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Demonstrates how various exercises and participation in athletics helped three adolescents to overcome particular difficulties common to many students. Points out the value of exercise for physical health, as an emotional release, and in building self-confidence and poise. Educational collaborator, Erwin F. Beyer
Pictures the marshy area in England which has been reclaimed for farming purposes. Explains the problems which the people face when the soil dries and shrinks from the foundations of buildings, when they prepare the land for farming, and when they build roads.
Shows various religious festivals in Mexico. Included is the festival at Amecameca where dancers climb the trail to Sacramente, re-enacting part of a passion play. Also pictures Lenten pilgrims visiting the one-time sacred grotto of Oztocteotl.
Shows the revitalization of Girl Scouting in Kyoto, Japan, after World War II. Pictures the girls making straw shoes, working in paper crafts, practicing first aid, celebrating New Year's in a traditional manner, taking hikes, and playing indoor games. Acknowledges the part of Girl Scout pen-pals in strengthening international ties.
A skilled potter demonstrates the four methods of glaze application: dipping, pouring, brushing, and spraying. Specific techniques and good craftsmanship are emphasized. Proper preparation of a piece for glazing and precise finishing before firing are shown.
[motion picture] A skilled potter demonstrates the four methods of glaze application: dipping, pouring, brushing, and spraying. Specific techniques and good craftsmanship are emphasized. Proper preparation of a piece for glazing and precise finishing before firing are shown.
Pictures farming in Leicestershire, England, and show the changes the war made in agriculture. Used only for cattle pasturage before, now the region produces as many cattle as before, plus a cultivated crop.
Briefly reviews the history and present status of gymnastic competition. Gymnasts with varying degrees of skill are shown going through routines on the still and flying rings, the side horse, the low and high horizontal bars, and in the free exercise event. Slow motion is used to demonstrate some simple beginning moves as the commentator criticizes each execution.
Alan wants to buy a lathe on the installment plan, Bonnie has to measure windows to see how many yards of material are needed for draperies, and Harry must figure out how many boxes of tile he will need to cover the kitchen floor. Pictures each as he solves his problem, and stresses the procedure--decide what data you need, obtain and organize the data, estimate the result, perform the needed operations, and check your answer.
Explains what good body posture is, and a man and a woman demonstrate exercises for improving muscle tone. The value of good shoulder position and a well arched foot is also described and illustrated.
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 city of Amsterdam and the surrounding countryside. Shows typical sights and important buildings, residential areas, contrasting village scenes, and the shipping industry.
Shows the economic life and activities of the people in the Kunming area of Yunnan Province, at the end of the Burma Road. Pictures agriculture, transportation, conditions of life, and the methods of labor and industry of the people in this congested area. Contrasts the lot of the worker and peasant, who uses outmoded methods and gains a pitiful living, with the life of the people in the cosmopolitan center of Kunming.
Describes electrical current and its creation as Bob and his science teacher assemble a generator. Applies this learning diagrammatically to electrical power in a house.
Traces the history of motion pictures from its early, one-minute format which astounded its audiences, to the elaborate productions of the l940s. Includes film footage of such early motion picture stars as: Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo, and Al Jolson. Highlights such classic motion pictures as The Jazz Singer, Birth of a Nation, Robin Hood, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Zola.
Harold S. Feil, Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein
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Home movie footage of 1949 graduation ceremonies for Mary and Ed. First, Mary receives her Doctor of Medicine from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is seen posing with friends and her husband, Herman Hellerstein, while wearing her cap and gown. The film then briefly shows Class Day Exercises at Yale, graduates lined up outside, and Harkness Tower.
Portrays life in the northeast corner of Scotland. The work of the fishermen and farmers and the industries and other activities of Aberdeen are described in some detail.
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 demonstrates balance and proper techniques of posture and movement. Reviews the suggestions made.
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 position of the Presidency today. Shows the men who have held the office, and the events that shaped their conduct of it.
Shows the harnessing of atomic energy for peacetime uses in the United States. Shows scientists and technicians working in the Atomic Energy Commission's laboratories and pants. Describes new uses for radioactive materials in medicine, biology, and industry.
Illustrates and explains the use of role playing in analyzing problems of human relationships. Shows a mothers' club and a group at the 1947 National Training Laboratory in Group Development as they enact simple incidents involving various techniques of role playing.
Through illustrations, shows high school and college students learning the use of various safety devices, rules, and procedures. Each illustration points out that the student should follow the directions given, should use the tools of chemistry properly, and should consult with the instructor when in doubt.
Emphasizes the importance of proper cleaning in the care of teeth, and illustrates how the teeth are affected by excessive use of refined sugar. Identifies the kinds of bacteria that change sugar to acid in the mouth. Demonstrates the use of sodium fluoride solution in the prevention of tooth decay and prescribes specific rules to be followed in the care of the teeth.
A skilled potter demonstrates the correct stacking of both green and glazed pottery in a small kiln as the narrator explains the factors involved. The potter then shows each step in firing the pieces.
Portrays the Bell System's role in expanding the horizons of television. Explains how a musical ballet television program originating in a New York City studio is delivered, via coaxial cable and radio relay facilities, to a residence in Waukesha, Wis. | Within the framework of a family's viewing a ballet via television, the film explains the method of carrying television by coaxial cable, and by a telephone relay system. Animated diagrams are used to show the relay, step-up, and re-transmission system. Closes with a summary of the Bell Telephone Company's program for keeping up-to-date. | Within the framework of a family's viewing a ballet via television, the film explains the method of carrying television by coaxial cable, and by a telephone relay system. Animated diagrams are used to show the relay, step-up, and re-transmission system. Closes with a summary of the Bell Telephone Company's program for keeping up-to-date. | Within the framework of a family's viewing a ballet via television, the film explains the method of carrying television by coaxial cable, and by a telephone relay system. Animated diagrams are used to show the relay, step-up, and re-transmission system. Closes with a summary of the Bell Telephone Company's program for keeping up-to-date.
Shows scenes typical of modern Mexico, such as the tall buildings and wide boulevards of Mexico City. The canal leading to Xochimilco, with its fruit- and flower-laden boats, is pictured. Then describes a festival held in honor of the Vice President of the United Staes, Henry Wallace, when he visited Mexico City. It includes a bullfight and a parade of Mexican beauties. Ends with a pageant of old and new Mexican dances.
Shows Sydenham Hospital, in Harlem, the first interracial hospital in the United States. Pictures the work of white and Negro doctors and nurses in helping their patients to become healthy, useful citizens.
A chemist explains to two boys how a spider's method of spinning a web compares with the manufacture of synthetic fibers. They shows in detail the processes by which rayon and nylon are made. Pictures briefly the manufacture of nylon hose.
One in a series of twelve, one-reel films designed to present behind-the scenes activities of the motion picture industry. This film explains the work of the costume designer in the production of a feature motion picture, illustrating the skill, the research, and the sense of the appropriate which must go into the designing of costumes. Factual knowledge must be combined with artistic creative ability in making costumes. Shows how each character in a movie is attired to sustain the mood of the scene or to portray a segment of society, a country, or an era in history in accurate detail. Featuring Edith Head.
Crawley Films, Douglas Leechman, Radford Crawley, Grant Crabtree, Graham Crabtree, Judith Crawley, George Gorman, Rod Sparks
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Dramatizes a legend of the British Columbian Native Americans, using authentic wooden masks worn by silent actors. Against impressionistic scenery and with appropriate music the story of why the blind old medicine man conferred his magic necklace on the loon is told by a narrator.
An Indian legend of how the loon received his distinguishing neckband. Uses authentic ceremonial masks.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Elizabeth S. Bixler
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Shows Miss Austin as she goes about her duties in the children's ward of a hospital. She checks a boy in an oxygen tent; visits two young girls, one with a cast on her arm and the other recovering from an operation; assists Barbara Allen, who is recovering from an appendectomy; and cares for two boys arriving from the operating room. Finally shows Miss Austin on duty in the maternity ward several weeks later.
An excerpt from the 1949 MGM documentary "A tale of the Navajos."
"It is the story of two boys and of the legends and sacred chants that led them on a great quest through this land of turquoise skies, this land of Eagle and Owl, of Raven and Coyote."
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 elephant. The narrator mentions their natural habitat, and scenes show special characteristics of some of the animals.
Harold S. Feil, Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein
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Home movie of Ed Feil's 1949 Yale graduation ceremony. Begins with blurry footage of a procession with a marching band, faculty, and students. Brief shots of graduates receiving their diplomas. Shows Mary and Herman walking around the Yale campus.
Jim shows Grace how she can use algebra to find out the quantities of red and yellow paint she needs to make enough orange paint to complete some stage scenery. Demonstrates the algebraic steps of observation, translation, manipulation, and computation, and mentions other uses of algebra.
Contrasts Carolyn, an attractive newcomer to a high school, with Ginny, who despite her willingness to date all of the boys in the school, is unpopular with both boys and girls. Then shows through brief incidents how Carolyn and Wally are careful of their appearance, polite to others, considerate in arranging dates, business-like on the telephone, careful in planning their schedule of activities, cooperative with their parents, and always well mannered.
The third in the "Living Earth" series. Shows the interrelationship of water and forests in supplying life-giving moisture to topsoil. Pictures what happens when forests are destroyed and water is no longer stored in the ground.
Explains how the developing personality of the child is influenced by the manner in which his parents provide for his basic needs and prepare him for social living.
Surveys the development of blood transfusion in international medical history from Landsteiner's discovery of the four blood groups in 1901. Shows the setting up of various blood donor and blood bank systems in England and the United States. | Surveys the development of blood transfusion in international medical history from Landsteiner's discovery of the four blood groups in 1901. Shows the setting up of various blood donor and blood bank systems in England and the United States.
The story of the littlest fir tree in the forest, which is chosen to be decorated as a Christmas tree by a family living in the mountains. Includes familiar Christmas carols.
[motion picture] Tells the story of a woodchuck which was taken to a state park to live and now entertains the park visitors by performing tricks. Shows the woodchuck's appearance, size, natural habitat, food, habits, and adjustment to captivity.
Includes the squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, porcupine, otter, mink, beaver, opossum, skunk, ad woodchuck. In each instance the distinguishing characteristics of the animal are shown, such as the ability of the beaver to build a dam and the mother opossum's carrying her young on her back.
Shows Ivan Pavlov testing his theory of conditioned reflexes by observing the conditioned and unconditioned saliva flow in a dog, feeding fish conditioned to various hunger stimulants, educating a puppy to a meat diet, and observing a squirrel's response to danger. Distinguishes between blind instinct present in all animals from birth and reflex actions set up by conditioning to certain oft-repeated stimuli. Explains the process of checking reflexes and shows its application in the treatment of certain neuroses in human beings.
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Robert Cohn, Arthur A. Ross, Nedrick Young, Will Jason, Vincent J. Farrar, James Sweeney, George Brooks, Frank Tuttle, Helen Hunt, Carter De Haven Jr., Russell Malmgren, Irving Klein, Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Wyonna O'Brien, George Coulouris, Ted Donaldson, Sharyn Moffett, John Litel, Ann Doran, Paula Raymond, Peggy Converse, Flame
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Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1948 Columbia Pictures Corporation feature film, "Rusty Leads the Way". When 10-year old Danny decides his parents exercise too strict control, he decides to run away from home. His parents help him pack and bid him farewell. Outside the front door Danny decides he has been too hasty and re-enters the house, unaware of their anxiety. The parents' ruse proves successful.
Jay Bonafield, Larry O'Reilly, Phil Reisman, Jr., Dwight Weist, Richard Hanser, Herman Fuchs
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Shows the organization of the The New York Times and the vast interrelationship of the numerous departments. Then illustrates the methods for giving up-to-the-minute news, and stresses the need for a free press.
