15731. Coal and iron ore (29:53)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the supply of coal and iron ore in the United States. States that America has 4000 years supply of coal--this in spite of the fact that the U.S. produces thirty per cent of the world's su...

15732. Pacific Canada (10:36)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; J. Russell Smith
Summary:
Orients Pacific Canada with the rest of the Dominion and the United States. Traces routes of discovery and exploration, and portrays the settling of the region, with emphasis on the part played by...

15733. Electric power (29:14)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the production of electric power in the United States. States that a heritage of our land is our system of rivers and lakes, particular when this water power is harnessed to provide elect...

15734. Painting trees with Eliot O'Hara (16:16)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
Eliot O'Hara; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.; John Paul Miller
Summary:
Shows Eliot O'Hara, watercolor painter, sketching a variety of trees found in the United States and Hawaii. O'Hara observes that the artist should look for the structure of the tree, the character ...

15735. People along the Mississippi (22:16)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
Clarence W. Sorensen; Gordon Weisenborn; John W. Barnes
Summary:
A Minnesota farm boy sends a small carved boat containing his address down the Mississippi River. From the letters which he receives he learns that people of many lands and varying backgrounds make...

15736. People of Hawaii (11:01)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Margaret Mead
Summary:
Shows the location and physical features of the Hawaiian Islands, a wide variety of immigrant and native workers busy at large-scale production and harvesting of sugar cane and pineapples, other wo...

15737. Oil (29:16)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses the dependence of U.S. economy on oil. Points out that even though we produce one-half the world's supply, we must still import one million barrels of oil a day. Forecasts future problems...

15738. Steel (29:19)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discussion of the manufacturing and production of steel in the United States as well as a brief discussion of other minerals, including zinc and aluminum.

15739. Stephen Spender, part II (29:08)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Louis Simpson, a poet and teacher at the University of California at Berkeley, relates that Stephen Spender’s interest in the relationship between poetry and the subjects of war and politics goes b...

15740. Work of the kidneys (11:06)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; A. J. Carlson; H. G. Swann
Summary:
Describes the structure and function of the renal system, and explains how the kidneys maintain uniformity in blood and tissues. Demonstrates, with animated drawings and laboratory experiments, the...