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Explains that individual differences in children occur in physical, mental, and emotional growth and development. Describes and illustrates the special and dynamic problems of the exceptional child.
Explores the challenges faced by children with severe intellectual disabilities, highlighting their interactions with family, neighbors, and educational environments. Through dramatizations and cla...
Examines the challenges faced by children who stutter, explaining how stuttering patterns develop and the social difficulties that may result. Through interviews, filmed sequences, and dramatizatio...
Discusses the special problems confronting the child with epilepsy and tells how ignorance, superstitions, and half-truths add to the complexity of providing wholesome relationships for the epilept...
Explores the unique challenges faced by gifted children, highlighting how their intellectual, emotional, and physical development may differ from others. Through filmed sequences and dramatizations...
This episode explores the unique challenges faced by children who are blind and the support they need to grow and build relationships. It highlights both the limitations caused by blindness and the...
Discusses the special problems of the child with defective vision, pointing out the many degrees of partial-sightedness and the implications of each. Stresses the role of the home, school, and comm...
Explores the life and survival strategies of the snowshoe hare in the northern North American wilderness. The film highlights the animal's seasonal adaptations, including its ability to change coat...
Shows geographical features and physical characteristics of the seashore, and its more common inhabitants. Uses film clips and still photographs to explain the tidal cycle. Discusses the problems...
Mr. Hartzell and Dr. Patrick continue their tour of the South by speaking with Mrs. Blanche Carroll of York, South Carolina, about segregation and the church's role in community education. They als...
Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Robert Richman interviews the famous Danish author of Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa. Features her comments on the similarities and differences...
Discusses the political history of Brazil and her relations with the U.S. Considers Brazilian art, economic problems and potentialities, and the role of U.S. business in Brazil. A photo series pre...
Discusses the reality of atoms and their importance in understanding the physical universe. Uses animation to explain what happens to atoms during thermal agitation. Demonstrates the audible realit...
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray differences in marriage rituals of three societies. Emphasizes the basic motive behind the selection of marriage partners, the rituals ...
This episode illustrates global conflict zones in 1949 and the role of the United Nations in addressing them. It explains the structure and functions of key U.N. bodies, including the General Assem...
Discusses the problem of meteorite damage during space travel. Demonstrates the Navy's full-pressure space suit for emergency exit. Explains the difficulties of escape and survival in space. Featur...
Discusses protective devices for flyers in space. Demonstrates the Air Force partial pressure suit. Explains the effects of "explosive decompression." Presents a design for a three-stage rocket veh...
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray the formation of human personality in three societies. Demonstrates the authoritarian, cooperative, and dwarfed personality types. Poi...
Surveys the geography and people of India. Includes the topography; the effects of the monsoon winds and the other climatic factors; India's ancient cultural heritage; the village life and primitiv...
Contains aerial photography, animation, and charts to show methods used by Indianapolis to effect slum clearance. Pictures city officials as they cite the need for rebuilding slum areas and tells o...
A father and his two sons make a hike a demonstration of conservation and safety practices and introduces the viewer to plant and animal life, geological formations and the physical facilities of t...
This film examines the courtship and mating behavior of domestic white turkeys, highlighting the sequence of actions each bird follows in response to specific cues from its mate. It details the fem...
Discusses the relationship between emotional stability and criminal behavior. Points out that most crimes are committed by normal persons, illustrating with examples of hit-and-run drivers, embezzl...
Documents and dramatizes a civil lawsuit based on an automobile injury case. Dramatizes the beginning of the trial, showing how prospective jurors are chosen and questioned to determine possible bi...
Discusses the discovery and exploitation of the natural resources of the West--minerals, grazing, lumber--plus agricultural development of the Great Plains and the Pacific Coast valleys. Also, cons...
Shows how animal tracks may be identified and explains how various types of tracks are classified. Demonstrates the making of track stamps through the use of potatoes. Discusses the making of plas...
Music and emotion; Music as a language; Music as emotion
Date:
1957
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Discusses ways in which composers can and have expressed or evoked emotion; demonstrates that rhythm, harmony, quality, and loudness are factors which may vary to help convey emotion, and stresses ...
Interweaves sequences of events in the lives of several people to relate moments of beauty and tenderness of everyday life in the city of Stockholm. Captures the early morning tempo of the city, a...
Examines the challenges faced by children who are deaf and defines deafness as the inability to hear speech. This episode presents film sequences, demonstrations, and interviews that illustrate tea...
Examines tones and noise as auditory stimuli. The episode compares the physical properties of sound with the psychological perceptions of pitch and loudness. It also describes the ear's sensitivity...
This episode focuses on the art of the Etruscans, renowned for their skill in terra-cotta sculpture, particularly in creating larger-than-life figures. It highlights a display of such sculptures, i...
Discusses Christianity not only as ideology, but also as a historical religion, focusing upon Jesus. Surveys the human aspects of Jesus, and contrasts standards of values in the world with the teac...
Presents all the trials and events of the 1956 state track and field meet. Portrays the individual performers in action and the awarding of medals and the trophy by the Board of Control and the Co...
String quartet and its music; Story of the string quartet; Music for young people
Date:
1956
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This episode explores the history of string quartet literature, accompanied by paintings from the same periods as the featured music. Performances by the Juilliard String Quartet illustrate the dev...
Shows in detail practical steps that can be taken to help old people lead active, useful lives; explores the day-to-day problems that accompany old age; and discusses the problems that spring from ...
Stresses the importance of knowing and using precise terminology so that concepts can be introduced to others who have not known them before. Points out the dangers of vague generalities in writing...
Presents a highly condensed version of Russian history since the eve of World War I through the eyes of the "average Ivan" who has lived through this period. Discusses the initial period of capita...
Explains the stages of labor, distinguishing between false and real labor, and uses charts to show the position and development of a full-term baby. The episode follows an expectant mother from her...
Reviews fetal development during the later months of pregnancy, including physical characteristics of a seven-month-old fetus and definitions of premature and full-term birth. It provides guidance ...
Explains that a major problem of jet propulsion is increasing the speed of the expanding gas in the jet engine. Shows how the speed is increased by the addition of heat, more gas,and heavier molecu...
Explains the functions of the House of Representatives and the Senate; then shows how a Congressional bill is introduced, considered, and voted upon. Discusses the special powers of the House and ...
Shows the techniques of modern sculpture, as demonstrated by Seymour Lipton, an American metal constructionist sculptor, at work in his studio. Follows the construction of a single sculpture from b...
Color and cloth; Art of the theatre; Art of the theater
Date:
1955
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Discusses the contribution of stage costumes to the art of the theater. Follows the costume designer through the initial analysis of the play, the drawing-board, the costume workshop, and to the ac...
An account of a canoe trip in the Quetico-Superior wilderness area of Northern Minnesota and Canada. Emphasizes the importance of keeping wilderness areas green, beautiful, and intact. Includes vie...
