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15701. Bookkeeping and you (11:16)

Date:
1947
Summary:
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.

15702. Brush techniques : the language of water color (11:01)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Eliot O'Hara, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Summary:
Shows Eliot O'Hara revealing how water color can communicate vivid landscape impressions by executing the following techniques correctly and appropriately: making a smooth wash, preparing the brush, mixing colors, using several colors on a single brush, splitting the brush, reproducing various textures and shadows, achieving perspective, and effecting hard and soft edges.

15703. City fire fighters (09:54)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Shows the importance of organized fire-fighting activities in a city. Includes a visit to a city fire house, the equipment there and in action at a fire, simple precautions against fires, and how to turn in alarms in case of fire.

15704. Clinical psychology and hypnosis (15:29)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Portrays the use of various diagnostic tests and measurements, the induction of hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, hypno-analysis, and short-term psychotherapy. Shows the use of the Bellevue, picture, manipulative, and inkblot tests and an aptitude profile obtained from general, clinical, and diagnostic tests. The subject is then hypnotized and carries out post-hypnotic suggestions.

15705. Dad explains about people (07:20)

Date:
1947
Summary:
An excerpt from "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) produced and copyrighted by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. A widowed father tries to explain anti-Jewish prejudice to his young, precocious son.

15707. Dimpling and Countersinking (20:56)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Jam Handy Organization, Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education, Federal Security Agency
Summary:
Shows how dimpling and countersinking prepare metal for flush riveting, how to operate a dimpling machine, and how to countersink work for flush rivets.

15708. Double ram verticle surface broaching (29:12)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, Ray-Bell Films, Inc.
Summary:
Shows how to assemble broaching inserts in right- and left-hand toolholders, how to mount and adjust toolholders in the double ram; how to mount and adjust the work fixtures; how to set trip dogs for the ram stroke; how to measure the workpiece after trial broaching; and how to surface-broach on a double ram vertical broaching machine at a production rate.

15709. Drawing with pencil (10:48)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Theodore Kautzky, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
Theodore Kautzky demonstrates techniques in drawing a scene with pencil. Emphasizes the following points: general design, thumbnail sketching, preparation of the pencil point, drawing sharp lines, making broad masses, and achieving textures of wood, brick, shingles, stone, and foliage.

15710. Emotional health (20:19)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Designed for use with a health text on the college level. Shows interviews of a college student with a physician and then with a psychiatrist, who uncovers his fears and helps him become emotionally adjusted. Uses occasional flashbacks of the boy's childhood. Correlated with "Textbook of Healthful Living" by Dr. Harold S. Diehl.