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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 ...
By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea." Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking...
Tells the story of President Vargas' favorite project, the Marambaia Fishing School, located fifty miles south of Rio de Janeiro and facing on the Bay of Ilha Grande. Illustrates how the unique pr...
ERPI Classroom Films, Inc.; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
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Promotes the catalog of ERPI Classroom Films to educators, presenting excerpts from dozens of films with narration extolling their effectiveness (ERPI Classroom Films was the predecessor to Encylop...
"Step-by-step manufacture and assembly of the B-26 medium bomber in the Glenn Martin plant at Baltimore."--War Films, Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University, February, 1943.
African safari hunters use pits and nets to capture lions, tigers, and other ferocious beasts of the jungle, placing them in cages for transportation to circuses to be "trained" for public entertai...
Primarily exterior footage of the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Campus buildings, Marching 100 band practicing and performing at a football game against Northwestern, and IU President Elvi...
Follows the Young family in the process of becoming naturalized Canadians. Discusses the opportunities they may expect in a country which is important as a producer of grain, iron ore, uranium, al...
[motion picture] Portrays the need for improvements in transportation as the U.S. spread westward, and outlines the development of a network of canals to supplement existing river and highway trans...
Uses animation, live photography, cinephotomicrography, and time-lapse photography to illustrate and explain the characteristics of living plants and animals. Shows the hydra, paramecium, and algae...
Shows that play is an important activity for children and that it has common patterns at different ages. Considers play activities of children between the ages of five and twelve years and explains...
In China, the land of their birth, no festivity or celebration is complete without firecrackers. Following a brief explanation of their history, the types of firecrackers are mentioned and their c...
Points out character traits that are important to look for when evaluating a marriage partner. Stresses the importance of self-analysis, the possibility of making certain changes in oneself and fe...
The story of the littlest fir tree in the forest, which is chosen to be decorated as a Christmas tree by a family living in the mountains. Includes familiar Christmas carols.
[motion picture] Tells the story of a woodchuck which was taken to a state park to live and now entertains the park visitors by performing tricks. Shows the woodchuck's appearance, size, natural h...
Presents a high-school class studying god citizenship in the community and in the school. Dramatizes the manner in which the student committees organized projects for improving school elections, ch...
Animation is used to present the story of the Bagley family, who do not use their furnace correctly. When Mr. Bagley over-fires the furnace, the narrator, who is a gnome, and cutaway diagrams of t...
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 ...
Shows the preparation of a lithographic stone and methods of drawing on stone with crayons and Tusche liquid. Demonstrates the processes needed for three-color printing and presents and discusses e...
Explores the possiblities of creating color lithography and explains methods of visualization, transfer and simple registry. Shows Patrick Dullantry, an American printmaker who works over progressi...
Includes the squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, porcupine, otter, mink, beaver, opossum, skunk, ad woodchuck. In each instance the distinguishing characteristics of the animal are shown, such as the abilit...
Examines a series of routine conflict situations faced by a college student. Defines and analyzes emotional conflict according to four general classifications: approach-approach, avoidance-avoidanc...
Depicts the events and conditions leading to the writing of the U.S. Constitution, the formulation of the Great Compromise between the small and large states, the struggle for ratification, and the...
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 case histories of three county-wide recreation programs in Indiana as observed by an interested group. Outlines the various arrangements of financing a recreation program, shows the m...
Shows a skilled ceramist applying designs on several ceramic pieces prior to final firing. He uses the clay itself, a comb, a piece of burlap, or clay stamps to create textured designs. Other deco...
Shows the external anatomy of a living crayfish and using a freshly anesthetized specimen points out its internal anatomy by systems. Presents its hard exoskeleton, body divisions, and the jointed...
Explores the problem that young people have with alcoholism. Stimulates consideration of self-reliance, decision-making, and resistance to peer pressure as part of developing the resolve to live fr...
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 ...
Shows how some of the crystals in limestone caves are formed and then pictures by time-lapse cinephotomicrography the crystallization of the commonplace substances and chemicals. Depicts briefly th...
Shows how to select the tool for the job; how to set up the job; how to calculate speed, feed, and depth of cut; how to machine on a lathe, using a single-point carbide tool; and how to correct uns...
Presents newsreel film on the invasion of France during World War II. Shows Allied air power "softening up" the Normandy coast, the great sea convoy on its way, and landings on the beachheads.
Documents the series of 147 tornadoes which struck the South and Midwest sections of the United States in April 1974. Includes extensive footage of the tornadoes in Xenia and Cincinnati, Ohio and i...
Shows a skilled ceramist applying designs on several ceramic pieces prior to final firing. He uses the clay itself, a comb, a piece of burlap, or clay stamps to create textured designs. Other decor...
Traces the development of the Good Neighbor Policy, the Rio Treaty against aggression, and the Organization of American States set up at Bogota. Describes the importance to the Western Hemisphere o...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Wilbur Johns; Norman Sper
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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, ...
Shows the organization of the The New York Times and the vast interrelationship of the numerous departments. Then illustrates the methods for giving up-to-the-minute news, and stresses the need fo...
United Productions of America; Howard T. Batchelder
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Through animation, the film compares and contrasts the "assembly line" kind of educational process with one that is tailored to meet young people's needs. Shows how in the former little or no cons...
Joseph Moray; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; John M. Davidson
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Delineates interesting facets of the development of our decimal system. Compares the additive, subtractive, multiplicative, and positional notation aspects of the Chinese, Babylonian, Egyptian, and...
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...
