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141. How to Observe (11:07)

Date:
1950
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Summary:
Stresses that observation is basic to learning the sciences and the arts by showing a boy observing an old house, an example of capillary action, and a science experiment. Emphasizes the importanc...

142. How to read poetry (10:42)

Date:
1952
Summary:
A high school boy who is having trouble understanding poetry learns that he should find out about the poet's background, discover what experience the poet is sharing, and watch for such devices as ...

143. How we know the Earth's shape (10:45)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Explains that a globe is the best model to represent the shape of the earth. Discusses the change in man's ideas about the shape of the earth from flat, to curved to round to flattened and bulging...

144. In Every Day (10:21)

Date:
1947
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Shows a typical day in the life of a model American teen-age boy. His health habits, diet, hobbies, and correct attitude toward work, study and play are all stressed.

145. Indianapolis attacks its slums (51:37)

Date:
1958
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Summary:
Contains aerial photography, animation, and charts to show methods used by Indianapolis to effect slum clearance. Pictures city officials as they cite the need for rebuilding slum areas and tells o...

146. Individual speech training (08:35)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Examines individual speech instruction for the hearing impaired child at the preschool and nursery level in Saint Michielsgestel.

147. Inner City Dweller: Transportation (22:32)

Date:
1973
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Summary:
Focuses on a lower-income, inner-city dweller to examine urban transportation problems and America's dependency on the automobile. Notes that the lack of mass transit forces the inner-city dweller ...

148. Inner City Dweller: Work (20:01)

Date:
1972
Summary:
Dramatizes, through a single case study, a structure and function of job training programs in urban minority areas. Follows the partial success of George, an unemployed black man, who turns to job ...

149. Introduction - 1 (16:32)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Provides an orientation to the entire series of 42 films, including descriptions and illustrations of purpose; content; teaching approaches (synthetic/analytic and multisensory); techniques of verb...

150. Introduction 2 : the speech model, part 1 (14:38)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Describes and illustrates a speech model used for explaining both the learning of speech skills and the teaching seen in the entire 42-film series. Demonstrates Face A of the model through the "Pre...

151. Introduction 2 : the speech model, part 2 (11:03)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Continues to describe and illustrate the speech model used for explaining both the learning of speech skills and the teaching seen in the entire 42-film series. Follows Face A from "Imitation Stag...

152. Introduction 2 : the speech model, part 3 (12:36)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Concludes the description and illustration of the speech model used for explaining both the learning of speech skills and the teaching seen in the entire 42-film series. Shows the progressions of ...

153. Introduction to the art of figure skating (10:41)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Barbara Ann Scott demonstrates the fundamentals of figure-skating. Discusses edges and basic figures and analyzes a number of complex turns. The skater also demonstrates free skating.

154. Japanese Relocation (10:07)

Date:
1941
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Summary:
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, one of the critical problems facing the United States was what to do with the 100,000 people of Japanese descent living up and down the Pacific Coast. The immedi...

155. Kitchen come true (18:04)

Date:
1945
Summary:
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.

156. Learning about learning (29:44)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Outlines the work of Dr. Howard Kendler, Dr. Tracy Kendler, Dr. Spence, Dr. Harlow, and Dr. Skinner, in exploring the different strategies employed in developing new theoretical concepts about man'...

157. Learning and behavior ; what makes us human? (26:30)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Pictures the work of Dr. B. F. Skinner and his associates at Harvard University Psychology Laboratories in studying animal behavior and indicates the application of principles learned to the design...

158. Lenses (09:57)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Explains the effects of lenses on light, and shows the construction and use of a lens. Pictures the types of images formed by convex and concave lenses when an object is placed at varying distances...