Start Over Date 1941 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

101. The Forest Ranger (30:45)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
Summary:
Shows the work of the U.S.D.A Forest Service forest rangers across the nation's 161 national forests. Narration lists the forest ranger's duty to "manage the vast American woodland to produce more ...

102. The Home Place (31:16)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Extension Service
Summary:
A history of home construction and architectural styles in the U.S. Emphasizes the homestead as symbolic of American values and national character. "The American farmstead, stronghold of human libe...

103. The micrometer (15:19)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Shows various types of micrometers; how to use a micrometer, read the barrel and thimble scales, check the accuracy of readings, and take care of the instrument.

104. The milling machine (07:30)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Indicates the basic principle of the standard plain milling machine. Each part of the machine is named and explained, and some elementary setups are demonstrated.

106. The sunfish (10:54)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Presents the life of the sunfish from the preparation of the nest, the laying and fertilizing of the eggs, the hatching of the eggs, and the development of the fish to maturity.

109. The World at War (43:15)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures; Samuel Spewack

110. U.S. Department of the Interior "Write Clean Water" (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
U.S. Department of the Interior
Summary:
A public service announcement from the U.S. Department of the Interior in which audio of children singing about going to the beach overlays a scene of a deserted beach covered with trash, dead fish...

111. University of Toronto "Pollution Probe" (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
University of Toronto
Summary:
A public service announcement from the University of Toronto featuring a silent scroll of text discussing the problem of noise pollution and urging the viewer to contact the university's Pollution ...

112. V-62 Independence (1:04:10)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
U.S. Park Service Department of the Interior
Summary:
Source material used for the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.

113. Various Military Parades and School Sporting Events (20:47)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: This home movie contains mainly footage of a large military parade in Melbourne, Australia. It is most likely of an ANZAC day parade. ANZAC day is one o...

114. Venture adventure (07:43)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Hasse, Charles, 1904-2002
Summary:
Short film on the Air Training Corps of the British Royal Air Force, showing recruiting, enlistment and training.

117. Wellmet House (29:30)

Date:
19XX
Summary:
Explains that Wellmet House attempts to rehabilitate the mentally ill not by gaining conforming behavior but by helping them relate to other people in natural and unstructured ways. Points out that...

120. Women at war (10:08)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986
Summary:
Produced for an American audience, the film explores the role of women in the war effort and thanks America for sending relief bundles to the victims of the London Blitz. Shows British women caring...

121. Words for battle (07:54)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989
Summary:
Laurence Olivier's reading of passages from Milton, William Blake, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and Abraham Lincoln accompany scenes of daily life in wartime Britain. The texts selected emphasi...

122. Worst of Farm Disasters (06:23)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Rural Electrification Administration; Kendall Foss
Summary:
Worst of Farm Disasters was produced alongside the USDA's Rural Electrification Administration (REA) films Power and the Land and Bip Goes To Town. All three films document the life of an Ohio far...

123. Zapotec village (19:52)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Sergei M. Eisenstein; William F. Kruse; Egon Mauthner
Summary:
Documentary film by Sergei M. Eisenstein, famous Russian movie producer, about the Zapotec Village in Mexico. Made by special arrangement with Upton Sinclair, American author and politician.