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Shows the major concepts in the evolution of shelter, starting with primitive shelter construction from materials close at hand. Traces man's growing ability to change the form of these materials a...
Ritter, Young, Lerner Associates; Douglas Townsend
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A group of children learn how rules and laws are made and changed as they play games together. Emphasizes the concept that rules must be changed with changing conditions. Points out ways in which...
Demonstrates the relationships between resistance, current, and electromotive force in series circuits and in parallel circuits by computing the resistance of a toaster and a lamp, and the amperage...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Cyril O. Houle; Leland Bradford
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Presents the results of a survey of about fifty adult groups to find common elements of a good group discussion. Illustrates the qualities of good leadership by showing various groups in action an...
Henry S. Commager; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
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Unfolds the story of immigration into the U.S. from colonial times. Through animated maps and photography explains where various groups of immigrants came from, where they settled, and why they lef...
Shows how ice cream is made in the home and in a modern ice cream plant. Includes measuring devices, weighing, mixing, pasteurizing, homogenizing, cooling, testing, freezing, packing, and hardenin...
Presents the life story of the snapping turtle in its natural habitat. Observes the snapping turtle's features, its encounters with other animal life, the laying and protection of its eggs, its ha...
Describes the topography, climate, economy, cultural patterns, and heritage of the Southeastern States. Discusses the changes in the region which are being brought about by such developments as flo...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Irene H. Buchanan; Hal Kopel
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Portrays sewing as a useful art and a pleasurable leisure-time occupation and surveys the process of sewing, as a high school girl makes a party dress in her sewing class. Offers some suggestions i...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Donald Collier
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Portrays family life on Viti Levu, largest island of the Fiji group. Shows members of the family at their daily activities, fishing, attending school, tending their garden, and constructing a house...
Presents episodes from the home, school, and play life of children in a representative Chinese village. Traditional patterns of Chinese family life are portrayed. School training in loyalty to pa...
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Arthur I. Gates; Celeste C. Peardon
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Presents characteristic activities of a boy and girl living in the Swiss Alps. Follows them through the Alpine village as they watch the tourists and visit shops where clocks and woodcarvings are s...
Describes China's most critical social and economic problems and examines the forces that are shaping the Communist revolution in China. Illustrates the Communist methods of forcing radical changes...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Hugh A. Bone; John T. Bobbitt
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Uses the problem of flood control in a locality to portray the relationships between the representative in congress, his constituents, the work of the legislative branch of government, and legislat...
Physical Sciences Staff in the College, The University of Chicago; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Compares sound waves with water waves, provides examples of echoes and explains how they affect acoustics indoors, demonstrates effects of different wall surfaces upon the reflection of sounds, por...
Maynard Mack; Stratford Shakespearean Festival Company of Canada; Massachusetts Council for the Humanities
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Hamlet is presented as a story of a young man achieving maturity - the discovery of the presence of evil, separating reality from wishes, and the problem of contamination. | Develops an understandi...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Ralph D. Casey; John T. Bobbitt
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Shows how a group of adults gain greater clarity and understanding of a school problem after gathering the facts concerning the case. Warns against deciding on plans of action in favor of prejudic...
Describes the story of the giant 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, photographed over the period of years during which the giant telescope was planned and designed. Shows the grinding of the h...
James R. Hawkinson; Hal Kopel; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Pictures the role of selling in modern business organization, showing how selling goes on from the inventor, through the manufacturer, to the distributor and the customer. Describes the structure ...
