41. Constellations, Guides to the Night Sky (11:00)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Uses animation and actual photographs to show the easily recognized constellations used for locating other constellations and celestial objects in northern and southern skies; and, through use of overprints relates constellations to their mythological origins. Introduces constellations through recognition of the Big Dipper as a part of Ursa Major. The "pointers" of the Big Dipper are used to find Polaris and the Little Dipper. Nova, light and dark nebulae, binary stars, and the Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda are identified. Circumpolar rotation of constellations in the northern sky is demonstrated.

42. 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 independently to show simultaneously the philosophies and strategies of both sides. Depicts how the students' attempt at a peaceful protest was met by police who read the riot act and made arrests. Shows the president conversing with other administrators, and questions whether the use of force was appropriate.

43. 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. Shows examples of their works and those of Helen Frankenthaler.

44. 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 repetition, emptiness, and monotony to produce their abstract works. Describes Stella's productions as high geometric polygons and Poon's current work as a counterpoint of dots on canvas.

45. Brother Antoninus and Michael Mcclure (29:10)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Depicts Michael McClure, an experimental poet who has written in many styles, and Brother Antoninus, a Dominican lay brother who is distinguished as a poet because of his unique combination of poetry reading and dramatic encounters with his audiences. Touches upon McClure's use of hallucinogenic drugs for achieving poetry that speaks directly out of the emotions and his experimental system of developing poetry through the use of words printed on cards which are shuffled to create poems at random. Places the viewer in the audience during one of Brother Antoninus' celebrated readings.

46. Philip Roth (58:00)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Presents a discussion between Philip Roth, novelist and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jerre Manginne concerning Roth's stories and plays. Illustrates the relationship of his work to that of Saul Bellow, and discusses his reactions to critics' reviews.