13501. Discovery Of A Landscape-English Lakes (30:55)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows through readings, paintings, and natural photography the development of the portrayal of English lakes and landscapes by painters, poets, and others. Depicts the printing of illustrated tour...

13502. The Negro soldier (39:23)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
Summary:
"This War Department enlistment film aims to recruit African Americans in its World War II engagement. The documentary has as its framework a black minister's explanation to his congregation of the...

13503. Airscrew (21:07)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Tharp, Grahame, 1912-
Summary:
This short nonfiction film depicts the intensive testing that goes into developing and producing aircraft propellers. It opens with the whirring or propeller blades. Animated diagrams show how the ...

13505. Saving the Garden Crop (12:18)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Office of Information. Motion Picture Service; Wilding Picture Productions : produced by
Summary:
Shows methods of winter storage for produce grown in wartime Victory gardens. Provides demonstrations of how to achieve necessary temperature and moisture conditions for storing various vegetables ...

13506. The World at War (43:15)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures; Samuel Spewack

13507. Pincers on Japan (18:58)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
National Film Board of Canada
Summary:
"Canada's place in the strategy of Pacific warfare is the subject of this wartime film. Convoys, carrying the sinews of war, steam out from her ports, while along her western coast lookouts and pat...

13508. Building a bomber : a defense report on film (19:10)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Office for Emergency Management
Summary:
"Step-by-step manufacture and assembly of the B-26 medium bomber in the Glenn Martin plant at Baltimore."--War Films, Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University, February, 1943.

13509. Goofer trouble (07:20)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Elvey, Maurice, 1887-1967
Summary:
"Short fictional film asking people to keep under cover during air raids. A group of English and Canadian fighter pilots report the number of German planes they have each shot down. The rivalry bet...

13510. Ready on the home front (23:56)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Constable, J. M.
Summary:
Presents the general aims of the civilian defense program during World War II. Describes the training and duties of the air raid warden. Closes with a proclamation by Governor Schricker.

13512. It's up to us (10:39)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
General Motors Corporation
Summary:
Focuses on the conservation of important natural elements such as rubber, oil and metal needed to support the U.S. Victory Program. Viewers are shown various ways in which they can change daily hab...

13513. Grassland (09:07)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Soil Conservation Service
Summary:
Presents problems of soil conservation and overgrazing in the western U.S. Narration states "the problem of saving the grasslands is before us," showing that careless management has resulted in the...

13514. The Line Is Busy (02:50)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States War Department; Army Pictorial Service of the Signal Corps
Summary:
Short announcement promoting the 6th War Loan by urging viewers to buy War Bonds. Shows the importance for War workers to keep on the job: a man receives a letter from his recently wounded brother ...

13515. Film Communique: Ninth Issue (21:16)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Army Pictorial Service : produced by; Combat film units of Signal Corps, Marines, Army Airforces, United States Navy
Summary:
Addressed to "the men and women of American Industry," the Film Communique series reports on military accomplishments to an audience of domestic workers producing materials for war. Composed of thr...

13516. Using the Classroom Film (23:30)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Demonstrates with the Wheat Farmer an approved procedure for teaching with motion pictures. A seventh-grade social studies group studying how the world is fed discusses interests and problems wh...

13517. The market and the individual (29:20)

Date:
1963
Summary:
Shows how abundantly the needs and wants of the American people are met through a business system of free choice. Ross M. Robertson, Indiana University | Shows how abundantly the needs and wants o...

13518. Bogota (capital of Colombia) (10:36)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Presents a historical, cultural, scenic, and climatic picture of Colombia's mountain city capital, Bogota. Shows the type of clothing and architecture prevalent in a region of such little seasonal ...

13520. 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.

13521. Christmas rhapsody (11:01)

Date:
1948
Summary:
The story of the littlest fir tree in the forest, which is chosen to be decorated as a Christmas tree by a family living in the mountains. Includes familiar Christmas carols.

13522. How Indians build canoes (10:34)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
Crawley Films; Canadian Geographic Society
Summary:
Algonquin Native Americans demonstrate the building of an authentic birch bark canoe, using only materials supplied by the forest, and showing how a Native American ancient craft has been passed on...

13523. Forests Forever (24:19)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
Summary:
Shows the necessity for U.S. Federal regulation of the nation's timber to insure protection and perpetuation of this vital resource. Shows that poor management practices for quick exploitation of p...

13524. Supervising Workers on the Job (10:20)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education. Division of Visual Aids; United States. Federal Security Agency; Caravel Films, Inc.
Summary:
Dramatizing a variety of poor workplace supervision practices, the film points out their flaws and suggests better approaches. Narration states "employees new in industry need special attention" an...

13525. Victory Harvest (22:16)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Office of Information. Motion Picture Service
Summary:
Reports on the coordination of community volunteers for wartime farm harvesting labor through the efforts of the Victory Farm Volunteers of the U.S. Crop Corps and local agricultural agents. "The s...

13526. Mitosis and meiosis (17:01)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Uses stained cells, animation, and time-lapse cinephotomicrography of living cells to compare mitosis and meiosis. Shows onion root tip, whitefish embryo, salamander epidermal, and living Tradesca...

13527. Common animals of the woods (North America) (11:24)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Includes the squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, porcupine, otter, mink, beaver, opossum, skunk, ad woodchuck. In each instance the distinguishing characteristics of the animal are shown, such as the abilit...

13528. Protoplasm : the stuff of life (29:09)

Date:
1956
Summary:
In this program the audience hears a review and summary of all the information on the physical and chemical nature of living material discussed in previous programs. Dr. Roney uses sketch pad diagr...

13529. The woodcock (07:06)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Analyzes the characteristics, habits, and range of this elusive night-feeding game bird.

13530. Trick and fancy roping (11:04)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Pictures the technique of plain and trick roping as it can be taught to children in schools and to patients in need of rehabilitative exercise. Includes a demonstration of a simple way to make a ro...

13531. They steamed to glory (22:09)

Date:
1962
Summary:
A documentary of the steam engine and the part it played in the westward expansion of the United States, from its earliest beginnings in 1831 when the John Bull was brought from England, to the las...

13532. Hamburg, die hansestadt (09:52)

Date:
1958
Summary:
A map is used to locate Hamburg, Germany. Then tours the harbor section of the city and the business and shopping districts. Visits a typical middle-income home during a family gathering, the inner...

13533. Home on the range (10:54)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Describes the productive power of ranchers and their role in supplying America's war effort during World War II. Portrays ranch life and western range country. Shows waterholes, windmills and wat...

13534. Meiosis (12:01)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Uses animation to show the mechanism of meiosis, the chromosome halving cell division preceding the formation of sperm and egg cells and forming the basis of genetics.

13535. The magnificent Canada goose (10:07)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Major flyways, breeding grounds, wildlife refuges, and work of conservation departments to bring back the almost extinct Canada goose.

13537. Sense into dollars (12:45)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Illustrates the different methods used by various salespeople. Shows how suggestive and descriptive selling aids the customer, the individual salesclerk, and the store.

13538. Blues and boogie (08:48)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Musical performance revue that includes three separate songs in this order: Some of these days, Caldonia, and Is you is, or is you ain't my baby?

13539. Francoise et son lapin (10:16)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Because it is raining, Françoise and her pet rabbit must spend the morning doing something indoors. Françoise draws a picture with crayons, and Hopper, her rabbit, helps her. Written for children...

13540. The chameleon (08:23)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Presents scenes of the chameleon in its normal habitat, with extreme close-ups to show the functioning of the feet, eyes, and tongue. Shows how the skin color changes in response to light and tempe...

13541. Directing a play (11:21)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Introduces problems which arise in the presentation of a play and shows how the director solves them.

13542. Adventures of Chico (10:26)

Date:
1954
Summary:
"Roadrunner conquers rattlesnake" is an excerpt from the feature "Adventures of Chico." A young boy, Chico, is sleeping while his roadrunner pet explores nature. The roadrunner comes across a dange...

13543. 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.

13544. Egypt : a country in transition (10:34)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Shows the response of today's Egyptians to new ideas of progress and change amidst a way of life unchanged for centuries. Discusses methods of agriculture, the importance of the Nile River, develop...

13545. Asi viven los huerfanos (09:26)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Film depicts life at an orphanage for boys in Mexico - their chores (husking corn, milking cows) their pets, their daily routine, their games. Sentences of the Spanish narration are nearly all decl...

13546. A Lincoln field trip (11:05)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Visits New Salem, Vandalia, Springfield, and other Lincoln sites and monuments in Illinois. The film ends with a view of the Lincoln Tomb.

13547. Birds that eat insects (05:49)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Explains how the physical structure of birds is adapted to the kind of food they eat, and points out characteristics of birds that eat insects. Draws attention to the strong wings and wide bills of...

13548. Farm petroleum safety (26:18)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Demonstrates safe handling and storage of petroleum products on the farm and ranch; emphasizes danger of using kerosene, gasoline, cleaning fluids and other everyday items improperly.

13549. Art in our world (10:40)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Discloses sources of inspiration in man's environment and interprets these forms through the eyes of the creative artist in order to stimulate students to see opportunities for using art in their o...

13550. Hidden Weapons (10:31)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture; Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.

13551. Placing the right man on the job (12:28)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Dramatized cases of five different workers, unsatisfactory in particular jobs, who are reassigned to other jobs more suitable to their abilities and capacities.

13553. Europe and Australia 1952 to 1959 (43:42)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies: Film consists mainly of European travelogue sequences from Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, with some shorter family sequence...

13556. Alcina (1:53:48)

Alternative title:
Indiana University Opera Thea...
Date:
2025
Main contributors:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

13559. Interview with Jane Howard Perkins_04 (2:10:56)

Date:
December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Perkins, Jane Howard; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13560. Interview with Naoma Lowensohn_01 (44:02)

Date:
November 22, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Lowensohn, Naoma; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13561. Berlin Heart (03:44)

Date:
2024
Main contributors:
Riley Children's Health
Summary:
More than 20 years ago, Mark W. Turrentine, MD, a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Riley Children’s Health, marks a revolutionary procedure to support a child with heart failure. Now an FDA-appr...

13562. Interview with Carlos Romulo (53:27)

Date:
November 23, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Romulo, Carlos P. (Carlos Peña), 1899-1985; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13563. Interview with Eleanor Howard_01 (18:30)

Date:
December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Eleanor; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13564. House of science (14:44)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Glen Fleck; Professor Thomas S. Kuhn; Laurence Harvey
Summary:
Utilizes animation and multiple-image techniques to examine the historical development of the sciences. Includes also a consideration of science as it exists today. Presents the views of several ...

13565. Our world of science (10:27)

Date:
1956
Main contributors:
George G. Mallinson; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Hal Kopel
Summary:
Introduces and defines the words science and experiment, and demonstrates a simple experiment. Develops the idea of an orderly universe and shows a working procedure for problem solving in science.

13566. "You Probably Haven't Seen This Before" Instagram Promotion (00:36)

Date:
February 19, 2025
Main contributors:
Taylor Burnette, IU Libraries Railsback Fellow; Carmel Curtis, Moving Image Archive
Summary:
A short "reel" used on Instagram in February of 2025 to promote an exhibition at the Indiana University Grunwald Gallery curated by Carmel Curtis, the Interim Director of IU Libraries Moving Image ...

13567. Unsung Romance: A Conversation with Beverly Jenkins at the Lilly Library (1:00:00)

Date:
February 13, 2025
Main contributors:
Rebecca Baumann, Head of Curatorial Services at the Lilly Library; Michelle Crowe, IU Libraries Assistant Dean for Engagement and Communication; Lindsey Schaffer, IU Libraries Events and Hospitality Coordinator
Summary:
A conversation between Beverly Jenkins and Lilly Library Curator of Modern Books Rebecca Baumann in celebration of the Lilly Library’s exhibition Love in the Library: The Romance Novel in English. ...

13568. Interview with Jack Howard (3:52:00)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack R. (Jack Rohe), 1910-; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13571. Money and its uses (10:51)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Shows how money is used in place of the exchange of goods and services. Illustrates early use of snake skins, claws, and fishhooks for barter. Demonstrates by contrast how a pig can be traded for a...

13572. 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...

13573. Alcina (1:52:00)

Alternative title:
Indiana University Opera Thea...
Date:
2025
Main contributors:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

13574. As Our Boyhood Is (17:03)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Shows the development of Negro education. Emphasizes that such a development was slow and difficult from the schoolhouse with broken windows and the teachers only a few steps ahead of the pupils t...

13575. Africa speaks (18:10)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Five African university students discuss present African leaders, African students, chances for African unity and Africa as a major power. An American tells of the problems of the Negro in the Unit...

13576. The Constitution and the labor union (28:50)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Shows the relationship of the Constitution to organized labor. Presents the case of Whitaker et al v. North Carolina, in which a group of unions challenged the constitutionality of a state ban on t...

13578. Service and citizenship (10:42)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Third in the "Are You Ready or Service?" series. A young man in the service writes to his high-school-age brother about the importance of good citizenship. Voting, paying taxes, serving on juries...

13580. Best Practices with SPSS (1:10:23)

Date:
March 7, 2025
Main contributors:
Klein, Neela; Ray, Elizabeth
Summary:
SPSS is a common data analysis program for work in Social Sciences. It offers a point of access for data cleaning, description, and analyses in a user-friendly manner. Different from programs like ...

13581. Our Place To Live (29:36)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Fifteen million families’ move each year – and three-fourths of them merely change addresses within the same county. They move because they want a better place to live; they need not only houses or...

13584. Groups administrative meetings (2:06:59)

Date:
1998
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Groups Student Support Services
Summary:
Two administrative meetings of the Groups Student Support Services, both circa 1998.

13587. Groups administrative meeting (2:06:00)

Date:
1997
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Groups Student Support Services
Summary:
An administrative meeting for the Groups Student Support Services program, led by director Janice Wiggins. Wiggins discusses various subsidiary programs and initiatives, including the Chi Alpha Eps...

13588. Mrs. Marmaduke gives a present (15:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Fignewton Frog (puppet) and Dora (person) tell a story about whales paying attention to the difference between whales with teeth and whales with baleen. The whales are portrayed with shadow puppets.

13589. Interview with Jack Howard_02 (18:32)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13590. Interview with Jack Howard_03 (18:31)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13591. Succession : from sand dune to forest (14:48)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Ralph Buchsbaum
Summary:
Shows the ecological succession of animal and plant life in the sand dune area at the southern end of Lake Michigan beginning with the sand washed ashore and ending with this region's climax forest...

13592. War, religion and recent history (30:19)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The Central Algonquians, who lived along the short of the Great Lakes and Mississippi, were first discovered by white men when Robert LaSalle and Pere Jacques Marquette journeyed down the St. Lawre...

13594. Interview with Eleanor Howard_02 (1:02:32)

Date:
December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Eleanor; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13595. [Brennan Untitled # 10] (04:01)

Date:
1946
Summary:
[landscape shots; grain elevator; livestock from a moving train] Black and white footage of Northern Ontario taken from the back of a moving train. Train passes the depots for Schreiber and Jackfi...

13596. Interview with Jack Howard_01 (18:28)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

13597. Stimuli releasing sexual behavior of domestic turkeys (18:55)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
This film examines the courtship and mating behavior of domestic white turkeys, highlighting the sequence of actions each bird follows in response to specific cues from its mate. It details the fem...

13598. A Lake Erie Story (25:34)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
Edward Feil Productions; Bill McGaw; Ohio Commercial Fisherman's Association
Summary:
Discusses the characteristics of Lake Erie that contribute to its thriving commercial fishing industry. Describes the process of tagging fish by the Ohio Division of Wildlife as well as the harvest...

13599. Interview with Jack Howard_04 (22:40)

Date:
November 22, 1983 to December 14, 1983
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964; Howard, Jack R. (Jack Rohe), 1910-; Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.