Start Over Date 1940 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

41. Children of Switzerland (11:14)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Arthur I. Gates; Celeste C. Peardon
Summary:
Presents characteristic activities of a boy and girl living in the Swiss Alps. Follows them through the Alpine village as they watch the tourists and visit shops where clocks and woodcarvings are s...

42. The snapping turtle (10:49)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; E. Laurence Palmer
Summary:
Presents the life story of the snapping turtle in its natural habitat. Observes the snapping turtle's features, its encounters with other animal life, the laying and protection of its eggs, its ha...

43. Argentina (people of Buenos Aires) (10:56)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Earle K. James
Summary:
Buenos Aires, the commercial, financial, and industrial hub of predominantly agricultural Argentina. A grain broker and a packing plant employee, with the family of the latter, are introduced as re...

44. People of Hawaii (11:01)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Margaret Mead
Summary:
Shows the location and physical features of the Hawaiian Islands, a wide variety of immigrant and native workers busy at large-scale production and harvesting of sugar cane and pineapples, other wo...

45. Children of China (11:19)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films, inc.; L. C. Goodrich
Summary:
Presents episodes from the home, school, and play life of children in a representative Chinese village. Traditional patterns of Chinese family life are portrayed. School training in loyalty to pa...