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The Conservation Foundation, The New York Zoological Society, George Bryan, Tempo, Inc., John C. Gibbs, George Brewer, John H. Storer
Summary:
Presents nature's plan for the use and control of water. Explains the water cycle through animation and actual photography, and shows the effect of interaction between clouds and air currents through time-lapse photography. Describes the nature and function of watersheds, and indicates how nature has provided for the storing of this life-giving substance.
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "One Nation Indivisible" (season 2, episode 12), which aired on December 22, 1953 on ABC-TV. In the latter half of nineteenth century, the editor of the Tribune newspaper, Horace Greeley, influenced by a conversation with President Lincoln, changes his views regarding Jefferson Davis and proceeds, with some risk to his career, to conduct a successful crusade to free the ex-Confederate president from prison.
Eliot O'Hara, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., John Paul Miller
Summary:
Shows Eliot O'Hara, watercolor painter, sketching a variety of trees found in the United States and Hawaii. O'Hara observes that the artist should look for the structure of the tree, the character of its foliage, and a symbol which represents its form. He explains special techniques which capture individual characteristics of trees.
Eliot O'Hara demonstrates some watercolor painting techniques and reveals three fundamentals that the artist must look for in any tree.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Harry D. Kitson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Education Teachers College, Columbia University, Hal Kopel
Summary:
Explains three basic steps for students to follow in choosing a future career: learning about yourself, learning about vocations which interest you, and comparing your own interests and abilities with the requirements of selected vocations. Describes how a high school boy follows this procedure until he arrives at tentative decisions.
Presents and demonstrates the value of three ways to rest: sleep, relaxation, and change. Relates rest, exercise, and food to good health and pictures a boy, his sister, and his dog observing the rules to achieve good health.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., W. L. Burlison
Summary:
Shows the interdependence of science and agriculture in modern life. Presents, as an example, the soybean's characteristics, problems of its cultivation and harvest, and the preparation and use of soybean byproducts in home and industry. Revised version.
Surveys selling as a career. Portrays a day in the life of a typical travelling salesman at home and on the job. Portrays various types of sales people who sell by personal contacts, mail, telephone, and radio, and describes the qualifications of a good salesman--honesty, accurate judgement, friendliness, and devotion to service.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Irene H. Buchanan, Hal Kopel
Summary:
Portrays sewing as a useful art and a pleasurable leisure-time occupation and surveys the process of sewing, as a high school girl makes a party dress in her sewing class. Offers some suggestions in choosing a pattern and fabrics for a garment, describes ways to improve planning, and summarizes the steps to be taken in sewing, including measuring, matching to a pattern, cutting, marking, and stitching.
Demonstrates how the facilities of a large city library are made available to rural libraries. Shows the library truck from Gary, Indiana, delivering books, pictures, and other materials weekly, free of charge, upon the written request of a small-town librarian. Indicates how such cooperation results in better public service.
