15501. The Big Break (Media) (17:05)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 of Your Choice Our Chance, a series of drug abuse prevention programs to be viewed by students and community members in an effort to educate and prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol, marij...

15503. The big picture : cold war on communism (28:21)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
The Big Picture was a television program conceived by the US Army Signal Corps' Army Pictorial Center as part of a propaganda effort to defeat communism during the Cold War. The series generated ov...

15507. The Bigger Picture (Giving and Getting Meaning) (33:58)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and ...

15508. The biology of the past (30:22)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The biology of the past; the aims, methods and instrumentation of modern biology, and its pertinence to man; the biology of the future in terms of some of its problems.

15509. The Black Family (32:53)

Date:
August 21, 1973
Main contributors:
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012; Spaulding, William; Gardner, Mynelle.
Summary:
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion about the Black family with Mynelle Garder, a housewife; Terry Bonner, a recent graduate; and Bill Spaulding, Assistant Director at the Martin Center. The ...

15510. The Black Family (Part 2) (32:01)

Date:
August 21, 1972
Main contributors:
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012; Gardner, Mynelle; Spaulding, William
Summary:
Father Boniface Hardin hosts part two of a discussion with Mynelle Garder, Terry Bonner and Bill Spaulding about the Black family. The primary focus is on education and employment opportunities, in...

15511. The Black Male (32:14)

Date:
May 13, 1975
Main contributors:
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012; Spaulding, William
Summary:
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Bill Spaulding on the Black man. The hosts discuss the Black man’s self-identity and role as an example for younger Black boys. They discuss Black men...

15512. The Black Male (32:57)

Date:
July 31, 1973
Main contributors:
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012; Spaulding, William
Summary:
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Bill Spaulding, assistant director of the Martin Center, about the role of the Black male in contemporary culture. Topics include victimization, mento...

15513. The black soldier (26:54)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Traces the history of the black American's participation in the armed forces of the United States, from the Revolutionary War to the war in Vietnam. Reveals little known facts about blacks such as ...

15514. The Blazing Trail (1:20:51)

Date:
1921
Main contributors:
Thornby, Robert, 1889-1953; Philbin, Mary.; Rich, Lillian, 1900-1954
Summary:
Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the Blue Ridge Mountains and stays in a small mounta...

15515. The Block and The Pyramid (22:30)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.

15516. The blues (19:36)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
This documentary captures the music and environments of prominent blues singers, including J.D. Short, Pink Anderson, Furry Lewis, Baby Tate, Memphis Willie B., Gus Cannon, and Sleepy John Estes, i...

15517. The book of Hosea (29:37)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Dr. Bernard Boyd, University of North Carolina, discusses the Book of Hosea from the Bible. Analyzes the relationship of Hosea and his wife Gomer as a metaphor for God and the faithless people.

15518. The book of Nahum (29:40)

Date:
1961
Summary:
An enthusiastic discussion from Dr. Bernard Boyd, University of North Carolina, on the Book of Nahum from the Bible. Presents the text as historically oriented writings dealing with the human exper...

15519. The Boom and the Bust (29:26)

Date:
1955
Summary:
The USA withdrew and sought to lead its own life. The nation tried to return to “normalcy.” In an unstable world Americans knew amazing prosperity and, while it lasted, lived with carefree abandon....

15520. The Born Criminal (29:49)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the relationship of heredity to criminality. Points out common misconceptions concerning physical characteristics as a cause or recognizable symbol of crime. Explains the fallacies in Lom...

15521. The Boxcar Children (33:35)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 of Readit. John Robbins draws scenes from the book by Gertrude Warner as a storyteller and describes episodes about the children who make a boxcar their home. Encourages children to read ...

15523. The brave tailor (15:07)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
WKNO-TV; The Junior League of Memphis; Tom Tichenor
Summary:
Marionettes reveal the story of a Young Tailor who buys jam for one slice of bread which attracts seven hungry flies. The tailor kills all seven flies with one blow, decides he is very brave, and g...

15525. The Bremen town musicians (16:20)

Date:
1972
Summary:
No longer wanted by their masters, a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster set out for Bremen to become musicians. They prove clever enough to outwit some robbers.

15527. The brief history of air quality (46:51)

Date:
September 13, 2019
Main contributors:
Hess, Mary; Emmert, Rock; Blair, John
Summary:
The billowing black factory smoke may be gone, but there remains much work to be done in U.S. and global air quality. As the earth warms, ozone worsens and wildfire particulate matter threatens com...

15528. The bright young newcomer (06:58)

Date:
1958
Summary:
An in-service business management film demonstrating the problems which develop when a supervisor fails to properly channel the initiative of a new worker thus creating resistance to new ideas.

15529. The Broken Plain (29:29)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of John Deere's invention of the steel plough. Outlines the development of the plough in America and its significance to the growth of agriculture. Discusses the life of John Deere ...

15530. The buffalo (15:12)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of the buffalo. Describes an Indian buffalo hunt. Discusses the buffalo's importance to the Indian and the settler. Explains how they provided food, clothing, and shelter.

15532. The Burn Center (26:55)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Discusses burn injuries in general and new techniques and materials used by the medical researchers to treat burns. Shows patients in various stages of recovery from effects of serious burns. Shows...

15533. The Butterfly Who Didn't Want To Go South (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
With Fignewton handling the make-do puppets and Dora narrating, this is the story of a butterfly, who because she helped her friends, managed to migrate anyways, in spite of her first intention to ...

15534. The calls that cure (11:08)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
DeVoe, Ralph G. (Ralph Godwin), 1883-1966.
Summary:
Shows the telephone center and the bedside telephone service in a U.S. Army hospital. Discusses the beneficial effects on the soldiers of receiving telephone calls from home and advises families at...

15535. The Candlemaker (15:29)

Date:
1959
Summary:
After explaining the uses and preparations of candles in early times, Bash takes a film trip to a modern candle factory and compares techniques of the two ages. She sings “Dublin City” and “How Old...

15536. The Carpenter (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The importance of men who have learned to work with wood is Bash’s theme in this program. She tells of early settlers who had to do their own building and carving with crude tools. Through film, sh...

15537. The case against Darwin (29:24)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Concludes the presentation of evidence supporting the case for Darwin, and discusses arguments against the Darwinian theory. (Palmer Films) Kinescope.

15538. The case for Darwin (29:46)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the evidence and arguments for the Darwinian theory of man's nature and origin. Outlines the Theory of Evolution as it applies to plants and animals, and applies this theory to man, consi...

15539. The case of the tremendous trifle (20:10)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Shows to the men and women of American industry the vital importance to the war effort of all the little parts that they are making. Discusses the importance of ball bearings to the Nazi war effort...

15540. The case of the tremendous trifle (20:01)

Alternative title:
Tremendous trifle
Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Summary:
Shows to the men and women of American industry the vital importance to the war effort of all the little parts that they are making. Discusses the importance of ball bearings to the Nazi war effort...

15541. The case of the vanished toes... (29:51)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Visits the Brookfield Zoo to solve the mystery of how a large group of animals lost their toes. Explains how hoofed animals developed from ancestors with toes. Uses film clips of the dik-dik, giant...

15558. The cerebral palsied child (1:00:45)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the special problems faced by the child with cerebral palsy and explains how physical disability, psychological problems, mental subnormality, and the great number of clinical types adds ...

15559. The chain of life (28:46)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Depicts man as the end link in "The Chain of Life" and indicates that he is limiting his own survival by destroying other links in the chain. Explains that a healthy environment is as essential to ...

15560. The challenge of management (29:11)

Date:
1962
Summary:
This program is concerned with the role of the business manager, the person who brings together the land, the resources, the necessary labor, and the capital or means of production and sets all the...

15561. The challenge of rural Asia (29:45)

Date:
1955
Summary:
A historian and a geographer from the University of Michigan, Professor John W. Hall and Professor George Kish, join Professor Peek and Mr. Ravenholt to discuss the problems of rural Asia. The rura...

15562. The challenge to American education (59:05)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
An alternate title to this film is [Long range problems]. Presents a discussion of "The Humanities," "A Balanced Program," "The 'Elite'," and "Russian Education--Positive and Negative Lessons We M...

15563. The challenge to American education (1:00:09)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
An alternate title to this film is [Immediate problems]. Discusses problems concerning "The Basic Importance of Education--The Citizen's Responsibility," "Science Education--The Teacher," and "Tea...

15564. The chameleon (08:23)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Presents scenes of the chameleon in its normal habitat, with extreme close-ups to show the functioning of the feet, eyes, and tongue. Shows how the skin color changes in response to light and tempe...

15565. The Chancellorship and White House Commissions (47:50)

Date:
September 21, 1979
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
This collection consists of Wells' personal papers and includes papers pertaining to his family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United S...

15566. The change has not been delicate (25:49)

Date:
January 1, 2020
Main contributors:
Alexander, Edward; Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
In the new year, we're returning to our first episode, "How the Arctic caught fire." But this time, we focus in on the Gwich'in perspective. Edward Alexander, co-chair of the Gwich'in Council Inter...

15567. The changing face of India (12:04)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Discusses the impact of Western social customs and scientific advance on Indian life in villages and cities. Shows department stores, night clubs, and factories in an industrialized India built up...

15568. The Changing Market: Supply & Demand (22:29)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

15570. The Charlotte Observer : newsboy (01:01)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
In this humorous advertisement, from the Clio Awards - 2017 Donation collection, a voice over impersonation of John Wayne commands paperboys who stand at attention as the camera dollies from left t...

15571. The Charmed Ring (India) (34:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from India about a kindhearted man who is repaid in the end for the friendship that he bestows on a cat, a dog, and a sn...

15572. The Chenoo (Micmac Indians) (34:19)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 of the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a Micmac Indian tale about an Indian brave who warns his wife never to touch a leather pouch in their wigwam. When their little s...

15573. The Chicago Historical Society (10:03)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows scenes in the Chicago Historical Society Museum which help give an understanding of the past by exhibiting possessions which touched the lives of some of those who have shaped United States h...

15574. The Chicago Picasso (51:26)

Date:
1967
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Traces the story of the "Chicago Picasso." Relates the artist's original conception of the Chicago sculpture, the people and processes involved in the fabrication, and finally the construction of t...

15575. The Chicago Picasso (50:37)

Date:
1967
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Traces the story of the "Chicago Picasso." Relates the artist's original conception of the Chicago sculpture, the people and processes involved in the fabrication, and finally the construction of t...

15576. The Chicago Picasso (32:17)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Traces the story of the "Chicago Picasso." Relates the artist's original conception of the Chicago sculpture, the people and processes involved in the fabrication, and finally the construction of t...

15577. The Child as a Whole (29:37)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Discusses the importance of measuring a child's capabilities by his organismic age rather than his calender age. Explains how organismic age is figured. (University of Michigan Television) Kinescope.

15578. The children see it thru (07:51)

Alternative title:
Children see it through
Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Fletcher, Yvonne, 1917-
Summary:
A British production made as a fund raising appeal to American audiences to aid British children affected by the Blitz. The film depicts the hardships of life during wartime for children and discus...

15581. The Churkendoose (1:21:01)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
Scott Martin; Edward R. Feil; Madonna Byrkeland
Summary:
A strange bird brings harmony to a very special barn yard and its inhabitants. Adapted from the children's book by Ben Berenberg.

15582. The Citizen and the News I: #846 (30:05)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter ...

15583. The Citizen and the News II: #847 (29:53)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter ...

15584. The Citizen and the News III: #848 (20:23)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter ...

15585. The classic guitar : a miniature orchestra (22:43)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates the use of the versatility of the instrument and explains how effects are produced. Features Rey de la Torre. Includes the following illustrative selections: Llobet, "Cat...

15586. The classical achievement (29:38)

Date:
1960
Summary:
This program is a summation of the first development of the symphony as conceived by Haydn, Mozart and the early Beethoven. The examples used to show this development include the Minuet and Trio of...

15587. The classical first movement (29:38)

Date:
1960
Summary:
To begin a series on the symphony, states Professor Woodworth, one must start at the beginning, with the first movement of the piece. In the classical symphony, the first movement introduces all th...

15588. The classical realist approach to education (29:08)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Defines "classical realism," putting special emphasis on definitions of each of the two words. Explains the theory's basis in the 'natural law' and the theory's application to modern educational pr...

15589. The classics come home (1:03:20)

Date:
1983
Summary:
Captures details of the annual social phenomenon known as the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Reunion which brings antique car owners and buffs from throughout the United States to Auburn, Indiana, auto cap...

15590. The classification game (16:35)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
An unaired experimental episode created as part of the Essential Learning Skills Project by the Agency for Instructional Television.

15592. The Clique (22:29)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the series Self Incorporated, a 15-program television/film series. Self Incorporated is designed to stimulate classroom discussion of critical issues and problems of early adolescenc...

15594. The clutch and hand brake (10:14)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to determine the amount of clutch pedal clearance or "lash"; how to correct abnormal clutch pedal lash; how to check the condition of the pull-back spring; how to check the clutch for sli...

15596. The Cognitive Structure of Baseball (1:33:12)

Date:
November 8, 2011
Main contributors:
Ray Jackendoff
Summary:
Eleven-year-old children have a pretty good idea of how baseball works. Yet, as Ray Jackendoff will show, the concepts involved in baseball are remarkably complex and subtle. So the question is: Wh...

15599. The Colonial Empires (29:24)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses various aspects of the colonial overseas empires and suggests how these aspects affected the future nations. Reviews some of the economic aspects of the colonial Latin Americas. (KETC) Ki...

15600. The colonial mind : part I (29:45)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses present day attitudes toward colonialism and how they differ from the colonial ideal of the past. Sir Andrew Cohen, ex-colonial official in Africa, answers questions concerning the making...