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An advertisement for Swans Down cream puff and eclair mix in which an offscreen narrator describes the product over close-up shots of cream puffs and eclairs being baked and covered with chocolate ...
United States. Office of Education; United States. Federal Security Agency; United States Office of War Information, Overseas Branch
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Actress Ingrid Bergman gives an overview of the history of Swedes and Swedish culture in the U.S., presented as a reply to letters from her countrymen asking the question "why do Swedes get along s...
A pair of slippers walk from a bedroom to a bathtub. When the slippers arrive at their destination the scene transitions to a woman taking a bath with Sweet Heart soap. A narrator talks about the b...
A woman baths with Sweetheart Soap as a narrator explains the benefits of using the soap. The narrator also mentions Sweetheart Soap is either Lilac or Lemon scented.
An advertisement for Swift Canadian Bacon in which two tins of meat are talking to each other filmed in stop motion. Then a male narrator talks about a variety of different meals that can be made w...
Students from the Hinsdale South High School, Clarendon Hills, Illinois, and New Trier East High School, Winnetka, Illinois are shown in swimming contests and in demonstrations on techniques and ru...
A narrator talks about the how quality of Swiss watches as an orchestra plays in the background. All the members of the orchestra wear Swiss watches. The narrator concludes the commercial by urging...
Shows Sydenham Hospital, in Harlem, the first interracial hospital in the United States. Pictures the work of white and Negro doctors and nurses in helping their patients to become healthy, useful...
Episode 39 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and ...
A chemist explains to two boys how a spider's method of spinning a web compares with the manufacture of synthetic fibers. They shows in detail the processes by which rayon and nylon are made. Pictu...
Dramatizes the work of the six law-enforcement agencies of the Treasury Department, which are shown dealing with smuggling, narcotics running, illegal production and sale of alcohol, counterfeiting...
Tennessee Valley Authority; National Defense Advisory Committee
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Narration introduces this report as "the story of the development of the Tennessee River," showing ongoing construction of major public works projects conducted under the Tennessee Valley Authority...
An advertisement for Tab diet cola in which an offscreen male narrator repeats how the product is sugar-free and only two calories over still images of the bottled product and a group of young men ...
Episodes 9-12 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series All About You, an elementary course in health education designed for children to help them understand basic human anatomy, physiology...
From the series Ripples. A magnifying glass helps Lynn discover the richness of her own backyard on a Iazy summer day. Lynn's own bare toes, wiggling in the warm grass. first capture her interest T...
United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics; United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management
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U.S. Navy training film intended to improve dictation technique through humorous demonstration of common faults. After a series of vignettes where inept and ineffective styles of dictation to a ste...
Teaches the square dance figure "Take a Little Peek," with synchronous music and action. Presents live and animated demonstrations of the dance at regular speed and in slow motion, and explains the...
Episode 6 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute colo...
Mr. Hoffer argues that the men working beside him as longshoremen on the San Francisco docks are “lumpy with talent.” Genius, he notes, is not rare, it is wasted; and the talent of the workingman i...
Scenes of Frank Lloyd Wright's home near Phoenix, Ariz., illustrating his basic principle that buildings should blend with their natural surroundings. This home is built of boulders and redwood tru...
Episode 17 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series All About You, an elementary course in health education designed for children to help them understand basic human anatomy, physiology, a...
Discusses the area of general semantics. Develops the idea that one's language determines the limits of one's world. Illustrates the way in which undifferentiated reactions to words leads to a comm...
From the series Ripples. American children visit in the homes of children from Ghana, India and Japan. They share each other's games, food. language and music. and enjoy similarities and difference...
Distinguishes between statements of inference and statements of fact and discusses the consequences of confusing the two. Illustrates the manner in which most people make declarative statements tha...
In this opening program, Dr. Irving Lee presents his viewpoint of general semantics – the science of the relations between symbols and the study of human behavior as a reaction to symbols.
Discusses the consequences of forgetting that words only point to things and are not the things themselves. Attention to words alone may lead to unrealistic behavior, because language made it easy...
Considers the consequences of the "disease of allness", an attitude present in the person who implies or believes that what he knows or says about a thing is all that can be said. When "allness" ex...
Considers the differences between a good and a bad observer and relates these differences to talking sense. Points out that the use of conclusions based on observation of similarities alone result...
Discusses the variations in meanings of words and how these variations affect the communication process. Shows that words used by a speaker in one way and interpreted by a listener in another resul...
Presents ballad singers singing three authentic American folk songs: "Strawberry Roan," "Grey Goose," and "John Henry." The background for the singers is a farmhouse kitchenyard after the noonday m...
Each year on July 7, the seventh day of the seventh month – the festival of the stars is celebrated in Japan. Artist T. Mikami tells the history of this festival, which is based on the legend of Sh...
Presents the story of Laotzu and his book The Way of Life. Discusses the basic concept of Taoism--creative quietude. Characterizes this belief as one which does not favor competition, but rather al...