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Provides a basic introduction to electronic computers and their growing role in science and industry. Dr. Hamming explains how speed, cost, and efficiency make computers superior to traditional lab...
Documents a Congress of Racial Equality team's six-week voter-registration drive in Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District during the summer of 1963, focusing especially on Iberville Parish. It f...
Music and emotion; Music as a language; Music as emotion
Date:
1957
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Summary:
Discusses ways in which composers can and have expressed or evoked emotion; demonstrates that rhythm, harmony, quality, and loudness are factors which may vary to help convey emotion, and stresses ...
String quartet and its music; Story of the string quartet; Music for young people
Date:
1956
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This episode explores the history of string quartet literature, accompanied by paintings from the same periods as the featured music. Performances by the Juilliard String Quartet illustrate the dev...
The Navajo rug-weaving process begins with sheepshearing, followed by carding and hand-spinning the wool into yarn. The yarn is then dyed using handmade dyes. Weavers set up a loom and employ intri...
Explains the set-up and operation of the Kodak Pageant motion picture projector. Shows proper placement of components for effective use, threading, focusing, and centering the picture on the scree...
Outlines the advantages of the overhead projector as a visual aid to learning in classrooms, in business, and in industry. Shows the great variety of uses of the equipment, with opaque, translucent...
Traces the rise of radio from the 1920s through the 1930s, highlighting its role as an affordable form of entertainment and a unifying force in American life. The episode explores the shift of vaud...
Shows the techniques of modern sculpture, as demonstrated by Seymour Lipton, an American metal constructionist sculptor, at work in his studio. Follows the construction of a single sculpture from b...
Explores how changes in American attitudes and tastes since 1900 are reflected in magazine publishing. Dr. Dodds discusses how early 20th-century magazines emphasized gentility and middle-class mor...
Examines the evolution of American satire over the past half-century, highlighting how it reflects both cultural life and social change. The episode explores the flourishing of satirical writing in...
Demonstrates how the facilities of a large city library are made available to rural libraries. Shows the library truck from Gary, Indiana, delivering books, pictures, and other materials weekly, f...
Shows the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the Indian Government in a cooperative project to control malaria in the Terai district of India. Foreign specialists work with Indian teams making...
Explores questions of social change and whether society should be structured to provide equal benefits to its members. The episode follows the story of a successful corporate chairman who, while pr...
This film examines the courtship and mating behavior of domestic white turkeys, highlighting the sequence of actions each bird follows in response to specific cues from its mate. It details the fem...
In this episode, Eric Rogers demonstrates adhesion and cohesion, along with surface tension and the spheroidal state. A number of interesting demonstrations of change in surface tension are shown.
Presents a second lesson at the "Presentation Stage" of color work--the pronunciation area. Continues to discuss this well-known system for practicing the pronunciation of speech sounds, in isolat...
