Start Over Date 1951 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

81. Demonstrations in perception (25:29)

Date:
1951
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Presents demonstrations developed by the Institute for Associated Research and used at Princeton University for research in perception, including apparatus designed to illustrate perceptual phenome...

82. Designing a set (10:10)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Describes each step in planning and designing a stage set. Shows how the realization of the set emerges from rough sketches and a scaled model.

83. Directing a play (11:21)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Introduces problems which arise in the presentation of a play and shows how the director solves them.

85. Duck and cover (09:42)

Date:
1951
Main contributors:
Safety Commission, National Education Association; Federal Civil Defense Administration; Archer Productions Incorporated
Summary:
Through animation, focuses on the steps to be taken for maximum safety in the street or in school in the event of an enemy attack by atomic or other weapons.

88. Eli Whitney (17:59)

Date:
1951
Main contributors:
Emerson Film Corporation; Harold F. Williamson, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Summary:
Dramatizes the life story of Eli Whitney, relating incidents which reveal his faith in his ideas. Portrays his development of the cotton gin, which boomed the economy of the South. Also describes...

90. Family portrait (25:02)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Documents some of the characteristics of Britain from which the Festival of Britain drew its inspiration. Presents a kaleidoscopic view of Britain and her people, emphasizing how the deeply rooted...

96. Foremost : big dip (01:02)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Foremost
Summary:
An advertisement for Big Dip "ice milk" in which an animated man tells an ice cream scoop about the product and the scoop creates a sculpture of the Eifel Tower out of the ice milk.

98. Fox and the rooster (10:56)

Date:
1951
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.; Grace Storm
Summary:
Presents an adaptation of one of Aesop's fables, using real animals in all the roles. Tells of a fox's attempt to persuade a rooster to come off his roost so that the fox can eat him. Through the ...

100. From Renoir to Picasso (31:26)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Presents several artists' works in the schools of sensualism, intellectualism, and emotionalism and describes the characteristics of Renoir's, Seurat's, and Picasso's styles of painting as represen...