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1. Inside/Out: Living with love (14:57)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Dorothy Smith works for the Cuyahoga County Welfare Department in Oeveland, Ohio. She works at home, for her job is to care for children who are waiting to be adopted. Although it is a foster home ...

2. Basketball fundamentals (14:30)

Date:
1942
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Summary:
Presents basic fundamentals of basketball. Coach Branch McCracken and the Indiana University basketball team demonstrate, in regular and slow-motion photography, ways of shooting, passing, dribblin...

3. Books come alive (07:11)

Date:
1953
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Summary:
Short promotional film focusing on student learning at Indiana University. Begins with a tour of the buildings and resources of the Libraries, the "focal point of I.U.'s academic program." The film...

4. Challenge of the oceans (29:51)

Date:
1960
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Summary:
A scientific study of the physical, chemical and biological aspects of the oceans. Presents current views of the character and dynamics of oceans and explains the scope, objectives, and problems of...

5. Community health is up to you (17:47)

Date:
1959
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Summary:
The responsibility of the individual citizen for making sure his community's health facilities are adequate and the value of the community health council are shown.

6. Development of the axolotl (08:35)

Date:
1977
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Summary:
Studies the early stages of the development of the axolotl, an aquatic salamander, with emphasis upon genetically determined characteristics. Mates two wild-type, dark axolotls, each heterozygous f...

7. Fire and explosion hazards from flammable anesthetics (30:07)

Date:
1959
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Summary:
Points out potential sources of ignition of flammable anesthetics and impresses upon hospital personnel the need for constant vigilance to eliminate such hazards.

8. Germs and what they do (10:54)

Date:
1966
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Summary:
Describes common microorganisms that cause disease, shows some of the helpful microorganisms, and demonstrates how good health habits provide a means of keeping germs out of the body.

9. Going to hospital with mother (41:28)

Date:
1950
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Summary:
This film shows how the staff of a British hospital has improvised a method of routinely admitting the mothers of patients under school age to a ward of traditional design without structural altera...

10. Gossip (10:49)

Date:
1953
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Summary:
Illustrates the detrimental effects of rumors through the experience of Jean, a newcomer in a high school, who becomes the victim of a malicious rumor started by Jack, her first date. After sufferi...