Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

7901. To Buy or Not to Buy (Buyers and Market Demand) (22:35)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and s...

7902. To find a home (27:25)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Describes the experiences of two African American families when they try to rent an apartment in a middle-sized northern city: one family is repeatedly refused, but the other eventually finds an ap...

7903. 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...

7906. To Make A Dance (15:39)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. DescriptionIn her studio, professional dancer Carolyn Tate performs a dance she has created for this program. She shows how she experiments with different ways to clap, to ...

7907. To market, to market (29:43)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses a trip to a grocery store to explain who gets the money that is represented by the spread between farmers and consumers. Questions are answered by a store manager, businessmen at a civic club ...

7909. To Sell or Not to Sell (Sellers and Market Supply) (20:36)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and s...

7910. To sleep...perchance to dream (29:32)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Documents several experiments conducted at the Sleep Research Laboratory of the University of California at Los Angeles in studying the nature of sleep. Presents experiments to determine the relati...

7911. To Spank or Not to Spank (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses punishment and its consequences. Compares and explains both sides of the spanking issue. Points out alternative means of discipline and shows that children do respect fair punishment. ...

7912. To Speak with Friends (28:35)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Stresses today's need for foreign language instruction to help foster international cooperation and understanding. Learning of a foreign language by elementary school children by the oral-aural met...

7913. To the shores of Iwo Jima (19:32)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.

7914. To young persons with active minds (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the future of scientific endeavor and the qualities which help make a scientist. Explains why the young person interested in science should possess curiosity, imagina...

7916. Tobacco and the Human Body (15:17)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Shows how scientists determine the content of the cigarette smoke entering the mouth and its effect on rabbits and humans. Shows how tars and nicotine from cigarette smoke are collected in a labora...

7917. Toccata for toy trains (08:31)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Shows toy trains as they journey from round house and yards, into stations and out, through countryside and village, and on to their destination. All characters, architecture, and objects with whic...

7919. Tom Savage-Boy of Early Virginia (21:48)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Ph.D.; Milan Herzog; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Summary:
Dramatizes the story of a boy who came to Virginia as an indentured servant of the Virginia Company and was given to the Indians as a token of friendship by the Jamestown settlers. Depicts the boy'...

7920. Tommy Turtle's Snowman (15:02)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Fignewton Frog (puppet) and Dora (person) tell the story of Tommy Turtle, using diaramas. Tommy wants to stay awake for the winter and build a snowman, and ends up getting helped by another hiberna...

7922. Tonal Contrast (29:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains contrast as opposed to repetition or variation. Defines tonal contrast as modulation or change of tonality and harmonic contrast, or the off-setting of plain harmony by color-harmony. Ill...

7923. Tonalities Old and New (29:28)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Again Dr. Jones uses Beethoven’s music as an illustration, explaining the composer’s humorous interplay of major and minor tonalities more fully. He also treats briefly the traditional tonal system...

7924. Tonality (29:27)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The psychological effects of various tonal patterns are demonstrated in the discussion of this topic. Professor Jones illustrates the varying characters or “atmosphere” of melodies based on scales ...

7925. Tonality and modulation (29:42)

Date:
1960
Summary:
In this program Professor Woodworth explains the concepts of tonality (the musical key) and modulation (a shift in key) and their place in composing music. The relations between keys, and the use a...

7927. Tonka : factory (00:31)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Tonka
Summary:
An advertisement for Tonka toy trucks in which the toys are arranged to resemble an overhead helicopter shot of a factory parking lot. A narrator describes the Tonka factory in Mound, MN as the "tr...

7929. Tonka Toys "Elephant" (00:31)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Tonka
Summary:
An advertisement for Tonka toys in which a male narrator holding a toy truck addresses the camera about a previous Tonka commercial in which a child claimed their toy was broken by an elephant step...

7930. Tonka Toys [unknown title] (01:07)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Tonka
Summary:
An advertisement for Tonka toy trucks in which two identical twin boys look over the toys in a shop and daydream about using them in an outdoor construction field. A jingle plays about how much boy...

7931. Too much is plenty (29:16)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses a family discussion and a series of cartoons to explain the farm surplus problem. Illustrates how and why surpluses arise. Provides alternatives which might solve the problem. (Agrafilms, In...

7936. Total communication (09:20)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Three cheerleaders performing cheers. The cheerleaders are also deaf. We see them communicating with others through sign language.

7940. Totes Stretch Boots "Puddles" (00:33)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Totes
Summary:
An advertisement for Totes stretch boots in which a man struggles to move through a large water puddle at a street corner without getting wet. An offscreen male narrator describes the flexibility a...

7941. Touch clay : a ceramic experience (29:04)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Presents scenes of natural objects typifying the things which inspire ceramist Dik Schwanke. Shows him at work in his studio, illustrating his methods of combining pottery and sculpture. Includes b...

7942. Touching The World (14:26)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Norma Canner and a group of children explore feelings through their fingers, toes and skin. Children experiment with things in the classroom and outdoors such things as cri...

7944. Town Meeting of the World (14:07)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Illustrates how the UN meets the need of men and groups everywhere for a forum in which men can speak to each other and to discuss their problems. Shows briefly the forming of the UN, the interrela...

7945. Toys 'R Us "New Markets" (00:33)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
Toys 'R Us
Summary:
A cartoon family of giraffes sing a song advertising the new Toy'R Us store that is opening in town.

7946. Toys in History (15:20)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash Kennett shows some of the things which fascinated children of other times, taking a trip to see some dolls, stereopticons, books and bicycles of early periods which grandfather may have enjoye...

7947. Toys R Us "Time of Year" (00:31)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
Toys R Us
Summary:
A cartoon family of giraffes drive to a Toy R Us amongst a Christmas winter landscape. A Christmas jingle plays in the background.

7948. Toys, dolls (20:14)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Various Mattel toy commercials from the mid-70s.

7949. Tracing airborne radioactivity (1:00:59)

Date:
1962
Summary:
How does the air cleanse itself of poisonous substances, including radioactive substances? Philip Gustafson, a biologist in the Division of Biological and Medical Research, and Henry Moses of the D...

7950. Tracing living cells (29:28)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Illustrates how the use of radioactive isotopes in the study of cell division and in medical therapy has helped man overcome disease. Demonstrates some of the many helpful and healthful uses of at...