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Crawley Films, Douglas Leechman, Radford Crawley, Grant Crabtree, Graham Crabtree, Judith Crawley, George Gorman, Rod Sparks
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Dramatizes a legend of the British Columbian Native Americans, using authentic wooden masks worn by silent actors. Against impressionistic scenery and with appropriate music the story of why the blind old medicine man conferred his magic necklace on the loon is told by a narrator.
An Indian legend of how the loon received his distinguishing neckband. Uses authentic ceremonial masks.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Elizabeth S. Bixler
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Shows Miss Austin as she goes about her duties in the children's ward of a hospital. She checks a boy in an oxygen tent; visits two young girls, one with a cast on her arm and the other recovering from an operation; assists Barbara Allen, who is recovering from an appendectomy; and cares for two boys arriving from the operating room. Finally shows Miss Austin on duty in the maternity ward several weeks later.
Explains the various techniques to be mastered in learning to throw a baseball effectively. Professional players give demonstrations of four throws--the overhand, the three-quarter, the side-arm, and the underarm--which are analyzed by means of stop motion, slow motion, and close-up photography.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ernest Horn, Larry Yust, I. Mankofsky, Jack Elliott
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Describes the procedure by which a seaport receives cargo for distribution. Shows conveyor systems, pumps, and electromagnets used in handling goods; and explains the work of seamen, longshoremen, and customs officers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Karl E. Mason, Robert Longini
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Describes in detail the structure, function, and movement of the spinal column in man. Uses X-ray photography and animated drawings to indicate the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal regions and shows how the individual vertebrae are joined together to form a strong but flexible backbone. Points out the relationship between the spine, other bones, and muscles of the body and stresses good posture. | Details the movement, structure, and function of the spinal column through X-ray, stop-motion, and close-up photography, as well as by means of animated drawings. Emphasizes the importance of good posture and illustrates typical posture faults.
Clifford J. Kamen, Sydney N. Fisher, Ph.D. Ohio State University, Larry Yust, H. William Varney
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Reviews the Greek and Roman periods of influence, the Moslem invasion, the growth and development under Attaturk, and the present struggle toward progress. Shows the geographical and strategic importance of Turkey to the West, and surveys its industries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Preston E. James, Milan Herzog
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Locates the Amazon river on a map and describes its size, tributary rivers, and climate. Shows the vegetation, jungle animals, and life of primitive Indians who live in the jungle. Depicts life in small villages and major occupations of the people. Discusses the primary industries of the Amazon region.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Firman E. Bear
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Shows processes of soil formation, the four great soil groups of the earth, the location of these soil groups in the United States, man's exploitation of the soil, and the major scientific farming techniques designed to replace soil fertility losses and stop erosion.
Eliot O'Hara, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc., John Paul Miller
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Shows Eliot O'Hara, watercolor painter, sketching a variety of trees found in the United States and Hawaii. O'Hara observes that the artist should look for the structure of the tree, the character of its foliage, and a symbol which represents its form. He explains special techniques which capture individual characteristics of trees.
Eliot O'Hara demonstrates some watercolor painting techniques and reveals three fundamentals that the artist must look for in any tree.
Orients Pacific Canada with the rest of the Dominion and the United States. Traces routes of discovery and exploration, and portrays the settling of the region, with emphasis on the part played by climate and by transcontinental and ocean transportation. Other sequences are on fishing, lumbering, agriculture, mining, and smelting.
George G. Mallinson, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Hal Kopel
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Introduces and defines the words science and experiment, and demonstrates a simple experiment. Develops the idea of an orderly universe and shows a working procedure for problem solving in science.
Clarence W. Sorensen, Gordon Weisenborn, John W. Barnes, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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A Minnesota farm boy sends a small carved boat containing his address down the Mississippi River. From the letters which he receives he learns that people of many lands and varying backgrounds make their homes along the great river.
Historical Summary:
As a toy boat sails down the Mississippi, boys and girls of different backgrounds and origins who live along the river find it and write to its young owner in Minnesota. Shows the geography and economy of the Mississippi River Valley.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Paul R. Hanna, Ph.D. Stanford University, William Deneen
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Describes the climate and topography of the Philippines and how these factors affecting the way the people dress, build their homes, and make their living. Calls attention to the influences of Spain and the United States on the development of the nation. Villages from which people farm their own lad, fish, or work on sugar or coconut plantations are copra, lumber, minerals, and hemp. Economic and social problems of the Filipinos acquired with their independence are highlighted along with the measures being taken to solve them.
Shows the location and physical features of the Hawaiian Islands, a wide variety of immigrant and native workers busy at large-scale production and harvesting of sugar cane and pineapples, other work, home life, and customs of the native Hawaiians. Portrays such native activities as fishing, cooking, eating, playing football, building canoes, and taking part in the ceremonies at a canoe-launching.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., A. J. Carlson, H. G. Swann, F. J. Mullin
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Describes the structure and function of the renal system, and explains how the kidneys maintain uniformity in blood and tissues. Demonstrates, with animated drawings and laboratory experiments, the formation of urine, the regulation of blood composition, and the functioning of the bladder. Explains the relation of blood pressure to urine flow, and the rate of secretion as affected by sugar, water, and temperature.
Children visit the Brookfield Zoo to see the larger animals such as the polar bear, Kodiak bear, lion, tiger, kangaroo, alpaca, giraffe, zebra, baboon, sea lion, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and elephant. The narrator mentions their natural habitat, and scenes show special characteristics of some of the animals.
Traces the development of modern methods of communication, including the telegraph, telephone, wireless, and radio. Depicts Morse developing the telegraph by combining the earlier inventions of Volta, Watson, and Henry. Recalls Bell's work on the telephone, and shows Marconi discovering the possibilities of the wireless and DeForest, those of radio. Portrays modern communications instantaneously connecting the remotest parts of the world.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Bruce Catton, Nicholas Dancy
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Traces the history of flags in the United States from the time of Columbus, through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Enacts the Betsy Ross legend and the story of Francis Scott Key, and discusses the place of the flag in such democratic institutions as the polls, the courts, and the schools.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ralph Buchsbaum, John Walker, William Kay, William Peltz
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Shows through animation, microcinematrography, and time-lapse photography the basic differences between single-celled organisms and the colony of several cell types that compose the body of the sponge. Explains the need for and advantages of the multicell-type of life through a demonstration of surface area to volume relationships. Animates the functioning of the cells within the sponge and uses live-action photography to illustrate sexual and asexual reproductive methods. Concludes that the 5,000 species are grouped according to their skeletons. | . Models, animated drawings, laboratory demonstrations, and photomicrography are combined to illustrate the structure, the reproductive processes, the motility, and the adaptation of sponges.
Clifton Fadiman, Massachusetts Council for the Humanities, Juilliard String Quartet, David Glazer, Wilbur de Paris and his New Orleans Jazz, John Barnes, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, C. Walter Hodges, Michael Livesey, Robert Johnson, Fred Lasse
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Clifton Fadiman discusses what the humanities are and why they are studied, using examples of literature, photography, and music. Points out the dissimilarities and complimentary features of the humanities and the sciences.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ralph E. Turner, Hal Kopel
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Surveys the rapid growth of transportation in the United States from the times when the world's peoples were kept apart by great natural barriers to the present day when jet aircraft span the continent in a few hours. Reviews the development of the vast network of railroads, highways, and air routes in the United States, and describes the economic and social significance of modern transportation facilities.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Ernest Horn, Milan Herzog
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Jim Briggs, a fireman, shows how he cares for equipment and participates in drills and testing of trucks, hose, ladders, and life-saving devices in typical settings. Affords an opportunity to observe the firemen answering the alarm and extinguishing an actual home fire. Second Edition.
Tells a story adapted from Aesop's "Mercury and the Woodsman." When a woodcutter loses his axe, a little man offers him a silver one, and later a golden one. When the woodcutter refuses to claim them as his, he is given both axes as a reward for his honesty. The greedy neighbor who tries to outwit the little man soon learns that honesty is the best policy.
Portrays man's callousness towards war and violence by viewing unemotional and noncommunicative men who press triggers on pinball machines in a Parisian bistro and cause real battleships to sink, airplanes to explode, and cannons to blow out the wall.
Eugene Kash, Gudrun Parker, Denis Gillson, Joseph Champagne, Eldon Rathburn, Thomas Daly, Guy Glover, Peter Jones, Margaret Ellis, National Film Board
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The various instruments of the wood-wind and brass sections of an orchestra are characterized as to appearance, tone, and use during a children's concert conducted by Eugene Kash, Canadian violinist. Then demonstrates the effect of both sections combined.
An advertisement for CIL Terylene suits in which a private investigator follows a man to find out information about his Terylene suit. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Dupont Dacron dresses in which a narrator describes how her day changes when she wears the product. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Dupont Dacron polyester suits with wool in which two men model different styles of the product in various work environments. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Ban-Lon Wearing Apparel knit wear in which a square dance caller describes the product while four couples dance various movements. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Wembley ties in which an animated valet describes losing his job after his employer discovers the Wembley guide matching ties to suit color. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Scotchguard rain repeller in which a narrator compares a raincoat treated with Scotchguard to another that was dry cleaned, and the latter is soaked in rain water. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for DuPont knitwear in which a narrator discusses the brand's "double knit" design and models display the fashions in various states of travel. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Dupont Dacron dresses in which a narrator describes the product while four models pose in an art gallery. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for U.S. Keds footwear in which a narrator describes the product over shots of children and adults in various states of work and play. Submitted to Clio Awards for category Apparel.
An advertisement for U.S. Steel in which a narrator describes how steel has changed work and life on the ranch land of San Mateo, New Mexico, and laborers who are indigenous peoples of the U.S. build a fence and other equipment. Submitted for Clio Awards category Corporate.
An advertisement for National Cotton Council brand in which a narrator guides the viewer through a dollhouse containing cotton products. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Celanese Acetate raincoats in which a woman wears the brand's coat into the rain and it stays dry. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Pak-nit under garments in which a narrator discusses the brand's various styles of product and their shrink-free capabilities. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Playtex Sarong girdles in which a woman models the product and explains its capabilities. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
An advertisement for Van Heusen Century Vantalux shirts in which a narrator describes the product's permanent wash and wear design. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
Tyrus Wong, Chiura Obata, John Bessor, William Thomas, Jr., John Paul Miller, Eliot O'Hara
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Uses a variety of oriental paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to depict the characteristics of oriental art and shows a Chinese and a Japanese artist demonstrating oriental brushwork. Points out that Chinese art is the ancestor of Japanese art and indicates that art and music have unique similarities. Features Mr. Tyrus Wong, a Chinese painter, and Mr. Chiura Obata of Japan. Narrated by Eliot O'Hara.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, R. O. Freeland, Warren P. Everote
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Presents an overview of the field of biology for prospective and beginning pupils. Discusses botany and zoology as the two big areas, uses animation to show some of the fundamentals of how plants and animals live, and applies biology to everyday life.
Clifton Fadiman, John Stride, Rosalie Crutchley, Douglas Campbell, John Barnes, Mark Dignam, Michael Gwynn, Edwin Richfield, Roddy Hughes, Sarah Long, Richard Caldicot, C. Walter Hodges, Robert Johnson, Leon Bijou, Michael Livesey
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Probes into the meanings lying behind the story. Explains the development of the strange, twisted relationships between the major characters. Clifton Fadiman interprets the dominant themes in the novel by placing them against a larger philosophical background. Closes with the scene in which Pip is reunited with Joe Gargery and begins to find himself. Dramatic excerpts by members of The Old Vic Company.
Glen Fleck, Professor Thomas S. Kuhn, Laurence Harvey, Elmer Bernstein, Dr. Abraham Kaplan, Dr. Helen Wright, Dr. Albert R. Hibbs, Parke Meek, Stanley Croner, Archer Goodwin, Bill Lightfield, Virgil Mirano, Annette Del Zoppo, George Spacek, Gordon Ashby, Deborah Sussman, Robert Nakamura
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Utilizes animation and multiple-image techniques to examine the historical development of the sciences. Includes also a consideration of science as it exists today. Presents the views of several contemporary scientists, their work, and their laboratories.
Shows the major concepts in the evolution of shelter, starting with primitive shelter construction from materials close at hand. Traces man's growing ability to change the form of these materials and shows how transportation has increased the variety of his supply. Emphasizes the high specialization of effort in construction of modern kinds of shelters, each designed for a special purpose. An instructional sound film.
Ritter, Young, Lerner Associates, Douglas Townsend
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A group of children learn how rules and laws are made and changed as they play games together. Emphasizes the concept that rules must be changed with changing conditions. Points out ways in which laws serve the needs of entire communities and the nation.
Demonstrates the relationships between resistance, current, and electromotive force in series circuits and in parallel circuits by computing the resistance of a toaster and a lamp, and the amperage of a soldering iron. Demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of both types of circuits. Describes a simple series-parallel combination and presents examples.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Cyril O. Houle, Leland Bradford, Malcolm Knowles, James H. McBurney, Howard McClusky
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Presents the results of a survey of about fifty adult groups to find common elements of a good group discussion. Illustrates the qualities of good leadership by showing various groups in action and exemplifies eleven important elements of effective group discussions. Uses narration and sync sound in portraying the different groups and summarizing the important points.
Henry S. Commager, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
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Unfolds the story of immigration into the U.S. from colonial times. Through animated maps and photography explains where various groups of immigrants came from, where they settled, and why they left their homes to come to America. Dramatizes the immigrants' entry in to the U.S., and points out that many later apply for American citizenship.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Albert V. Baez, Larry Yust, I. Mankofsky, Merl Edelman
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Uses illustrations and experiments to explain how any device with a steady repeating action can serve as a clock to measure time intervals. Gives examples of clocks in nature, such as the human heartbeat and the movements of heavenly bodies, and of man-made devices, such as the stop watch and the oscilloscope.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Wright Adams, Hal Kopel
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Explains what happens when the human heart ceases to function normally. Photographs of an actual heart, X-ray photographs, and animated drawings are used to explain high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, and rheumatic fever. Describes the progress that is being made to combat these diseases.
Shows how ice cream is made in the home and in a modern ice cream plant. Includes measuring devices, weighing, mixing, pasteurizing, homogenizing, cooling, testing, freezing, packing, and hardening processes, and the making of chocolate ice-cream bars.
Presents the life story of the snapping turtle in its natural habitat. Observes the snapping turtle's features, its encounters with other animal life, the laying and protection of its eggs, its hatching, and developmental conditioning. Its appearance is compared with that of the painted turtle. Digging in for and emergence from the winter's hibernation conclude the presentation.
Describes the topography, climate, economy, cultural patterns, and heritage of the Southeastern States. Discusses the changes in the region which are being brought about by such developments as flood control, soil conservation, the building of power dams, industrialization, urbanization, the decrease in tenant farming, and the diversification and modernization of agriculture. Uses animated maps in showing the Southeast's relation to other regions.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Irene H. Buchanan, Hal Kopel
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Portrays sewing as a useful art and a pleasurable leisure-time occupation and surveys the process of sewing, as a high school girl makes a party dress in her sewing class. Offers some suggestions in choosing a pattern and fabrics for a garment, describes ways to improve planning, and summarizes the steps to be taken in sewing, including measuring, matching to a pattern, cutting, marking, and stitching.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Donald Collier
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Portrays family life on Viti Levu, largest island of the Fiji group. Shows members of the family at their daily activities, fishing, attending school, tending their garden, and constructing a house. Illustrates the importance of the coconut palm. A fish drive, ending in a feast and dance along the shore, is also portrayed.
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, Fibber Magee and Molly, Edgar Bergen, Fred Allen, and Walter Winchell, and also contains film clips of game shows and soap operas being broadcast. Explores the role of advertising in the radio industry and looks at the responsibility sponsors have in developing good programming for their audiences.
Presents episodes from the home, school, and play life of children in a representative Chinese village. Traditional patterns of Chinese family life are portrayed. School training in loyalty to parents, together with home and community customs, reflects the influence of Chinese tradition on contemporary life. Recreational activities are shown, and Chinese dialogue is reproduced and interpreted.
Erpi Classroom Films Inc., Arthur I. Gates, Celeste C. Peardon
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Presents characteristic activities of a boy and girl living in the Swiss Alps. Follows them through the Alpine village as they watch the tourists and visit shops where clocks and woodcarvings are sold. Depicts them at home and as they accompany their mother on a long, steep climb up the mountain to the summer pasture where the father and brother are tending the cattle. An instructional sound film.
John Strohm, Francis L. K. Hsu, John T. Bobbitt, Milan Herzog
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Describes China's most critical social and economic problems and examines the forces that are shaping the Communist revolution in China. Illustrates the Communist methods of forcing radical changes in traditional living patterns. Considers the possible effects of Communist success in China on world security.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Hugh A. Bone, John T. Bobbitt
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Uses the problem of flood control in a locality to portray the relationships between the representative in congress, his constituents, the work of the legislative branch of government, and legislative apportionments as of 1962. Shows a representative working with the constituents on the local problem of flood control, returning to Congress on the issue of flood control, and expediting the passage of a bill to meet the problem. Traces the path of the bill to illustrate the relationships between the three branches of government, the patterns of representation in the House and Senate, their organization into committees, the procedures for framing legislation, and ways to encourage the passage of bills.
Physical Sciences Staff in the College, The University of Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Compares sound waves with water waves, provides examples of echoes and explains how they affect acoustics indoors, demonstrates effects of different wall surfaces upon the reflection of sounds, portrays the mechanics of our hearing process, dramatizes the range of the human voice, reveals the effects of eliminating certain vibrational frequencies, and identifies ultrasonics. For high school, college, and adult groups.
Maynard Mack, Stratford Shakespearean Festival Company of Canada, Massachusetts Council for the Humanities, Peter Donat, Charmion King, Max Helpmann, William Needles, Frances Hyland, Douglas Campbell, Michael Livesey, Robert Johnson, Fred Lasse, Desmond Heeley, Brian Jackson, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Hamlet is presented as a story of a young man achieving maturity - the discovery of the presence of evil, separating reality from wishes, and the problem of contamination. | Develops an understanding of Shakespeare's characters and their motivations through an emphasis upon Hamlet as a young man gradually comprehending the seemingly contradictory forces which cause seemingly unsolvable problems. The problems examined include the reality and permanence of evil and the fact people are not always what they seem, the separation of reality from the deceptive, the contamination of good intentions by evil forces, the reality of death, and the view of man as "royal."
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Ralph D. Casey, John T. Bobbitt
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Shows how a group of adults gain greater clarity and understanding of a school problem after gathering the facts concerning the case. Warns against deciding on plans of action in favor of prejudices and gathering only the facts which support preconceived opinions. Suggests a number of sources of facts that are available to the public--local news editors, books, magazines, newspapers, experts, and newscasts.
Sidney Zipser, Edison R. Hoge, Walter S. Arnold, Hoge-Zipser Productions
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Describes the story of the giant 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, photographed over the period of years during which the giant telescope was planned and designed. Shows the grinding of the huge mirror, the tedious journey of the mirror up the mountainside, and finally the giant instrument in operation.
James R. Hawkinson, Hal Kopel, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
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Pictures the role of selling in modern business organization, showing how selling goes on from the inventor, through the manufacturer, to the distributor and the customer. Describes the structure of typical sales organizations, and stresses the importance of selling in our economic society.
Uses animation to illustrate the versatility of the triangular shape. Shows a single triangle dividing, re-dividing, and re-forming into colorful representations of symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes, including stars, cubes, rhombuses, and parallelograms. Concludes with the multitude of forms returning to the basic triangle.
Portrays representative aspects of Louisiana and its key city, New Orleans, during the years of Creole dominance. Shows Mississippi River packet boats, delta country, cotton and cane plantations, slavery, education, religion, architecture, music, the code duello, Creole customs, manners, and attitudes, and the prevalence of French speech.
Edward S. Taylor, Quentin Brown, Abraham Morochnik, Jack Hirschfeld, Charles L. White, Jr., Frank Meagher, R. Paul Larkin, John J. Barta, James M. Henry, George F. Fardy, Martha A. Booker, Howard W. Emmons, Dave Fultz, William R. Hawthorne, Ascher H. Shapiro, Kevin Smith, Charles R. Conn, Educational Services Incorporated
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Demonstrates secondary flows caused by the imposition of primary-flow pressure gradients on low-momentum fluid in sheer layers. Includes in the demonstrations secondary flows in a free vortex, in a rotating body of fluid, and in a bend in a channel.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: The relation between secondary flow and primary flow. Effects of boundary layers. Series of experiments which involve laminar flow through a bend, with various obstacles producing vorticity in the secondary flow.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Michael Heidelberger, Yale Kneeland, Harry M. Rose
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Dramatized incidents and animated sequences are used in explaining what immunity is and how immunity to infectious disease is achieved. Describes the action of vaccines and shows how vaccines for smallpox, pneumonia, and diphtheria are prepared and administered. Collaborators, Michael Heidelberger, Yale Kneeland, Jr., Harry M. Rose.
Interweaves sequences of events in the lives of several people to relate moments of beauty and tenderness of everyday life in the city of Stockholm. Captures the early morning tempo of the city, a rainstorm, boys playing, a parade, fishermen on the waterfront, an artist painting, and closing with dusk along the harbor front as the lights of the city are turned on.
Traces the experiences of a pioneer family in journeying from Illinois to a homestead on the Midwestern plains. Sequences include their relationship with other settlers and cattlemen, building and decorating a sod house, plowing, collecting fuel, contacts with a circuit-riding minister, and conversations and music of the time.
