Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

1701. Modeling the portrait (29:33)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Presents an actual demonstration of the modeling of a portrait in clay. Explains how a sculptured portrait reflects "likeness" and reveals the character and personality of the sitter. Discusses t...

1702. Models, molecules and mathematics (29:42)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand explains how the results of observation and experiment can be illustrated with models. Demonstrates with models of crystal and molecules. Tells how models help in understandin...

1703. Modern Alaska (1:29:16)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Beginning with a visit to Anchorage, shows the city's modern developments in offices, houses, schools, and factories which best typify modern Alaska. Visits other sources of industry, commerce, ed...

1704. Modern alchemy (29:38)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Dr. Glenn Seaborg and his associates describe the discovery of the four "missing elements," technetium, astatine, francium, and promethium. Emphasizes the role of the cyclotron on the creation of s...

1705. Modern Ballet (1:02:45)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Anthony Tudor, the choreographer, and Nora Kay and Hugh Laing, dancers who appear on this program, are figures prominently associated with the new developments in modern dance which began in the 19...

1706. Modern Development of Rocketry (14:50)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Traces the history of the development of the liquid-fuel missile by groups in Germany and the U.S. Views the development of the White Sands Proving Grounds and a parallel development of rocketry b...

1707. Modern Music (29:31)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Shows the musical difference between the conventional seven-tone white key scale and the "newer" scales used by Debussy and others. Demonstrates that romantic composers explored the newer scales an...

1708. Modern problems of flight (29:44)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses new aerodynamic problems caused by high speed flight. Explains the different flow regions corresponding to the subsonic, transonic, and supersonic velocities. Demonstrates the generation...

1709. Modulating Sentences (29:42)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the process of modulation, or key change, in musical composition. Explains the major and minor tonal patterns which dominate all music of the period under discussion (1700-1900). Illust...

1710. Molding a horizontal cored part (21:54)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Use of a horizontal core, a split pattern, chaplets, and chaplet supports; how to gate a mold for rapid pouring of a thin casting; and how to clean a casting.

1711. Molding with a gated pattern (11:17)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows what a gated pattern is and why it is used, how a match or follow board can simplify making a parting, how facing sand is prepared and used, and how and why some patterns are rapped.

1712. Molding with a loose pattern (21:05)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows how to identify and use common bench molder's tools; how molding sand is prepared; how to face a pattern; how to ram and vent a mold; how to roll a drag; how to cut a sprue, runner, gates and...

1713. Molding with a loose pattern (floor) (24:04)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows the difference between bench and floor molding, how to face a deep pattern, ram a drag and walk it off, clamp a mold, locate sprues and risers, and tuck the crossbars of a large cope.

1714. Molding with a three part flask (34:59)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to use a deep follow board; the technique of facing, ramming, and venting a deep green sand core; how to use a cheek in a three-part flask; and the purpose and method of step-gating.

1716. Momo Taro or Peach Boy (29:44)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Expressing valor and benevolence, this famous Japanese legend tells the tale of a boy who was found inside a peach by an elderly Japanese couple. The boy later rewards their kindness in caring for ...

1717. Money and its uses (10:51)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Shows how money is used in place of the exchange of goods and services. Illustrates early use of snake skins, claws, and fishhooks for barter. Demonstrates by contrast how a pig can be traded for a...

1718. Monumental sculpture (29:42)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the problems and techniques of conceiving a monumental sculpture. Presents the steps the sculptor follows from the initial sketch to the completed work. Explains the use of the enlargin...

1719. Morality (30:06)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Presents an interview with Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr on America's sense of morality. Questions are answered concerning the need of a moral code, changes in America's moral standards, the relationship o...

1720. Morals in revolution (29:45)

Date:
1959
Summary:
What is the cause of the moral revolution? Other questions raised by Max Lerner and the five Brandeis students during this program are: what is the operative code of today; are we still a Puritan s...