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Delineates some of India's major problems and the progress being made toward solving some of them. Reports on famine, industrialization, birth control campaigns, a fertilizer festival, governmental "red-tape," food destruction by pests, village life, sacred cows, and politics.
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 vehicle, and points out special features of the cabin unit. Features Colonel Henry M. Sweeney, former director of research at the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base, and Mr. Krafft A. Ehricke of General Dynamics Corporation.
Discusses man's use of planned outdoor spaces in art and architecture, emphasizing that people need more well-planned, attractive, open spaces in cities. Compares spaces in such paintings as Mondrian's "Composition London" and "Broadway Boogie" to the open, planned areas of a city. Contrasts the piazza of Portofino, a small fishing village, with the plaza of St. Peter's in Rome.
From the series Ripples. Chris survives separation from his parents and endures a lonely night in a hospital bed in this continuation of Going to the Hospital. He meets other hospitalized children, learns to swallow a pill and likes a visit from his dad that includes a present. It's not so much fun when parents go home, the lights go out, the nurse is gone, and the other kids are asleep; but Chris figures out a way to get company that will help him fall asleep.
Opening this program with the song "Home on the Range," Bash tells of the importance of the American buffalo to the Plains Indian and how the buffalo led the early explorers over natural passes and up easy grades as the Western migration began. She describes an Indian buffalo hunt and the ways in which the animal was used for clothing, food and shelter. Songs also include "Buffalo Boy" (sometimes called "When We Gonna Marry"), and the music later made into a popular song, "Buffalo Gals."
Presents scenes of natural objects typifying the things which inspire ceramist Dik Schwanke. Shows him at work in his studio, illustrating his methods of combining pottery and sculpture. Includes background music by the "Shags."
Short promotional film focusing on student learning at Indiana University. Begins with a tour of the buildings and resources of the Libraries, the "focal point of I.U.'s academic program." The film then moves on to highlight teaching at the university, showing history professor, R. Carlyle Buley in individual conference with a student as well as in the classroom. Finally the film shows how teaching and learning are not just confined to the classroom, but come about through student meetings and informal gatherings. Ends with I.U. students graduating and going on to become productive members of society, proving that "books do come alive."
Shows the development of Negro education. Emphasizes that such a development was slow and difficult from the schoolhouse with broken windows and the teachers only a few steps ahead of the pupils to the modern school which spreads its influence beyond the confines of its four walls through training 9in home economics, machine shop, and handicrafts. Ends with shots of Negroes in universities, as surgeons and nurses in hospitals, and in the Army.