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Clifford J. Kamen; Sydney N. Fisher, Ph.D. Ohio State University; Larry Yust
Summary:
Reviews the Greek and Roman periods of influence, the Moslem invasion, the growth and development under Attaturk, and the present struggle toward progress. Shows the geographical and strategic impo...
Presents several Southerners who advocate viewpoints and actions which are at variance with extremists on both sides of the civil rights issue. Interviews Governor Carl E. Sanders of Georgia; R. E....
The 91st Day is the story of a high school teacher, Loren Benson, who falls victim to a delusion that disrupts his life. Taken to a distant state hospital, he clings to his delusion despite an inte...
Reveals a candid portrait of Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man. Presents Ellison discussing the function of the writer in society, how he came to write The Invisible Man; his own involveme...
Explores motivation research that investigates the human need for achievement. Dr. David McClelland of Harvard University demonstrates tests designed to verify his theory that a nation's economic g...
During this hour-long program, NET continues its examination of the civil rights issue by presenting two separately produced half-hour segments which probe the attitudes of white southerners whose ...
Reviews Eric Hoffer's views on man as a truly free being. Describes check of absolute power and struggle away from the animal in man as prerequisites to freedom. Reveals play as one of the best ti...
Reveals the intense feeling for the weak individual and the place in society which Eric Hoffer has achieved. Describes working as source of power for these people. Focuses on Hoffer's systematized...
Explores questions of social change and whether society should be structured to provide equal benefits to its members. The episode follows the story of a successful corporate chairman who, while pr...
Eric Hoffer speaks with James Day about his personal history, including the loss of his family, his struggle with blindness and eventual recovery, and the hardships of hunger, loneliness, and unsta...
Presents, in fable form, the philosophical question of free will versus determinism. The mannequins in a store window come to life and threaten the window dresser. Cartoon figures--symbolizing man-...
This program explores the man-machine relationship through the research of Paul Fitts, Julian Christiansen, and George Briggs. It examines how humans handle and process information, as well as the ...
Examines how psychologists are creating new testing methods to measure and enhance human abilities. Dr. Lloyd Humphreys of the University of Illinois demonstrates how tests were developed to select...
Examines how the brain's electrical activity provides insights into human behavior. The episode explores the mechanisms within the brain that influence and control behavioral responses. Featured re...
Presents some of the ways in which psychologists are studying the growth and development of personality and emotional behavior in children as observed in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Sears at Stanf...
Studies some of the ways in which man is influenced and changes by society. Dr. Stanley Schachter demonstrates the effect of group pressure to conform; Dr. Leon Festinger shows the consequences of ...
Records highlights of the emergence of democratic government in Venezuela. Shows that the Venezuelan election of December 2 1963, allowed for the first transfer of office from one democratic admini...
William C. “Bill” Smith of Oregon Educational Broadcasting, who hosts and narrates this group of programs, takes youngsters on a day’s jaunt to an Oregon “egg factory,” a dairy farm and a dairy man...
Shows the confrontation of several Northern communities with the issue of Negro integration in schools, jobs, and housing. Shows Negroes demonstrating for jobs in construction work in Queens, a New...
The episode introduces psychopharmacology, the study of how psychoactive drugs influence behavior, as a developing field in psychology. It presents experiments conducted by Dr. Roger Russell of Ind...
Mr. Hoffer discusses with Mr. Day how change affects an individual’s self-esteem. He considers change in relation to the problems of African-Americans, the under-developed countries of Asia and Afr...
Explains how the development of the computer has made possible the automatic control of routine tasks in government, industry, and general business. Includes demonstrations of the use of computers ...
Focuses upon actress Ingrid Thulin and producer-director Ingmar Bergman. Shows Miss Thulin at home and at work as she comments upon the acting profession in Sweden. Presents background to the dev...
Presents Eric Hoffer in an extended dialogue on man's weaknesses and how they relate to the total process of learning to become human. Describes human nature as highly unnatural in comparison with...
Examines what has happened in Europe to check the threat of a menancing population growth. Traces the growth of population in Europe from the Middle Ages and suggests that the small-family concept,...
Ever since the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community, the progress of the Six, or "Little Europe" as the Community was called, had evoked mixed emotions. Many nations outside the S...
Traces the activities of a junior-high school boy in preparing a class report. Stresses the following steps: choosing the subject, thinking of one's interest and audience, gathering information an...
Explains how living things use energy provided by the Sun. Plants and animals alike rely on solar energy. Demonstrates how different kinds of energy are converted to different forms.
Describes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida as comprising the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Picture crops in Florida and explains that these crops are gro...
[motion picture] Describes the globe as a model of the earth, showing how the globe represents physical and cultural features on the earth's surface, and provides information about direction, dista...
Explains that Wellmet House attempts to rehabilitate the mentally ill not by gaining conforming behavior but by helping them relate to other people in natural and unstructured ways. Points out that...
Examines the development of the American business system from the colonial handicraft economy to large, diversified corporations, emphasizing the growth of the corporate form. Explores the impact o...
Examines the importance of the Rocky Mountains to the development of the Western States. Shows the dependence of agriculture and industry upon the water resources from the mountains. Discusses the ...
Explains the role of the nation's productive resources, including land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial or managerial talent, in the production of goods and services. Uses examples from South C...
Introduces the principal amendments to the Constitution by showing in dramatic form what would happen if the Bill of Rights disappeared from the American scene. | Introduces the principal amendment...
Uses live-action photography, illustrations, and art work of the period to present an account of the building of the first transcontinental railroad and emphasizes the role of the railroad builders...
Presents the principles to be followed in completing a medical verification of death. This film also demonstrates how diagnosis entered on the death certificate influences statistics commonly used ...
Traces the career of John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut, from his school days in New Concord, Ohio, to his speech to the U.S. Congress after his orbital flight. Pictures Glenn as a typical, but high...
Attempts to answer the question What is poetry? by comparing a news report and a poem, explaining that the news report is objective, unemotional, and impersonal, and that the poem is subjective, em...
Documents the principal works of ancient statuary which constituted the core of the exhibition, The Arts of Thailand, which came to the United States in the form of a traveling exhibition in 1960. ...
Compares the nervous systems of the hydra and earthworm with the complexity of the human nervous system. Details the physiology of the reflex arc and explains the activities of certain brain center...
Part three in the "Artists at Work" series, this film spotlights three east coast painters, working in their studios.
Jack Tworkov, born in Poland in 1900, and a teacher for 15 years, was recently ...
Points out exterior structure and coloration of a living perch. Uses fresh specimens to show dissection techniques and reveal internal structures. The respiratory, digestive, excretory, and reprod...
An advertisement for U.S. Keds footwear in which the animated characters Kedso the Clown and Keddy Bear fly to the moon and sing about the product. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
Uses behind the scenes views in the Polomar Observatory to show astronomers using optical and radio telescopes to gather information about the universe. Describes how reflecting and refracting tel...
Describes the problems that man has to face in space travel. Head and cold, gravity changes, and meteor showers are explained. Newton's principle of rocket propulsion is also introduced.
Shows how large deposits of iron ore, coal, and cheap water transportation contributed to the creation of a large industrial complex in the Great Lakes region. Pictures large scale mining of tacon...
