Start Over Date 1958 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

201. Combustion & Combustion Products (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate the process of combustion and the by-products produced. Explains how combustion depends on fuel, air, and heat. Illustrates combustion with liquid and s...

202. Freezing, Melting, Boiling (29:30)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments with water to illustrate that all matter exists in three states: solid,liquid, and gas. Discusses distillation and condensation. Shows the power of frozen water when it ...

203. Evaporation and humidity (29:35)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Evaporation is shown to be a cooling process. The degree of evaporation of water illustrates humidity. Evaporation of water and other liquids is shown. Alcohol and acetone evaporate more readily th...

204. The Atmosphere Around Us (29:24)

Date:
1958
Summary:
We live at the bottom of a tremendous sea of air (the atmosphere) much as fish live in the ocean. This sea of air exerts a pressure upon us. A barometer is shown and its use illustrated in measurin...

205. Reactor types (29:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates different types of nuclear reactors. Explains the fission process and how it is used and controlled in a reactor. Illustrates three basic reactor types and points out the...

209. [Lawson's] (01:02)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Lawson's
Summary:
An advertisement for Lawson's Butter Pecan ice cream in which a narrator tells a man that he should do one remarkable thing each day and eat the product.

210. Lucky Strike "Get Lucky Taste to Start Taste to Stay With" (00:59)

Date:
1958 to 1965
Main contributors:
Lucky Strike
Summary:
An advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes in which a radio DJ smokes the product while describing it to listeners and then plays a jingle. Submitted for Clio Awards category Tobacco Products and...

211. The fraternity idea (22:31)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Pictures fraternity activities before, during, and after pledging. Emphasizes the pleasures and responsibilities of fraternity life and points out how all fraternities on a college campus cooperate...

212. Are Atoms Real? (28:46)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Discusses the reality of atoms and their importance in understanding the physical universe. Uses animation to explain what happens to atoms during thermal agitation. Demonstrates the audible realit...

213. Dairy Queen : family road trip (01:02)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Dairy Queen
Summary:
An advertisement for Dairy Queen ice cream in which a family takes a road trip and the parents forget their son at the Dairy Queen, and they travel back to find him enjoying a sundae.

214. Knudsen ice cream : it tastes hand packed (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a boy runs to the grocery store to buy the product quickly, and shows the carton to a line of people waiting for ice cream from a specialty parlor.

215. Dairy Queen : mailman (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Dairy Queen
Summary:
An advertisement for Dairy Queen ice cream in which a mailman takes a break to eat a banana split and laughs as a dog tries to perform tricks in order to eat some of the ice cream.

216. Harvest of Trees (14:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a film trip to a forest, in company with a forest ranger, who shows her how the Forest Service raises trees, even the biggest evergreens, as a crop. The methods of selecting them for har...

217. Routes to Gold (15:26)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash describes the three ways there were to get to California when the nation was excited about the gold found there, 1848-49. The use of the covered wagon, and “Prairie Schooner” is described, inc...

218. 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...

219. Costumes of Our Country (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
How the clothes of people living in this country have changed is shown by Bash, in pictures and in living pictorial groups. From the early Spanish peaked helmet and bloomers, through the Cavaliers,...

220. Games (15:41)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells why more games are played in the United States than any other country in the world. She says this is because immigrants brought the games of their native lands with them when they migrat...

221. The Puritans (15:13)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash begins with the story of the Puritans living in Holland, and their sorrow that their children are not growing up to speak English nor learning English customs. She tells of the elders’ trip to...

222. The Story of Leather (14:50)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program Bash describes how the Indians in our country learned to tan the hides of deer and buffalo into soft wearable skins, and how, later, the white settlers adapted their methods, using ...

223. Camel [unknown title] (00:15)

Date:
1958 to 1965
Main contributors:
Camel
Summary:
An advertisement for Camel cigarettes in which an animated man's head is shown to be frowning before smoking Camels and then smiling after smoking them. Submitted for Clio Awards category Tobacco P...

224. Knudsen ice cream : ice cream parlor (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a man waits in a long line at a specialty ice cream parlor, and a narrator says that Knudsen has the same taste and added convenience of being availa...

225. Canals (14:57)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash describes the workings of a canal and shows how it is possible to make a ship “go upstairs” from one water level to another. The reasons for digging canals are discussed along with the importa...

226. [Hood] (01:02)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Hood Ice Cream
Summary:
An advertisement for Hood Ice Cream in which a narrator describes the product over scenes of fruits and other ingredients being prepared for processing.

227. The History of a Bicycle (14:56)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of the bicycle as a means of transportation. Demonstrates various early models. Includes the songs "The Old Gray Mare" and "Lonesome Road Blues"/"Going Down the Road Feeling Bad".

228. Southwest 'Hope-Out' Customs (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of the custom of helping out in the Southwest. Explains how people worked together in building their homes, harvesting crops, and promoting social activities. Discusses the cultivat...

229. A settler's day (14:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash compares the chores children have today with those children had a few generations ago as members of a pioneer family. She describes a typical day and tells of the work the family members do an...

230. The Life of A Tree (14:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a film trip to the high mountains and shows the life of trees in the forest. She traces the progression of a seed packed tightly in a cone throughout the growth of a young tree strugglin...

231. Stagecoaches (14:31)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of traveling by stagecoach. Explains how stagecoaches were made and used. Uses 19th century pictures and illustrations of early stages and discusses the dangers encountered during t...

232. The Story of Rope (15:30)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Girls have skipping ropes, and boys use ropes to swing on, but they seldom know the story of the importance of rope, says Bash in this program. Bash takes children through the story from the early ...

233. Covered Bridges (14:52)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells the romance crossing streams and takes a film trip to see some historic covered bridges which are still in use. Covered bridges had many unusual features including the special toll charg...

234. Fish of the Sea (14:42)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells of fishing in New England, where the fishermen fished close to the shore at first and then went all the way to the Grand Banks in their small craft. Examples of the ways in which various...

235. Camping (15:04)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Most children have been off on a trip with their families and this time Bash takes them on a camping trip where, on film, the sleep on the ground, hike in the mountains and fish in trout streams. T...

236. 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...

237. Clocks and time (15:06)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells us that there were no clocks or watches aboard the Mayflower and that the watch was invented after the first settlers in America had landed. The history of mechanical methods to tell tim...

238. Statistical evidence (29:29)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand illustrates the "laws of chance" or "probability." Discusses fallacies of what is "normal" and "abnormal." Points out the variability of human beings by discussing the "average ...

239. Sociology of molecules (29:35)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the forces that differentiate species of molecules. Reviews briefly the structure and nature of atoms and molecules. Illustrates different factor affecting the solubil...

240. 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...

241. The laws of men and of nature (29:33)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the laws of men and nature. Provides examples of conservation of mass and energy. Explains the gas laws and how gases behave. Defines "principles" and "rules" and ho...

242. 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...

243. Scientific forecasting (29:40)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the importance of scientific forecasting. Compares forecasting through astrology, palmistry, "Laws of average," and the "business cycle" with the scientific methods o...

244. Quiz program--summary (29:33)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand reviews the important concepts of the preceding programs through questions and answers. Touches briefly on such concepts as the "law of survival," "law of averages," intelligen...

245. Sunday in the South (14:53)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The importance of Sunday customs in the southern part of the country is described. The activities of the week, the tilling of the fields, the house chores, the sewing and gardening all came to a cl...

246. Early-Day Cowboys (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The program begins with the days following the Civil War, when men first drove cattle westward to the range lands of the southwest, where only the buffalo had grazed before. The importance of meat ...

247. Railroads (14:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
After looking at the first railroad engine, the Tom Thumb, and the De Witt Clinton, and seeing an engine in a race with a horse, wherein the horse won, Bash climbs aboard a real engine of the early...

248. 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 f...

249. 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.

250. 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 th...

251. 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...

252. 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.

253. 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 ...

254. 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...

255. 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 dem...

256. 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. ...

257. 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 wa...

258. 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 pol...

259. 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. Demonstra...

260. 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...

261. 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...

262. 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. ...

263. 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'...

265. 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...

266. Puss in boots (16:42)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Grace Storm, University of Illinois; James Sage
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...

267. 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
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 dep...

268. 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 discov...

269. 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 ...

270. 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...

271. 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 contributi...

272. 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...

273. 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. Ill...

276. 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 persona...

277. 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 ...

278. 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...

279. 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...

280. 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...

281. 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...

282. 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...

283. 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...

284. 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...

285. 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 ...

286. 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...

288. 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...

289. 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...

291. 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 ...

292. 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.

293. 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,...

297. [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.

298. 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.

299. 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.