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651. 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...

652. 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...

653. 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...

654. 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 ...

655. 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...

656. 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." ...

657. 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...

658. 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.

659. 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 ...

661. 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.

663. 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.

664. 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...

665. 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.

666. 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.

667. 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.

668. Dating age (29:13)

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

669. 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.

671. 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...

674. 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...

675. 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 ...

676. 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...

677. 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...

678. 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...

679. 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...

680. 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...

681. 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 ...

682. 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...

683. 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...

684. 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.

685. 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...

686. 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...

687. Design with a camera (29:44)

Date:
1959
Summary:
One of 13 episodes in a series, Design With A Camera offers instructions and tips on framing subjects in photography. Joan Jockwig Pearson demonstrates subject placement using drawings and frames o...

688. Designing a set (10:10)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Describes each step in planning and designing a stage set. Shows how the realization of the set emerges from rough sketches and a scaled model.

689. Designing for reproduction (29:38)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the processes involved in creating a piece of sculpture suitable for reproduction. Explains compositional elements in sculpture while a figure is modeled. Shows the process of making a ...

690. Despotism (10:39)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Provides an analysis of the meaning of despotism, showing that any community can be rated along a scale from complete democracy to complete despotism. Analyzes two sings which characterize despotis...

693. Diagnosis : danger (19:47)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Discusses hospital safety through the experience of a doctor who, while in charge of a hospital, meets with an accident. While he is recuperating, he considers the many other safety hazards to pati...

695. Dialects (29:54)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this episode, Dr. Smith, Jr.,explains and demonstrates dialect differences in standard English. He calls upon five guests from different geographical areas in the United States who illustrate p...

696. Dialogue: Speaking for Illusion (29:22)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Explains dialogue from the point of view of the playwright who composes it and the actor who gives it expression. Describes and demonstrates three types of dialogue: straight dialogue, set speech...

697. Diary of a car thief (11:21)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Follows a car thief, played by an actor, as he steals cars and offers recommendations to the spectator on how to protect their car. Includes footage of various people looking through documents, ree...

698. Diary of a Harlem family (20:24)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Reveals the all-too-common plight of one family living in New York City's black Harlem through the photographs of Gordon Parks. Includes the problems of inadequate educational background, restricte...

699. Different aircraft systems (29:44)

Date:
1959
Summary:
The first airplane to fly was what would be called today a Canard Type airplane; it had a horizontal stabilizer in front of the main wing. Today’s Conventional Type plane has the stabilizing surfac...

700. Digestive systems in animals (14:50)

Date:
1971
Summary:
Shows the variety of ways animals obtain food and their different types of digestive cavities--fully closed, one opening, and two openings. Examines digestive organs in an earthworm, grasshopper, f...