301. Riverboats and Keelboats (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Early use of rivers is described, form the Indian canoe of hollowed log to the flatboats and keelboats of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Bash tells of the importance of water transportation, of families building flatboats and traveling down the currents with even their cows and chickens aboard, and she shows the ways the keelboats were propelled upstream by sweeps and by men with tow ropes walking along the banks. Cargoes of wheat, corn, animal skins and log rafts are related in their importance to the lives of the people. Songs include “Sewanee River,” “Shenandoah,” and “Old Woman.”

302. 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.

303. Inclined plane (14:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This program deals with the inclined plane and Uncle Wonder uses this to get the plants from the greenhouse floor to the table top. Through art-work and demonstrations he discusses the principle that while the inclined plane makes us go farther, it makes our work much easier.

304. Echoes and Ears (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses Demonstrations to explain echoes and how the ear functions. Tells how sound can bounce to produce an echo. Stresses ear care. Discusses how and why animals ears are shaped as they are. Shows how to make a harp out of rubber bands. (WCET) Kinescope.

305. 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.

306. Water pressure (14:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This program deals with water pressure. Uncle Wonder shows the various experiments that water has weight and that water exerts pressure in all directions. He shows why there is more water pressure at the bottom of the lake or can of water than anywhere else. He also explains that dams are thicker at the bottom than at the top because they must hold back more pressure at the bottom.

307. 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 liquid air on lead and mercury. Demonstrates that liquid air is a rich source of oxygen. (KQED) Film.

308. Chemical Reactions (29:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Changes in nature are classed as either physical or chemical changes. Examples of both types of changes are shown. Simple chemical reactions such as the burning of magnesium and phosphorous are demonstrated. Other, more complicated reactions include those of the decomposition and double displacement type.

309. Catalysts: Secret Agents in Chemistry (29:27)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to illustrate the action of catalysts. Demonstrates with the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, solution of zinc in hydrochloric acid, and the burning of a sugar cube. Points out the commercial uses of catalysts. (KQED) Film.

310. Oxygen (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to illustrate the properties of oxygen. Tells how oxygen was discovered and how it was named. Presents demonstrations of oxidation. Shows how oxygen is obtained from water by electrolysis. (KQED) Film.

311. Polymers and Plastics (30:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to explain the process of polymerization: the formation of compounds in which chains of carbon atoms are linked together. Demonstrates the process with the making of polyethylene, bakelite, foam rubber, and rayon. Presents examples of polymers which occur naturally. (KQED) Film.

312. Household Chemistry (30:19)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses Laboratory experiments to illustrate simple principles of chemistry used in the home. Defines and explains the difference between soap and detergent. Shows their role in cleaning. Demonstrates the softening of water, the effect of alkaline chemicals on cloth, and the cleaning of tarnished silver. (KQED) Film.

313. 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 iodine from water. (KQED) Film.

314. Atoms and molecules (29:34)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to illustrate the size of atoms and molecules. Demonstrates the smallness of these particles by means of oil film on water and the passage of hydrogen through a clay cup. Shows models to point out the arrangement of atoms in forming molecules. Defines and explains molecular action.

315. Organic Chemistry (29:47)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to survey the field of organic chemistry. Tells why a whole field study is devoted to carbon and its compounds. Shows how carbon compounds differ from other compounds. Demonstrates properties of various compounds. (KQED) Film.

316. Tom Savage-Boy of Early Virginia (21:48)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Ph.D., Milan Herzog, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Summary:
Dramatizes the story of a boy who came to Virginia as an indentured servant of the Virginia Company and was given to the Indians as a token of friendship by the Jamestown settlers. Depicts the boy's new life among the Indians and his learning of their town in its early growth.

318. 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 of a plant; and illustrates the functions of green leaves, and the changes that take place during the different seasons.

319. Puss in boots (16:42)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Grace Storm, University of Illinois, James Sage, Paul Diehl, Herman Diehl, Ferdinand Diehl
Summary:
Uses narration and animated puppets to present Charles Perrault's fairy tale, The Master's Cat, Puss in Boots. Shows how an ingenious cat contrives to win for his master a title, a fortune, and the hand of a beautiful princess in marriage.

320. Canada : the Atlantic provinces (second edition) (16:10)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Mason Wade, Director, Canadian Studies Program, University of Rochester, J. Lewis Robinson, Ph.D. University of British Columbia, Hal Kopel
Summary:
An overview of the Provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. Emphasizes the growing industrialization of the region, including the development of iron ore deposits, steel production, and mining of gypsum; describes the continuing importance of fishing, logging, and agriculture.

321. Science and Whole Numbers (30:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains the role of whole numbers in understanding the organization of the physical universe. Uses non-mathematical props, such as rock crystals, to point up the arithmetic nature of basic discoveries in science. Tells how whole numbers limit the knowable universe around us. Features Dr. Philippe LeCorbeiller, Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

322. Research in Depth (30:03)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses charts, pictures, and specimens to explain how the geologist discovers what lies beneath the earth's surface. Shows how earthquakes provide information about the interior construction of the earth. Tells how examination of effects at the surface of the earth provides a picture of what lies below. Demonstrates and discusses the instruments used to provide knowledge upon which the geologist can theorize. Features Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, Harvard University. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

323. 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 iodine. Demonstrates the cobalt machine at the Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.

324. The Power Station and the Public (29:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the history and development of the first commercial atomic power station at Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Explains its inception, selection of the site, how it was built, and its contribution to future power stations, Compares the advantages, disadvantages and potential of a nuclear power plant and a regular public power station.

325. 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 conception of catalytic reactions has changed through the years. Features how man's conception of catalytic reactions has changed through the years. Features Dr. Leonard K. Nash, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

326. Tonal Contrast (29:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains contrast as opposed to repetition or variation. Defines tonal contrast as modulation or change of tonality and harmonic contrast, or the off-setting of plain harmony by color-harmony. Illustrates with a selection from a Bach cantata. (WMSB-TV) Kinescope.

328. Being Lucky: Vignettes on Indiana at turn of century and Jamestown (47:45)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after World War II, and to his research and teaching and professional activities as a member of the faculty of Indiana University.

330. When Boys Encounter Puberty (29:30)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray male adolescent rituals as a means of passing boys to manhood. Emphasizes the differences in methods of promotion and resulting personality types. Compares Americans, the pokot of Kenya, and the Nupe of Northern Nigeria. (KUHT) Film.

331. Doctors all (29:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray reactions to human illness. Emphasizes detection, treatment, and acceptance of treatment methods of illness. Compares Americans, the Ojibwa Indians of Canada, and the Djuka Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana. (KUHT) Film.

332. When girls encounter puberty (28:47)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray female adolescent rituals as a means of passing girls to womanhood. Points out how the passage from childhood to womanhood is made and the type of womanhood that emerges. Compares the rituals of Americans, Apache Indians, and the Andaman Islanders. (KUHT) Film.

333. Cultural Patterns of Infant Regulations (29:28)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses dance routines and originally scored music to demonstrate cultural differences in early training of infants. Compares families of southern urban Negroes, the Manus of the Admiralty Islands, and the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona. Describes group objectives of early training, its impact upon the child's personality, and the end result of childhood training.

334. 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 blocking the beam. In other words, the light beam itself is invisible. Beginning with a similar demonstration, Edwin C. Kemble shows the difficulty science has had in providing a wholly satisfactory theory of light. He uses a stroboscopically lighted tank to illustrate wave theory and high-voltage discharges to suggest the violence necessary to generate radiant energy with short wavelengths. The violent damage done by X-rays, gamma rays and ultra violet radiation leads Kemble to the corpuscular explanation of light. By an examination of cloud-chamber photographs, visibly recording action in the unseen world of atomic particles, Kemble reconciles the two theories. The yield of this revolutionary work is dramatic: no less than the discovery of a universal property of all forms of existence.

335. Retreat from reality (29:39)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Continues the discussion of hypnosis from the preceding program, "HYPNOSIS." Explains hypnotism as an interpersonal reaction between the hypnotist and the subject. Points out how hypnotism functions in relation to sensitivity, anesthesia, action, rigidity, amnesia, hypermnesia, contradiction, and post-hypnotic suggestion. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

336. How the eye sees space (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Presents optical illusions and demonstrations to show how people see what they see. Discusses the effect of projection, relativity, association, and optical illusions in seeing. Explains the relationship of the eyes to the brain in organizing experience.

337. How people differ from one another (29:06)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Demonstrates that intelligence is the most significant criterion of differences between people. Points out how I.Q. varies with socio-economic status and education. Cites research on man's productivity. Describes the relationship of personality to body-build. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

338. Group Concepts of Human Birth (29:23)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Compares the reactions of Americans, the Manus of the Admiralty Islands, and the Kiriwina if the Trobriand Islands when exposed to the crisis of human birth. Uses dance routines and originally scored music to portray cultural differences in the selection of the birth place, the reactions of husband and wife, and the way a child is delivered. (KUHT) Film.

339. Cultural patterns of marital sanction (28:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray differences in marriage rituals of three societies. Emphasizes the basic motive behind the selection of marriage partners, the rituals that join them, and the values that guide their relationships. Compares Americans, the Bantu of Africa, and the Muria of India.

340. Pure Science and Applied Science (29:28)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains how an understanding of pure science can lead to applied science. Demonstrates this relationship by reviewing a theory of heath and how it led to a number of inventions: smokeless fireplaces, new types of stoves, pressure cookers, and drip-style coffee pots. Features Dr. Sanborn C. Brown, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

342. Polyphony (29:27)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses imitative polyphony as a basic principle of musical structure. Illustrates two types of composition which use imitative polyphony as the structural principle, namely, the sixteenth century motet and the fugue as heard in Handel's Messiah. (WMSB-TV) Kinescope.

343. Statement in Defense of the Goddess lecture (1:34:38)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Gloria Kaufman lectures on goddess worship. Date and location unknown. Kaufman's lecture begins two minutes into first side, following a fragment of a lecture by Madeline Pabis on the fear of lesbianism.

344. Hoosier Realty, Fame Laundries, the Academic community & intelligent atmosphere (47:51)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after World War II, and to his research and teaching and professional activities as a member of the faculty of Indiana University.

345. Letters; Wells' Resignation as President (1:35:44)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after World War II, and to his research and teaching and professional activities as a member of the faculty of Indiana University.

346. Being Lucky: Conversations with Wells and Collins Parts III and IV (1:04:05)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after World War II, and to his research and teaching and professional activities as a member of the faculty of Indiana University.

347. K-9, untitled, undated (1:35:49)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after World War II, and to his research and teaching and professional activities as a member of the faculty of Indiana University.

348. Illinois Department of Public Health "End Measles" (01:06)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Illinois Department of Public Health
Summary:
A public service announcement for the Illinois Department of Public Health in which a mother in the "old days" drags her son to a quarantined measles home so that he can catch the virus and "get it over with." An offscreen male narrator describes how the measles vaccination makes such practices unnecessary, and the boy is shown receiving his vaccine at a doctor's office. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

349. The Wilderness Society "Free Booklet 'The American Wilderness'" (01:02)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
The Wilderness Society
Summary:
A public service announcement from the Wilderness Society in which a scene of forest wildlife is overlaid with audio of developers clearing trees. An offscreen male narrator reminds the viewer that "man does not live by development alone," while onscreen text provides information on how to order a free booklet on "the American wilderness." Submitted for the Clio Awards.

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

Date:
19uu
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 Probe to learn more. White screens accompanied by a noisy siren bookend the text scroll. Submitted for the Clio Awards.