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Follows the Young family in the process of becoming naturalized Canadians. Discusses the opportunities they may expect in a country which is important as a producer of grain, iron ore, uranium, al...
Animation is used to present the story of the Bagley family, who do not use their furnace correctly. When Mr. Bagley over-fires the furnace, the narrator, who is a gnome, and cutaway diagrams of t...
As multicolored plastic abstractions swing and revolve, lights create changing, fantastic patterns of colored shadow. Has an original piano score. Made by the American artist in plastics, Jim Davis.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.; Thomas D. Clark; Emerson Film Corporation
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Portrays the main events in the life of Daniel Boone. Includes his youth in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, his participation in the French and Indian War, his adventures in exploring and settling...
Presents Ruth, Jump, Marjorie Gestring, and others diving from a 33-foot tower to show championship form in diving. Pictures Iris Cummings and the Hopkins twins as they demonstrate the breast strok...
Uses animation to show the mechanical and muscular processes involved in the digestion of food. Includes the absorption of digested food, water, and salts into the blood and the function of the liver.
Uses animation to demonstrate the chemical processes of digestion. Shows the chemical breakdown of foods, the structure and functions of the glands involved, the absorption of digested foods, and t...
A re-enactment of an actual case history, tracing the genetic development of a neurotic depression by examining the ideational content and emotional significance of a series of experiences in the l...
Highlights the dangers of following another vehicle too closely and demonstrates the proper amount of distance a driver should maintain in order to avoid an accident.
Physical Sciences Staff in the College, The University of Chicago; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Compares sound waves with water waves, provides examples of echoes and explains how they affect acoustics indoors, demonstrates effects of different wall surfaces upon the reflection of sounds, por...
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...
Describes the physical geography of Australia and some of its natural resources, such as wheat, cattle, wool, and timber. Shows how the use of these natural resources has determined the development...
Presents rules and playing techniques for girls' basketball as demonstrated by a group of high school players. Distinguishes among various kinds of passing: chest, two-hand underhand, and one-han...
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...
Shows close-ups of the grouse as found in its wild state on the prairies and open farm lands of Missouri, including its habits and natural sounds. Shows a battle between two male grouse, then a co...
One in a series of twelve, one-reel films designed to present behind-the scenes activities of the motion picture industry. This film describes the breadth of research which goes into authenticating...
Bob returns to the basketball locker room for the whistle needed in practice. Don sees Bob searching Ben's pockets and tells the gang that Bob is a thief. At skill practice Coach Barker, in quest...
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...
Designed to be used with an educational psychology text. Shows, through the story of Tommy, the importance of goals in learning. His natural curiosity thwarted in school, he seems bored. By contr...
An Indiana University student shows a prospective student's parents the campus and explains the counseling system. Includes academic and extracurricular activities, the extension centers, and many ...
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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An Indiana University student shows a prospective student's parents the campus and explains the counseling system. Includes academic and extracurricular activities, the extension centers, and many...
Dramatizes the experiences of three beginning student teachers. Suggests getting well acquainted with the school, its personnel, and its policies; becoming accustomed to handling routine classroom ...
Barbara Ann Scott demonstrates the fundamentals of figure-skating. Discusses edges and basic figures and analyzes a number of complex turns. The skater also demonstrates free skating.
Designed to be used with a marriage text. Emphasizes that marriage partners must complement each other and that traits of personality appear in moments of stress, and pictures a series of young pe...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Joseph G. Fucilla
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Pictures the Conti family during harvest time in Umbria. They harvest olives, sort them, and take them to the mill for extraction of the oil. On a trip to the market they see the monastery of St. ...
Shows daily tasks of a rural family of southern Spain. Depicts a trip by a boy and his father to a city market place; shows representative aspects of Spanish life; and emphasizes the activities of ...
Analyzes the elements of a good discussion; stresses the value of properly phrased questions that stimulate thought and lead to new avenues of discussion within the major question; and shows how di...
Explains the effects of lenses on light, and shows the construction and use of a lens. Pictures the types of images formed by convex and concave lenses when an object is placed at varying distances...
Shows how Sally can, in an emergency, prepare a hot meal quickly, using her mother's ready supply of canned and frozen foods. The narrator emphasizes the correct use of the proper utensils, the ti...
Tells the story of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who, as a team, led an expedition westward from the mouth of the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. Reveals the purpose for which their explo...
Pictures the wildlife in and near a New England stream from its source to the ocean. Includes spring flowers, fish, butterflies, turtles, toads, snakes, raccoons, red foxes, muskrats, and a variet...
Discusses the fact that man's material progress is now at a higher peak than ever before, but that his daily routine is often one of dissatisfaction. Although he wants peace, his world is spit int...
Follows the newspaper story of a little girl rescued by some Boy Scouts from the time the reporter learns of it until the completed paper is sold on the street. Explains the work of the staff memb...
Shows Inger and Halvard as they help their parents with the farm work. They and their mother bring the cattle down from the summer pasture in the mountains, they visit the village across the fiord...
Dramatizes the versatility of Oliver Wendell Holmes's successes, including his accomplishments in the field of medicine and his activities as a man of letters and lecturer. Portrays events related...
Shows the relation between the aftermath of war and the "pale horseman," epidemic disease. Discusses the plight of 100,000,000 displaced persons soon after World War II and the activities of UNRRA.
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, ...
Patterns of light reflected from variColored plastics dance and flicker, giving the impression of an abstract ballet. There is instrumental and vocal accompaniment. Made by Jim Davis, an American...
Features Eugene Kash, Canadian violinist, conducting a children's concert and instructing the children about percussion instruments. Shows the children clapping in time to the rhythm and pictures ...
A photographic survey of Rome: the Colosseum, St. Peter's Square, the art treasures of the Basilica of St. Peter, the fountains of the Villa d'Este and the Piazza Navona, the ruins of the Forum and...
Uses regular photography and animation to present the physical characteristics, the people, and the natural resources of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Follows the activities of two men--John Berges...
Studies inhabitants of the three kinds of seashores--the sandy beach, the rock pool, and the mud flat--beginning with the sea gull. Shows close-ups of sea weeds; then pictures in their natural hab...
