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15621. World Series 1947: Highlights (25:22)

Date:
1947-10-05
Main contributors:
Allen, Mel, 1913-1996
Summary:
1947 World Series: New York Yankees win the series 4 games to 3 over the Brooklyn Dodgers. September 30 - October 6. Clip includes highlights from across all games. As Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, for the first time in World Series history, the series featured a racially integrated team. "Brooklyn 8 NEW YORK (AL) 6 - Dodgers even the World Series at three games apiece; includes a very long call of Gionfriddo's great catch - Red Barber and Mel Allen (with all other '47 WS HL - 26m) - also on CD spindle also on SAW = 25:22" Game 1: Yankees - 5; Dodgers 3 (Yankee Stadium, New York) Game 2: Yankees - 10; Dodgers 3 (Yankee Stadium, New York) Game 3: Yankees - 8; Dodgers - 9 (Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) Game 4: Yankees - 2; Dodgers - 3 (Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) Game 5: Yankees - 2; Dodgers - 1 (Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) Game 6: Yankees - 6; Dodgers - 8 (Yankee Stadium, New York) Game 7: Yankees - 5; Dodgers - 2 (Yankee Stadium, New York)

15622. Indiana School of the Sky: Story Book V: Little Jonathan / Rumpulstiltskin (27:45)

Date:
1947-10-03/1947-11-07
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.

15623. Indiana School of the Sky: Science I: Animal Storehouses / Autumn Changes the Trees (27:56)

Date:
1947-10-02/1947-10-09
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.

15624. Indiana School of the Sky: Social Studies I: Makers of Indiana: Part 2 / What's To Come (28:35)

Date:
1947-09-30/1947-11-04
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.

15625. Indiana School of the Sky: Music I: Introduction (14:52)

Date:
1947-09-29/1947-10-27
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s. The program reached schools throughout Indiana and nearby states and led to new course offerings at IU. Indiana University students performed in the radio programs originally intended for children ages 4-8 aired for 15 minutes during each school day. Eventually the popularity of the programs called for high school programming as well, and later adults also tuned into the programs. This collection contains recordings of these programs.

15628. [Easter 1947] (04:19)

Date:
1947
Summary:
An older couple greeting people in a receiving line. The woman is Nellie Voigt Freeman, Bailey's mother. The original title indicates this was part of an Easter celebration. Bailey is present in the group. The film then focuses on flower in a garden - the original title indicates this is Artillery Lane in St. Augustine.

15629. [Untitled Feil Home Movie] (05:27)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George Feil
Summary:
Home movie of two football games (one is the Yale Bowl, Yale vs. Dartmouth) taken from the stands. Students tear down the goalposts at the end of the first game. Shows Ed's friends walking in a park and along the water. Back in Cleveland, Mary and Nellie cook a meal for the family at the Harold Feil home.

15630. A day at the fair (11:23)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Depicts the work, fun, and excitement of three farm youngsters who exhibit their calves and pigs at a state fair. Shows how they tend their livestock, watch the judging, and take in the displays and other sights. One boy wins a prize for his calf and later all three frolic on the midway.

15631. Alimentary Tract (10:46)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, A. J. Carlson, H. G. Swann, The Committee of Medical Motion Pictures, American College of Surgeons
Summary:
Explains the actions of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon to move food and waste materials through the body. Reveals normal and stimulated stomach reactions such as hypermotility, inhibition, and hunger contractions; and shows such intestinal phenomena as segmentation, peristalsis, and antiperistalsis. Demonstrates movements of intestinal villi through cinemicrography. For high school, college and adult groups.

15632. Ball handling in basketball (09:21)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Uses slow motion and stop motion photography and close-ups of game shots to show the fundamentals of ball handling in basketball: stance, grip, "feel" of the ball, fingertip control, adjustment before shooting, catching the ball, and meeting passes.

15633. Biography of the motion picture camera (20:23)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Roger Leenhardt, Film Images, Les Films du Compas
Summary:
Traces early development of the camera: how first efforts of March in France, Muybridge in U.S. came about as a result of movements of animals and humans. How subsequent development by Lumiere and Edison brought about the modern motion picture camera and projector. Relates the history of man's effort to photograph and reproduce living movement. Includes the first scientific study of movement, involving 24 cameras stationed at intervals along a horse's path, Thomas Edison's work, and Lumiere's commercial projector for large audiences. Glimpses at the origin of the motion picture, the contribution of Muybridge, Edison, and Lumiere, and fragments of the screen's first "epics." | Glimpses at the origin of the motion picture, the contribution of Muybridge, Edison, and Lumiere, and fragments of the screen's first "epics."

15634. Bogota (capital of Colombia) (10:36)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Presents a historical, cultural, scenic, and climatic picture of Colombia's mountain city capital, Bogota. Shows the type of clothing and architecture prevalent in a region of such little seasonal variation. Pictures the extensive park system, the winding boulevards, and the market place abundant with fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers.

15635. Bookkeeping and you (11:16)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Shows everyday applications of bookkeeping to increase motivation for its study, to help the student decide whether he is interested in taking bookkeeping, and to help in vocational guidance. Gives job information and information about educational preparation for a variety of kinds of work.

15636. Brush techniques : the language of water color (11:01)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Eliot O'Hara, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Summary:
Shows Eliot O'Hara revealing how water color can communicate vivid landscape impressions by executing the following techniques correctly and appropriately: making a smooth wash, preparing the brush, mixing colors, using several colors on a single brush, splitting the brush, reproducing various textures and shadows, achieving perspective, and effecting hard and soft edges.

15637. City fire fighters (09:54)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Shows the importance of organized fire-fighting activities in a city. Includes a visit to a city fire house, the equipment there and in action at a fire, simple precautions against fires, and how to turn in alarms in case of fire.

15638. Clinical psychology and hypnosis (15:29)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Portrays the use of various diagnostic tests and measurements, the induction of hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, hypno-analysis, and short-term psychotherapy. Shows the use of the Bellevue, picture, manipulative, and inkblot tests and an aptitude profile obtained from general, clinical, and diagnostic tests. The subject is then hypnotized and carries out post-hypnotic suggestions.

15639. Dad explains about people (07:20)

Date:
1947
Summary:
An excerpt from "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) produced and copyrighted by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. A widowed father tries to explain anti-Jewish prejudice to his young, precocious son.