1711. Overview (29:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Illustrates early cars, compares them with today's automobiles, and discusses three interdependent areas--the car, the roadway, and the driver. Discusses means of solving the highway death toll-engineering, enforcement, and education. Explains the purpose of the Driver Education course. (Cincinnati Public Schools and WCET) Kinescope.

1712. Oxygen (11:07)

Date:
1947
Summary:
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.

1713. Oxygen (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to illustrate the properties of oxygen. Tells how oxygen was discovered and how it was named. Presents demonstrations of oxidation. Shows how oxygen is obtained from water by electrolysis. (KQED) Film.

1715. Pacific Telephone "Dad on a Trip" (00:23)

Date:
1961
Summary:
A daughter misses her father when goes on a business trip. Luckily, she and her mother can talk with her father because they used the Bell Telephone Company for their phone call.

1716. Padres, coureurs-de-bois, and backwoodsmen (30:09)

Date:
1955
Summary:
This installment tells the story of Colonial North America, as recalled by John Francis “Jack” Bannon, S.J., a Saint Louis University historian and internationally-renowned scholar brought history and the story of America to life.

1717. Palace of the Bats (09:27)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Visits Carlsbad Caverns National Park near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Describes the discovery of the caverns by early settlers who observed a huge formation of bats leaving the entrance. Shows and explains how the huge caverns were formed over thousands of years of time. Provides close-ups of stalagmites, stalagtites, and limestone draperies.

1718. Pale Horseman (21:41)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows the relation between the aftermath of war and the "pale horseman," epidemic disease. Discusses the plight of 100,000,000 displaced persons soon after World War II and the activities of UNRRA.

1719. Pampers "Untitled" (01:02)

Date:
1960
Summary:
A mother explains how useful pamper diapers are because she can take them wherever she goes, and they are absorbent as well as disposable.

1720. Paper (15:09)

Date:
1959
Summary:
A sheet of paper is taken for granted today, but it was a treasure in other times. Bash Kennett tells of man’s attempt to create something on which he could record his thoughts. She traces the discovery of wood pulp which led to the conquest of America’s forests by loggers who cut the trees for paper mills. Songs include “Poor Pitat” and “Oh Susannah.”