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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...
One in a series of twelve, one-reel films designed to present behind-the scenes activities of the motion picture industry. This film illustrates the work of the set creators, providing an interest...
Shows the advances achieved by biologists through experiments with atomic radiation on plants and animals. Describes the effects of gamma rays on living cells: their growth, rate of reproduction,...
Captures details of the annual social phenomenon known as the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Reunion which brings antique car owners and buffs from throughout the United States to Auburn, Indiana, auto cap...
Slow-motion and underwater photography are used in demonstrating how swimming students emulate the motins of the dolphin as they learn the dolphin kick, the accompanying body undulations and the bu...
Shows how the ear transforms sound waves into nerve impulses, which in turn are interpreted by the brain as sounds. Uses animated drawings to explain sound and how sound waves reach the ear; then ...
Discusses the training and functions of the teacher in a world of rapid change. Shows prospective teachers in study and training situations and follows Janet, a student teacher, as she acquaints h...
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...
Discusses and demonstrates the laboratory procedures involved in the production of a 16mm, color, sound film. Follows the camera original film and a quarter inch audio tape through the following p...
Presents an integrative device for the general teaching (as contrasted with the specific speech lesson) of language and speech. Describes the entire pattern as well as attempting a speech correcti...
Uses drawings and real photography to depict the origin and nature of the Hawaiian Islands. Shows a recent eruption of Mauna Loa Volcano and indicates how rain, wind, and the ocean have transforme...
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...
Records the red tape, long periods of waiting, and dehumanizing procedures a young mother from an inner city must contend with to receive routine medical treatment for her child through welfare. S...
Jos Limon and his troupe perform a suite of dances based on Shakespeare's "Othello" with lines spoken by Bram Nossem. Using the structure of a court dance, this interpretation captures the tragedy ...
Explains the role of the nation's productive resources, including land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial or managerial talent, in the production of goods and services. Uses examples from South C...
Opens with a classroom scene in which Judy is crying at her desk. Her teacher learns that the accidental spilling of a bottle of perfume began a series of incidents of teasing by Jack which culmina...
Portrays and explains, by means of animation, the role played by the Pacific Ocean in international affairs. Shows the growth of man's knowledge of the Pacific through the voyages of the early expl...
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...
Demonstrates materials which aid in teaching speech relative to voiced-voiceless-nasal distinction, tongue shape, lip shape, self-monitoring, cleanliness, and stimulus and motivation. Suggests how...
Uses animation and live-action photography to portray the use of the oscilloscope in determining the speed of electrical impulses along nerve fibers, to show the structure and operation of the osci...
Shows how one small Turkish village profits by the acquisition of a tractor imported through the Marshall Plan, and benefits from mechanical training provided young farmers as part of Turkey's reco...
Reveals the appearance, tonal qualities, and functions of various instruments of the woodwind choir--piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, English horns, bassoons, and contrabassoons. Uses close-up p...
Tells the dramatic story of two young people whose lives are interrupted and threatened by tuberculosis. Shows modern tuberculosis case-finding, diagnosis, hospitalization, and rehabilitation afte...
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...
Depict scenes of Mexican life and culture, assembled in part from original footage from Sergei M. Eisenstein's unfinished Que viva México. The film portrays indigenous rituals and ceremonies, the i...
Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and t...
Develops a general understanding of the nature, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Portrays conditions under which individuals are first infected, and describes, by me...
Presents the story and history of the Union of South Africa, its people, major cities, and industries. Shows typical European family life in rural and urban areas and compares life on a native rese...
Presents a documentary study of an important factor in the problem of unemployment--that of workers displaced by automatic machinery. Tells the story of a typical American steel town in the 1920's...
Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and reporter, interviewed before leaving Moscow, briefly tells of the civilian defense work he witnessed. Scenes showing how the Russians are carrying out their ...
Uses dance routines and originally scored music to portray cultural differences in solving problems through religion. Emphasizes religious motivation, leadership, rituals, and supernatural controls...
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...
Pictures some of the traditions, religion, family life, and education which are the world of Juan Jose who lives in the Spanish coastal village of Mijas. Shows the daily activities of the village p...
Describes the conditioning of deliberate vocal responses in chimpanzees. Demonstrates the typical vocal responses of chimpanzees and shows the results of teaching speech to a young chimpanzee in a ...
Discusses the properties of water and how they affect its use. Shows that water is compsed of tiny particles which are always in motion, and that its exists in three states--solid, liquid, and gas...
Two boys help each other develop good habits, one in softball, the other in his personality. Steps in habit formation are explained as identifying the problem, getting help from others, starting pr...
Shows the role of the large drifting air masses of the earth's atmosphere in causing over-all weather changes. Concentrates on the U. S. weather changes resulting from air masses drifting from the ...
With a globe and a flashlight, a father explains to his son and daughter what causes the alternation of day and night and how the sun can shine upon only one-half of the earth at a time.
Shows, by animation and scenes from Bobby's everyday activities, where rain comes from, where it goes, and how it gets back up into the sky. Also explains evaporation and condensation.
Shows the life of a farm family on the Canadian prairie, describing the hazards, problems, and rewards of wheat farming; and documenting the changes in farm life and methods during the past three g...
When a young man returns from Europe, where he has been on a business trip, he tells how a knowledge of a foreign language has been advantageous to him. Pictures his younger brother gaining an int...
