18301. Street Safety and Primary Grades (07:37)

Date:
1934
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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...

18303. 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...

18307. 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...

18309. 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.

18310. 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...

18311. 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.

18312. [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 Please note collections of historical content may contain materi...

18313. 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.

18316. Good Foods: Drink of Water (08:53)

Date:
1931
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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.

18317. 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...

18318. 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...

18319. 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...

18320. Mazurek (Mazurka) (03:50)

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

18321. Mazurek (Mazurka) (02:50)

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

18322. Oh darling! (17:13)

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

18323. 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...

18326. Canada Fishing Trip (10:18)

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

18327. 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.

18328. 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.

18330. 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...

18331. Purifying Water (16:04)

Date:
1928
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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...

18333. 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.

18334. Mardi Gras (14:35)

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

18335. The grand canyon (14:53)

Date:
1927
Summary:
Features Native Americans performing a variety of dance rituals and beautiful vistas within the Grand Canyon.

18336. 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...

18337. 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 ...

18338. 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...

18339. Getting in Dutch! (15:52)

Date:
1926
Summary:
A silent animated cartoon about the United States Navy featuring two pilots and a dog.

18340. Fifth Avenue models (1:09:52)

Alternative title:
5th Avenue models
Date:
1925
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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 ...