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1. [Eco original Stearman aerobatics] (03:25)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Footage of a Stearman aircraft performing aerobatics, possibly filmed in Washington, Georgia.

2. Contraception : no choice but to choose (23:53)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Director, Writer, Editor)
Summary:
Uses a fictionalized story with college students to explain different methods of contraception, their advantages, and their disadvantages. Promotes discussion of contraception between partners and ...

3. Overview of ASSIST and the changing field of special education (13:31)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Benjamin Strout (Cinematographer); George Hales (Director)
Summary:
2 shorts from the ASSIST series together on 1 reel, "Overview of ASSIST" and "The changing field of special education." Examines the important role of the associate instructor (AI) in a classroom ...

4. The Indiana University Speech and Hearing Center residence program (22:48)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Director, Editor)
Summary:
This film shows a typical day at the Exchange Home near the Speech and Hearing Center at Indiana University. Founded in 1938, it is named after the Exchange Clubs of Indiana, which provided funding...

5. Fred's case : a stimulus (11:05)

Date:
[1974]
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Photographer)
Summary:
Designed to serve as a stimulus for discussion, this film shows the various steps in determining whether a student will be placed in a special education class. Demonstrates the following procedural...

6. Asi Fue (So It Went) (56:42)

Date:
1986
Main contributors:
Strout, Toby (Writer, Producer); Schwibs, Susanne (script); Sumpter, Wally (Director); Arnove, Robert (Producer); Michael Luhan(Producer);
Summary:
Documents the political issues and diverse views of the people of Nicaragua during the period surrounding the elections of 1984; the first elections held since the overthrow of the Somoza regime. S...

7. [Eco original time lapse, 1984] (10:18)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Time lapse film showing the movement of clouds and fog, as well as the growth of flowers. Footage was shot between May and June of 1984.

8. Excretory system (second edition) (14:09)

Date:
1980
Summary:
Uses diagrammatic animation to explain the structure and function of the body's excretory system. Clarifies the role of the blood as a transporter of wastes from the cells, and the work of the lun...

9. Food For Thought (18:55)

Date:
1980
Summary:
A detailed look at a centralized, integrated, food service which provides 50,000 meals each day on a large university campus. Includes information about scientific control of the storage environmen...

10. Dee (10:10)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Focuses on a 12-year-old girl with Larsen's syndrome, showing how she has learned to cope with her disability and to adjust to her surroundings.

11. Birth control : the choices (26:40)

Date:
1976
Summary:
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...

12. Super-8 (28:15)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Director, Editor)
Summary:
Follows a variety of activities by a high school filmmaking class involved in creating super 8mm motion pictures. Shows students participating in the following processes: scratching images direct...

13. The human tree players (29:48)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Photographer)
Summary:
A documentary on the Human Tree Players, a drama group composed of mentally challenged individuals.

14. David's case: an example (33:44)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Ben Strout (Photographer)
Summary:
Demonstrates the following procedural steps in reviewing problems between school officials and parents with regard to students: appointing the case conference committee, sharing information, initi...

15. More than a place to live (20:01)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Alfred R. Edyvean, Jr.
Summary:
A film describing sorority life at IU, the benefits of joining a sorority, their traditions, and the function of IU's Panhellenic Association. Shows how sorority life offers potential for personal ...

16. Otto : a study in abnormal psychology (28:25)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Assistant Director)
Summary:
Dramatizes an open-ended case study in abnormal behavior by portraying Otto as a middle-aged man suffering from real and imagined pressures at home and work. Explains that Otto feels overburdened a...

17. Unfinished miracles : the story of agricultural research (30:10)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Surveys past and present research activities and achievements of the State agricultural experiment stations throughout the United States.

18. The Cave: A Parable Told By Orson Welles (09:55)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Presents an animated version of the allegory of the cave from the sixth book of Plato's Republic. Creates the scene at the bottom of the cave while Orson Welles narrates. Suggests, as does the ori...

19. Big Boys Don't Cry (09:03)

Date:
1973
Summary:
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 understa...

20. The Hobcaw story (29:58)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Lewis W. Riley; Henry W. Cheney
Summary:
This film explores the history and ecology of Hobcaw Barony near Georgetown and the programs of Clemson's Belle W. Baruch Research Institute. The film received the 1973 CINE Golden Eagle Award at t...

21. A tale of today (10:44)

Date:
1972
Summary:
Presents the philosophy of the 'new-consciousness' generation's reverence for life, exploring alternative lifestyles and questioning traditional societal life styles. Pictures rural communal living...

22. Birds of a Feather (07:17)

Date:
1972
Summary:
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 m...

23. All in the game (22:30)

Date:
1971
Summary:
Presents the importance of play in the development of a child. Emphasizes that each child passes through stages of play at varying rates dependent on maturation, not personality. Uses an observati...

24. All our futures (29:06)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Shows UNICEF responding to the crises of children and parents in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with health care, food, medicine, birth control, education, vocational training, and tools and equip...

25. Dinosaurs : the age of the terrible lizard (06:29)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Presents, through animation, an overview of the dinosaur age, showing the major types of dinosaurs and some of their behavioral characteristics. Explains that dinosaurs become extinct because of th...

26. Just Like You (05:54)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Portrays that men of all races and creeds share common feelings. With narration in verse.

27. Venice : the perfect book (29:41)

Date:
1969
Summary:
Presents the role of the city of Venice in the development of fine printing. Traces the changes from the heavy German letters to the more slender, light and open letter of today. Relates historic...

28. Carbon (24:17)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Surveys the properties and uses of carbon. Shows the reduction of a diamond to a small heap of graphite. Explains the properties of carbon relative to their function and usefulness, both in life ...

29. Airplanes and how they fly (14:24)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Explains basic physical principles involved in launching, flying, and controlling an airplane. Uses animation to demonstrate how the shape of the airfoil produces lift during flight. Also features ...

30. Austria, past and present (11:26)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Pictures Austria, an Alpine country of western Europe, against the rich background of its Colorful history, its cultural heritage, and its beautiful cities. Describes how it continues a traditional...

31. Energy and matter (08:58)

Date:
1965
Summary:
Uses animation to demonstrate the interchanging of energy and matter. Classifies energy into the forms of heat, mechanical, electrical, chemical, and light; and shows how many of these are intercha...

32. Brazil : the troubled land (25:27)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Dramatically depicts the plight of the peasants of northeastern Brazil and shows the work of communist leaders (specifically Francisco Julião) in urging open revolt of the people. Reviews the plans...

33. Abel Gance : hier et demain (29:08)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Focuses on the life of French filmmaker Abel Gance and examines his contributions to the motion picture industry. Explains that Gance pioneered such film techniques as polyvision and the use of the...

34. Adaptation in animals (13:47)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Explains methods of adaptation which are characteristic of mammals and birds which live in an around the sea. Emphasizes movement, the capture of food, eating, and protection.

35. Aujourd'hui nous visitons Paris (20:53)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Presents a tour of Paris, indicating points of interest and picturing Parisians as they go about their everyday tasks. Views Paris from atop the Eiffel Tower. Shows a diagram of the city and locate...

36. Behavior in animals (14:52)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Explains the types of behavior of various forms of animals and discusses the organs in animals that effect behavior.

37. Bromine : element from the sea (22:15)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Uses experiments to show the great reactivity of bromine with metals and non-metals; and explores the chemical equilibrium of an aqueous solution. Develops a procedure for the extracion of bromine ...

38. Doing things for ourselves in school (11:02)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Shows the daily activities of a small boy who learns to do things at home and at school by watching others, by learning from his mistakes, by asking for help, and by practice. Points out the satisf...

39. Exploring the human nervous system (22:50)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Compares the nervous systems of the hydra and earthworm with the complexity of the human nervous system. Details the physiology of the reflex arc and explains the activities of certain brain center...

40. Flowers and their purpose (14:55)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Surveys the purpose, functions and parts of flowers. Treats the various kinds of pollination and reproductive systems, selective breeding, and the growth cycle. Briefly discusses the classificati...

41. Fruits of plants (12:00)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Shows how fruits are formed, and then classifies them as dry or fleshy. Discusses the selective breeding of fruits, including cross-pollination and grafting.

42. Golden city (29:39)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Considers whether man can find a way to make strong, permanent commitments in the face of constant change. Relates that in the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution wrought great changes in...

43. Sweden in world affairs (29:28)

Date:
1963
Summary:
This program considers the role of the unaligned nation as defined by the late Dag Hammarskjold. Sweden, the narrator notes, remained neutral in both World War I and II, and has maintained a unani...

44. The aspiring society (29:25)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Follows a doctoral candidate on the day he must defend his dissertation--in a public session, as is the custom. Turns attention from higher education to the Swedish educational system in general. ...

45. The enterprising society (29:06)

Date:
1963
Summary:
To show the structure of Swedish economy and to give a picture of modern industry in Sweden, this program follows four men through a work day. Since Sweden’s population is too small to support a m...

46. The expressive society (29:22)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Focuses upon actress Ingrid Thulin and producer-director Ingmar Bergman. Shows Miss Thulin at home and at work as she comments upon the acting profession in Sweden. Presents background to the dev...

47. The flabby American (24:22)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Discusses the problem of physical fitness at all levels with particular emphasis upon programs for young people. Compares fitness programs in the United States with those in Russia and Great Britai...

48. The forest lookout (10:34)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Describes the daily working activities and responsibilities of a United States Forest Service lookout--checking weather conditions, scanning the area for signs of smoke, reporting a fire. Shows an ...

49. The icicle and the sun (29:30)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Conveys an impression of the Swedish nation and people. The sun, the ice, and the snow are forces not only upon the face of the land, but also in the lives, the emotional make-up, and the activitie...

50. The just society (29:06)

Date:
1963
Summary:
This program, a survey of Sweden’s legal system, opens with a dramatization of a court case in which three juveniles are charged with auto theft and criminal assault. The film shows a panel of ele...

51. The secure society (29:25)

Date:
1963
Summary:
In this program, the narrator describes what the Swede receives in social welfare from the state. To illustrate, the film follows two young women through pregnancy --one case normal, the other com...

52. A political animal (29:27)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Portrays an imaginative situation in which an individual is confronted by two "salesmen"--representative of democratic government and a representative of totalitarian government. Presents their arg...

53. Agriculture USA (28:50)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Correlates the growth of farming in America with the country's progress in becoming a great nation. Illustrates wildlife, land, and cattle in pioneer days. Describes homesteading and the establis...

54. Agriculture's showcase abroad (14:07)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Visits a number of international trade fairs and identifies their purposes and contributions to the United States agricultural program. Illustrates ways United States agricultural products are intr...

55. Airport in the jet age (11:32)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Pictures a young boy as he takes a helicopter to the airport and boards a jetliner. Includes views of the work done behind the scenes in order to make the boy's flight possible.

56. All in a lifetime (29:02)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Depicts the changes which have come about in the American school system during the life of a senior citizen. Shows changes in buildings and in philosophies. Compares functions, needs, and objecti...

57. Berlin : test for the West (18:09)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Uses historic documentary motion pictures combined with newer Films sequences to tell the story of Berlin from the fall of the Third Reich to the building of the wall between East and West. Reviews...

58. Edward Steichen, part IV (29:22)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The format of this final program is different from that of the preceding three. On the sound track is a pre-recorded conversation with Steichen, and on the screen is a series of Steichen’s own phot...

59. Fabricantes mexicanos de ollas (09:24)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Shows how the Indians in the Mayo village off Ubalama live, how they make and use ollas, and how they trade them for the necessities of life. Explains why primitive industry of making ollas has ret...

60. Finding information (11:45)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Explores the principal ways in which people go about finding information, by following a boy who discovers a baby bird as he asks advice from a man in a pet shop, learns by observation, consults va...

61. Finland : land of the North (17:01)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Describes the industries, the cities, and the people of Finland. Pictues various phases of the lumbering industry, shows farmlands, and explains the poor productivity of Finnish farms. Describes th...

62. Franklin D. Roosevelt : the new deal (26:17)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Uses documentary footage to trace FDR's youth, family life, and political career through the "New Deal" to his third term. Depicts his relationship with politicians and voters, and analyzes his han...

63. Franklin D. Roosevelt : the war years (25:59)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Uses documentary footage to analyze events during FDR's third and fourth terms. Shows preparations for war, U.S. entry into war, and meetings of the war leaders. Depicts presidential campaigns duri...

64. French farm family (16:02)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Portryas life on a farm in south central France in the early 1960's and in relation to the change that confronts its future. Illustrates typical rural farm life and how it may be altered by the Eur...

65. Frere Jacques (15:04)

Date:
1962
Summary:
A French language film for beginning French classes. Recreates the story of the French folksong about Frère Jacques, the monk who had trouble getting up in the morning on time to ring the monaster...

66. The letter to Philemon (29:52)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The brief letter of Paul to Philemon concerning a runaway slave was, as Dr. Boyd explains, glossed over the by the early Christian church. But it is more than just a morsel of private corresponden...

67. The Soviet challenge (the Industrial Revolution in Russia) (26:17)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Surveys two phases of the industrial revolution in Russia from 1917 to date--the rapid development of heavy industry which has transformed the nation's economy, and the continuing struggle to colle...

68. There be dragons (29:27)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Indicates that how science is used is man's responsibility alone. Opens in a hospital labor room where a woman is preparing to deliver her first baby. During the delivery, her semi-conscious mind c...

69. Weather : why it changes (10:19)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Shows the role of the large drifting air masses of the earth's atmosphere in causing over-all weather changes. Concentrates on the U. S. weather changes resulting from air masses drifting from the ...

70. A survey of children's speech disorders (29:20)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Uses animation and illustration to show how children learn oral communication and to demonstrate the process involved in learning how to talk. Pictures children who exemplify oral communication pro...

71. Adaptive radiation : the mollusks (18:16)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Defines mollusks and tells how classes are named, and pictures examples of each class and illustrates how the general form of mollusks is adapted in various species. Relates how mollusks reproduce ...

72. An animal life cycle (26:54)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes the development of the sea urchin from fertilized egg to pluteus larva and metamorphosis into the adult. Shows the reproduction experiments with sea urchins possible in a laboratory. De...

73. Ask me, don't tell me (23:01)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Discusses the work of youth for Service, an organization sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and created to help teenage boys to realize that they can help others in the community t...

74. Baboon behavior (32:30)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Shows the baboon in his natural environment and studies his societal relations. Illustrates the symbiotic, protective association of the baboon and the impala. Portrays troop life, development of s...

75. Bolivian boy (15:55)

Date:
1961
Summary:
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 a...

76. Bragg reflection (09:52)

Date:
1961
Summary:
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 incidenc...

77. Buenos dias, Carmelita (revised edition) (17:02)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes a typical day in the life of a student, Carmelita. Shows her preparing for school and pictures her among other students in Spanish class. Demonstrates what happens when a student is late ...

78. Design into space (11:03)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Students demonstrate the procedures that may be applied to fashion a space design. Details the making of an initial sketch, a three-dimensional model, and a final structure. Shows steps in the cre...

79. Elastic collisions and stored energy (28:22)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Illustrates how kinetic energy is transferred from one body to another through elastic collisions. Explains formulas for calculating the exchange of energy. Defines concepts concerning stored energ...

80. Elements, compounds, and mixtures (33:02)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Dr. Iral B. Johns discusses the difference between elements, compounds, and mixtures, showing how a mixture can be separated by physical means. He demonstrates how a compound can be made and then t...

81. Family of free China (22:11)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes through the narration of Wang Shen, a teen-age boy of the village of Pingtung, Taiwan, his home life, educational system, improved farming techniques, village commerce and industries and ...

82. Faraday's laws (16:00)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Presents quantitative experiments to demonstrate Faraday's two laws of electrochemistry and the mechanics of electrolysis. Animation is used to explain ion exchange occurring in electrochemistry. C...

83. Flow of electricity (11:50)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Uses animation and live-action photography to show sources and uses of electricity, to explain that electricity is a flow of electrons, and to show the need for a circuit. Pictures dry cells and g...

84. Friction (10:07)

Date:
1961
Summary:
An elementary film which explains the nature of friction, what causes it, and how it can be increased or decreased.

85. Mimicry and other evidence (25:41)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Discusses evidence that supports organic evolution. Points out that some of the animals and plants of today are very different from what they were many thousands of years ago, and indicates reason...

86. Natural numbers, integers, and rational numbers (29:09)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes natural numbers and zero, negative numbers or integers, and their reciprocals or the system of rational numbers as the building blocks of algebra. Demonstrates the fundamental addition a...

87. Psalm 139 (29:24)

Date:
1961
Summary:
The idea that the Bible can be read purely as literature is not new, but it receives much support from Dr. Boyd’s sensitive and moving interpretations and discussions. This is particularly evident...

88. The book of Ecclesiastes (29:26)

Date:
1961
Summary:
The aphorisms of the “Preacher” in the Book of Ecclesiastes have given laymen and scholars of the Bible considerable difficulty. How do they fit into Biblical literature? When and why were they w...

89. The book of Hosea (29:37)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Dr. Bernard Boyd, University of North Carolina, discusses the Book of Hosea from the Bible. Analyzes the relationship of Hosea and his wife Gomer as a metaphor for God and the faithless people.

90. The book of Nahum (29:40)

Date:
1961
Summary:
An enthusiastic discussion from Dr. Bernard Boyd, University of North Carolina, on the Book of Nahum from the Bible. Presents the text as historically oriented writings dealing with the human exper...

91. The economics of empire (29:37)

Date:
1961
Summary:
The economics of imperialism from pure economic exploitation to modern economic aid and development are discussed in this program, beginning with Lenin’s thesis of imperialism as the last stage of ...

92. The family of halogens (12:50)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Shows the similarity and graduation of properties of the halogens, and explains the similarities and differences on the basis of atomic structure. Shows experiments portraying the characteristics o...

93. The sentence is life (29:25)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Using a play-within-a-play format, this program probes the question of whether or not philosophy is of any use to most of us. A promising young executive, who values money above all else, is taken ...

94. The United States and Japan (29:59)

Date:
1961
Summary:
When the United States subdued and began the occupation of Japan in 1945, it marked the first time in fifteen hundred years that the country has been defeated and occupied by a foreign power. The o...

95. Union of South Africa: its land and its people (17:01)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Presents the story and history of the Union of South Africa, its people, major cities, and industries. Shows typical European family life in rural and urban areas and compares life on a native rese...

96. What is a nation (29:39)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Stoessinger, professor of political science, and two guests, anthropologist Carleton Stevens Coon, and psychologist Otto Klineberg, present their views on why people organize into nation states and...

97. A city of Cathay (25:03)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Presents the people of the Sung dynasty in everyday activities in old Cathay through the use of a photographic representation of a famous Chinese art scroll. Uses music and narration to bring the ...

98. A new Zion (29:23)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Tells the story of the Mormon Settlement at Nauvoo, Ill. Explains how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Book of Mormon came into being. Outlines the movements of this native r...

99. Agricultural engineering : profession with a future (14:22)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Describes the work of engineers who seek practical solutions to the problems of food and fiber production and processing. Includes scenes of pineapple and sugar-cane harvesting in Hawaii, the new T...

100. Alaska : USA (22:39)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Surveys Alaska, the 49th state, showing its size, location, industries, people, natural resources, climate, cities, typography, and history. Shows the three main geographic regions of the state and...