1011. Lost (14:56)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Andy and his big sister Hilary wander through the zoo on a warm spring day. They stop to visit birds, bears and other beasts. WhenHilary stops to talk to a friend, Andy continues down the path unaware that she is not behind him. Lost! Andy rushes through the Sunday crowd in a frightened panic searching in a sea of legs for his protector.Exhausted and unsuccessful, he pauses and begins to think his way out of his problem.

1012. Millions of Pies (15:01)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Paring apples and baking crusty turnovers for the family is something many mothers like to do. But how do you make apple pies for hundreds of people who want to eat at the same time in a cafeteria..? Machines do most of the work. A special machine. for each small special job cutting, mixing, shaping.rolling and filling illustrates specialization in automation. Mother does all these jobs herself.

1013. Movement (15:30)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Children at play, workers on the job. an athlete in training, and a dancer in motion use similar movements for different activities.They express the energy, beauty and excitement of human movement. They run, walk,balance. leap and stretch. They bend, twist,turn, swing and pull. They jump, lean, push.twirl and rock. They move!

1014. Out To The Moon (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. This program is paired with GOING HOME TO EARTH. John Bannister of NASA brings a real space suit and a small rocket model to a classroom where children are making and using their own equipment for dramatic play about going to the moon. NASA films, simulation and models help explain in simple terms such fascinating things as survival needs(food, water, air), rocket stages, weightless-ness and moon landing.

1015. Overnight at the Hospital (16:14)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
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Summary:
From the series Ripples. Chris survives separation from his parents and endures a lonely night in a hospital bed in this continuation of Going to the Hospital. He meets other hospitalized children, learns to swallow a pill and likes a visit from his dad that includes a present. It's not so much fun when parents go home, the lights go out, the nurse is gone, and the other kids are asleep; but Chris figures out a way to get company that will help him fall asleep.

1016. People Make Music (15:42)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A young folksinger. accompanied by his own guitar. banjo and auto harp. sings and talks about the songs that his great-grand father sang on a mountain farm in North Carolina.His old-time songs about animals. hunting,babies, games. joy and sadness, followed bya moment of contemporary rock and roll music, illustrate how music springs from the activities and feelings of people. Related mountain scenes expand the musical journey.

1017. Playing Where You Are (14:48)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. It's wintertime in the U.S. and Canada, and children are playing everywhere. While children in the north streak down snowy hills on sleds and skis, youngsters along the Southern Atlantic Coast play on a hot sandy beach.The flat lands of the Great Plains provide miles of room for bicycle tag. but the con-fined spaces of a crowded city demand games like alley dodge ball. A snake is likely to become a pet for the child born near theEverglades. but not for a child who lives where snakes are not part of the environment. In these and other ways the program relates children's play to the places in which they live.

1018. Rhythms From Africa (15:21)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. The program specifically concerns Americans of African descent who. in the 1970's, are engaged in an active s'arch for an expression of their historical past. Age old African tribal chants become sounds of the '70's forWashington, D.C. children involved in theAfrican Heritage Dancers and Drummers after-school program. Instruments of the African orchestra are introduced and set in motion. Then, children everywhere are invited to blend their hands, feet and voices into the insistent musical mix.

1019. Seeds (22:26)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Delicate furries, colorful sumac, and maple seeds drift and fall everywhere. Inside each seed is a baby plant, waiting to get out,waiting for water to start it growing. A lima bean, through time-lapse photography, shoots out roots, stems and leaves in the miracle of growth. The bean is not unlike a baby chick struggling to be born. Once a plant starts to grow, it tries very hard to live and succeeds in many strange and unlikely places.

1020. Shadows (15:43)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
From the series Ripples.A group of children explores their own and other shadows in a variety of ways. Outdoor shadows in the sunshine play tag, box, wiggle and grow longer than the children really are.Two boys discover that a wall and a light allow them to build a shadow zoo in the bed-room. A shadow play, performed behind a sheet, turns "rocks" into "monsters." Cool shadows are appreciated on a ha day. And a young man discovers that night shadows are not so scary when he finds out what causes them.