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Presents the people of the Sung dynasty in everyday activities in old Cathay through the use of a photographic representation of a famous Chinese art scroll. Uses music and narration to bring the content of the scroll to life.
Reveals the activities, customs, and traditions of the Watussi, an African people characterized by their advanced culture. Shows the ruling prince and royal family and activities in the royal household, including weaving, decorating, cooking, and churning. Portrays the prince as he inspects his cattle and leads a hunt, and depicts his young son presiding over a ceremonial dance.
Paul Bohannan, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ned Hildreth, Peter H. Backhaus, Fred Strauss
Summary:
Pictures East Africa (Kenya, Tanganyika [modern day Tanzania], Uganda) as a region of diversity both in physical geography and people. Contrasts ancient tribal life with busy metropolitan activities. Relates the activities of minority groups as the Indians, Arabs, and Europeans. Shows such important agricultural crops as sisal, coffee, and pyrethrum. Emphasizes the importance of education in the future unification of the people of East Africa. | Shows the variety and natural beauty of the region's physical features, and reveals the influence of topography on settlement and economic development. Examines the contrasting ways of life of the different peoples who live there, and shows various activities, problems, and achievements.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Daniel F. Rubin De La Borbolla, William F. Deneen
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Explains that Mexico is still a land of craftsmen and artisans. Shows an Indian woman making pottery in the village of Amatenango, the fashioning of Talavera ware in Puebla, and the forming and painting of pottery in the village of Tonola. Follows the making of serapes from sorting of wool to weaving. | An Indian woman making pre-Columbian era pottery, the fashioning of exquisite tolavera ware in Puebla, Mexican pottery of Tonala, and a family making serapes are depicted.
Describes the arts and crafts of the Bakuba people of the Congo and briefly describes other aspects of their culture. Indicates the probable origin of the Bakuba in northern Africa. Pictures weaving, embroidery, tattooing, and making of statuary. Shows trinkets used to decorate costumes and presents details of the most ornate costume of the hereditary king.
Henry R. Cassirer, Ladislas Segy, Arthur S. Alberts, Lewis Jacobs
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Carved masks and statues from several different African tribes are shown from many angles, as the commentator explains how these carvings express emotions. Gives particular attention to their expressions of fear and the confidences which help them meet their fears.
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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
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Shows Chilean mountains, deserts, glaciers, mines, ports, pastoral areas, and an estate in the agricultural Central Valley. Here the role of the estate is seen in relation to the visiting owner and his family, the farming population, and Chilean agriculture generally. On the family's return to Santiago, varied aspects of Chile's capital city are featured. Includes some Spanish dialogue.
Illustrates Eskimo family life in western Alaska. Shows the primitive methods the women follow to obtain fish through the ice, how men trap fish and prepare to hunt seals, their means of transportation, and the family making its meal on raw meat. Concludes with an Eskimo dance.
Reveals the activities, customs, and traditions of the Watussi, an African people characterized by their advanced culture. Shows the ruling prince and royal family and activities in the royal household, including weaving, decorating, cooking, and churning. Portrays the prince as he inspects his cattle and leads a hunt, and depicts his young son presiding over a ceremonial dance.
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray differences in personal contact between males and females as sanctioned by three societies. Emphasizes differences in opportunity for courtship, the patterns of association that emerge, and how these experiences relate to marriage. Compares Americans, the Bantu of Africa, and the Muria of Central India. (KUHT) Film.
Mary L. De Give, Margaret Cussler, Social Documentary Films
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Shows the Hopi Indian as a farmer, herder, craftsman, and trader. Pictures how difficult it is for him to live on the desert, especially with some of the government controls. Gives the Indian a chance to speak about his problems in education, place in American society, and means of making a living.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Peter Gosling, Marguerite Harmon Bro, William Deneen
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Traces the history of Indonesia since 1949; pictures work on farms, life in cities, and ancient ceremonies; also discusses the problems of solving Indonesia's economic conflicts. Shows scenes of crowded cities, families in the villages, and persons working on farms. Traditional art in the form of plays and dances is used to present the colorful, ancient ceremonies which are often associated with religion. The Indonesian teacher who narrates the film calls attention to the nation's problems central of which are providing security and a rising standard of living for the nation's eighty million people.
Clarence W. Sorensen PH.D., Clifford J. Kamen Productions
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Maps and scenes show the great differences in climate, history, resources, and living conditions in several parts of Italy. The heritages of Turin, Milan, Florence, Rome, and Naples are illustrated by their arts and crafts and their styles of buildings. The modern machinery of the industrial Po Valley is contrasted with the primitive methods used in isolated areas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Robert Redfield, Hal Kopel
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Analyzes and describes the meaning of culture. Sees culture as a system of behavior which includes all the things a group does to facilitate its continued existence. Illustrates basic similiarities in human cultures and depicts how differences may be caused by geographical, biological, and historical factors. Identifies the basic tools of all cultures and shows how cultures are transmitted. Emphasizes the need for familiarity with a culture in order to understand its people.
Depicts the Japanese occupation of Manchukuo. Describes the mechanization of industry. Includes scenes showing coal and iron mines, steel mills, railroads, government buildings, new housing, native Chinese life, shops and trade, the Russian influence in Harbin, the raising of soya beans, schools, and hospitals. A silent teaching film.
Focuses upon actress Ingrid Thulin and producer-director Ingmar Bergman. Shows Miss Thulin at home and at work as she comments upon the acting profession in Sweden. Presents background to the development of Bergman. Contains scenes from some of his work, including "Winter Light" in which Miss Thulin played the leading female part.
Clifford J. Kamen Productions, Clarence W. Sorensen, Ph.D., Augustana College
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Surveys the physical geography, historical background, and variety of scenery. Shows the divisions among its people and compares the way of life on the reserves, farms, and in the cities.
In this program, the narrator describes what the Swede receives in social welfare from the state. To illustrate, the film follows two young women through pregnancy --one case normal, the other complicated by serious illness. Swedes get free hospitalization during illness, while insurance covers and loss of income. In the particular case of births, while the mother is in the hospital, the home nurse association takes care of her children at a nominal fee. As the program continues, the topic is broadenedto cover the problems of others --for instance, the aged. The film concludes with a natural birth sequence --natural childbirth has been used in Sweden for ten years with great success --in which the healthy young woman we met at the beginning of the program watches her baby being born. Among the participants in this program is Ernst Michanek, State Secretary in Sweden’s Social Department, journalist, and Swedish representatives to the International Labor Organization and the Unite Nations.