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Date:: 1958
Main contributors:: See Other Contributors
Summary:: This episode illustrates global conflict zones in 1949 and the role of the United Nations in addressing them. It explains the structure and functions of key U.N. bodies, including the General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council. The film contrasts the U.N. with the League of Nations, highlighting the League's failure due to insufficient political mechanisms. It concludes with a call for international cooperation to promote peace and shared prosperity.

Date:: 1958
Main contributors:: WQED, Tom Coleman, Sam Silberman, Frank Stuckman, Albert B. Martin, Dr. Peter H. Odegard
Summary:: Dr. Peter H. Odegard, head of the political science department at the University of California at Berkeley, delivers the paper he prepared at the time of the inauguration of Edward H. Litchfield as the twelfth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. He discusses the role that the universities of the United States must play in the country’s role in the world. He places particular emphasis on the social sciences.

Date:: 1960
Summary:: A small boy's curiosity about the source of his new clothing is used in tracing the production of clothing from raw material to the finished product. Shows several of the manufacturing processes by which wool, cotton, silk, nylon, leather, and rubber are made into articles of apparel. Correlated with the book "Beginning German with Films" and accompanying drill tapes by S. Edgar Schmidt and Lawrence R. Radner.

Date:: 1961
Summary:: Students demonstrate the procedures that may be applied to fashion a space design. Details the making of an initial sketch, a three-dimensional model, and a final structure. Shows steps in the creation of space design usng metal, plastic, and other materials. Consultant, George Barford.

Date:: 1961
Main contributors:: Max J. Rosenberg, Ellis Katzman, Elbert C. Weaver, John A. Skarulis, William H. Pasfield, Herman J. Engel, Robert Braverman, Ross Lowell, Geraldine Lerner, Peter Robinson
Summary:: Records an experiment in which the molecular weight of a compound is determined through knowledge of the percentage composition by weight of the compound and application of Avogadro's Law. Animation is employed to show the differences in characteristics of two substances of identical composition through reference to the substances' molecular structure.

Date:: 1971
Summary:: Shows the variety of ways animals obtain food and their different types of digestive cavities--fully closed, one opening, and two openings. Examines digestive organs in an earthworm, grasshopper, frog, cat, and bird. Looks at peristalsis in a dog's stomach and the action of the villi in a pigeon's small intestine.

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Jam Handy Organization, Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education, Federal Security Agency
Summary:: Shows how dimpling and countersinking prepare metal for flush riveting, how to operate a dimpling machine, and how to countersink work for flush rivets.

Date:: 0000
Main contributors:: E. Herz, T. J. Putnam
Summary:: Demonstrates a number of tests for disorders of coordination and discusses the causes of the various types of disorders.

Date:: 0000
Main contributors:: E. Herz, T. J. Putnam
Summary:: This film presents the anatomy, symptomatology, and clinical picture of disorders of nerves. Shots include: unilateral paralysis of masticatory nerve, paralysis of right masticatory nerve, disorders of the spinal accessory nerve, motor fibers supplying sternomastoid muscle, atrophy of the upper portion of the trapezius muscle, scapula alata in paralysis of serratus anticus muscle, motor fibers leaving medulla between olive and pyramid, bilateral paralysis of hypoglossal nerves, scars of gunshot injury bilateraly, slow response to galvanic stimulation, severe atrophy and immobility of tongue, and bilateral paralysis of glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves.

Date:: 1962
Main contributors:: Dr. Ray Koppelman, University of Chicago, American Institute of Biological Sciences
Summary:: Diversity of life resulting from evolution: recognition and treatment of diversity –definitions and taxonomic approaches; results of diversity in the plant kingdom; results of diversity in the animal kingdom, with particular emphasis on the evolution of man; diversity in time –divergence, convergence, extinction, the fossil record diversity in space –ecological relations in a habitat.

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