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Explains how early sign and sound writing were written and read. Shows examples of cuneiform writing from the ancient lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Demonstrates techniques used in writing on clay tablets. (USC)
Discusses the Louisiana Purchase and the westward movement which resulted from it. Reviews the role of men such as Lewis and Clark, Pike, Long, and others in the exploratory process. (KETC) Kinescope.
Outlines the discovery of the first six elements beyond uranium. Describes the discovery of neptunium and demonstrates the significant experiment showing that plutonium undergoes fission with slow neutrons. Discusses the modification of the Periodic Table resulting from the discovery of these new elements. Indicates the importance of some of the new elements by demonstrating a chain reaction and explaining the operation of an atomic power plant.
Shows a young boy, carrying an air rifle, walking through the woods. Uses scenes from old westerns to illustrate his fantasies of shooting and fighting. When he shoots a bird, he begins to understand the finality of death.
Reviews the organization and functioning of Little League baseball for sub-teenage boys. Discusses the history of baseball, and includes views of the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. and of a Little League world series championship game.
Demonstrates how scientists and mathematicians write and use very large and very small numbers. Illustrates the meaning, application, and importance of exponents and powers. Explains "perfect numbers" as an example of man's continual fascination with numbers and introduces Euclid's formula for finding such numbers. Features Phillips S. Jones.
Shows the life of a herd of goats on a farm, including the feeding, milking, and care of mature goats and the activities of two baby goats, Billy and Nanny. Revised version of Goats.
Discusses Garrod's work on inborn errors in the metabolism of alcapton and melanin. Shows how chemical pathways in metabolism can be worked out using genetic defects as tools. Discusses the metabolic diseases phenylketonuria and galactosemia and points out that medical treatment causes the retention, and therefore the build-up of defective genes in the population. Presents the one geneone enzyme hypothesis and describes the procedure for testing the hypothesis in question with mutants of Neurospora requiring Vitamin B1 (thiamin). Lecture given by Dr. G. W. Beadle.
Dr. Gould introduces Oscar, his stuffed Emperor penguin, which he brought home from the first Byrd Expedition in 1930. Using Oscar as an example, Eklund discusses Antarctic penguins. Eklund, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Skua, a special type of Antarctic bird, narrates films of his work with this bird. Lastly, the two men discuss seals and show films of seal branding in Antarctica. It is noted that a biology program has been added to the sciences to be explored under the scientific program USARP (US Antarctic Research Project), which is, on a limited scale, continuing the scientific exploration of Antarctica, following the completion of IGY.
Shows habitats of various groups of birds: beach and marsh homes, meadow homes, skyscraper homes, and homes near the ground. | Shows habitats of various groups of birds: beach and marsh homes, meadow homes, skyscraper homes, and homes near the ground.
Dramatizes, without dialogue, the experience of two boys, age six and eleven who first come into contact with inflicted death when they kill a bird. The psychological effects left on them is left to the audience for interpretation.
With the sparrow as the main subject of this fourth program, T. Mikami teaches the few simple strokes involved in painting this little bird. First he paints the sparrow sitting on a rambling branch, then on the ground feeding. He stresses the Japanese technique of painting birds in their natural setting and paints samples of a few birds common in Japan.
Deals with the classification of birds and the evolutionary variations in feet, bill, and wing structure for purposes of adaptation. Discusses migration among birds, speculates upon its cause, and compares routes and distances of various species.
A bored, dejected little bird asserts its spunky individuality in this non-narrated animated tale illustrating some basic principles of animal (and human) behavior. Paralleling the experiences of many people, the bird's adventures will encourage viewers to take a closer look at their own concepts of conformity and experiences in being "one of the crowd." Based on the book by Willi Baum.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, T. Gilbert Pearson, William L. Finley
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Portrays the nest life and other activities of representative species of owls, vultures, eagles, and hawks in their natural habitats and at various stages of development. Depicts the carnivorous habits of birds of prey and shows how they are equipped with strong talons and sharp, hooked beaks for carrying and tearing apart their victims.
Shows birds of the seacoast which are equipped with long wings, webbed feet, food pouches, or bills especially adapted to their habits in procuring food. Includes gulls, terns, black skimmers, murres, cormorants, and pelicans. A silent teaching film.
Shows many fish-eating birds and indicates how the characteristics of each, although different, enable them to catch and eat fish. Emphasizes such characteristics as the long neck, a strong bill, long legs, toes that are sometimes webbed, and the ability to swim and dive underwater.
Shows many fish-eating birds and indicates how the characteristics of each, although different, enable them to catch and eat fish. Emphasizes such characteristics as the long neck, a strong bill, long legs, toes that are sometimes webbed, and the ability to swim and dive underwater.
Shows that birds that eat seeds have strong bills. Includes shots of the canary, evening grosbeak, junco, indigo bunting, goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, song sparrow, cardinal, cross bill, and cedar waxwing.
Uses animation and the candid conversations of a group of young women to examine various methods of birth control, including the pill, intrauterine device, condom, diaphram, rhythm method, abortion, tubal ligation, and vasectomy. Suggests the importance of a family medical history and physical examination to determine the best individual means of preventing conception. Revised version of To Plan Your Family.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ernest Horn, Arthur I. Gates, Celeste C. Peardon
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Follows the adventures of two hungry and mischievous cubs as observed by a family of campers. Shows the bears raiding camp for a breakfast of bacon and jam, frolicking in the forest, raiding a wild beehive, and later nursing their stings in a mud puddle. Revised version.
Follows the adventures of two hungry and mischievous cubs as observed by a family of campers. Shows the bears raiding camp for a breakfast of bacon and jam, frolicking in the forest, raiding a wild beehive, and later nursing their stings in a mud puddle. Revised version.
This program is cleverly contrived review of British cartooning and caricaturing of the last fifty years and might well be considered a review of the British life as seen by the cartoonist for the same period. The review begins with Britain’s first great cartoonist, William Hogarth, whose specialty was the lampooning of virtue versus vice, and takes the viewer through the work of such men as James Gilray, Thomas Roland, George Cruikshank, and finally to David Low. The entire program is built around actual reproductions of the work of these artists and can well be called first class entertainment as well as education in an important phase of British art.
Shows how to set up rotary shears, make test cuts, and operate the shears; and how to set up high-speed shears, make test cuts, and operate the shears.
Discusses new explorations by the American Museum of Natural History; indicates that important finds have opened up the early history of the area of Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Indus Valley.
Shows the habitat and various characteristics of bats, including their method of flying without collision. Pictures several kinds of bats and how they are captured for laboratory study. Shows an experiment in which a blindfolded bat avoids certain obstacles in flight but fails to navigate properly when its mouth is tied shut. Demonstrates the bat's inaudible sounds of extremely high pitch by using a special radio receiver.
Shows the necessity for blind riveting, how to rivet parts that are completely blind, and how to use the special tools and rivets in blind riveting jobs.
Uses slow motion and stop motion photography and close-ups to show the fundamentals of good blocking, position, speed, drive, follow through, timing, and body control. Describes in detail the shoulder and body blocks and demonstrates half a dozen variations. Emphasizes the importance of practice, experience, and good physical condition. An instructional film.
Hand puppets with lively personalities tell this original story by Tom Tichenor of Blossom Possum, who forgets where she puts things. When she receives a phone call from Grandma Rabbit, she can't find the phone. Grandma asks Blossom Possum to hurry over with the hot water bottle, and Blossum Possum has trouble remembering where she put it. When Blossom arrives at Grandma's she forgets who is ill and puts the wrong person in bed. Blossom returns home to put her three children to bed but has forgotten where she put the littlest one. Lots of fun for the youngsters in this story with a comedy of errors.
Breezes can move boats across water, lift kits to the sky and dry clothes. Dora tells a story, illustrated by shadow puppets of a little breeze called Blower who didn't want to play with his bigger rough friends. Instead, he sets out to make friends of his own, by drying clothes, taking a boy's kite into the air and by sailing some boats across a pond.
Pictures and describes the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 1954. Traces the route of the expedition and follows the ship which took the men and supplies to the various scientific stations. Shows details of the ship going through the pack ice. Pictures in detail the trip to and establishment of the new scientific station on the Antarctic continent.
Portrays the experiences of a boy and a girl going by boat from Albany, down the Hudson River, to New York City. Along the way, the children see many types of water craft, including a sailboat, a cabin cruiser, a fireboat, a barge, a police boat, and a huge ocean liner. At the captain's invitation, they inspect his wheelhouse and engine room.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ernest Horn, Ph.D., Stanley Croner, The Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles
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The differences between a boat and a ship, nautical terms, and an explanation of historical development of boats. | The differences between a boat and a ship, nautical terms, and an explanation of historical development of boats.
A down-to-earth film of rural electrification today. Bob Marshall, electrician's mate, 2nd class, USNR, comes back to his home farm, wife and small son. He and three neighbors do not have electricity; they are a few miles off the line. Bob goes to see the REA co-op; states his case before the directors. The ultraconservative directors begin to turn him down; then one who has both foresight and hindsight speaks dramatically for extending the line. He reminds the conservatives that they, too, were once beyond reach; that they would not do without electricity now; that the co-op was formed to give area coverage, which includes Bob and his neighbors. Bob gets electricity, and he makes business for dealers, railroads and manufacturers throughout the country.
Designed to be used with a college health text. Emphasizes throughout that good grooming is based on good health habits and personal care. College boys and girls demonstrate good care of the skin, the hair, the nails, and the teeth, and show the changes which can be effected by developing a good routine. Correlated with the book Healthful Living by Harold S. Diehl.
Demonstrates through animated drawings and cinemicrography the three lines of defense against infection--the skin and mucous membranes, the lymphatic system, and the circulatory system including liver and spleen. Explains immunity to certain diseases, and describes how man can improve defenses against infection.
Shows the life of a ten-year-old Amarya Indian boy living with his family on the Altiplano in Bolivia. Explains that the boy asks the household wish god to help him get a truck. Follows the boy as he goes with his father to La Paz to get his truck. Shows modern buildings and streets, contrasting them with those of the past. Describes the dreams of the young boy as he returns to his poor farmhouse. Shows the primitive farming methods on the Altiplano and the boy's mother spinning wool. Illustrates through the temple ruins at Tiahuanaca the ancient culture of the people.
Shows everyday applications of bookkeeping to increase motivation for its study, to help the student decide whether he is interested in taking bookkeeping, and to help in vocational guidance. Gives job information and information about educational preparation for a variety of kinds of work.
Portrays through the experiences of a family recently moving into a community, the variety of services provided by a centralized county library system to branch libraries and their users. These services available to users include rotating book collections, recordings, motion pictures; library administration and technical services involved in ordering, processing, cataloging, publicity, and circulation of materials; and the advantages of the correlated use of equipment, personnel, and materials found in a central library system serving branch libraries.
Shows Billy Dempsey, a high school boy crippled by infantile paralysis, visiting Washington and learning how the March of Dimes was organized, and how the tests, such as in the use of gamma globulin, are being carried on and improved in an effort to conquer the disease. Depicts familiar Washington sites and includes an historic survey of scientific research in combating disease as revealed by exhibits in the National Gallery of Art.
Phillip Stapp, Tony Kraler, Nathan Sobel, International Film Foundation
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By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea." Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people.
A plea to eliminate the arbitrary boundary lines which divide people from each other. Presented in stylized animation. | By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, this film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea". Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people.
Shows how intelligent probation can change a boy's attitude and conduct. In company with his gang, Johnny steals a car, which is wrecked during the excitement of their get-away. What might have happened to the boy is realistically portrayed in a sequence of vivid police and prison scenes. What actually happens to him in a good juvenile court with well-organized probation service provides a stirring contrast. A plea for youth and justice.
Presents an experiment in which waves are scattered from a two-dimensional array of small objects producing a strong reflection at an angle. Shows what happens when wavelength and angle of incidence are varied.
Relates criminal behavior to the lack of psychological controls on energies and impulses. Uses a modified Freudian approach to trace the development of the psychic. Explains the functions of the super-ego, the ego and the ego ideal. (KQED) Kinescope.
Branch Rickey discusses aspects of baseball which are in line with democratic theory. He cites examples where the democratic ideal has been exemplified.
Branch Rickey discusses the development of baseball during his lifetime. He explains his viewpoint toward amateur and professional status in sports, and eligibility rules in college athletics; traces the development of the farm system and his role in its development; and reviews his education, ideals, family, and recalls personalities during his career.
Branch Rickey discusses some of the men he has known as a result of his career in baseball. With him during this discussion are sportswriter Arthur Mann, Rickey's biographer, and Kenneth Blackburn, his secretary.
Surveys the over-all geographic characteristics of Brazil, depicts agricultural and commercial activities in the central and coastal uplands; and presents aspects of family life on the coffee plantations. Portrays the relationships between a land owner of Rio de Janeiro, his plantation agent, and a picker's family.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY
Portuguese language version of Brazil (People of the Plantations).
Discusses the political history of Brazil and her relations with the U.S. Considers Brazilian art, economic problems and potentialities, and the role of U.S. business in Brazil. A photo series presents the land and the people. (WTTW) Kinescope.