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8581. The Seashore: Its Features and Inhabitants (29:19)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Shows geographical features and physical characteristics of the seashore, and its more common inhabitants. Uses film clips and still photographs to explain the tidal cycle. Discusses the problems...

8582. The Second Baby (29:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses jealousy between siblings, how to help an older child adjust to having a sibling and if jealousy is inevitable. Dr. Maria Piers answers these questions during the program.

8584. The secretary takes dictation (10:00)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Illustrates the practices and procedures in taking dictation in a modern business office. Pictures the routine and special duties of a secretary as compared with those of stenographer or clerk. E...

8585. The secretary's day (11:21)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Daily activities of a secretary are compared with those of a stenographer, to show the added duties and responsibilities of the secretary. She is shown handling callers, appointments, telephone cal...

8586. The Seed That Grew So Slowly (15:16)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Trees grow from seeds; some deciduous trees grow very slowly. Dora Velleman and Fignewton Frog use the peep-show parade to tell the story of an impatient young seedling who learns that there are co...

8587. The Semantics of the Popular Song (29:49)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Contrasts the attitudes toward love developed by the lyrics of popular songs and the blues. Uses the concept of the idealization-frustration-despair disease to illustrate the orientation of the lyr...

8588. The Sense of Tragedy (29:35)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Evaluates the significance of the "sense of tragedy" in making a measure of a man. Analyzes the pleasure man derives from the tragedy of a fellow creature in literature or drama. Presents writings...

8589. The senses of man (18:17)

Date:
1964
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Indicates the importance of external and internal sensory receptors. Describes the general sense receptors of temperature, pressure, touch, and pain. Pictures the special senses of vision, hearing,...

8590. The senses of man (18:15)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Conversion of external stimuli (light, sound, odor, touch, and taste) into nerve impulses by one or more sensory receptors in the body is shown through animation. Explains how these receptors provi...

8591. The seven wives of Bahram Gur (38:45)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Illustrates several sequences from the life of the legendary Persian hero Bahram Gur using for illustrations Persian miniatures from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New Yor...

8592. The shadow of Europe still lingers (30:06)

Date:
1955
Summary:
During the first thirty-odd-years of the young nation’s independent existence, despite the fact that it had political freedom, the USA found itself most unpleasantly and generally quite inextricabl...

8593. The Shakemaker (15:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a trip to the mountains to watch a man make shakes for roofs, in the same manner that shakes were made when the first house were settled. The method hasn’t changed, except for the use of...

8594. 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...

8595. The Shining Princess (29:39)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells and illustrates the Japanese legend of a beautiful princess and the part she plays in making Mt. Fuji a volcano. Demonstrates the brush painting techniques used to paint Mt. Fuji.

8600. The single-celled animals : protozoa (16:38)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Shows examples of each class of the phylum Protozoa through microcinematography and illustrates the theory of protozoan evolution from unicellular plants. Views the uses of the various structures...