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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...
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 ...
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...
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 development of education for Black Americans. Emphasizes that such a development was slow and difficult from the schoolhouse with broken windows and the teachers only a few steps ahead o...
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...
Emphasizes the relation of needs to budget; discusses such factors in buying as seasonal changes, quantity purchases, and product labels; points out that the standard of living can be raised if one...
Reviews characteristics of various kinds of wood and shows that skill in the use of woodworking tools comes from a study of fundamentals followed by practice and experience. Pictures Cliff and ano...
Joan and Jimmy, elementary-grade pupils, discover many forms of animal life existing in the desert. During a walk they see jack rabbits and burros and examine closely an ordinary lizard, a horned ...
Emphasizes safety precautions in a shop. Shows how to maximize safety at such power tools as the grinding wheel and power and band saws and cautions that hand tools should also be used carefully.
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...
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...
Uses dance routines and originally scored music to portray cultural differences in solving problems through religion. Emphasizes religious motivation, leadership, rituals, and supernatural controls...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Marcel Duchamp's only film is an example of "graphic cinema." It wittingly demonstrates the intertwining of the visual and verbal responses to viewing a film. The title itself- "anemic" is an anagr...
Deals with the problems of sanitation in rural and suburban areas. Covers such subjects, as proper water supply, adequate disposal of human wastes, fly and rat control, and cleanliness in the dairy.
Presents a tour of Paris, indicating points of interest and picturing Parisians as they go about their everyday tasks. Views Paris from atop the Eiffel Tower. Shows a diagram of the city and locate...
National Commission on Safety Education, National Education Association
Summary:
Economical driving practices are suggested by a service station operator to a boy who has just received permission to drive the family car alone. Includes care of the car's finish, warming up of t...
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 cre...
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....
Shows Ivan Pavlov testing his theory of conditioned reflexes by observing the conditioned and unconditioned saliva flow in a dog, feeding fish conditioned to various hunger stimulants, educating a ...
Surveys the development of blood transfusion in international medical history from Landsteiner's discovery of the four blood groups in 1901. Shows the setting up of various blood donor and blood b...
Tells the story of several children who build a snowman and give him a personality of his own. They use a carrot for his nose, but during the night someone steals the "carrot nose" and to discover ...
Presents a factual summary of the basic United Nations Organization program for world security in 1945. Clarifies the structure, analyzes the plans, and shows how, by joint action to solve relief,...
Shows a decontamination squad in England working to make the streets safe from blister gas. Demonstrates the use of anti-gas ointment, respirators, and clothing worn by crews, and explains precaut...
Shows the relation between the aftermath of war and the "pale horseman," epidemic disease. Discusses the plight of 100,000,000 displaced persons soon after World War II and the activities of UNRRA.
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.
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 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.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the paintings of Philip Evergood. Portrays a review of his paintings, as the artist himself comments on them. The film is accompanied by a piano musical score.
Portrays conditions leading to the establishment of the Social Security System and explains the subsequent changes in the law that have extended coverage to nearly all persons in the United States....
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 ...
George K. Arthur; David Oistrakh; Aleksander Zarzycki
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Presents the world-famous violinist David Oistrakh on concert stage as he plays Zarzycki's Mazurka. Uses close up photography to show the musician's techniques.
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 ...
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.
Opens with a picture of a boy fishing and quickly leads up to the fact that, in getting a job, the baits required are personality, training, and experience. Then follows a discussion of these poin...
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...
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,...
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 ...
