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Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.
1947 Rose Bowl: Illinois Fighting Illini - 45; UCLA Bruins - 14.
Call is of Al Hoisch (UCLA)'s kickoff return of 103 yards, the longest in Rose Bowl history at this point.
An older couple greeting people in a receiving line. The woman is Nellie Voigt Freeman, Bailey's mother. The original title indicates this was part of an Easter celebration. Bailey is present in the group. The film then focuses on flower in a garden - the original title indicates this is Artillery Lane in St. Augustine.
Edward R. Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George Feil
Summary:
Home movie of two football games (one is the Yale Bowl, Yale vs. Dartmouth) taken from the stands. Students tear down the goalposts at the end of the first game. Shows Ed's friends walking in a park and along the water. Back in Cleveland, Mary and Nellie cook a meal for the family at the Harold Feil home.
Depicts the work, fun, and excitement of three farm youngsters who exhibit their calves and pigs at a state fair. Shows how they tend their livestock, watch the judging, and take in the displays and other sights. One boy wins a prize for his calf and later all three frolic on the midway.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, A. J. Carlson, H. G. Swann, The Committee of Medical Motion Pictures, American College of Surgeons
Summary:
Explains the actions of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon to move food and waste materials through the body. Reveals normal and stimulated stomach reactions such as hypermotility, inhibition, and hunger contractions; and shows such intestinal phenomena as segmentation, peristalsis, and antiperistalsis. Demonstrates movements of intestinal villi through cinemicrography. For high school, college and adult groups.
Uses slow motion and stop motion photography and close-ups of game shots to show the fundamentals of ball handling in basketball: stance, grip, "feel" of the ball, fingertip control, adjustment before shooting, catching the ball, and meeting passes.
Traces early development of the camera: how first efforts of March in France, Muybridge in U.S. came about as a result of movements of animals and humans. How subsequent development by Lumiere and Edison brought about the modern motion picture camera and projector.
Relates the history of man's effort to photograph and reproduce living movement. Includes the first scientific study of movement, involving 24 cameras stationed at intervals along a horse's path, Thomas Edison's work, and Lumiere's commercial projector for large audiences.
Glimpses at the origin of the motion picture, the contribution of Muybridge, Edison, and Lumiere, and fragments of the screen's first "epics." | Glimpses at the origin of the motion picture, the contribution of Muybridge, Edison, and Lumiere, and fragments of the screen's first "epics."
Presents a historical, cultural, scenic, and climatic picture of Colombia's mountain city capital, Bogota. Shows the type of clothing and architecture prevalent in a region of such little seasonal variation. Pictures the extensive park system, the winding boulevards, and the market place abundant with fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers.
Shows everyday applications of bookkeeping to increase motivation for its study, to help the student decide whether he is interested in taking bookkeeping, and to help in vocational guidance. Gives job information and information about educational preparation for a variety of kinds of work.
Shows Eliot O'Hara revealing how water color can communicate vivid landscape impressions by executing the following techniques correctly and appropriately: making a smooth wash, preparing the brush, mixing colors, using several colors on a single brush, splitting the brush, reproducing various textures and shadows, achieving perspective, and effecting hard and soft edges.
Shows the importance of organized fire-fighting activities in a city. Includes a visit to a city fire house, the equipment there and in action at a fire, simple precautions against fires, and how to turn in alarms in case of fire.
Portrays the use of various diagnostic tests and measurements, the induction of hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, hypno-analysis, and short-term psychotherapy. Shows the use of the Bellevue, picture, manipulative, and inkblot tests and an aptitude profile obtained from general, clinical, and diagnostic tests. The subject is then hypnotized and carries out post-hypnotic suggestions.
An excerpt from "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) produced and copyrighted by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. A widowed father tries to explain anti-Jewish prejudice to his young, precocious son.
Jam Handy Organization, Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education, Federal Security Agency
Summary:
Shows how dimpling and countersinking prepare metal for flush riveting, how to operate a dimpling machine, and how to countersink work for flush rivets.
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, Ray-Bell Films, Inc.
Summary:
Shows how to assemble broaching inserts in right- and left-hand toolholders, how to mount and adjust toolholders in the double ram; how to mount and adjust the work fixtures; how to set trip dogs for the ram stroke; how to measure the workpiece after trial broaching; and how to surface-broach on a double ram vertical broaching machine at a production rate.
Theodore Kautzky demonstrates techniques in drawing a scene with pencil. Emphasizes the following points: general design, thumbnail sketching, preparation of the pencil point, drawing sharp lines, making broad masses, and achieving textures of wood, brick, shingles, stone, and foliage.
Designed for use with a health text on the college level. Shows interviews of a college student with a physician and then with a psychiatrist, who uncovers his fears and helps him become emotionally adjusted. Uses occasional flashbacks of the boy's childhood. Correlated with "Textbook of Healthful Living" by Dr. Harold S. Diehl.
Describes the farmers of the Andes as a primitive people without the benefits of technology, showing the tireless Incas who till the mountain soil at altitudes of 10,000 to 15,000 feet. Discusses the role of the llama, alpaca, and vicuña in providing meat, milk, and hides for these farmers; illustrates how corn and wheat are irrigated by ditches dug by ancient Incas; and shows views of the primitive methods used in threshing and winnowing.
Shows a group of children playing three types of games: those which they invent themselves, those learned under supervision but carried on alone, and those dramatic activities which grow out of school activities.
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education (Producer), Federal Security Agency (Producer), Emerson Yorke Studio (Producer)
Summary:
Shows how to prepare the machine or the job; how to select and set up a back rest; how to adjust the back rest during grinding; how to rough- and finish-grind the long shaft; and how to check and adjust the taper.
Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education (Producer), Federal Security Agency (Producer), Emerson Yorke Studio (Producer)
Summary:
Shows how to mount and dress the wheels on the two-spindle grinder; how to prepare the diaphragm chuck; how to plunge-grind the bore and adjust for taper; and how to grind the shoulder and flange parallel at right angles to the bore.
An Academic Films presentation of the pianist playing Liszt’s Sixth Hungarian Symphony and Liebestraum. | Gyorgy Sandor plays Leibstraum and Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, by Franz Liszt.
Demonstrates the production and utilization of seven types of 3 1/4" x 4" handmade slides by teachers and pupils in various school situations. Stresses sources of picture material and special production techniques, such as the placement of the copy, its size, the use of a margin guide, and binding techniques.
Includes a view of the tournament crowd, drawings, close-ups of team members and fans, the game itself, presentation of IHSAA awards, and post-tournament celebrations.
Shows a typical day in the life of a model American teen-age boy. His health habits, diet, hobbies, and correct attitude toward work, study and play are all stressed.
Offers glimpses of the proverbial Irish national character, the poetic landscape of the country, and the political, economic, and social problems during president Eamon DeValera's administration.
Tells the story of a boy's trip to visit friends in Costa Rica. He lives in the home of an upper-class Costa Rican family, sharing their life and activities. He goes to see the public schools, the city market, native animals in the zoo, and the large plantations. Emphasizes the similarities and differences between life in Costa Rica and the United States.
Shows how to use the gage manifold in building leak-testing pressures in a domestic refrigerator; how to test for sulphur dioxide and methyl chloride leaks; how to use the halide torch to locate freon leaks; and how to repair several types of leaks.
Shows three distinct tendencies in present-day farming: large-scale, factory-style farming with crops scientifically scheduled and treated; the cooperative technique under which small land-owners group together for more favorable production and distribution; and the way of the traditional independent farmer.
Illustrates by typical situations the three prime responsibilities of the bus operator: the safety and comfort of his passengers and people on the streets; maintenance of schedules; and a courteous, friendly, and helpful attitude toward passengers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Firman E. Bear
Summary:
Shows processes of soil formation, the four great soil groups of the earth, the location of these soil groups in the United States, man's exploitation of the soil, and the major scientific farming techniques designed to replace soil fertility losses and stop erosion.
Stresses the importance of teeth in the digestive system, identifies and explains the purposes of the different teeth, and shows tooth development from infancy, the structure of teeth, how tooth decay starts, and the necessity for correct diet. A classroom film.
Presents several experiments to illustrate the characteristics of oxygen, including the effects of free oxygen upon mice and a lighted candle, the separation of liquid oxygen from liquid air, the breakdown of water by electrolysis, the freeing of oxygen from mercuric oxide by a catalyst, and the action of spontaneous combustion.
Shows the religious pageantry of Portugal, a country devotedly linked to the Roman Chatolic Church, and the status of education, labor, and industry. Points out that Portugal's future role among the nations of the world is still undetermined.
The Phillips "66" championship team demonstrates basketball fundamentals. Slow motion and stop motion photography are used frequently to show techniques as follow-through, pivoting, passing drill, tipping drill, defensive, offensive breaks, and the various shots.
Uses such situations as computing a baseball player's batting average and adapting a recipe to illustrate the principles and uses of ratio and proportion. Explains the terms used, the difference between ratio and proportion, and the application of the principles to gears.
George follows carefully planned preliminary operations in getting ready to type. Jane, who makes her preparations haphazardly, learns later to practice George's methods and is then ready to type with self-control and self-confidence.
Reviews the rise of Hitler to power, his broken promises, the invasion of Germany's neighbors, Germany's eventual defeat, and the Allied occupation of Germany, with its many problems which are aggravated by rigid zoning of the territory.
Compares the Columbia, Colorado, and Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems to show what man has done to utilize each to his advantage. Illustrates the adaptation of the rivers to diverse uses--as avenues of commerce, for logging and fishing, for electrical power, and water.
Includes harbor activities at the ports of San Francisco, Puget Sound, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland. Also shows how Los Angeles, lacking a good natural harbor, built one by erecting huge breakwaters at nearby San Pedro.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., E. Laurence Palmer
Summary:
Joan and Jerry Johnson observe the changes on their parents' farm during the spring. Includes plants, trees, birds, farm animals, a frog, a moth, and a rabbit. Also shows some of the children's activities.
Joan and Jerry Johnson watch the growth of plants and animals on their parents' farm during the summer. They fish, watch a frog and a dragonfly, see a young robin leave its nest, help their parents, gather flowers and blackberries, watch a spider, and eat watermelon.
Presents the pros and cons of "progressive education" and points out the citizen's responsibility toward the schools. Also gives a brief history of education in the United Staes, including the present emphasis upon psychology.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Louis W. Sauer
Summary:
Shows the day's activities of a child specialist in his office, on a home call, and at a hospital. He makes a physical examination, vaccinates a baby, visits his hospital patients, and diagnoses a case of measles.
Pathescope, Charles J. Vierck, Charles D. Cooper, Paul E. Machovina, Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Hollie W. Shupe
Summary:
Designed to be used with an engineering drawing text. Describes the relationship between the making of a drawing and various production operations in shop and factory. Then shows representative operations in the pattern shop, the foundry, the forge shop, the machine shop, and the assembly shop which depend upon the drawing.
Reviews the important wartime changes and also points out their lasting effect upon the entire nation, as manufacturers planned to keep industry in the West after World War II. Offers glimpses of such Pacific Coast industries as shipbuilding, aircraft production, lumber, oil, steel, and synthetic rubber.
Illustrates the practices and procedures in taking dictation in a modern business office. Pictures the routine and special duties of a secretary as compared with those of stenographer or clerk. Emphasizes the place of efficiency among the requisites of a professional secretary.
Daily activities of a secretary are compared with those of a stenographer, to show the added duties and responsibilities of the secretary. She is shown handling callers, appointments, telephone calls, filing, and many other details of office procedure.
Explains the various techniques to be mastered in learning to throw a baseball effectively. Professional players give demonstrations of four throws--the overhand, the three-quarter, the side-arm, and the underarm--which are analyzed by means of stop motion, slow motion, and close-up photography.
Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and then other singers, including mountaineers, sharecroppers, migratory workers, African-Americans, and railroad builders, are shown.
Pictures Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to illustrate how centers of commerce develop. Shows how the existence of surrounding farmland, forests, and mineral resources give rise to industrial activity, the creation of jobs, and the building of a city and trading center.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., Lawrence K. Frank
Summary:
Emphasizing the needless loss of life through a hotel fire, the film discusses various causes of the wastage of human resources at different age levels, such as disease, accidents, juvenile delinquency, unemployment, alcoholic and drug addiction, mental diseases, crime, and war.
Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Stanley M. Feil
Summary:
Footage from Mary and Herman's wedding, followed by a reception at the Harold Feil home. Shows Mary and Herman cutting their wedding cake and Mary tossing her bouquet. Ends with footage of Herman and Mary walking in the snow near the Historic Summit Inn in Pennsylvania.
Army Cadets - 21; Navy Midshipmen - 18;
Clip of Army Cadets and Navy Midshipmen football game;
Game played at Philadelphia Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia, PA
Army Cadets - 21; Navy Midshipmen - 18.
Call by Harry Wismer of the game ending, as Navy drove the ball with a chance to beat the undefeated Army Cadets, and failed at the final goal line.
"Army vs Navy - Harry Wismer final moments"
Boston College Eagles - 13; Tennessee Volunteers - 33;
Game played at Braves Field in Boston;
Called by Bill Stern on NBC Radio
Disc 1
1. Pre Game
2. First Quarter
3. Second Quarter
Disc 2
1. Halftime
2. Third Quarter
3. Fourth Quarter
4. Post Game
Army Cadets - 0; Notre Dame Fighting Irish - 0.
Battle of Unbeatens; Considered "Game of the Century"
Game played at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York.
Disc 1
1. First Quarter
2. Second Quarter
3. Half-time
Disc 2
1. Third Quarter
2. Fourth Quarter
3. Post-Game
4. 11/23/45 (Stern with Senatra)
Army Black Knights - 20; Michigan Wolverines - 13
Battle of Unbeatens
Game played at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Disc 1
1. Pre-Game
2. First Quarter
3. Second Quarter
4. Half-time
Disc 2
1. Third Quarter
2. Fourth Quarter
3. Bob Ufer Remembered
Feil, Ed, George Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil
Summary:
Compilation of home movies taken by Ed Feil during his military service. Begins when he enters the Army in June 1943. Covers his basic training at Fort Riley, experience in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Nebraska, and the 66th Infantry Division in action firing mortars. Features many shots of fellow soldiers interacting with the camera and flirting with girls. In Nebraska, the whole family meets (possibly with some extended family - Nellie Feil is originally from Omaha).
Home movie of Ed Feil traveling from Paris to Vienna at the end of his military service. Shows soldiers in a bombed out train station in Karlsruhe and a landscape of heavy rubble while passing through Germany.
[landscape shots; grain elevator; livestock from a moving train]
Black and white footage of Northern Ontario taken from the back of a moving train. Train passes the depots for Schreiber and Jackfish as well as the Heron Bay Hotel. Primarily landscape shots of Lake Superior and surrounding forests.
Home movie of Bernadine Bailey and her second husband, George W. McCord. They were married from 1946-1947 and resided in Florida. The film shows a sunrise Easter service being held at Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine. Next are scenes of flowers in a garden and Bailey and McCord sunbathing. She is reading the June 1946 issues of Holiday magazine. The original title indicates that this was shot at 223 E. Superior St in Chicago, a residence Bailey held during the 1940's.
Begins with exterior and garden of Valencia Apartments, Bailey's residence in St. Augustine with her second husband, George W. McCord. Bailey and McCord kiss for the camera, then she and her friends walk around the garden.
Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle light and fades into darkness.
Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle light and fades into darkness.
Shows the actual training and activities of Air Transport Command personnel with routines of briefing, radio communications, and other precautionary measures during World War II.
Includes scenes of performing seals, underwater basketball, cliff diving, water skiing, canoeing in rapids, motor boat feats, and synchronized swimming.
Explains, with animation, atomic structure and the basic concepts of atomic energy. Distinguishes between electronic or chemical energy and nuclear energy. Explains the three known forms of atomic energy release: natural radioactivity, nuclear synthesis, and nuclear fission. Illustrates the relationship between atomic energy from the sun and chemical energy stored and released in photosynthesis and combustion.
Gives a pictorial exposition of the relationship of England to her colonies, protectorates, and mandates and highlights the outstanding characteristics of the free and self-governing dominions; then presents an analysis of the British people. Depicts England's struggle to restore herself to strength and prosperity immediately following World War II.
An animated cartoon which explains that there are no basic differences between the races of the world. Uses small green demons to caricature prejudice and racial hatred. Relates the history of mankind to point out that dissimilarities in peoples result from superficial environmental influences. Based on "Races of Mankind" pamphlet by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish.
Animated drawings review man's dependence upon water for life. Describes the sources of city water supply--wells, rivers, lakes, and watersheds; water-borne diseases; and methods of water distribution. Specifically traces New York City's water supply. Also depicts water tunnels, aqueducts, and modern methods of filtration and chlorination to insure purity.
Home movie of Ed Feil's return trip to the United States at the end of his military service. Beginning on a train, he travels to Camp Phillip Morris in Le Havre before sailing to New York on the Florence Nightingale. Shows footage of soldiers and military personnel (including women) aboard the ship and Ed Feil's certificate of honorable discharge. Ends with Ed back in Cleveland with Mary and his parents. He visits the Cleveland Art Museum.
Explains that spoon feeding is a more complex behavior than feeding from a cup, and points out that the spoon is a complicated tool requiring fine manipulative skills for its efficient use. Describes the baby's development of these skills which take years to perfect.
Historical Summary:
Shows the early difficulties which the baby faces in getting food from a spoon, his increasing skill in receiving food, his desire to play with an empty spoon while being fed, early and generally unsuccessful attempts at self-feeding with a spoon, and gradual improvement in skills to the age of five.
Analyzes defensive footwork action in basketball by first demonstrating the correct stance. Slow motion and close-up photography then portray the two basic defensive moves: the parallel movement, which governs lateral guarding motions, and the stride, which governs advancing and retreating motions. Emphasis is placed on the correlation of arm movement with footwork, turning, pivoting, and getting into position for taking the ball on the rebound.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Wilbur Johns, Norman Sper
Summary:
Analyzes defensive footwork action in basketball by first demonstrating the correct stance. Slow motion and close-up photography then portray the two basic defensive moves: the parallel movement, which governs lateral guarding motions, and the stride, which governs advancing and retreating motions. Emphasis is placed on the correlation of arm movement with footwork, turning, pivoting, and getting into position for taking the ball on the rebound.
Presents technical developments in the preservation and transportation of foods, the economic problems involved, and the world flow of foods. Depicts how such developments have increased the possibilities of distributing perishable foods on a world basis. Shows the problem of family income, maintaining flow of food from producer to consumer, the problem of tariffs, and the intercontinental movement of major foods on an animated map background.
Presents a record of the successful experiments in resuscitating dead animals conducted at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy at Veronezh, U.S.S.R., by Dr. S. S. Bryukhonenko. The Institute makes use of apparatus called the "autojector" to carry out the functions of the heart and lungs, and years of pioneering in the technique of resuscitation are climaxed in the sequence showing reanimation of a dog that has been killed. Recommended for use only by individuals or groups professionally concerned with the advancement of science.
Contains scenes of the destitution left in the wake of World War II and of the famine and exposure from which so many thousands died. Discusses also the economic importance of food.
Shows how the government has acted to protect our woodlands by enacting laws and establishing the Forest Service. Forest Rangers protect forests against fire, administer game laws, control the number of cattle grazing on the lands, supervise logging, and select trees to be cut and those to be left standing. Other jobs in this vocation are logger, lumberjack, lumber mill sawyer, grader, kiln-dryer, and trimmer. Shows a log after it is cut and the various operations it goes through until it is a finished piece of lumber. Many different jobs are shown and explained.
Shows how freedom was prized during World War II despite its high cost in desolation and hunger and how more fortunate peoples helped liberate Europe by fighting the threat of famine.
With close-up photography of cod fillet, habibut steak, and whole dressed white fish, demonstrates three basic methods for cooking fish at home, boiling, and baking. Illustrates the use of garnishes to give eye-appeal and added nutritive qualities to fish when it is served.
Mary L. De Give, Margaret Cussler, Social Documentary Films
Summary:
Shows the Hopi Indian as a farmer, herder, craftsman, and trader. Pictures how difficult it is for him to live on the desert, especially with some of the government controls. Gives the Indian a chance to speak about his problems in education, place in American society, and means of making a living.
