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Presents some of the ways in which psychologists are studying the growth and development of personality and emotional behavior in children as observed in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Sears at Stanf...
Explores motivation research that investigates the human need for achievement. Dr. David McClelland of Harvard University demonstrates tests designed to verify his theory that a nation's economic g...
Studies some of the ways in which man is influenced and changes by society. Dr. Stanley Schachter demonstrates the effect of group pressure to conform; Dr. Leon Festinger shows the consequences of ...
Contains scenes of the destitution left in the wake of World War II and of the famine and exposure from which so many thousands died. Discusses also the economic importance of food.
Shows the source, purification process, and testing of the culinary water supply of Gary, Indiana. Explains the use of chlorine and dry chemicals in purification and shows the function of settling...
Shows how the government has acted to protect our woodlands by enacting laws and establishing the Forest Service. Forest Rangers protect forests against fire, administer game laws, control the num...
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 ...
Eric Hoffer speaks with James Day about his personal history, including the loss of his family, his struggle with blindness and eventual recovery, and the hardships of hunger, loneliness, and unsta...
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...
Shows a group of children playing three types of games: those which they invent themselves, those learned under supervision but carried on alone, and those dramatic activities which grow out of sch...
Seventh in the "Are You Ready for Service?" series. Compares the experiences and moral behavior of two young men in the Navy. One was prepared for necessary decisions, while the other had no clear...
Fifth in the "Are You Ready for Service?" series. Illustrates the great demands on physical strength and endurance in the service, and recommends that young men in high school consider how much tim...
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...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Donald A. Dukelow; Larry Yust
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Deals with the actions of community health organizations in their efforts to fight disease. Shows the functions of the department of health in preventing and controlling the spread of contagious di...
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...
Discusses and disproves many folk tales about heredity and its effects. Explains the relationship between heredity and environment, and describes the roles played by heredity and congenital charact...
Discusses the work done in genetics since Mendel's time. Describes the theory of location of genes and how the theory of chromosomes was developed and tested. Uses experiments with corn and the fru...
Explains the role played by genes in inheritance, the possibilities for variation in each member of a generation, and why predictions about offspring can often be inaccurate.
Introduces biogenesis, the idea that life arises only from existing life, and mitosis, the process by which cells divide while preserving inherited traits. The episode discusses early experiments t...
Discusses sexual reproduction and heredity, including elements necessary for sexual reproduction and the genetic advantages. Uses charts and diagrams to show the variations possible in every human ...
Illustrates various techniques and household arrangements for caring for the convalescent patient at home. Shows ways of arranging the sick room, making the beds, washing and serving the patient, ...
Mary L. De Give; Margaret Cussler; Social Documentary Films
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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...
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...
Shows a typical day in the life of a model American teen-age boy. His health habits, diet, hobbies, and correct attitude toward work, study and play are all stressed.
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...
Focuses on a lower-income, inner-city dweller to examine urban transportation problems and America's dependency on the automobile. Notes that the lack of mass transit forces the inner-city dweller ...
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....
Presents Japan as a laboratory for studying modern revolutions. This episode traces three major transformations in the nation's history: the industrial revolution, the military-driven totalitarian ...
Education in the new Japan; Japan: the changing years
Date:
1961
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Compares the education in imperial Japan to that of Japan today. Shows how students as a group today are an increasing influence in Japan. Considers the Zengakuren and how it operates. Discusses th...
Discusses Japan's rise from a medieval economy to one of imperial greatness in the pre-war period, its destruction, and then its cataclysmic rise from the ashes. Examines the trends, problems, and ...
This episode explores Japan's rapid transformation from a feudal society in 1867 to a modern economic, military, and political power by 1937. It contrasts early 20th-century footage with World War ...
Occupation; Occupation of Japan; Japan: the changing years
Date:
1961
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This episode examines the U.S. occupation of Japan, from its planning in 1943 through its implementation between 1945 and 1952. Using Army film footage, it considers both the successes and failures...
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...
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...
