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Describes the advantages of locker plants and home freezers for preserving foods and demonstrates in detail the preparation of fruits and vegetables for freezing.
Shows hygienic care of a home patient after instruction from a visiting nurse--bathing and moving the patient in bed; arranging the bed and making the patient comfortable; taking and recording temperature, pulse, and respiration rates; medications; and helping the patient to regain strength.
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.
Dick Thomas, Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music Orchestra, Minoco Productions, Inc., Mary Ann Mercer, Tommy Taylor
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Dick Thomas performs "Jingle Jangle Jingle" from the Paramount Picture "Forest Rangers."
Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music Orchestra perform "You're a lucky fellow Mr. Smith."
Depicts the nature and behavior of magnets by means of a "magic show" in which Bob and Betty Brown entertain their friends. Demonstrates induced magnetism and the power of the north and south poles to pull together while like poles repel each other.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Isabel B. Wingate
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Demonstrates each step in the manufacture of a child's cotton dress in a modern clothing factory. Reveals how the original is designed, and then portrays simple making, pattern making, cutting, sewing, finishing, pressing, and packing. Emphasizes the economy of mass-production methods. An instructional film.
Shows in detail the manufacture of a pair of oxfords from the selection of the leather to the boxing of the finished product. Explains how leather is selected and cut, how linings are made, how linings and upper pieces are sewed, and how uppers are sized and shaped. Shows how the insole is attached, cemented, and stitched to the welt; how heels are attached; and how shoed are trimmed, edged, and finished.
Discusses the problems involved in adopting children today. Shows acceptable procedures of adoption, the precautions taken to insure future happiness, the dangers of black-market adoptions, and the problem of older children who are less frequently adopted.
Tells the story of modern paper making, from the forest to finished sheets. Shows paper being made into items familiar to children, trees being cut and sawed in the forest, logs being hauled to the mill where they are barked and cut into chips, the chips being made into pulp, and a machine making paper from pulp.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Lester E. Klimm
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Covers the major uses of petroleum as a source of energy; the location of oil-producing areas; the steps in locating, drilling, and refining methods; the transportation of petroleum; the problems of world oil production and distribution; and the critical role of petroleum in world affairs. An instructional film.
Deals with the technology and geography of food production by depicting the role of land in production, the methods employed in the production of plant and animal products, and the relation of animal food production to plant foods. Problems concerning the increase in world production of foods are posed and possible solutions suggested.
Through slow motion and stop motion photography and close-ups of game shots, the film shows the fundamentals of basketball shooting, concentrating on the set-shot. Stance, the action of the throw, aim, trajectory, and finger-tip control are demonstrated. Special attention is given to the fine coordination of all parts of the body required for accurate shooting.
Shows, by animation and scenes from Bobby's everyday activities, where rain comes from, where it goes, and how it gets back up into the sky. Also explains evaporation and condensation.
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' Educational Association summer school, and points the way to peacetime use of leisure time.
A story of land economy and one man, Bill Bailey of Clarksville, Tennessee, through whose foresight and untiring effort the Four Pillars of Income were established in Montgomery County, Tennessee (adapted from the Reader's Digest story of the same name by J. P. McEvoy).
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.
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.
Phillip Stapp, Tony Kraler, Nathan Sobel, International Film Foundation
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By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea." Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people.
A plea to eliminate the arbitrary boundary lines which divide people from each other. Presented in stylized animation. | By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, this film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea". Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., R. E. Proctor
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Relates the complete story of bread, showing first how wheat is cut, threshed, and ground into flour. Shows flour at a large bakery being mixed with other ingredients to form dough, yeast causing the dough to rise, a machine dividing the dough into loaves, great ovens baking the loaves, and the bread being sliced and wrapped for delivery.
Shows what internal broaching is; how the broaching tool cuts; the principles of broaching tool design; how to select the broaching tool for the job; how to set up the machine or the job; and how to operate the horizontal broaching machine.
Shows how to maintain a clean, deep, hot fire; how to heat mild steel for forging; how to upset and scarf round stock; how to make a lap weld; and how to shape and hammer-refine the weld.
Tells the complex story of India's social and political problems immediately after World War II. Shows the overcrowded conditions, how war with Japan brought to a head centuries of strife among various dissident groups in India's conglomerate population, and how tradition has placed oriental luxury side by side with squalor. Enumerates the social and industrial benefits, as well as the abuses, that came with British domination.
Shows a Canadian farm family working together planning how to modernize their kitchen with new appliances and step-saving arrangements. Pictures the kitchen before and after their work on it.
Matt Mann applies his teaching principles with a group of girls. The crawl, breast stroke, back stroke, and butterfly stroke are demonstrated in both regular and slow motion photography.
Use of a horizontal core, a split pattern, chaplets, and chaplet supports; how to gate a mold for rapid pouring of a thin casting; and how to clean a casting.
Shows the difference between bench and floor molding, how to face a deep pattern, ram a drag and walk it off, clamp a mold, locate sprues and risers, and tuck the crossbars of a large cope.
Shows how to use a deep follow board; the technique of facing, ramming, and venting a deep green sand core; how to use a cheek in a three-part flask; and the purpose and method of step-gating.
Presents a factual summary of the basic United Nations Organization program for world security in 1945. Clarifies the structure, analyzes the plans, and shows how, by joint action to solve relief, food, and money problems, the world can be rid of conditions that breed war.
Stresses pointers on how to add inches to the jump by proper exercise and how to handle the body during the jump. Also covers the hop, step, and jump, and precautions for safety.
Traces the development of motor control from birth through the first five years. Indicates that the newborn baby is active but has no control over muscles, that gradually movements become more complex and controlled as months pass. Analyzes the advancing stages of motor control of the eyes, hands, trunk, and legs.
Historical Summary:
Depicts advancing stages of the child's motor control of eyes, hands, trunk, and legs through the first five years of life.
Demonstrates with the Wheat Farmer an approved procedure for teaching with motion pictures. A seventh-grade social studies group studying how the world is fed discusses interests and problems which indicate that a motion picture would help; the teacher prepares the lesson by previewing the film and studying its handbook; immediately before screening, purposes or seeing the film are clarified; the film is shown; and pupils discuss questions previously outlined and plan further studies on the basis of what they have seen in the film.
An instructor teaching his class the use of the micrometer follows a carefully planned procedure involving the use of a visual aids unit which includes a training motion picture, a coordinated filmstrip, and an instructor's manual.
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 instructional staff, the emphasis on practical arts, extracurricular activities, and future responsibilities of the students.
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.
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, Mode-Art Picture
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Several cases where improvement in working conditions result in increased production and better satisfied workers are shown. The importance of the part played by supervisors in maintaining good working conditions is emphasized.
Shows what a gated pattern is and why it is used, how a match or follow board can simplify making a parting, how facing sand is prepared and used, and how and why some patterns are rapped.
Shows how to identify and use common bench molder's tools; how molding sand is prepared; how to face a pattern; how to ram and vent a mold; how to roll a drag; how to cut a sprue, runner, gates and riser; how to swab, rap, and draw a pattern; and, by animation, what takes place inside a mold during pouring.
Explains how industrialized New England, unable before the depression to compete with the cheap labor of the South and some foreign countries, diversified her economy and became a leader in such technologies as plastic, radar, and rubber production. Presents scenic views of New England's mountain and coastal areas, and something of the background of stoicism that has tempered the New Englander's character.
Illustrates and explains the chief properties of the important quadrilaterals such as the parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square, trapezoid, and trapezium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., Morris Meister
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Clarifies dry cell operation in terms of electron action. Animated drawings and regular photography develop the theme by demonstrating the ionization of an electrolyte, electron flow, action at the electrodes, polarization, and the function of the depolarizer. Other demonstrations reveal operating characteristics and uses of a single cell and of cells connected as a battery in series and in parallel.
Demonstrates several phenomena of cells, animated drawings explain the operation of the dry cell in terms of electron action.
Surveys the history of the Caribbean region; describes the geographical features of the West Indies; and portrays natural resources, principal industries, and characteristics of the region's people. Animated maps trace the voyages of Columbus, review the political development of the islands, and depict the extent of commercial exchange. Pictorial sequences reveal vast activity in the production of coffee, cacao, tobacco, sugar, and bananas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., L. S. Rowe, William Manger
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Surveys the history of the Caribbean region; describes the geographical features of the West Indies; and portrays natural resources, principal industries, and characteristics of the region's people. Animated maps trace the voyages of Columbus, review the political development of the islands, and depict the extent of commercial exchange. Pictorial sequences reveal vast activity in the production of coffee, cacao, tobacco, sugar, and bananas.
Home movie footage taken of Tom Lugar's birthday party. Tom Lugar was the younger brother of Indiana Senator Richard Lugar. In this clip, Richard, Tom, and their younger sister Anne are shown swimming in the outdoor pool at the Riviera Club in Indianapolis, Indiana, along with some of their friends.
This clip contains moving images only; it has no audio.
Depicts the physical characteristics, habits, environment, adaptivity and care of young of the egret, the mallard duck, the Canada goose, and the brown pelican. Shorter sequences show the lesser scaup and the flamingo.
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, United States. Office of Strategic Services, United States. Federal Security Agency. Office of Education
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Reports on advancements in aviation in Brazil. Begins with an early figure in Brazilian aviation history, Alberto Santos-Dumont, the creation of his memorial, and the founding of the Escola de Especialistas de Aeronautica in 1941. Reports on Brazil's role among the allied nations in wartime, include air patrols of its coastline and providing protection for ocean transport ships. Profiles the developing infrastructure of air travel in Brazilian nation with visits to newly constructed airports at Belem, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and Natal.
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 to the modern school which spreads its influence beyond the confines of its four walls through training 9in home economics, machine shop, and handicrafts. Ends with shots of Negroes in universities, as surgeons and nurses in hospitals, and in the Army.
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 to the modern school which spreads its influence beyond the confines of its four walls through training 9in home economics, machine shop, and handicrafts. Ends with shots of Negroes in universities, as surgeons and nurses in hospitals, and in the Army.
United States Information Agency, United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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Begins with a brief geography lesson to orient North American viewers to the size and climate of Chile. Scenes of indigenous shepherding in desert villages are followed by a visit to the Christmas celebration of the Virgin of Andecollo. Scenes at a giant open-pit copper mine at Chuquicamata show the extraction process from blasting ore to refining. Narration states that the Atacama holds the world's largest source of nitrate; a history of this lucrative industry is summarized. The mineral riches of the region go to market at the sea ports of Tocapilla and Antofagasta. The wealth from Chile's natural resources are shown accruing in the prosperous, modern cities of Valparaiso and Santiago.
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 possible.
Demonstrates the method of making a bunk and a bed, adjusting a bed, ways of raising the patient's head and knees, keeping the weight of the cover off the patient's feet, and the use of a fracture board.
United States Information Agency, United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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Tells the story of Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas's favorite project, the Marambaia Fishing School, located fifty miles south of Rio de Janeiro on the Bay of Ilha Grande. Illustrates how the unique project trains Brazilian boys in such fishing arts as handling and building small boats, making and repairing nets, and catching many varieties fish from sardines to sharks. Detailed depiction of sardine processing and cannery, and the catching and processing of sharks for various derivative products. Narration addressed to northern audiences emphasizes that learning innovative ideas such as this school are a benefit of U.S. alliance with Brazil.
United States Information Agency, United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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The value of Brazilian quartz to the allied war effort is shown as narration proclaims "two-way radio is the one really new instrument in the armory of warfare." Explains the value of quartz in radio communication, showing how a wafer of its crystal makes possible the simultaneous broadcasting of many stations without overlapping. The film emphasizes the necessity for international cooperation in the war effort. Shows quartz mining in Brazil: pictures the hard manual labor involved in mining Brazilian quartz, the inspection, the exportation of most of it to the United States, and the laboratory cutting of it to fit the complex instruments of World War II. Personages: President Roosevelt, Brazilian President Vargas, Joseph Stalin, General Marshall, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (see U.S. National Archives and Records Administration catalog record http://research.archives.gov/description/40254).
Stresses that the obligation of each hospital corpsman in the Navy is to be cheerful and make each patient comfortable. Demonstrates an alcohol rub which will prevent pressure sores.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., George R. Cowgill
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Describes the basic types of foods needed in daily diet and explains the contribution made by each type of food to bodybuilding. Depicts examples of controlled experimental feeding. For intermediate grades, high school and adult groups.
Filmed principally on the campus of Indiana University, this film depicts the activities of various organizations and classes as they contribute to the war effort. Shows President Wells meeting with deans and administrators to make curricular changes to meet new demands. Shots of classes in medicine, nursing, nutrition, physical education, military training, practice teaching, sciences, language, law, etc., show many students at their daily work. Reflects the tempo of a university campus geared to a wartime program.
Orients the industrial provinces, Ontario and Quebec, as the heart of the Dominion of Canada. Traces the settling of the region and shows the distribution of population, typical activities, products, imports, and the relation of this region to the rest of Canada, to the United States, and to other regions of the world. An instructional sound film.
Orients the maritime provinces in relation to the rest of Canada and the United States. Portrays the settling of the region, involving flows to and from the United States. Includes also fishing, fur farming, lumbering, farming, mining and smelting, and commerce.
Presents a recent history of the war savings program from its inception in July 1941 to January, 1943, with special emphasis on the activities of retail stores and the payroll savings plan.
"Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a portentious [sic] and highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan."--Internet Archive.
Erpi Classroom Films, Inc., Dale C. Stahle, M.D., Harrison F. Flippin, M.D., Hobart A. Reimann, M.D., Edward L. Bortz, M.D., Charles L. Brown, M.D., W.W.G. Maclachlan, M.D., Pennsylvania State Department of Health
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Recent advance in the control of pneumonia, deadly enemy of the human race. Modern methods of treatment and nursing. An instructional sound film.
Uses animation to demonstrate the basic principles of radio transmission. Explains the operation of microphone, transformer, and modulator. Distinguishes among direct, alternating, and voice currents; and elaborates upon the physical laws relating to carrier waves and amplification. Uses natural photography to show the operation of units in a modern transmission station. Discusses the all-important place of radio in modern living.
Through animated drawings explains the principles of recording and reproducing sound on film. Through demonstrations reveals the functions of the microphone and the light valve and shows how the motion picture projector reproduces sound from a sound track. An instructional sound film.
Presents the characteristics of the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. Shows the topography, rainfall, drainage, fauna and flora, people, metropolitan centers, scenic and recreational features, transportation and commercial activities, natural resources, and agricultural situation. Indicates the interdependence of this region with other regions of the country.
Explains by animation the operation of a radio vacuum tube in terms of its filament, plate, and grid circuits. Illustrates how the vacuum tube in a radio serves as an amplifier to operate the loudspeaker, as a rectifier in detection, and as an oscillator to generate the carrier wave.
Deals with the evils of the one-crop system throughout the tobacco country of the South; then illustrates some of the ways in which the impoverished tobacco farmer can improve his lot by devoting some of his land to raising food crops, using governmental assistance, soliciting the help of local schools in community rehabilitation, and developing a community program to combat malnutrition.
Shows the importance of accuracy in the information a warden collects at the scene of disaster and the exact manner in which he should transmit information to the control.
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, dribbling, and defensive and offensive footwork. For intermediate grades, high school and college.
Bob Considine reports on the training of British parachute troops and their uses in warfare. Includes many remarkable aerial shots of parachutists in rehearsal.
Demonstrates clay portrait methods, including the functions and types of armatures, packing and shaping clay, the use of calipers for measuring, marking proportions and dimensions before carving principal planes, and blocking into general planes. Includes modeling of forms, blending planes, and useful tools.
Shows the trend of expansion in North America from 1492 to the Revolutionary War, traces economic development in the various colonies, and analyzes the political significance of each major phase of the expansion to 1763. Includes animated maps to explain the struggle for dominance by the English, French and Spanish. For junior and senior high school and adult groups.
New York Zoological Society, National Film Board of Canada
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In their routes of migration, birds "mock the man-made lines by which nations separate themselves," as the narrator states in this film intended to foster goodwill between the nations of the Americas. Two boys, Richie in the North and Ricardo in the South, both feel ownership of the barn swallows that reside in their respective homes at opposite ends of migratory routes. Aerial photography follows Canada geese migrating from northern Quebec to the Chesapeake Bay. Technically advanced high speed photography reveals the beating wings of the ruby-throated hummingbird. The bird banding and migratory data-collecting work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is explained. Animated maps of the hemisphere illustrate some of the long-distance bird migration patterns between North and South America.
Shows how labor prior to the Machine Age, was done mostly by muscular effort. Compares methods of work from the time of the first steam-powered loom to the modern Diesel-powered locomotive. Animation describes the mechanical advantage of machines. Shows the cause and effect relationships with respect to their social and economic implications.
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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"The title of this film is self-explanatory. It is especially adapted for students of archaeology and anthropology" (A List of U.S. War Information Films, Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures, April, 1943, 13)
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, The National Geographic Society
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Described as a film portraying "twenty types of orchids and other flora of South and Central America and the conditions under which they grow" (U.S. Government Films, U.S. Office of Education, 1954, 134), its underlying subject is enchantment with the projected image itself. The color palette of Kodachrome reversal film is on display, capturing the faces of young women posed with exotic tropical flowers. The natural riches of Latin America --cacao, mangoes, and coffee--are presented for the delectation of audiences to the north. One of many similarly-styled productions in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs catalog of short, documentary subjects, this film contributes to the war era campaign to sway popular opinion toward a spirit of allegiance and neighborly-ness between the nations of the Americas.
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, R.H. Macy and Company, Inc.
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A Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs film reporting on a marketplace of goods from Latin American nations held at Macy's Department store in New York City's Herald Square. Promoting more than commerce between nations, both the bazaar and the film are intended to reinforce alliances between all the nations of the Americas during wartime. Showing the flags of the nations represented, narration states "21 symbols of American solidarity, 21 Republics firmly consolidated, to make up our western hemisphere." Color photography accentuates the beauty and exoticism of the displays. As shoppers are shown admiring the displays of art and culture and purchasing from each nation's vendors, the audience is told "they bought the goods that Latin America has to sell, money from merchandise, goodwill build on good trade relations, every sale a guarantee that the Americas mean business. Business that means friendship in the western hemisphere."
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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Using color photography, this travelogue transports viewers in the U.S. to the exotic locale of Nahuel Huapi National Park, in the Argentine Andes. Showing the stifling mid-summer heat of Buenos Aires in January, the narrator explains city-dwellers' desire to escape to the cool, clean air of the mountains. The camera follows a group of young Argentines as they hike in the mountains, play with a herd of dairy cows, pick wild strawberries and prepare their yerba mate. Striking landscape photography shows glaciers, waterfalls, and captures an avalanche as it occurs. As with all Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs films, affinity between the nations of the Americas is encouraged by presenting foreign places to domestic audiences in an appealing, humanizing light.
Visualizes Color-keyed moods, recurrent themes, contrapuntal melodies, and various rhythmic patterns through the animation of Oskar Fischinger. Presents an interplay of shapes, Colors, and movement in GasparColor.
Visualizes Color-keyed moods, recurrent themes, contrapuntal melodies, and various rhythmic patterns through the animation of Oskar Fischinger. Presents an interplay of shapes, Colors, and movement in GasparColor.
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Ralph E. Gray, A.C.L. : photographed and produced by
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A colorful travelogue of modern, urban life in Mexico City. "Shows scenes typical of modern Mexico, such as the tall buildings and wide boulevards of Mexico City. The canal leading to Xochimilco, with its fruit- and flower-laden boats, is pictured. Then describes a festival held in honor of the Vice President of the United States, Henry Wallace, when he visited Mexico City. It includes a bullfight and a parade of Mexican beauties. Ends with a pageant of old and new Mexican dances" (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 19)
This film presents the new geography of the Air Age clearly and concisely. Through animated photography a transparent globe with axis and lines of latitude and longitude gives a marked illusion of third dimension. The use of overlays, fades, and other devices in the film makes it suited to the introduction of global geography. The effect of the airplane on the world scene. Transportation is interpreted in great circle air routes which run independently of land and water and mark the shortest distance between points on the surface of the earth.
Discusses jobs in electrical work. Explains the need for workers in wiring buildings and homes, and in servicing motors and household appliances, and the place of the electrician in communication and radio.
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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A narrated travelogue addressed to viewers in the U.S. shows life in several small towns surrounding Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Shows rope making from sisal hemp and traditional textile weaving. Concludes with a visits to the outdoor markets in Santiago Atitlan and Chichicastenango.
Presents an overview of man's use of resources in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Domestic and European migration and population trends of the region are indicated by animated drawings. Agricultural and industrial projects in each section are portrayed and relationships are noted with particular reference to other regions of America. An instructional sound film.
Delineates the variety of living patterns in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with a brief historical introduction. Stately plantation homes, mountaineer cabins, modern homes in southern cities, rolling bluegrass country, orchards, cotton and tobacco fields, farms, and factories are all woven together to tell the story of the region's people and how their welfare is bound up with the national economy. An instructional sound film.