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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Valient is shown as being the preferred car of San Franciscans because of its ability to drive up steep inclines, navigate through tight curves and its low cost.
Chevrolet heavy duty and light trucks shown being used at a construction site and their high performance is attributed to the truck's high torque engine.
A man picks up a woman from a swimming pool in his Grand Prix. The couple drive the Grand Prix throughout town before arriving at a nighttime beach party.
Hazel, a middle-aged woman, proposes to her husband that their third car should be the Ford Fairlene due to its large size, ease of parking, and low cost. When her husband states that he doesn’t have time to test drive the car, Hazel reveal to him that she had already brought the Fairlene home for him to drive.
Studebaker’s Gran Turismo Hawk is presented as America’s gift to Italy for all the classical arts and fashion Italy has given to the world. After fashionably dressed women reveal the Hawk, a couple show the Hawk fitting in with classical Roman architecture and the Italian environment.
