Start Over Date 1958

301. India: The Land and the People (10:52)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Surveys the geography and people of India. Includes the topography; the effects of the monsoon winds and the other climatic factors; India's ancient cultural heritage; the village life and primitiv...

302. Indianapolis attacks its slums (51:37)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Contains aerial photography, animation, and charts to show methods used by Indianapolis to effect slum clearance. Pictures city officials as they cite the need for rebuilding slum areas and tells o...

303. Indianapolis attacks its slums (28:43)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Contains aerial photography, animation, and charts to show methods used by Indianapolis to effect slum clearance. Pictures city officials as they cite the need for rebuilding slum areas and tells o...

304. Indianapolis attacks its slums (2:55:53)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Contains aerial photography, animation, and charts to show methods used by Indianapolis to effect slum clearance. Pictures city officials as they cite the need for rebuilding slum areas and tells o...

305. Industry (29:25)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses practical applications of nuclear energy in industry. Stresses the use of radioactivity in determining the age of the solar system, the age of an ancient site in Texas, and in solving the...

306. Industry Uses Chemistry (29:24)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to illustrate the application of chemistry for industrial purposes. Explains the electric arc process, flotation, smoke elimination, electroplating, and the recovery of...

307. Insects (14:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash shows how the boll weevil bores into the cotton plant and destroys it, and sings the folk song about the boll weevil. She describes the various activities of spiders, including spider ballooni...

308. Interpreting the evidence (29:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand explains why natural "laws" tell how things may be expected to act. Provides examples using the gas laws. Uses a film sequence of molecular action. Tells how explanations of n...

309. Introduction (29:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Introduces the subject of Japanese Brush Painting. Explains the use of the brush painting materials. Discusses the Japanese approach to art. Artist-host T. Mikami paints samples of the subjects t...

310. Introduction (29:46)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Outlines the scope of this series of programs and defines the nature and function of passing notes in music. Compares music in architecture. Outlines the formal or structural principals in music. (...

311. Introduction (30:17)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this episode, Dr. Smith, Jr., provides an introduction to the Language and Linguistics series. He discusses the importance of language and points out common misconceptions concerning language. D...

312. Introduction (29:30)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, Dr. Jones introduces the series by illustrating that the topics of discussion are “unessential” in precisely the way that passing notes in a melody would be unessential to the whol...

313. IQ and Crime (1:00:31)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Virtually all criminal behavior has its roots deep in psychological disorder. This program is the first of several devoted to the psychic problems and their relationship to criminality. Dr. Kelley ...

314. It's Fun to Play Outdoors (15:30)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Skip would like to play outdoors, but he doesn’t know how to get started. Brushy encourages him to play and he and Skip have fun together outdoors.

315. Jack Rabbit and the beanstalk (15:20)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This is Tom Tichenor’s new version of Jack and the Beanstalk. Animal marionettes tell the story. Jack Rabbit sells his cow for magic beans. His mother throws them out the window and a giant beansta...

316. Jill of All Trades (15:04)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Fignewton Frog (puppet) and Dora (person) tell a story about Jill the bee who worries about her busy work schedule. Broadly explains the variety of work bees perform including caring for larvae, gu...

317. Journeys on wing : bird migration (29:25)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses how and why birds migrate. Shows ways in which the movements of birds is studied. Describes and illustrates the use of the mist net in capturing birds for banding. Outlines the results...

318. Jump, Freddy, Jump (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
A frog's tongue is fastened to the front of his mouth. A frog can catch flies while jumping. Frogs eat flies. Dora and Fignewton use the felt-board technique to tell the story of Freddy Frog who fo...

319. Katy Loses Her Coat (15:07)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Host Dora uses a series of felt-board illustrations to explain to her puppet friend Fignewton Frog the lifecycle of a catepillar named Katy.

320. Kinetic Energy (15:13)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses experiments to explain the principle of kinetic energy. Shows how springs have stored energy that do work for us. Illustrates with a jack-in-the-box, bow and arrow, clocks, screen door, and wi...

321. Landscape (29:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Illustrates the Japanese techniques of painting a landscape. Demonstrates by painting the Half Dome and Cathedral Spire in Yosemite National Park. Reviews subjects from entire series. (KQED) Kines...

322. Language and meaning (30:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this episode, Dr. Smith, Jr., investigates various modes of communication. He explains paralanguage (tone of voice) and kinetics (body motion). He shows how linguistic science can be applied to ...

323. Language and Writing (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this episode, Dr. Smith, Jr., provides a definition of language and discusses the logic of language. He explains misconceptions about language and writing, and points out that language symboliz...

324. Large Effects of Small Causes (30:22)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to explain catalytic actions. Demonstrates principles which govern catalysis. Explains the difference between organic and inorganic catalysis. Tells how man's concepti...

325. Learning about leaves (11:27)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Walter A. Thurber, Ph.D., Cortland State Teachers College; William M. Harlow, Ph.D.
Summary:
With time-lapse photography, animation, and close-ups, explains how leaves are important to plants, animals, and man; compares different kinds of leaves; shows how leaves are related to other parts...

326. Leathercraft and summing up (30:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Conant and Shari Lewis gives a summary of the series, pointing out that man’s hands are the greatest tool of creative activity, that they have served to fulfill his basic needs and that these n...

327. Left Hands, Red Hair, and Crime (29:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes the folklore connected with crime. Uses vignettes to show the absurdity of such superstitions as handedness, hair coloring, scars, blemishes, deformities, and glandular problems as causes...

328. Levers (15:07)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses demonstrations to explain how levers work. Illustrates with a seesaw, hammer, and screw driver. Shows how levers make the lifting of heavy objects easier. (WCET) Kinescope.

329. Life Aboard a Clipper Ship (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of sailing vessels and life aboard a clipper ship. Describes the various jobs performed by the sailors. Discusses the types of cargoes carried on trips to all parts of the world. (...

330. Life in a Gold Rush Town (14:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of the deserted city of Columbia, California, one of the key Gold Rush towns in the 1850's. Describes the life and profession of people who went there seeking gold. Shows the old bu...

331. Life's building blocks (29:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses slides, the microscope, and graphic illustrations to explain plant and animal cells. Discusses the basic content and structure of cells. Shows how cells differentiate and function as members ...

332. Light (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses demonstrations to explain principles of light. Shows why there is daylight and darkness. Discusses speed and reflection of light. (WCET) Kinescope.

333. Light: Waves or Bullets (29:41)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Watch a searchlight as it pierces heavy night clouds. Notice that you don’t see the beam of light, merely where it comes from: the face of the searchlight, reflections from the clouds or duct block...

334. Lightning and electricity (15:02)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains lighting and its characteristics. Tells why lightning is first seen then followed by thunder. Demonstrates how lightning produces sound waves. (WCET) Kinescope.

335. Linguistics Science and the Teaching of Reading (30:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this episode, Dr. Smith, Jr., discusses the use of the linguistic approach as a means of improving reading ability. Analyzes the deficiencies and strong points of the phonics and word methods of...

336. Liquid Air: Physical and Chemical Properties (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Continues the discussion of liquid air by explaining its physical and chemical properties. Points out the density and boiling point of the components of liquid air. Illustrates the effect of liqu...

337. Little red riding hood (14:33)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Hand puppets make this a lively story for the children. Tom Tichenor has written a new version with the violence deleted. Little Red Riding Hood is a cute little bunny, and when she goes through th...

338. Lobsters and crab (29:41)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Teaches how to draw lobsters and crabs. Draws a special crab called a "Heike" which is found only in Japan. Tells a legend about how this unusual crustacean came into being. (KQED) Kinescope.

339. Major and Minor Tonalities (29:35)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tonality, the relationship of tones and chords to the keynotes, is further explored in this program. The mood or musical character as it has been affected by major and minor tonalities in western m...

340. Maps and territories (28:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the power and limitations of symbols, especially words. Describes the significance of the communications network in which humans live. Defines words as "maps" giving directions to "territ...

341. Masks and imagination (30:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Perhaps the original need for masks was for man to be able to disengage himself from his everyday life. He used them to symbolize that he was not “himself.” He was another being, human or superhu...

342. Matter (29:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates matter in its various states: solid, liquid, and gas. Shows how matter is broken up into its smallest components. Explains how energy is obtained from matter. Defines the...

343. Maximum vs. minimum security in prisons (29:35)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman describes maximum security as the single most important characteristic of the American prison. He relates the consequences of excess security on inma...

344. Medicine and Nuclear Energy (29:34)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the medical use of the isotope in understanding the chemistry of the body. Explores the advances in medicine made possible through nuclear energy. Explains radioisotopes and radioactive i...

345. Microorganisms : harmful activities (47:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Lists the postulates developed and used by Robert Koch to prove that a specific disease is caused by a specific microorganism. Presents some of the methods developed for protection against disease ...

348. Mission days (15:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of mission development in California. Describes voyages made by missionaries from Mexico. Explains life in the mission community.

349. Models, molecules and mathematics (29:42)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand explains how the results of observation and experiment can be illustrated with models. Demonstrates with models of crystal and molecules. Tells how models help in understandin...

350. Motivic and Thematic Variation (29:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tonal and rhythmic change of character develop from the manipulation of the basic “kernel” of motivation. Dr. Jones also analyzes the simple ternary form from Beethoven to illustrate thematic varia...