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1501. Oceanography (29:46)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the importance of oceanography to the Antarctic program of the IGY, using charts and maps to show how the Antarctic waters influence weather, tides, and life in the sea. Explains the use ...

1502. The language of advertising (29:26)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses advertising and the way in which it often commits a multitude of semantic crimes. Explains techniques used to bring about automatic reactions to advertisements, and points out that the da...

1503. How We Know What We Know (29:49)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr. Hayakawa develops the idea that what we know of the objective world is a product of our nervous system and, hence, an abstraction from sensory data. Alfred Korzynski’s “structural differential”...

1504. The History of Antarctica (29:39)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents a survey of Antarctic exploration. Discusses the contributions of early seafaring explorers, the golden age of exploration, 1900-1920, and the Bryd expedition of 1928-30. Describes the di...

1505. Logistics of the Igy in Antarctica (29:24)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr. Gould describes the magnitude of the logistics problem facing scientists planning the scientific efforts during the IGY. With the use of film he describes the entire operation from the assembli...

1506. Meteorology (29:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Examines the role of meteorological research in the Antarctic program of the IGY. Uses charts, maps, and film sequences to show how weather observations are taken, organized, and used. Features Dr...

1507. Introduction (29:58)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Gives some historical background for looking at modern art and offers a number of approaches to contemporary art. Outlines briefly the eleven remaining programs in the series. (WQED) Kinescope.

1508. The Colonial Empires (29:24)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses various aspects of the colonial overseas empires and suggests how these aspects affected the future nations. Reviews some of the economic aspects of the colonial Latin Americas. (KETC) Ki...

1509. The Latin Colonials (29:40)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Points out and discusses the various groups or classes of colonial society--the whites, the mixed breeds, and the pure breed. Considers the religious, intellectual, and artistic life of these grou...

1510. Frontier Expansion (29:43)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Reviews the penetration of later Latin Americans into the hinterlands of the several colonies. Points out that these frontier movements expanded the territory held and often set the boundaries of ...

1511. Three Part (Ternary) Form (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Reviews the structure of binary form and begins the discussion of three part or ternary form. Explains the limitations of binary form and how ternary form offers possibilities of greater expansion....

1512. Light industry (29:59)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Shows how manufacturing develops according to the availability of natural resources. Explains how our rich supplies of coal, gas, electricity, and metals, as well as our favorable climate and adequ...

1513. Agriculture : corn, wheat, cotton, and rice (29:28)

Date:
1955
Summary:
In this program, Dr. Sumner uses maps and graphs to demonstrate another reason why the soil is considered to be the most precious of all natural resources. He draws the attention to the variety of ...

1514. Agriculture : corn, hogs, beef, and dairy cattle (29:28)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses agriculture in terms of the raising of hogs, beef, and dairy cattle. Explains that corn is the vital link between the soil and the production of these animals. States that the large produ...

1515. Climate (29:39)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the weather of the United States and its effect on human comfort. Points out the nature of the country's agriculture as valuable bequests from our land. Shows how our climate differs from...

1516. Vegetation and soil (29:50)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Dr. Sumner explains how land surface is considered the most precious of all natural resources since it and climate together produce soil and determine the nature of vegetation. As an example of unc...

1517. Oil (29:16)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the dependence of U.S. economy on oil. Points out that even though we produce one-half the world's supply, we must still import one million barrels of oil a day. Forecasts future problems...

1518. Coal and iron ore (29:53)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the supply of coal and iron ore in the United States. States that America has 4000 years supply of coal--this in spite of the fact that the U.S. produces thirty per cent of the world's su...

1519. Steel (29:19)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discussion of the manufacturing and production of steel in the United States as well as a brief discussion of other minerals, including zinc and aluminum.

1520. Electric power (29:14)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the production of electric power in the United States. States that a heritage of our land is our system of rivers and lakes, particular when this water power is harnessed to provide elect...

1521. Stephen Spender, part II (29:08)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Louis Simpson, a poet and teacher at the University of California at Berkeley, relates that Stephen Spender’s interest in the relationship between poetry and the subjects of war and politics goes b...

1522. Nature versus the laboratory (29:54)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Uses demonstrations of falling objects to explain how laboratory experiments help in understanding nature. Discusses the work of Galileo and Newton. Illustrates how basic laws of science are arri...

1523. Musical Words (29:17)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Demonstrates a composer's vocabulary, beginning with "two-letter words" and proceeding to three-, four-, five-, and six-letter words. Illustrates each of these with musical selections. Describes t...

1524. Who runs the prisons? (29:16)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman sketches the relationship of prison administration to the inmate community and the ways in which the inmates’ group influences the administration. An...

1525. Dr. Roger Revelle, oceanographer (29:50)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Except for his service career in the Navy during and immediately after World War II, Dr. Revelle has spent his entire career with the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography....

1526. Ethnic dance : round-trip to Trinidad (30:48)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Explores the significance of ethnic dance in the field of formal dance. Presents a variety of West Indian dances. Explains their derivations and movements. Includes Bele, a West Indian adaptation o...

1527. Diary of a Student Revolution (29:50)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Demonstrates how the campus industrial recruiting at the University of Connecticut resulted in confrontation between student activists and the University president. Uses two camera crews working in...

1528. Energy (29:52)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explains why energy is necessary, where it is obtained and why more energy is needed. Defines and gives examples of kinetic and potential energy. Uses charts and diagrams to show how energy is use...

1529. History (29:05)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the historical development of nuclear fission. Stresses the contributions of Chadwick, Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, Niels Bohr, and Albert Einstein. Retells the story of the ini...

1530. Agriculture (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Special Guest: DR. RICHARD S. CALDECOTT –Dr. Caldecott is a geneticist with the cereal crops brand of the United States Department of Agriculture and an associate professor in the Department of Agr...

1531. Radioactivity (27:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The causes of radioactivity, how it is detected, measured and controlled are noted by Dr. Warren F. Witzig and guest Edward Sanford. They also demonstrate the instability of energy and discuss the ...

1532. Matter (29:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates matter in its various states: solid, liquid, and gas. Shows how matter is broken up into its smallest components. Explains how energy is obtained from matter. Defines the...

1533. New Abstraction: Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland (29:14)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Introduces Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, known as color-field painters among the New Abstractionists. Discusses their attitudes toward their works, and the factors and people influencing them. S...

1534. Frank Stella, Larry Poons--The New Abstraction (29:02)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Depicts Frank Stella and Larry Poons, two young New Abstractionists, in their studios painting and discussing their work.Concludes that these artists have instituted an innovation by exploiting rep...

1535. Hobbies and Interests (29:08)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses the values of a hobby as a source of fun and relaxation, friendship, recognition, and health. Presents people and their hobbies, how they came to choose a particular hobby and the values ...

1536. Work (29:32)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows how to choose a job by first knowing one's self as revealed by performance in intelligence, aptitude, and personality tests, by learning the characteristics of different jobs, and by fitting ...

1537. Getting Along with Others (30:12)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses ways of getting along with people and through interviews shows why some people can more easily get along wit h others. Emphasizes interest in others, acceptance, and understanding, as we...

1538. The stuff of life (30:05)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Dr. C. Arthur Knight, featured on this program, introduces his topic with a brief description of properties which characterize living things, and then explains to what degree viruses do or do not h...

1539. The stuff of life (29:32)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Despite its microscopic size, a cell may contain several thousand highly complex chemicals. Nonetheless, molecules of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids consistently form part of the s...

1540. The kinds of law (28:26)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Divides laws into three categories--human, natural (moral), and divine--and discusses the nature of each. Suggests two ways of identifying the different laws, and explains how natural laws are dis...

1541. The fuel of life (29:31)

Date:
1960
Summary:
The energy expended in thinking or talking or moving or simply living must be supplied by fuel; this program outlines the kinds of fuel which a living being needs, and describes how this fuel is us...

1542. Introduction (29:30)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, Dr. Jones introduces the series by illustrating that the topics of discussion are “unessential” in precisely the way that passing notes in a melody would be unessential to the whol...

1543. The portrait of Charles Dickens (29:25)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Reviews the life of Charles Dickens, using sketches pictures, lithographs, and etchings to illustrate times and places important to the author. Interprets his writing with excerpts from David Copp...

1544. The portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne (29:30)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Reviews the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, using etchings, photographs, paintings and lithographs to illustrate the places and events connected with the author. Interprets his writings with excerpts...

1545. Drama comes of age (29:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the Shakespearean theater and neo-classic drama. Tells of realism, not only in plays, but in the theater itself. Demonstrates early realism with a scene from Hedda Gabler.

1546. The portrait of John Milton (29:40)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Reviews the life of John Milton, using drawings, etchings, lithographs and photographs to illustrate times and places important to the author. Interprets his writing with excerpts from "L Allegro,...

1547. Reappraisal of NATO (29:36)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents an edited version of a speech delivered in September, 1958 to Boston's Atlantic Treaty Association. Provides an analysis of NATO, its effectiveness in dealing with current world problems a...

1548. The portrait of Victor Hugo (29:24)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Reviews the life of Victor Hugo, using drawings, etchings, and lithographs to illustrate the places and events connected with the author. Interprets his writing with excerpts from Les Miserables, N...

1549. Drama : how it began (29:25)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the early beginnings of the theater. Explains the techniques of the Greek theater and how playwriting developed. Illustrates the chorus technique with a scene from Oedipus the King.