15521. The Boxcar Children (33:35)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 of Readit. John Robbins draws scenes from the book by Gertrude Warner as a storyteller and describes episodes about the children who make a boxcar their home. Encourages children to read ...

15523. The brave tailor (15:07)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
WKNO-TV; The Junior League of Memphis; Tom Tichenor
Summary:
Marionettes reveal the story of a Young Tailor who buys jam for one slice of bread which attracts seven hungry flies. The tailor kills all seven flies with one blow, decides he is very brave, and g...

15525. The Bremen town musicians (16:20)

Date:
1972
Summary:
No longer wanted by their masters, a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster set out for Bremen to become musicians. They prove clever enough to outwit some robbers.

15527. The brief history of air quality (46:51)

Date:
September 13, 2019
Main contributors:
Hess, Mary; Emmert, Rock; Blair, John
Summary:
The billowing black factory smoke may be gone, but there remains much work to be done in U.S. and global air quality. As the earth warms, ozone worsens and wildfire particulate matter threatens com...

15528. The bright young newcomer (06:58)

Date:
1958
Summary:
An in-service business management film demonstrating the problems which develop when a supervisor fails to properly channel the initiative of a new worker thus creating resistance to new ideas.

15529. The Broken Plain (29:29)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of John Deere's invention of the steel plough. Outlines the development of the plough in America and its significance to the growth of agriculture. Discusses the life of John Deere ...

15530. The buffalo (15:12)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of the buffalo. Describes an Indian buffalo hunt. Discusses the buffalo's importance to the Indian and the settler. Explains how they provided food, clothing, and shelter.

15532. The Burn Center (26:55)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Discusses burn injuries in general and new techniques and materials used by the medical researchers to treat burns. Shows patients in various stages of recovery from effects of serious burns. Shows...

15533. The Butterfly Who Didn't Want To Go South (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
With Fignewton handling the make-do puppets and Dora narrating, this is the story of a butterfly, who because she helped her friends, managed to migrate anyways, in spite of her first intention to ...

15534. The calls that cure (11:08)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
DeVoe, Ralph G. (Ralph Godwin), 1883-1966.
Summary:
Shows the telephone center and the bedside telephone service in a U.S. Army hospital. Discusses the beneficial effects on the soldiers of receiving telephone calls from home and advises families at...

15535. The Candlemaker (15:29)

Date:
1959
Summary:
After explaining the uses and preparations of candles in early times, Bash takes a film trip to a modern candle factory and compares techniques of the two ages. She sings “Dublin City” and “How Old...

15536. The Carpenter (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The importance of men who have learned to work with wood is Bash’s theme in this program. She tells of early settlers who had to do their own building and carving with crude tools. Through film, sh...

15537. The case against Darwin (29:24)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Concludes the presentation of evidence supporting the case for Darwin, and discusses arguments against the Darwinian theory. (Palmer Films) Kinescope.

15538. The case for Darwin (29:46)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Discusses the evidence and arguments for the Darwinian theory of man's nature and origin. Outlines the Theory of Evolution as it applies to plants and animals, and applies this theory to man, consi...

15539. The case of the tremendous trifle (20:10)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Shows to the men and women of American industry the vital importance to the war effort of all the little parts that they are making. Discusses the importance of ball bearings to the Nazi war effort...

15540. The case of the tremendous trifle (20:01)

Alternative title:
Tremendous trifle
Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Summary:
Shows to the men and women of American industry the vital importance to the war effort of all the little parts that they are making. Discusses the importance of ball bearings to the Nazi war effort...