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Eric Hoffer speaks with James Day about his personal history, including the loss of his family, his struggle with blindness and eventual recovery, and the hardships of hunger, loneliness, and unsta...
Presents through the experiences of a boy, insights into numerous aspects of frontier life in the Midwest. Illustrates the importance of the school, the self-sufficiency of the settlers, and the de...
Highlights events in the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi between 1930 and 1948 and recounts his role in the struggle to free India from British colonialism. Treats his philosophy of passive resistance a...
Explains the role of fuel gas as a source of energy. Begins with the history of gas lighting. The cleanliness, efficiency and versatility of gas is investigated. Describes the production of various...
Traces the development of the qualities and skills which made George Washington the builder of the American nation. Portrays events of his boyhood and during the French and Indian Wars: illustrates...
Uses the home experiences of six high school youngsters to portray and analyze the conditions leading to conflict between parents and their adolescent offspring. Shows how a group plan to go to th...
This film shows how the staff of a British hospital has improvised a method of routinely admitting the mothers of patients under school age to a ward of traditional design without structural altera...
Explains how sea lamprey nearly destroyed the fish in the Great Lakes. Scientists studied methods of controlling this predator and devised electrical barriers and electromechanical weir and traps.
Records the poetry and personality of Gwendolyn Brooks and the Chicago environment which provided the sources for most of her materials. Features Miss Brooks reading several of her poems, each acco...
Discusses the work done in genetics since Mendel's time. Describes the theory of location of genes and how the theory of chromosomes was developed and tested. Uses experiments with corn and the fru...
Illustrates various techniques and household arrangements for caring for the convalescent patient at home. Shows ways of arranging the sick room, making the beds, washing and serving the patient, ...
Uses two comprehensive high schools--one in Oakland, California, and the other in Labette County, Kansas--to show what every secondary school should be equipped to do. Shows various classroom situ...
Stresses that observation is basic to learning the sciences and the arts by showing a boy observing an old house, an example of capillary action, and a science experiment. Emphasizes the importanc...
Indiana University head basketball coach Bob Knight discusses the importance of the library as the foundation for the success of an educational program. Also looks at the vast library system at In...
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...
Provides a play-by-play presentation of the basketball game between Terre Haute Gerstmeyer and Richmond during the 1953 Indiana state finals. Designed for coaching purposes.
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...
A supervisor asks an employee for work-improvement suggestions; the employee talks the problem over with his father and sister, obtains their advice, and makes some worthwhile suggestions.
Shows a typical day in the life of a model American teen-age boy. His health habits, diet, hobbies, and correct attitude toward work, study and play are all stressed.
Tells the complex story of India's social and political problems immediately after World War II. Shows the overcrowded conditions, how war with Japan brought to a head centuries of strife among va...
Reviews the civil strife between religious groups during the first days of Free India. Stresses the fact that with the assassination of Gandhi much of the civil war stopped, and now Nehru is attem...
Explores India's most critical problem and examines proposed solutions. Discusses the agricultural crises and the social customs which interrelate with the population problem. Shows the educational...
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...
