15331. The exceptional child. [The epileptic child] (29:10)

Alternative title:
Epileptic child; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Summary:
Discusses the special problems confronting the child with epilepsy and tells how ignorance, superstitions, and half-truths add to the complexity of providing wholesome relationships for the epilept...

15332. The exceptional child. [The gifted child] (29:06)

Alternative title:
Gifted child; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Summary:
Explores the unique challenges faced by gifted children, highlighting how their intellectual, emotional, and physical development may differ from others. Through filmed sequences and dramatizations...

15333. The exceptional child. [The visually handicapped child: the blind] (28:47)

Alternative title:
Visually handicapped child: t...; Blind; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Summary:
This episode explores the unique challenges faced by children who are blind and the support they need to grow and build relationships. It highlights both the limitations caused by blindness and the...

15334. The exceptional child. [The visually handicapped child: the partially sighted] (28:55)

Alternative title:
Visually handicapped child: t...; Partially sighted; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Discusses the special problems of the child with defective vision, pointing out the many degrees of partial-sightedness and the implications of each. Stresses the role of the home, school, and comm...

15335. The Farmer's Tools (15:08)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Bash Kennett takes a trip to show the crude wooden tools used by the pioneer and tells the story of tools from the plow, combine and steam tractor to modern farm equipment. The use of primitive far...

15336. The fascist revolution (29:02)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Examines the fundamental political ideas of fascism--rejection of the individual and deification of the state, distrust of reason and belief in force, and renunciation of freedom in favor of securi...

15337. The fireman (second edition) (10:45)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Ernest Horn; Milan Herzog
Summary:
Jim Briggs, a fireman, shows how he cares for equipment and participates in drills and testing of trucks, hose, ladders, and life-saving devices in typical settings. Affords an opportunity to obse...

15338. The forgotten ones : families of inmates (29:41)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman points out that the families of offenders are lost in the community after the husband/father is sent to prison. He mentions the economic problem of t...

15339. The glass wall (30:53)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dramatizes episodes in the lives of four people to show that they need help with a hearing problem. Urges those with a hearing loss to seek professional help and reviews the agencies of the commun...

15340. The Grist Mill (14:34)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Bash Kennett visits an old time grist mill, pointing out the huge water wheel used to turn the mill where wheat was ground into flour. She shows viewers the patterned mill stones and tells of activ...