1851. Predicting: Averages (22:23)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 12 from Math Wise a program that teaches mathematics as a means to practical ends. The program shows how math applies to problem-solving in the everyday world and aim to help students to use math skills in their own lives. Los Angeles television personality Stephanie Edwards is the program's host. In this episode Tony has bought a car from a local dealer. Thinking he has got a bargain based on the average gas mileage on this model, Tony finds himself at the gasoline pumps more often than he would like. At about the same time, his daughter Blanca realizes that her boyfriend is still breaking his back fixing cars. Both there are different kinds of averages.

1852. Measurement: Finding Areas of Rectangles (34:25)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 1 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. It features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.

1853. The Write Channel, episodes 5-8 (1:02:00)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
The Write Channel is a series of fifteen lessons designed to help teach sentence combining techniques to third and fourth graders. Features animated character R.B. Bugg, a reporter for WORD TV, who receives guidance from the news editor, Red Green, to improve his stories

1854. Dad and I (22:40)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Steve and his dad enjoy an autumn after-noon of fishing at historic Bull Run in Virginia. Secrets of the ancient sport pass pleasantly from father to son as Steve learns to find and dig worms, bait his own hook,cast with a spinning reel,catch,string,clean, cook and eat the fish.

1855. Touching The World (14:26)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Norma Canner and a group of children explore feelings through their fingers, toes and skin. Children experiment with things in the classroom and outdoors such things as crinkly and corrugated paper, big balloons, rope,water, a nylon parachute and live bugs.

1856. Measuring: Measuring Instruments (22:32)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 1 from Math Wise a program that teaches mathematics as a means to practical ends. The program shows how math applies to problem-solving in the everyday world and aim to help students to use math skills in their own lives. Los Angeles television personality Stephanie Edwards is the program's host. In this episode a Dallas-type plot pits big-business baron Roy Singleton with a young farm family, the Nobles. For quite a while, Singleton has tried to take their property, and now he seems to have found the answer. The old deed set the property line "five chains from the northernmost granite rock." Singleton and his surveyors have measured, and decided that the property line should be 100 meters south. Were this to be true, the Noble family would lose their only access road. In confidence, Mr. Noble decides that, if the property line is where Singleton insists, maybe the solution would be to build another access road. Paul and Leona, the youngest of the Nobles, get a trundle wheel to accurately measure how long that road would be. But all along, Singleton is watching them–and plotting.

1857. Less and More (Increasing Productivity) (20:25)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.

1858. My Robot Buddy and My Trip to Alpha I (33:08)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Alfred Slote about a young boy and his robot buddy. In the first story, the boy asks for a robot for his tenth birth so he will have someone to play with. In the second story, the boy finds out that interplanetary travel is not without dangers. Designed to encourage students to read the books.

1860. Last Hour Clash (22:46)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pressure.

1861. Defending the City's Health (11:14)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc., Wilson G. Smillie
Summary:
Modern community hygiene controls are presented. How the death rate from communicable diseases has been reduced through scientific advances and social controls. The effective functioning of a public health department.

1862. The doctor (11:04)

Date:
1947
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Louis W. Sauer
Summary:
Shows the day's activities of a child specialist in his office, on a home call, and at a hospital. He makes a physical examination, vaccinates a baby, visits his hospital patients, and diagnoses a case of measles.

1863. Defending the city's health (11:14)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Modern community hygiene controls are presented. How the death rate from communicable diseases has been reduced through scientific advances and social controls. The effective functioning of a public health department.

1864. Theater for a story: in the zone (1:01:44)

Date:
1959-04-10
Main contributors:
Eugene O'Neill, Robert Herridge, Karl Genus, Alfred Ryder, Larry Hagman, Ronald Radd, Tom Clancy, Donald Moffat, William Rayne, Michael Conrad, Josip Elic, Vincent Barbi, Tom Scott, Al Brenner, Hal Anderson, Ted Miller, Bob Myhrum, Ken Krausgill, Ann Eckert
Summary:
An adaptation of the play, In the Zone by Eugene O'Neill.

1865. Development of our decimal numeration system (27:26)

Date:
1965
Main contributors:
Joseph Moray, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, John M. Davidson, Richard Gilbert, Arthur M. Kaye, Shirley Tebbe, Francesca Greene, Peter Smith, Carole Eickhoff, Davidson Films
Summary:
Delineates interesting facets of the development of our decimal system. Compares the additive, subtractive, multiplicative, and positional notation aspects of the Chinese, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Hindu-Arabic systems. Uses models to explain concepts which lead to greater understanding of base 10 systems. This film traces the historical development of our present decimal system--the Hindu-Arabic system of numeration. The meaning and importance of base ten, place value, grouping, numerals, and expanded notation are carefully described.

1866. Washington Conversation: Alf Landon (50:52)

Date:
1961-12-17
Main contributors:
Alf Landon, Paul Niven
Summary:
In this interview former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon reflects on his political career and the presidential election of 1936.

1867. Breck golden showcase: Noah and the flood (54:23)

Date:
1962-06-12
Main contributors:
Igor Stravinsky, New York City Ballet, The Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Kirk Browning, Laurence Harvey, George Balanchine, Robert D. Graff, Edward Villella, Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Sebastian Cabot, Elsa Lanchester, Paul Tripp, John Readon, Robert Oliver, Richard Robinson, Jacques D'Amboise, Jillana, Raman Segarra, Joysanne Sidimus, Robert Tamplin, Robert Craft, Jack Richardson, John McClure, Gregg Smith, Rowland Vance, Ted Miller, Paul Shiers, Bob Barry, Wes Laws, Sextant Production
Summary:
In 1960 CBS commissioned renown composer, Igor Stravinsky, to compose a new ballet composition, Noah and the Flood, that would be adapted for a TV special. This was supposed to be one out of an eight part series of TV specials that featured prominent artists. Most of these specials never came to fruition. The ballet told the story of Noah and the Flood with symbolic references to other biblical narratives. The choreography was directed by George Balanchine and the ballet was performed by the New York City Ballet. An addition to the performance the TV special also included an overview of Stravinsky’s career and an exposition of the biblical context. The performance was aired on CBS in 1962 with Breck shampoo as the sponsor. The TV special received a negative reception. Many critics complained the added exposition and narration detracted from the performance. In addition the critics thought Noah and the Flood was not the best work Stravinsky and Blanchine had produced in their careers.

1870. [Mattoon, Illinois ca. 1966] (02:18)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Begins with the same woman in a corn field from the end of [Lake Paradise, Illinois ca. 1966] and agricultural workers operating machinery. Also features some footage of Bailey's hometown of Mattoon, Illinois, including the square and The Little Theatre.

1871. Birds that eat seeds (05:13)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Shows that birds that eat seeds have strong bills. Includes shots of the canary, evening grosbeak, junco, indigo bunting, goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, song sparrow, cardinal, cross bill, and cedar waxwing.

1872. [Fishing trip 1939--Wilkinson family] (04:57)

Date:
1939
Summary:
Shows the Wilkinson family taking a fishing trip on a lake or river. Includes many shots of the water taken from a motorboat. Bernadine Bailey's nephew, Paul Freeman Wilkinson, is seen rowing a boat. Closes with more footage of the Wilkinson's Scottish terrier playing with a crawdad.

1873. [Lake Paradise, Illinois ca. 1966] (02:14)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Home movie documenting a day trip to Lake Paradise, near Bailey's hometown of Mattoon, Illinois. Shows many scenes of the lake and people boating and fishing. Ends with the image of a woman working in a corn field by a silo.

1874. Algebra in everyday life (10:42)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Jim shows Grace how she can use algebra to find out the quantities of red and yellow paint she needs to make enough orange paint to complete some stage scenery. Demonstrates the algebraic steps of observation, translation, manipulation, and computation, and mentions other uses of algebra.

1875. Deflecting forces (29:47)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Jack Churchill, Abraham Morochnik, Lawrence Silk
Summary:
Professor Nathaniel H. Frank discussed the nature of forces which produce curved paths, brings out the concept of centripetal vector acceleration, and shows how knowledge of the path and mass of an object gives information on the force involved.

1886. Home electrical appliances (11:05)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Animated drawings explain the principles involved in the operation of the electric iron, fluorescent lighting, and the refrigerator. Alternating current is used in all scenes involving the flow of electrons. The principles of the thermostat are given detailed study. The maintenance of electric motors is illustrated in connection with the vacuum cleaner.

1887. Jan. 24, 1967 (03:13)

Date:
1967-01-24
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Beth Rubin, Susan Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein
Summary:
Black and white home movie showing baby Eddie playing with Beth and his Hellerstein cousins in a living room. The last minute of the film is blurry due to a camera malfunction.

1892. Amy's Birthday 1965 (03:24)

Date:
1965-03-17
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Amy Feil, Nellie Feil, Naomi Feil, George Feil, Harold S. Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Beth Rubin, Betsy Feil, Leslie Feil, Ellen Feil, Vicki Rubin, Daniel Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Kathryn Hellerstein, George H. Feil
Summary:
Home movie of a joint birthday party for Amy Feil and her father, George. Begins with Amy opening birthday presents while her sisters look an, all wearing Girl Scout uniforms. George unwraps a shirt and tie. Maren holds baby George. Both Amy and George are presented with a birthday cake.

1895. Wedding (04:39)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:

1896. Wisconsin '71 UFA (01:45)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil
Summary:
Home movie footage taken from inside a plane in flight. Shows aerial views of the plane flying over a body of water and landing on a runway.

1897. Hope is an Open Door (44:02)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Edward Feil Productions
Summary:
Film sponsored by the United Fund of Summit County, Ohio. Highlights services provided by the United Fund with the support of donors.

1898. Water Ski (02:50)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil
Summary:
Home movie of Ed Feil with a group of friends at a lake. Shows the group boating, skiing, and grilling on the beach. Looks to be the same trip as Boating (barcode 30000149840054).

1900. Chic. (1:05:12)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary: