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Explains how the earth, its inhabitants, and its atmosphere are composed of 101 elements alone or in numerous combinations. Discusses the distribution of elements in the earth, in water, and in the atmosphere, and indicates the significance of these proportions. (KQED) Film.
Tells the story of the meat packing industry when Cincinnati was the pork capital of the Midwest. Describes conditions as they existed in the 1800s and the importance of meat packing to the rest of the states.
Dr. Otto Struve, director of the Leuscher Observatory in Berkeley and the first man to prove that stars rotate on their axes, is Dr. Seaborg’s guest on this program. Hydrogen is rare and helium is positively scarce on earth but these two elements alone make up 99 percent of the universe as a whole. Dr. Seaborg and his guest attempt to explain this phenomenon and other topics such as the creation of the universe, the emptiness of “empty space,” and the ways in which astronomers unravel the secrets of the cosmos. The viewers also is taken on a journey of exploration in outer space with our host and Dr. Struve as they explore the sun, the Milky Way, and distant galaxies, all illustrated with remarkable astro-photos.
Tells the story of John Deere's invention of the steel plough. Outlines the development of the plough in America and its significance to the growth of agriculture. Discusses the life of John Deere and his work at Grand Detour, Illinois.
Tells the story of the lumber frontier of the Midwest in the region west and south of Lake Superior. Describes the living conditions of the lumberjacks. Explains how the indiscriminate cutting of the forests led to the demise of lumbering in the Midwest.
Tells the story of railroad development in the early 1800's. Reviews briefly other forms of transportation in wide use before the advent of railroads. Explains how railroading was financed through Federal Subsidies. Covers other interesting aspects of railroading in the Midwest.
Discusses the discovery of three elements predicted by Mendeleev. Demonstrates and explains the use of the spectroscope and of other methods in isolating elements. Revises Mendeleev's Periodic Table by adding the three new elements and rare gases. (KQED) Film.
Explores the news room of a modern metropolitan daily newspaper. Describes the role of the City Editor, News Editor, rewrite man, and copy boys. (KETC) Kinescope.
Discusses the problems of the socially maladjusted child and explains the causes and factors in society related to the development of social maladjustments.
The Friendly Giant reads the book, Raindrop Splash, by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard, and published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. After the story, the Friendly Giant and Jerome the Giraffe talk about how you can keep dry when it rains. (WHA-TV) Kinescope.
The Friendly Giant reads the book, Cowboy Small, by Lois Lenski, published by the Oxford University Press, to Jerome the giraffe. Then he tries to find a ten-gallon hat for Jerome. (WHA-TV) Kinescope.
Discusses research being conducted at the Carnegie Institute of Technology to evolve new theories about mental processes. Shows Dr. Bert Green demonstrating his computer experiments with the perception of motion and depth, Dr. Herbert Simon using the computer to present his theory of how human beings memorize, and Dr. Allan Newall showing how the computer was responsible for creating a new theory about human problem solving.
United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics, United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management
Summary:
U.S. Navy training film intended to improve dictation technique through humorous demonstration of common faults. After a series of vignettes where inept and ineffective styles of dictation to a stenographer are dramatized, a model businessman demonstrates a well prepared and organized method of dictating letters. The demonstration includes detailed instruction in the use of Dictaphone and Ediphone cylinder recording machines.
What it means to live in a contemporary Japanese village is shown through film shot especially for this series in Nijike, 430 miles from Tokyo. A housewife appears in the film sequences, but the voice heard in the narration is that of Miss Kimie Tojo, daughter of the late Premier Tojo. Professor Ward, host for the program, points out that the village has often been considered the backbone of traditional Japan. His guest, Richard K. Beardsley, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, concurs. It is the land, (Professor Beardsley says), the importance of working the land, of keeping it going, of keeping it in the family, that strongly enforces traditional ways in Japanese villages. These traditional ways stress cooperation on a family and on a community level, and the subordination of each person to the collective good. Holding and working the land is a way of life, not a business. Yet the modern world has made its impression on village life. A century ago the village had little connection with the outside world. Now, as a result of central government supervision, police and military conscription, economic changes brought about when the villagers began to raise crops for outside sale, a national system of schools, and the introduction of electricity and radios, this insular picture has altered. But because of the basic social conditions and the primary concern for working the land, changes occur slowly. In their own villages, younger men are gaining control because they understand machinery and marketing best. A real social transformation is taking place, but quietly, without violence, without setting life off balance. The families scrape a living from two acres of land and stay, for the most part, buried within the household and the community. They find satisfaction from living collectively. Their way of life has for generations fitted their nature and their circumstances; yet it seems flexible enough to make room for the new.
Using maps and animated diagrams, the importance of the Middle East in the world strategy of the Allied nations during World War II is shown. Austere images and narration inform the viewer of the strategic issues at stake: control of oil production, the region's role as a wall obstructing supply lines between Japan and Europe, the distance Allied supplies must travel to reach Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and Iran. Narration states "The Middle East stands between our enemies. While we hold it our enemies cannot win, and it will become a vital instrument in their defeat."
A Rolls-Royce pulls up to a curb. The chauffeur gets out of the car and walks over to the window of the back passenger. He hands him some clothes. We see as the chauffer starts walking away that he's going into a laundromat. He puts the suit in a machine closest to the front window. The passenger of the vehicle is reading his newspaper leisurely and looking out to see the progress from the window. We see a new perspective of the passenger, he's wearing a shirt and underwear. When the chauffeur exits the laundromat the passenger becomes happy and expectant. The door is opened to the car and he is handed his suit. He starts putting it on, now with a cigar in his mouth. The chauffeur moves back to the driver's seat and begins to pull away from the laundromat curb. An announcer talks about Barney's wash-and-wear suits and their suit variety.
An animated advertisement for Optrex Eye Dew in which the Evil Queen (stylized from Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs") uses the product in her eyes after her mirror tells her that Snow White is the fairest one of all. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Uncle Sam toothpaste in which a man dressed as Uncle Sam sings a jingle over various absurdist scenes that feature a rock climber, oversized mouth and toothbrush props, a vampire, an inflatable shark, and an executioner. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
Women dress as different colors of lipsticks while dancing in a lipstick box. The opening and closing scenes are of a woman dancing as the color filter changes.
An advertisement for the Xerox 9200 copy machine in which a monk is shown painstakingly duplicating a manuscript by hand. When he is ordered to produce 500 more copies of the manuscript, the monk takes the page to a copy store, where an offscreen male narrator describes the features of the Xerox copier. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
A father struggles to wash his baby until he uses Q-Tips. The father show how durable Q-Tips are as well as how Q-tips can be used to delicately wash a baby.
This film was made for our local Republican organization and is intended to show what the importance of the individual from his vote to actually doing volunteer help a the precinct level if he or she wants a change this November. - Taken from a page typewritten by Edward Feil
An advertisement for Chemstrand nylon stockings in which a female vocalist sings a jingle over scenes of men gazing and gawking at a woman wearing stockings around town. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for 7 Up in which an offscreen narrator describes the beverage as the perfect sandwich companion over shots of sandwich ingredients stacking atop one another on plates and young people dancing and drinking the product. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for 7 Up in which a jingle plays over shots of animated graphics and live-action female dancers moving around a psychedelic backdrop of stars, bubbles, and lights. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.
Laurence Olivier's reading of passages from Milton, William Blake, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and Abraham Lincoln accompany scenes of daily life in wartime Britain. The texts selected emphasize national identity and heritage, patriotism, and the justness of the Allied cause.
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Shows how the Extension Service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture helped recruit and place young people from towns and cities on farms during World War II to combat farm labor shortage.
From the series Ripples. DescriptionA participation program in which classroom children join Phyllis Noble and studio children in finding sounds that their own bodies can make claps, stomps,slaps,whistles,clicks and whatever else one wants to be his very own sound. Short and long sounds, high and low sounds, soft and loud sounds, and sounds that tell a story are some of the ideas the children explore.
Episode 5 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Tanzania about a clever rabbit, Soongoora, who finds that his craving for honey repeatedly gets him into trouble with Simba, the lion. Includes music and sound effects combined with illustrations by Rae Owings.
Episode 5 of Readit. John Robbins draws scenes from the book by Gertrude Warner as a storyteller and describes episodes about the children who make a boxcar their home. Encourages children to read the book.
Episode 10 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story about a boy who brings a battered, dying dog home to nurse back to health. Designed to encourage students to read the book.
Discusses the process of modulation, or key change, in musical composition. Explains the major and minor tonal patterns which dominate all music of the period under discussion (1700-1900). Illustrates the concept of the "freedom of the keys" with modulating sentences of two, three, and four phrases. Stresses the importance of understanding modulation when dealing with all the major forms of music. (WMSB-TV) Kinescope.
Discusses and illustrates two-phrase or duple sentences in musical composition. Defines the phrases as a rhythmic entity, culminating in some form of cadence, and carrying a certain amount of musical "sense"; while a sentence is completion of the sense achieved by answering an announcing phrase with a responsive phrase. Demonstrates degrees of similarity between announcing and responsive phrases from the identical response, to the apparently quite dissimilar. Concludes with a discussion of methods used to connect phrases by anachusis, melodic overflows, links, and subtle combinations of these. (WMSB-TV) Kinescope.
Professor Jones illustrates sentences of three (triple) and four (quadruple) phrases and their common internal relationships. After which, since it would be a gross misrepresentation to leave the listener with the impression that phrases of four metrical accents are "regular" for all music, phrases of three five, six and seven accents are illustrated, from folk to art music.
An advertisement for Red Ball Jets sneakers in which an animated boy wearing the shoes outruns and out-jumps his dog as a jingle plays. An offscreen male narrator describes the shoes while a pair of live-action hands displays them. The narrator urges viewers to ask about contests to win a variety of prizes at their local Red Ball Jets shoe store. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement of Mirinda orange soda in which a man drinks the product at an outdoor restaurant, followed by scenes of thousands of oranges flooding over a waterfall, falling down rooftops and city streets, and eventually covering the ground waist-deep around the man and restaurant. An offscreen narrator describes how Mirinida tastes like "an orange avalanche" and a chorus sings a jingle. One of the winners of the 1973 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Piels Beer featuring the animated characters Bert and Harry, who starred in several Piels commercials from 1955 to 1960 and were voiced by comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. The ad features Harry pretending to have been struck by an arrow in order to draw audience attention. Bert urges the camera to cut away to live-action footage of the beer being poured. Submitted for the clio Awards.
An advertisement for Nair lotion, cream, foam, and spray hair removal products in which four women in short jeans dance outside on a front stoop and sing about how they dare to wear short shorts. Two offscreen narrators state that Nair products remove hair to make legs ready for short shorts. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for McGarry Sausages in which a puppet is hanging from a window ledge and asks for help. A second puppet asks if they can buy McGarry's sausages. The first puppet says no, then the second puppet slams the window down and says, "why don't you drop down to the store for some?"
An advertisement for Mattel's Snub-Nose .38 toy pistol in which a little boy, play-acting as a detective named Snubby Gun, stops a thief from robbing a jewelry store. An offscreen narrator describes the features of the toy over a scene of Snubby returning to his office and target practicing. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An animated advertisement for Jax Beer in which an elderly woman accuses a bartender of making fun of her voice as he serves her beer. The voice work was done by future film directors Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who comprised the popular improvisational comedy duo Nichols and May in the early 1960s.
An advertisement for Schick in which a male narrator, accompanied by music, describes the Crown Jewel ladies electric shaver as a woman displays and uses the product. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for My Sin by Lanvin in which a male narrator repeats how the product is a "most provocative perfume" over a scene of a couple sitting on the ground surrounded by a black cat and white kittens. The scene ends with a close-up of My Sin perfume and the black cat wearing a heavy necklace. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
