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1. "It's only the beginning" (10:15)

Date:: 1951
Summary:: Describes the importance of industrial research in satisfying consumer needs and meeting competition. Shows through animation the large expenditure of time and money that has gone into the develop...

2. "It's the humidity" (13:04)

Date:: 1962
Summary:: Uses common everyday examples of the effects of humidity to introduce and explain this idea. Shows Kay, an attractive teenager, and her adventures with a violin, a stuck drawer, and drying off at t...

3. 16mm Sound Service Test Film (08:20)

Date:: 1949
Summary:: Determines, with proper use and interpretation, the cause of poor sound if it lies in faulty 16mm motion picture projection equipment. Includes the following technical test sections: sound focusin...

4. [John Ryan in a crowd] (01:13)

Date:: unknown
Summary:: Footage of former Indiana University President, Jack Ryan. Ryan served as president from 1971 until his retirement in 1987.

5. [Parade for Bedford, Indiana's Bicentennial George Washington Limestone Statue] (01:13)

Date:: unknown
Summary:: link to article about statue: https://www.washingtoncrossingpark.org/statue-story/

6. A career in bacteriology (15:27)

Date:: 1957
Summary:: Explains that bacteriology is an area in the field of biology concerned with microscopic forms of life. Shows by photomicrography examples of protozoa, algae, molds, yeast, and bacteria, and throu...

7. A day without numbers (09:06)

Date:: 1953
Summary:: A second-grader's experiences during a day without numbers cause him to want to study arithmetic and to realize the value of numbers in his everyday living. All the class but Bob enjoy arithmetic....

8. A journey into time (14:40)

Date:: 1960
Summary:: An introductory study of the probable development of our earth from the earliest days of our planet, showing many of the creatures who lived before us. Animated sequences.

9. A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting (04:10)

Date:: 1946
Summary:: 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...

10. Activity group therapy (53:56)

Date:: 1950
Summary:: Activity group therapy as developed at the Jewish Board of Guardians, New York City, by S.R. Slavson, Director of Group Therapy. Shows socially-maladjusted children 10 to 11 years old being benefit...