15751. Getting ready physically (10:50)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Fifth in the "Are You Ready for Service?" series. Illustrates the great demands on physical strength and endurance in the service, and recommends that young men in high school consider how much tim...

15752. Children Who Draw Pictures (37:48)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Through free expression art activities, a teacher shows how children think, feel, and develop in a year at a Japanese school. Selects pupils from a first-grade class and traces their personality gr...

15753. Lenses (09:57)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Explains the effects of lenses on light, and shows the construction and use of a lens. Pictures the types of images formed by convex and concave lenses when an object is placed at varying distances...

15754. To hear your banjo play (16:26)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and t...

15755. Algae (17:14)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Depicts the five major groups of algae, showing growth, movement, reproduction, and nutritional patterns. Describes the tremendous size range of algae from the giant kelp to the minute forms found ...

15756. Experiments in the revival of organisms (19:52)

Date:
1946
Summary:
Presents a record of the successful experiments in resuscitating dead animals conducted at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy at Veronezh, U.S.S.R., by Dr. S. S. Bryukhonenko. Th...

15757. The weeks after birth (29:22)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Discusses the care of the mother after delivery and demonstrates exercises designed to aid the mother in rapid and thorough recovery. Points out the changes which occur in the mother's body and em...

15758. Digestive systems in animals (14:50)

Date:
1971
Summary:
Shows the variety of ways animals obtain food and their different types of digestive cavities--fully closed, one opening, and two openings. Examines digestive organs in an earthworm, grasshopper, f...

15760. Testing intelligence with the Stanford-Binet (18:12)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows excerpts from four tests: two six-year olds (I.Q.s 104 and 156) and two ten-year-olds (I.Q.s 100 and 80). Indicates techniques of rapport and standardized administration. Concepts and computa...

15761. Research by rockets (27:54)

Date:
1960
Summary:
This film traces the history of rocketry and describes the use of sounding rockets as tools for scientific research in the upper atmosphere; this film discusses the need for such tools, shows how r...

15762. Your Indiana state parks (20:31)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Shows scenes of Indiana state parks during the various seasons. Stresses the facilities available for camping, boating, fishing, hiking, studying nature, horseback riding, picnicking, and participa...

15763. Operation and Care of the Kodak Pageant Projector (11:25)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Explains the set-up and operation of the Kodak Pageant motion picture projector. Shows proper placement of components for effective use, threading, focusing, and centering the picture on the scree...

15764. 1968 Little 500 (26:39)

Date:
1968
Main contributors:
Robert Appelman
Summary:
A short film about the 1968 Little 500.

15765. Nuclear transplantation (12:37)

Date:
1976
Summary:
Uses photomicrography and time-lapse sequences to reveal the research technique of nuclear transplantation. Shows how nuclei are transplanted from donor body cells into activated eggs.

15766. Thumbelina (15:13)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
This is the story of a little girl no bigger than a thumb who is carried away from her home by a frog to be the bride of the frog's son. Thumbelina escapes from the Frog with the help of a rabbit. ...

15767. The Stalin Era (58:07)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Uses newsreel footage to outline the important events preceding the Second World War. Explains Stalin's efforts to build his personal image. Reviews the non-aggression pact signed with the German R...

15768. The middle months of pregnancy (29:09)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Discusses such topics as superstitions about birth marks and deformities, how to relieve morning sickness, changes in clothing, and how to relax and rest. Contains suggestions for relieving constip...

15769. Nervous systems in animals (16:38)

Date:
1971
Summary:
Uses drawings and dissected specimens to compare the nervous systems in hydra, planaria, earthworms, and grasshoppers and shows the response of a paramecium, euglena, amoeba, hydra, and planaria to...

15770. The film laboratory (19:19)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates the laboratory procedures involved in the production of a 16mm, color, sound film. Follows the camera original film and a quarter inch audio tape through the following p...

15772. World War II prologue, U.S.A. (28:29)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Reviews, through documentary scenes taken from the National Archives, the historic events which led to the entry of the United States into World War II. Records the failure of the League of Nations...

15773. Learning about learning (29:44)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Outlines the work of Dr. Howard Kendler, Dr. Tracy Kendler, Dr. Spence, Dr. Harlow, and Dr. Skinner, in exploring the different strategies employed in developing new theoretical concepts about man'...

15777. Hearing deficit and memory (12:48)

Date:
1969
Summary:
One in a series, this film takes a look at memory as it is exhibited by children with hearing deficits. Each child watches the instructor use a pencil to tap blocks in varying sequences, then tries...

15779. Preparing the home for the baby (29:09)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Introduces and outlines the twelve-program series AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD. Discusses the baby's need for space in the home and suggests and shows furnishings for the nursery area. Describes some o...

15780. Angry boy (31:27)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Dramatizes the story of Tommy Randall, who has been caught stealing at school, and who is sent to a child guidance clinic rather than being of an emotional problem. Traces the disturbance, through...

15781. Brazil (29:46)

Date:
1957
Summary:
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 pre...

15782. Advocates: On Abortion at Will in the First Twelve Weeks (58:13)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Questions a woman's right to terminate pregnancy in the first three months through legalized abortion. Points out that increased accessibility to abortion would decrease the number of unwanted chil...

15783. Coal gas (08:17)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Animation is used to present the story of the Bagley family, who do not use their furnace correctly. When Mr. Bagley over-fires the furnace, the narrator, who is a gnome, and cutaway diagrams of t...

15784. The red ball express (03:55)

Date:
1975
Summary:
Uses animation to show a train changing shape and color set to much. This is achieved by drawing directly on the film, a technique for fast-paced animated short films. Without narration.

15785. 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...

15786. The television picture tube (20:21)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Construction of the television picture tube and how its components operate. How the tube transforms the TV signal into a moving picture. (animated)

15787. [Hopscotch House carnival] (06:18)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
A young man and person in a lion costume walk around a carnival, enjoying the rides, interacting with a clown, before being united with a young woman looking for them. Deggeler Amusement Company a...

15789. History of Chemotherapy (58:38)

Date:
February 18, 2025
Main contributors:
Sandusky, George Earl, 1945-
Summary:
Lecture delivered by George E. Sandusky, DVM, PhD (Senior Research Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Director of the IU Simon Cancer Center ...

15790. Interview with Earl Hoff (1:02:18)

Date:
November 2, 1983
Main contributors:
Earl Hoff; Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray and James Roche

15791. Attitudes and health (10:33)

Date:
1949
Summary:
When Marv Baker does not make the basketball team, he begins to worry. When he finds out that his sister Alice's sickness is caused by worry and learns from her doctor three rules to insure health...

15792. Interview with Jack Howard_10 (18:18)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack R. (Jack Rohe), 1910-; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

15793. Interview with Jack Howard_11 (1:02:00)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack R. (Jack Rohe), 1910-; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

15794. Protest : black power (14:30)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Mert Koplin; Charles Grinker
Summary:
Utilizes excerpts from speeches and interviews of many leading black activists to exemplify the various components of "Black Power." Ranges from discussion of black separatism and violence to non-v...

15795. The Pacific Coast (15:37)

Date:
1947
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Summary:
Reviews the important wartime changes and also points out their lasting effect upon the entire nation, as manufacturers planned to keep industry in the West after World War II. Offers glimpses of ...

15797. The presidency (10:31)

Date:
1949
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Summary:
Traces the position of the Presidency from its constitutional beginnings to the present status of the office. Explains the effect of the development of the implied powers, and discusses the unique...

15799. Battle for Bread (20:17)

Date:
1952
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Summary:
Gives the United Nations' report on how the Food and Agriculture Organization was beginning, in 1949, to solve the tremendous problem of doubling the world's food output. Emphasizes that the FAO is...

15800. Bill Jack Vs. Adolf Hitler (18:11)

Date:
1950
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Summary:
Shows how the Jack and Heintz Company, in Cleveland, greatly increased its output during World War II through improved personnel policies.