Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

5861. Painting crowds of people (10:46)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
John Paul Miller, John Bessor, Eliot O'Hara
Summary:
Shows Eliot O'Hara illustrating how to paint crowds of people as he starts from the beginning of a painting and demonstrates how to paint figures in perspective. Explains his method for making figures with dabs from a brush and his techniques for painting special effects such as a horizon, wet street, and suntanned bodies. Presents famous masterpieces by several world famous artists to illustrate the various points made. While painting his impression of crowds on a street and at a seashore, Eliot O'Hara demonstrates brush strokes and techniques which he uses in producing a feeling of movement in crowd pictures. Shows how colors can intensify the sense of motion in a painting. Includes views of painting of crowd scenes by Marin, Daumier and Dufy.

5862. Making cotton clothing (11:05)

Date:
1946
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Isabel B. Wingate
Summary:
Demonstrates each step in the manufacture of a child's cotton dress in a modern clothing factory. Reveals how the original is designed, and then portrays simple making, pattern making, cutting, sewing, finishing, pressing, and packing. Emphasizes the economy of mass-production methods. An instructional film.

5863. Seeds of destruction (09:35)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
The Conservation Foundation, New York Zoological Society, John H. Storer, John C. Gibbs, George E. Brewer, Jr.
Summary:
The fourth in the "Living Earth" series. Shows what happens when nature's balance is upset by exploitation of natural resources. Suggests that organized planning and conservation can arrest the dangerous destruction of the topsoil on which all life depends.

5864. Nature's plan (14:15)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
The Conservation Foundation, The New York Zoological Society, George Bryan, Tempo, Inc., John C. Gibbs, George Brewer, John H. Storer
Summary:
Presents nature's plan for the use and control of water. Explains the water cycle through animation and actual photography, and shows the effect of interaction between clouds and air currents through time-lapse photography. Describes the nature and function of watersheds, and indicates how nature has provided for the storing of this life-giving substance.

5865. The strands grow (14:35)

Date:
1950
Summary:
The first in the "Web of Life" series. Uses fossils and other prehistoric relics to trace the competitive struggle for survival among plants and animals. Still pictures show the trilobite, the dinosaur, and the sabre-toothed tiger--all of whom became extinct because they did not adapt themselves to their changing environment. Concludes with a diagram showing that all living things are units in a vast web of life powered by the sun and fed by plants which draw elements from water, air, and soil.

5866. The stuff of life (30:05)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Dr. C. Arthur Knight, featured on this program, introduces his topic with a brief description of properties which characterize living things, and then explains to what degree viruses do or do not have these properties. What is significant, he points out, is that viruses are like other living things to the extent that they are capable of reproducing themselves. Because viruses have a chemical content, similar to that of chromosomes — the cells which determine heredity — and because they can be more easily isolated and fragmented than chromosomes, they are a source of much information for scientists who study life's creation and formation. In addition to his general points, Dr. Knight shows, through a remarkable series of micro-motion pictures, how mutations within viruses can be formed and identified.

5867. The stuff of life (29:32)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Despite its microscopic size, a cell may contain several thousand highly complex chemicals. Nonetheless, molecules of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids consistently form part of the structure of living cells. These combine in various ways to make the cells which cause a tree to grow, an eye to see, or the brain to think. In this program, each kind of cell is analyzed through a combination of lecture and chemical demonstrations, together with a use of the models developed and used by Dr. Linus Pauling to study cellular structure.

5868. The sunfish (10:54)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Presents the life of the sunfish from the preparation of the nest, the laying and fertilizing of the eggs, the hatching of the eggs, and the development of the fish to maturity.

5869. Thermodynamics (08:39)

Date:
1938
Summary:
Discusses the chemical reactions that create heat and how we harness heat to generate power.

5870. Little Smokey (13:27)

Date:
1953
Summary:
Story of "Smokey," the bear cub found clinging to a charred tree after a forest fire in New Mexico and later taken to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Stresses the importance of forest prevention.

5871. Stinging celled animals--Coelenterates (16:38)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Ralph Buchsbaum, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Michael Birch, William Kay, William Peltz
Summary:
Uses live-action photography, cinephotomicrography, and diagrams illustrating their activities and bodily structure to show how the classes of coelenterates are distinguished. Describes the characteristics of the phylum Coelenterata, including fresh and salt water examples; shows the typical coelenterate body plan; and provides examples of the three classes of coelenterates. Shows how coelenterates obtain and digest their food, how they reproduce by sexual and asexual processes, and how they move. Identifies and shows examples of the three classes of coelenterates: Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, and Anthozoa. Pictures the hydra as a general representative of the phylum, describing it in detail and viewing experimentally its reaction to the chemical glutathione. Views reproduction in hydra. Concludes that coelenterates are the simplest animals to have tissues, and though they appear to be peaceful animals, they are always attempting to feed.

5872. A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting (04:10)

Date:
1946
Summary:
Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle light and fades into darkness.

5873. Our post office (10:40)

Date:
1956
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Edward A. Krug, Hal Kopel
Summary:
A view of the postal system. Shows how the mail is handled in a modern suburban post office, how money orders and stamps are sold, and how mail is transported to railroad stations and airports, where it is sorted and loaded for delivery to post offices all over the country.

5874. Chile : people of the country estates (11:07)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Shows Chilean mountains, deserts, glaciers, mines, ports, pastoral areas, and an estate in the agricultural Central Valley. Here the role of the estate is seen in relation to the visiting owner and his family, the farming population, and Chilean agriculture generally. On the family's return to Santiago, varied aspects of Chile's capital city are featured. Includes some Spanish dialogue.

5875. Japanese Relocation (10:07)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, one of the critical problems facing the United States was what to do with the 100,000 people of Japanese descent living up and down the Pacific Coast. The immediate step was to remove all Japanese from critical areas around air fields, harbors, and industrial plants, to forestall sabotage and espionage. This mass migration accomplished by the Army working with the War Relocation Authority is shown in the film--from the first registration through the movement to temporary quarters established in race tracks and fair grounds to the final migration to settlements in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

5876. The beginning of picture making (05:49)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Examples of tempera painting by children aged three to seven show the development of skill and ability to express ideas in creative painting.

5877. Elements of electrical circuits (10:46)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Demonstrates the concept that electric current is a flow of electrons controlled by circuits. Describes have electrical circuits. Describes home electrical circuits and illustrates a short circuit caused by faculty insulation. Reveals functions of conductors and insulators, and measurements of electric flow by application of Ohm's law. Explains Ohm's law in terms of resistance, current, and electromotive force. For junior and senior high school, and adult groups.

5878. Our community (12:04)

Date:
1952
Summary:
Describes the constant activity of the industries and public services of a typical American town, and shows how inhabitants of the town are dependent upon each other for their comfort and well being. Historical Summary: Illustrates community institutions, their services and activities, by portraying a day in the life of ten-year-old Richard. Points out ways in which the members of a community serve each other, and emphasizes the responsibility of membership in a community.

5879. The work of rivers (10:11)

Date:
1935
Summary:
Portrays running water as the most powerful of all forces tending to alter the earth's surface. Describes the water cycle, and through stream table demonstrations, animated drawings, and natural photography, explains the growth of rivers, erosion cycle, rejuvenation, and deposition. Illustrates the formation of ox-bows, sand bars, and deltas. Shows examples of valleys, meanders, water gaps, and alluvial fans.

5880. Making electricity (05:38)

Date:
1949
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, S. Ralph Powers
Summary:
Describes electrical current and its creation as Bob and his science teacher assemble a generator. Applies this learning diagrammatically to electrical power in a house.