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Home movie taken during Ed Feil's military service in World War II. Begins in Allied-occupied Austria, where Ed visits the composer statues in the Stadtpark. Portaits of Lenin and Stalin hang on buildings near the Austrian Parliament. Shows lots of footage taken from a moving train as the men travel through Steyr and western Germany on their way to Le Havre. Extensive shots of rubble and the bombed out landscape across Austria and Germany as well as soldiers on the train.
Edward R. Feil, Amy Feil, George Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, David Hellerstein, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin, Ellen Feil, Vicki Rubin, Ken Feil, Susan Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, Edward G. Feil, Jonathan Hellerstein, Leslie Feil, George H. Feil, Harold S. Feil, Kathryn Hellerstein
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Home movie of a joint birthday party for Amy Feil, Mary Hellerstein, and a 50th birthday party for George Feil at the Harold Feil home. Each is presented with a cake and blows out the candles while the family watches from around the dining room.
Harold S. Feil, Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein
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Home movie footage of 1949 graduation ceremonies for Mary and Ed. First, Mary receives her Doctor of Medicine from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is seen posing with friends and her husband, Herman Hellerstein, while wearing her cap and gown. The film then briefly shows Class Day Exercises at Yale, graduates lined up outside, and Harkness Tower.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Julius Weil, Helen Kahn Weil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Beth Rubin, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil
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Home movie of Naomi's 40th birthday party at her home. Beth presents the cake and Naomi blows out the candles. Eddie and Kenny then play with a friend and the family dog, Tiger, in the yard.
Shows how large deposits of iron ore, coal, and cheap water transportation contributed to the creation of a large industrial complex in the Great Lakes region. Pictures large scale mining of taconite in the Mesabi range of northern Minnesota. Shows ore boats on the Great Lakes, coal mining operations in West Virginia, a steel mill in Indiana, and the forming of automobile bodies in Detroit.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Naomi Feil, Ken Feil, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin
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Begins with the family watching Vicki participating in a gym class demonstration. Back at the house, Naomi breastfeeds Kenny while Eddie eats in a high chair.
Reveals the activities, customs, and traditions of the Watussi, an African people characterized by their advanced culture. Shows the ruling prince and royal family and activities in the royal household, including weaving, decorating, cooking, and churning. Portrays the prince as he inspects his cattle and leads a hunt, and depicts his young son presiding over a ceremonial dance.
Dramatization showing how Navy photographers and photographic interpreters provided the intelligence necessary to launch a strike against a Japanese airfield in the Solomon Islands. Ends with a statement by Commander R.S. Quackenbush, Jr. urging viewers to purchase war bonds.
This film "outlines the role that industry is playing in our war effort. Production of munitions and the operation of the payroll withdrawal plan for War Bonds are among the subjects treated." (Free Film Reviews, Movie Makers, January, 1943, 34.) Includes footage from a number of International Harvester factories and how the company's workers save money from their paycheck to help the war effort through a company-wide payroll savings plan.
Describes the Canadian effort in World War II including news footage of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament, the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and Canadian tank and aircraft production.
Reviews the World War II service of the transport "Wakefield," formerly the liner "Manhattan"; shows it being used for the transportation of troops, bombed at Singapore, and burned in the Atlantic.
United States. Army Air Forces. First Motion Picture Unit
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This film outlines the convalescent training program for hospitalized U.S. airmen in World War II. It is designed to acquaint the convalescent with the program in which he will take part. Patients are shown in their beds, doing light calisthenics in the wards, exercising specific muscles using specially designed equipment, exercising and playing games out-of-doors, and engaging in hobbies and crafts. Other aspects of the program involve convalescents sharing wartime experiences with their fellow patients, teaching them new material and new skills, brushing up on their old skills acquired on duty, taking courses, and even earning degrees. The program also includes updates and discussions on the war, watching duty-related films, and engaging in purely social activities. The circulation and blood supply to various parts of the body are shown in animation.
Bob returns to the basketball locker room for the whistle needed in practice. Don sees Bob searching Ben's pockets and tells the gang that Bob is a thief. At skill practice Coach Barker, in questioning the boys, brings them to realize that jumping at conclusions is dangerous, and that good intentions are not the same as truth.
Shows examples of permanent and temporary houses planned by the Scottish Housing Advisory Committee and based on opinions of service men and women, and factory workers during World War II.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil, George Feil, George H. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Amy Feil, Susan Hellerstein, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ellen Feil, Beth Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Jonathan Helelrstein, Betsy Feil, Herman Hellerstein
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Naomi and the boys at an indoor petting zoo (at The Arcade shopping mall). At the house, the boys play with friends while the family dog, Tiger, follows them. At the George Feil home, the family gathers to celebrate birthdays for Mary, George, Ellen, Amy, and Susan. This is the same party as 40000003363548 (Tiger Eddie Beth Ken Winter). Ends with Kenny and friends dyeing Easter eggs at the kitchen table.
Edward R. Feil, George Feil, Nellie Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Leslie Feil, Betsy Feil, David Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Kathryn Hellerstein, Amy Feil, Ellen Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil
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Home movie of a joint birthday party for George Feil (brother of Ed Feil) and his daughter, Amy. Nellie presents George with a cake and he blows out the candles with the assistance of his daughters, nieces, and nephews. Amy is given a cupcake with one candle. The party then moves to the living room, where all the children help Amy and George open presents.
Edward R. Feil, Nellie Feil, Harold S. Feil, George Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ken Feil, Edward G. Feil, Naomi Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George H. Feil, Beth Rubin, Kathryn Hellerstein, Betsy Feil
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A joint birthday party for Harold Feil, Nellie Feil, and Herman Hellerstein. Each is given their own cake and blows out the candles.
Travelogue documenting Ed Feil's trip to Italy in 1963. Feil's film "Cleveland Institute of Art" is showing at the Venice Film Festival. Shares footage with Italy '63 (barcode 40000003364033).
Home movie of Ed, Eddie, and Kenny participating in Indian Guides, an outdoor adventure group for boys through the YMCA. Shows a group of boys and fathers sledding, hiking, rowing, and fishing. In the winter, they walk and sled atop a frozen lake. In the spring, they shoot bows and arrows and wear Native American style headdresses and dance about a bonfire. Also shows footage from a car driving through the historic village of Zoar, Eddie and friends playing with a frog, and people skiing at Atwood Lake Lodge.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin, Edward G. Feil
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Home movie of Beth, Eddie, and an unknown girl (possibly Beth Hellerstein) eating at the kitchen table in the Ed Feil home. Naomi stands nearby, talking on the phone.
This is a follow-up study of six mildly retarded boys between five and seven years of age who attended the pre-school of the Mental Development Center. The film demonstrates growth and development in the boys three years later while attending a special summer program for educable retarded.
Edward R. Feil, Leslie Feil, George Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Maren Mansberger Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Betsy Feil, Kathryn Hellerstein
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Home movie of a birthday party for Leslie Feil at her childhood home. Shows George grilling while Mary and Maren prepare food in a dark kitchen. Leslie receives a cake shaped like a house. Ends with shots of an unknown river or lake.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin
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Home movie typical of the Feils’ family camp trips. Shows the family riding horses in a pasture, rowing at the lake, swimming, and playing in the sand. The film ends back at the Feil home, where Naomi is given birthday presents at the kitchen table.
Warning: This film contains graphic footage of animals that some viewers may find distressing.
Home movie of Ed Feil's trip to Los Angeles (possibly to visit extended family). Begins with a brief scene at Knott's Berry Farm in the Wild West section of the park. The group then attends a bull fight at Plaza Monumental de Playas in Tijuana. Shows a graphic bull fight that ends with the slaying of a bull and a matador being tended to by medics. Outside the ring, people drink beer and tequila and dance as a mariachi band plays.
Edward R. Feil, Leslie Feil, Betsy Feil, Ellen Feil, Amy Feil, Kathyrn Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Beth Rubin, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Naomi Feil
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Home movie of the Feil family throwing a 11th birthday party for Leslie Feil, eldest child of George (Ed Feil's brother) and Maren Feil. Shows Leslie blowing out the candles on her birthday cake surrounded by her sisters and cousins. The camera focuses on Beth Hellerstein enjoying a cupcake at the end.
Home movie documenting Ed Feil’s trip to Paris in 1959. Begins with footage of a flight from Gander, Canada to Paris. The film captures several notable landmarks, including the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Sacre Ceour, Notre Dame, and a visit to the Louvre. Street scenes depict the bustle of city life and show local markets, street musicians, heavy traffic, and people dining al fresco.
Presents for discussion is supervisory training sessions the problem of a supervisor who leaves the office promptly but tells his clerical workers that they must work overtime, and who later criticizes the girls when they refuse to volunteer to work on Saturday.
Shows the location and physical features of Greenland; explains its new position in the modern world as the center of the short polar air routes. Portrays the life of the Greenlanders, explains their origin, and describes their change in half a century from nomadic hunters to fishermen living in small permanent communities where life is patterned after the ways of Denmark.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Explains how seemingly minor ideas can improve wartime production. Encourages workers to provide resourceful suggestions that, if tested and approved, can be circulated to factories around the country.
Descusses the economic concepts related to land, climate, and major resources in the countries of Colombia, Venzuela, and the three Guianas. Includes scenes of the people and of their ways of life, shows the many modern developments which industrialization has brought, and describes the type of government of each country. Collaborator, Donald D. Brand.
Reviews Greek history by showing pieces of sculpture from each historical period from 300 B.C. to A.D. 300 and the related architecture. Sculpture proceeded from small animals buried in tombs to large animals and then to undraped youth. Shows the various tools used by the early Greeks in sculpture. Concludes with a non-narrative viewing of various works of sculpture.
Wounded Americans, back from battlefields and task forces all over the world gave rise to the Navy's most important postwar mission--get them well and send them home.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Donald A. Dukelow, Larry Yust
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Deals with the actions of community health organizations in their efforts to fight disease. Shows the functions of the department of health in preventing and controlling the spread of contagious diseases as the film follows the developments in a successful attempt to stop a typhoid epidemic in its early stages. Relates the jobs of the school nurse, doctor, laboratory technician, visiting nurse, and food inspector in protecting the community health. Encourages children to observe personal health rules and to keep their homes and towns clean.
Depicts the emotional problems of a young boy, his rebellion against parental controls, particularly his father's repressive discipline, and his gradual development into a potential juvenile delinquent. Shows the assistance of a community social worker and a neighborhood welfare house in bringing about development of better understanding between father and son. Stresses American spirit of public service and community concern for child welfare. Prepared for overseas use.
"Newsreel pictures of the attack of Dec. 7, 1941, on Pearl Harbor. Closes with America's ringing answer to the enemy challenge." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 5). This American newsreel portrays the attack on Pearl Harbor and the aftermath of the strike. Includes footage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's December 8th "Infamy" speech in front of a joint session of Congress.
Shows the importance of accuracy in the information a warden collects at the scene of disaster and the exact manner in which he should transmit information to the control.
WQED, Tom Coleman, Sam Silberman, Frank Stuckman, Albert B. Martin, Dr. Peter H. Odegard
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Dr. Peter H. Odegard, head of the political science department at the University of California at Berkeley, delivers the paper he prepared at the time of the inauguration of Edward H. Litchfield as the twelfth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. He discusses the role that the universities of the United States must play in the country’s role in the world. He places particular emphasis on the social sciences.
"Offers revealing insights into the re-structuring of health services in London and elsewhere in Britain following the outbreak of WWII ... The film is broadly divided into three parts. The opening sequence looks at the advances made so far in the battle against sickness and disease, brought about through slum clearance, preventative and curative medicine and research. The middle section describes the re-organisation of existing services in preparation for air raid casualties, with the redeployment of city centre hospitals for emergency services and first aid, and the movement of convalescent, maternity and evacuation hospitals further out into the country. The final section uses pictures of happy, healthy children running free in the English countryside to remind cinema audiences of what Britain is fighting for."--British Film Institute website.
"How our fighting equipment gets through to our fighting men in quantity and on time. The mountains of supplies for combat loaded at ports of embarkation are unloaded under combat conditions and under fire in the South Pacific. From behind-the-lines General Supply Depots they are moved through jungle swamps to advance bases, to the firing lines. The never-ending battle of supply is graphically told in these pictures."--Supplement to Visual Aids Catalog, Indiana University Extension Division, May 1945.
Shows to the men and women of American industry the vital importance to the war effort of all the little parts that they are making. Discusses the importance of ball bearings to the Nazi war effort and the Allied strategy of crippling the bearings industry. Shows the planning and intelligence gathering that led to the bombing of ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt.
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
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News stories include the introduction of the Mosquito reconnaissance bomber, the war in New Guinea, urging those at home to repair appliances as new ones are not available, the bombing on Naples, Italy, a letter to his fellow workers from machinist Arthur Hocking whose son has been killed in the war urging them to do everything possible to wind up the war, the United States Coast Guard song is played over scenes of Coast Guard life.
Discusses the importance of various secret weapons used throughout World War II, such as radar and the atomic bomb. The film emphasizes the development and use of these weapons as being critical to winning the war, thereby justifying their costs. Ends with a plea to purchase victory bonds to support research that will prevent future wars.
Shows heavy equipment of all types used by the Corps of Engineers and the Seabees during World War II. Describes how the "work power" of military construction units clears beaches of mines, constructs new roads, builds bridges and airstrips, and sets up water purification systems. Contrasts the pre-technological building techniques of China, India, and Africa with the technological might of the U.S. military.
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
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News stories include civilians giving up travel to enable the movement of soldiers, how a truck operates as a laundry at the front, the highway from Seattle through Canada to Alaska is completed, a report on the campaign in New Guinea, a sing-along version of The Marines' Hymn.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Alexander A. Nikolsky, Hal Kopel
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Describes the unique contribution of the helicopter to transportation; explains how the helicopter flies and how it can be controlled; compares the helicopter with the conventional plane. Demonstrates the operation of many types of helicopters which are being flown today and points out the potentialities of the helicopter for reshaping the pattern of transportation.
Illustrates various techniques and household arrangements for caring for the convalescent patient at home. Shows ways of arranging the sick room, making the beds, washing and serving the patient, caring for the thermometer, and removing soiled linens. Pictures the distribution of chores among the family members and demonstrates some necessary precautions to prevent the spread of the illness.
Stresses that observation is basic to learning the sciences and the arts by showing a boy observing an old house, an example of capillary action, and a science experiment. Emphasizes the importance of the tools of observation--being alert, being interested, and asking questions.
Combines live photography with animated drawings to explain the nature of heat and some of the principal ways in which heat is transferred. Deals with such characteriestic of heat as conduction, convection, and radiation; develops the concept of insulation; and illustrates and discusses practical applications of heat in home and industry.
Shows the telephone center and the bedside telephone service in a U.S. Army hospital. Discusses the beneficial effects on the soldiers of receiving telephone calls from home and advises families at home how to handle these important calls.
Dramatizes the conservation of war materials by residents of a typical town. Explains how the war effort is helped by sharing rides and collecting tin cans and other salvage. Explains the organization of civilian defense units and shows a neighborhood meeting.
Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties.
Using dramatized events and newsreels, this film shows the organizing done during World War II to ship war supplies to the military. Shows the work of the Army Transportation Corps in providing ship convoys, as well as the work done by supply depots.