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8202. The First Immigrants to America (29:45)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Considers the earliest peoples to come to America, namely, Vikings, Chinese, and much earlier, the American Indian. Studies these early civilizations and reviews the relationships between the Indi...

8203. The first many-celled animals : sponges (16:30)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Ralph Buchsbaum; John Walker
Summary:
Shows through animation, microcinematrography, and time-lapse photography the basic differences between single-celled organisms and the colony of several cell types that compose the body of the spo...

8204. The First Visit to the Doctor (30:07)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses the initial visit to the doctor after pregnancy is suspected. Indicates some of the physiological changes which are indications of pregnancy and outlines some of the procedures in the do...

8205. The Fish Hatchery (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a film expedition to a fish hatchery and shows the pools where fish are raised. She shows close-ups of a giant rainbow trout and goes with the hatchery truck to plant fish in the river. ...

8206. The fish that turned gold (16:14)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Presents the story of a goldfish from spawning until the goldfish is sold to a child. Begins at the world's largest goldfish hatchery. Introduces the main character, Goldey, developing inside a gol...

8207. The fish that turned gold (1:07:40)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Presents the story of a goldfish from spawning until the goldfish is sold to a child. Begins at the world's largest goldfish hatchery. Introduces the main character, Goldey, developing inside a gol...

8208. The flaming sky (28:29)

Date:
1960
Summary:
A study of auroral displays. Presents current theories on the nature of auroras and their relationship to events on the sun and to phenomena in and about the earth. Describes the coordinated activi...

8209. The Food Crisis (58:45)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Contrasts the areas of the world where there is an abundance of food with the areas where starvation is a way of life, and documents the pattern which has led to the lack of an adequate food supply...

8210. The Force Of Gravity (28:08)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses the relation of gravity to cosmology and to geophysics. Traces the history of ideas about gravity; discusses new instruments and new viewpoints on gravitation.

8211. The Forest Ranger (30:45)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
Summary:
Shows the work of the U.S.D.A Forest Service forest rangers across the nation's 161 national forests. Narration lists the forest ranger's duty to "manage the vast American woodland to produce more ...

8212. The forgetful bear (15:17)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This is the old favorite, "The Three Bears," with a whimsical touch by Tom Tichenor. The Baby Bear always forgets to do what he is told to do. He has a terrible time remembering instructions given ...

8213. The forgotten ones : families of inmates (29:41)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman points out that the families of offenders are lost in the community after the husband/father is sent to prison. He mentions the economic problem of t...

8214. The forms of government (57:54)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Outlines and explains the various forms of government, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses. Describes government by one man, by a few men, and by the populace, and discusses governments in...

8216. The four religions (59:02)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Presents Arnold Toynbee, an historian, and James Beveridge, the film producer, discussing the common bonds of the four major faiths: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. Toynbee and Presents...

8217. 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...

8218. The fraternity idea (22:53)

Date:
1958
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...

8219. The freight train (11:08)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Paul R. Hanna; Milan Herzog
Summary:
Follows the journey of a freight train from Kansas City to Chicago. Describes the assembling of the train, shows the number of people involved in its operations, and explains why freight trains are...

8220. The freshman experience (30:06)

Date:
1972
Main contributors:
Alfred R. Edyvean, Jr.
Summary:
Broad overview of freshman life at Indiana University, Bloomington, including Summer registration, courses of study, Fall registration, sports programs, tour of Indiana Memorial Union, and quick lo...

8221. The freshman experience (30:06)

Date:
1972
Main contributors:
Alfred R. Edyvean, Jr.
Summary:
Broad overview of freshman life at Indiana University, Bloomington, including summer registration, courses of study, fall registration, sports programs, tour of Indiana Memorial Union, and quick lo...

8222. The fuel of life (29:31)

Date:
1960
Summary:
The energy expended in thinking or talking or moving or simply living must be supplied by fuel; this program outlines the kinds of fuel which a living being needs, and describes how this fuel is us...

8223. The fuel of the future (59:37)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Electrical power to heat and light American homes and industries in the future will be furnished by plutonium. This program reports on plutonium, one of the eleven man-made elements, which as a fut...

8224. The Fugue (29:03)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses the fugue, explains its construction, and demonstrates with compositions played in part and in their entirety. Includes selections by Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven.

8225. The future is in their hands (06:23)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Describes the training of prospective teachers at Indiana University's School of Education. Highlights the need for teachers in response to postwar population growth.

8226. The future of democracy abroad (59:55)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt hosts this program and discusses solutions to the Congo crisis with several guests including Adlai Stevenson, US Ambassador to the United Nation and G. Mennen Williams, Assis...

8228. The gang (28:53)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses delinquency as a group phenomenon and contrasts the boys' gang and the boys' club. Reveals typical gang behavior and activities through an interview and in film sequences. Examines the ...

8229. The Gap "Clothes For Living" (01:02)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
The Gap
Summary:
People wearing Gap jeans perform various tasks in late 1970s America such as dancing, painting, and moving furniture. A song about Gap is sung in the background.

8230. The gardens of victory (08:00)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Associated Sales Co.
Summary:
Shows the wartime need for vegetable gardens in every American community.

8232. 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...

8235. The geography of the United States (29:19)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses how the size, shape, and location of the land mass of the United States accounts for our country's growth to a world power. Features a brief travelogue of the United States.

8236. The gift of Dr. Minot (21:00)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Gift of Dr. Minot" (season 3, episode 20), which originally aired on April 12th, 1955 o...

8237. The gift of the magi by O. Henry (22:03)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Presents Saki's story of an impoverished husband and wife who sacrifice their most prized possessions to provide Christmas gifts for each other. Introductory remarks are made by John Steinbeck. E...

8238. The gingerbread boy (15:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Hand puppets tell the story of a lonesome couple who want children. The wife decides to make some gingerbread and makes it in the shape of a little boy. When she takes him out of the oven he comes ...

8239. The glass wall (30:53)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dramatizes episodes in the lives of four people to show that they need help with a hearing problem. Urges those with a hearing loss to seek professional help and reviews the agencies of the commun...

8240. The golden axe (08:19)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
W. Lee Wilder
Summary:
Tells a story adapted from Aesop's "Mercury and the Woodsman." When a woodcutter loses his axe, a little man offers him a silver one, and later a golden one. When the woodcutter refuses to claim ...

8241. The golden rule : a lesson for beginners (09:51)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Uses a classroom scene to define and exemplify the golden rule. Shows through animation its origination by Confucius and Christ, and analyzes the rule in terms of three parts. Uses everyday situat...

8242. The good life on the Nile (29:19)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Takes the viewer on a trip down the Nile with a nobleman of the XIth Dynasty and his entourage in ancient Egypt in the year 2000 B.C. Uses original ship models from the tomb of Meket-Re. (NYU) Kine...

8243. The Good Years (1:30:34)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Lucille Ball; Henry Fonda; Mort Sahl
Summary:
The Good Years is based on the book written by Walter Lord which is about the time period from 1900 to the first World War. The show stars Lucile Ball, Henry Fonda, Mort Sahl and provides a histori...

8244. The grand plan (29:40)

Date:
1960
Summary:
"The understanding of music consists in the responding to music in its own terms." This quotation from music critic Thomas Serret is the keynote not only to this program but also to the whole serie...

8245. The great design (29:46)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Covers the period between Lenin's seizure of power and his death in 1924. Analyzes Lenin's peace treaty with Germany. Describes the reasons for the opposition to it which brought Russia to the ver...

8246. The great gamble: Cyrus W. Field (20:00)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
Teaching Film Custodians
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television episode, "The Great Gamble" (season 3, episode 1), which first aired October 12th, 1954 on ABC-TV. Presents...

8247. The Great Lakes (21:34)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
National Film Board of Canada; Crawley Films Limited
Summary:
A Canadian film production addressed to U.S. audiences, showing the industrial and commercial cooperation between the two nations as it occurs throughout the Great Lakes. "The Great Lakes are shown...

8248. The great rights (14:15)

Date:
1963
Summary:
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...

8249. The Great Swamp (29:03)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Depicts the values of a wilderness area through the experiences of a young city boy visiting the Great Swamp in New Jersey. Illustrates how Joey learns about the balance of nature. Explains the imp...

8250. The great train robbery (19:27)

Date:
1903
Summary:
A presentation of two of the first feature films in history, with the addition of sound. Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passenger's valuables, and the...