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:
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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."