Start Over Date 1957 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

401. Music as a language. Music and emotion (28:50)

Alternative title:
Music and emotion; Music as a language; Music as emotion
Date:
1957
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Summary:
Discusses ways in which composers can and have expressed or evoked emotion; demonstrates that rhythm, harmony, quality, and loudness are factors which may vary to help convey emotion, and stresses ...

402. People of a city (17:39)

Date:
1957
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Summary:
Interweaves sequences of events in the lives of several people to relate moments of beauty and tenderness of everyday life in the city of Stockholm. Captures the early morning tempo of the city, a...

403. The exceptional child. [The auditorially-handicapped child: the deaf] (29:08)

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Auditorially-handicapped chil...; Deaf; Exceptional child
Date:
1957
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Summary:
Examines the challenges faced by children who are deaf and defines deafness as the inability to hear speech. This episode presents film sequences, demonstrations, and interviews that illustrate tea...

404. What tones are (29:03)

Alternative title:
Psychology one
Date:
1957
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Summary:
Examines tones and noise as auditory stimuli. The episode compares the physical properties of sound with the psychological perceptions of pitch and loudness. It also describes the ear's sensitivity...

405. Writers of today. Frank O'Connor (28:39)

Alternative title:
Frank O'Connor
Date:
195X
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Summary:
Walter Kerr, drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune, interviews noted Irish author Frank O'Connor. Mr. O'Connor contrasts the novel and the short story in relation to characterization, plot, ...

406. Yesterday's worlds. [More honorable than gold] (29:12)

Alternative title:
More honorable than gold; Yesterday's worlds
Date:
1957
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Summary:
This episode focuses on the art of the Etruscans, renowned for their skill in terra-cotta sculpture, particularly in creating larger-than-life figures. It highlights a display of such sculptures, i...

407. Shell "We're Trying to Make Things Better" (01:02)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Shell
Summary:
An advertisement for Shell Oil in which a researcher stands in a body of water and demonstrates some of the company's methods for oil spill containment and clean-up. The researcher and an offscreen...

409. 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...

410. 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.

412. 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 ...

414. Dolls of many lands (09:27)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
Winnie Mae Crawford; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
Uses prize-winning dolls from an international fair in Italy to depict an imaginary jaunt around the world from one national doll exhibit to another. Backgrounds representing native environment of ...

415. The brave tailor (15:07)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
WKNO-TV; The Junior League of Memphis; Tom Tichenor
Summary:
Marionettes reveal the story of a Young Tailor who buys jam for one slice of bread which attracts seven hungry flies. The tailor kills all seven flies with one blow, decides he is very brave, and g...