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An advertisement for Endicott Johnson shoes in which a narrator describes the durability of the brand's leather shoe. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a man waits in a long line at a specialty ice cream parlor, and a narrator says that Knudsen has the same taste and added convenience of being available at the grocery store.
Except for his service career in the Navy during and immediately after World War II, Dr. Revelle has spent his entire career with the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has been the director of the Institution since 1951. He received his Ph. D from the university in 1936. He is the author or co-author of numerous scientific articles and belongs to many scientific societies. Dr. Revelle here discusses what may be learned from the sea. He shows that the ocean is deep enough to hold seven grand canyons, and he explains that most scientists feel that sea monsters are actually giant eels, 90 to 100 feet long, too large to be places into nets. He also explains how the ocean affects weather. He is interviewed by Dr. Julian Goldsmith of the University of Chicago.
Orange, blue, and yellow geometric figures are arranged in a variety of figures and animated to the tune of a country fiddle. Suggests many ideas for a mathematics class to investigate.
National Film Board of Canada, J. M. Leaver, M.A., Meteorological Service of Canada, A. T. Carnahan, M.A., B.Ed., Ontario Department of Education, Joseph Koenig, Tom Daly, Kenneth Horn, Stanley Jackson
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Uses live-action photography and animation to explain how the earth is protected from extremes of heat and cold by the layer of atmosphere which surrounds it, how the sun's heat is distributed by moving air masses, and how the activities of cold and warm fronts produce constantly changing weather conditions over the surface of the earth. Shows the origins of weather--the uneven distribution of the sun's rays over the surface of the earth, the redistribution of the sun's heat from equator to poles by moving air, the origins and movements of cold and warm fronts, and the formation of local phenomena such as cumulonimbus clouds and thunderstorms. | See description for Color version FC1086.
Noel Stone, Roger Blais, John Gunn, Dennis Sawyer, Louis Applebaum, Kathleen Shannon, Tim Wilson, Nicholas Balla
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Shows the life of a farm family on the Canadian prairie, describing the hazards, problems, and rewards of wheat farming; and documenting the changes in farm life and methods during the past three generations. Weather is portrayed as the major risk of the wheat farmer. A farm family is seen rushing to get the wheat in before the hail and rain come. Photographs of the period are used to describe the land rush of the early 1900's, the resultant "wheat boom," and the dust storms of the 1930's.
Shows examples of each class of the phylum Protozoa through microcinematography and illustrates the theory of protozoan evolution from unicellular plants. Views the uses of the various structures in moving and in gathering food. Pictures the reaction of protozoa to temperature, acid, light, and obstructions. Explains the digestive process and asexual and sexual reproduction in protozoa. | Demonstrates theory of protozoan evolution from ancient single-celled plants. Digestion, sensitivity, movement, food gathering, and reproduction revealed through photomicrography.
Defines foreign policy, identifies the major Government agencies which are concerned with it, and explains why foreign policy must be constantly re-examined. Animation and on-the-scene shots are used to show how a committee concerned with the United States' foreign policy in the Middle East analyzes the problems which it faces, breaks the problems down into their economic, military, political, and psychological components, and considers various alternatives before making recommendations for action.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Pendleton Herring, John T. Bobbitt
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Presents and dramatizes the major historical events which resulted in the emergence of the present power and influence of the Presidency. Shows the influence of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the role and function of today's Chief Executive and surveys certain procedures used by the President in performing his duties.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Donald. A. Boyer, Ph.D. Science Consultant, Winnetka, Illinois, Public Schools, Laurence H. Nobels, Ph.D. Professor of Geology, Northwestern University, Eugene Derdeyn
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Portrays the many ways in which our planet is constantly undergoing changes. Shows how ice, wind, and water act to wear away the earth's surface. Illustrates its build-up by volcanic action, earthquakes, and sedimentation. Includes animation and live-action shots of earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building. Shows that it is possible to read the story of the earth in the rocks that have been laid down over the years.
Tells the story of Taska and Alnaba, a young Navajo couple who are betrothed. Portrays their native environment and such activities as building a home, tilling the soil, tending sheep, carding the wool, and weaving it into colorful blankets. Also shows barter at a local trading post, the performance of native dances, the wedding ceremony, and the wedding feast.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
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Demonstrates in actual competition the running high jump; running broad jump; hop, step, and jump; and pole vault. Champions are pictured in slow motion photography.
Lloyd Trefethen, Educational Services Incorporated, Jack Churchill, Abraham Morochnik, John Fletcher, Alan H. Pesetsky, Charles L. White, Jr., Frank Meagher, Carol W. Landrey, John J. Barta, Myron J. Block, Peter Griffith, Alan S. Michaels, William C. Reynolds, Ascher H. Shapiro, Kevin Smith
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Presents a series of experiments to show that surfaces exert forces. Defines the fundamental boundary conditions governing the effects of these forces. Includes illustrations of nucleation, "wine tears," swimming bubbles, and high speed pictures of the breakup of water sheets and soap films.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Several experiments to demonstrate the forces that surface tension exerts in fluids. Three boundary conditions imposed surface tension.
Ascher H. Shapiro, John Friedman, Abraham Morochnik, Richard Bergman, Charles L. White, Jr., Frank Meagher, John J. Barta, R. Paul Larkin, Arthur E. Bryson, Stephen J. Kline, Kevin Smith, Educational Services Incorporated
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Experiments in a small water tunnel demonstrates the connection between velocity flow and pressure fields, primarily in diffusers, venturis and channel bends.
Joan and Jerry Johnson watch the growth of plants and animals on their parents' farm during the summer. They fish, watch a frog and a dragonfly, see a young robin leave its nest, help their parents, gather flowers and blackberries, watch a spider, and eat watermelon.
Buenos Aires, the commercial, financial, and industrial hub of predominantly agricultural Argentina. A grain broker and a packing plant employee, with the family of the latter, are introduced as representative city-dwellers. The vast pampas regions, the source of Argentina's agricultural wealth; the dependence of the city on the rural hinterland. Spanish dialogue is periodically incorporated into the film story. An instructional sound film.
Erpi Classroom Films Inc., Ellsworth Huntington, Ph.D. Yale University
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Presents study of economic and social conditions in a society isolated from the rest of the world by almost impenetrable natural barriers. Discloses representative aspects of the daily life of superstitions. Analyze the factors involved in continued existence of backward societies.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Ann H. Morgan
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Discusses such animal adaptations to winter as protective coloration, storing of food, adding layers of fat, and hibernation. Shows the winter habitats of the badger, woodchuck, chipmunk, owl, rabbit, porcupine, bobcat, and fox. Describes the fluctuating seasonal changes larvae undergo.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Wilbur L. Beauchamp
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Shows stages in the growth and development of puppies, a new-born calf, and baby chicks during the first few weeks of life. Illustrates how mother animals care for their young. For primary and middle grades. Collaborator, Wilbur L. Beauchamp.
Arda Mandikian, Charles Kahn, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Stephanie Bidmead, Michael Aldridge, Nicholas Hawtrey, Edwin Richfield, Tony Thawnton, Douglas Campbell, C. Walter Hodges, Robert Johnson, Michael Livesey, Robert A. Goodwin, Donald Moffat, John Barnes
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Outlines the major aspects of Athenian life which contributed to the "Golden Age." Describes these aspects as the energy and intelligence of the people; the outstanding leadership and popular government; and the relationships between Athenian citizenship, religion, and art. Artifacts and models are used to aid in the clarification of concepts presented by Charles Kahn of Columbia University.
Distills those aspects of Athenian life which made the Golden Age workable.
Episode 6 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Springfield. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.
Explains that spoon feeding is a more complex behavior than feeding from a cup, and points out that the spoon is a complicated tool requiring fine manipulative skills for its efficient use. Describes the baby's development of these skills which take years to perfect.
Historical Summary:
Shows the early difficulties which the baby faces in getting food from a spoon, his increasing skill in receiving food, his desire to play with an empty spoon while being fed, early and generally unsuccessful attempts at self-feeding with a spoon, and gradual improvement in skills to the age of five.
Erpi Classroom Films Inc., A.J. Carlson, F.J. Mullin, H.G. Swann
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Explains the regulation of body-temperature. Contrasts constant temperatures of warm-blooded animals with fluctuating temperatures of cold-blooded ones. Reveals the relationship of body heat to energy furnished by foods, and depicts the blood stream as a heat distributor. Illustrates body heat loss, and regulation by radiation, conduction, and evaporation. Depict the function of hypothalamus in regulating body temperature. For high school, college, and adult groups.
Historical Summary:
Explains the mechanism of body-temperature regulation by radiation, conduction, and evaporation. Contrasts the constant temperatures of warm-blooded animals with the fluctuating temperatures of cold-blooded ones. Reveals the relationship of body heat to energy furnished by foods, and depicts the blood stream as a heat distributor. Also shows the function of the hypothalamus in regulating body temperature.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., James R. Wilson, Hal Kopel
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Ralph learns that eating can be fun and eating the right foods each day will help him to become healthy. He recalls the food rule that he learned in school by using each of his five fingers for a kind of food. After following the rule for a time, he notices a gradual change for the better in himself.
Illustrates the principles of reflection with reference to plane, concave, and convex mirrors; refraction with special reference to the human eye; and the principles of interference, the polar screens, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the quantum theory.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, O. W. Eshbach, British Electrical Development Association, Merton Park Productions, Frank Hoare, Langton Gould-Marks, Leo Rogers, C. Beaumont
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Traces the development of the uses of magnetism throughout the ages, and highlights the scientific experiments which revealed the relationship between magnetism and electricity. Explains magnetism in the structure of various elements, and illustrates paramagnetic, diamagnetic, and ferromagnetic materials. Demonstrates the respective behaviors of each material in a strong magnetic field and under conditions of heat and cold. Illustrates the lining up of the diapodes of atoms in ferromagnetic materials, and identifies different types of magnets and explains their uses in machinery.
William Morrison, John Clayton, American Academy of Asian Studies
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Portrays the highlights of Mahatma Gandhi's life. Indicates some of the factors that shaped his philosophy of non-violence and shows some of the instances in which his philosophy was put into action. Shows also how Gandhi's pronouncements and activities became an influence in the life of India as a nation.
Produced by the American Academy of Asian Studies of the College of the Pacific. A documentary of the life of Gandhi based on newsreel footage and still photographs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., Elizabeth Graf, William Deneen
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Story of a ten-year-old boy earning money to buy a pair of shoes. Scenes of his mountain village illustrate his activities as he goes to school, works, visits the city, and attends the religious festival.
Tells the story of Pablo, a little Mexican boy who after earning money to make his wish come true for a pair of shiny black shoes to wear on a pilgrimage to Guadalupe decides to postpone his wish when he realizes his money is needed to buy medicine for his sister who is sick. Pictures scenes of his family's one-room adobe house, his school and church, the village marketplace and the family farm set among scenic mountains. Concludes as Pablo's wish is fulfilled when Pablo's father sells his charro hat to buy the shoes his son wants.
William Deneen, Preston E. James, Ph.D, Syracuse University, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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See description for color version GC0944. Surveys life in Mexico in 1961 with its overshadowing influences of the past. Depicts Mexico as an old country with new ideas as the basis for cultural and economic extremes. Illustrates the rise of a middle class society as Mexico attempts development through educational and industrial means. Shows the vast extremes of native Indian villages with primitive open-air markets and methods of farming in contrast with modern manufacturing cities with beautiful parks, fine theaters, office buildings, and luxurious seaside resorts.
Peter Pilafian, Cineco, Inc., David Ossman, Rick Ridgeway, Una Ramos
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Examines the craft of weaving as practiced by the Quechua Indians in Peru. Points out that the processes of spinning and weaving are practiced as they have been for centuries.
New Zealand National Film Unit, Marquis the chimpanzee
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Shows Charlie, the chimpanzee, as he learns a lesson about bicycle safety. As Charlie rides to school on his bicycle, he breaks many safety rules, such as riding the bicycle on a walk and across the street, failing to give proper signals, failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing, and riding double with his chimpanzee girl friend. After a talk with a policeman, Charlie realizes that it is better to obey the rules. On his next trip, he is a model bicycle rider.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Hal Kopel
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A third-grade boy becomes interested in magnetism, discovers through home experimentation the common properties of magnets, demonstrates magnetic phenomena in a show for his friends, and learns of the uses of magnets in electrical equipment such as loud-speakers, telephone receivers, and motors.
Explores the significance of ethnic dance in the field of formal dance. Presents a variety of West Indian dances. Explains their derivations and movements. Includes Bele, a West Indian adaptation of the minuet; Yanvallou, a voodoo dance; and Banda, a Haitian dance about death. Features Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade.
Explains how industrialized New England, unable before the depression to compete with the cheap labor of the South and some foreign countries, diversified her economy and became a leader in such technologies as plastic, radar, and rubber production. Presents scenic views of New England's mountain and coastal areas, and something of the background of stoicism that has tempered the New Englander's character.
Describes man's interest in the world of space and portrays some of his exploratory efforts. Shows how the Hayden Planetarium conducts an imaginary trip to the moon, describes Mount Palomar Observatory's telescope, and discusses radio astronomy and rocket exploration. Explores man's ability to fly at high speeds through ground tests in a test chamber, and the effect of rocket flight on white mice. Includes shots of the earth from an ascending rocket and photographs of eruptions on the sun and planets.
Dramatizes the work of the six law-enforcement agencies of the Treasury Department, which are shown dealing with smuggling, narcotics running, illegal production and sale of alcohol, counterfeiting of money, theft of government checks, and income tax evasions, as well as protecting the person of the President.
Presents several reasons for the crisis in the teacher supply in 1947, including low salaries, lack of training, overcrowded conditions, and social restrictions.
Illustrates how the UN meets the need of men and groups everywhere for a forum in which men can speak to each other and to discuss their problems. Shows briefly the forming of the UN, the interrelationships of its component bodies, the part played by the General Assembly regarding the Korean war, and the role of the Communist powers in that conflict. Refers to the peace treaty with Japan and expresses hope for Japan's entry into the United Nations.
Describes the life of the Yugoslavian people, and shows some of the changes made in Yugoslavia since Tito's break with Russia. Says that Tito tries to follow Lenin's communism more closely than Russia does and that he has made collective farms, encouraged the rise of factories, and instituted literacy classes and trade schools. Shows American aid to Yugoslavia after the drought of 1950.
