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Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Vicki Rubin, George Feil, Amy Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ellen Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Leslie Feil, Kathryn Hellerstein, Betsy Feil, Susan Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Beth Rubin, Edward G. Feil
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Joint birthday party for Harold Feil, Nellie Feil, and Herman Hellerstein. The family gathers in the yard, where Naomi brings out a cake. The children play in the yard while eating ice cream cones.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Ken Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, George Feil, Edward G. Feil, Leslie Feil, Ellen Feil, Amy Feil, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Betsy Feil, David Hellerstein, Kathryn Hellerstein
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Home movie of a joint birthday party for Mary Hellerstein and her daughter, Beth at the Harold Feil home. Shows Mary blowing out the candles on a cake, then she and Beth open presents together while surrounded by cousins. Naomi can be seen holding a newborn Kenny.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, Ellen Feil, Amy Feil, Naomi Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Harold S. Feil, George H. Feil, Vicki Rubin, Kathryn Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, Betsy Feil, Leslie Feil, Ken Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, David Hellerstein, George Feil, Jonathan Hellerstein, Beth Rubin
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A joint birthday party for Mary, Ellen, Amy, and Susan at the Harold Feil home. Each is given a cake and blows out the candles. The family then gathers in the living room, where gifts are opened. Eddie and George dance for the camera. The film then shows a children's party at the Ed Feil home. Naomi wears face paint and bunny ears. The children play party games in the yard.
1952 Cleveland International highlights. Men's doubles ; Pancho Segura v. Don Budge ; Pancho Segura v. Al Doyle ; John Howard v. Jerry Evert ; Jack March v. Ed Burke ; George Richey v. Jack Rodgers ; Pancho Gonzales v. John Howard ; Pancho Gonzales v. Pancho Segura (final match).
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Naomi Feil, Ken Feil, Beth Rubin, Vicki Rubin
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Home movie of the Feils and friends enjoying a day at Squire's Castle and the surrounding public park. Vicki and her boyfriend grill hot dogs for the family's picnic. Naomi, Eddie, and Kenny then go explore and roast marshmallows inside Squire's Castle.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil
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Home movie of a cruise on the Cuyahoga River. Eddie, Kenny, and friends lean against the rail of the ship and admire the industrial landscape of the shore.
Travelogue documenting Ed Feil's trip to Denmark in 1963. The film focuses on the intricate architecture and decorative interiors of many historic buildings, including Frederiksborg Castle, Kronborg Castle, Egeskov Castle, Rosenholm Castle, and the Hans Christian Andersen home in Odense. Also shows local markets, fishermen at work, men building a thatched roof, and a man carving wood.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin, Ellen Feil, Vicki Rubin, Jonathan Hellerstein
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Home movie of Ed and Naomi Feil on a plane. Footage is similar to the plane ride to the Bahamas from their honeymoon (possibly a trim). The couple kisses and cuddles in their seats. The film then shows Vicki, Beth, Ellen, Jonathan, and friends playing in the Feil backyard. Naomi, seen in the background, is pregnant.
Home movie of Ed and George in New York. Extensive footage taken while riding the New York Central Railroad. Scenes of a park and the Chrysler building.
Travelogue documenting Ed Feil's trip to Denmark in 1963. The majority of this film takes place in Copenhagen and Tivoli Gardens, a pleasure garden and amusement park. Feil also captures the crowd around the Little Mermaid statue, Amaleinborg Castle, and the Danish Royal Guard. At Tivoli Gardens, the film shows the Pantomime Theatre and a ballet performance, a dance hall, children riding ponies, fireworks, and rides including a carousel.
Black and white home movie showing Ed Feil's first place trophy in the Health category for "They Learn to Live" at the 1956 Cleveland Film Festival. Also shows certificates of merit for that film and "The Winged Bequest". Features footage taken from a car driving through a city in the rain (possibly Washington state).
Edward R. Feil, Betsy Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ellen Feil, Naomi Feil, Nellie Feil, Beth Hellerstein, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Ken Feil, Harold S. Feil, Julius Weil, Amy Feil, Susan Hellerstein, Beth Rubin, George H. Feil, Edward G. Feil
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A birthday celebration for Betsy Feil and Ed Feil at the Ed Feil home. Begins with Maren, Naomi, and others in the kitchen preparing food for the party. Beth presents birthday cakes to Betsy and Ed, who blow out the candles while the family watches. Betsy and Ed then open gifts.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin, Blanche Newman, Josephine Newman, Vicki Rubin, Helen Kahn Weil, Julius Weil
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Home movie of Ed and Naomi’s trip to California in 1971. Begins back in Cleveland, with Beth, Eddie, Kenny, and Naomi at a carnival, then shows the plane ride to the West Coast. In California, Ed and Naomi visit Ed’s great-aunt Blanche and her daughter, Josephine, as well as a group of unknown friends. Next, they tour the Universal Studios lot. In Berkeley, they visit the UC-Berkeley Art Museum. Outside the student union, students and hippies dance and sing. Also shows San Francisco at nighttime. Back at the Ed Feil home, the Weils join the family in the living room, where the boys play and mug for the camera.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Beth Rubin, Vicki Rubin, Naomi Feil
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Home movie of the Feils at Cedar Point amusement park. Shows Naomi and the children riding rides. Offers views of the park from the sky gondola. Also shows the neon lights of the arcade and attractions at nighttime.
Ed visiting someone in Newport Beach, California (possibly a relative of Ed's). Shows the group at a marina, seeing the World's largest wind chimes outside the Robinson's department store, and children playing at a shopping center. Ends with footage of people playing shuffleboard.
This film presents the anatomy, symptomatology, and clinical picture of disorders of nerves. Shots include: unilateral paralysis of masticatory nerve, paralysis of right masticatory nerve, disorders of the spinal accessory nerve, motor fibers supplying sternomastoid muscle, atrophy of the upper portion of the trapezius muscle, scapula alata in paralysis of serratus anticus muscle, motor fibers leaving medulla between olive and pyramid, bilateral paralysis of hypoglossal nerves, scars of gunshot injury bilateraly, slow response to galvanic stimulation, severe atrophy and immobility of tongue, and bilateral paralysis of glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves.
Presents all the trials and events of the 1971 state track meet. Portrays the individual performers in action. Shows the awarding of medals and the trophy by the Board of Control and the Commissioner.
Shows in detail how a plane is directed to landing by the ground controlled approach team. Illustrates the principles of operation of the system, and shows the members of the GCA team in action.
Piatigorsky plays "Bourees #1 and #2" from Suite in C Major, by Bach; "Slow Movement" from Cello Sonata, by Chopin; "Masques" from Romeo and Juliet, by Prokofief; "Romance," by Anton Rubinstein; "Waltz," by Tschaikowsky; and "Introduction, Theme and Variations," by Schubert-Piatigorsky.
The methods of directing and using aggression in children are demonstrated in studies of the Americans of the continental United States, the Kwoma of New Guinea, and the Alorese of the Dutch East Indies. We move from the creation of frustration in children through the expression of aggressive responses to the various ways the aggressive responses are directed and utilized. Dr. Bullock’s narration is closely linked to dance action and original musical effects. The types of stimuli that frustrate children are explained. As each example is followed to its logical end of aggressive behavior, one can understand the hit-and-run tactics of the Kwoma, the competitive spirit of the American, and the inferior and helpless feeling of the Alorese. The battle scenes presented at the end of the Kwoma and Alorese groups throw our concept of war into a new mental perspective.
Explains the nature and importance of population genetics. Derives the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle for Mendelian (cross-breeding) populations. Points out that though the Hardy-Weinberg law produces a static gene pool when it applies, mutation, selection, random genetic drift, and migration upset this equilibrium and cause gene frequencies to shift-these factors being, therefore, the principal causes of evolution.
Primarily exterior footage of the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Campus buildings, Marching 100 band practicing and performing at a football game against Northwestern, and IU President Elvis J. Stahr Jr., in his office. Ronald Gregory, Marching Hundred director, is also briefly seen.
Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Leslie Feil, Betsy Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ellen Feil, David Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Kathryn Hellerstein, Ann Leslie Jones, Herman Hellerstein, George Feil
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Begins with Harold and Nellie arriving at the Hellerstein home, where Mary assists the children as they open their presents. Then, a Christmas celebration at the George Feil home. Leslie, dressed as a nurse, and Betsy open presents as the adults watch. The film show close ups of Maren as she holds baby Ellen. The Hellersteins join the party and Ed steps out from behind the camera to give a present to Betsy.
Home movie documenting Ed and Naomi's trip out West in 1966. The couple visits with Ed's aunt and cousins before going to Wayfarers Chapel, visiting a marina, and taking the Universal Studios tour. They also see a stunt performance. Next, they stop at the Hoover Dam. In Las Vegas, where the film captures the neon lights of the Strip and people playing slot machines.
These tapes examine mainly the 19th century history of the Futa Toro. The recordings include more formal traditions, as in discussions with members of the hereditary classes of historians (awlube, ma bube, and wambabe) and more formal memoirs, as in interviews with members of the noble clases (to rodbr, sebbe, jawambe, subalbe). Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons. As of April 27, 2022, the following original tapes in this collection have not yet been digitized and will be added to this record at that time: EC 3862, EC 3863, and OT 1863.
Professor Woodworth uses this program to introduce some general principles of musical composition, illustrating his remarks by examples from Haydn's Symphony Number 102. He explains how musical ideas are developed, how they are used and recognized in composition, and how they can be transformed and manipulated within the structure of the movement. Diagrams, and rear-screen projections of the score are used in this program.
In this last program Professor Woodworth summarizes the points he has made in the course of the series. Then, as a climax to the study of the symphonic form, Professor Woodworth conducts the Cambridge Festival Orchestra in a performance of the final movement of Mozart's Symphony Number 38, and then in a complete performance of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, showing the transition from the 18th Century to modern music.
This program is a summation of the first development of the symphony as conceived by Haydn, Mozart and the early Beethoven. The examples used to show this development include the Minuet and Trio of Mozart's 39th Symphony, and the finales of Haydn's Symphony Number 102, Mozart's Symphony Number 41, and Beethoven's Symphony Number 1. Musical ideas and their development are explored in terms of a consistent classical pattern.
The Cambridge Festival Orchestra joins Professor Woodworth in a consideration of the romantic expansion of the orchestra. The brass choir in Beethoven's hands developed tremendously, and this was picked up and carried on by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mahler and Tchaikovsky. Woodwinds and percussion instruments were also increasingly used to obtain special effects. Examples of this development are played, and at the end Professor Woodworth and the orchestra perform portions of two contrasting 20th Century Symphonies—Sibelius' Symphony Number 5 and Piston's Symphony Number 3—both of which used instrumentation to convey special moods.
Shows how to remove blades from inserted-blade type cutter; how to off-hand grind individual teeth; how to reassemble and align cutter blades; how to circle grind; how to surface grind all tooth-relief angles; how to finish surfaces and edges by honing; and how to inspect resharpened cutters.
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.
The Bixler family visits Kentucky Lake. Shows footage of a bridge (possibly Eggner's Ferry) ; Donald and Lynn swimming ; scenes taken while out on a boat, including a large ship carrying lumber and a rock quarry. A confederate flag can be seen flying at the end of the boat. Several shots of Nelle and Lynn inside the boat and Nelle cooking. Brief footage of Pickwick Landing Dam. Film ends with scenes along Highway 68, including The Hitching Post store in Aurora, KY.
A skilled potter demonstrates the four methods of glaze application: dipping, pouring, brushing, and spraying. Specific techniques and good craftsmanship are emphasized. Proper preparation of a piece for glazing and precise finishing before firing are shown.
Opens with a shot of Nelle and Lynn ; footage of Ft. Lauderdale beach with a pier ; small boats in a harbor taken from the water ; views of palm trees and waterfront homes as the camera sails by.
Cut to the Bixler's home in Indianapolis during wintertime ; scenes of snow covered streets ; Nelle shoveling the walk while Lynn plays.
Cut to Nelle with Lynn, holding a dog, posing for the camera along a riverbank and walking through the woods at Clifty Falls State Park (Madison, IN) ; Lynn and friend on a jungle gym ; views of Washington Boulevard (their street) with spring flowers blooming.
Nelle and Donald and a younger man riding in the back of a boat with a confederate flag ; people at a busy swimming pool and a girl (probably Lynn) receiving a swimming lesson ; the Bixlers attending a large picnic ; more scenes in the yard ; children getting on a schoolbus.
Shows the cutting action of a grinding wheel; how to select the correct grinding wheel; how to handle and mount the wheel on the collet; and how to true and balance the wheel.
Title card: "The Bixler's go to Florida, Hollywood-Miami, February 1956". Images of postcards advertising flights to Florida.
Lynn and Nelle at Storyland, a kiddie park with a fairy tale and nursery rhyme theme ; shows Lynn at a petting zoo interacting with various animals, including a monkey who steals her hat ; monkeys on leashes and in costume perform at a tourist attraction. The Bixlers visit Africa USA ; footage of a Jeep safari (some blurry) and river cruise with many shots of zoo animals and lush foliage. Next is the Parrot Jungle and a crocodile show. Brief footage of homes along the water in Fort Lauderdale. The film ends with Lynn playing in the ocean, her "first experience with the Atlantic Ocean".
Sixth in the "Are You Ready for Service?" series. Shows the emotional stresses that must be faced in military service because of homesickness, having to take orders and responsibilities, and having to learn to kill. Advises young men to prepare for the new experiences by taking school assignments as orders, doing jobs well without arguing, taking temporary jobs away from home, and going to church.
Shows close-ups of the grouse as found in its wild state on the prairies and open farm lands of Missouri, including its habits and natural sounds. Shows a battle between two male grouse, then a courtship. Concludes with a plea to preserve nature's creatures in their proper balance.
Shows how to prepare the wheel for grinding; how to semi-finish and finish-grind a dull tool; how to rough-grind a chipped or broken tip; how to grind a newly brazed tool; and how to grind a chip breaker.
Huston Smith interviews Dr. Bertram Beck and Dr. Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History, on the subject of our country’s alarming rise in violence and deviant behavior. Are other countries witnessing comparable increases in crime? What are the causes of the rise in America, and what can be done about the situation? Special attention is given to the new problem of suburban delinquency.
Discusses the special problems faced by the child with cerebral palsy and explains how physical disability, psychological problems, mental subnormality, and the great number of clinical types adds to the complexity of this affliction. Uses filmed sequences to show the problems faced by many parents whose children are afflicted, and stresses the importance of cooperative teamwork by psychologists, physicians, therapists, social workers, teachers, and parents. Features Dr. William Cruickshank of Syracuse University.
Harold Otwell, Karl Martz, Robert Gobrecht, George Fleetwood, Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
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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.
Thomas F. Barton, Daisy M. Jones, Roger Niemeyer, James W. Taylor, Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
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Compares two dairy farms--one in Southeastern Wisconsin and the other in Central New York State. Shows the land use and cultural practices which reflect adaptation to such elements of the physical environment as topography, soil, precipitation, temperature, and length of growing season. Describes such man-made conditions that influence the marketing of milk as the proximity of farms to urban areas, sanitation requirements, and transportation and refrigeration facilities.
Shows how to set up a V-block to grind the ends and the V; how to rough- and finish-grind the ends; how to establish reference points for grinding the V to precision dimensions; and how to check the work for accuracy.
William J. Thiele, William Bruckner, Jack Chertok, Lee Van Cleef, Kenneth Tobey, Henry Morgan, Keith Richards, Lyle Talbot, Peter Hanson, Teaching Film Custodians
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Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of an episode of the Cavalcade of America television series, "Duel at the OK Corral" (season 2, episode 20), which originally aired March 9th, 1954 on ABC-TV. This film highlights the efforts of Marshall Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen. Earp's activities in Dodge City, Kansas, in Deadwood, South Dakota, and in Tombstone, Arizona are featured.
Presents Saki's story of an impoverished husband and wife who sacrifice their most prized possessions to provide Christmas gifts for each other. Introductory remarks are made by John Steinbeck. Excerpt from O. Henry's Full House.
Lecture delivered by Bijal J. Trivedi (Senior Science Editor, National Geographic; freelance journalist). As recently as 2012, cystic fibrosis was considered a fatal genetic lung disease with most patients dying in their 20s, if not much earlier. But beginning in the 1950s, four couples, desperate to find treatments for their sick children, launched a foundation that would eventually use venture philanthropy to develop a radical type of life-saving personalized medicine that works for 90 percent of Cystic Fibrosis patients. Other disease foundations are striving to replicate the model and the NIH is using the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s strategy to accelerate cures for diseases, rare and common.
This event was co-sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society; IU School of Medicine Department of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, and History of Medicine Student Interest Group; IU Indianapolis Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program; and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
Indicates the basic principle of the standard plain milling machine. Each part of the machine is named and explained, and some elementary setups are demonstrated.
This film documents the annual South Carolina agribusiness tour, a week long trip by bus that takes bankers, businessmen, farmers, and agricultural leaders in search of new ideas that can be put to use in South Carolina. This particular trip takes the group to Michigan and Canada.
This film documents the fourth annual South Carolina Agri-Business Caravan tour, a 2000-mile flying trip to the Mississippi Delta in search of new money-making ideas to bring back and put to use in South Carolina agriculture. Traveling between Memphis and New Orleans, the camera visits farms, plants, plantations, experiment stations and research laboratories, and captures the agribusiness activity of the New Orleans harbor.
Deals with the technology and geography of food production by depicting the role of land in production, the methods employed in the production of plant and animal products, and the relation of animal food production to plant foods. Problems concerning the increase in world production of foods are posed and possible solutions suggested.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., W. L. Burlison
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Shows the interdependence of science and agriculture in modern life. Presents, as an example, the soybean's characteristics, problems of its cultivation and harvest, and the preparation and use of soybean byproducts in home and industry. Revised version.
Shows the steps involved in felling a tree, getting out logs, floating them to the pulp mill, making wood pulp, and making paper ready for printing in a newspaper plant. Also describes life in a logging camp. A silent teaching film.
Discusses practical applications of nuclear energy in industry. Stresses the use of radioactivity in determining the age of the solar system, the age of an ancient site in Texas, and in solving the sewage disposal problem in Los Angeles.
John T.R. Nickerson, Robert Longini, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Presents a survey of the meat industry, tracing the steps in the production, processing, and distibution of meat. Shows herds grazing on western grasslands, cattle being shipped to the Corn Belt for fattening prior to slaughter, the dressing, inspection, and grading of beef, pork, and lamb, and the cutting, processing, and packaging of graded meat. Describes modern cold-storage and shipping facilities. Traces the discrimmination of processed meat from the packing plant to the consumer. Shows commonly-used by-products of the meat industry.
Traces in detail the production of cane sugar. Shows the ground-breaking operations in the spring, the planting and cultivation during the summer, and the cutting and the preparation of the stalks for delivery to the refinery in the fall. Illustrates the mechanized nature of these operations and depicts the numerous refining processes that ultimately produce white sugar crystals.
Brown, Mark, Holden, Wendy, Lowry, Mike, Reed, Sam
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Mike Lowry and Sam Reed discuss their efforts as co-chairs of the Vote 19 campaign in Washington State. Wendy Holden describers her role in a prior effort to lower the voting age in the state. They describe legislative lobbying and dynamics in state government. Mark Brown provides archival news from the time period.
Former Congressman John Anderson frames the youth vote in the turmoil of the 1960s, details his work with moderate and conservative Republicans to pass the 18-year-old vote, and describes how it impacted his own district.
MacGowan describes how he became involved with the Youth Franchise Coalition and the other groups that were associated with it, the involvement of the National Education Association, and the different U.S. Senators who supported the 26th Amendment and assisted with its passage. He also discusses the role played by Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in advising the YFC and working with other members on Capitol Hill. He talks about the ratification process, especially the work with the state legislatures; the value of grassroots organizing; and the long-term interest of several activists in political issues.
Discusses the national party convention as a nominating device. Considers control of the convention, the convention as a "sane" method for choosing candidates, and the nomination of the vice-presidential candidates. (KETC) Kinescope.
Discusses the political history of Brazil and her relations with the U.S. Considers Brazilian art, economic problems and potentialities, and the role of U.S. business in Brazil. A photo series presents the land and the people. (WTTW) Kinescope.
Features high school band members performing during the Marquette vs. Indiana football game on October 10, 1959. Band Day is an annual event that brings high school bands from across the state of Indiana on the field during half time for a joint show with the IU Marching Band.
This program provides the viewer with some highly interesting comparisons between psychology – in particular, Freudian psychology – and Tillich’s interpretation of man’s nature. The major point developed is the difference between Freud’s and Tillich’s definitions of anxiety. Freud, says Tillich, believed that anxiety can be eradicated, whereas I (Tillich) believe anxiety is an inescapable part of man’s nature. Although psychoanalysis is helpful to a man seeking to understand his own personality, it does not help him to come closer to an understanding of the nature of God. This latter is rather the province of religion, and man’s understanding of God is a direct result of his having faith. As the conversations ends, Dr. Tillich explains that many mental illnesses are caused by uncertainty about the meaning of life. To understand one’s existence, he says, one must have faith. This, in turn, is achieved by constant inquiry, doubt and anxiety about one’s basic beliefs.
Shows the simple forms of plant life that appear upon retreat of the glaciers and the role of these plants in preparing the earth's surface for other plant and animal life. "Forests" of the high Arctic are shown to be only inches high though many years old. The struggle for life existing among plant forms and animal forms in this harsh environment is depicted as the variety of species in the region are surveyed.
Presents ballad singers singing three authentic American folk songs: "Strawberry Roan," "Grey Goose," and "John Henry." The background for the singers is a farmhouse kitchenyard after the noonday meal.
Contrasts the crowded play conditions in most cities with those of rural areas, and discusses what the Play Schools Association is doing to remedy the urban problem. Shows typical Play School settings in public schools, a settlement, and a housing project, where children from five through thirteen years, of all races and creeds, are provided with a wide range of enriching play activities for their after-school hours in winter and all day during summer vacations.
Deals with the evils of the one-crop system throughout the tobacco country of the South; then illustrates some of the ways in which the impoverished tobacco farmer can improve his lot by devoting some of his land to raising food crops, using governmental assistance, soliciting the help of local schools in community rehabilitation, and developing a community program to combat malnutrition.