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Shows the importance of organized fire-fighting activities in a city. Includes a visit to a city fire house, the equipment there and in action at a fire, simple precautions against fires, and how to turn in alarms in case of fire.
Portrays the use of various diagnostic tests and measurements, the induction of hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, hypno-analysis, and short-term psychotherapy. Shows the use of the Bellevue, picture, manipulative, and inkblot tests and an aptitude profile obtained from general, clinical, and diagnostic tests. The subject is then hypnotized and carries out post-hypnotic suggestions.
An excerpt from "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) produced and copyrighted by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. A widowed father tries to explain anti-Jewish prejudice to his young, precocious son.
Jam Handy Organization, Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education, Federal Security Agency
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Shows how dimpling and countersinking prepare metal for flush riveting, how to operate a dimpling machine, and how to countersink work for flush rivets.
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, Ray-Bell Films, Inc.
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Shows how to assemble broaching inserts in right- and left-hand toolholders, how to mount and adjust toolholders in the double ram; how to mount and adjust the work fixtures; how to set trip dogs for the ram stroke; how to measure the workpiece after trial broaching; and how to surface-broach on a double ram vertical broaching machine at a production rate.
Theodore Kautzky demonstrates techniques in drawing a scene with pencil. Emphasizes the following points: general design, thumbnail sketching, preparation of the pencil point, drawing sharp lines, making broad masses, and achieving textures of wood, brick, shingles, stone, and foliage.
Designed for use with a health text on the college level. Shows interviews of a college student with a physician and then with a psychiatrist, who uncovers his fears and helps him become emotionally adjusted. Uses occasional flashbacks of the boy's childhood. Correlated with "Textbook of Healthful Living" by Dr. Harold S. Diehl.
Describes the farmers of the Andes as a primitive people without the benefits of technology, showing the tireless Incas who till the mountain soil at altitudes of 10,000 to 15,000 feet. Discusses the role of the llama, alpaca, and vicuña in providing meat, milk, and hides for these farmers; illustrates how corn and wheat are irrigated by ditches dug by ancient Incas; and shows views of the primitive methods used in threshing and winnowing.
Shows a group of children playing three types of games: those which they invent themselves, those learned under supervision but carried on alone, and those dramatic activities which grow out of school activities.
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education (Producer), Federal Security Agency (Producer), Emerson Yorke Studio (Producer)
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Shows how to prepare the machine or the job; how to select and set up a back rest; how to adjust the back rest during grinding; how to rough- and finish-grind the long shaft; and how to check and adjust the taper.
Division of Visual Aids, United States Office of Education (Producer), Federal Security Agency (Producer), Emerson Yorke Studio (Producer)
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Shows how to mount and dress the wheels on the two-spindle grinder; how to prepare the diaphragm chuck; how to plunge-grind the bore and adjust for taper; and how to grind the shoulder and flange parallel at right angles to the bore.
An Academic Films presentation of the pianist playing Liszt’s Sixth Hungarian Symphony and Liebestraum. | Gyorgy Sandor plays Leibstraum and Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, by Franz Liszt.
Demonstrates the production and utilization of seven types of 3 1/4" x 4" handmade slides by teachers and pupils in various school situations. Stresses sources of picture material and special production techniques, such as the placement of the copy, its size, the use of a margin guide, and binding techniques.
Includes a view of the tournament crowd, drawings, close-ups of team members and fans, the game itself, presentation of IHSAA awards, and post-tournament celebrations.
Shows a typical day in the life of a model American teen-age boy. His health habits, diet, hobbies, and correct attitude toward work, study and play are all stressed.
Offers glimpses of the proverbial Irish national character, the poetic landscape of the country, and the political, economic, and social problems during president Eamon DeValera's administration.
Tells the story of a boy's trip to visit friends in Costa Rica. He lives in the home of an upper-class Costa Rican family, sharing their life and activities. He goes to see the public schools, the city market, native animals in the zoo, and the large plantations. Emphasizes the similarities and differences between life in Costa Rica and the United States.
Shows how to use the gage manifold in building leak-testing pressures in a domestic refrigerator; how to test for sulphur dioxide and methyl chloride leaks; how to use the halide torch to locate freon leaks; and how to repair several types of leaks.
Shows three distinct tendencies in present-day farming: large-scale, factory-style farming with crops scientifically scheduled and treated; the cooperative technique under which small land-owners group together for more favorable production and distribution; and the way of the traditional independent farmer.
Illustrates by typical situations the three prime responsibilities of the bus operator: the safety and comfort of his passengers and people on the streets; maintenance of schedules; and a courteous, friendly, and helpful attitude toward passengers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Firman E. Bear
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Shows processes of soil formation, the four great soil groups of the earth, the location of these soil groups in the United States, man's exploitation of the soil, and the major scientific farming techniques designed to replace soil fertility losses and stop erosion.
Stresses the importance of teeth in the digestive system, identifies and explains the purposes of the different teeth, and shows tooth development from infancy, the structure of teeth, how tooth decay starts, and the necessity for correct diet. A classroom film.
Presents several experiments to illustrate the characteristics of oxygen, including the effects of free oxygen upon mice and a lighted candle, the separation of liquid oxygen from liquid air, the breakdown of water by electrolysis, the freeing of oxygen from mercuric oxide by a catalyst, and the action of spontaneous combustion.
Shows the religious pageantry of Portugal, a country devotedly linked to the Roman Chatolic Church, and the status of education, labor, and industry. Points out that Portugal's future role among the nations of the world is still undetermined.
The Phillips "66" championship team demonstrates basketball fundamentals. Slow motion and stop motion photography are used frequently to show techniques as follow-through, pivoting, passing drill, tipping drill, defensive, offensive breaks, and the various shots.
Uses such situations as computing a baseball player's batting average and adapting a recipe to illustrate the principles and uses of ratio and proportion. Explains the terms used, the difference between ratio and proportion, and the application of the principles to gears.
George follows carefully planned preliminary operations in getting ready to type. Jane, who makes her preparations haphazardly, learns later to practice George's methods and is then ready to type with self-control and self-confidence.
Reviews the rise of Hitler to power, his broken promises, the invasion of Germany's neighbors, Germany's eventual defeat, and the Allied occupation of Germany, with its many problems which are aggravated by rigid zoning of the territory.
Compares the Columbia, Colorado, and Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems to show what man has done to utilize each to his advantage. Illustrates the adaptation of the rivers to diverse uses--as avenues of commerce, for logging and fishing, for electrical power, and water.
Includes harbor activities at the ports of San Francisco, Puget Sound, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland. Also shows how Los Angeles, lacking a good natural harbor, built one by erecting huge breakwaters at nearby San Pedro.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., E. Laurence Palmer
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Joan and Jerry Johnson observe the changes on their parents' farm during the spring. Includes plants, trees, birds, farm animals, a frog, a moth, and a rabbit. Also shows some of the children's activities.
Joan and Jerry Johnson watch the growth of plants and animals on their parents' farm during the summer. They fish, watch a frog and a dragonfly, see a young robin leave its nest, help their parents, gather flowers and blackberries, watch a spider, and eat watermelon.
Presents the pros and cons of "progressive education" and points out the citizen's responsibility toward the schools. Also gives a brief history of education in the United Staes, including the present emphasis upon psychology.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Louis W. Sauer
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Shows the day's activities of a child specialist in his office, on a home call, and at a hospital. He makes a physical examination, vaccinates a baby, visits his hospital patients, and diagnoses a case of measles.
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.
Reviews the important wartime changes and also points out their lasting effect upon the entire nation, as manufacturers planned to keep industry in the West after World War II. Offers glimpses of such Pacific Coast industries as shipbuilding, aircraft production, lumber, oil, steel, and synthetic rubber.
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.
Daily activities of a secretary are compared with those of a stenographer, to show the added duties and responsibilities of the secretary. She is shown handling callers, appointments, telephone calls, filing, and many other details of office procedure.
Explains the various techniques to be mastered in learning to throw a baseball effectively. Professional players give demonstrations of four throws--the overhand, the three-quarter, the side-arm, and the underarm--which are analyzed by means of stop motion, slow motion, and close-up photography.
Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and then other singers, including mountaineers, sharecroppers, migratory workers, African-Americans, and railroad builders, are shown.
Pictures Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to illustrate how centers of commerce develop. Shows how the existence of surrounding farmland, forests, and mineral resources give rise to industrial activity, the creation of jobs, and the building of a city and trading center.
