5881. Richard Rodgers : reminiscence : Lorenz Hart (29:50)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Richard Rodgers was brought up in a passionately musical family. His mother was brilliant pianist; his father, a doctor, sang. They would sing and play the comic operas of the day. He was weaned on “The Merry Widow” and “Chocolate Soldier.” “These are the happy memories of childhood.” When he was sixteen years old, he met 23-year-old Lorenz Hart, who proceeded to explain his theory of lyric writing. Rodgers was proud that the age of sixteen he understood Hart. Rodgers played a couple of tunes for him and that was the beginning of a 24-year partnership. Nothing has ever been more gratifying than his first success to its fullest ... loved every minute of it. Everything that’s come along since, I’ve loved. I roll success around in my mouth like a piece of candy.” He hates failure –but thinks it’s the result of being alive –and readily admits to several: “Chee Chee,” “Pipe Dream,” and “Higher and Higher.” “I love it when it’s good and I hate it when it’s bad,” he says. Another Rodgerism: “In writing for people, there are two facets –one is emotional, the other is intellectual.”

5882. Louis Armstrong : part IV (29:31)

Date:
1960
Summary:
The final program of the series presents Mr. Armstrong, Benny Benack, a musician who has concentrated on Dixieland jazz, and Professor Frederick Dorian, a classical musicologist from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Dr. Dorian was Mr. Benack's professor at Carnegie Tech, and has joined his former pupil to learn about jazz and what a great jazz musician thinks of classical music. Dr. Dorian, who is not very well acquainted with jazz, asks Mr. Armstrong what the elements are of good jazz, and it is this definition which occupies the major part of the program.

5883. Edward Steichen : part II (29:42)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The first part of the program is devoted to Steichen’s memorable and world-famous exhibit, “The Family of Man.” Steichen explains his preoccupation with the forms and development of human life; the exhibit, and many of the photographs shown during the course of the program, emphasize the preoccupation. Steichen and Rene d’Harnoncourt also discuss his association with the fashion magazine Vanity Fair, his ideas on journalistic photography, and his work in Hollywood and in advertising, his photographic experiments, his experiences during World War I, his exhibitions and the ideas governing them, his work now in progress, and his plans for future exhibitions.

5884. Edward Steichen : part I (29:48)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The first program deals largely with Steichen’s life and his development as a photographer. He comments on the first camera he use (a Kodak), the years before he came to New York City, his “romantic” period in the 1890’s, his work with photography for advertising, his stay in France when he was for a while very active as a painter, his reactions to modern art, and his feelings about the influence of painting on his photography. Steichen’s photographs are used throughout the program to complement his description of life and work, and he often gives detailed analysis of these photographs.

5885. Edward Steichen : part III (29:41)

Date:
1962
Summary:
The third program consists of a detailed analysis of photographs. Steichen and a young photographer move from picture to picture while Steichen explains the mechanical and technical problems they presented and the ideas or interests that prompted his focusing on one or another subject. They also examine pictures taken by such noted photographers as Lewis Hines and Edward Weston. Of particular interest are Steichen’s comments on symbolist photography and his reasons for abandoning experiments he began in this area. At the program’s end, Steichen speaks generally about the future of photography, and of the things we have to learn about and from our fellow man.

5886. The human machine (14:40)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Compares various systems of the human body with their machine analogs. Discusses the interrelationship of the muscular and skeletal systems and the digestive and nervous systems. Shows how the human body is superior in many ways to machines man has invented. Contends that no man-made machine can equal this work of God.

5887. Eugene Ormandy : the evolution of the conductor (29:38)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Mr. Ormandy discusses working out musical interpretation and technical aspects, the evolution of conducting and its relationship to the development of the modern symphony orchestra, domination of the orchestra by the conductor, modern music, twelve-tone music, and the role of the music critic.

5888. Eugene Ormandy : the trends in music in our time (30:36)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Mr. Ormandy discusses a serious musician’s views of rock and roll music, how to interest young people in good music, opera in English, how high orchestral performance standards are maintained, and whether electronic instruments are the basis of a new music.

5890. C. Northcote Parkinson : part I (29:29)

Date:
1960
Summary:
What is Parkinson’s Law? “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” This law, and its ramifications, were first set out in the London Economist in 1956, after Professor Parkinson had developed them during his work in the Royal Air Force and a tour of duty in the South Pacific. He explains their application to civil service work, to the operations of administrative agencies, to the establishment of a university, and to the competition between industries.

5891. Eyes and Lenses (15:02)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A visual journey of things the naked eye can see is followed by a simple description of how an eye works. Then man's inventiveness is celebrated with an introduction to instruments which allow people to see far beyond the limits of the naked eye. The camera shows how things look through eyeglasses, a magnifying glass, a microscope, binoculars and a telescope.

5892. Finding your life work (20:52)

Date:
1940
Summary:
Opens with a picture of a boy fishing and quickly leads up to the fact that, in getting a job, the baits required are personality, training, and experience. Then follows a discussion of these points: know yourself, study vocations, learn of contributions your local school can make to your training, coordinate mind and body, build character on a firm foundation, and believe in opportunity.

5893. Bookkeeping and you (11:16)

Date:
1947
Summary:
Shows everyday applications of bookkeeping to increase motivation for its study, to help the student decide whether he is interested in taking bookkeeping, and to help in vocational guidance. Gives job information and information about educational preparation for a variety of kinds of work.

5894. Individual speech training (08:35)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Examines individual speech instruction for the hearing impaired child at the preschool and nursery level in Saint Michielsgestel.

5895. Durer and the Renaissance (13:55)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Beatrice Farwell, Paul Falkenberg
Summary:
Discusses the life of Durer and the pivotal point he represented in connecting the artistic development of Italy and Northern Europe. Presents examples of his work that show his passage from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Develops the idea that through a study of his work the fusing of his Gothic inheritance and the organic Renaissance can be observed.

5896. Volumes of cubes, prisms, and cylinders (18:42)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Delta Films, E. H. C. Hildebrandt, Robert Pruitt, Evelyn P. Anderson, Seymour Zolotareff
Summary:
Uses examples of everyday objects to develop the basic formula V=Bh for computing the volumes of cubes, prisms, and cylinders. Builds each concept, formula, or definition through use of live action, animation, and application to a situation.

5897. [Tribute to Undine Moore] (11:02)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
This film opens in a classroom, showing a music teacher working through a piece with a group of string musicians. He goes on to talk about an influential teacher he had at Virginia State College named Undine Moore. Quipped the "Dean of Black Women Composers," Undine Eliza Anna Smith Moore was a notable and prolific American composer and professor of music in the twentieth century. Much of her work was inspired by black spirituals and folk music. She was a renowned teacher, and once stated that she experienced “teaching itself as an art.” Towards the end of her life, she received many notable awards for her accomplishments as a music educator.

5898. Spaces to Live In (22:27)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Considers the organization and characteristics of planned spaces for community living in a study of the functional and aesthetic problems in the design of spaces for living.

5899. A Great River | Cattle Country | Storehouse of Minerals | Our National Parks (1:02:47)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg and several Mark Twain characters introduce life on the Mississippi River in the 1850s while viewers travel aboard an authentic early American steamboat. Shows a modern towboat lashed to its fifty-six barges and heading for the great port of New Orleans. Views the French Quarter and Jackson Square in New Orleans and dramatizes an episode in the life of the pirate Jean Laffite. Episode 10 explores the raising of beef cattle in eastern New Mexico and Texas. A Spanish rancho, an early Texas land grant, and a twentieth-century ranch show how changes on the range have slowly brought a new way of life to the cattle country. Stresses the difficulties involved in maintaining a profitable cattle business. Episode 11 visits several Rocky Mountain mining sites, discussing surface and underground operations. Shows an open-pit molybdenum mine, milling, tailing ponds, and land reclamation. Highlights early gold and silver booms through dramatic vignettes showing the roles played by Horace Greeley and H.A.W. Taylor.