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551. Fundamentals of photography : the basic camera (15:00)

Date:: 1948
Main contributors:: United States Navy
Summary:: Traces the historical development of the camera, discussing the reasons for subsequent changes from the original camera obscura of 1553. Demonstrates finally that every camera, whatever its make, c...

552. How Indians build canoes (10:34)

Date:: 1948
Main contributors:: Crawley Films; Canadian Geographic Society
Summary:: Algonquin Native Americans demonstrate the building of an authentic birch bark canoe, using only materials supplied by the forest, and showing how a Native American ancient craft has been passed on...

553. Indian Hunters (08:11)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Pictures two modern-day Canadian Indians scouting for new hunting and fishing grounds for their tribe. They track moose and meet a huge Canadian black bear as they move cautiously through virgin f...

554. Korea today (19:22)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Describes Korea in 1948, when the U.S. Army was establishing a sound government there. Shows the Japanese being returned to Japan and the repatriation of Koreans. Sequences on education, health, ...

555. Motivation and Reward in Learning (14:17)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Compares a hungry, active rat with a satiated, inactive rat. The hungry animal learns to get food by pressing a bar, while the satiated animal goes to sleep. To demonstrate that failure to learn is...

556. Riches of Guatemala (13:47)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Shows Guatemala's natural resources, crops, and other products. Includes the cultivation of coffee, bananas, corn, pepper, cinchona for quinine, and plants for rotenone. Includes a short Spanish l...

557. Saga of the famed "Marching Hundred" of Indiana University (49:50)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Features silent footage of Indiana University's "Marching Hundred" band, with Daniel L. Martino, director, and Charles F. Keen, assistant director, who are featured in a brief close-up. Includes q...

558. Schooltime in camp (17:57)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Presents a 1948 report on the School Camp experiment authorized by the Board of Education of the City of New York and conducted in cooperation with Life Camps, Inc. Shows numerous examples of chil...

559. Sense into dollars (12:45)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Illustrates the different methods used by various salespeople. Shows how suggestive and descriptive selling aids the customer, the individual salesclerk, and the store.

560. Simple Slab Methods (10:34)

Date:: 1948
Main contributors:: Indiana U Audio-Visual Center
Summary:: [motion picture] Demonstrates three slab methods of pottery-making. Shows wedging, forming a candleholder directly from a lump of clay, rolling a slab for a simple tile, and constructing a flower ...

561. Simple slab methods (46:02)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Demonstrates three slab methods of pottery-making. Shows wedging, forming a candleholder directly from a lump of clay, rolling a slab for a simple tile, and constructing a flower container from sev...

562. Subcutaneous blood flow in the bat : active vasomotion (22:43)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Demonstrates active vasomotion as it occurs in arterioles, terminal arterioles, and precapillary sphincters and as it affects the capillary bed in a bat's wing.

563. Subcutaneous blood flow in the bat : vascular patterns (45:37)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Introductory scenes show the techniques used for mounting bats and recording the circulation in their wings. A view of the general distribution of the vascular components is followed by more detai...

564. Subcutaneous blood flow in the bat. Behavior of blood and vascular components (35:04)

Alternative title:: Behavior of blood and vascula...; Behavior of blood & vascular
Date:: 1948
Summary:: Detailed reactions of the minute vessels and the blood which modify the flow through these regions are demonstrated by high magnification of a bat's wing. The form and behavior of the platelets wit...

565. The Airport (11:03)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Shows many phases of the work at a large municipal airport, including the buildings, the radio room, the reservation desk, the preparation of the plane, the take-off, and the control of private pla...

566. The lumber states (U.S.A.-- the Pacific northwest) (21:15)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Surveys the natural resources of Washington and Oregon, which are shown to depend upon the water supply, which in turn depends on lumbering and forestry management. Two boys from a conservation cl...

567. Through the Grand Canyon by boat (18:35)

Date:: 1948
Summary:: Account of Norman Nevill's 1942 expedition from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead (240 miles) and the boating techniques used to conquer the rapids.

568. Biography of the motion picture camera (20:23)

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Roger Leenhardt; Film Images; Les Films du Compas
Summary:: Traces early development of the camera: how first efforts of March in France, Muybridge in U.S. came about as a result of movements of animals and humans. How subsequent development by Lumiere and ...

569. Bogota (capital of Colombia) (10:36)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Presents a historical, cultural, scenic, and climatic picture of Colombia's mountain city capital, Bogota. Shows the type of clothing and architecture prevalent in a region of such little seasonal ...

570. Dates : pollination cultivation and processing (09:35)

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Donovan Miller
Summary:: Shows the pollination, cultivation, and processing of edible dates, grown in the Coachella Valley of Southern California.

571. Double ram verticle surface broaching (29:12)

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education; Federal Security Agency; Ray-Bell Films, Inc.
Summary:: Shows how to assemble broaching inserts in right- and left-hand toolholders, how to mount and adjust toolholders in the double ram; how to mount and adjust the work fixtures; how to set trip dogs f...

572. Farmers of the Andes : plateau agriculture (12:02)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Describes the farmers of the Andes as a primitive people without the benefits of technology, showing the tireless Incas who till the mountain soil at altitudes of 10,000 to 15,000 feet. Discusses t...

573. Grinding a slender shaft with back rest (16:29)

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education (Producer); Federal Security Agency (Producer); Emerson Yorke Studio (Producer)
Summary:: Shows how to prepare the machine or the job; how to select and set up a back rest; how to adjust the back rest during grinding; how to rough- and finish-grind the long shaft; and how to check and a...

574. Grinding and facing a blind hole (16:09)

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education (Producer); Federal Security Agency (Producer); Emerson Yorke Studio (Producer)
Summary:: Shows how to mount and dress the wheels on the two-spindle grinder; how to prepare the diaphragm chuck; how to plunge-grind the bore and adjust for taper; and how to grind the shoulder and flange p...

575. Gyorgy Sandor, pianist (09:52)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: An Academic Films presentation of the pianist playing Liszt’s Sixth Hungarian Symphony and Liebestraum. | Gyorgy Sandor plays Leibstraum and Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, by Franz Liszt.

576. How to make handmade lantern slides (1:04:57)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Demonstrates the production and utilization of seven types of 3 1/4" x 4" handmade slides by teachers and pupils in various school situations. Stresses sources of picture material and special produ...

577. I never catch a cold (10:56)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Shows how George, who always boasted that he didn't catch colds, gets sick with one on the day of the big game. He finally learns his lesson.

578. I.L.O. : International Labour Organization (11:14)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Describes the history and work of the International Labour Organization, established in 1919 as an autonomous associate of the League of Nations.

579. Jack Visits Costa Rica (10:28)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Tells the story of a boy's trip to visit friends in Costa Rica. He lives in the home of an upper-class Costa Rican family, sharing their life and activities. He goes to see the public schools, the ...

580. Locating and repairing leaks (17:04)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Shows how to use the gage manifold in building leak-testing pressures in a domestic refrigerator; how to test for sulphur dioxide and methyl chloride leaks; how to use the halide torch to locate fr...

581. Our teeth : their growth and structure (11:56)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Stresses the importance of teeth in the digestive system, identifies and explains the purposes of the different teeth, and shows tooth development from infancy, the structure of teeth, how tooth de...

582. Oxygen (11:07)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Presents several experiments to illustrate the characteristics of oxygen, including the effects of free oxygen upon mice and a lighted candle, the separation of liquid oxygen from liquid air, the b...

583. Practice makes champions (27:43)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: The Phillips "66" championship team demonstrates basketball fundamentals. Slow motion and stop motion photography are used frequently to show techniques as follow-through, pivoting, passing drill,...

584. Ratio and proportion (13:20)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Uses such situations as computing a baseball player's batting average and adapting a recipe to illustrate the principles and uses of ratio and proportion. Explains the terms used, the difference b...

585. Ready to type (10:51)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: George follows carefully planned preliminary operations in getting ready to type. Jane, who makes her preparations haphazardly, learns later to practice George's methods and is then ready to type ...

586. Rivers of the Pacific Slope (11:07)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Compares the Columbia, Colorado, and Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems to show what man has done to utilize each to his advantage. Illustrates the adaptation of the rivers to diverse uses--as av...

587. Seaports of the Pacific coast (10:33)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Includes harbor activities at the ports of San Francisco, Puget Sound, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland. Also shows how Los Angeles, lacking a good natural harbor, built one by erecting huge b...

588. The big party (17:40)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Mardi Gras

589. The drawings and the shop (14:58)

Date:: 1947
Main contributors:: Pathescope; Charles J. Vierck; Charles D. Cooper
Summary:: Designed to be used with an engineering drawing text. Describes the relationship between the making of a drawing and various production operations in shop and factory. Then shows representative op...

590. Trading centers of the Pacific Coast (11:01)

Date:: 1947
Summary:: Pictures Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to illustrate how centers of commerce develop. Shows how the existence of surrounding farmland, forests, and mineral resources...

591. Water supply (11:08)

Date:: 1947

592. Your Indiana State Fair (23:18)

Date:: 1947

593. Aqua frolics (09:07)

Date:: 1946
Summary:: Includes scenes of performing seals, underwater basketball, cliff diving, water skiing, canoeing in rapids, motor boat feats, and synchronized swimming.

594. Defensive footwork in basketball (09:34)

Date:: 1946
Main contributors:: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Wilbur Johns; Norman Sper
Summary:: Analyzes defensive footwork action in basketball by first demonstrating the correct stance. Slow motion and close-up photography then portray the two basic defensive moves: the parallel movement, ...

595. Distribution of foods (10:40)

Date:: 1946
Main contributors:: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.; O.E. Baker
Summary:: Presents technical developments in the preservation and transportation of foods, the economic problems involved, and the world flow of foods. Depicts how such developments have increased the possi...

596. Freedom and Famine (11:04)

Date:: 1946
Summary:: Shows how freedom was prized during World War II despite its high cost in desolation and hunger and how more fortunate peoples helped liberate Europe by fighting the threat of famine.

597. Home cookery of fish (11:31)

Date:: 1946
Summary:: With close-up photography of cod fillet, habibut steak, and whole dressed white fish, demonstrates three basic methods for cooking fish at home, boiling, and baking. Illustrates the use of garnishe...

598. Simple stunts (11:25)

Date:: 1946
Summary:: Explains and illustrates in detail simple stunts for strength, stunts for skill, and stunts with sticks. Demonstrates the techniques and benefits of stunt variations, and emphasizes safety precauti...

599. Skilled acts (37:17)

Date:: 1946
Summary:: In this film, impairment of skilled acts by disorders of coordination is demonstrated. Also shown are cases of paresis or paralysis of participating muscles; hemiplegia; ataxia in multiple sclerosi...

600. Smallpox (08:43)

Date:: 1946
Main contributors:: See Other Contributors
Summary:: Demonstrates the danger of smallpox to the community and the progress made in checking the disease by widespread vaccination and re-vaccination.