16701. 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...

16702. 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...

16703. 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.

16704. 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 ...

16705. 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...

16706. 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...

16707. 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...