15911. The romance of Robert Burns (16:12)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Presents a fictionized story woven about episodes in the life of Robert Burns. Includes Burns's trip to Edinburgh to visit wealthy patrons and his ill-treatment at their hands. He recites to them "A Man's a Man for a' That." Returning to his native village, he stops the wedding of his sweetheart to another man.

15912. Alaska's silver millions (30:55)

Date:
1936
Summary:
This informative short film narrated by Father Bernard Hubbard 'The Glacier Priest' shows in detail the large and lucrative salmon fishing industry in Alaska, from the catching of the fish to their canning.

15913. IU campus about 1935 (04:01)

Date:
1936
Main contributors:
Heighway, George "Dixie"
Summary:
16mm ; color ; silent ; Kodak safety reversal

15914. Land of cotton (09:09)

Date:
1936
Summary:
This segment of the journalistic series, photographed in part by Walker Evans, looks at the exploited sharecropper in a one-crop economy. Predicting the breakdown of the South's single-crop system, this issue reveals the economically brutal conditions under which indigent Americans, owning no land but farming 70% of the cotton crop acreage, were forced to live in 1936. Sympathetic to southern strikers, the film includes a re-creation of the murder of a union member and the flogging of social worker Sue Blagden and the Reverend Claude Williams who were investigating the death.

15915. The solar family (11:04)

Date:
1936
Summary:
Presents an introductory study of the planets--their evolution, motions, sizes, and satellites. Shows, through animated drawings, the evolution of the solar system according to planetesimal hypothesis, and traces the real and apparent motions of the planets. Reveals special phenomena pertaining to certain planets, and describes the planetoids, Halley's comet, and the movement of the solar system in space.

15916. With the Yangtze patrol (09:17)

Date:
1936
Summary:
The United States Naval fleet in Chinese waters, showing commerce on the Yangtze River. Bluejackets visiting ashore in interior China.

15917. David Copperfield : the boy (42:01)

Date:
1935
Summary:
Abridged from the first half of the feature film based on Dickens' novel. Includes his infancy, his visit to the seaside with Peggotty, his difficulties in his stepfather's home, his experiences in London, the trip to Dover, and the pleasant relationships at his aunt's home. Closes with his leaving for school.

15918. First practice (03:49)

Date:
1935
Main contributors:
Heighway, George "Dixie"
Summary:
16mm ; black & white ; silent ; Kodak safety reversal

15919. Safety on the Highway (05:41)

Date:
1935
Main contributors:
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Summary:
A report on the writing and results of an article in Readers Digest entitled "And Sudden Death."

15920. The grey armada (09:20)

Date:
1935
Summary:
The United States Naval fleet in action. Film captures launching of planes and firing broadsides of big guns.