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Shows the harnessing of atomic energy for peacetime uses in the United States. Shows scientists and technicians working in the Atomic Energy Commission's laboratories and pants. Describes new uses for radioactive materials in medicine, biology, and industry.
The Big Picture was a television program conceived by the US Army Signal Corps' Army Pictorial Center as part of a propaganda effort to defeat communism during the Cold War. The series generated over 800 28-minute episodes that ran on over 300 TV stations (including CBS- and ABC-affiliated stations) in the US and abroad from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Explores the world of weapons with emphasis on the revolutionary changes since World War I. Uses film clips to show the destructive potential of air power, rocket and missile power, and nuclear fission. Discusses the problems of total war, time needed for preparation, and defense brought about by the advent of new weapons of war. Offers suggestions as to what can be done in international affairs to solve the problems raised by the weapons revolution.
Discusses the "Ice "Frontier," the North Polar region separating America and Russia. Presents the historical background and geographical significance of this area from the days of the early Russian explorations on the West Coast of America to the present day when the Arctic may well be the crossroads of world airplanes and, someday, the route of guided missiles in a Cold War turned hot. Describes strategic military emplacements, experiments, and explorations which are all part of the current activity that makes the "Ice Frontier" an area of significance in a world of political and ideological conflicts. (Center for Mass Communication) Film.
Part II: Breakup of the Grand Alliance, explores the reasons for the breakup of the Grand Alliance between the U.S. and Russia. Explains some of the factors contributing to the widening gap between the U.S. and Russia and leading to the Cold War.
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman explains that a major portion of the crime problem is a result of what society does about initial and relatively less serious crime. An interviewed inmate tells that he was less damaged by his prior criminal experience than by his prison experiences. Public sentiment has not kept pace with the progress of penological attitudes, say Lohman and Bates. This is a cause of prison experiences making an inmate more dangerous to the public. They emphasize that a prison must make offenders self-reliant, rather than dependent, and indicate methods by which this can be accomplished.
Shows the relationship of the Constitution to the issue of prior restraint on freedom of expression. Presents the case of Burstyn v. Wilson challenging the constitutionality of New York State's film censorship system and Cantwell v. Connecticut involving questions of freedom of speech and religion. Discusses the questions pertaining to freedom of speech when multiplied via recordings or film, and how the claims of free expression can be weighed against claims for local, state, or federal protection.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Robert K. Carr, Milan Herzog
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Explains the right of individuals to be protected from the law and by the law, and dramatizes a felony case to illustrate step-by-step functions in the due process of law.
This program reports on the growing number of senior citizens in America and their special needs. Discussed are some outcomes following the White House Conference on Aging in 1961 and the legislation that followed. Among these are meal services, elderly housing, medical services and recreational therapy. The life of John and Edna Cummins, a retired couple who sell their house to live in an apartment are examined.
Labor unions in the U.S. play an important role in economic life. In spite of their influence, however, it has been in relatively recent years that unions have become strong. Current issues involving labor cannot be understood, apart from the story of its past, which is outlined.
Carl Sandburg, Edward Stanley, Tom Priestley, Jesse Sabin, Warren Redden, George Jordan, Bob Loweree, Ben Schiller, Doris Ann, Martin Hoade
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In this program, the animated 75-years old author, poet and musician expounds on his hometown of Galesburg, Illinois, Republicans, and hangings, discusses his arrest for riding the rails, reads from “Phizzog,” “A Couple” and "Sliphorn Jazz,” plays guitar and sings “The State of El-A-Noy” and “Before I’d Be a Slave.” Carl Sandburg’s passionate admiration for Abraham Lincoln becomes evident as he discusses the sixteenth president’s life and the journey that led to the research and ultimate writing of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography.
Shows in detail practical steps that can be taken to help old people lead active, useful lives; explores the day-to-day problems that accompany old age; and discusses the problems that spring from a needlessly helpless, dependent existence.
A discussion about the limits to secrecy to which the government is entitled. Features journalists Clark Mollenhoff and Edwin Lahey and is moderated by Louis Lyons.
Dramatizes the story of an aging union president who discovers that he has outlived his usefulness and esteem among the workers of his factory, and worse, he has alienated his family because of neglect.
Designed to help the community at large to recognize the capacities of older people, and provide opportunities for self-expression through housing that provides an outlet for social needs. This award-winning documentary depicts the life of a senior citizen who has been spared costly and depressing placement in a nursing home through admission in a housing project.
Documents the use of turning-in therapy ("fantasy therapy") by nurses working with severely disoriented aged patients who do not respond to reality orientation. Focuses on some of the major emotional difficulties in long-term care for the elderly.
Documents the teen-age volunteer members of a geriatric sensory training program working with their elderly nursing home clients and discussing their experiences under the leadership of Naomi Feil, group therapist at a nursing home.
A variety entertainment show is developed and performed by senior citizens in boarding house in Missouri. Songs, dance numbers, and costumes are all extremely delightful.
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate a new approach to group therapy with senile, psychotic patients. This objective is achieved with the aid of elderly male and female patients, a group therapist and several ancillary personnel. In this presentation a group of patients is shown initially in an institutional setting at their weekly group session. As the therapist strives to bring order into a noisy chaotic session, she uses members of the group to limit each other, and motivate behavioral changes. She suggests that they assist in solving another patient's problem, and calls on one after another for their suggestions. The leader of the group is hostile, but the therapist encourages her to assume a leadership role, express her feelings, and try to cope with the behavior which bothers her. The therapist uses a gesture which physically touches the patient to reassure her. The patients are all encouraged to join the therapist in singing the group's "song". During the course of the session the patients are encouraged to interact with each other and diminish their isolation and fantasizing. The program stresses that all levels of the staff must be trained to understand the goals of the group, and the importance of the therapist in developing a meaningful relationship with the patients. As the program closes, the session ends, and some patients are seen to assist each other, and some slight changes in behavior are noted.
Footage of Bailey's trip across the Soviet Empire in 1957 offering a rich depiction of life under Soviet rule. Features many street scenes capturing local culture in the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Warsaw, and East Berlin. Numerous depictions of Lenin, in commemorative art, can be seen throughout. The film focuses both on large cities and rural landscapes, where women notably join men in performing hard labor in the fields. Bailey documented trips to many landmarks ; in Leningrad, this includes the Winter Palace, Admirality Tower, Senate Square, Alexander Column, and Peterhof Palace ; in Kiev, the National Opera, St. Sophia's Cathedral, and the Verkhovna Rada building ; in Moscow, the Bolshoi Theatre, Cathedral Square, Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Grand Kremlin Palace, and many examples of Stalinist architecture ; in Warsaw, the Ghetto Heroes Monument and stone reliefs of workers on Marszałkowska street ; in Berlin, the ruins of the Reichstag, St. Hedwig's Cathedral, and a monument to Soviet soldiers in World War II. The specter of the war lingers throughout as many cities still sport heavy damage from bombing - particularly Berlin and Stalingrad.
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman outlines probation as a special alternative to the criminal-making influences of the prison system, stating that probation can effectively replace detention; although it is considered in the public mind as a form of leniency and improperly administered it becomes “beating the rap.” Two men with criminal experience are interviewed to illustrate this alternative. Meeker and Lohman delve into the necessary requirements to make probation an instrument for controlling criminal behavior and if its potentialities for reclaiming those who have strayed outside the social role are to be used to the fullest extent.
Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle light and fades into darkness.
This item is a set of examples from the collection [United States, North and South Carolina, Georgia, African Americans, 1920s-1930s] collected by Lawrence Gellert. Some content and language may be offensive. The examples have been selected to accompany the monograph, A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial, by Steven Garabedian, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2020. The larger collection of Lawrence Gellert recordings are described in the IUCAT record (https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/2231335 ). Some of these recordings were made using a primitive recording device and the audio quality is very poor. Titles are taken from those provided in Gellert's notes or have been created based on the song content. Gellert did not document the names of performers for their safety, and that is why the performers for most of these recordings are unknown.
A review of life in our nation's capital operating under the stress of war. Reports on the sudden increase in the city's population during wartime. Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull receiving visiting dignitaries, including Winston Churchill and Vyacheslav Molotov. Brief appearances and addresses by the following: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson, War Conservation Board Chairman Paul V. McNutt, General George C. Marshall, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox , Admiral Ernest Joseph King, Commissioner of Education Dr. J.W. Studebaker, California Congressman Thomas Rolph, and General James Doolittle. Concludes with an address by President Roosevelt to the 28 Allied nations.
Shows how the average local health department helps to control the spread of communicable diseases and maintain America's high standard of living by protecting water and food supplies from contamination, by enforcing rigid standards of cleanliness, by insuring proper disposal of refuse, by making laboratory tests, and by supplying immunizing agents to physicians and hospitals. Explains that agencies devoted to tuberculosis and polio prevention, community hospitals, the Red Cross, and the family physicians all work together to maintain high standards of health. Educational Consultants, Harold S. Diehl, Anita D. Laton.
Explores the method man has developed to simplify the repesentation of both large and small numbers. Explains that scientific notation, using exponents, enable one to express any number, large or small, as the product of a number between one and ten and a power of ten.
Richard F. Brown, Jean S. Boggs, Lester Novros, Russell J. Smith, Paul Levine, Richard Herber, Richard MacCann, Walter Ducloux, Herbert Farmer, Ted Comillion, Kenneth Miura, Daniel Wiegand, James Hopkins, David Johnson, Richard Dyer MacCann, University of Southern California, Department of Cinema
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An exhibition of more than 100 works of Degas--drawings, paintings, and sculpture--at the Los Angeles County Museum, emphasizing his three favorite subjects: horses and jockeys, portraits, and ballet dancers. Explains that Degas was an artist who saw with his intellect as much as he saw with his eyes and his feelings and captured the beauty and uniqueness of a moment of movement.
Presents a recent history of the war savings program from its inception in July 1941 to January, 1943, with special emphasis on the activities of retail stores and the payroll savings plan.
Pictures farming in Leicestershire, England, and show the changes the war made in agriculture. Used only for cattle pasturage before, now the region produces as many cattle as before, plus a cultivated crop.
Follows the Young family in the process of becoming naturalized Canadians. Discusses the opportunities they may expect in a country which is important as a producer of grain, iron ore, uranium, aluminum, wood pulp, and lumber. Emphasizes the growing eminence Canada may gain as the population increase begins to approach the productive potential.
Uses the home experiences of six high school youngsters to portray and analyze the conditions leading to conflict between parents and their adolescent offspring. Shows how a group plan to go to the "Blue Room" after the Junior Prom precipitates an argument in each home situation, and analyzes the reasons for the conflicting viewpoints of parents and youngsters. Encourages mutual understanding of each other's position and depicts the Smith's success with the family conference technique as suggestive of a way to improve relations.
National Motion Picture Company Indianapolis and “produced under the auspices of the New York State Department of Health”
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An educational film about social work for babies in Indiana, during a
time when better health services for American families was becoming a critical need.
A line supervisor discusses with a foreman his problem in supervising the women in his department. The fact is brought out that the same rules apply in supervising both men and women, but that women haven't the same background of industrial experience and very often have more home responsibilities than men. These facts must be taken into account by the supervisor.
Falcon Films, E. H. C. Hildebrandt, Robert Pruitt, David Wisner, Evelyn P. Anderson, Seymour Zolotareff, Delta Films
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Uses a combination of animation and live-action photography to logically develop the formulas for determining the volume of pyramids, cones, and spheres. After reviewing the formulas for the volumes of prisms and cylinders, the volume of a pyramid with a rectangular base is determined. This is then related to pyramids with non-rectangular bases and cones, the volume of the latter being compared to a cylinder. Defines a sphere and portrays a method of determining its volume. Concludes with commercial and industrial applications of these formulas.
A father and his two sons make a hike a demonstration of conservation and safety practices and introduces the viewer to plant and animal life, geological formations and the physical facilities of the park. A fish biologist working in the park talks to them and introduces the phases of his work.
Winifred Cullis, Gaumont-British Instructional Films, Beryl Denman Lacey, Frank Wells, Louis Dahl
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Uses animation to demonstrate the chemical processes of digestion. Shows the chemical breakdown of foods, the structure and functions of the glands involved, the absorption of digested foods, and the distribution and storage of food in the body.
Jay Bonafield, Larry O'Reilly, Phil Reisman, Jr., Dwight Weist, Richard Hanser, Herman Fuchs
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Shows the organization of the The New York Times and the vast interrelationship of the numerous departments. Then illustrates the methods for giving up-to-the-minute news, and stresses the need for a free press.
United Productions of America, Howard T. Batchelder
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Through animation, the film compares and contrasts the "assembly line" kind of educational process with one that is tailored to meet young people's needs. Shows how in the former little or no consideration is given to individual needs, whereas in the latter a decentralized educational system can fit the curriculum to local community setups.
Traces the development of the Good Neighbor Policy, the Rio Treaty against aggression, and the Organization of American States set up at Bogota. Describes the importance to the Western Hemisphere of NATO and the U.N. military action in Korea. Stresses the economic interdependence of the American countries and the responsibility of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
Portrays the nature and the role of the Distributive Education Program in the state of Virginia in preparing students for possible future jobs. Shows ow personality traits of an individual provide the basis upon which distributive education training can be pursued and depicts the duties of the distributive education coordinator and the activities of the distributive education clubs.
It's Christmas Eve and Santa hasn't come yet, so Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy, and Clarabell The Clown (Bob Keeshan soon-to-be "Captain Kangaroo") decide to take the Rocket Doodle as transportation and head for the North Pole to see what's happened to Santa. When they get there they find out that "Ugly Sam" (Dayton Allen later of "The Steve Allen Show") thinks that Santa is the "Bearded Bandit" and has captured him. So, it's up to Howdy and the Crew to prove differently.
Presents several artists' works in the schools of sensualism, intellectualism, and emotionalism and describes the characteristics of Renoir's, Seurat's, and Picasso's styles of painting as representative of these respective schools. Shows Picasso and Renoir at work in their later life.
Winifred Cullis, Gaumont-British Instructional Ltd., Beryl Denman Lacey, Frank Wells, Louis Dahl
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Uses animation to show the mechanical and muscular processes involved in the digestion of food. Includes the absorption of digested food, water, and salts into the blood and the function of the liver.
Describes some of the known bacteria that are found in the air, in liquids, and in the soil. Explains that among the many kinds of bacteria some are harmful to man while others are beneficial. Describes the contributions made by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, and Robert Koch in the field of bacteriology. Animated drawings and live photography show bacterial growth and reproduction and some of the ways in which bacteria may be grouped for systematic study.
Professor Nathaniel H. Frank discussed the nature of forces which produce curved paths, brings out the concept of centripetal vector acceleration, and shows how knowledge of the path and mass of an object gives information on the force involved.
Depicts an encounter between two train passengers--a black man and a white woman. A brief exchange of glances leads them both into an imagined sequence in which personal fantasies and prejudices are explored, exposed, and abandoned.
Depicts the emotional problems of a young boy, his rebellion against parental controls, particularly his father's repressive discipline, and his gradual development into a potential juvenile delinquent. Shows the assistance of a community social worker and a neighborhood welfare house in bringing about development of better understanding between father and son. Stresses American spirit of public service and community concern for child welfare. Prepared for overseas use.
Stresses that observation is basic to learning the sciences and the arts by showing a boy observing an old house, an example of capillary action, and a science experiment. Emphasizes the importance of the tools of observation--being alert, being interested, and asking questions.
Highlights events in the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi between 1930 and 1948 and recounts his role in the struggle to free India from British colonialism. Treats his philosophy of passive resistance and non-violence, and depicts the conflicts between British and Indians, and Hindus and Moslems before and after British withdrawal. The events of the campaign of civil disobedience and the series of conferences and incarcerations of Gandhi are reviewed. The views of British officials during this period are also presented. The partition of India and the establishment of dominion status for India and Pakistan are explained. Gandhi's pleas for unity and brotherhood during his last days and his assassination in 1948 are presented. Concluding scenes present his funeral pyre and an eulogy to Gandhi.
Illustrates the practices and procedures in taking dictation in a modern business office. Pictures the routine and special duties of a secretary as compared with those of stenographer or clerk. Emphasizes the place of efficiency among the requisites of a professional secretary.
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 current oceanographic exploration. Shows various types of instruments and equipment used in the study of ocean currents, marine biology, and the ocean floor.
Pictures a business man who is suddenly thrust into the role of hospital trustee, contrasting what he expected his role to be and what it actually is. Explains what a governing board is and what it does.
Shows the effects of habit patterns on social adjustment by contrasting the results of particular habits in the lives of two high school girls--one careful, and the other careless. Depicts the disappointment of the girl whose habits are unsystematic when she fails to gain acceptance into a group, and shows how the other easily makes a good impression. Encourages the audience to analyze their own habit patterns and to form good ones.
Pathescope, Charles J. Vierck, Charles D. Cooper, Paul E. Machovina, Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Hollie W. Shupe
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Designed to be used with an engineering drawing text. Describes the relationship between the making of a drawing and various production operations in shop and factory. Then shows representative operations in the pattern shop, the foundry, the forge shop, the machine shop, and the assembly shop which depend upon the drawing.
Traces the development of the qualities and skills which made George Washington the builder of the American nation. Portrays events of his boyhood and during the French and Indian Wars: illustrates his trials and triumphs as military leader and as organizer of the movement to frame the Constitution; and reveals his difficulties and successes as first President of the United States. For junior and senior high school grades and adult groups.
Opens with a classroom scene in which Judy is crying at her desk. Her teacher learns that the accidental spilling of a bottle of perfume began a series of incidents of teasing by Jack which culminated in the classroom scene. Then mentions alternative courses of action and invites audience discussion.
Shows the Leonardo da Vinci drawings in the Windsor collection and includes such subjects as man, animals, architecture, machines for waging war, water in motion, and a sketch for "The Last Supper." Integrates translation of some of the artist's own notes with an interpretive commentary spoken by Sir Laurence Olivier.
Erling M. Hunt, Wade Arnold, Abraham Ribicoff, Center for Mass Communication, Columbia University Press
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Discusses the purposes and functions of the five major divisions within the department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Describes the several offices, agencies, and bureaus, and indicates how these deal with foods, drugs, social security, vocational rehabilitation, and education. Emphasizes that the major concern of the department is to benefit individuals in their living. Narrated by Abraham Ribicoff, a former secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Wilbur Johns, Norman Sper
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Analyzes defensive footwork action in basketball by first demonstrating the correct stance. Slow motion and close-up photography then portray the two basic defensive moves: the parallel movement, which governs lateral guarding motions, and the stride, which governs advancing and retreating motions. Emphasis is placed on the correlation of arm movement with footwork, turning, pivoting, and getting into position for taking the ball on the rebound.
Describes a geometric circle and defines and illustrates such terms as radius, congruent circles, chord, diameter, major and minor arcs, semicircles, and central angle. Shows the relationship between a central angle and its arc; presents methods for proving arcs equal in degrees and length; and describes the relationships of a diameter, a chord, and its intersected arcs.
Ellis Katzman, Elbert C. Weaver, John A. Skarulis, William H. Pasfield, Ross Lowell, Herman J. Engel, Robert Braverman, Peter Robinson, Geraldine Lerner, Max J. Rosenberg, Fisher Scientific Company
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Demonstrates the differences between saturated, unsaturated, and supersaturated solutions; that solutions are dynamic, not static in character; and also shows suspensions and colloidal dispersions. Presents characteristics of solutions and explains insolubility, solutions without chemical reactions, mixtures, suspensions, and the Tyndall effect in colloidal dispersions.
Erpi Classroom Films, Lawson Robertson, Dean Cromwell, Brutus Hamilton, Harold A. Bruce, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States
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Includes races from 1,000 to 10,000 meters and steeplechase. Style of distance runner contrasted vividly with that of dash man. Differences in typical physiques. Steeplechase portrays various methods employed by participants in clearing barriers. An instructional sound film.
Presents the story of a goldfish from spawning until the goldfish is sold to a child. Begins at the world's largest goldfish hatchery. Introduces the main character, Goldey, developing inside a goldfish egg and follows his growth. Shows the goldfish's appearance, size, natural habitat, food, and adjustment to a home aquarium environment. Provides story-telling material through a dream sequence involving Goldey and Silvey, a silver fantail.
Discusses the properties of water and how they affect its use. Shows that water is compsed of tiny particles which are always in motion, and that its exists in three states--solid, liquid, and gas. Uses experiment to explain how and why the processes of dissolving, evaporation, condensation, freezing, and expansion take place. Collaborator: Illa Podendorf.
Reveals how the nature, concentration, and temperature of reacting substances affect the velocity of chemical reactions. Through laboratory experiments and animated drawings demonstrates and explains the role of these factors with respect to the velocity of molecules, spheres of influence; and vibrational energy. Through animation explains reversible reactions and the abstract processes of chemical equilibrium.
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 alterations. We are shown that ordinary mothers, when given a positive role in the care of their sick children, are generally as adequate in the ward as in their own homes. The film follows the experience of Sally, aged 20 months, and her mother as well as other mothers in residence and shows how adequately this method of care meets the emotional needs of the young child, contributes to the mother's high morale, and enriches the experience of the staff. The fact that this method has its own problems is not overlooked. This film was shot at Amersham General Hospital.
Explains that bacteriology is an area in the field of biology concerned with microscopic forms of life. Shows by photomicrography examples of protozoa, algae, molds, yeast, and bacteria, and through animation gives understandings of the minute size of bacteria and their rapid rate of reproduction. Shows high school students in a biology laboratory. Explains that young people will find unlimited opportunities in the field of bacteriology, pointing out the personal rewards and the contributions that ensue for those working in this area.
[motion picture] Uses the General Assembly of Indiana to portray a state legislature in action as it passes a bill through the various steps to become a law. Includes animated sequences to chart the steps in the process and shows the roles played by the House and Senate chambers, the committees, the Legislative Bureau, the Attorney General, the lobbyists, and the Governor in creating the laws of the state.
[motion picture] Shows a skilled ceramist demonstrating the step-by-step process of making simple molds of three types: slipcasting, drape, and press molds. Portrays the process from pattern-making to the completed object, and explains the steps at each stage.
Shows a skilled ceramist applying designs on several ceramic pieces prior to final firing. He uses the clay itself, a comb, a piece of burlap, or clay stamps to create textured designs. Other decoration methods illustrated include colored glazes, clay slip, "Mishima," sgraffito, and wax resist. Shows samples of representative pieces after decoration and firing.
United States. Office of Education. Division of Visual Aids, United States. Federal Security Agency, Mode-Art Pictures, Inc.
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Dramatized scenarios in a machine shop workplace illustrate common problems arising between supervisors. "Larry Daniels fails as a supervisor because he does not recognize the importance of working harmoniously with other people, particularly with his fellow supervisors" (U.S. Government Films, U.S. Office of Education, 1954, 214). Concludes with a group of supervisors conversing in the locker room as they ask "I wonder if a guy like Larry should be a supervisor?"
United States. Department of Agriculture, United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
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Introduced as "the story of cattle grazing in the national forest," the film depicts cooperation between the Forest Service and local ranchers to manage the grazing of herds on public land. Original USDA catalog entry states: "Range management in the western national forests. Shows how to perpetuate grazing lands by protecting them from overuse by livestock and thus insure the income of ranchers and communities dependent on the livestock and grazing industry for a living" (Motion Pictures of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1945, 41). Depicts rounding up, branding and inoculating cattle in preparation for driving from private range land to National Forest. Shows duties of Forest Rangers, including monitoring fences and health of grasses. Cutting, raking and stacking of hay using mostly horse-drawn implements is shown. Concludes by showing that U.S. Forest Service range management has helped western "cow towns" to prosper and grow.
United States. War Department, The Signal Corps : produced by, Combat film units of Marines, Army Airforces, United States Navy
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Addressed to "the men and women of American Industry," the Film Communique series reports on military accomplishments to an audience of domestic workers producing materials for war. Composed of three short segments:
Burma Outpost Shows the air dropping of supplies for the 10th Air Force Division at outposts in the hills of Burma's border.
Private Snafu: The Home Front Cartoon intended for servicemen is here presented for civilian audiences. Private Snafu imagines his loved ones loafing and enjoying life, oblivious of his hardships. A fairy appears to show him the diligent war work going on back in his home town.
What Makes A Battle Shows the strategy and battles involved in the first land penetration of Japanese-held Marshall Islands, part of the campaign for the 32 Marshall Island atolls.
Shows how to handle sheep for shearing and the relative positions of the shearer and the sheep during each shearing step, the step-by-step procedure in shearing sheep, and the method of rolling and tying the fleece.
Shows what a gated pattern is and why it is used, how a match or follow board can simplify making a parting, how facing sand is prepared and used, and how and why some patterns are rapped.
Shows the difference between bench and floor molding, how to face a deep pattern, ram a drag and walk it off, clamp a mold, locate sprues and risers, and tuck the crossbars of a large cope.
Shows how to use a deep follow board; the technique of facing, ramming, and venting a deep green sand core; how to use a cheek in a three-part flask; and the purpose and method of step-gating.
