15941. Public Relations (17:06)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Depicts the value to be derived by all from effective public relations between business, labor, government, and the people. The role of public relations personnel is shown, as is the type of course...

15942. Riches of Guatemala (13:47)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Shows Guatemala's natural resources, crops, and other products. Includes the cultivation of coffee, bananas, corn, pepper, cinchona for quinine, and plants for rotenone. Includes a short Spanish l...

15944. Schooltime in camp (17:57)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Presents a 1948 report on the School Camp experiment authorized by the Board of Education of the City of New York and conducted in cooperation with Life Camps, Inc. Shows numerous examples of chil...

15945. Seeds of destruction (09:35)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
The Conservation Foundation; New York Zoological Society; John H. Storer
Summary:
The fourth in the "Living Earth" series. Shows what happens when nature's balance is upset by exploitation of natural resources. Suggests that organized planning and conservation can arrest the d...

15946. Sense into dollars (12:45)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Illustrates the different methods used by various salespeople. Shows how suggestive and descriptive selling aids the customer, the individual salesclerk, and the store.

15947. Simple Slab Methods (10:34)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
Indiana U Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
[motion picture] Demonstrates three slab methods of pottery-making. Shows wedging, forming a candleholder directly from a lump of clay, rolling a slab for a simple tile, and constructing a flower ...

15948. Simple slab methods (46:02)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Demonstrates three slab methods of pottery-making. Shows wedging, forming a candleholder directly from a lump of clay, rolling a slab for a simple tile, and constructing a flower container from sev...

15949. Soap : production and cleansing action (11:28)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
James W. McBain; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Summary:
Illustrates in a school laboratory how lye and fat are combined to make soap, and explains, by animated drawings, the chemical action (saponification) which takes place when the mixing occurs. Por...

15950. Solar prominences (11:42)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Photographed at the McMath-Hulbert Observatory, near Lake Angelus, Michigan, this film presents five types of solar disturbances or prominences, including quiescent, spot, cap, quasi-eruptive and l...

15954. T-Men of the Treasury Department (18:23)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Dramatizes the work of the six law-enforcement agencies of the Treasury Department, which are shown dealing with smuggling, narcotics running, illegal production and sale of alcohol, counterfeiting...

15955. The Airport (11:03)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Shows many phases of the work at a large municipal airport, including the buildings, the radio room, the reservation desk, the preparation of the plane, the take-off, and the control of private pla...

15956. The art director (08:00)

Date:
1948
Summary:
One in a series of twelve, one-reel films designed to present behind-the scenes activities of the motion picture industry. This film illustrates the work of the set creators, providing an interest...

15959. The story of Palomar (39:03)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
Sidney Zipser; Edison R. Hoge; Walter S. Arnold
Summary:
Describes the story of the giant 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, photographed over the period of years during which the giant telescope was planned and designed. Shows the grinding of the h...

15960. The teachers' crisis (17:07)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Presents several reasons for the crisis in the teacher supply in 1947, including low salaries, lack of training, overcrowded conditions, and social restrictions.