15281. Should We Stress Security? (29:36)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Host Lee Wilcox speaks with Dr. Maria Piers about security for children and overprotection. Features a "Peanuts" cartoon by Charles Schultz.

15282. Silk screen Painting (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Demonstrates the basic materials and techniques of silk screen printing. Shows how to make a silk screen frame. Explains how designs are made with crayon and stencils. Illustrates the printing proc...

15283. Solar System, the Giant Planets (29:43)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the four planets largest of the solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Uses charts, models, mechanical devices, and photographs to explain their physical properties, appeara...

15284. Sonata-form : development, link to recapitulation (29:31)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Analyzes the recapitulation section of sonata form and explains the use of the coda to draw the many themes together for the close. Continues the illustration with the Beethoven Eroica movement. ...

15285. Sonata-form : recapitulation and coda (29:40)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Still with the Beethoven Eroica movement as an example, the Recapitulation of sonata=form is shown to be a more or less exact representation of the Exposition, with the one basic difference that th...

15286. Songs of America (15:44)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Accompanying herself on the guitar, Bash sings songs of American life. She shows how music was a part of work, worship, love and fun. Her selections include “Aunt Rhody,” “Frog Went a Courtin,” “Fi...

15287. Sound recording for motion pictures (09:21)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Portrays the work of the motion picture soundman in arranging the set and recording acceptable sync-sound on location. Contrasts the features that make a sound studio ideal for recording to the pro...

15288. Spiritual life in prisons (29:35)

Date:
1959
Summary:
In this program, Reverend Jones and criminologist Joseph D. Lohman discuss the special problems of fostering spiritual life under the adverse conditions of imprisonment. Reverend Jones emphasizes t...

15289. Stability and control (29:50)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Even before the improved lift devices were designed, the stability and control problems had to be solved and further improvements incorporated into the original systems. Dr. Lippisch illustrates ho...

15291. Star Gazing (29:47)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses the appearance of the skies and explains how to locate constellations and individual stars. Describes the celestial sphere and explains how to use star charts and the telescope. Uses di...

15292. Steamboat Landing (29:34)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Tells the story of steamboating on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the 1800s. Describes various types of steamboats.

15293. Stephen Spender, part II (29:08)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Louis Simpson, a poet and teacher at the University of California at Berkeley, relates that Stephen Spender’s interest in the relationship between poetry and the subjects of war and politics goes b...

15294. Sugar farm (15:19)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Host Bash Kennett discusses the history of sugar production. Early American methods of maple syrup making are described. The process of growing and refining sugar cane in Hawaii is summarized and s...

15295. Sunbeam Electric Appliances [unknown title] (01:03)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
Sunbeam
Summary:
An advertisement for Sunbeam electric appliances in which a narrator describes several of the brand's products like kitchen appliances and heated blankets. Submitted for Clio Awards.

15296. Surface tension (29:23)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
In this episode, Eric Rogers demonstrates adhesion and cohesion, along with surface tension and the spheroidal state. A number of interesting demonstrations of change in surface tension are shown.

15299. Tanabata or the festival of the stars (29:40)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Each year on July 7, the seventh day of the seventh month – the festival of the stars is celebrated in Japan. Artist T. Mikami tells the history of this festival, which is based on the legend of Sh...

15300. Techniques of gravimetric analysis : part I (48:46)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Presents in detail step-by-step techniques used in gravimetric analysis and the preparation and use of both the Gooch crucible filter and regular filter paper in this type of chemical analysis. Par...