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Shows the correct procedure and manipulations for elementary glass blowing with Pyrex glass, the technique employed for joining tubes of unequal diameters, and the method of forming bulbs.
Shows the location and physical features of Greenland; explains its new position in the modern world as the center of the short polar air routes. Portrays the life of the Greenlanders, explains the...
One in a series, this film takes a look at creativity as it is exhibited by children with hearing deficits. Each child reads a set of instructions for a creative activity, and each child interprets...
One in a series, this film takes a look at memory as it is exhibited by children with hearing deficits. Each child watches the instructor use a pencil to tap blocks in varying sequences, then tries...
Begins by discussing the research which has been done in genetics since Mendel's time. Dr. Roney describes the theory of location of genes, and explains how the theory of chromosomes, now a fact, ...
Diagrams and photographs show the external, middle, and inner ear and their component parts. Illustrates the auditory canal, ear drum, malleus, labyrinth, stapes, semicircular canals, vestibule, c...
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 ...
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...
Covers all track events of the 1948 state meet, with the short ones shown in their entirety. Both regular and slow motion photography are used to show the contestants in action and receiving their...
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 ...
Discusses art and artists most influenced by the mechanization of the Industrial Revolution, with emphasis on the work of Leger. Illustrates reflex action in animals and humans. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
Shows a "behind-the-scenes" look at members of the Marching 100 at the 64th running of the Kentucky Derby, May 7, 1938. The members of the band stand in a line to get food before their performance....
Explores Japan's industrial revolution, her military-inspired totalitarian revolution, and her recent democratic revolution. Asks what will be required of the United States if the gains of Japan's ...
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.
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'...
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...
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...
Shows how Sally can, in an emergency, prepare a hot meal quickly, using her mother's ready supply of canned and frozen foods. The narrator emphasizes the correct use of the proper utensils, the ti...
Introduces electronic computers, discusses how speed, cost and effort favor the computer over the laboratory approach. Discusses the relationship of man and machine and the relationship of the symb...
Continues in-depth work on the "SH" sound, with tongue blunting on face A of the speech model. Shows kinesthetic practice on blunting. The pupil has reached the "Production Stage" of tongue bluntin...
Describes the criteria for choosing a sound for in-depth teaching. Provides an assessment of a pupil's automatic production of "SH" in words and syllables. Shows the teacher demonstrating the forma...
Examines the third step in producing "SH" in isolation: blowing air across the high blunted tongue. Progresses from the "Presentation Stage" through the "Imitation Stage" to the "Production Stage"...
Begins the in-depth teaching of "SH" by teaching the first step: learning to blunt the tongue. Follows the learning process through the "Presentation Stage" to the "Imitation Stage," after the tea...
Continues work on the first step of learning "SH", blunting the tongue, at the "Imitation Stage." Shows the pupil achieving a better approximation of pulling the tip into the body of the tongue, a...
Depicts a second pupil beginning to learn "SH" through in-depth teaching, starting with Step 1--blunting--at Face A of the speech model. Examines the pupil's blunting error (pulling the whole tongu...
Uses diagrams, and shows photographs of several generations of offsprings from selected parents to assist Dr. Roney in explaining how the mechanism of inheritance works. The independent assortment...
Examines procedures employed in measuring the capacity of the auditory system of the learning impaired child which vary according to the age of the child, the stimulus presented and the response an...
Continues the discussion of infant feeding begun in MAKING A FORMULA and introduces a mother and a baby-sitter who discusses with a doctor some of the problems and practices in baby-sitting. Points...
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 ...
Uses drawings and dissected specimens to compare the nervous systems in hydra, planaria, earthworms, and grasshoppers and shows the response of a paramecium, euglena, amoeba, hydra, and planaria to...
Explores some of the ways in which psychologists are developing new testing methods for measuring and increasing human capabilities. Dr. Lloyd Humphreys of the University of Illinois demonstrates t...
Uses animation to illustrate the versatility of the triangular shape. Shows a single triangle dividing, re-dividing, and re-forming into colorful representations of symmetrical and asymmetrical sha...
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,...
Uses photomicrography and time-lapse sequences to reveal the research technique of nuclear transplantation. Shows how nuclei are transplanted from donor body cells into activated eggs.
Demonstrates the operation and care of the RCA 400 16mm sound projector. Presents detailed instructions for setting up the Junior and Senior models and for initial adjustment, threading, operating...
Demonstrates the operation and care of the Victor 16mm sound projector. Shows in detail the steps in assembling and threading the projector, demonstrates the 10-hour cleaning procedure for the fil...
Shows the relation between the aftermath of war and the "pale horseman," epidemic disease. Discusses the plight of 100,000,000 displaced persons soon after World War II and the activities of UNRRA.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the paintings of Philip Evergood. Portrays a review of his paintings, as the artist himself comments on them. The film is accompanied by a piano musical score.
Uses computer animation and crystal graphics to create dynamic visuals which correspond to fast-paced electronic music. Shows shapes pulsating, merging, and dancing to form optical effects and ill...
Introduces and outlines the twelve-program series AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD. Discusses the baby's need for space in the home and suggests and shows furnishings for the nursery area. Describes some o...
Discusses the "Radio Era" and how it revolutionized life. Indicates that from the 20s to the early 30s, radio was emerging as the "poor man's" entertainment: "Captain Midnight," "The Green Hornet,"...
Dr. Roney begins his discussion with two axioms of biology: “Life only from life” and “Like produces like.” The first question which the series seeks to answer is, what is inherited? The first axio...
This film traces the history of rocketry and describes the use of sounding rockets as tools for scientific research in the upper atmosphere; this film discusses the need for such tools, shows how r...
