Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

7801. The wise men of Gotham (15:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Hand puppets tell the story of a town named Gotham which was to be occupied by the Duke's army. The people of Gotham pretend to be very stupid, so the Duke will take his army away from their peacef...

7804. The woodcock (07:06)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Analyzes the characteristics, habits, and range of this elusive night-feeding game bird.

7805. The woodwind choir (11:26)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
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...

7806. The work of Georges Rouault (29:32)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows and discusses some of the works of Rouault and explains how they are expressive of the artist himself. Tells of Rouault's Celtic background, his temperament, his interests, and of the influe...

7807. The work of rivers (10:11)

Date:
1935
Summary:
Portrays running water as the most powerful of all forces tending to alter the earth's surface. Describes the water cycle, and through stream table demonstrations, animated drawings, and natural ...

7808. The work of the rescue unit (14:24)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Summary:
Presents the training of civilians for rescue work during World War II. Shows the procedures for assigning volunteers to the type of work for which they are prepared and training them to perform as...

7810. The World at War (43:15)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures; Samuel Spewack

7811. The world of ocean (59:42)

Date:
1959
Summary:
A trip to sea with professional marine scientists and a visit to their laboratories are highlighted in this program. Dr. John F. Storr is host for the visits. Showing realities of scientific resear...

7813. The world of Piri Thomas (59:40)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Tours Spanish Harlem guided by Piri Thomas, painter, ex-con, poet and ex-junkie. Describes Spanish Harlem, where two-thirds of the 900,000 Puerto Ricans in the U. S. live, as a home for "the forgot...

7815. The Write Channel, episodes 1-4 (1:03:34)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
The Write Channel is a series of fifteen lessons designed to help teach sentence combining techniques to third and fourth graders. Features animated character R.B. Bugg, a reporter for WORD TV, who...

7816. The Write Channel, episodes 5-8 (1:02:00)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
The Write Channel is a series of fifteen lessons designed to help teach sentence combining techniques to third and fourth graders. Features animated character R.B. Bugg, a reporter for WORD TV, who...

7817. The Write Channel, episodes 9-12 (1:00:39)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
The Write Channel is a series of fifteen lessons designed to help teach sentence combining techniques to third and fourth graders. Features animated character R.B. Bugg, a reporter for WORD TV, who...

7818. The writer's tone of voice (29:15)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Illustrates, through music and poetry, the importance of interpreting the writer's tone of voice in deriving meaning from written communication. Defines tone as the relationship between what is mea...

7819. The Yale Dramat (03:26)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil
Summary:
Home movie focusing on images from the Yale Dramatic Association (also known as the "Yale Dramat"). Includes scrapbook images of tickets, photos, and newspaper clippings. Ends with blurry footage o...

7820. The zoo (11:09)

Date:
1949
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Robert Bean
Summary:
Children visit the Brookfield Zoo to see the larger animals such as the polar bear, Kodiak bear, lion, tiger, kangaroo, alpaca, giraffe, zebra, baboon, sea lion, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and eleph...

7823. Thematic Development (30:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Jones, in this program, explains the tremendous expansion of the basic ternary scheme into “sonata-form” and illustrates some of the simpler means of thematic development in sonata and symphoni...

7824. Theme and Variations (29:51)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates theme and variations and traces the development of this musical form. Illustrations include variations of the Vintner's Daughter, and the "Trout-Quintet," played in its e...

7825. Theory and tactics : Bolshevism on the march (30:29)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Presents the development of Communism from 1904-1914. Uses commentary, dramatic reenactments, and photographs of the situation in Czarist Russia and the conditions which permitted the growth of th...

7826. There's Always a Risk (Solving Problems) (15:36)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 58 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and ...

7827. Thermal in Electric [outtakes] (10:17)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Unedited audio segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology.

7828. Thermodynamics (08:39)

Date:
1938
Summary:
Discusses the chemical reactions that create heat and how we harness heat to generate power.

7829. 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...

7830. These are the men (12:16)

Alternative title:
Into battle
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Osbiston, Alan
Summary:
Takes Leni Riefenstahl's footage from the Nüremberg speeches of the Nazi Leaders and superimposes English "translations" over a set of orations in English "in which Hitler, Goebbels, Göering, Strei...

7831. These united colonies (30:13)

Date:
1955
Summary:
The skirmishes at Lexington and Concord and even the more determined fighting around Boston were only meant to show the mother country that the colonials were serious in their demand to be treated ...

7832. They also serve (07:48)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Grierson, Ruby, 1904-1940
Summary:
"Story of an average wartime housewife whose dawn to dusk activities provide support for the duties of soldiers and defence workers."--BFI website.

7833. They deliver the goods (16:29)

Date:
1943
Summary:
How our fighting equipment gets through to our fighting men in quantity and on time. The mountains of supplies for combat loaded at ports of embarkation are unloaded under combat conditions and und...

7834. They deliver the goods (16:14)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Summary:
"How our fighting equipment gets through to our fighting men in quantity and on time. The mountains of supplies for combat loaded at ports of embarkation are unloaded under combat conditions and un...

7835. They Do Come Back (16:38)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Tells the dramatic story of two young people whose lives are interrupted and threatened by tuberculosis. Shows modern tuberculosis case-finding, diagnosis, hospitalization, and rehabilitation afte...

7837. They steamed to glory (22:09)

Date:
1962
Summary:
A documentary of the steam engine and the part it played in the westward expansion of the United States, from its earliest beginnings in 1831 when the John Bull was brought from England, to the las...

7838. Things To Use (20:53)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Focuses on manufactured objects used for daily tasks in homes, offices, and industry. Examines the qualities of form in these objects in relation to their functions and the preferences of their use...

7839. Things, Ideas, people (People at Work) (34:12)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute col...

7840. This Is Ecuador (17:52)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Borge Hansen-Moller : produced and directed by; Kenneth Richter : camera
Summary:
A Coordinator of Inter-American affairs film intended to foster alliance and educate U.S. audiences about the Ecuadoran nation. "All who live in our hemisphere know that it must be kept as a place ...

7841. This Is Indiana (29:02)

Date:
0000
Summary:
Presents the importance of farming and farm life in Indiana and shows how mechanized methods have improved products and brought better economic conditions to the farmers. Explains what the Farm Bu...

7842. This is the challenge (10:07)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Interprets the challenge to build lasting peace through the development of available resources, sharing of scientific knowledge, minimizing disease, and encouraging world trade. Shows the United Na...

7844. This is...Ecuador (19:04)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Pictures aspects of economic and social life of the country, and its strategic position in relation to the protection of the Panama Canal.

7845. This land of ours : Indiana (09:29)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Presents the historical, geographical, industrial, and scenic highlights of the state, including the cities of Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and South Bend. Also shows Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame ...

7846. This question of color (55:07)

Date:
1965
Summary:
Talks about a new anti-discrimation bill going before Parliament. This episode is seen through the eyes, experiences and observations of Sha Jahan, 23 of Pakistan and Rudy Kizerman, a young British...

7847. This Too Is Sabotage (25:53)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
War Food Administration, Nutrition and Conservation Branch; Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.
Summary:
In This Too Is Sabotage narration states "the saboteur is malnutrition," showing underlying causes of workplace accidents, lost man-hours, and losses in wartime productivity are often caused by the...

7848. This vital Earth (10:06)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
John H. Storer; George E. Brewer, Jr.; John C. Gibbs
Summary:
The second in the "Living Earth" series. Shows with many examples the interdependence of plant and animal life and the dependence of the land upon past living forms for its productive power. Expl...

7850. Thom Mcan Men's Shoes "Bus Stop" (00:34)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
Thom Mcan
Summary:
Five men are waiting for a late bus. The four men who bought Thom McAn affordable shoes are able to get a taxi instead. The fifth man who bought more expensive shoes couldn't afford a taxi and had ...

7851. Thom McAn Shoes "Cha Cha Boots" (00:59)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Thom McAn
Summary:
An advertisement for Thom McAn's Cha Cha boots in which people wearing the shoes dance as an offscreen male vocalist sings a jingle. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

7852. Thom McAn Shoes "Duke & Dutchess" (00:59)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Thom McAn
Summary:
An advertisement for Thom McAn's line of The Duke and The Duchess footwear, in which two sets of feet (one wearing Duke shoes and the other wearing Duchess shoes) flirt with one another. Submitted...

7856. Thornton Wilder (29:00)

Date:
1967
Summary:
Presents the biography of Thornton Wilder by tracing his life and family background. Provides excerpts from his speeches and quotations from his writings and film clips. Analyzes, for their social ...

7857. Threads of life (29:31)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Presents an analysis of nucleic acid. Uses a large model of the tobacco mosaic virus to explain its structure. Demonstrates how a virus can be reconstituted from nucleic acid and protein molecule...

7858. Three cities (10:44)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
How workers in three American cities solved wartime living problems in 1944.

7859. Three deep (07:01)

Date:
1951
Summary:
A group of fourth-grade children play Three Deep under their teacher's supervision. They demonstrate forming a double circle, running and chasing, and two variations of the original game.

7860. Three fox fables (11:03)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Grace Storm
Summary:
Uses live animals to tell the three fox fables about the fox and the sour grapes, the fox and the crow who allowed himself to be flattered, and the fox and the stork who gets the last laugh.

7861. Three men (27:26)

Date:
1965
Summary:
Focuses on the United Nations' three Secretary Generals: Norwegian Trygve Lie, Sweden's Dag Hammarskjold and U Thant of Burma. Interspersed with film excerpts, photos, and commentary, the show also...

7862. Three Part (Ternary) Form (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Reviews the structure of binary form and begins the discussion of three part or ternary form. Explains the limitations of binary form and how ternary form offers possibilities of greater expansion....

7863. Three Sprained Feet (15:17)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dragonflies catch flies and other insects by cupping their feet together under their chin to make a basket. By means of the peep-show parade, Dora and Fignewton Frog tell of Dennis Dragonfly, who s...

7865. Through life's windows (16:18)

Date:
1927
Summary:
An educational film on eyesight which shows headaches, inefficiency in work and accidents to be results of defective vision. By animation and models, the mechanics of the eye are shown and the comp...

7866. Through the Grand Canyon by boat (18:35)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Account of Norman Nevill's 1942 expedition from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead (240 miles) and the boating techniques used to conquer the rapids.

7867. Throwing (1:11:07)

Date:
1950
Summary:
A skilled potter demonstrates the shaping of various pieces of pottery on a potter's wheel. Shows each step in making a bowl and special steps in completing a low, flat plate and a pitcher.

7868. Throwing (10:57)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Indiana U Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
[motion picture] A skilled potter demonstrates the shaping of various pieces of pottery on a potter's wheel. Shows each step in making a bowl and special steps in completing a low, flat plate and ...

7869. Throwing in baseball (11:06)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Explains the various techniques to be mastered in learning to throw a baseball effectively. Professional players give demonstrations of four throws--the overhand, the three-quarter, the side-arm, a...

7870. Thrufeed grinding a straight pin : part 1 (28:39)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows the principle of centerless grinding; the basic elements of the centerless grinding machine; the basic principle of thrufeed grinding; how to set up the machine for an actual job (limited to ...

7871. Thrufeed grinding a straight pin : part 2 (28:01)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows how to balance the grinding wheel; how to position the work for grinding; how to adjust the work guides; how to take the trial grind; how to eliminate taper in the workpiece; how to use a cro...

7872. 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. ...

7873. Tic Tac Mints "Ballerina Bang" (00:31)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Tic Tac
Summary:
An advertisement for Tic Tac mints in which a series of people (young ballerinas, men on a jog, and women at a gym) sing a jingle to the camera about how the product gives one a "bang out of life."...

7874. Tic Tac Mints "Bang Out of Life" (00:32)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Ferrero
Summary:
An advertisement for Tic Tac mints in which three sets of people (a man and woman painting at home, an adolescent girl and boy taking a break from tennis, and two middle-aged women at a hair salon)...

7875. Tic Tac Toss (02:46)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Edward Feil Productions
Summary:
Commerical for "Tic Tac Toss" game.

7876. Tic Tac Toss ; Outside, Eddie and Beth (07:07)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil; Edward G. Feil; Beth Rubin
Summary:
Footage of Beth, Eddie, and an unknown boy playing Tic Tac Toss in the backyard of the Feil home. A young Kenny wanders around the yard with a dog. Some of this footage would be used in the Tic Tac...

7877. Tidewater to Piedmont (34:01)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. This visit to the southeastern United States discusses the role of tobacco in the growth of the Virginia Colony, the i...

7878. Tiger Eddie Beth Ken Winter (09:01)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil; Edward G. Feil; Ken Feil
Summary:
Eddie walks through the snow to the bus stop. Tiger, the family dog, plays in the snow in the yard. Naomi, Kenny, and one of his friends get in the Volkswagen and drive away. The film then cuts fro...

7879. Tiger Shikar in India (11:15)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
Frank Ferrin; Ellis R. Duncan; John M. Foley
Summary:
Warning: This film contains graphic footage of hunting that some viewers may find distressing. Frank Ferrin filmed and narrated his experience hunting tigers in India.

7880. Tiger Under the Bed (29:33)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the real and imagined fears of children. Tells why children invent imaginary dangers and how to deal with this problem. Also points out how to teach children respect for real danger. A...

7881. Time (22:31)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from th...

7882. Time (29:06)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Explores the Oriental concept of time, showing how Eastern philosophy views the future as the tomorrow that never comes. Discusses Western fallacies connected with living for the future, and illust...

7883. Time (18:15)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents methods of determining and keeping time and the uses of time. Traces the development, adoption, and designation of time zones and demonstrates the need for an International Date Line. Cont...

7884. Time : the surest poison (29:35)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Explores the natural process of aging and the methods used in its study. Indicates that aging might be considered one of the deleterious side effects of radiation. Shows that since radiation inju...

7886. Time dilation : an experiment with mu-mesons (36:00)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Presents by experimental means the dilation of time by using the radioactive decay of cosmic ray mu-mesons. The experiment shows how data are taken from the decay of mu-mesons at rest, mu-mesons wh...

7887. Time for sale (02:57)

Alternative title:
Captured Japanese film
Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States. War Finance Division
Summary:
Incorporates footage originally used for the Japanese-produced newsreel, New Philippines News to show the horrible conditions that American prisoners experienced in enemy camps in the Philippines a...

7888. Time for Talent (29:00)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Describes how any community can provide for academically talented students by using actual classroom scenes as examples of those communities exploring this new educational development. Shows how ta...

7889. TIME IN THE SUN (58:50)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
Completes Eisenstein's unfinished film Que Viva Mexico? using portions of his original footage supplemented with an English soundtrack. Begins with life in Mexico before the time of the Conquista...

7890. Time of the horn (06:04)

Date:
1964
Summary:
A small boy retrieves a discarded trumpet and loses himself in a jazz fantasy of his own imagining. Musical background is a Duke Ellington composition interpreted by Jonah Jones. No narrative is used.

7891. Timex "Ski Torture Test" (01:30)

Date:
1965
Main contributors:
Timex
Summary:
An advertisement for a Timex wrist watch in which a male narrator, standing on a mountain in Banff, describes a 'torture test' while another man attaches a Timex Marlin watch to the side of a ski a...

7892. 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...

7894. Tiny Little Patch (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Host Dora and Fignewton Frog tell the story of a "tiny little patch of sky", and use charcoal and chalk illustrations to teach about the weather and the different types of clouds.

7895. Tip Top Bread "Love Story" (01:02)

Date:
1960 to 1961
Main contributors:
Tip Top Bread
Summary:
An advertisement for Tip Top packaged bread in which a woman serves the bread to her husband and son. Submitted for Clio Awards category Baked Goods.

7896. Tip Top Lucky Cakes "Circus" (00:54)

Date:
1960 to 1961
Main contributors:
Tip Top
Summary:
An advertisement for Tip Top packaged cakes in which an animated boy talks to his grandmother about the product while she gets trapped in a metal cage with a person in a gorilla costume. Submitted ...

7897. 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...

7898. Title [BOAC : Rome] (01:03)

Date:
1966
Summary:
In a commercial for the British Overseas Airways Corporation, scenes of Rome are shown as Italian music is played.

7900. Titles Work Tape [outtakes] (03:54)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology.