Start Over Collection IUL Moving Image Archive Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

202. Maybe tomorrow (19:01)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Explores a romance between a black, eighth-grade girl and a white, high school boy in terms of its implications in the black community. Reveals that the girl feels intimidated by youths her own age...

204. Media for presentations (1:05:55)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Introduces the advantages of using media to enhance an oral presentation and displays a variety of media formats available. Illustrates the characteristics of different media, pointing out the opt...

205. Meiosis (12:01)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Uses animation to show the mechanism of meiosis, the chromosome halving cell division preceding the formation of sperm and egg cells and forming the basis of genetics.

206. Mermaid's paradise (09:56)

Date:
1945
Summary:
A study of aqua-sports using underwater photography. Including swimming, synchronized diving,

207. Microfiche, microfilm and other minutiae (10:19)

Date:
1981
Summary:
Illustrates the use of micrographics to facilitate storage and handling of printed and graphic material in libraries and other institutions. Compares the cumbersome and wasteful storage of hard cop...

208. Microorganisms : harmful activities (47:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Lists the postulates developed and used by Robert Koch to prove that a specific disease is caused by a specific microorganism. Presents some of the methods developed for protection against disease ...

209. Miles over marshes (12:43)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Over 5,000 miles of navigable waterways challenge man's ingenuity for construction of roadways in Louisiana. In the south, road builders have conquered the mire, building a highway across this wate...

210. Mini movie makers (10:47)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Seven to twelve-year-old filmmakers are the stars in this film record of the activities of a film club. Narration is entirely by children who comment on the pleasures and problems of filmmaking. Th...

211. Mining iron ore (17:05)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
A film explaining the iron mining process as practiced on the iron ranges of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

212. Mitosis and meiosis (17:01)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Uses stained cells, animation, and time-lapse cinephotomicrography of living cells to compare mitosis and meiosis. Shows onion root tip, whitefish embryo, salamander epidermal, and living Tradesca...

214. 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...

215. Music and architecture through the ages (16:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This film follows developments in music through human history supplemented by visuals of art and architecture of the period. Traces ancient civilization through to the 18th century with a heavy con...

216. Musical performance improvement for snare drum (21:53)

Date:
1960
Summary:
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 ...

218. NANKING the southern capital (11:04)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Portrays the role of Nanking in the history of China. Pictures its modern city life and its surroundings, including the Yangtze River, the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, ancient landmarks, and famous bu...

220. Nervous System in Man (18:53)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Shows interlocking of effects of the endocrine and nervous systems in man; illustrates the types of nerve cells and impulse transmission; explains the functions of the cortex, cerebellum, hypothala...

221. New England Sea Community (1:32:42)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Depicts the daily life in a seacoast town in 1845 as it is seen by Chris, a boy of thirteen, who is completing school and must choose his future occupation. Pictures the work of the town tradesmen-...

222. News parade of the year 1941 (11:07)

Date:
1941
Summary:
HEADLINES: Roosevelt-Churchill Meet! U.S. Forces in Iceland! Nazi Torpedo Cripples U.S.S. Kearny! Canadians Smash Spitzbergen! Strikes Slow U.S. Defense! Battle for Russia! Sea War in the Baltic!

224. Northeast corner (11:22)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Portrays life in the northeast corner of Scotland. The work of the fishermen and farmers and the industries and other activities of Aberdeen are described in some detail.

225. Northeast Farm Community (15:31)

Date:
1960
Summary:
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...

226. Northwest by air (15:16)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows how Canada's northwest airlines have conquered the almost impenetrable natural barriers of rivers and mountains on the Pacific coast. Reveals how air bases were built, supplied, and serviced ...

227. Nuclear Radiation in Earth Studies (15:19)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Depicts the use of instruments employing radiation detectors in modern prospecting and through the use of animation, the underlying principles of radiation theory. Outlines atomic theory, defines r...

228. Oculomotor disorders (25:49)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
A silent teaching film that studies the anatomy of the muscles of the eye and their innervation.

229. Open Fractures (23:52)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explains, using live photography and animation, the potential dangers that may result from an open fracture and the steps to follow in treating a patient with an open fracture. Points out the dange...

230. Operating the 'Jeep' audio visual unit (14:47)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Film features the Jeep audio visual unit, a vehicle equipped to provide complete sound and picture projection, regardless of road conditions or weather. Follows the vehicle as it used in an educati...

231. Opportunities in sales and merchandising (11:31)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Portrays to youth the wide variety of career opportunities in sales and merchandising occupations, how entry jobs fit into the career ladder, work settings, levels of occupations, and information a...

232. Origin of the solar system and Earth (30:09)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Dr. Shapley of the Harvard Observatory speaks about the origins of the solar system. Shapley was an American astronomer who deduced that the Sun lies near the central plane of the Milky Way Galaxy ...

233. Otto : The Behavioral Perspective (27:38)

Date:
1975
Summary:
Presents Dr. John Gottman of Indiana University as he interprets the Otto case film from the behavioral perspective. Explains that Dr. Gottman sees Otto coping with catastrophic expectations by tr...

234. Otto : The Phenomenological Perspective (26:00)

Date:
1975
Summary:
Presents Dr. Gary Stollak of Michigan State University as he interprets the Otto case study film from the phenomenological perspective. Explains that Dr. Stollak does not believe that Otto necessar...

235. Otto : The Social Perspective (26:59)

Date:
1975
Summary:
Presents Dr. Richard Price of the University of Michigan as he interprets the Otto case study film from the social perspective. Explains that Dr. Price states that the world is making unreasonable...

236. 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...

237. 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...

238. Parent to child about sex (29:36)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Shows parents how to teach facts and attitudes about sex. Concerned with when, how and the way sex facts are taught.

239. Park called Forsyth (10:21)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Set in 1967, this film depicts an encounter on the Lower East Side that erupts into a teenage gang fight. Demonstrates how boredom can lead to gratuitous violence. Set to music with some narration,...

240. Passe Partout Framing (1:18:11)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Shows how flat and three-dimensional materials are framed by the passe partout method, using a transparent cover, a mat, a cardboard backing and binding tape. Demonstrates with animation and life ...

241. Passing (05:46)

Date:
1957
Summary:
This film covers the basics of passing the puck in hockey. Demonstrates techniques involved in passing the puck between players both stationary and on the move.

242. Perch Anatomy (1:24:00)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Points out exterior structure and coloration of a living perch. Uses fresh specimens to show dissection techniques and reveal internal structures. The respiratory, digestive, excretory, and reprod...

243. Photographic Slides for Instruction (23:19)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Shows the preparation and use of photographic slides in instruction. Suggests various sources of pictures and shows how pictures can be photographed by the teacher or copied from other printed matt...

244. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (27:19)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Recreates Renoir's world and interprets the aspirations of this great master. Includes over fifty of Renoir's works.

245. Pin mold (10:38)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Life cycle of a mold belonging to a genus mucor is explained in detail. Time lapse photography shows growth of the mycelium and development of sporangia. Animation describes the formation of the zy...

246. Pioneer Mill (11:49)

Date:
1972
Summary:
Describes briefly the arduous processes by which the early settlers ground corn in their homes and focuses on the construction and operation of large water-powered mills. Shows farmers bringing the...

247. Pioneer Spinning and Weaving (41:50)

Date:
1960
Summary:
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...

248. Plan to Live (18:28)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Tells the story of Bob Carter's introduction to a research job in a large chemical company. Both his chemistry professor and his new laboratory supervisor stress the importance of good safety pract...

250. Plants Obtain Food (48:03)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Asks questions about food sources for plants, and uses coleus to illustrate foodmaking in green plants. Uses cinephotomicrography and animation to show the process of photosynthesis. The phenomen...

251. Plaster sculpture in color (10:15)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Designed to stimulate students to express ideas in sculptural form; to apply imagination to the expression of the forms they see in the world about them.

252. Platform posture and appearance (09:22)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Stresses the importance of appearance to a speaker's self-confidence and good audience reaction. Uses cartoon characters to show types of poor posture. A man preparing his first speech demonstrat...

253. Play is our business (19:26)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Contrasts the crowded play conditions in most cities with those of rural areas, and discusses what the Play Schools Association is doing to remedy the urban problem. Shows typical Play School setti...

254. Posture (09:15)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Uses teen-age models to demonstrate good posture in standing, sitting, walking, and ascending and descending stairs. Analyzes the models' movements and stances, and indicates the relationship of go...

255. 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,...

256. Prenatal care (21:05)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Portrays three pregnant women through the nine-month period. Recommended exercise, clothing, diet and reportable symptoms are shown.

258. Princess and the dragon (08:22)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Dramatizes the story of the cobbler's helper who slays the dragon and wins the princess. Puppets photographed with stop motion technique.

259. Principles of endocrine activity (15:23)

Date:
1960
Summary:
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...

260. Profile of a champion (27:54)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Presents a profile of a winner of an Indianapolis "500" race, with highlights of the 1970 race. Interwoven are sequences stressing safe driving on and off the track.

261. Pueblitos de Mexico (10:06)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Vignettes of everyday life and events in two indigenous Mexican villages provide breadth of subject-matter for vocabulary exercise. Sentences of the Spanish narration are nearly all declarative, an...

262. Quadrilaterals (12:51)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Illustrates and explains the chief properties of the important quadrilaterals such as the parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square, trapezoid, and trapezium.

263. Radio and television (11:29)

Date:
1940
Summary:
Indicates the preparation necessary for entrance into radio work, stressing a strong foundation in science and mathematics. The development of personality and a cultural background is stressed. Gi...

264. RAF and 8th Air Force report from Britain (06:59)

Date:
1944
Summary:
"Includes a report from Britain showing the RAF and the 8th Air Force on a hedgehopping bomber flight over France and Germany, and the 5th Air Force report from New Guinea." ("News and Notes," Educ...

265. Rafael Mendez, the trumpet (27:16)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Introduces Rafael Mendez, who plays several selections on his trumpet and discusses his instrument and playing technique. Includes an orchestral accompaniment. Ends with Mendez and his twin sons p...

266. Railroad rhythms (10:25)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Records the activities and sounds in a freight yard upon the arrival of a freight train. Portrays a turntable in operation, a steam locomotive in a roundhouse for servicing, a diesel engine moving ...

267. 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...

268. Ratio and proportion in mathematics (11:10)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Shows that ratio expresses a relationship between two numbers. Points out that equal ratios form a proportion, which may be used in solving problems, stressing that the units must be the same in fi...

269. Readiness... The Fourth R (19:23)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Presents physical education as an essential part of the modern school curriculum. John Glenn explains why the astronauts need to be ready physically and mentally for space travel. Describes how bod...

270. 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 ...

272. Reinforcement in learning and extinction (08:20)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows how pigeons are taught abnormal behavior patterns by means of selective reinforcement of response and how the removal of the reinforcement causes the gradual extinguishing of the learned resp...

273. Renaissance architecture (14:52)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Portrays the development of architectural form and line as illustrated in the Renaissance castles of the Loire Valley.

276. Revolutions in science (29:32)

Date:
1973
Summary:
Bronowski examines the dilemmas and challenges posed by the scientific advancements of this century. He briefly discusses Einstein and his effect upon the scientific community and himself. He discu...

277. Rhythm in music (13:19)

Date:
1951
Summary:
An elementary school orchestra, rehearsing for a school program, is having some difficulty in keeping the rhythm. The teacher illustrates familiar kinds of steady beat with a stethoscope, pulse ra...

278. 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...

279. 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...

280. Rockhound (18:53)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Rockhunting in central Oregon. Opportunities available for pursuit of this hobby. Cutting, polishing and finishing rocks by the lapidary. Examples of finished jewelry and rock collections.

281. Role Playing in Human Relations Training (26:57)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Illustrates and explains the use of role playing in analyzing problems of human relationships. Shows a mothers' club and a group at the 1947 National Training Laboratory in Group Development as th...

282. Roman life in ancient Pompeii (15:24)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Uses the voice of a young girl, killed in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, to narrate a tour through the ruins of Pompeii as she relives her past experiences and hears again the sounds which echoed th...

283. Room for discussion (24:27)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Dramatized incidents including a discussion between a disgruntled son and his parents over the boy's plans for a college education are used in explaining that discussion brings information to the i...

284. Rumor (06:13)

Summary:
Shows through example the destructive potential of rumors. Challenges the viewer to determine whether he/she is guilty of starting or spreading rumors, and to determine what can be done to stop a r...

285. Run, Jimmy, run (27:58)

Date:
1960
Summary:
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.

286. Safety in the chemistry laboratory (14:44)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Through illustrations, shows high school and college students learning the use of various safety devices, rules, and procedures. Each illustration points out that the student should follow the dire...

288. Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) (15:19)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Uses regular photography and animation to present the physical characteristics, the people, and the natural resources of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Follows the activities of two men--John Berges...

289. School activities and you (09:35)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Reading about Bill's activities in the yearbook, his sister decides to join all his cubs, in order to have as much fun in high school as he did. Bill explains that he had reasons for joining those ...

290. 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...

291. Science in space (28:22)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Traces the development of space research; explains the need for satellites, rockets, and other space probes; demonstrates how such tools operate, shows how their findings are reported, and discusse...

292. Scotland speaks (20:21)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Survey of the part played by Scotland in the national war effort including farming, coal mining, and shipbuilding.

293. 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...

294. Seashore life (11:10)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Studies inhabitants of the three kinds of seashores--the sandy beach, the rock pool, and the mud flat--beginning with the sea gull. Shows close-ups of sea weeds; then pictures in their natural hab...

295. See how they learn (29:45)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Demonstrates modern techniques for teaching primary grade pupils to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Shows children, participating in such classroom activities as reading-readiness tests, sto...

296. Seed Dispersal (14:50)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Uses time-lapse photography to demonstrate the scattering of seeds by wind, water, humans, and animals.

298. Selling as a career (10:46)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Surveys selling as a career. Portrays a day in the life of a typical travelling salesman at home and on the job. Portrays various types of sales people who sell by personal contacts, mail, teleph...

299. 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.

300. Sex determination I (29:50)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the role of heredity and environment in determining the sex of various organisms. Indicates that in some organisms it is the environment in which a given genotype functions that determin...