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Shows the structure of the nervous system, together with its pathways and connections; the nature of a nerve impulse; conditions for setting up impulses; their passage from cell to cell; their discharge; and resultant activity, along with reflexes, sensory integration, and finally, activity of the cerebrum.
Presents a fictionized story woven about episodes in the life of Robert Burns. Includes Burns's trip to Edinburgh to visit wealthy patrons and his ill-treatment at their hands. He recites to them "A Man's a Man for a' That." Returning to his native village, he stops the wedding of his sweetheart to another man.
This informative short film narrated by Father Bernard Hubbard 'The Glacier Priest' shows in detail the large and lucrative salmon fishing industry in Alaska, from the catching of the fish to their canning.
This segment of the journalistic series, photographed in part by Walker Evans, looks at the exploited sharecropper in a one-crop economy. Predicting the breakdown of the South's single-crop system, this issue reveals the economically brutal conditions under which indigent Americans, owning no land but farming 70% of the cotton crop acreage, were forced to live in 1936. Sympathetic to southern strikers, the film includes a re-creation of the murder of a union member and the flogging of social worker Sue Blagden and the Reverend Claude Williams who were investigating the death.
Presents an introductory study of the planets--their evolution, motions, sizes, and satellites. Shows, through animated drawings, the evolution of the solar system according to planetesimal hypothesis, and traces the real and apparent motions of the planets. Reveals special phenomena pertaining to certain planets, and describes the planetoids, Halley's comet, and the movement of the solar system in space.
Abridged from the first half of the feature film based on Dickens' novel. Includes his infancy, his visit to the seaside with Peggotty, his difficulties in his stepfather's home, his experiences in London, the trip to Dover, and the pleasant relationships at his aunt's home. Closes with his leaving for school.
Portrays running water as the most powerful of all forces tending to alter the earth's surface. Describes the water cycle, and through stream table demonstrations, animated drawings, and natural photography, explains the growth of rivers, erosion cycle, rejuvenation, and deposition. Illustrates the formation of ox-bows, sand bars, and deltas. Shows examples of valleys, meanders, water gaps, and alluvial fans.
A Pictoreels cartoon. Cheezer the mouse is tired of being treated like a little kid. Instead of going to bed like his mother told him, he follows his inner demon into the kitchen. Despite the interventions of his inner angel, Cheezer tries out smoking a pipe, looking at a girlie magazine, and drinking booze. Finally, Cheezer's angel and demon fight it out, and the angel defeats the demon just in time to save the little mouse from being eaten by the cat.
Emphasizes the importance of understanding maps. Shows how to measure distances, calculate directions and coordinates, and how to read elevation, logical contours, slopes, proifle and possible visibility.
