Start Over Date 1958 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

501. 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...

502. Where is the meaning? (28:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains where the true meaning of words is found. Points out that meaning is in the nervous system of the speaker and listener, not in the words themselves. Discusses four basic conditions of me...

503. Who pays the bill? (29:31)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses a family discussion and a series of cartoons to explain who pays for price supports under the different kinds of programs. Explains the impact of alternative programs. (Agrafilms, Inc.) Film.

504. Who runs the prisons? (29:16)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman sketches the relationship of prison administration to the inmate community and the ways in which the inmates’ group influences the administration. An...

505. Why Johnny reads junk (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Maria Piers names some of the reasons children should read. She explores what books are best for different age groups and delves into reasons children do not read..

509. Woodcarving and artistic expression (30:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
There is in the heart of every man the desire to express himself through the creation of something beautiful, says Shari Lewis. Whatever the motivation for making the object, the result is, in man...

510. Would you rather be an American? (29:56)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenagers from Greece, Malaya, Egypt, and Thailand tell why they prefer not to be Americans. Discusses relations between children and parents. Presents first impressions and reactions to life in t...

511. Yankee trader abroad (29:27)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes and compares the extent and variety of American business with other countries. Appraises the importance of imports to the American economy and of our exports to the economies of other co...

512. You cannot know the unknowable (29:49)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the limits of predictability. Illustrates the nature of what is knowable and unknowable with the use of a swinging compound pendulum and an explanation of various prop...

513. Springtime in Europe (12:57)

Date:
1957 to 1964
Main contributors:
Bernadine Bailey
Summary:
Home movie documenting multiple trips Bailey took to Europe between 1957 and 1964. Highlights include pastoral scenes and medieval architecture in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany ; Bailey boardin...

514. Summer in Scandinavia | Springtime in Europe (1:17:38)

Date:
1957 to 1964
Summary:
Summer in Scandinavia This film contains graphic footage that some viewers may find distressing. Home movie documenting Bailey's trip to Scandinavia, circa 1964. Features street scenes of major ci...

515. [Donald Bixler collection reel 5] (18:29)

Date:
1957 to 1960
Summary:
Begins with two older couples (realtives?) posing with Nelle and Lynn ; Bixler family visits Parrot Jungle in Miami where exotic birds perform. Lynn playing on the swing set in the Bixler backyard...

516. [Donald Bixler collection reel 2] (30:46)

Date:
1956 to 1960
Summary:
Shows various construction projects built by H.D. Tousley Co. and footage of men working. Includes Belmont Sewer, Lick Creek Sewer, Wildcat Creek Dam.