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7401. Heat as radiant energy (13:23)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Diagrams the position of radiant energy on the electromagnetic spectrum and describes several means of detecting radiant energy. Explains the operation of a radiometer, and illustrates the use of a...

7402. The house fly (16:31)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes the houselfy as a carrier of germs and diseases. Shows the structure of the housefly through microscopic photography and animation. Depicts the life cycle of the fly and its breeding plac...

7404. How machines help us (13:02)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Introduces basic principles of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw, and shows common usage of each. Shows the crowbar as a lever, and shows a doorknob as an example ...

7405. How seeds are scattered (10:27)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Illustrates and explains the many different ways in which seeds are dispersed--by animals, by the wind, and by water. Points out that only a very few live to grow into plants.

7406. Home cookery of fish (11:31)

Date:
1946
Summary:
With close-up photography of cod fillet, habibut steak, and whole dressed white fish, demonstrates three basic methods for cooking fish at home, boiling, and baking. Illustrates the use of garnishe...

7407. High temperature research (18:24)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Describes various phases of high temperature research, giving examples of compounds being used, goals of the research, and some results to date. Discusses procedures being used, with emphasis on pr...

7408. Great Lakes area: men, minerals, and machines (15:03)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Shows how large deposits of iron ore, coal, and cheap water transportation contributed to the creation of a large industrial complex in the Great Lakes region. Pictures large scale mining of tacon...

7409. The price of freedom (14:52)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Keech, Kelvin, 1895-1977
Summary:
This film "outlines the role that industry is playing in our war effort. Production of munitions and the operation of the payroll withdrawal plan for War Bonds are among the subjects treated." (Fre...

7410. Photography fights (13:36)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Quackenbush, Robert S., 1904-1985
Summary:
Dramatization showing how Navy photographers and photographic interpreters provided the intelligence necessary to launch a strike against a Japanese airfield in the Solomon Islands. Ends with a sta...

7411. The thousand days (21:16)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Norrish, B. E. (Bernard Easterbrook), 1885-1961
Summary:
Describes the Canadian effort in World War II including news footage of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament, the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and Canadian tank and aircraft produ...

7412. Story of a transport (20:58)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States. Coast Guard
Summary:
Reviews the World War II service of the transport "Wakefield," formerly the liner "Manhattan"; shows it being used for the transportation of troops, bombed at Singapore, and burned in the Atlantic.

7413. Out of bed into action (15:36)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Army Air Forces. First Motion Picture Unit
Summary:
This film outlines the convalescent training program for hospitalized U.S. airmen in World War II. It is designed to acquaint the convalescent with the program in which he will take part. Patients ...

7414. How honest are you? (14:16)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Bob returns to the basketball locker room for the whistle needed in practice. Don sees Bob searching Ben's pockets and tells the gang that Bob is a thief. At skill practice Coach Barker, in quest...

7415. Housing in Scotland (14:52)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows examples of permanent and temporary houses planned by the Scottish Housing Advisory Committee and based on opinions of service men and women, and factory workers during World War II.

7417. How much cooperation? (06:57)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Presents for discussion is supervisory training sessions the problem of a supervisor who leaves the office promptly but tells his clerical workers that they must work overtime, and who later critic...

7418. Tippecanoe and Tyler too (12:51)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Presents profiles of President William Henry Harrison and John Tyler with emphasis upon the presidential campaign of 1840. Uses maps, period illustrations, and photographs to highlight their childh...

7420. Film Communique: Eleventh Issue (21:26)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
The Signal Corps : produced by; Combat film units of Marines, Army Airforces, United States Navy
Summary:
Addressed to "the men and women of American Industry," the Film Communique series reports on military accomplishments to an audience of domestic workers producing materials for war. Comprised of fo...

7421. The Home Place (31:16)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Extension Service
Summary:
A history of home construction and architectural styles in the U.S. Emphasizes the homestead as symbolic of American values and national character. "The American farmstead, stronghold of human libe...

7422. Planning and laying out work (09:58)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
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Summary:
A plant supervisor talks to his son, who has built a boat in the basement too large to go through the door, about planning a job in advance; and recounts several illustrative experiences at the plant.

7423. Film Communique: Thirteenth Issue: Back Door to Japan (14:04)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Army Pictorial Serivce Signal Corps
Summary:
Addressed to "the men and women of American Industry," the Film Communique series reports on military accomplishments to an audience of domestic workers producing materials for war. This issue cons...

7424. Indiana, our Indiana (22:23)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
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Summary:
An Indiana University student shows a prospective student's parents the campus and explains the counseling system. Includes academic and extracurricular activities, the extension centers, and many ...

7425. Your children's eyes (19:29)

Date:
1945
Summary:
By means of models and diagrams, explains the structure of the eyes, and discusses common defects, diseases, and injuries and their treatments.

7426. Volumes of cubes, prisms, and cylinders (18:42)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Delta Films; E. H. C. Hildebrandt; Robert Pruitt
Summary:
Uses examples of everyday objects to develop the basic formula V=Bh for computing the volumes of cubes, prisms, and cylinders. Builds each concept, formula, or definition through use of live action...

7428. Livestock and Mankind (10:58)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Animal Industry
Summary:
An address given by Dr. John R. Mohler, Chief of the USDA Bureau of Animal Industry, provides narration for this film reporting on the work of the Bureau. "Animal husbandry and veterinary science i...

7429. Maintaining Quality Standards (10:02)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education. Division of Visual Aids; United States. Federal Security Agency; Mode-Art Pictures : produced by
Summary:
Set in a typical wartime factory, the film discusses the supervisor's need to keep up production quantities while meeting quality standards. Narration states "quality work, like a mirror, reflects ...

7430. Right of way (07:35)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Eastman, Joseph B. (Joseph Bartlett), 1882-1944
Summary:
Follows a troop train, a freight train, and a truck rushing to deliver men and supplies to a ship convoy in 1943. Explains the reasons for transportation delays and the shortage of goods in wartime...

7431. Boats (10:36)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Portrays the experiences of a boy and a girl going by boat from Albany, down the Hudson River, to New York City. Along the way, the children see many types of water craft, including a sailboat, a ...

7432. Life Line (17:21)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
The Signal Corps : produced by
Summary:
Reports on the capture of Munda and Rendova in the Solomon Islands. The role of medical instruments and supplies as a kind of weapon in these battles is emphasized, as well as their primary role i...

7433. Ratio and proportion (13:20)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Uses such situations as computing a baseball player's batting average and adapting a recipe to illustrate the principles and uses of ratio and proportion. Explains the terms used, the difference b...

7435. The Force Of Gravity (28:08)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses the relation of gravity to cosmology and to geophysics. Traces the history of ideas about gravity; discusses new instruments and new viewpoints on gravitation.

7436. The Shape of the Earth (28:28)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Traces the development of maps and of geodetic ideas from pre-scientific guesses to the present. Discusses the size, shape, and rotation of the earth and the position of the earth relative to its a...

7437. The Columbus campus...a connection (10:13)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
A high school graduate contemplates what he will do now that he has finished high school. Students at the Columbus campus of IUPUI give testimonials about their experiences. Emphasizes the benefits...

7438. Sculpture VI (29:25)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Continues the work on details begun in Sculpture V. Explains how an area can be broken up into planes by the use of a block of wood. Demonstrates ways of modeling the eyes. Discusses the importance...

7439. Transmision of the parental pattern III (30:11)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Dr. Koppelman discusses probability in genetics, referring to Mendel's findings on the subject. He compares what happens on the average versus what happens every time.

7440. A plus B squared (10:29)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Uses animation to demonstrate the meaning of (a + b)² in a way intended to convey to students the idea that algebraic statements have concrete meaning and visual form.

7441. Techniques of gravimetric analysis : part II (22:47)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Shows the preparation of both the Gooch crucible filter and regular paper filters. Indicates the advantages and disadvantages of the Gooch crucible. Pictures its preparation, Gooch filtering techni...

7442. Make-up for girls (11:35)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Describes the basic articles for make-up and shows the correct method of its application. In this film the make-up for the two female roles in the play "Tom Sawyer" is done by one girl to show the ...

7443. Castillos en España (09:59)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
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Summary:
A travelogue-type film which shows some of the famous castles which gave Castille its name; includes the Alhambra, some historic monasteries, and the Gothic Cathedral of Burgos. With few exceptions...

7444. The Chicago Historical Society (10:03)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows scenes in the Chicago Historical Society Museum which help give an understanding of the past by exhibiting possessions which touched the lives of some of those who have shaped United States h...

7445. RAF and 8th Air Force report from Britain (06:59)

Date:
1944
Summary:
"Includes a report from Britain showing the RAF and the 8th Air Force on a hedgehopping bomber flight over France and Germany, and the 5th Air Force report from New Guinea." ("News and Notes," Educ...

7446. Joining and gluing (14:30)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Explains the principles and demonstrates procedures and materials for joining and gluing wood, emphasizing the mortise-and-tenon and edge-to-edge joints. Shows procedures for application of glue an...

7448. The Stanford-Binet test (20:18)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Explains and illustrates the use of the Stanford-Binet test in the context of a school guidance program; indicates its accuracy of measurement; and how the results may be properly used. Gives the a...

7449. The voices of a string quartet (24:07)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Introduces the instruments of the string quartet and indicates their similarities and differences. Presents selections in a variety of moods, including musical imitations of brasses, organ and harp...

7450. News review of 1945 (10:56)

Date:
1946
Summary:
Headlines: Pacific Typhoon. Carrier "Enterprise" fights off Kamikazi attack during action off Kyoshu last May. Final Victory. Japan Surrenders. Atomic bombing of Nagasaki. War Heroes come home. The...

7451. Trucks and trains (11:01)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes the complexity of transportation by relating the problem to the furnishings of a child's room; and illustrates the variety of trucks and trains that man has devised.

7452. Sculpture IX (29:57)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Demonstrates the removal of the mold from the clay bust. Shows methods and implements used in removing the cast. Points out the importance of being careful and patient. Reviews briefly what has t...

7453. Juan y su burrito (10:40)

Date:
1960
Summary:
A story about a Mexican boy and his donkey is used in depicting the characteristics of rural life in Mexico and in emphasizing the importance of helping others. Educational collaborator, William G...

7455. People of Western China (10:57)

Date:
1940
Summary:
Portrays characteristic aspects of life in the valley of Western China, where habits and customs of past centuries exist side by side with such modern innovations as hydroelectric plants, telephone...

7456. In and around Amsterdam (10:09)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Surveys the city of Amsterdam and the surrounding countryside. Shows typical sights and important buildings, residential areas, contrasting village scenes, and the shipping industry. | Surveys the...

7459. The Kangaroo Rat (10:06)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Shows the life and habits of the kangaroo rat and his animal neighbors of the Colorado desert. Includes a fight with a sidewinder rattlesnake.

7460. Tin (17:05)

Date:
1930
Summary:
Shows opencast mining, sluicing, and bucket dredging in tin mines in the Malay States; tin as it is shipped to the United States; and the processes of making tin plate, tin cans for food containers...

7461. Korea today (19:22)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Describes Korea in 1948, when the U.S. Army was establishing a sound government there. Shows the Japanese being returned to Japan and the repatriation of Koreans. Sequences on education, health, ...

7462. 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...

7463. The Pacific : discovery and development (11:29)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Portrays and explains, by means of animation, the role played by the Pacific Ocean in international affairs. Shows the growth of man's knowledge of the Pacific through the voyages of the early expl...

7464. City life in the new Japan (29:56)

Date:
1961
Summary:
A companion-piece to Program No. 3, this program introduces two Japanese city families and explores their lives and ideas. A modern and very Westernized “new” family and a traditional “old” family ...

7465. In The Wake Of The Armies... (16:31)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Briefly explains the purpose of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and shows President Roosevelt signing the agreement that led to its formation. Through scenes of ...

7466. Alice in Numberland (14:22)

Date:
1962
Summary:
A fantasy which shows the housewife that the farmer, the processor, the transporter, and the retailer must know "how much" and "how many" before they can make foods and other products available to ...

7467. Children's play (26:27)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows that play is an important activity for children and that it has common patterns at different ages. Considers play activities of children between the ages of five and twelve years and explains...

7468. Japanese relocation (09:49)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, one of the critical problems facing the United States was what to do with the 100,000 people of Japanese descent living up and down the Pacific Coast. The immedi...

7469. Our enemy-- the Japanese (20:53)

Alternative title:
Enemy Japan
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
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Summary:
"Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murde...

7470. The story with two endings (09:09)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Discusses the possible inflation and unemployment to come after World War II as happened after World War I. Emphasizes rationing and thrift as weapons to combat inflation before it occurs.

7471. [Grissom AFB air show] (01:34)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
This film shows people parachuting through the sky, and a helicopter flying about. The footage was possibly shot at the Grissom Air Force Base air show, year unknown.

7472. The woodwind choir (11:26)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Reveals the appearance, tonal qualities, and functions of various instruments of the woodwind choir--piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, English horns, bassoons, and contrabassoons. Uses close-up p...

7473. Day of the killer tornadoes (15:35)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Documents the series of 147 tornadoes which struck the South and Midwest sections of the United States in April 1974. Includes extensive footage of the tornadoes in Xenia and Cincinnati, Ohio and i...

7474. Daughters of India (08:56)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows how India's women are stepping forth from their traditionally sheltered lives and taking an active part in public affairs.

7475. [Indiana University campus, public relations] (10:05)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Footage of various student activity around campus at Indiana University - Bloomington during the fall season. Includes aerial shots. This footage may have been shot with the intention of using it f...

7476. La familia Sánchez a lesson in Spanish (11:17)

Alternative title:
Spanish children
Date:
1950
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Shows daily tasks of a rural family of southern Spain. Depicts a trip by a boy and his father to a city market place; shows representative aspects of Spanish life; and emphasizes the activities of ...

7477. These are the men (12:16)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Takes Leni Riefenstahl's footage from the Nuremberg speeches of the Nazi Leaders and superimposes English "translations" over a set of orations in English "in which Hitler, Goebbels, Göring, Streic...

7478. Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) (15:19)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Uses regular photography and animation to present the physical characteristics, the people, and the natural resources of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Follows the activities of two men--John Berges...

7479. The John Glenn Story (29:59)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Traces the career of John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut, from his school days in New Concord, Ohio, to his speech to the U.S. Congress after his orbital flight. Pictures Glenn as a typical, but high...

7480. Conspiracy in Kyoto (20:48)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Uses scenes from Japanese narrative scrolls of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries to tell the story of an innocent man, unjustly accused of a capital crime, who wins his vindication. The spoken te...

7481. Life on a dead tree (10:00)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
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Summary:
In exploring a dead tree two boys find that it is the home of many different plants and animals.

7482. Slum clearance (29:43)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Roscoe Drummond, Washington columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, interviews a subject expert and two opinion representatives regarding slum clearance and housing. Estimates that it will cos...

7485. Rivers of the Pacific Slope (11:07)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Compares the Columbia, Colorado, and Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems to show what man has done to utilize each to his advantage. Illustrates the adaptation of the rivers to diverse uses--as av...

7486. Treasure trove of jade (35:30)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Shows the actual excavation of pre-Columbian sculpture at Veracruz, Mexico, by a National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution expedition. Emphasizes the discovery of the largest deposit of j...

7487. Television Directing Pt. 2 (1:02:27)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates both undesirable and desirable pre-camera or rehearsal procedures from the director's point of view. Traces the development of a program from its inception to camera time...

7488. Mystery mammals of twilight (30:28)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Tells the life story of bats. Shows live bats and pictures a bat's voice of and oscillograph. Explains how bats navigate by echolocation or sonar. (WGBH-TV) Kinescope.

7489. Plant and animal partnerships (29:48)

Date:
1957
Summary:
There are many partnerships in nature where two plants may help each other, or a plant and animal may mutually benefit one another, or where two animals may contribute to each other’s welfare. You...

7490. Water : sculptor of the land (29:25)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Wind, heat, cold, and rain combine to weather the rocks and break them down. But the face of our earth is molded and the decayed rock carried away from one place and deposited in another mainly b...

7491. Collision stations (29:45)

Alternative title:
Collision stations
Date:
1959
Summary:
What happens when a rocket ship in space is struck and damaged by a meteor? Capt. Gell, a Navy expert on crew equipment, demonstrates the Navy’s full-pressure space suit for emergency escape from ...

7492. Paratroops (09:00)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
"A quick overview of the weeks spent in learning to jump, tumble, and fall, in practice jumping from a tower and from a dummy plane, in packing the parachute one's life depends on, in learning to j...

7493. The parts of speech (13:17)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Illustrates the eight parts of speech and their importance in communicating ideas. Derives examples of parts of speech from a beach scene, showing youngsters of different ages enjoying various acti...

7494. Opportunities in sales and merchandising (11:31)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Portrays to youth the wide variety of career opportunities in sales and merchandising occupations, how entry jobs fit into the career ladder, work settings, levels of occupations, and information a...

7495. Platform posture and appearance (09:22)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Stresses the importance of appearance to a speaker's self-confidence and good audience reaction. Uses cartoon characters to show types of poor posture. A man preparing his first speech demonstrat...

7496. The great rights (14:15)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Introduces the principal amendments to the Constitution by showing in dramatic form what would happen if the Bill of Rights disappeared from the American scene. | Introduces the principal amendment...

7497. Run, Jimmy, run (27:58)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Shows visits to the homes of two Caucasian families who adopted children of Negro and mixed parentage, in which their hopes and problems are discussed.

7498. The living stone (32:48)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Portrays the life of the Eskimos living in northeastern Canada, whose lives have been only slightly touched by civilization with emphasis on the technique and meaning in their stones sculptures. De...

7499. How to prepare a class report (10:13)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Traces the activities of a junior-high school boy in preparing a class report. Stresses the following steps: choosing the subject, thinking of one's interest and audience, gathering information an...

7500. The structure of cells I (30:08)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The unit of life –the cell: history of the concept; validity of the concept; variations of size, form and function; limitations of a cell; details of structure and function; special features of pla...