17891. A million times a day (12:02)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Describes the vast telephone network, equipment and personnel involved in the completion of a long distance call. Shows how telephone lines and cables run all over the United States, through desert...

17892. A visit with cowboys (11:01)

Date:
1949
Summary:
A city boy visits a real western ranch for the first time and sees cowboys rounding up, roping, and riding horses; watches cowmen roping and branding calves; meets a fence rider at work; helps to s...

17893. Alcohol and the human body (13:46)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Describes graphically the content of alcoholic beverages and defines fermentation and distillation. Then illustrates diagrammatically the effects of alcohol on the liver and brain. Dramatizes the ...

17894. Animals growing up (11:04)

Date:
1949
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Wilbur L. Beauchamp
Summary:
Shows stages in the growth and development of puppies, a new-born calf, and baby chicks during the first few weeks of life. Illustrates how mother animals care for their young. For primary and mid...

17895. Attitudes and health (10:33)

Date:
1949
Summary:
When Marv Baker does not make the basketball team, he begins to worry. When he finds out that his sister Alice's sickness is caused by worry and learns from her doctor three rules to insure health...

17896. Begone dull care (08:32)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Norman McLaren uses animation to interpret a modern jazz composition performed by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The slow, quiet middle section, in black and white, is in contrast with the colorful, swif...

17897. Belo Horizonte (18:13)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Relates the story of Brazil's "planned city with a plan." Explains the unique way in which Belo-Horizonte, city of more than 200,000 inhabitants, was completely planned less than fifty years ago be...

17899. Care of the skin (11:08)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Demonstrates good habits of cleanliness. Shows the proper way to wash hands and face, to clean nails and to bathe. Animated drawings describe the structure of the skin and explain why soap is neces...