16021. Pollacks - Home - Chicago (17:11)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Home movie primarily showing the Pollack family home. Begins with brief footage of Lori's parents' wedding. The bridge and groom kiss for the camera while guests wave outside of the church. Shows t...

16022. Lori's Birthday May 9, 1961 (11:06)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Home movie footage of Lori's first birthday party. Shows family arriving with her parents and walking on the sidewalk with a black lab. The family gathers for a meal around a long table. Several ch...

16023. Lori 1961-1962-1963, Dawn-Lori-1964 (15:19)

Date:
1961 to 1964
Summary:
Compilation of home movies taken at the Pollack family home between 1961 and 1964. Begins in 1961 with one year old Lori sitting in the grass next to the text "Cooling off, Aug 27 61". She climbs o...

16024. Family Butcher (08:06)

Summary:
The title is possibly meant to be "Bucher" - referring to Lori's mother's family. Shows a group of people eating a meal at a long table. An unknown woman celebrates a birthday with a cake and unwra...

16025. Florida Buchers February, 1962 (09:12)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Home movie showing a family trip to Boca Raton, Florida. Begins with handmade title card that reads "Vacationing in Florida" ; "Whos in Florida" ; "The Buchers", which refers to Lori's mother's fam...

16026. Brookfield-Zoo 8-2-63, Worth Pool (13:13)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Home movie showing a day at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Primarily shows dolphins performing jumps and shooting basketballs into a hoop. Also shows some animals at the zoo, including polar bears,...

16027. #4 May 17, 1961 Grand Maris Minnesota Fishing (14:28)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Home movie of a fishing trip that begins with professional and handmade title cards that read "Don't miss the next thrilling episode. As our curtain rises, we see..." "Fishing for walleyes, Seagull...

16028. Children in spring (10:57)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Shows two children observing the signs of spring through a series of personal experiences. On a picnic in the woods they enjoy the blossoming trees and wild flowers, find tadpoles in a stream, and ...

16029. Plant motions--roots, stems, leaves (11:19)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Motions of plants as they grow shown by time-lapse photography. A series of class experiments illustrates the response of stem, leaves, tendrils, and roots of plants to light and gravity.

16030. Pass Creek (10:11)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Documentary of how careless logging practices permitted by the Bureau of Land Management have ruined some of the fragile summer steelhead spawning streams flowing into the North Umpqua River.

16031. Your friend the forest : save it or destroy it! (06:56)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
The Conservation Foundation
Summary:
Uses animation and live photography to show several benefits of good forests and some of the undesirable consequences of forest destruction. A boy and an animated piece of lumber discover that som...

16032. 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...

16033. Bringing it home (12:20)

Date:
1922
Main contributors:
National Motion Picture Company Indianapolis and “produced under the auspices of the New York State Department of Health”
Summary:
An educational film about social work for babies in Indiana, during a time when better health services for American families was becoming a critical need.

16034. Pioneer Mill (29:57)

Date:
1960
Summary:
An important aspect of the agricultural revolution in nineteenth century America was the gradual transfer of the processing of agricultural goods from the farm to the factory. It was the building ...

16035. Northeast Farm Community (15:31)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Portrays life of a typical farm family during the early 1800s in the Northeastern United States. Illustrates the self-sufficiency of these farmers and the importance to them of wood, water, and fer...

16037. Pioneer Mill (11:49)

Date:
1972
Summary:
Describes briefly the arduous processes by which the early settlers ground corn in their homes and focuses on the construction and operation of large water-powered mills. Shows farmers bringing the...

16038. Play Can Be For Everyone: The Concept of Safe and Accessible Playgrounds (10:45)

Date:
October 1989
Main contributors:
Indiana University School of Medicine. Medical Educational Resources Program
Summary:
Under the three-year leadership of Janet D. Stout, OTR, Indiana’s first adapted playground for children with special needs in Indiana and possibly the first of its kind in a hospital in the United ...

16039. [Jeffrey LeFors Collection #5] (26:47)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Travelogue of a couple on a trip to Florence, Rome, Berlin, and Paris. Continuation of [Jeffrey LeFors collection #6]. Notable landmarks include: the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Treptower Park, Checkpo...

16040. [Jeffrey LeFors Collection #4] (20:47)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Home movie of a trip to Colorado. Shows extensive footage of the family horseback riding at some sort of ranch, trail riding, and watching a rodeo show. Also shows the group swimming and rock climb...