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This NBC film shows how a community organization in New York City has helped to diffuse a violent atmosphere. It also demonstrates consumer (tenant) protection by the use of legal-aid and rent stri...
This Pan Am travelogue about the Bahamas shows everything the breathtaking islands have to offer, including swimming, boating, shopping, and culture. Every visit offers a different variety of activ...
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Explains the process of editing motion picture footage in double system synchronous sound motion picture production. Follows, through use of flashbacks, the step-by-step sequences from the use of a...
[motion picture] Presents briefly the theory of operation of the photoelectric exposure meter and gives illustrations of how it can be intelligently used to solve exposure problems. Practical use ...
Presents a simple introduction to the study of earth materials. Shows in step-by-step sequences how the land evolved from the great mass of rock and water that was the early planet. Illustrates how...
Ford Galaxie "Galaxie Styling" : An advertisement for the Pontiac Galaxie in which a woman who likes modern art takes her reluctant husband to a gallery, where they discover the car and come to agr...
Presents the proper methods for dissection of the frog in order to observe its anatomy. Indicates the structures which can be observed by opening the mouth. Depicts proper incisions to make in orde...
Illustrates abnormalities in gait caused by pain, structural defects and deformities, neuromuscular disorders, and a combination of these causes. Details technical symptoms of the gait and posture ...
**WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF LAB TEST ANIMALS** Illustrates the basic techniques of obtaining germfree environment, germfree animals, and methods of germfree miantenance. Demonstrates the...
Explains the basic principles of gravitational attraction that relate to the earth, and other planets, and the sun. Relates these principles to flights of rockets and artificial satellites and incl...
An interpretive report on American schools which dramatizes the importance of the printed word in teaching and learning. Uses visual techniques--including a scene from Romeo and Juliet and a descri...
Uses animation and laboratory demonstrations to explain the formation of ions in ionization and the effects ions produce. Presents hydrochloric acid as a typical electrolyte that ionizes in water p...
A story about a Mexican boy and his donkey is used in depicting the characteristics of rural life in Mexico and in emphasizing the importance of helping others. Educational collaborator, William G...
A tour of the magnificent capital of Great Britain. The cameras have captured all the pageantry and color of England from the Thames bridges, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben, to the Trouping of the C...
Employs animation and live-action photography to show the development of man's knowledge of magnetic force, present-day concepts of the earth's magnetic field, and how the magnetic field is influen...
Vern Reimer gives instruction, through demonstrations, on how to improve a drummers performance. He discusses the common mistakes made by student drummers and how to correct them. Targeted for the ...
Portrays life of a typical farm family during the early 1800s in the Northeastern United States. Illustrates the self-sufficiency of these farmers and the importance to them of wood, water, and fer...
Illustrates how linen, wool, and linsey-woolsey fabrics were made from material found or grown on the farm; follows the processing of flax into linen thread from harvesting to the actual spinning o...
Discusses the human endocrine system, including the better-known glands and how they affect the body. Highlights the difficulties involved in studying the endocrine system in humans and describes m...
Shows visits to the homes of two Caucasian families who adopted children of Negro and mixed parentage, in which their hopes and problems are discussed.
Discusses the extension of the senses through a variety of techniques that enables man to study events of short duration; uses analysis of a lighting flash as an example. Questions posed about ligh...
Recreates the 1929 boom and '30's depression with special attention to the factors which led to the depression. Details government regulations designed to end the depression and help prevent future...
Discusses the relation of gravity to cosmology and to geophysics. Traces the history of ideas about gravity; discusses new instruments and new viewpoints on gravitation.
Traces the development of maps and of geodetic ideas from pre-scientific guesses to the present. Discusses the size, shape, and rotation of the earth and the position of the earth relative to its a...
An instructor and a group of high school boys and girls demonstrate the basic fundamentals of trampolining, showing in detail the landing positions, aerial positions, front and back flips, and comb...
The development of Tennessee Valley Authority, describing the benefits to the people. Includes conditions before TVA and various changes that TVA brought.
Comprised of three short films by Walton Films, "The Reign of King George VI," "Elizabeth - Our Queen," and "Trooping the Colour Ceremony," and one film by Peak Film Productions, "London," about En...
Observes six-, seven-, and eight-year old children at play and in school and emphasizes that children's play activities with their adherence to the rules, rituals, and regulations which have been e...
Shows the techniques Forest Service researchers employ to produce hybrid pines through controlled pollination and through the selection of superior pines and use of their natural seed. Shows a pine...
What happens when a rocket ship in space is struck and damaged by a meteor? Capt. Gell, a Navy expert on crew equipment, demonstrates the Navy’s full-pressure space suit for emergency escape from ...
Pan American Airways promotional tourism film for South America. Highlights include Panama Canal, European influence in Ecuador, Inca history of Peru, Machu Pichu, Bolivian farmland, Chilean vineya...
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Demonstrates the three basic considerations in controlled photographic lighting--placement of lights, quality of light, and lighting ratio. Uses a mannequin as a model to show the functions of main...
Presents the hypothesis that chiasmata represent physical evidence of crossingover. This would mean that crossingover takes place at a four-strand rather than a two-strand stage. Genetic proof for ...
Portrays the role of developmental genetics in dealing with ways phenotypes come into being through the action of genes. Presents a complete discussion of the Creeper domestic fowl--its genetic bas...
Describes the ways in which genes produce phenotypic differences by acting very early in embryonic development. Shows that this action may take place at a distance through chemical messengers (pitu...
University Films; J. D. Watson; Irwin H. Herskowitz
Summary:
Describes RNA and DNA which are favored as the carriers of genetic information. Presents DNA molecules as shown in the electron microscope and describes the polymeric nature of the DNA molecule and...
Discusses how to simplify a mathematical word formula by restating it in letters and signs. Explains the mathematical formula for distance by graphic and pictorial examples and by practical applica...
Reviews the contributions of Mendel, the Hertwigs, and Miescher to our understanding of modern genetics. Discusses chromosome chemistry in terms of the cytological distribution of nucleic acids, t...
Portrays the frequency of mutants in the population gene pool as dependent upon their rate of origination and selection coefficient. Discusses the population fate of dominant lethals (retinoblasto...
Explains the nature and importance of population genetics. Derives the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle for Mendelian (cross-breeding) populations. Points out that though the Hardy-Weinberg la...
Descusses the economic concepts related to land, climate, and major resources in the countries of Colombia, Venzuela, and the three Guianas. Includes scenes of the people and of their ways of life,...
Reviews Greek history by showing pieces of sculpture from each historical period from 300 B.C. to A.D. 300 and the related architecture. Sculpture proceeded from small animals buried in tombs to la...
Illustrates modern dance as exemplified by Negro spirituals. Miss Tamiris creates her dances to the familiar spirituals Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down Moses, and Get on Board Lil' Children.
Discusses the effect of various levels of inbreeding (self-fertilization, sib matings, half-sib matings, cousin marriages) upon making heterozygous genes homozygous with the consequent loss of vigo...
Demonstrates independent segregation by different pairs of genes using Mendel's data. Emphasizes the chromosomal activities during meiosis which are responsible for independent segregation. Descri...
Pictures reproductive isolation originating through interspecific hybridization, via amphyploidy (radish-cabbage, new world cottons, goatsbeard species), and by means of introgression (tobacco, ros...
Deals with the approximation that light travels in straight lines and shows four ways in which light can be sent--diffraction, scattering, refraction, and reflection. Diffraction is shown using po...
