17802. The wheat farmer (11:19)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Herbert B. Hartwig
Summary:
A view of life on a typical Kansas wheat farm. Shows how members of an average farm family spend their time, how the land is cared for, and how the winter wheat is planted, harvested, and stored in...

17803. The woodwind choir (11:26)

Date:
1938
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Reveals the appearance, tonal qualities, and functions of various instruments of the woodwind choir--piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, English horns, bassoons, and contrabassoons. Uses close-up p...

17804. Thermodynamics (08:39)

Date:
1938
Summary:
Discusses the chemical reactions that create heat and how we harness heat to generate power.

17805. Velocity of chemical reactions (10:58)

Date:
1938
Summary:
Reveals how the nature, concentration, and temperature of reacting substances affect the velocity of chemical reactions. Through laboratory experiments and animated drawings demonstrates and explai...

17807. The Passing Parade: Boston Ice King (13:29)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
[AI-Generated Summary] This epidsode features storyteller John Nesbitt recounting the life of Frederic Tudor, an ambitious 19th-century Bostonian known as the "Ice King" for his fanatical quest to ...

17809. The Passing Parade: First Man to Climb the Matterhorn (13:32)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
[AI-Generated Summary] Narrated by John Nesbitt, this transcript recounts the high-stakes obsession of Edward Whymper, a 20-year-old landscape painter who transitioned from depicting the Matterhorn...

17810. The Passing Parade: Paul Bunyan, Kemp Morgan & Storm-a-long (13:21)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
[AI-Generated Summary] In this episode of The Passing Parade, storyteller John Nesbitt explores the American tradition of the "tall story" by recounting the legendary exploits of various folk hero...

17811. The Passing Parade: The First Conquest of the Matterhorn (13:32)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
John Nesbitt's Passing Parade---U.S. Pat. Off. & Walter Hunt [AI-Generated Summary] This episode of The Passing Parade, narrated by John Nesbitt, recounts the dramatic and tragic first successful ...

17812. World Series 1937: New York Yankees vs. New York Giants (2:29:08)

Date:
October 10, 1937
Main contributors:
Elson, Bob, 1904-1981; New York Yankees (Baseball team); New York Giants (Baseball team)
Summary:
Game Five of World Series. New York Yankees - 4; New York Giants - 2. Joe DiMaggio homers @ Polo Grounds - Bob Elson - World Series Game 5 Inning 3 [AI-Generated Summary] On October 10, 1937, t...

17813. World Series 1937: New York Yankees vs. New York Giants (2:41:22)

Date:
October 10, 1937
Main contributors:
Manning, Tom; New York Giants (Baseball team); New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Summary:
"Mel Ott homers to tie game @ Polo Grounds - Tom Manning (NBC) - World Series Game 5 - Inning 3" [AI-Generated Summary] On October 10, 1937, the New York Yankees clinched their second consecutive ...

17814. World Series 1937: New York Yankees vs. New York Giants (2:30:06)

Date:
October 10, 1937
Main contributors:
Elson, Bob, 1904-1981; New York Yankees (Baseball team); New York Giants (Baseball team)
Summary:
Game Five of World Series. New York Yankees - 4; New York Giants - 2. Game 5 (F) - Joe DiMaggio homer in 3rd - Bob Elson Game 5 (F) - Mel Ott HR - Tom Manning [AI-Generated Summary] On October 1...

17817. [Destroyed homes, 1937] (04:39)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Black and white footage of homes and buildings that have been damaged and destroyed, possibly as the result of a tornado. Ends with a man scaling a catfish. Location unknown.

17818. [Skating spring 1937--Wilkinson family] (04:31)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Bernadine Bailey's sister, Joy, and her nephew, Paul Freeman Wilkinson emerge from the Wilkinson family home in Western Springs, Illinois. Paul is wearing roller skates. He roller skates down the s...

17819. [Wilkinson family, 1937] (02:26)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Shows a group of people posing for the camera in front of their house, including Nellie Freeman, Bernadine Bailey's mother. The rest of the group is likely Paul R. Wilkinson (the younger man with g...

17820. A backward civilization (the Berbers of Northern Africa) (21:00)

Date:
1937
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Ellsworth Huntington, Ph.D. Yale University
Summary:
Presents study of economic and social conditions in a society isolated from the rest of the world by almost impenetrable natural barriers. Discloses representative aspects of the daily life of supe...

17821. Animals in modern life (10:41)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Shows how domesticated animals are used throughout the world for power, clothing, materials, and food. Shows how about 50 of the 500,000 known species of animals have been domesticated. Junior and ...

17822. Body defenses against disease (10:28)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Demonstrates through animated drawings and cinemicrography the three lines of defense against infection--the skin and mucous membranes, the lymphatic system, and the circulatory system including li...

17823. Electrons (10:59)

Date:
1937
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films, inc.; Harvey B. Lemon
Summary:
Through animated drawings and photography explains the hypothesis that electricity consists of unit elementary charges. Demonstrates the conduction of electricity through solutions, gases, and vacu...

17824. Exploring the universe (10:53)

Date:
1937
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Walter Bartky
Summary:
Illustrates dynamic aspects of stars within our galaxy and of galaxies themselves by use of animated drawings. Includes changes in the Dipper, binary stars, eclipsing variables, trinary stars, mot...

17825. Future stars (09:05)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Mass exercise, tumbling, acrobatics, horseback riding, soapbox derbies, rowing, swimming and flying miniature airplanes.

17826. Heart and circulation (10:26)

Date:
1937
Main contributors:
Carlson, Anton J. (Anton Julius), 1875-1956.; Erpi Picture Consultants, Incorporated
Summary:
Portrays how heart and blood vessels circulate blood throughout the body. Animated drawings depict the nature of the circulatory system and muscular and valvular heart action. Reveals factors affec...

17827. Hydrotherapy Pool at Riley Hospital for Children (00:59)

Date:
1937
Main contributors:
United States Work Projects Administration
Summary:
A 1937 U.S. Works Projects Administration (WPA) newsreel, "Work Pays America," featured Riley Hospital's hydrotherapy pool (dedicated on October 7, 1935) used for therapy for children with polio an...

17828. Parabola (08:45)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Presents a rhythmical development and elaboration of parabolic curves synchronized with the Darius Milhaud ballet suite "La Creation du Monde."

17831. Shelter (11:08)

Date:
1937
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Wallace W. Atwood
Summary:
Shows the major concepts in the evolution of shelter, starting with primitive shelter construction from materials close at hand. Traces man's growing ability to change the form of these materials a...

17832. The nervous system (09:47)

Date:
1937
Summary:
Shows the structure of the nervous system, together with its pathways and connections; the nature of a nerve impulse; conditions for setting up impulses; their passage from cell to cell; their disc...

17833. 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...

17834. 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...

17835. IU campus about 1935 (04:01)

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

17836. 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,...

17837. 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 hypothe...

17838. 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.

17839. TCU Horned Frogs vs Rice Owls (1:19:43)

Date:
November 23, 1935
Main contributors:
Texas Christian Horned Frogs (Football team); Rice Owls (Football team)
Summary:
Texas Christian University Horned Frogs - 27; Rice Owls - 6 Game played at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas

17840. World Series 1935: Chicago Cubs vs. Detroit Tigers (2:40:20)

Date:
October 4, 1935
Main contributors:
Chicago Cubs (Baseball team); Detroit Tigers (Baseball team); World Series (Baseball) (1935)
Summary:
Game Three of World Series. Detroit Tigers - 6; Chicago Cubs - 5 [AI-Generated Summary] In Game 3 of the 1935 World Series, the Detroit Tigers edged out the Chicago Cubs with a 6–5 victory in an 1...

17841. 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...

17842. First practice (03:49)

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

17843. Safety on the Highway (05:41)

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

17844. 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.

17845. The work of rivers (10:11)

Date:
1935
Summary:
Portrays running water as the most powerful of all forces tending to alter the earth's surface. Describes the water cycle, and through stream table demonstrations, animated drawings, and natural ...

17847. World Series 1934: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers (3:02:00)

Date:
October 6, 1934
Main contributors:
Enberg, Dick; St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
Summary:
Game Four of World Series. Detroit Tigers – 10; St. Louis Cardinals – 4. Dizzy Dean hit on head in game 4 of Series - Dick Enberg (recreation) [AI-Generated Summary] On October 6, 1934, the Detro...

17848. World Series 1934: Detroit Tigers vs. St. Louis Cardinals (2:38:43)

Date:
October 4, 1934
Main contributors:
Bond, Ford, 1904-1962; Manning, Tom; World Series (Baseball) (1934)
Summary:
Game Two of World Series. Detroit Tigers - 3; St. Louis Cardinals - 2. Game played at Navin Field, in Detroit, Michigan. Disc 1 01. Pre-Game 02. Inning 1 03. Inning 2 04. Inning 3 05. Inning 4 06...

17849. World Series 1934: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers (2:50:00)

Date:
October 3, 1934
Main contributors:
Laux, France; St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
Summary:
Game One of World Series. St. Louis Cardinals - 8; Detroit Tigers - 3. Hank Greenberg Homer @ Detroit - France Laux (CBS) World Series Game 1, Inning 8 [AI-Generated Summary] On Wednesday, Octob...

17850. World Series 1934: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers (2:42:00)

Date:
October 3, 1934
Main contributors:
Bond, Ford; St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
Summary:
Game One of World Series. St. Louis Cardinals - 8; Detroit Tigers - 3. Hank Greenberg Homer @ Detroit. Ford Bond (NBC) [AI-Generated Summary] On October 3, 1934, the St. Louis Cardinals defeate...

17851. 1934 All-Star Game: National League vs American League (3:58:23)

Date:
July 10, 1934
Main contributors:
Husing, Ted, 1901-1962; Laux, France; Bond, Ford, 1904-1962
Summary:
All-Star game between top ranking players of the American and National League, played at Polo Grounds in New York. American League - 9; National League - 7 [AI-Generated Summary] A fragmented pl...

17855. Little cheezer (09:35)

Date:
1934
Summary:
A Pictoreels cartoon. Cheezer the mouse is tired of being treated like a little kid. Instead of going to bed like his mother told him, he follows his inner demon into the kitchen. Despite the inter...

17856. Little dutch mill (08:41)

Date:
1934
Main contributors:
National Cinema Service
Summary:
In this Max Fleischer classic, two Dutch children find themselves in trouble with a menacing miser. 3-D animation.

17857. Map reading, parts I & II (43:22)

Date:
1934
Summary:
Emphasizes the importance of understanding maps. Shows how to measure distances, calculate directions and coordinates, and how to read elevation, logical contours, slopes, proifle and possible visi...

17858. Nowlin Mound Archaeological Site - Part 1 (02:48)

Date:
1934
Main contributors:
Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964
Summary:
Short film depicting scenes of camp life and of the crew surveying the Nowlin Mound archaeological site in Dearborn County, Indiana.

17859. Sky fleets of the Navy (08:15)

Date:
1934
Summary:
This film shows planes taking off aircraft carriers and from bases ashore, firing torpedoes and dropping bombs. Thrilling scenes of a sham battle at sea.

17860. Street Safety and Primary Grades (07:37)

Date:
1934
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Uses a police dog to teach primary-grade children the various steps to follow while crossing the street. Explains how to wait for a policeman's signal or for a light signal, and how to cross the s...

17862. Views of a decorticate dog (08:16)

Date:
1934
Summary:
Demonstrates the actions of a dog from which the cortex of the brain has been surgically removed. Shows changes in posture, walking, obstacle-meeting, eating, reactivity to stimuli, and conditione...

17866. Industrial Britain (21:52)

Date:
1933
Summary:
"Grierson had always admired the documentary work of American filmmaker Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) and hired him to make Industrial Britain, though he and his staff ultimately had to com...

17868. Knight duty (21:44)

Date:
1933
Summary:
Features Harry Langdon, the great baby-faced comedian, as a meek little man trapped in a wax museum. Shows how he has hilarious encounters with cops, wax figures, and jewel thieves.

17869. Sawdust sidelights (10:20)

Date:
1933
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians release of a Lyman H. Howe Films Co., short film. Presents the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows at their Sarasota, FL winter quarters, in transit, and in p...

17870. The little king : Christmas night (07:55)

Date:
1933
Summary:
Presents a cartoon movie of Soglow's Little King. On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.

17871. [United States, Sea Islands, Gullah, 1932-1933] (17:41:30)

Date:
1932
Main contributors:
Turner, Lorenzo Dow.
Summary:
Gullah speech and song from the Sea Islands. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain materi...

17872. When in Rome (10:00)

Date:
1932
Summary:
A travelogue of Rome. Captures ancient sites of the city, Roman society, the Fascist population, and intimate scenes of Benito Mussolini at home with his children.

17875. Good Foods: Drink of Water (08:53)

Date:
1931
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
A horse, a dog, cows, ducks, and a moose are shown drinking water. Children at school and at play drink rom water fountains or paper cups and learn to drink water before breakfast.

17876. Plant traps (10:25)

Date:
1931
Summary:
Pictures carnivorous plants, which have the unusual characteristic of entrapping and digesting insects and other small animals. Shows how the pitcher plant lures insects to its trap, where they dr...

17877. Roots of plants (11:10)

Date:
1931
Summary:
Describes tap, fascicled, and fibrous roots, and explains how they not only hold the plant in place but also absorb food elements from the soil. Time-lapse photography, microcinematography, animate...

17878. Seed dispersal (10:55)

Date:
1931
Summary:
Shows ways in which seeds of plants are scattered in order to insure propagation of the species: dispersal by wind, transportation by animals, and forceful propulsion from the seed case. Describe...

17879. Mazurek (Mazurka) (03:50)

Date:
1930?
Main contributors:
Paweł Anhalt (1910-?)
Summary:
Performed by Enriqueta Somarriba, Piano.

17880. Mazurek (Mazurka) (02:50)

Date:
1930
Main contributors:
Henryk Cylkow (1866-1945)
Summary:
Performed by Enriqueta Somarriba, Piano.

17881. Oh darling! (17:13)

Date:
1930
Main contributors:
Stephen Roberts; Jack White; Al Thompson
Summary:
Series: Jack White talking comedy

17882. Tin (17:05)

Date:
1930
Summary:
Shows opencast mining, sluicing, and bucket dredging in tin mines in the Malay States; tin as it is shipped to the United States; and the processes of making tin plate, tin cans for food containers...

17885. Canada Fishing Trip (10:18)

Date:
1929
Main contributors:
Heighway, George "Dixie"
Summary:
16mm ; black & white ; silent ; Kodak safety reversal

17886. Finding his voice (10:41)

Date:
1929
Main contributors:
F. Lyle Goldman; Max Fleischer; W.E. Erpi
Summary:
Animated film demonstrating with the comic cartoon characters how sound is reproduced in talking pictures.

17887. Glass Blowing Technique (16:59)

Date:
1929
Summary:
Shows the correct procedure and manipulations for elementary glass blowing with Pyrex glass, the technique employed for joining tubes of unequal diameters, and the method of forming bulbs.

17889. From tree to newspaper (16:58)

Date:
1928
Summary:
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 lo...

17890. Purifying Water (16:04)

Date:
1928
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Stresses the need for purifying water for the various uses of a community, and shows methods of aerating, filtrating, disinfecting, and testing a city's water supply. Illustrates the complexity of...

17892. String Trio, Op. 10 (21:01)

Date:
1928
Main contributors:
Józef Koffler (1896-1944)
Summary:
Performed by Jihyang Seo, Violin, Yenhsuan Lee, Viola, and Jordan Enzinger, Cello.

17893. Mardi Gras (14:35)

Date:
1927
Main contributors:
Heighway, George "Dixie"
Summary:
16mm ; black & white ; silent ; Kodak safety reversal

17894. Through life's windows (16:18)

Date:
1927
Summary:
An educational film on eyesight which shows headaches, inefficiency in work and accidents to be results of defective vision. By animation and models, the mechanics of the eye are shown and the comp...

17895. World Series 1926: St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Yankees (2:20:33)

Date:
October 10, 1926
Main contributors:
Wells, Don; Nelson, Lindsey; World Series (Baseball) (1926)
Summary:
Recreation of Game 7 of World Series. St. Louis Cardinals - 3; New York Yankees - 2. Game played at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Disc 1 1. Inning 1 2. Inning 2 3. Inning 3 4. Inning 4 Disc ...

17896. Anemic cinema (04:56)

Date:
1926
Main contributors:
Marcel Duchamp
Summary:
Marcel Duchamp's only film is an example of "graphic cinema." It wittingly demonstrates the intertwining of the visual and verbal responses to viewing a film. The title itself- "anemic" is an anagr...

17897. Fifth Avenue models (1:09:52)

Alternative title:
5th Avenue models
Date:
1925
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Isobel Ludant, a model working in a high-end clothing shop, becomes embroiled in a quarrel, resulting in a ruined gown. To pay for the dress, she turns to her father, an artist, who gets entangled ...