Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

6602. Probability: Possible outcomes (33:51)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 23 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

6603. Problem Drinkers (19:10)

Date:
0000
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Presents the problem of the habitual alcoholic and the programs of various organizations fighting the effects of alcoholism. Emphasizes the work of Alcoholics Anonymous.

6604. Problem drinking : a call to action (25:05)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
A typical day in one community's fight against alcoholism--providing speakers and experts for schools and community groups, assisting the police to handle alcoholics as sick people, and helping ind...

6605. Problem Solving: Acting It Out (22:33)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child get...

6606. Problem Solving: Drawing A Picture (17:15)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child get...

6607. Problem Solving: Drawings and Interpreting Tables and Diagrams (34:16)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret drama...

6608. Problem Solving: Guess, Check, and Revise (21:13)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dram...

6609. Problem Solving: Identifying the problem (33:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 2 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progra...

6610. Problem Solving: Keep on Trying (33:57)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 26 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

6611. Problem Solving: Looking for a Pattern (34:15)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 14 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

6612. Problem Solving: Making a Table (33:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

6613. Problem Solving: Many Ways to Go (22:45)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 27 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

6614. Problem Solving: Recognizing Necessary Information (22:44)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 18 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

6615. Problem Solving: Simplifying the problem (33:54)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 7 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progra...

6616. Problem Solving: Solving a Simpler Problem (29:15)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dram...

6617. Problem Solving: Using a Guide (34:09)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 28 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

6618. Problem Solving: Using diagrams and models (34:22)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 16 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

6619. Problem Solving: Using Graphs (22:32)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 22 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

6620. Problem Solving: Using Logical Reasoning (17:26)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 17 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dram...

6621. Problem Solving: Using maps (33:19)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 28 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

6622. Problem Solving: Using tables (18:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 10 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

6623. Problems of Relief (06:34)

Date:
0000
Main contributors:
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Summary:
A contrast between the meaning of relief to politicians and to relief recipients.

6624. Problems of Statehood (29:37)

Date:
1960
Summary:
What does statehood mean to Alaskans? John MacVane conducts sidewalk interviews with the new citizens, and draws from them a series of interesting responses. Joe Kirkbridge, editor of The Daily Ala...

6625. Problems of Working Girls (08:42)

Date:
0000
Main contributors:
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Summary:
The problem of out-of-town girls of little experience finding satisfactory jobs in large cities and living on the money they earn.

6626. Production of foods (10:52)

Date:
1946
Main contributors:
O. E. Baker; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.
Summary:
Deals with the technology and geography of food production by depicting the role of land in production, the methods employed in the production of plant and animal products, and the relation of anim...

6627. Productive Climate & Culture (20:56)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 6 in the sub series "Essential Elements" from the program Every Child Can Succeed. Student success in the classroom begins with a top-down commitment to a clearly stated mission emphasizing...

6628. Professional photography (30:25)

Date:
1961
Summary:
Records a discussion of photography as a profession by Ansel Adams and Milton Halberstadt, an outstanding commercial photographer in San Francisco. Adams is shown applying his imagination and techn...

6629. Profile of a champion (27:54)

Date:
1970
Summary:
Presents a profile of a winner of an Indianapolis "500" race, with highlights of the 1970 race. Interwoven are sequences stressing safe driving on and off the track.

6630. Profile of the Southern Moderate (59:45)

Date:
1963
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Presents several Southerners who advocate viewpoints and actions which are at variance with extremists on both sides of the civil rights issue. Interviews Governor Carl E. Sanders of Georgia; R. E....

6633. Progress (29:30)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses the role of progress during the history of mankind. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr is questioned concerning areas where progress has occurred and relates this progress to the problems it has brough...

6634. Progressive Education (09:14)

Date:
0000
Main contributors:
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Summary:
A picture of the progressive school system at work; some familiar arguments for and against it. A contrast between learning by memory drill and the new method of learning through individual projec...

6635. Projecting ideas on the overhead projector (17:16)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Outlines the advantages of the overhead projector as a visual aid to learning in classrooms, in business, and in industry. Shows the great variety of uses of the equipment, with opaque, translucent...

6636. Promises to Keep: Achieving Success in Our Schools (31:01)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 1 in the sub series "Demonstration" from the program Every Child Can Succeed, a series of video programs with facilitators' guides that are designed to show schools how to help disadvantage...

6637. Prophecy Perfume "Subliminal" (00:21)

Date:
1963
Main contributors:
Prince Matchabelli
Summary:
An advertisement for Prophecy perfume by Prince Matchabelli in which a male narrator, accompanied by a chorus and music, describes how "unexpectedly nice things happen" when one wears the product. ...

6638. Proportions in Drawing (22:29)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 22 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.

6639. Propulsion (29:42)

Date:
1959
Summary:
After the lift, stability and control problems were solved, a propulsive system was needed to make the aircraft fly. The first propulsion device - the propeller - is still in use today. Dr. Lippisc...

6640. Prospects of survival (28:50)

Date:
1966
Summary:
Warning: This film begins with combat footage and images of deceased soldiers. Examines various methods of countering the possibility of governments using weapons of mass destruction and engulfing...

6641. Protest : black power (14:30)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Mert Koplin; Charles Grinker
Summary:
Utilizes excerpts from speeches and interviews of many leading black activists to exemplify the various components of "Black Power." Ranges from discussion of black separatism and violence to non-v...

6642. Protoplasm : the stuff of life (29:09)

Date:
1956
Summary:
In this program the audience hears a review and summary of all the information on the physical and chemical nature of living material discussed in previous programs. Dr. Roney uses sketch pad diagr...

6643. Proud years (28:08)

Alternative title:
Still going places: active ma...
Date:
1956
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Shows in detail practical steps that can be taken to help old people lead active, useful lives; explores the day-to-day problems that accompany old age; and discusses the problems that spring from ...

6644. Providing for Family Needs (22:33)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Shows that most human activity in the cultures of the Japanese, Tarahumara Indians, and the Baoule' of Africa is spent e...

6645. Prudential Insurance "Amusement Park" (01:05)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Prudential
Summary:
An advertisement for Prudential insurance in which an offscreen male narrator describes family insurance options over a scene of a family at an amusement park. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

6646. Prudential Insurance "Sailboat" (01:02)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Prudential
Summary:
An advertisement for Prudential insurance in which a small boy plays with a toy sailboat in a body of water accompanied by his father. An offscreen male narrator describes the benefits of Prudentia...

6648. PSA "Starve a Rat Today" (01:00)

Date:
1969
Summary:
As a woman talks on the phone a rat sneaks into a garbage pile by using a telephone wire. An announcer warns the viewers that the only way to stop a rat is to use a garbage can with a lid.

6649. Psalm 139 (29:24)

Date:
1961
Summary:
The idea that the Bible can be read purely as literature is not new, but it receives much support from Dr. Boyd’s sensitive and moving interpretations and discussions. This is particularly evident...

6650. Psycho-surgery and shock therapy (29:22)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Discusses and shows the use of psychosurgery and shock therapy in the treatment of the mentally ill. Outlines the development of psychosurgery, and electric shock therapy; points out the uses and d...

6651. Public hearing (29:53)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Presents a simulated on-the-spot television report of a Congressional hearing where a Russian deputy-premier who has requested political asylum in the United States is answering questions concernin...

6652. Public myths about prisons (29:39)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman contrasts the public’s attitude and desires for penal institutions with the current knowledge of the social sciences. With Kenyon Scudder, he explain...

6653. Public Relations (17:06)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Depicts the value to be derived by all from effective public relations between business, labor, government, and the people. The role of public relations personnel is shown, as is the type of course...

6654. Pueblitos de Mexico (10:06)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Vignettes of everyday life and events in two indigenous Mexican villages provide breadth of subject-matter for vocabulary exercise. Sentences of the Spanish narration are nearly all declarative, an...

6655. Puerto Rico (29:36)

Date:
1957
Summary:
Surveys the political and economic evolution of Puerto Rico. Explains Puerto Rico's new political association with the U.S. Describes present Puerto Rican efforts to realize economic benefits throu...

6656. Puerto Rico - Beth Small [Plays] (03:09)

Date:
1972
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil; Naomi Feil; Beth Rubin
Summary:
Home movie of Ed and Naomi’s trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The film primarily shows street scenes, musical acts and a nativity play taking place on an outdoor stage. Back in the US, Beth and a fri...

6657. Puerto Rico 1972 (29:56)

Date:
1972
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil; Naomi Feil
Summary:
Home movie of Ed and Naomi’s trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico in winter 1972. Begins with the couple on a flight to Puerto Rico. Shows neon marquees at nighttime, the Feils sunbathing and wading in th...

6659. Puppets (14:14)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Bil Baird Marionette Productions

6660. Purchase and Use of the Car (29:21)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Discusses how to buy a new car, how to buy a used car, the variable and fixed costs of car operation, economies in operating your car, and advertised gadgets.

6661. Pure Magic Great Shine Lipstick "Lips" (00:31)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Max Factor
Summary:
An advertisement for Pure Magic lipstick by Max Factor in which a grid of close-up shots of women's lips sing a jingle. At the end of the song, the shots of women's lips are replaced by close-up sh...

6662. Pure Science and Applied Science (29:28)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains how an understanding of pure science can lead to applied science. Demonstrates this relationship by reviewing a theory of heath and how it led to a number of inventions: smokeless firepla...

6663. Purex "Plastic Bottle" (00:09)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Purex
Summary:
An advertisement for Purex bleach in which a woman drops the plastic Purex bottle and a glass bottle of a competing brand and demonstrates how the former is shatter-proof. Submitted for Clio Awards...

6664. Purifying Water (16:04)

Date:
1928
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Stresses the need for purifying water for the various uses of a community, and shows methods of aerating, filtrating, disinfecting, and testing a city's water supply. Illustrates the complexity of...

6666. Purina : dog food (01:02)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
Purina
Summary:
An advertisement for Purina dog food that depicts a male hobo sitting on a park bench. A dog jumps onto the bench, drops a can of Purina in his lap, and starts whispering in his ear. The hobo trans...

6669. Purina Dog Chow "Untitled" (01:04)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
Purina
Summary:
An advertisement for Purina Dog Chow in which a dog runs across a field to greet his young owner as he gets off a school bus. An offscreen male narrator describes the balanced nature of Purina diet...

6671. Pursuit, Episode-10, The Silent Night (52:58)

Date:
December 6, 1958
Main contributors:
Peter Kortner ; Paul Monash; Buzz Kulik
Summary:
John Conrad is a patient at a mental institute for attempting to kill himself and his wife. After being denied a pass to go home for Christmas John breaks out of the institute and avoids the police...

6672. Puss and boots (15:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Marionettes are used to tell the delightful age-old story of the cat who wore boots when he visited the King for his Master. Puss told the King that his Master was the Marquis and presented him wit...

6673. Puss in boots (16:42)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films; Grace Storm, University of Illinois; James Sage
Summary:
Uses narration and animated puppets to present Charles Perrault's fairy tale, The Master's Cat, Puss in Boots. Shows how an ingenious cat contrives to win for his master a title, a fortune, and the...

6674. Putting elements to work (29:26)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Demonstrates and explains methods of manipulating elements and using them. Shows how iron is extracted and explains the derivation of a variety of products from petroleum. Uses a working model o...

6675. Putting the Constitution to work (29:43)

Date:
1955
Summary:
The Nation chose one of its greatest all-time citizens, Washington, to guide the country through the first important years. Washington and his cabinet and the Congress set sound precedents and pro...

6676. Q-Tips : the safety swab (01:02)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
Q Tips
Summary:
A father struggles to wash his baby until he uses Q-Tips. The father show how durable Q-Tips are as well as how Q-tips can be used to delicately wash a baby.

6677. Qantas Airlines "Aging Man" (01:05)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Qantas Airlines
Summary:
An advertisement for Qantas Airlines in which a man addresses the camera about his various travel ambitions as he visibly ages across several time lapse dissolves. An offscreen narrator discusses h...

6678. Quadrilaterals (12:51)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Illustrates and explains the chief properties of the important quadrilaterals such as the parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square, trapezoid, and trapezium.

6679. Queries and Sources (29:27)

Date:
1959
Summary:
Answers representative questions about ideas on Eastern philosophy discussed in preceeding films in the series Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life. Lists recommended books useful for gaining additional ...

6680. Questioning (29:02)

Date:
1968
Summary:
Presents a dialogue between Indian spiritual leader Krishnamurti and the boys of the Thatcher School of Ojai, California, in which Krishnamurti encourages the students to question life in order to ...

6681. Questioning in Science (17:11)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

6682. Quiz program--summary (29:33)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand reviews the important concepts of the preceding programs through questions and answers. Touches briefly on such concepts as the "law of survival," "law of averages," intelligen...

6684. Radiation and the population (29:34)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Points out that genetic damage is one of the most serious effects of radiation and shows how the Atomic Energy Commission's genetics research program is geared to learn how radiation damages cells ...

6686. Radio (28:57)

Alternative title:
American memoir
Date:
1961
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Traces the rise of radio from the 1920s through the 1930s, highlighting its role as an affordable form of entertainment and a unifying force in American life. The episode explores the shift of vaud...

6687. Radio and television (11:29)

Date:
1940
Summary:
Indicates the preparation necessary for entrance into radio work, stressing a strong foundation in science and mathematics. The development of personality and a cultural background is stressed. Gi...

6688. Radio Broadcasting Today (19:03)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Examines the role of radio as a means of mass communication from its inception up to, and including, 1950. Includes many of the radio personalities of the late 1940s such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope, ...

6689. Radio dynamics (04:20)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Visualizes Color-keyed moods, recurrent themes, contrapuntal melodies, and various rhythmic patterns through the animation of Oskar Fischinger. Presents an interplay of shapes, Colors, and movement...

6690. Radio waves (27:09)

Date:
1960
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Describes the nature and use of artificial radio waves generated by man; examines the ionosphere, and explains its critical role in passing, reflecting, and absorbing radio waves; discusses natural...

6691. Radioactivity (27:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The causes of radioactivity, how it is detected, measured and controlled are noted by Dr. Warren F. Witzig and guest Edward Sanford. They also demonstrate the instability of energy and discuss the ...

6692. RAF & 8th Air Force report from Britain (07:02)

Alternative title:
RAF and Eighth Air Force repo...; Report from Britain; Reports from AAF
Date:
1944
Main contributors:
United States. Army Pictorial Service
Summary:
"Includes a report from Britain showing the RAF and the 8th Air Force on a hedgehopping bomber flight over France and Germany, and the 5th Air Force report from New Guinea." ("News and Notes," Educ...

6693. RAF and 8th Air Force report from Britain (06:59)

Date:
1944
Summary:
"Includes a report from Britain showing the RAF and the 8th Air Force on a hedgehopping bomber flight over France and Germany, and the 5th Air Force report from New Guinea." ("News and Notes," Educ...

6694. Rafael Mendez, the trumpet (27:16)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Introduces Rafael Mendez, who plays several selections on his trumpet and discusses his instrument and playing technique. Includes an orchestral accompaniment. Ends with Mendez and his twin sons p...

6696. Railroad rhythms (10:25)

Date:
1954
Summary:
Records the activities and sounds in a freight yard upon the arrival of a freight train. Portrays a turntable in operation, a steam locomotive in a roundhouse for servicing, a diesel engine moving ...

6697. Railroads (14:36)

Date:
1958
Summary:
After looking at the first railroad engine, the Tom Thumb, and the De Witt Clinton, and seeing an engine in a race with a horse, wherein the horse won, Bash climbs aboard a real engine of the early...

6698. Railroads coast to coast (15:30)

Date:
1959
Summary:
The fabulous story of the men who built the railroad to join the Atlantic and Pacific coasts is told by Bash Kennett. The struggles of the laborers in the west who battled granite cliffs in order t...

6699. Rain (10:01)

Date:
1960
Summary:
Uses simple terms and illustrations to explain and discuss the water cycle, evaporation, and condensation. Shows the phenomenon of a rainbow and the effects of wind, cloud formations, and sunshine ...

6700. Rain (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Explains how rain if formed. Demonstrates how water vapor gets into the air, collects as clouds, and drops as rain. (WCET) Kinescope.