15751. The film laboratory (19:19)

Date:
1974
Summary:
Discusses and demonstrates the laboratory procedures involved in the production of a 16mm, color, sound film. Follows the camera original film and a quarter inch audio tape through the following p...

15752. The film makers : King Vidor (28:53)

Alternative title:
King Vidor
Date:
1970
Main contributors:
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Summary:
King Vidor, Hollywood director of The big parade, War and peace, Solomon and Sheba, and the silent film Our daily bread, recalls Hollywood landmarks of a bygone era and talks about his directing te...

15753. The fine arts (27:38)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Defines fine art and distinguishes between the terms liberal and servile as applied to the arts. Points out that a work of fine art has individuality, originality, and says something. Depicts moder...

15754. The fire season is far from over (45:05)

Date:
January 24, 2020
Main contributors:
Douglas, Arabella; Miles, Emily; Shanahan, James
Summary:
Part 1 In our first episode covering this season's Australian bushfires, we speak with Arabella Douglas. She is a traditional owner who belongs to the Currie family of the Yugambeh and Bundjalung ...

15755. The fireman (second edition) (10:45)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Ernest Horn; Milan Herzog
Summary:
Jim Briggs, a fireman, shows how he cares for equipment and participates in drills and testing of trucks, hose, ladders, and life-saving devices in typical settings. Affords an opportunity to obse...

15757. The First English Translation of the Ebers Papyrus (55:32)

Date:
March 1, 2023
Main contributors:
Halverson, Colin M.E.; Hartsock, Jane A.
Summary:
Lecture delivered by Colin Halverson, PhD (Faculty Investigator, Indiana University Center for Bioethics) and Jane Hartsock, JD, MA (Director of the Department of Clinical and Organizational Ethics...

15759. The First Immigrants to America (29:45)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Considers the earliest peoples to come to America, namely, Vikings, Chinese, and much earlier, the American Indian. Studies these early civilizations and reviews the relationships between the Indi...

15760. The first many-celled animals : sponges (16:30)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Ralph Buchsbaum; John Walker
Summary:
Shows through animation, microcinematrography, and time-lapse photography the basic differences between single-celled organisms and the colony of several cell types that compose the body of the spo...