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101. Adventures in Brass : Anthony Plog, composer. (2:39:46)

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2016
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A note from College Audition Preparation: Adventures in Brass is a project by the College Audition Preparation (CAP) of the Jacobs School of Music. The project was prompted by a lack of brass reper...

102. Manchukuo (11:26)

Date:
1938
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Depicts the Japanese occupation of Manchukuo. Describes the mechanization of industry. Includes scenes showing coal and iron mines, steel mills, railroads, government buildings, new housing, native...

103. Report on the atom (19:37)

Date:
1949
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Shows the harnessing of atomic energy for peacetime uses in the United States. Shows scientists and technicians working in the Atomic Energy Commission's laboratories and pants. Describes new use...

104. Proud years (28:08)

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Still going places: active ma...
Date:
1956
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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 ...

105. Regional Campuses of Indiana University (16:32)

Date:
1964
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Pictures and describes the regional campuses of Indiana University, pointing out their function and relationship to the University as a whole. Shows activities at the campuses, both inside the clas...

106. Improving the job (09:37)

Date:
1944
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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.

107. Smallpox (08:43)

Date:
1946
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Demonstrates the danger of smallpox to the community and the progress made in checking the disease by widespread vaccination and re-vaccination.

108. Nuclear Radiation Detectors (17:02)

Date:
1961
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Uses live-action photography and animation to survey alpha, beta, and gamma radiation and their characteristics; the instruments used to measure these types of radiation; and the principles basic t...

109. Introducing the new worker to his job (15:21)

Date:
1944
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Dramatization of how not to orient a new employee and get him started on his job; then by contrast, what should have been done.

110. Planning and laying out work (09:58)

Date:
1944
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A plant supervisor talks to his son, who has built a boat in the basement too large to go through the door, about planning a job in advance; and recounts several illustrative experiences at the plant.

111. Rumor (06:13)

Date:
1954
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112. Painting: The Creative Process (14:59)

Date:
1967
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Discusses the individuality of artistic techniques. Follows Reginald Pollack as he attempts to find creative inspiration in nature. Shows the benefits of studying other artists' work.

113. India: The Land and the People (10:52)

Date:
1958
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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...

114. Made in India (12:04)

Date:
1945
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Shows that, although India is a land of villages and peasants, she ranks among the great industrial powers. Points out that the traditional handicrafts and the new industries are both essential to...

115. Touch clay : a ceramic experience (29:04)

Date:
1966
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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 b...

117. Using the Classroom Film (23:30)

Date:
1945
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Demonstrates with the Wheat Farmer an approved procedure for teaching with motion pictures. A seventh-grade social studies group studying how the world is fed discusses interests and problems wh...

118. Placing the right man on the job (12:28)

Date:
1944
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Dramatized cases of five different workers, unsatisfactory in particular jobs, who are reassigned to other jobs more suitable to their abilities and capacities.

119. As Our Boyhood Is (17:03)

Date:
1943
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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 t...

121. Stimuli releasing sexual behavior of domestic turkeys (18:55)

Date:
1958
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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...

122. Lines horizontal (06:04)

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Lignes horizontales
Date:
1960
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An experimental film created by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart in which a sheaf of lines, constantly gyrating, group and regroup harmoniously in accord with music composed and played on wind and...

123. Basketball fundamentals (14:30)

Date:
1942
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Presents basic fundamentals of basketball. Coach Branch McCracken and the Indiana University basketball team demonstrate, in regular and slow-motion photography, ways of shooting, passing, dribblin...

124. Looking through glass (18:08)

Date:
1944
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Surveys the British glass manufacturing industry and shows the processes of purification and manufacture.

125. Surface tension (29:23)

Date:
1959
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In this episode, Eric Rogers demonstrates adhesion and cohesion, along with surface tension and the spheroidal state. A number of interesting demonstrations of change in surface tension are shown.

127. Thailand's streams of life (10:55)

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U.N. at work
Date:
1953
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This film explores three United Nations Technical Assistance Administration projects focused on Thailand's extensive system of waterways. UN experts have studied the country's efficient canal netwo...

128. Marian Anderson (25:49)

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Marian Anderson
Date:
1953
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Describes Marian Anderson's life, from her early years in Philadelphia through her New York Town Hall recital, and presents her as a concert artist singing Begrüssung by Handel; the Negro spiritual...

129. Children Who Draw Pictures (37:48)

Date:
1959
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Through free expression art activities, a teacher shows how children think, feel, and develop in a year at a Japanese school. Selects pupils from a first-grade class and traces their personality gr...

130. Operation and Care of the Kodak Pageant Projector (11:25)

Date:
1962
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Explains the set-up and operation of the Kodak Pageant motion picture projector. Shows proper placement of components for effective use, threading, focusing, and centering the picture on the scree...

131. The Pacific Coast (15:37)

Date:
1947
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Reviews the important wartime changes and also points out their lasting effect upon the entire nation, as manufacturers planned to keep industry in the West after World War II. Offers glimpses of ...

133. The presidency (10:31)

Date:
1949
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Traces the position of the Presidency from its constitutional beginnings to the present status of the office. Explains the effect of the development of the implied powers, and discusses the unique...

134. Battle for Bread (20:17)

Date:
1952
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Gives the United Nations' report on how the Food and Agriculture Organization was beginning, in 1949, to solve the tremendous problem of doubling the world's food output. Emphasizes that the FAO is...

135. Bill Jack Vs. Adolf Hitler (18:11)

Date:
1950
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Shows how the Jack and Heintz Company, in Cleveland, greatly increased its output during World War II through improved personnel policies.

136. Canadian Boom (27:04)

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0000
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Shows the gradual development of a balanced economy in Canada through the growth of industry in the various provinces. Includes views of wheat harvesting, logging, tourist attractions, the transpor...

137. The teachers' crisis (17:07)

Date:
1948
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Presents several reasons for the crisis in the teacher supply in 1947, including low salaries, lack of training, overcrowded conditions, and social restrictions.

138. Portugal (12:08)

Date:
1947
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Shows the religious pageantry of Portugal, a country devotedly linked to the Roman Chatolic Church, and the status of education, labor, and industry. Points out that Portugal's future role among th...

139. Problem Drinkers (19:10)

Date:
0000
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Presents the problem of the habitual alcoholic and the programs of various organizations fighting the effects of alcoholism. Emphasizes the work of Alcoholics Anonymous.

140. Formosa-Island of Promise (17:27)

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0000
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Shows the problems of Formosa, an island which doubled in population through the arrival of Chinese Nationalist refugees. Tells how, with assistance from ECA and the Joint Committee on Rural Recons...

141. Problems of Working Girls (08:42)

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0000
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The problem of out-of-town girls of little experience finding satisfactory jobs in large cities and living on the money they earn.

142. Problems of Relief (06:34)

Date:
0000
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A contrast between the meaning of relief to politicians and to relief recipients.

143. Berlin-Rift in the Iron Curtain (24:00)

Date:
0000
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Shows the extent of communication between the East and the West in Berlin, including railroad and trolley connections, newspapers from the West, and pedestrian movement across zone lines. Pictures...

144. Heart Disease (07:33)

Date:
0000
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The reasons for the increase of heart trouble in recent years and methods of treatment.

145. Costa Rica (17:05)

Date:
1951
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Studies varied aspects of life in present-day Costa Rica. Shows the increasing trend toward private enterprise; federal measures such as STICA to promote cooperative agriculture; the Catholic Churc...

146. Formosa Story (10:37)

Date:
0000
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Tells how the island of Formosa has been helped to become economically self-sufficient through the help of ECA and the Joint Committee on Rural Reconstruction. Explains that through the cooperatio...

147. Indonesia, an Empire's Problem (18:44)

Date:
0000
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The problems of both the Netherlands and Indonesia are presented in the question of Indonesian independence. Describes Holland's need to rebuild her empire after World War II, and shows Indonesia'...

148. Ireland (16:06)

Date:
1947
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Offers glimpses of the proverbial Irish national character, the poetic landscape of the country, and the political, economic, and social problems during president Eamon DeValera's administration.

149. International Munitions Ring (04:48)

Date:
0000
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A study of the activities of the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, mutations, salesman, and the U.S. reaction to the armaments trade.

150. Radio Broadcasting Today (19:03)

Date:
1950
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Examines the role of radio as a means of mass communication from its inception up to, and including, 1950. Includes many of the radio personalities of the late 1940s such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope, ...