15241. Pedestrians and Cyclists (29:36)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Gives detailed analysis of pedestrian fatalities and suggestions for pedestrian safety. Points out how safe walking on streets and highways has become a serious problem. Discusses pedestrian protec...

15242. Pedestrians and cyclists (29:36)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Gives detailed analysis of pedestrian fatalities and suggestions for pedestrian safety. Points out how safe walking on streets and highways has become a serious problem. Discusses pedestrian protec...

15243. Personality of the Driver (29:25)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Draws a comparison between the car and the driver--the car has been standardized but no two drivers are psychologically the same. Explains the types of immature driver personalities--egotist, sho...

15244. Phrases and Sentences (29:39)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses and illustrates two-phrase or duple sentences in musical composition. Defines the phrases as a rhythmic entity, culminating in some form of cadence, and carrying a certain amount of musi...

15245. Physical Characteristics of the Driver (29:16)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Emphasizes the necessity for each driver to know his limitations. Explains the importance of good vision, hearing, and general health; the dangers of and compensation for temporary illness, fatigue...

15246. Pioneer Bank (29:28)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of Old Shawneetown, Illinois and the first bank in this new territory. Explains how Old Shawneetown became a ghost town. Discusses the pioneer bank and how it was indispensable to t...

15247. Plain Dirt (29:18)

Date:
1959
Summary:
A pile of dirt and a granite boulder seems as different as day and night, yet the dirt is produced form the granite. In this program, Dr. Harbaugh and his guest, Dr. Kurt Sarvos, demonstrates the p...

15248. Plankton (29:41)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Shows and discusses plant and animal plankton which sustain life in the sea. Points out that these organism may vary in size from microscopic to quite large. Uses film sequences of jellyfish to s...

15249. Playtime (29:29)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr. Maria Piers talks about the different reasons children play and how their type of play changes with age.

15250. Porkopolis (29:27)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of the meat packing industry when Cincinnati was the pork capital of the Midwest. Describes conditions as they existed in the 1800s and the importance of meat packing to the rest of...

15251. Pottery (15:12)

Date:
1959
Summary:
One of the first things civilized man learned was to mix clay and water and make utensils. Bash takes a trip to watch the making of pottery, to see how clay is fired, painted and finished. She tell...

15252. Prairie Utopia (29:28)

Date:
1959
Summary:
The visions of America as a religious sanctuary attracted many thousands to the New World. The settlement by the Rappites and the later settlement by the Owenites in New Harmony were symbolic of th...

15253. Prairie Village (29:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of New Salem, Illinois where Abraham Lincoln developed many of his qualities of leadership. Explains how the frontier village met the farmer's social, economic, and political needs....

15255. Preview (29:39)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Dr. Lippisch introduces his series and the basic laws of fluid motion by means of new methods of visualizing the flow phenomenon. He also introduces the Smoke Tunnel (a type of wind tunnel) which i...

15256. Prison riots (29:37)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, via an interview with a prison inmate, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman gets an internal view of prison riots. Lohman states that riots are evidence of shortcomings in the prison sys...

15257. Prison-wise or stir bug? (29:46)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, Criminologist Joseph D. Lohman outlines the personality types produced by a prison environment – the “Prison-wise” man who does “easy time” by adjusting himself to life as a prison...

15258. Prisons without walls (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman points out the failure of walled institutions to serve a socially constructive purpose and indicates alternative types of imprisonment. An interview ...

15259. Propulsion (29:42)

Date:
1959
Summary:
After the lift, stability and control problems were solved, a propulsive system was needed to make the aircraft fly. The first propulsion device - the propeller - is still in use today. Dr. Lippisc...

15260. Purchase and Use of the Car (29:21)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses how to buy a new car, how to buy a used car, the variable and fixed costs of car operation, economies in operating your car, and advertised gadgets.