Unit: IUL Moving Image Archive - Media Collections Online Search Results

Date:: 1948
Summary:: The first in a series of twelve, one-reel films designed to present behind-the scenes activities of the motion picture industry. This film chronicles the technical and aesthetic growth of moving pictures, using excerpts from "The Great Train Robbery", "The Birth of a Nation", "Easy Street", "The Jazz Singer", "In the Hills of Old Kentucky", "Show of Shows", and "Night Song". A salute to the 30,000 people working in Hollywood includes a montage which illustrates some of the 272 different crafts involved in filmmaking. An overview of the physical production of celluloid (cotton and silver) is included. The narrator promises additional short films about each step in movie production.

Date:: 1955
Summary:: Depicts the role and influence of the mental hospital volunteer in the lives of hospitalized mental patients. Alludes to the scope of the problem of mental illness, and describes some of the undesirable conditions in mental hospitals, the needs of mental patients, the varied activities of a volunteer program, and the process of orienting and training new volunteers. The longer version refers to the Indiana Mental Health Association and the nine mental hospitals in Indiana and includes a direct appeal for volunteers by a former patient.

Date:: 1954
Main contributors:: Alexander McRobbie
Summary:: McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: This home movie captures part of a visit that Chancellor McRobbie’s parents, Alexander and Joyce McRobbie (Joyce was the older daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gair), took to the United Kingdom in 1954 with Michael and his younger sister Pamela, then young children. This home movie was not shot by Mr. Gair but some sequences were likely shot by Mr. McRobbie. Most of the movie is shot in Wales at a holiday resort called Tan-y-Bryn in Colway Bay, Wales, a favorite destination in Wales for the Gair family. Other locations include Sydney, Australia, with shots of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Martin Place via Macquarie St. (shot taken approximately 3 blocks away on Castlereagh St.).There is extensive footage of flower beds and landscape vistas. Footage consists of a combination of color and black and white film stock with title cards for new locations or sites.

Date:: 19uu
Main contributors:: Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:: McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: This home movie contains mainly footage of a large military parade in Melbourne, Australia. It is most likely of an ANZAC day parade. ANZAC day is one of the major public holidays in Australia and is held annually on April 25. It commemorates the first landings of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli, Turkey, on April 25, 1915. The year of this particular parade is not yet clear though it is probably in the early 40s. But the footage of the event is particularly important as it features shots of numerous senior Australian politicians and military officers, including former Australian Prime Ministers, William Hughes and John Curtin. There is additional footage of other military parades and school sporting events very typical of the time.

Date:: 1959
Summary:: Dr. Gould and Dr. Odishaw discuss the idea of the IGY. They trace the idea from the suggestions that was a Third International Polar Year (1882-83, 1932-33) through its expansion into the largest international scientific effort in the history of the world. They present general observations on the geographic and scientific “unknowns” in Antarctica and some of the larger questions to which the IGY hopes to find answers in its exploration of this continent.

Date:: 1959
Summary:: Uses film sequences of the second Byrd expedition, 1933-34, and recent film footage to show how technological advances have improved the work of the scientist. Explains how Antarctica scientists face problems and make adjustments unknown elsewhere in the world. Compares the two expeditions in transportation, building construction, living conditions, equipment, and food. Features Dr. Laurence M. Gould.

Date:: unknown/unknown
Summary:: Home movie of Bailey's trip to Iceland circa 1971. Footage taken from a window of a plane taking off. Glaciers are visible as the plane flies over the Arctic Ocean. Shows Bailey and Ritchie disembarking in Iceland.

Date:: 1960
Summary:: Uses photographs to tell about Alaska, America's 49th state and the continent's last frontier. Describes the history of Alaska from the dreams of Peter the Great to its admission as a state in the United States. Includes views of the people, of the cities, and of the countryside from the frozen arctic tundra to the flower filled Matunuska Valley.

Date:: 1955
Summary:: Shows some of the animals that are found in each of four environments--deciduous forest, evergreen forest, desert, and arctic tundra. Presents the habitats of such animals as sidewinder snake, timber rattlesnake, white-tailed deer, beaver, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, bison, chipmunk, marten, black bear, and bighorn sheep.

Date:: 1946
Main contributors:: See Other Contributors
Summary:: 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.

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