Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

2301. Royal jewels (29:37)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Pictures three expeditions which trace the acquisition by the metropolitan Museum of Art of jewelry which belonged to an Egyptian Princess of the XIIth Dynasty. Traces and discusses changes in the...

2302. Run, Jimmy, run (27:58)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Shows visits to the homes of two Caucasian families who adopted children of Negro and mixed parentage, in which their hopes and problems are discussed.

2304. Safe living at school (second edition) (09:42)

Date:
1969
Summary:
Stop-action photography of common school mishaps illustrates potential safety hazards and ways they can be avoided. Points out that a school building is constructed for maximum safety: accidents ar...

2305. Safety belt for Susie (11:22)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Staged collisions, using anthropometic dummies and dolls simulating children. Demonstrates that year-old children and older should wear safety belts.

2306. Safety Features (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explains the use and necessity of the windshield and windows, lights, sun visors, horn, rear view mirrors, horse power, control devices, and the good driver. Discusses the future of and public att...

2307. Safety features (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explains the use and necessity of the windshield and windows, lights, sun visors, horn, rear view mirrors, horse power, control devices, and the good driver. Discusses the future of and public att...

2308. Safety in the chemistry laboratory (14:44)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Through illustrations, shows high school and college students learning the use of various safety devices, rules, and procedures. Each illustration points out that the student should follow the dire...

2309. Safety on our school bus (10:19)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Homer, a school bus, and his driver Tom help children learn about proper conduct when riding in a school bus, and the responsibility of riders in maintaining safety. Illustrates how to get on and o...

2311. Sailing I (26:59)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Provides beginning sailors with a general overview of the principles and terminology of elementary sailing and the effect of wind upon the sail and boat. Illustrates the functions of the mast, boom...

2312. Sailing II (27:02)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Presents a beginner's guide to smooth and efficient sailing by investigating the effects of weight placement, wind, and sail adjustment. Demonstrates the rules and courtesies of navigation and give...

2313. Sailing Ship Balclutha (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash describes the rugged life aboard an early day sailing vessel … the various chores of the crews, and the romance of sailing to faraway ports in search of cargoes. On film, Bash goes aboard the ...

2314. Sally Starfish (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Host Dora shows Fignewton Frog the puppet how to make a star hand puppet and a cut-out fish to enact a play. She uses these to tell the story of Sayy the too-inquisitive starfish, who gets into tro...

2315. Salvage (07:15)

Date:
1942
Summary:
A message from Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, urging Americans to save metals, rubber, and greases for the World War II effort.

2317. Sao Paulo (15:13)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Studies the progress of Sao Paulo and the factors that have contributed toward the phenomenal growth in population of this second-largest Brazilian city. Presents a cross section of modern South A...

2318. Satellites and Missiles (29:34)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the development of the rocket missile and earth satellite. Presents a description of the ballistic missile program. Forecasts the use of rocket vehicles in transcontinental and interconti...

2319. Satire, Part 2 (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
On the second of two programs on satire, Dr. John W. Dodds reads the hilarious article by Frank Sullivan, “Brothers in N.G.S.” excerpts ranging from Byron’s “Don Juan” to Phyllis McGinley’s poem “P...

2320. Satire, Part I (29:07)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Two forms of satire are illustrated by Dr. John W. Dodds in this first of two programs that include selections ranging from Swift to S.J. Perelman. Savage, withering satire as expressed by excerpts...

2321. Saturday in Bloomington (15:10)

Date:
1960
Summary:
This film gives a look into what life at Indiana University has to offer. The viewer tours the town of Bloomington and IU's picturesque campus, contrasting the old University buildings with efficie...

2323. Save those teeth (11:08)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Emphasizes the importance of proper cleaning in the care of teeth, and illustrates how the teeth are affected by excessive use of refined sugar. Identifies the kinds of bacteria that change sugar t...

2325. Sawdust sidelights (10:20)

Date:
1933
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians release of a Lyman H. Howe Films Co., short film. Presents the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows at their Sarasota, FL winter quarters, in transit, and in p...

2326. Sawing a reverse curve and a bevel reverse curve (17:25)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to select and lay out stock to avoid waste; how to reverse curves to contour lines; how to use the table tilting gage; how to saw a bevel reverse curve; how to prepare a template for a ne...

2327. Sawing an internal irregular shape (31:50)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows how to drill the saw starting hole; how to make the saw selection; how to set up a band saw machine; how to weld saw bands; how to saw an internal contour shape; and how to remove and store a...

2328. Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) (15:19)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Uses regular photography and animation to present the physical characteristics, the people, and the natural resources of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Follows the activities of two men--John Berges...

2329. Scenic Styles: Design for Illusion (29:21)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates scenic design and the part it plays in theatrical production. Introduces the scenic designer and his work, discusses the problems he faces as an artist, and shows how he ...

2330. School activities and you (09:35)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Reading about Bill's activities in the yearbook, his sister decides to join all his cubs, in order to have as much fun in high school as he did. Bill explains that he had reasons for joining those ...

2331. School: The Melting Pot (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the problems and rewards presented by the integrated school. Explains how the integrated school can, through constructive experiences, provide an opportunity for children to learn about ...

2332. Schooltime in camp (17:57)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Presents a 1948 report on the School Camp experiment authorized by the Board of Education of the City of New York and conducted in cooperation with Life Camps, Inc. Shows numerous examples of chil...

2333. Schubert and Mendelssohn (29:28)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Moving deeply into the German romanticism of the 19th Century, the symphony grew as composers experimented with new methods of orchestration, and an increased expression of feeling and mood. Profes...

2334. Science and Common Sense (29:42)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the relationship between science and common sense. Demonstrates the validity of the theory that "nature abhors a vacuum." Conducts experiments with water and mercury barometers to show th...

2335. Science and Non-Science (29:47)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains the difference between scientific and non-scientific endeavor. Examines various areas such as flying saucers, astrology, and weather predictions to point out how these problems are approac...

2336. Science and Quantity (30:09)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the importance of numerical measurement in the progress of science. Uses experiments from physics, chemistry, and astronomy to show how a quantitative approach to science aids in understa...

2337. Science and Whole Numbers (30:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains the role of whole numbers in understanding the organization of the physical universe. Uses non-mathematical props, such as rock crystals, to point up the arithmetic nature of basic discov...

2338. Science in space (28:22)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Traces the development of space research; explains the need for satellites, rockets, and other space probes; demonstrates how such tools operate, shows how their findings are reported, and discusse...

2339. Scientific forecasting (29:40)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the importance of scientific forecasting. Compares forecasting through astrology, palmistry, "Laws of average," and the "business cycle" with the scientific methods o...

2340. Scientists and people (29:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the role of the scientist in society. Indicates why a broad acquaintance with science is essential for the educated man. (KQED) Film.

2341. Scotland speaks (20:21)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Survey of the part played by Scotland in the national war effort including farming, coal mining, and shipbuilding.

2342. Scraping flat surfaces (13:54)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows how surface plates are used to check the flatness of surfaces, types of scrapers, how to remove high spots, and how to determine when a surface is scraped flat.

2343. SCULPTURE BY LIPTON (15:00)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Shows the techniques of a modern sculptor as demonstrated by Seymour Lipton, an American metal constructionist sculptor, at work in his studio. Follows the construction of a single sculpture from b...

2344. Sculpture I (29:46)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Describes and discusses the materials and tools used in modeling a portrait bust from clay. Shows the steps in applying clay to the armature. Illustrates how the sculptor proceeds to develop essen...

2345. Sculpture II (29:38)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Continues the modeling begun in Sculpture I. Brings the portrait bust to life-size proportions by adding more clay to the armature. begins work on some of the details of form ending with a general...

2346. Sculpture III (29:41)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Mose demonstrates the placement of features and the locating and working out of the especially prominent jaw muscles of the model. He explains the use of the death maskand tells stories about model...

2347. Sculpture in relief (29:37)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Explains and demonstrates how sculpture in relief developed from the cave man to the present. Illustrates with ancient and modern examples. Discusses the composition and carving techniques of full...

2348. Sculpture in stone (29:29)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the use of stone as a medium of sculpture. Demonstrates the tools and techniques of stone carving. Shows several works carved from different types of stone explaining why particular ston...

2349. Sculpture in the world of art (29:41)

Date:
1957
Summary:
In this program, Mr. Fitzpatrick presents a historical review of sculpturing, emphasizing the materials and techniques employed in creating this art form. Discusses sculptural masterpieces from Egy...

2350. Sculpture in wood (29:34)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Demonstrates the tools and techniques of wood carving. Discusses and shows the advantages and disadvantages of wood as a medium of sculptor. Illustrates with finished works carved from different wo...

2351. Sculpture IX (29:57)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Demonstrates the removal of the mold from the clay bust. Shows methods and implements used in removing the cast. Points out the importance of being careful and patient. Reviews briefly what has t...

2352. Sculpture of the Land (29:26)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Sculpture on its grandest scale is seen in the face of the Earth where rivers work to carve the hills and valleys. Dr. Harbaugh’s guest is Dr. Arthur D. Howard, professor of geology at Stanford Uni...

2353. Sculpture V (29:37)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Continues the modeling from Sculpture IV. Explains how the artist works to refine certain areas. Demonstrates how to "draw" carefully in the clay to bring out certain characteristics of the mode...

2354. Sculpture VI (29:25)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Continues the work on details begun in Sculpture V. Explains how an area can be broken up into planes by the use of a block of wood. Demonstrates ways of modeling the eyes. Discusses the importance...

2355. Sculpture VII (29:33)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Continues the modeling from Sculpture VI and completes the clay bust. Discusses and demonstrates how the eye is modeled. Emphasizes the importance of having different parts work together as a who...

2356. Sculpture VIII (29:38)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Describes and illustrates the mold casting stage in the development of the sculptural portrait. Shows how plaster is mixed, applied to the clay, and the importance of working fast. Discusses the u...

2357. Sculpture X (29:40)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the process of making a plaster cast. Points out how the molds are shellacked and placed together again. Demonstrates how the plaster is mixed. Shows the process of pouring the plaster ...

2358. Sculpture XI (29:43)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Shows how the mold is removed from the finished plaster bust. Discusses the use of bluing in the first coat of plaster. Illustrates the use of the screwdriver and mallet in removing the mold. Conc...

2359. Seacoast (29:29)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr. Harbaugh describes the unceasing war between land and the sea and illustrates the work of ocean waves in shaping the seacoast. With Dr. Howard again as his guest, he investigates the origin of ...

2360. Seals (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of the seal. Describes his habits, sociability, and use at the zoo. Shows a seal rookery.

2361. Sealtest Ice Cream : Kids (01:00)

Date:
1969
Summary:
Advertisement for Seltest submitted as a 1969 entry in the Children's Audience category of the Clio Awards.

2362. Seaports of the Pacific coast (10:33)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Includes harbor activities at the ports of San Francisco, Puget Sound, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland. Also shows how Los Angeles, lacking a good natural harbor, built one by erecting huge b...

2363. Search and research : psychology in perspective (28:47)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Describes the story about a young lady who seeks psychotherapy, the three forces of psychology--experimental, psychoanalytical and existential or humanistic. Includes interviews with Drs. Harry Har...

2364. Searching for the ultimate (29:33)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Describes research related to atomic structure through which the scientist is attempting to discover the structure of the universe. Shows how particle accelerators produce intense beams of radiati...

2365. Seashore life (11:10)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Studies inhabitants of the three kinds of seashores--the sandy beach, the rock pool, and the mud flat--beginning with the sea gull. Shows close-ups of sea weeds; then pictures in their natural hab...

2366. Seasonal Workers (14:56)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The movement of traveling farmers, who follow the crops around the country, picking them as they ripen at different times in various areas is described in this program. The beginnings of the season...

2367. Second Half of Literature Contest (15:07)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The children have to write their own story for a second part of the contest. Susie-Q decides to tell the story of how her kitten finally got to the cat show and won a prize.

2368. Second Half of Music Contest (15:19)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In the second part of the music contest, the children do a square dance and act out a folk song in competition. They learn about music as a means of self-expression.

2369. Secrecy in government (30:11)

Date:
1959
Summary:
A discussion about the limits to secrecy to which the government is entitled. Features journalists Clark Mollenhoff and Edwin Lahey and is moderated by Louis Lyons.

2370. Secrets of the ice (27:52)

Date:
1960
Summary:
This film describes the origin and growth of glaciers; surveys the work of glaciologists in trying to understand the structure of ice and its importance in the study of climatology, meteorology, an...

2371. Sedimentation (29:23)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr Harbaugh's guest is Dr. Stanley Davis, assistant professor of geology at Stanford University. A graduate of the University of Nevada with a M.S. from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from Ya...

2372. See how they learn (29:45)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Demonstrates modern techniques for teaching primary grade pupils to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Shows children, participating in such classroom activities as reading-readiness tests, sto...

2373. Seed dispersal (10:55)

Date:
1931
Summary:
Shows ways in which seeds of plants are scattered in order to insure propagation of the species: dispersal by wind, transportation by animals, and forceful propulsion from the seed case. Describe...

2374. Seed Dispersal (14:50)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Uses time-lapse photography to demonstrate the scattering of seeds by wind, water, humans, and animals.

2375. Seeing double (29:19)

Date:
1957
Summary:
How and why do some writers arrange the fragments they have selected from actuality in an overlapping repetitive way?

2376. Seismology (29:46)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Father Linehan uses charts and diagrams to explain the interior structure of the Earth and the transmission of Earth waves through the various layers of the Earth. Dr. Gould emphasizes two facts: (...

2378. Self-Confidence (29:33)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses how self-confidence can be developed, and shows why people do some things more confidently than others. Recommends practice with success, unlearning fears, and the feeling of belongingne...

2379. Self-conscious guy (10:44)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Tells the story of Marty, a high school boy who feels self-conscious when he has to make a speech. When he learns that other people also feel self-conscious when attention is turned toward them, h...

2380. Self-defense (29:32)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explains different ways sea creatures defend themselves against enemies and how the balance between attack and defense among marine animals maintains the overall balance of nature. Uses underwater ...

2381. Self-governing prisons (29:33)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman explains that the failure of the American prison system is due to attempts to induce reform through external processes of security, harsh discipline ...

2382. Self-portraits in the world of art (29:59)

Date:
1957
Summary:
In this program, Mr. Fitzpatrick discusses the importance of the self-portrait as a means of art expression. Tells how the self-portrait not only preserves a physical likeness of the artist, but p...

2383. Selling as a career (10:46)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Surveys selling as a career. Portrays a day in the life of a typical travelling salesman at home and on the job. Portrays various types of sales people who sell by personal contacts, mail, teleph...

2384. Sense into dollars (12:45)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Illustrates the different methods used by various salespeople. Shows how suggestive and descriptive selling aids the customer, the individual salesclerk, and the store.

2385. Sentence variety and grammar (29:14)

Date:
1955
Summary:
This program presents sentence variety, with a quick glance at some debatable points in grammar. Professor Peterson gives his opinion on such question as whether or not it is wrong to end a sentenc...

2386. Service and citizenship (10:42)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Third in the "Are You Ready or Service?" series. A young man in the service writes to his high-school-age brother about the importance of good citizenship. Voting, paying taxes, serving on juries...

2387. Setting up and machining bar stock (34:09)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to set up the turret lathe for the production machining of bushings from bar stock; how to install the collet; how to set up the hexagon turret; and how to set up the cross slide.

2388. Setup for face milling with a fixture (20:09)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how the horizontal boring, drilling, and milling machine operates; how to install the fixture; how to set up the workpiece; and how to select and install an end mill and a face mill.

2389. Sex determination I (29:50)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the role of heredity and environment in determining the sex of various organisms. Indicates that in some organisms it is the environment in which a given genotype functions that determin...

2390. Sex determination II (29:34)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Portrays sex as a polygenic trait which may be considered to be determined by the balance of genes on different chromosomes. This view is substantiated by the work of R. Goldschmidt on the gypsy mo...

2391. Sex is a Part of Life (29:33)

Date:
1959
Summary:
The social and emotional effects of growing up are explained by Dr. Maria Piers. She discusses what is "normal" sexual development and one's feelings about one's role as a man or woman.

2392. Sexual or erotic love (30:19)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the essentials of love, and explains how sexual love and erotic love can be combined. Distinguishes between sexual desire and sexual love, outlining the elements of both. States that if ...

2393. Sexuality and crime (29:34)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Discusses the serious problem of sex and crime and explains three categories: offense motivated by sexual desire, profit from sex, and sex deviation. Contrasts the American and British attitude tow...

2394. Shadow of the Buffalo (09:40)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Visits Yellowstone National Park to explain the story of American buffalo and its destruction. Shows the Yellowstone herd and then explains the methods used by the Indians to capture the buffalo. T...

2395. Shadows (15:04)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses demonstrations to explain shadows. Illustrates materials that cast shadows and others that do not. Shows how to make a sun clock. (WCET) Kinescope.

2396. Shakespeare's theater (14:12)

Date:
1960
Summary:
A Teaching Film Custodians film about the presentation and conventions of live theatre at Shakespeare's Globe Theater circa 1600. Incorporating footage from the prologue of the 1944 British Techni...

2397. Shapes, Colors, and Figures (29:37)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Miss Pearson presents interesting shapes, colors, and figures as abstract things -- a visual sensation of musical sounds. She shows how to look at pictures and real things as shapes.

2398. Sharing the leadership (28:47)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Defines leadership as a set of group functions and a good leader as one who helps the group to accomplish its goals. Defines and shows examples of self-serving functions, task functions, and group ...

2399. Sharpening a shell end mill (16:46)

Date:
1943
Summary:
How to select the correct arbor; mount the work head; adjust the work head for clearance settings; and set up for sharpening the outside diameter, corner, and face.

2400. Sharpening and tempering farm tools (16:07)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to heat carbon-steel tools for forge sharpening; how to sharpen, harden, and temper a plowshare; how to sharpen, harden, and temper a cultivator shovel; and how to identify tempering colors.