6001. Studebaker Lark "Space" (01:03)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Studebaker Lark
Summary:
Six astronauts are comfortably seated in a Studebaker Lark to show the large interior space inside the car and trunk despite the small frame of the car.

6002. Studebaker Lark "Stop" (01:00)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Studebaker
Summary:
An advertisement for the Studebaker Lark automobile in which a narrator guides a Chaplin-esque silent performer through the model's functionalities. Submitted for Clio Awards category Autos.

6003. 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.

6004. Style and Technique in American Art Today (29:54)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses style as related to form, space, color, line, and scope of treatment. Illustrates these elements with paintings by Avery and Pickett. Demonstrates and discusses various methods of applying pigment and illustrates their effects in works by Sawyer and Wilson. (Hofstra College and WOR-TV) Kinescope.

6005. Style in writing : part 1 (29:16)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Stresses simple sincerity as the basis of good style in any kind of writing from business letters to short stories. Points out that many people lose their naturalness when they begin to write. Discusses outstanding authors, such as Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, and Shakespeare, and illustrates their simplicity of style with selected readings from each.

6006. Style in writing : part 2 (28:52)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Discusses good style as a portrait of the writer and stresses the importance of developing a style that permits the reader to sense the writer's personality. Considers the personality of five writers as revealed by their styles: Sherwood Anderson, Irwin Shaw, Robert Nathan, Ernest Hemingway, and Mark Twain. (WQED) Kinescope.

6007. Styles of Communication (Communicating Effectively) (15:24)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 50 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively and Solving Problems.

6009. Subcutaneous blood flow in the bat : vascular patterns (45:37)

Date:
1948
Summary:
Introductory scenes show the techniques used for mounting bats and recording the circulation in their wings. A view of the general distribution of the vascular components is followed by more detailed views of flow behavior in the various vessels, examples of lymphatic action, and the flow across the capillary bed.

6011. Subject Matter and Content in American Art Today (29:34)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Defines and discusses subject matter and content on art. Illustrates these concepts with pictures, prints, sketches, and selections from literature. Includes a brief discussion of art forms in which style and technique have become the content. (Hofstra College and WOR-TV) Kinescope.

6013. Success Story (What is Success?) (22:30)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.

6014. Succession of leadership (28:10)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Summarizes the American nominating process from the early days to the emergence of the two-party system between 1830 and 1860 and the main political developments through 1952. Shows key Republican and Democratic candidates from 1912 through 1952 and headlines from the files of the New York Times dating back to the 19th century. (Dynamic Films) Films.

6018. Sugar farm (15:19)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Host Bash Kennett discusses the history of sugar production. Early American methods of maple syrup making are described. The process of growing and refining sugar cane in Hawaii is summarized and shown in pictures. Finally, detailed film of growing, harvesting and refining sugar beets in the Western U.S. is shown (film provided by Western Beet Sugar Producers, Inc.). Songs performed include "Sugarbush" by Josef Marais and "How Lovely Cooks the Meat."

6019. Sugar Honey Grahams "Honey & Flowers" (01:04)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Nabisco
Summary:
A woman sings a jingle as stop motion animated flowers dance to the tune of the jingle. The flowers' honey tears form into graham crackers when hitting the ground.

6020. Suggestion box (09:04)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Explains how seemingly minor ideas can improve wartime production. Encourages workers to provide resourceful suggestions that, if tested and approved, can be circulated to factories around the country.

6021. Summarizing (Reshaping Information) (15:34)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 41 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively and Solving Problems.

6022. Summary (29:26)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Summarizes words, sentences, and paragraphs which have been discussed in the twelve preceding films of THE QUILL series. (WQED) Kinescope.

6023. Summary (29:51)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Reviews the characteristics and types of operas of various periods and suggests ways of developing more public interest in opera. Points out reasons for public opposition to opera and how opera might be made available to more people. States that because of the small demand for talented youth there is a waste of musical talent in America. (Univ. Calif. Ext.) Film.

6024. Summary of humor (29:46)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Dr. Feinberg summarizes his previous lectures and adds some interesting observations on various aspects of humor. A “drunk” routine, a device used so frequently by comedians, is presented and analyzed.

6025. Summary of three months in the U.S.A (30:18)

Date:
1957
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
All 33 of the Herald Tribune High School Forum delegates appear in their native costumes and talk of their experiences and impressions after their three month stay in four different American homes and schools. 1957 (WOR-TV) Kinescope.

6026. Summary of three months in U.S.A (29:58)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenage delegates to the New York Herald Tribune Forum discuss their visit to America. Presents their views on what they have seen, learned, and experienced. 1958 (WOR-TV) Kinescope.

6027. Summary of three months spent in the U.S.A. (30:17)

Date:
1956
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
All thirty-three forum delegates gather for this concluding program to summarize and compare reactions to the three months spent in this country. All of the delegates have radically changed their initial views of America, mostly for the better. In high good humor and a festive mood, the delegates scramble their national signs just before the program goes on the air much to the confusion of moderator Mrs. Helen Waller. However, she concludes this is the most spontaneous demonstration of the delegates' new understanding that race and nationality are not barriers to friendship.

6028. Summer 1968 (03:03)

Date:
1968
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil
Summary:
Home movie of the Feil family visiting a lake, possibly as part of family camp. Shows Eddie wading and splashing in the lake as Naomi holds baby Kenny so he can play in the water. Ed, Kenny, and Eddie then help another family build a sandcastle.

6029. Summer 1970 - Cohen's Farm (05:49)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil
Summary:
Eddie, Kenny, and other children go on a hay ride ; the family eats at a picnic table and goes swimming in a pond. The farm belongs to the Cohens, neighbors and family friends of the Feils.

6031. Summer July 1973, Family Camp, CedarPoint, Boys Riding Bikes (15:01)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Beth Rubin, Naomi Feil, Julius Weil, Helen Kahn Weil
Summary:
Begins with the Feils at family camp. The family enjoys swimming, rowing, and playing in the sand. Naomi and the boys then do archery practice with a target. At Cedar Point, the Weils join the family as they eat at a picnic shelter. Shows them riding the Giant Sky Wheel, a carousel, and the Lake Erie railroad. Eddie and Kenny pose with statues of safari animals. Back in Cleveland, the boys ride bikes in the driveway and walk the dog.

6032. Summer on the farm (12:22)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Pictures a northern English farm around haymaking time, stressing the interdependence of city and country life. Vegetables and milk go to the city markets and wool goes to the factories. From the city the farmers get manufactured products. As a World War II service, the townsfolk are shown forming voluntary land clubs to help the farmers with their work.

6033. Sun and Richard Lippold (29:06)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Examines Richard Lippold's approach to the relationship between the artist's experience and the way in which he shapes it into its own organic form. Presents Lippod, a musician as well as sculptor, in his studio at the organ, and continues with some of his sculpture, including "The Sun." Shows shots of the sun and light in objects, people, animals, birds, and the sea as the types of experience providing inspiration to Lippold in creating "The Sun."

6034. Sun: Friend or Enemy (05:28)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Shows how the sun can burn human skin, the resulting dangers, and various methods of preventing sunburn while acquiring a tan.

6035. Sunbeam Bread "Tenderness" (01:05)

Date:
1960/1961
Main contributors:
Sunbeam Bread
Summary:
An advertisement for Sunbeam packaged bread in which a boy plays in the woods and his mother serves him a sandwich made with the bread. Submitted for Clio Awards category Baked Goods.

6036. Sunbeam Electric Appliances [unknown title] (01:03)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
Sunbeam
Summary:
An advertisement for Sunbeam electric appliances in which a narrator describes several of the brand's products like kitchen appliances and heated blankets. Submitted for Clio Awards.

6037. Sunday in the South (14:53)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The importance of Sunday customs in the southern part of the country is described. The activities of the week, the tilling of the fields, the house chores, the sewing and gardening all came to a climax looking forward to Sunday. The families met at church, where the men and women then planned get-togethers for the afternoon. Of course, food was all-important, huge spreads of hams, yams, two-story biscuits, etc. At the meal, a house-raising is discussed, and the custom of helping neighbors to build a house is pictured. Songs include “Way Down Yonder in the Paw Patch,” “I’m Just a Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger,” and “Mr. Banjo.”

6039. Sundays in the Valley of Mexico (11:31)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Shows scenes typical of modern Mexico, such as the tall buildings and wide boulevards of Mexico City. The canal leading to Xochimilco, with its fruit- and flower-laden boats, is pictured. Then describes a festival held in honor of the Vice President of the United Staes, Henry Wallace, when he visited Mexico City. It includes a bullfight and a parade of Mexican beauties. Ends with a pageant of old and new Mexican dances.

6040. Sundays in the Valley of Mexico (11:01)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Ralph E. Gray, A.C.L. : photographed and produced by
Summary:
A colorful travelogue of modern, urban life in Mexico City. "Shows scenes typical of modern Mexico, such as the tall buildings and wide boulevards of Mexico City. The canal leading to Xochimilco, with its fruit- and flower-laden boats, is pictured. Then describes a festival held in honor of the Vice President of the United States, Henry Wallace, when he visited Mexico City. It includes a bullfight and a parade of Mexican beauties. Ends with a pageant of old and new Mexican dances" (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 19)

6041. Super Shell "Rally Mileage" (01:00)

Date:
1965
Main contributors:
Super Shell
Summary:
An advertisement for Super Shell gasoline in which a male narrator explains a car race, called the Shell 4000 Rally, across Canada. Starting in Vancouver and ending in Montreal, two white cars and two black cars are pictured racing with a superimposed map showing their progress. In the end the white cars with Super Shell arrive in Montreal before the other cars.

6042. Super-8 (28:15)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Strout, Ben (Director, Editor)
Summary:
Follows a variety of activities by a high school filmmaking class involved in creating super 8mm motion pictures. Shows students participating in the following processes: scratching images directly on film, storyboarding and scripting, camera operations, basic lighting techniques, simple animation, pixillation, macrophotography, kinestasis, editing and splicing, adding sound, and critiquing finished film. Emphasizes how communication skills are enhanced by the experiences and includes samples of student productions.

6043. Supervising women workers (11:19)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
A line supervisor discusses with a foreman his problem in supervising the women in his department. The fact is brought out that the same rules apply in supervising both men and women, but that women haven't the same background of industrial experience and very often have more home responsibilities than men. These facts must be taken into account by the supervisor.

6044. Supervising Workers on the Job (10:20)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education. Division of Visual Aids, United States. Federal Security Agency, Caravel Films, Inc.
Summary:
Dramatizing a variety of poor workplace supervision practices, the film points out their flaws and suggests better approaches. Narration states "employees new in industry need special attention" and points out tactful approaches for supervisors to use in training. "Dramatized incidents illustrating good and poor methods of supervision, including the necessity for obtaining the confidence of workers and the dangers of 'snoopervising'" (U.S. Government Films, U.S. Office of Education, 1954, 184).

6045. Supervising workers on the job (10:39)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Division of Visual Aids, U.S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, Caravel Films, Inc.
Summary:
Various kinds of poor supervision practices are shown, including nagging and snooping. By dramatized incidents, the poorer results of these methods are made apparent and the better ways are indicated.

6046. Supp-hose Stockings "Budget Balancer" (01:01)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose Stockings in which an offscreen male narrator describes the stockings and how they are appropriate for a variety of feminine roles, as a woman sitting in a chair models the product as the narrator lists the roles. The woman addresses the camera to talk about the product's economy and affordability. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6047. Supp-hose Stockings "Girl on Chair" (00:22)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose stockings in which a woman sits on a chair and models the product. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

6048. Supp-hose Stockings "Jingle" (00:25)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose stockings in which a jingle describes the product and a woman models it. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

6049. Supp-hose Stockings "Once A Lady" (01:01)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose Stockings in which an offscreen male narrator describes the stockings while a woman sitting in a chair reacts and models the product. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6050. Supp-hose Stockings "Sheerest" (00:41)

Date:
1962/1964
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose stockings in which a model poses in the product and a narrator describes it as the most sheer stocking on the market. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.

6051. Supp-hose Stockings "Walk a Dog" (01:01)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose Stockings in which an offscreen male narrator describes the stockings and how they complement a variety of daily activities, such as walking the dog and growing a plant. A woman sitting in a chair models the product and addresses the camera to talk about the product's economy and affordability. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6052. Supp-hose Stockings [unknown title 1] (00:20)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose stockings in which an offscreen male narrator repeatedly asks "How does she do it?" over shots of women performing various tasks. The narrator describes the product over images of a woman trying it on. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6053. Supp-hose Stockings [unknown title 2] (00:20)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Kayser-Roth
Summary:
An advertisement for Supp-hose stockings in which two women declare that they are wearing the product. An offscreen male narrator describes the product over images of a woman trying it on. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6054. Surplus and a hungry world (29:23)

Date:
1958
Summary:
“Trade is a two-way street. If you want to sell, you’ve got to buy,” says Ed Harvey in this program, after a discussion of international trade and the relation of surplus to tariff. A trip through Washington, D.C., and cartoon sequences of the surplus problem and the import-export balance are featured in the program.

6055. Surrounded (Peer Group Membership) (15:32)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 from the AIT series On the Level. The series is designed to help young people understand what is happening to them as they grow up and to encourage their active participation in the hard work of adolescence-reaching maturity through social and personal growth. The twelve programs dramatize common teenage concerns like love, stress, conflict. and changing re­lationships with family and friends. The problem situations stimulate reflection and discussion about alternative courses of action for different individuals: the many approaches to problems, the many solutions.

6056. Survival of the fittest (16:41)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Grashin, Mauri
Summary:
Shows the function of the physical training program of the Army Air Forces during World War II. Starts by celebrating the exploits of Army Air Force war heroes. The main story is a fictional story about two American fighter pilots who are forced to parachute from disabled planes. The uninjured man brings his wounded comrade through water and knee-deep marshlands to safety. The excellent physical condition of both men is presented as largely responsible for their survival. Includes footage of Army Air Force soldiers engaging in physical exercise.

6061. Swans Down "Cream Puff-Eclair Mix" (01:02)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Swans Down
Summary:
An advertisement for Swans Down cream puff and eclair mix in which an offscreen narrator describes the product over close-up shots of cream puffs and eclairs being baked and covered with chocolate and vanilla toppings. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6062. Swedes In America (17:47)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education, United States. Federal Security Agency, United States Office of War Information, Overseas Branch, United Films
Summary:
Actress Ingrid Bergman gives an overview of the history of Swedes and Swedish culture in the U.S., presented as a reply to letters from her countrymen asking the question "why do Swedes get along so well in America?" A visit to the American Swedish Museum in Philadelphia occasions discussion of Swedes in the colonial era and prominent Swedes in the 19th century. Bergman travels to Minneapolis, "the center of Swedish culture," and tours Linstrom, Minnesota. Carl Sandburg is featured briefly before an overview of the Cooperative movement, started by Swedish Americans and widely adopted in agriculture and government.

6063. Sweet Heart Soap "Slippers" (01:04)

Date:
1963
Main contributors:
Sweet Heart Soap
Summary:
A pair of slippers walk from a bedroom to a bathtub. When the slippers arrive at their destination the scene transitions to a woman taking a bath with Sweet Heart soap. A narrator talks about the benefits of using Sweet Heart soap.

6064. Sweetheart Soap "Lilac & Lemon" (01:01)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Sweetheart Soap
Summary:
A woman baths with Sweetheart Soap as a narrator explains the benefits of using the soap. The narrator also mentions Sweetheart Soap is either Lilac or Lemon scented.

6065. Swift Canadian Bacon "Boy" (01:01)

Date:
1965
Main contributors:
Swift
Summary:
An advertisement for Swift Canadian Bacon in which two tins of meat are talking to each other filmed in stop motion. Then a male narrator talks about a variety of different meals that can be made with Swift bacon. A boy is pictured smelling bacon and floats up in the air and down into a chair at a kitchen table where he is served eggs and bacon. Dialogue and narration are in French.

6067. Swiss Jeweled Watches "Quality Air" (01:02)

Date:
1961
Summary:
A narrator talks about the how quality of Swiss watches as an orchestra plays in the background. All the members of the orchestra wear Swiss watches. The narrator concludes the commercial by urging the audience to buy a Swiss watch for the upcoming holiday season.

6071. Symbols (Reshaping Information) (22:37)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 39 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively and Solving Problems.

6072. Synthetic fibers : nylon and rayon (13:38)

Date:
1949
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Malcolm Dole
Summary:
A chemist explains to two boys how a spider's method of spinning a web compares with the manufacture of synthetic fibers. They shows in detail the processes by which rayon and nylon are made. Pictures briefly the manufacture of nylon hose.

6073. T-Men of the Treasurey Department (18:23)

Date:
0000
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
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.

6074. T.V.A. (20:01)

Date:
1940
Main contributors:
Tennessee Valley Authority, National Defense Advisory Committee
Summary:
Narration introduces this report as "the story of the development of the Tennessee River," showing ongoing construction of major public works projects conducted under the Tennessee Valley Authority, including dams and hydroelectric plants. Touts the harnessing of waterpower to generate electricity for industry and farmers. Lists the improvements to quality of life in the region brought by electricity, including home amenities, pumped water for irrigation, and community refrigeration for food storage. Emphasizes the development of fertilizer manufacturing, as well as munitions and aluminum for defense industries. Includes footage of Wilson dam, Norris dam, Wheeler dam, Pickwick Landing dam, Guntersville dam, Chickamauga dam, and Watts Bar dam and generating station.

6075. Tab Cola "Basement" (01:03)

Date:
1963
Main contributors:
Coca-Cola
Summary:
An advertisement for Tab diet cola in which an offscreen male narrator repeats how the product is sugar-free and only two calories over still images of the bottled product and a group of young men and women drinking it in a basement workshop. A jingle plays over an image of a case of Tab bottles. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6077. Take A Good Look (15:02)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A magnifying glass helps Lynn discover the richness of her own backyard on a Iazy summer day. Lynn's own bare toes, wiggling in the warm grass. first capture her interest Then, magnifying glass in hand, she moves beyond herself to explore treasures hidden in the grass around her a frilly toadstool, a popeyed cricket. a gulping frog. Quite by accident Lynn discovers that the magnifying glass causes more distant objects to appear upside down. She uses her new power to flip a house, a moving car and a neighbor walking.

6078. Take A Letter, Please (21:29)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics, United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management
Summary:
U.S. Navy training film intended to improve dictation technique through humorous demonstration of common faults. After a series of vignettes where inept and ineffective styles of dictation to a stenographer are dramatized, a model businessman demonstrates a well prepared and organized method of dictating letters. The demonstration includes detailed instruction in the use of Dictaphone and Ediphone cylinder recording machines.

6079. Take a little peek (10:41)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Teaches the square dance figure "Take a Little Peek," with synchronous music and action. Presents live and animated demonstrations of the dance at regular speed and in slow motion, and explains the positions of partners, how to honor corners and partners, and how the steps are performed to facilitate the continuity of the dance. Pictures groups dancing the figure to regular square dance music in a natural situation.

6081. Take Your Choice: Substitution (22:39)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

6082. Taking Care of Business (The Responsible Self) (34:18)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.

6083. Talent (59:54)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Mr. Hoffer argues that the men working beside him as longshoremen on the San Francisco docks are “lumpy with talent.” Genius, he notes, is not rare, it is wasted; and the talent of the workingman is a kind of common sense practicality. Wherever this talent exists among working men, they do their jobs without “all that fuss” which he considers to be characteristic of the underdeveloped countries of the world. Then, Mr. Hoffer raises a question regarding the forces that bring about creative periods in our history – periods that began quite suddenly and ended just as suddenly. He cites, as examples, “the period of cave drawings,” “the Age of Pericles,” “the Florence of the Renaissance,” and “the flowering of New England,” Mr. Hoffer contends that it was not because there was more talent during these periods (“the artists of Florence,” he notes, “were the sons of shopkeepers, and tailors.”), but rather that others forces which exist in every period of history were at work and these forces freed the talent.

6084. Talk, Talk, Talk (22:39)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 17 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series All About You, an elementary course in health education designed for children to help them understand basic human anatomy, physiology, and psychology.

6085. Talking ourselves into trouble (28:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Discusses the area of general semantics. Develops the idea that one's language determines the limits of one's world. Illustrates the way in which undifferentiated reactions to words leads to a communications deadlock. (KQED) Film.

6086. Talking Round The World (15:11)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. American children visit in the homes of children from Ghana, India and Japan. They share each other's games, food. language and music. and enjoy similarities and differences in their lives. The program presents back-ground glimpses of the three countries from which the children have come.

6087. Talking sense : do you know how to make a statement of fact? (29:18)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Distinguishes between statements of inference and statements of fact and discusses the consequences of confusing the two. Illustrates the manner in which most people make declarative statements that are mistakenly assumed to be statements of fact. Shows how behavior is affected when people tend to misunderstand each other and fail to assess situations realistically.

6089. Talking sense : on the difference between words and things (30:03)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses the consequences of forgetting that words only point to things and are not the things themselves. Attention to words alone may lead to unrealistic behavior, because language made it easy to distort what we are describing. It is easier to exaggerate in our speaking than to be precise. This tendency to exaggerate is based partly on a failure to limit our description or judgement of a person or thing to a particular time and context. (WOI-TV) Kinescope.

6090. Talking sense : the man who knows it all (29:26)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Considers the consequences of the "disease of allness", an attitude present in the person who implies or believes that what he knows or says about a thing is all that can be said. When "allness" exists, learning is hindered, and tension is likely to develop in human relations. The world of change in which we live makes it impossible to say all there is to say about anything. Failure to recognize this leads to bigotry. (WOI-TV) Kinescope.

6091. Talking sense : what is a good observer? (27:41)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Considers the differences between a good and a bad observer and relates these differences to talking sense. Points out that the use of conclusions based on observation of similarities alone results in a limitation of our awareness of the world, while the use of conclusions grounded on observation that also considers differences is a mark of the mature mind.

6092. Talking sense : why do people misunderstand each other? (30:32)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Discusses the variations in meanings of words and how these variations affect the communication process. Shows that words used by a speaker in one way and interpreted by a listener in another results in "bypass" or misunderstanding. Stresses that meaning is not in words but in speakers and listeners. Recommends that attention not be focused on words, that listeners be interested in what speakers mean, and that speakers try to make themselves understood by listeners.

6093. Tall Tales (09:41)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Presents ballad singers singing three authentic American folk songs: "Strawberry Roan," "Grey Goose," and "John Henry." The background for the singers is a farmhouse kitchenyard after the noonday meal.

6094. Tanabata or the festival of the stars (29:40)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Each year on July 7, the seventh day of the seventh month – the festival of the stars is celebrated in Japan. Artist T. Mikami tells the history of this festival, which is based on the legend of Shokujo, the daughter of the King of the Heavens, who fell in love with a herd boy. Shokujo and her lover were permitted to see each other only once a year, as the Milky Way would overflow and be impossible to cross. Each year at the festival of stars, the Japanese pray it will not rain and they decorate their homes with bamboo trees, from which they hang strips of colored paper upon which poems about lovers are written. Brush paintings of bamboo are drawn by Mikami.

6095. Tang "Gang" (00:32)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Tang
Summary:
An advertisement for Tang powdered drink in which a boy consumes the product for energy. Submitted for Clio Awards category Short Spots.

6097. Taoism : the way and its power (29:05)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Presents the story of Laotzu and his book The Way of Life. Discusses the basic concept of Taoism--creative quietude. Characterizes this belief as one which does not favor competition, but rather allows man to seek his own level with his fellow men and with nature.

6100. Tape Dub Promo [outtakes] (03:17)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Unedited audio segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology.