Start Over Date 1958 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

71. How do you know? Bird identification (29:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bird identification has escaped the laboratory stage in the past 20 years. Frequently the identification of living things down to the species, depends upon features not really observable. But nam...

72. 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...

73. Tea, Horse, and Crime (29:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the basic narcotic drugs and their relationship to crime. Includes a filmed sequence of an addict undergoing withdrawal and receiving a shot that assuages him. Points out that crime comm...

74. The Gas of Life (29:23)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains the importance of oxygen in sustaining life. Points out problems involved in developing a closed ecological system such as a sealed cabin in space. Presents the research being conducted wi...

75. 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...

76. Cultural Patterns of Marital Sanction (28:59)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
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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 ...

77. The hands of man : adventuring in pottery (30:13)

Date:
1958
Summary:
William Daley and Shari Lewis discuss the capacity of man’s hands and the way hands in many parts of the world today still remain the primary means by which useful and beautiful objects are created...

78. 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...

79. Impact of Personalitites (29:12)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray the formation of human personality in three societies. Demonstrates the authoritarian, cooperative, and dwarfed personality types. Poi...

80. 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...