Start Over Date 1958

301. 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 ...

302. 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...

303. 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, an...

304. 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...

305. 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 functio...

306. 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 relati...

307. 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 produc...

308. 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 sco...

309. 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 ...

310. 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 firepla...

312. 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 centu...

313. 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 lesbi...

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

Date:
19XX
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 ...

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

Date:
19XX
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 ...

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

Date:
19XX
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...

320. 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 ...

321. What is America famous for? (29:56)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
The delegates discuss Britain's reaction to "the United States' humiliation in its satellite rivalry with the USSR" and what America is famous for in each of the representatives' countries.

322. Weighing air (14:29)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program Uncle Wonder uses a gram scale and weighs the air in a basketball. He also shows that air has weight by balancing two balloons, one at each end of a stick, and breaking one of them,...

326. [Hood] (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Hood Ice Cream
Summary:
An advertisement for Hood Lucky Lolly in which a boy eats the product, an ice cream bar with a lollipop in the middle, on the playground.

327. 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.

328. Knudsen ice cream : childhood (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a narrator describes the product in nostalgic terms over scenes of children playing.

331. Parliament "No Filter Feedback" (00:12)

Date:
1958 to 1965
Main contributors:
Parliament
Summary:
An advertisement for Parliament cigarettes in which a narrator describes the product's recessed filter and price. Submitted for Clio Awards category Tobacco Products and Supplies.

332. Toys in History (15:20)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash Kennett shows some of the things which fascinated children of other times, taking a trip to see some dolls, stereopticons, books and bicycles of early periods which grandfather may have enjoye...

333. 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.

334. 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. (...

335. Old home implements (15:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of changes which have taken place in home implements. Shows an early vacuum cleaner, phonograph, washing machine, butter churn, and candle mold.

336. Shearing time (15:17)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of sheep shearing. Explains the importance of wool. Discusses the wool raising business of today. Shows how sheep shearing is done.

337. Dairy Queen : teen idol (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Dairy Queen
Summary:
An advertisement for Dairy Queen ice cream in which a Monkees-esque teen idol runs from a group of fans and travels to the Dairy Queen and feels refreshed.

338. [Baskin-Robbins] (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Baskin-Robbins
Summary:
An advertisement for Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors ice cream in which a variety of animated characters try different flavors while a narrator describes the company's offerings.

339. America Looks Abroad: Brazil (29:01)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Discusses the political history of Brazil and her relations with the U.S. Considers Brazilian art, economic problems and potentialities, and the role of U.S. business in Brazil. A photo series pre...

341. Chemical Clock Reactions (29:51)

Date:
1958
Summary:
While most chemical reactions take place almost immediately, there are some which can be made to occur after a timed delay. These are the so-called clock reactions. By varying the temperature or co...

342. Carbon and Its Compounds (29:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to explain the properties of carbon and its compounds. Discusses the three natural forms of carbon: amorphous, graphite, and diamond. Demonstrates the properties of carb...

343. Crystals and Glass (29:51)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to explain properties of crystals and glass. Tell how crystals are formed and demonstrates crystallization taking place. Discusses glass, its formation, and how it dif...

344. Science and Non-Science (29:47)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains the difference between scientific and non-scientific endeavor. Examines various areas such as flying saucers, astrology, and weather predictions to point out how these problems are approac...

346. Winston "If it Isn't There It Hasn't Got it" (01:00)

Date:
1958 to 1965
Main contributors:
Winston
Summary:
An advertisement for Winston cigarettes in which a jingle plays over an animation describing the product's filter and taste. Submitted for Clio Awards category Tobacco Products and Supplies.

347. Shadows (15:04)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses demonstrations to explain shadows. Illustrates materials that cast shadows and others that do not. Shows how to make a sun clock. (WCET) Kinescope.

348. Nationalism : part II (29:46)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Continues the discussion of nationalism as a constructive force in world affairs. Teenagers from Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom present their views on colonialism and Western for...

349. What does the word 'American' mean to you? (29:54)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
The panelists discuss what the word "American," in reference to a citizen of the United States, means in different parts of the world. Race problems and prejudices as viewed in different parts of t...

350. Summary of three months in U.S.A (29:58)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenage delegates to the New York Herald Tribune Forum discuss their visit to America. Presents their views on what they have seen, learned, and experienced. 1958 (WOR-TV) Kinescope.