartiers" and points of interest about the city.