Start Over Collection National Educational Television Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

1781. Patrick, Penny and Pete (15:22)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Young opposums are carried in their mother's pouch and they learn to use their tails to hold on to things. While Fignewton runs the shadow puppets, he illustrates the store of little Pete Opposum, ...

1782. Learning by association (28:47)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Explains the classical principles of learning by association. Discusses the work of Ebbinghaus and Pavlov. Presents the laws of frequency of contiguity and reinforcement by satisfaction. Illustrat...

1783. Merry Mount (29:29)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Explains how the composer conveys to his audience the emotions, the actions, and the thoughts of the personages in an opera. Shows how particular character "themes" and descriptive settings are wor...

1784. Meter and Rhythm (29:17)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses rhythm as the punctuation in the language of music. Illustrates tempo, pulse, rhythm, meter, and accent with musical selections. Demonstrates and suggests the different emotional response...

1785. Modern music (29:31)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Shows the musical difference between the conventional seven-tone white key scale and the "newer" scales used by Debussy and others. Demonstrates that romantic composers explored the newer scales an...

1786. Education For Life Adjustment (28:58)

Date:
1961
Summary:
The two essential elements of life adjustments education: 1)to help develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes for dealing with immediate situations of everyday life; 2) to develop an understandin...

1787. Language of music (29:42)

Date:
1957
Summary:
In this program, Mr. Goldovsky clearly demonstrates the need for close attention to the language of the written musical score. Through musical example he aptly demonstrates the use of the musical p...

1788. Lay my burden down (59:58)

Date:
1966
Summary:
This program revisits the state of Alabama one year after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march and the ensuing Voting Rights Act of 1965 to document the economic and educational plight of black tena...

1789. Expansion and Empire Building (29:15)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Traces the history of imperialism from the 15th Century to the present, Explains the reasons which lead to empire building by nation states. Discusses the geographical, economic, and political chan...

1791. John Crowe Ransom, part II (29:28)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Galway Kinnell, former NYU Professor who taught at the University of Teheran in Iran and John Crowe Ransom discuss the merits of poetry which the poet admits is “archaic and obscure.” Ransom reads ...

1792. Jump, Freddy, Jump (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
A frog's tongue is fastened to the front of his mouth. A frog can catch flies while jumping. Frogs eat flies. Dora and Fignewton use the felt-board technique to tell the story of Freddy Frog who fo...

1793. Mrs. Spider Goes to a Wedding (15:10)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Fignewton Frog and Dora tell a tale of Mrs. Spider, who helps a hummingbird get a bridal veil. Using the peep-show parade and a series of miniature sets with moving figures, they tell of some of th...

1794. Mrs. Buzz Solves a Problem (15:09)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dora and Fignewton use felt boards to illustrate the life cycle of a bumble bee in the story of Mrs. Buzz, a bee who needs help in raising her family.

1795. Where land and water meet (29:03)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses and shows the wide variety of creatures who inhabit the seashore. Explains how they are adapted to the environment in which they make their homes. Presents filmed sequences of the sand ...

1796. Watts Towers theatre workshop (28:14)

Date:
1969
Summary:
Introduces the Watts Towers Theatre Workshop consisting of black teenagers from the Los Angeles Watts neighborhood. Relates that the group was founded in 1963 by Stephen Kyle Kent as a Join the Art...

1797. The first priority (29:24)

Date:
1961
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Summary:
Explains the global food problem and the work of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Freedom from Hunger Campaign to build long-term food production capacity through science and ...

1798. The 91st day (1:30:33)

Date:
1963
Summary:
The 91st Day is the story of a high school teacher, Loren Benson, who falls victim to a delusion that disrupts his life. Taken to a distant state hospital, he clings to his delusion despite an inte...

1799. The Murakumo sword (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the ancient Japanese myth about the finding of the sacred Murakumo sword. Illustrates the story using Japanese brush painting techniques. Shows how to paint mountains and rivers.

1800. Sectional and thematic variation (29:31)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Sectional repetition is the exact repetition of a complete section or part of a composition immediately after its first presentation. Music and architecture are the only arts in which this is found...