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Shows everyday applications of bookkeeping to increase motivation for its study, to help the student decide whether he is interested in taking bookkeeping, and to help in vocational guidance. Give...
Dr. B.F. Skinner introduces the concept of teaching through machines. Others describe programmed learning. Both techniques include the advantages of a student advancing at his own pace and knowing ...
The third in the "Living Earth" series. Shows the interrelationship of water and forests in supplying life-giving moisture to topsoil. Pictures what happens when forests are destroyed and water i...
Shows, through the interest of a boy and girl in birdhouses, the construction of different types of houses for different birds. Tells what materials to choose and how they can be used most effecti...
Portrays man's callousness towards war and violence by viewing unemotional and noncommunicative men who press triggers on pinball machines in a Parisian bistro and cause real battleships to sink, a...
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...
Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle l...
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...
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...
The anatomy of the eye is shown in detail by diagram, regular photography, and cinephotomicrography. Demonstrates how to correct defects in focusing, the approved way of removing foreign objects f...
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.
Contrasts worlds beyond our own with the world of microscopic living things, represented by protozoa, algae, yeasts, bacteria, and viruses. Refers to man's techniques for controlling bacteria and u...
Traces the history of the classification of animal life. Explains the necessity of scientific classification of plants and animals and the use of Latin in science. Discusses the work of Carolus Lin...
Documents Maier's thesis that frustration leads to fixation and other bizarre symptoms. Shows a modified Lashley jumping apparatus and describes the process of teaching rats to jump. Portrays the s...
Indicates the basic principle of the standard plain milling machine. Each part of the machine is named and explained, and some elementary setups are demonstrated.
Shows how to mount the workpiece on the milling machine table; how to use a wiggler to position the workpiece for drilling; how to mount the cutting tools in the spindle; how to bore the hole to cl...
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.
Dramatically depicts the plight of the peasants of northeastern Brazil and shows the work of communist leaders (specifically Francisco Julião) in urging open revolt of the people. Reviews the plans...
Surveys the over-all geographic characteristics of Brazil, depicts agricultural and commercial activities in the central and coastal uplands; and presents aspects of family life on the coffee plant...
Describes through the narration of Wang Shen, a teen-age boy of the village of Pingtung, Taiwan, his home life, educational system, improved farming techniques, village commerce and industries and ...
Shows, through the play activities of children of different age levels, how they learn and gain physical growth. Presents the infant as needing few toys, the small child as wanting to help at home...
Interprets the challenge to build lasting peace through the development of available resources, sharing of scientific knowledge, minimizing disease, and encouraging world trade. Shows the United Na...
Shows some of the animals that are found in each of four environments--deciduous forest, evergreen forest, desert, and arctic tundra. Presents the habitats of such animals as sidewinder snake, timb...
Shows the adaptation of animal and plant life to the rigors of winter around Hudson Bay, where evergreen forests give way to treeless tundra. Includes Indians, their sled dogs, their homes, birds, ...
Discusses the earth as a whole and man's attempts to expand his own knowledge and use of the planet's geography. Traces the geographic growth of man's first movements in search of food, his inventi...
Shows how Frank and Jean Baxter enjoy watering their garden, and afterwards put on bathing suits and take showers under the hose. Penny, the dog, joins them, but Fluff, the kitten, watches from a ...
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...
Compares the nervous systems of the hydra and earthworm with the complexity of the human nervous system. Details the physiology of the reflex arc and explains the activities of certain brain center...
This film describes the origin and growth of glaciers; surveys the work of glaciologists in trying to understand the structure of ice and its importance in the study of climatology, meteorology, an...
Illustrates, using animation and live-action photography, man's efforts to learn more about the structure of the earth through study of deep mine shafts, deep wells, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Des...
Documents the tragic poverty of families in the southern mountains, the poor land, the lack of proper diet, inadequate housing, absence of sanitation, and the complete lack of adaptation of the sch...
Demonstrates the actions of a dog from which the cortex of the brain has been surgically removed. Shows changes in posture, walking, obstacle-meeting, eating, reactivity to stimuli, and conditione...
Third in the "Are You Ready or Service?" series. A young man in the service writes to his high-school-age brother about the importance of good citizenship. Voting, paying taxes, serving on juries...
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...
Shows home life of a typical Japanese family in Tokyo, pointing out customs that are similar to, and different from, those in America. Stresses the warm relationship between parents and children.
Employs animation and live photography to present a series of examples demonstrating axioms as statements accepted as true without proof and applies these axioms to addition, subtraction, multiplic...
Illustrates the variety of environments in which plants survive, and shows adaptations developed by various plants for survival and reproduction within their own environment. The role of man as a ...
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, dribblin...
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.
Explores the life and survival strategies of the snowshoe hare in the northern North American wilderness. The film highlights the animal's seasonal adaptations, including its ability to change coat...
This film explores three United Nations Technical Assistance Administration projects focused on Thailand's extensive system of waterways. UN experts have studied the country's efficient canal netwo...
Discusses the work of youth for Service, an organization sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and created to help teenage boys to realize that they can help others in the community t...
Introduces the Watts Towers Theatre Workshop consisting of black teenagers from the Los Angeles Watts neighborhood. Relates that the group was founded in 1963 by Stephen Kyle Kent as a Join the Art...
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...
Mary L. De Give; Margaret Cussler; Social Documentary Films
Summary:
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 ch...
Discusses and shows the wide variety of creatures who inhabit the seashore. Explains how they are adapted to the environment in which they make their homes. Presents filmed sequences of the sand ...
