Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

601. Clever Elsie (15:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Clever Elsie really isn't very clever at all. Marionettes tell the story of Clever Elsie who sweeps with the broom upside down to keep from wearing out the straw. One day, Clever Elsie goes to the ...

602. Clifford Clam's Sore Foot (15:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dora shows the audience how to make a clam and a bird puppet. Dora and Fignewton put on a play about Clifford the Clam who gets a sore foot from jumping too high.

603. Climate (29:39)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the weather of the United States and its effect on human comfort. Points out the nature of the country's agriculture as valuable bequests from our land. Shows how our climate differs from...

604. Clinical psychology and hypnosis (15:29)

Date:
1947
Summary:
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, pic...

605. Clinton Golden : part 1 (29:33)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Dr. Golden reviews the historical development of worker organizations, the role of labor unions in society, and the general structure of union organizations. Examines and evaluates labor's concern ...

606. Clinton Golden : part 3 (29:51)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Dynamics of Industrial Philosophy (1942), by Mr. Golden, is evaluated for use in the area of labor relations today. “How has militant unionism affected the acceptance of labor organizations?” “Are ...

607. Clinton Golden : part 4 (29:41)

Date:
1957
Summary:
“The Responsibility of Unions in our Democracy,” “the choosing and training of labor leaders,” “educating the public to labor philosophies and policies,” and “the opportunities for growth and coope...

608. Clocks and time (15:06)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells us that there were no clocks or watches aboard the Mayflower and that the watch was invented after the first settlers in America had landed. The history of mechanical methods to tell tim...

609. Clubs or Gangs? (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Why do children form clubs? Is this a step toward delinquency? Dr. Maria Piers describes children's needs to belong to group and how they learn about democracy from belonging to these smaller group...

610. Co-operative work in the South (15:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The neighborliness of people in the South gives rise to many stories of help to others living nearby. The assistance with plowing, picking of crops and helping “catch up on work” is told, then the ...

611. Coal and iron ore (29:53)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the supply of coal and iron ore in the United States. States that America has 4000 years supply of coal--this in spite of the fact that the U.S. produces thirty per cent of the world's su...

612. Coal gas (08:17)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Animation is used to present the story of the Bagley family, who do not use their furnace correctly. When Mr. Bagley over-fires the furnace, the narrator, who is a gnome, and cutaway diagrams of t...

613. Collision stations (29:45)

Alternative title:
Collision stations
Date:
1959
Summary:
What happens when a rocket ship in space is struck and damaged by a meteor? Capt. Gell, a Navy expert on crew equipment, demonstrates the Navy’s full-pressure space suit for emergency escape from ...

614. Colombia : crossroads of the Americas (26:45)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Introduces life in Colombia from a geographic, social, and economic viewpoint. Presents family life in the home of one of Bogota's foremost families, and a garden party attended by notables of poli...

615. Colonists and their countries (14:58)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes the various groups of settlers that came to this country and founded colonies. Tells of the first French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish settlers. Discusses their lives, homes, an...

616. Color and light no. 1 (09:33)

Date:
1950
Summary:
As multicolored plastic abstractions swing and revolve, lights create changing, fantastic patterns of colored shadow. Has an original piano score. Made by the American artist in plastics, Jim Davis.

617. Color lithography : an art medium (31:44)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Shows the preparation of a lithographic stone and methods of drawing on stone with crayons and Tusche liquid. Demonstrates the processes needed for three-color printing and presents and discusses e...

618. Color on a stone (12:26)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Explores the possiblities of creating color lithography and explains methods of visualization, transfer and simple registry. Shows Patrick Dullantry, an American printmaker who works over progressi...

619. Colorforms : operation safety (05:58)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Two advertisements for Colorforms, a toy brand that produces thin, colorful, geometric shapes that can be adhered to a plastic laminated background. Colorforms : Operation Safety, is a young people...

620. Colors in Music (29:35)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Explains the use of the tone colors of an instrument or groups of instruments to achieve desired musical effects. Concentrates on the winds and the brasses as a number of musicians display the tona...

621. Combustion & Combustion Products (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate the process of combustion and the by-products produced. Explains how combustion depends on fuel, air, and heat. Illustrates combustion with liquid and s...

622. Coming home (15:42)

Date:
1946
Summary:
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 Fl...

623. Common animals of the woods (North America) (11:24)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Includes the squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, porcupine, otter, mink, beaver, opossum, skunk, ad woodchuck. In each instance the distinguishing characteristics of the animal are shown, such as the abilit...

624. Communism in the U.S. (29:48)

Date:
1961
Summary:
This program traces the history of the Communist Party in the United States. The dramatic sequences feature a re-enactment of the Bridgeman Convention in 1921 and show how the Communist Party of th...

625. Communist blueprint for conquest (32:26)

Date:
1955
Summary:
This film was used to train American soldiers at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Produced during the height of the Cold War, this example of U.S. propaganda explains the reasons for American involvemen...

626. Computers and Human Behavior (29:13)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Discusses research being conducted at the Carnegie Institute of Technology to evolve new theories about mental processes. Shows Dr. Bert Green demonstrating his computer experiments with the percep...

628. Conflict (17:30)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Examines a series of routine conflict situations faced by a college student. Defines and analyzes emotional conflict according to four general classifications: approach-approach, avoidance-avoidanc...

629. Conflicts (30:26)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses conflicts, and suggests effective ways of handling them. Identifies the various characteristics of a conflict as: the opposition forces, the vacillation, the inability to reach a decision...

630. Confronted (1:00:32)

Date:
1963
Summary:
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...

631. Confucianism : the code of the gentleman (29:22)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Describes the life of Confucius as being that of a teacher and a statesman. Explains that Confucianism grew out of a question concerning how men could learn to live together without destroying each...

632. Congressional Clinic: Issues and Trends (29:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents a discussion of the 85th congress and the issues to come before it. Examines the political make-up of Congress. Outlines the criteria by which to judge what's happening in politics. Uses c...

633. Congressional hearings : the drug debate (31:52)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
This film shows excerpts from the three-day subcommittee hearings on patent medicine, antitrust, and prescription drug laws. The bill before Congress, number S-1552, Drug Industry Antitrust Act, is...

634. Conservatism in America (29:18)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses Conservationism in America by Clinton Rossiter. Outlines the contents, clarifies terms, and assesses the author's position. Considers the techniques used and appraises the historical and ...

635. Conspiracy in Kyoto (20:48)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Uses scenes from Japanese narrative scrolls of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries to tell the story of an innocent man, unjustly accused of a capital crime, who wins his vindication. The spoken te...

636. Constitution of the United States (22:10)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Depicts the events and conditions leading to the writing of the U.S. Constitution, the formulation of the Great Compromise between the small and large states, the struggle for ratification, and the...

637. Contemporary Hawaii (56:14)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Travelogue documenting Bailey's trip to Hawaii in 1960. Features extensive footage of Hawaii's scenic oceans, beaches, hills, and flowers. Shots of several landmarks, including Aloha Tower, ʻIolani...

638. Continent of the sun (53:45)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Pan American Airways promotional tourism film for South America. Highlights include Panama Canal, European influence in Ecuador, Inca history of Peru, Machu Pichu, Bolivian farmland, Chilean vineya...

639. Control of Inmates (28:13)

Date:
1965
Summary:
A training film for the Dept. of Justice, showing how an escape from a maximum security penitentiary was made possible by the failure of custodial officers to carry out their orders consistently an...

640. Controversy, freedom of speech, and majority rule (29:26)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Outlines the obligations of the average person with respect to controversy and controversial matters, the relationship of freedom of discussion to the shifting of opinion, and the role of minority ...

641. Convention management (29:46)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Describes convention management in relation to the four committees of all political conventions. Explains the seating of these four committees--rules, platform, credentials, and permanent organizat...

642. Conventions at work (29:15)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses the sequence of events that takes place when the national political convention is underway. Includes consideration of the role of the contemporary chairman, the "keynoter", general speech...

643. Copernicus (1473-1543) (29:28)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Indicates that the problem of getting to Mars of Venus, heretofore a concern only to science fiction writers and afficionados, has now become an international obsession. Shows that the strides bein...

645. Copper mining and smelting (11:03)

Date:
1949
Summary:
"An open-pit copper mine in operation illustrates the main steps in extracting pure copper from ore. We see the processes of blasting, loading and disposing of waste rock, loading ore on railroad c...

646. Copy-cats : unusual similarities among animals (30:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Visits the Brookfield Zoo to discover those animals which look and live alike but are unrelated. Explains that copy-cats occur in the plant, bird, and animal, worlds, and tells why. Uses film clips...

647. Cornell - Beth's Hockey Matches-177 (08:34)

Date:
1977
Summary:
Home movie footage of Vicki, Naomi, Eddie, and Ken watching Beth play collegiate ice hockey for Cornell at Lynah Rink on January 8, 1977. Cornell (in white jerseys) defeats St. Lawrence University ...

648. Cosmic ray studies (15:04)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discuses the problem of harmful effects on the human body caused by extended exposure to cosmic radiation. Describes how these effects have been studied by exposing animals, insects, eggs, and seed...

649. Cosmic rays (27:32)

Date:
1960
Summary:
A study of cosmic rays, how they were discovered, how they are measured, and how they affect research, especially in the fields of atomic and nuclear physics. Includes views of the atomic accelerat...

650. Costumes of Our Country (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
How the clothes of people living in this country have changed is shown by Bash, in pictures and in living pictorial groups. From the early Spanish peaked helmet and bloomers, through the Cavaliers,...

651. Cotton farm (15:17)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of the development of the great cotton farms. Describes the planting, harvesting, and packing of cotton.

652. Country fairs (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash starts at the earliest meetings of groups of people, the church festival, and traces the development of gatherings on through the country fairs. The camp meetings of the Methodists give rise t...

653. County and community recreation in action (29:09)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Presents the case histories of three county-wide recreation programs in Indiana as observed by an interested group. Outlines the various arrangements of financing a recreation program, shows the m...

654. Courtesy for beginners (10:22)

Date:
1952
Summary:
A third-grade class decides who will be the week's host, shows one youngsters pretending she is a visitor while another acts out the part of the host. Pictures children making introductions, and u...

655. Covered Bridges (14:52)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells the romance crossing streams and takes a film trip to see some historic covered bridges which are still in use. Covered bridges had many unusual features including the special toll charg...

656. Covered Wagon Trip (15:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of an imaginary cross-country trip in a covered wagon. Explains the preparation for the trip. Describes the difficulties encountered on such a journey. (KQED) Kinescope.

657. Cow in the house (15:04)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Marionettes present the story of a man and wife who think their house is too small for visiting relatives. Promising to follow the advice of their wise friend, Mr. Wiseman, they bring a rooster, a ...

658. Cowboy small (15:02)

Date:
1955
Summary:
The Friendly Giant reads the book, Cowboy Small, by Lois Lenski, published by the Oxford University Press, to Jerome the giraffe. Then he tries to find a ten-gallon hat for Jerome. (WHA-TV) Kinesc...

659. Crime and delinquency (1:29:19)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Huston Smith interviews Dr. Bertram Beck and Dr. Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History, on the subject of our country’s alarming rise in violence and deviant behavior. Are other c...

660. Crime Under Twenty-One (1:00:46)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Concentrates on criminal behavior committed by teenagers. Points out that juvenile delinquency may be over-exaggerated. Shows how improvements in statistics, reporting, and apprehension influence t...

661. Cross country high (14:35)

Date:
1975
Summary:
Explores the problem that young people have with alcoholism. Stimulates consideration of self-reliance, decision-making, and resistance to peer pressure as part of developing the resolve to live fr...

662. Crossingover in terms of meiosis (29:48)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents the hypothesis that chiasmata represent physical evidence of crossingover. This would mean that crossingover takes place at a four-strand rather than a two-strand stage. Genetic proof for ...

663. Crying (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Host Lee Wilcox discusses the phenomenon of crying with University of Chicago childhood development expert Maria Piers. Examines motivations for crying, including physical discomfort, a need for at...

664. Crystal gazing (12:08)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Shows how some of the crystals in limestone caves are formed and then pictures by time-lapse cinephotomicrography the crystallization of the commonplace substances and chemicals. Depicts briefly th...

665. Crystals (29:27)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Minerals are combinations of the elements of the earth. They can be identified by luster, color, hardness, specific gravity, density and cleavage, and by their crystal form. This program will dea...

666. Crystals and Glass (29:51)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to explain properties of crystals and glass. Tell how crystals are formed and demonstrates crystallization taking place. Discusses glass, its formation, and how it dif...

667. Cultural Patterns of Infant Regulations (29:28)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses dance routines and originally scored music to demonstrate cultural differences in early training of infants. Compares families of southern urban Negroes, the Manus of the Admiralty Islands, an...

668. Cultural patterns of marital sanction (28:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray differences in marriage rituals of three societies. Emphasizes the basic motive behind the selection of marriage partners, the rituals ...

669. Culture and Crime (1:00:02)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Analyzes patterns of culture and their influence on the rise of criminality, using the Nazi regime in Germany as an example. Points out how accepted behavior in one culture may be a crime in anothe...

670. Culture for the Millions (1:01:25)

Date:
1961
Summary:
One common denominator of our culture, according to Dr. Dodds, is the people's desire for self-improvement. Describes an early American institution that endured until the 1920s--"Tent Chautauqua." ...

671. Cutting with carbide tools part 1 : single point (19:25)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to select the tool for the job; how to set up the job; how to calculate speed, feed, and depth of cut; how to machine on a lathe, using a single-point carbide tool; and how to correct uns...

672. D-day (11:47)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Presents newsreel film on the invasion of France during World War II. Shows Allied air power "softening up" the Normandy coast, the great sea convoy on its way, and landings on the beachheads.

673. Dame Edith Sitwell : part 1 (30:01)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Dame Edith Sitwell’s guest are Dr. Neal Woodruff and Oliver Shoemaker, both of the English Department of Carnegie Institute of Technology. She discusses with them some of the outstanding qualities ...

675. Dame Edith Sitwell : part 3 (30:09)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Dame Edith Sitwell’s guests are Dr. Neal Woodruff and Beekman Cottrell of the English Department of Carnegie Institute of Technology. She discusses with them life, poetry, the world and people.

677. Dan's 5th Birthday (02:47)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Home movie footage of a birthday celebration for Daniel Hellerstein in the yard of the Harold Feil home. Shows the Feil and Hellerstein cousins eating cake and Daniel unwrapping presents.

678. Dance : a reflection of our times (29:37)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses the use of the dance as a social commentary and relates it to the critical statements of artists in other fields. Presents a performance of "Caprichos" based on Goya's etchings of man's w...

679. Dance squared (03:30)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Orange, blue, and yellow geometric figures are arranged in a variety of figures and animated to the tune of a country fiddle. Suggests many ideas for a mathematics class to investigate.

680. Dandy Don the Downy Woodpecker (15:02)

Date:
1959
Summary:
This is the story of a vain woodpecker who wanted to wear shoes. Dora and Fignewton talk about what woodpeckers eat and their habits are illustrated with shadow puppets.

681. Danny Deer's Dilemma (15:04)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dora and Fignewton tell the story of a deer who lost his antlers and what happened as a result.

682. Dating age (29:13)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr. Maria Piers discusses the behavior of teenagers in the context of dating and romantic relationships.

683. Daughters of India (08:56)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows how India's women are stepping forth from their traditionally sheltered lives and taking an active part in public affairs.

685. David Rubadiri (29:25)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Presents Mr. Nkosi interviewing poet and educator David Rubardiri of Nyasaland and Kenyan poet Joseph Kariuki. Discusses Rubardiri's personal struggle as a creative writer in an emerging nation and...

688. Day of the killer tornadoes (15:35)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Documents the series of 147 tornadoes which struck the South and Midwest sections of the United States in April 1974. Includes extensive footage of the tornadoes in Xenia and Cincinnati, Ohio and i...

689. Decline and revival (29:49)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the decline of printing during the 18th and 19th centuries. Points out the main reasons behind the decline of printing. Reviews the work of William Morris and his successors in reviving ...

690. Decontamination of streets (17:31)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Shows a decontamination squad in England working to make the streets safe from blister gas. Demonstrates the use of anti-gas ointment, respirators, and clothing worn by crews, and explains precaut...

691. Deep end (10:12)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Presents Ruth, Jump, Marjorie Gestring, and others diving from a 33-foot tower to show championship form in diving. Pictures Iris Cummings and the Hopkins twins as they demonstrate the breast strok...

692. Defense of the Western hemisphere (16:56)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Traces the development of the Good Neighbor Policy, the Rio Treaty against aggression, and the Organization of American States set up at Bogota. Describes the importance to the Western Hemisphere o...

693. Defensive Action (29:41)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Reviews defensive driving and the importance of perception. Defines defensive action. Discusses loss in perception, comprehensive viewing vs. acute viewing, scanning, the need to make sure the oth...

694. Defensive Driving (29:46)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses the element of chance and the philosophy of defensive driving. Emphasizes that obeying the law is not enough--it is important to uses our sense of perception. Defines what is meant by t...

695. Defining primitivism (29:26)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Expands the popular definition of "primitive"--one who is self-taught--to include artists who reject academic or conventional expression, subject matter, or technique. Shows and discusses various ...

696. Delinquency areas (29:24)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Dr. Dietrich Reitzes, associate professor of social psychology at the University of Indiana and a member of the US Selective Service in Felon Studies, joins Sheriff Lohman for a study of the relati...

697. Democracy and politics (30:05)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Presents a political history of Japan from its early autocracy to the formation of its democratic government under the direction of the U. S. in 1945. Explains how Japan operates on two levels poli...

698. Density (15:07)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses experiments to explain the theory of density. Shows that some objects will float while other sink. Illustrates with objects made of cork, brick, wood, and steel. (WCET) Kinescope.

699. Der Rhein (04:30)

Date:
1960
Summary:
A small boy's curiosity about the source of his new clothing is used in tracing the production of clothing from raw material to the finished product. Shows several of the manufacturing processes b...

700. Design into space (11:03)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Students demonstrate the procedures that may be applied to fashion a space design. Details the making of an initial sketch, a three-dimensional model, and a final structure. Shows steps in the cre...