15301. The story of Palomar (39:03)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
Sidney Zipser; Edison R. Hoge; Walter S. Arnold
Summary:
Describes the story of the giant 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, photographed over the period of years during which the giant telescope was planned and designed. Shows the grinding of the h...

15302. The story of printing : the letterpress (28:47)

Date:
1956
Summary:
The Finder shows us how basic printing is in our lives by bringing before the camera a variety of things which are printed—stamps, billboards, toys, milk bottles, tin cans and plastic curtains. He...

15303. 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 ...

15304. The story of salt (15:12)

Date:
1959
Summary:
From the early struggles of the settlers to get salt from “salt licks” and pack trains through the use of salt as money and for preserving food, Bash takes viewers on a tour of a place where salt i...

15305. The story of sugar (12:21)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
Jordan G. Lee, Jr.; Viking Pictures Corporation
Summary:
Traces in detail the production of cane sugar. Shows the ground-breaking operations in the spring, the planting and cultivation during the summer, and the cutting and the preparation of the stalks...

15306. The story of the vortex (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Defines a vortex and explains its structure. Shows several types of vortex including the ring, tip and thermal vortex. Uses the smoke box, water tank, and motion pictures of tornadoes to illustra...

15307. The story of water (15:15)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Much of the history of our country followed the great rivers, the ocean bays and the small streams which brought water to plants and animals. Bash takes a film trip to show how rivers are formed an...

15308. The story of wheat (11:39)

Date:
1940
Summary:
Deals with the history, growth, harvesting, and preparation of wheat for its most important use as bread.

15309. The story that never ended (15:10)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This is the story of a king who offered a reward to anyone who could tell a story that never ends. Many try, but all fail. The King's herald, who is in love with the Princess, disguises himself as ...

15310. The story with two endings (09:09)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Discusses the possible inflation and unemployment to come after World War II as happened after World War I. Emphasizes rationing and thrift as weapons to combat inflation before it occurs.

15311. The strands grow (14:35)

Date:
1950
Summary:
The first in the "Web of Life" series. Uses fossils and other prehistoric relics to trace the competitive struggle for survival among plants and animals. Still pictures show the trilobite, the di...

15313. The string choir (second edition) (11:38)

Date:
1956
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Ralph E. Rush
Summary:
Describes the appearance, functions, and timbre of each stringed instrument of the symphony orchestra. Illustrates bowing, pizzicato, and finger techniques used in playing instruments of the string...

15314. THE STRING QUARTET AND ITS MUSIC (28:50)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Presents a history of the literature for the string quartet. Shows paintings contemporary with the musical selections that are played. Features the Juilliard String Quartet. Music includes: Haydn...

15315. The structure of cells I (30:08)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The unit of life –the cell: history of the concept; validity of the concept; variations of size, form and function; limitations of a cell; details of structure and function; special features of pla...

15316. The structure of cells, part III : the nucleus (29:56)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Dr. Ray Koppelman discusses the nucleus of the cell, explaining it's structural makeup, its function, and the ways in which it gives directives to the rest of the cell to carry out growth and repro...

15317. The stuff of life (30:05)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Dr. C. Arthur Knight, featured on this program, introduces his topic with a brief description of properties which characterize living things, and then explains to what degree viruses do or do not h...

15318. The stuff of life (29:32)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Despite its microscopic size, a cell may contain several thousand highly complex chemicals. Nonetheless, molecules of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids consistently form part of the s...

15319. The Subject as Shape and Symbol (29:46)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Miss Pearson explains the artist’s conception and response to a subject -- the interest from various shapes, alone and in combination.

15320. The suicide clinic : a cry for help (27:51)

Date:
1969
Summary:
Indicates that a suicide attempt is a cry for help, sympathy, and understanding--all of which can be handled by the suicide clinic. Indicates that most suicide attempts are the result of a crisis w...

15321. The Sulky Sunbeam (15:10)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Plants need sunlight, and this story tells what happened when sunbeam lost interest in his work. Dora Velleman tells the story and Fignewton Frog helps illustrate it at the felt boards.

15322. The summing up (29:33)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Presents the conclusions arrived at during the conference. Uses film clips of statements made by the various conferees to strengthen and point up the conference's conclusions. (KETC) Kinescope.

15323. The Sun (1:00:20)

Date:
1959
Summary:
The controlling body of the solar system is the Sun – an average star and the only star whose surface we can see. James S. Pickering, in this program, treats the Sun as a star, studying its surface...

15324. The Sun (14:39)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the influence of the sun upon space travel. Describes how over ninety per cent of interplanetary travel will be made in the sun's gravitational field and only small portions of each journ...

15325. The Sunday Times "Untitled" (00:33)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
The Sunday Times
Summary:
An advertisement for the British newspaper The Sunday Times in which residents of an elder care facility begin partying and dancing after visitors leave. Submitted for the Clio Awards International...

15326. The sunfish (10:54)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Presents the life of the sunfish from the preparation of the nest, the laying and fertilizing of the eggs, the hatching of the eggs, and the development of the fish to maturity.

15327. The Supervisor As Leader [part 2] (13:00)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education. Division of Visual Aids ; United States. Federal Security Agency; Caravel Films, Inc.
Summary:
Narration asks, and answers, the question: "what does a man need to have, outside of experience, to be a good leader?" Experienced supervisors discuss the qualities of good leadership with dramatiz...

15328. The Supported Employment Movement (08:49)

Date:
October 14, 2016
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
The supported employment movement, an initiative to expand the opportunities for people with disabilities to find work in their own communities through vocational rehabilitation and ongoing job coa...

15329. The Surprise Party (15:07)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Fignewton Frog (puppet) and Dora (person) tell the story of "The Surpise Party" using felt cut-outs. In the story, flowers host a surprise party where they and all of their guests (others flowers a...

15330. The swimmers (29:34)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Uses underwater photography to show how fish and other marine animals are adapted to move in varying environments. Illustrates how body shapes and fin types vary. Includes scenes of the giant tuna,...

15332. The Tale of the Ryoben-Cedar (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the Japanese legend about a cedar tree which stands in front of the temple in Nara, Japan. The tree is said to be the spot where an old and grieving mother found her grow son who had been car...

15333. The Tarahumara (22:35)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the society and culture of the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico. Shows how their isolation in mountain v...

15334. The task of the listener (28:40)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the relationship between personality and communication. Explains human behavior in terms of the self-concept. Defines self and shows how it differs from the self-concept. Illustrates the ...

15335. The teacher and technology (49:35)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Traces the beginnings and history of the impact of technology on education. Illustrates some of the ways in which technology is being used to meet the dual problems of masses of students and the ne...

15336. The teachers' crisis (17:07)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Presents several reasons for the crisis in the teacher supply in 1947, including low salaries, lack of training, overcrowded conditions, and social restrictions.

15337. The Technology Spiral (33:33)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Describes with humorous results what would happen if transistors, vacuum tubes, Thomas Edison, wheels, petrole...

15338. The teenage boy (29:33)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents a question and answer session with three teen-age boys. Opinions are expressed concerning their education, ambitions, personal development, and hopes for the future.

15339. The teenage girl (29:34)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents a question and answer session with three teenage girls. Opinions are expressed concerning their education, ambitions, marriage plans, and the problem of integration in their schools.

15340. The television picture tube (20:21)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Construction of the television picture tube and how its components operate. How the tube transforms the TV signal into a moving picture. (animated)

15341. The tell tale heart (07:49)

Date:
1953
Summary:
The plot focuses on a murderer whose increasing guilt leads him to believe he can hear his victim's heart still beating beneath the floorboards where he buried him. Seen through the eyes of the nam...

15342. The tenderfoot : Theodore Roosevelt (20:45)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Tenderfoot" (season 1, episode 20), which first aired June 24th, 1953 on NBC-TV. 27-ye...

15344. The Theater: A Fine Art (29:25)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses three major aspects of expression in the fine arts: medium, subject, and form. Studies these aspects of theater as a fine art. Compares theater art with other art forms. Presents speci...

15347. The thousand days (21:20)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Describes the Canadian effort in World War II including news footage of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament, the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and Canadian tank and aircraft produ...

15348. The thousand days (21:16)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Norrish, B. E. (Bernard Easterbrook), 1885-1961
Summary:
Describes the Canadian effort in World War II including news footage of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament, the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and Canadian tank and aircraft produ...

15349. The Threat of Freedom (29:51)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Presents the story of the rise of totalitarianism and the failure of the democracies to produce effective answers to world problems. Discusses the American attitudes towards Fascism, Nazism, and C...

15351. The three R's -- New Deal version (29:46)

Date:
1955
Summary:
There was an overwhelming decision in November 1932 to change leadership. Early New Deal legislation sought to accomplish the first two R’s, Relief and Recovery. The later years of the New Deal wer...

15352. The three spinners (15:13)

Date:
1957
Summary:
This is the story of a young girl who didn't want to spin. Her mother beats her and when the Queen asks why, tells her that Maria will not stop spinning.The Queen takes Maria to her castle and prom...

15353. The three wishes (15:09)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Hand puppets are used to tell the story of husband and wife who are visited by the Fairy Princess, disguised as an old woman. The husband and wife refuse to feed the Old Woman because their cupboar...

15356. The Toddler (28:56)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Describes the child in his second and third years. Stresses importance of play, vocabulary development, the nap and bed-time ritual, and the development of possessiveness and self-assertion. Shows...

15357. The Tortoise and the Hare (31:01)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Poindexter and his friends tells the story of the hare who boasts he can run faster than anyone. The tortoise, who is slow but sure, takes the challenge. Certain he can win, the hare takes a nap du...

15358. The town (13:11)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows life in an American town, Madison, Indiana, and explains the democratic characteristics of the social and civic life of the people.

15359. The toy telephone truck (10:57)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Traces the manufacture, distribution, and final sale of a toy truck; and illustrates how many people contribute to make the things that we enjoy. Shows Skipper's mother buying the toy truck for her...

15360. The Training of a Diplomat (29:25)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the training of the men who represent the U.S. overseas. Describes the embassies and the men we have abroad, the history of our diplomatic service, and its present organization and budget...

15361. The transparency-accountability puzzle: Where does NSSE fit? (1:03:59)

Date:
November 18, 2008
Main contributors:
Alexander C. McCormick
Summary:
This webinar overviews the National Survey of Student Engagement's (NSSE) role in helping institutions be accountable and transparent to their stakeholders. It also discusses how NSSE data can be u...

15362. The trapper (15:19)

Date:
1959
Summary:
One of the most exciting figures in our history was the trapper and Bash tells of his life and visits some animals who were his forest companions. She sings “Three Jolly Huntsmen” and “Wooly Boogie...

15363. The trial of Billy Budd, sailor (22:20)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1962 Allied Artists release feature film, “Billy Budd”, based on the novella "Billy Budd Foretopman" written by Herman Melville. Billy ...

15364. The Trial--The Case for the Plaintiff (29:36)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Documents and dramatizes a civil lawsuit based on an automobile injury case. Dramatizes the beginning of the trial, showing how prospective jurors are chosen and questioned to determine possible bi...

15365. The tribe that hides from man (1:02:26)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Warning: This film contains nudity and close up images of corpses. Focuses on Brazilian explorers Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas who, with the aid of the disc-lipped Tchukahmei, search the Amazon...

15366. The Trimbles of Maple Street (15:10)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Dick, Sheldon
Summary:
Dramatizes the conservation of war materials by residents of a typical town. Explains how the war effort is helped by sharing rides and collecting tin cans and other salvage. Explains the organizat...

15367. The troubled cities (59:49)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Probes, in documentary style, the attempts which are made to solve the problems which have been brought about by the urban population explosion. Cites slum areas, racial unbalance in the schools, a...

15368. The truck farmer (second edition) (10:59)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Points out the chief truck farming areas of the United States and gives a detailed picture of the activities on a truck farm in the Rio Grande Delta. Portrays the planting, irrigation, spraying, h...

15369. The True Criminal (29:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Defines the characteristics of the psychopathic criminal, using film clips and tape recordings to provide examples of the true criminal. Shows three typical and less violent prototypes: the con man...

15370. The Truman years (20:27)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians release which utilizes newsreel footage to present an overview of the administrations of President Harry S. Truman. Opens with scenes of the conclusion of World War II. Rel...

15372. The Turkey (15:19)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Bash Kennett tells how the Indian boys practiced hunting and stalking the wild turkey and how thy used its feathers to fletch arrows, the spurs to tip them and the meat for feasts. She traces the d...

15374. The twelve months (15:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Marionettes in beautiful costumes and settings, tell the story of Marushka who is sent to the mountain in the winter to bring first violets, than strawberries and finally apples to her mother and s...

15375. The Two-Way Street: Quick Facts About Lend-Lease (07:41)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States Government Office of War Information; War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry; Army Service Forces, Signal Corps Photographic Center, Western Division
Summary:
A short informational film asking "what benefits should the U.S. seek for the aid they have given to our allies?" Gives an account of how the Lend-Lease program of mutual aid between allied nations...

15381. The U.S. in a revolutionary world (29:03)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the debates in the United States since World War I over the issues of isolation versus involvement in world affairs. Concludes that the U.S. is permanently involved in world affairs but t...

15382. The Underground Railroad In Hendricks County (32:22)

Date:
September 11, 1973
Main contributors:
Spaulding, William; Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017; Hill, Anita Louise
Summary:
Bill Spaulding hosts this session on the Underground Railroad in Hendricks County, Indiana with Sister Jane and Sister Anita, a graduate student. They discuss the Fugitive Slave Law and the develop...

15383. The unfinished search (29:31)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explains the research efforts of marine scientists in conserving the natural resources of the sea, increasing the productivity of the sea, and discovering new facts about the sea and the life withi...

15384. The Union Central Life Insurance Company "Procrastination" (02:25)

Date:
1963
Main contributors:
The Union Central Life Insurance Company
Summary:
An advertisement for the Union Central Life Insurance Company in which a male narrator talks about the dangers of procrastinating too long on buying insurance policies. The narrator describes the r...

15385. The union man (31:53)

Date:
1965
Summary:
Examines trade unionism in Australia, England, and the United States and pursues in its comparative study what trade unionism has come to mean to Australins.

15386. The United States and Japan (29:59)

Date:
1961
Summary:
When the United States subdued and began the occupation of Japan in 1945, it marked the first time in fifteen hundred years that the country has been defeated and occupied by a foreign power. The o...

15387. The United States As Others See It (28:26)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
The reactions of the countries of the free world to American foreign policy along with the reactions of the panelists to the American people are discussed on this program. Taking part are students ...

15388. The United States National Bank of Omaha [unknown title 1] (01:07)

Date:
1959 to 1976
Main contributors:
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Summary:
An advertisement for the United States National Bank of Omaha in which a narrator compares a bank user to early pioneers, and says that the pioneer of today saves his money at this organization. Su...

15389. The United States National Bank of Omaha [unknown title 2] (01:02)

Date:
1959 to 1976
Main contributors:
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Summary:
An advertisement for the United States National Bank of Omaha in which a narrator compares a bank user to early pioneers, and says that the pioneer of today uses the bank to finance home improvemen...

15390. The United States National Bank of Omaha [unknown title 3] (01:07)

Date:
1959 to 1976
Main contributors:
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Summary:
An advertisement for the United States National Bank of Omaha in which a narrator compares a bank user to early pioneers, and says that the pioneer of today uses the bank's checking accounts to man...

15391. The United States National Bank of Omaha [unknown title 4] (00:25)

Date:
1959 to 1976
Main contributors:
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Summary:
An advertisement for the United States National Bank of Omaha in which a narrator compares a bank user to early pioneers, and says that the pioneer of today uses the bank to keep his money safe. Su...

15392. The United States National Bank of Omaha [unknown title 5] (00:25)

Date:
1959 to 1976
Main contributors:
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Summary:
An advertisement for the United States National Bank of Omaha in which a narrator compares a bank user to early pioneers, and says that the pioneer of today uses the bank to finance home improvemen...

15393. The United States National Bank of Omaha [unknown title 6] (00:27)

Date:
1959 to 1976
Main contributors:
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Summary:
An advertisement for the United States National Bank of Omaha in which a narrator compares a bank user to early pioneers, and says that the pioneer of today uses the bank's checking accounts to man...

15394. The Unity of Life (29:39)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Reviews the biomechanical processes presented in the preceding programs. Relates these concepts to the way in which all forms of life are linked and resembles each other. Concludes by offering an a...

15395. The unity of science (29:59)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Physicists and biophysicists find common ground in interpreting the oscillation of a suspended spring. It is a simple piece of coiled metal which pulses over a small pool of mercury. The spring and...

15396. The Universal Machine (28:50)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Comments on the fact that the computer revolution represents a fundamentally different kind of advance because, unlike past industrial advances, the computer manipulates processed information at in...

15397. The universe (29:55)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Dr. Otto Struve, director of the Leuscher Observatory in Berkeley and the first man to prove that stars rotate on their axes, is Dr. Seaborg’s guest on this program. Hydrogen is rare and helium is...

15398. The Universe from Palomar (29:12)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Presents a history of the Hale Telescope and the contributions it has made to our knowledge of the universe. Shows transportation and construction of the 200-inch mirror. Illustrates recent discove...

15399. The unlucky traveler (29:43)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Professor Kraemer reads from an illustrated account by an Egyptian envoy, written in 1200 BC, who traveled to Syria at a time when law and order within the Egyptian empire were in a state of corrup...

15400. The Unsubstantial Flesh (29:18)

Date:
1959
Summary:
This program goes into the peculiar problem of weightlessness, which is typical of space flight, when the speed of the vehicle on an elliptical orbit around the earth counteracts the attraction of ...