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1. A city of Cathay (25:03)

Date:
1960
Summary:
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 ...

2. A day at the United Nations : part I (30:01)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
The last meeting of the Herald Tribune Youth Forum was a meeting of the complete group at the U.N. General Assembly hall. Episode nine deals more or less with world problems. The role of the U. N. ...

3. A day at the United Nations : part II (29:56)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
The delegates tell about their reactions to their visit, and discuss the attitudes that they have formed while here. The students represent Switzerland, Japan, Thailand, Jordan, and Norway

4. A giant people : the Watussi of Africa (10:53)

Date:
1939 (Creation date: 1939)
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; George Herzog
Summary:
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 house...

5. A survey of children's speech disorders (29:20)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Uses animation and illustration to show how children learn oral communication and to demonstrate the process involved in learning how to talk. Pictures children who exemplify oral communication pro...

6. A Team That Wouldn't Be Beat: 1975-76 Season Highlight Film (30:51)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Indiana University Athletic Department
Summary:
Film features Indiana University Men's Basketball undefeated 1975-1976 season under Coach Robert "Bobby" Knight.

7. A young girl's dream by Corot (15:06)

Date:
1957
Summary:
A young girl is playing Chopin’s Nocturnes on the piano. The music brings back recollections of her childhood – which was painted by Corot.

8. Abortion (38:58)

Date:
1979
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Summary:
Discusses in detail the most common types of abortion procedures, aimed particularly at the woman who has already made the decision to have an abortion. Focuses on the need for post-abortion follo...

9. Abortion Clinic (1:03:03)

Date:
1983
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Summary:
Examines the controversial issue of abortion with an in-depth look at abortion clinics and women making abortion decisions. Considers the psychological and physical ramifications associated with a...

10. Achimota (19:23)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows the teacher-training school established by the British government at Achimota, on the Gold Coast of Africa. Describes student life, which is organized cooperatively, academic activities, the...

11. Adaptive radiation : the mollusks (18:16)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Defines mollusks and tells how classes are named, and pictures examples of each class and illustrates how the general form of mollusks is adapted in various species. Relates how mollusks reproduce ...

12. Administration of projective tests (18:34)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Explains the theory, advantages, limitations, and administration of projective tests including the thematic apperception, word association, sentence completion, free-drawing, and the Szondi tests. ...

13. Adult education (18:49)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows night classes and activities attended by adults at Bryant School, Woodside, Long Island. Arts and crafts, mathematics classes, shop courses, and other activities are pictured. Students in a ...

14. After work (10:54)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows such leisure-time pursuits as bowling, swimming, dancing, sketching, sewing, and carpentry available to workers during World War II. Pictures study groups and recreation at a Workers' Educati...

15. Airways of the Future (12:20)

Date:
1946
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Summary:
Shows the actual training and activities of Air Transport Command personnel with routines of briefing, radio communications, and other precautionary measures during World War II.

16. Alaska : USA (22:39)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Surveys Alaska, the 49th state, showing its size, location, industries, people, natural resources, climate, cities, typography, and history. Shows the three main geographic regions of the state and...

17. Alternative Public Schools (1:00:13)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Director and Editor), Strout, Toby (Associate Producer and Assistant Editor) Arnove, Robert (Producer)
Summary:
Examines the emergence and operation of alternative public schools in six U.S. cities. Focuses on the magnet schools and their programs in Boston and Houston, the federally funded Experimental Sch...

18. Alternative Public Schools (1:00:13)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Director and Editor), Strout, Toby (Associate Producer and Assistant Editor) Arnove, Robert (Producer)
Summary:
Examines the emergence and operation of alternative public schools in six U.S. cities. Focuses on the magnet schools and their programs in Boston and Houston, the federally funded Experimental Sch...

19. American influence in my country (29:18)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world ...

20. Americans All (16:39)

Date:
0000
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Summary:
Shows how Springfield, Massachusetts, offers an inspiring plan to other communities for combating racial and religious intolerance, and shows how any school and any town can deal with the causes of...

21. An alternative to imprisonment (29:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman outlines probation as a special alternative to the criminal-making influences of the prison system, stating that probation can effectively replace de...

22. Ancient Mesopotamia (11:15)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Presents a brief history of the development of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. Shows through animation the occupation of the land by the Sumerians, Semites, Babylonians, and Assyrians, and illustrates...

23. And a Voice Shall Be Heard (21:55)

Date:
1953
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Summary:
Shows some of the ways in which the two-way radio can be used, especially in civilian defense. A simulated raid on Syracuse, New York, shows how fire-fighting equipment, police, ambulance service,...

24. Animal habitats : the relation of animals to their environment (10:35)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Shows some of the animals that are found in each of four environments--deciduous forest, evergreen forest, desert, and arctic tundra. Presents the habitats of such animals as sidewinder snake, timb...

25. Animals in the world of art (30:27)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Consisting of 13 programs, the World of Art series, hosted by Joseph Fitzpatrick, is designed to give a brief historical background of the various art expressions and their influences upon contempo...

26. Answers to questions from viewers (29:11)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Drive-in movies, bow ties, ready-made clothes and convertible cars are commented upon by the high school students from thirty-four countries. In answer to questions from viewers of the series, the ...

27. Are teenagers universally misunderstood? (29:31)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world ...

28. Are the ideals of our parents outmoded? (28:28)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world ...

29. Art in the western world (29:53)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Surveys styles of painting and sculpture from the 13th to the 20th centuries as found in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Opens with Byzantine and early Italian painting and explains t...

30. As Our Boyhood Is (17:03)

Date:
1943
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Summary:
Shows the development of Negro education. Emphasizes that such a development was slow and difficult from the schoolhouse with broken windows and the teachers only a few steps ahead of the pupils t...

31. As Our Boyhood Is (17:03)

Date:
1943
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Summary:
Shows the development of Negro education. Emphasizes that such a development was slow and difficult from the schoolhouse with broken windows and the teachers only a few steps ahead of the pupils t...

32. Asteroids, comets, and meteorites (11:03)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Surveys the size, composition, and location of asteroids, comets, and meteorites and the means used to investigate them. The discovery of asteroids in 1801 by Piazzi, their place in the solar syste...

33. Axioms in algebra (13:18)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Employs animation and live photography to present a series of examples demonstrating axioms as statements accepted as true without proof and applies these axioms to addition, subtraction, multiplic...

34. Baboon behavior (32:30)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Shows the baboon in his natural environment and studies his societal relations. Illustrates the symbiotic, protective association of the baboon and the impala. Portrays troop life, development of s...

35. Bakuba (17:25)

Date:
1952
Summary:
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 weavin...

36. Ball Handling in Basketball (09:21)

Date:
1946
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Summary:
Uses slow motion and stop motion photography and close-ups of game shots to show the fundamentals of ball handling in basketball: stance, grip, "feel" of the ball, fingertip control, adjustment be...

37. Bangkok Oasis on a Troubled Continent (25:37)

Date:
0000
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Summary:
Describes the economic, religious, and social characteristics of life in Bangkok, Thailand. Includes views of the temples, the old Palace of Kings, the King and the Queen at a state function, the ...

38. Basketball fundamentals (14:30)

Date:
1942
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Summary:
Presents basic fundamentals of basketball. Coach Branch McCracken and the Indiana University basketball team demonstrate, in regular and slow-motion photography, ways of shooting, passing, dribblin...

39. Bathing the Bed Patient (20:22)

Date:
1943
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Shows the Navy hospital corpsman the correct procedure for making a neat bed with minimum disturbance to the patient. Demonstrates the proper method of washing the patient with as much comfort as p...

40. Battle for Bread (20:17)

Date:
1952
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Summary:
Gives the United Nations' report on how the Food and Agriculture Organization was beginning, in 1949, to solve the tremendous problem of doubling the world's food output. Emphasizes that the FAO is...

41. Battle wreckage (10:20)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Explains why large quantities of war materials, in particular steel, are needed for the war effort. Shows the sea battle and beachhead landing of the Normandy invasion.

42. Beauty and the Beast (12:42)

Date:
1971
Summary:
A re-telling of the classic fairy tale. Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast. Based on the book b...

43. Berlin : test for the West (18:09)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Uses historic documentary motion pictures combined with newer Films sequences to tell the story of Berlin from the fall of the Third Reich to the building of the wall between East and West. Reviews...

44. Berlin-Rift in the Iron Curtain (24:00)

Date:
0000
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Summary:
Shows the extent of communication between the East and the West in Berlin, including railroad and trolley connections, newspapers from the West, and pedestrian movement across zone lines. Pictures...

45. Bertrand Russell discusses happiness (13:35)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Lord Russell describes the factors which he considers necessary for happiness: health, sufficient means to keep one from want, happy personal relations, and successful work. He also discusses what...

46. 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 understa...

47. Bill Jack Vs. Adolf Hitler (18:11)

Date:
1950
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Summary:
Shows how the Jack and Heintz Company, in Cleveland, greatly increased its output during World War II through improved personnel policies.

48. 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 m...

49. Birth control : the choices (26:40)

Date:
1976
Summary:
Uses animation and the candid conversations of a group of young women to examine various methods of birth control, including the pill, intrauterine device, condom, diaphram, rhythm method, abortion...

50. Blanking with rotary and high speed shears (15:53)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to set up rotary shears, make test cuts, and operate the shears; and how to set up high-speed shears, make test cuts, and operate the shears.

51. Blind riveting (15:22)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows the necessity for blind riveting, how to rivet parts that are completely blind, and how to use the special tools and rivets in blind riveting jobs.

52. Blood transfusion (17:13)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Surveys the development of blood transfusion in international medical history from Landsteiner's discovery of the four blood groups in 1901. Shows the setting up of various blood donor and blood b...

53. 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 f...

54. Books come alive (07:11)

Date:
1953
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Summary:
Short promotional film focusing on student learning at Indiana University. Begins with a tour of the buildings and resources of the Libraries, the "focal point of I.U.'s academic program." The film...

55. Books Come Alive (06:46)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center

56. Books for All (30:36)

Date:
0000
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Summary:
Portrays through the experiences of a family recently moving into a community, the variety of services provided by a centralized county library system to branch libraries and their users. These ser...

57. Britain and Her Empire (17:17)

Date:
1946
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Summary:
Gives a pictorial exposition of the relationship of England to her colonies, protectorates, and mandates and highlights the outstanding characteristics of the free and self-governing dominions; the...

58. Broad jump (11:15)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Demonstrates the broad jump, including controlled speed, timing and coordination, exercises, styles of approach to the take-of bar, the foot roll, the single and triple air stride, the soft and har...

59. 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 mank...

60. 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 mank...

61. Canada Unlimited (15:20)

Date:
1950
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Summary:
Follows the Young family in the process of becoming naturalized Canadians. Discusses the opportunities they may expect in a country which is important as a producer of grain, iron ore, uranium, al...

62. Canadian Boom (27:04)

Date:
0000
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Summary:
Shows the gradual development of a balanced economy in Canada through the growth of industry in the various provinces. Includes views of wheat harvesting, logging, tourist attractions, the transpor...

63. Cancer: Its Cure and Prevention (06:53)

Date:
0000
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Shows the work of medical researchers in their efforts to discover the causes of and cure for cancer, and the work of organizations in combating popular ignorance and fear of cancer. Famous physici...

64. Challenge of the oceans (29:51)

Date:
1960
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Summary:
A scientific study of the physical, chemical and biological aspects of the oceans. Presents current views of the character and dynamics of oceans and explains the scope, objectives, and problems of...

65. Changing styles in art (29:15)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Explains the meaning of style in art, enumerates some of the qualities of style, and gives reasons why styles change. Compares medieval, 18th century, and 20th century art styles by showing works c...

66. Child Labor Amendments (07:16)

Date:
0000
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Summary:
The condition of America's working children and the issues involved in the fight over the Child Labor Amenments.

67. Children in the Hospital (44:25)

Date:
1962
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Summary:
Records the spontaneous activities of children in the wards of Boston City Hospital. Pictures emotional responses of children from four to eight years of age caused by the stress of hospitalizatio...

68. Children Who Draw Pictures (37:48)

Date:
1959
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Summary:
Through free expression art activities, a teacher shows how children think, feel, and develop in a year at a Japanese school. Selects pupils from a first-grade class and traces their personality gr...

69. Chinese Ceramics Through the Ages (D) (17:05)

Date:
1952
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Summary:
Prsents the evolution of chinese ceramics from Neolithic earthenware to pure porcelain. Indicates the accomplishments of the Chinese potter and the need for cultural interdependence to sustain con...

70. Chino's Tale (Captioned Version) (17:13)

Date:
1978
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Summary:
Adapts the short story by Mary Stolz about elderly Mrs. Olive Mixter's cherished life with her pet cat, Chino. Relives the 15 happy years the two shared, beginning with an uncertain union when Oli...

71. City Water Supply (11:09)

Date:
1946
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Animated drawings review man's dependence upon water for life. Describes the sources of city water supply--wells, rivers, lakes, and watersheds; water-borne diseases; and methods of water distribut...

72. Co-existence (29:50)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenagers from Pakistan, Vietnam, Germany, and Yugoslavia discuss socialism in Yugoslavia and Russian Communism. Questions the definition of the word "freedom." Analyzes the prospects of reunificat...

73. Communism as a domestic problem (27:19)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
In discussing communism as an internal problem, students from Britain, Norway, India and the Philippines deal in a rather inclusive manner with this difficult issue. In a most lively discussion, th...

74. Community Health and You (10:57)

Date:
1954
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Summary:
Shows how the average local health department helps to control the spread of communicable diseases and maintain America's high standard of living by protecting water and food supplies from contamin...

75. Community health is up to you (17:47)

Date:
1959
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Summary:
The responsibility of the individual citizen for making sure his community's health facilities are adequate and the value of the community health council are shown.

76. Congress (09:58)

Date:
1955
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Summary:
Explains the functions of the House of Representatives and the Senate; then shows how a Congressional bill is introduced, considered, and voted upon. Discusses the special powers of the House and ...

77. Constitution of the United States (22:10)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Depicts the events and conditions leading to the writing of the U.S. Constitution, the formulation of the Great Compromise between the small and large states, the struggle for ratification, and the...

78. Costa Rica (17:05)

Date:
1951
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Summary:
Studies varied aspects of life in present-day Costa Rica. Shows the increasing trend toward private enterprise; federal measures such as STICA to promote cooperative agriculture; the Catholic Churc...

79. Counseling Theory: Behavior Theory (1:07:17)

Date:
1996
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Summary:
Presents the general nature, strengths, limitations, and developmental constructs of behavior therapy as based on the work of Clark Hull, B.F. Skinner, and Robert F. Mager. Distinguishes and expla...

80. Dance Festival (11:36)

Date:
1938
Summary:
Presents four types of dances as performed by Russian factory workers, Oriental Uzbeks, Caucasians, and Ukrainians. | Presents four types of dances as performed by Russian factory workers, Oriental...

81. David's case: an example (33:44)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Ben Strout (Photographer)
Summary:
Demonstrates the following procedural steps in reviewing problems between school officials and parents with regard to students: appointing the case conference committee, sharing information, initi...

82. Decontamination of Streets (17:31)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Shows a decontamination squad in England working to make the streets safe from blister gas. Demonstrates the use of anti-gas ointment, respirators, and clothing worn by crews, and explains precaut...

83. Dee (10:10)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Focuses on a 12-year-old girl with Larsen's syndrome, showing how she has learned to cope with her disability and to adjust to her surroundings.

84. Deep End (10:12)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Presents Ruth, Jump, Marjorie Gestring, and others diving from a 33-foot tower to show championship form in diving. Pictures Iris Cummings and the Hopkins twins as they demonstrate the breast strok...

85. Defensive Footwork in Basketball (09:34)

Date:
1946
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Summary:
Analyzes defensive footwork action in basketball by first demonstrating the correct stance. Slow motion and close-up photography then portray the two basic defensive moves: the parallel movement,...

86. Degas: master of motion (14:30)

Date:
1960
Summary:
An exhibition of more than 100 works of Degas--drawings, paintings, and sculpture--at the Los Angeles County Museum, emphasizing his three favorite subjects: horses and jockeys, portraits, and ball...

87. Design into space (11:03)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Students demonstrate the procedures that may be applied to fashion a space design. Details the making of an initial sketch, a three-dimensional model, and a final structure. Shows steps in the cre...

88. Development of the axolotl (08:35)

Date:
1977
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Studies the early stages of the development of the axolotl, an aquatic salamander, with emphasis upon genetically determined characteristics. Mates two wild-type, dark axolotls, each heterozygous f...

89. Diagnosis : danger (19:47)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Discusses hospital safety through the experience of a doctor who, while in charge of a hospital, meets with an accident. While he is recuperating, he considers the many other safety hazards to pati...

90. Dinosaurs : the age of the terrible lizard (06:29)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Presents, through animation, an overview of the dinosaur age, showing the major types of dinosaurs and some of their behavioral characteristics. Explains that dinosaurs become extinct because of th...

91. Do American children have too much freedom? (28:47)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world ...

92. Do regional pacts promote peace? (30:15)

Date:
1956
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Presents members of the New York Herald Tribune World Forum and forum director Helen Hiett Waller. Reveals that the Indian and the Yugoslav forum members oppose any type of international military p...

93. Does the key to peace in this century rest with the non-white peoples? (29:49)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
A prediction that the white South Africans will suffer if they do not adapt themselves to the "changing times" by eliminating segregation is made by Lebricht Hesse, Gold Coast delegate, in this dis...

94. Drawing with pencil (10:47)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Theodore Kautzky demonstrates techniques in drawing a scene with pencil. Emphasizes the following points: general design, thumbnail sketching, preparation of the pencil point, drawing sharp lines,...

95. Eat for Health (10:56)

Date:
1954
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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 ...

96. Education : here and abroad (29:42)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenagers from Korea, Norway, Sudan, and the United Kingdom explain their views on American high school students after visiting American school rooms. Compares education in the United States with t...

97. Education : what's wrong with American high schools? (29:47)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenagers from France, Ghana, India, and Israel discuss the pros and cons of Americans education. Questions whether or not American education is challenging. (WOR-TV) Kinescope.

98. Education for what? (28:08)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenage delegates to the New York Herald Tribune Forum discuss the objectives and faults of American education. Comments are made on the place of the bright student, freedom of choice, size of scho...

99. Education here and abroad (29:18)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Herald Tribune Forum delegates from Lebanon, France, India, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines, Germany, and the Union of South Africa compare education in the U.S. with that of their co...

100. Effective listening (15:15)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the several obstacles to effective listening and suggests ways for overcoming them. The obstacles cited as blocks to listening are daydreaming, detouring, debating, and private planning. ...