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Uses live animals to tell the three fox fables about the fox and the sour grapes, the fox and the crow who allowed himself to be flattered, and the fox and the stork who gets the last laugh.
Focuses on the United Nations' three Secretary Generals: Norwegian Trygve Lie, Sweden's Dag Hammarskjold and U Thant of Burma. Interspersed with film excerpts, photos, and commentary, the show also includes an interview with General U Thant and Andrew Cordiers, Dean of Columbia University's school of international affairs.
Reviews the structure of binary form and begins the discussion of three part or ternary form. Explains the limitations of binary form and how ternary form offers possibilities of greater expansion. Illustrates how ternary form is based on the idea of statement, development, and re-statement. (WMSB-TV) Kinescope.
Dragonflies catch flies and other insects by cupping their feet together under their chin to make a basket. By means of the peep-show parade, Dora and Fignewton Frog tell of Dennis Dragonfly, who sprained three of his feet and found it difficult to catch food for a while.
This is a follow-up study of six mildly retarded boys between five and seven years of age who attended the pre-school of the Mental Development Center. The film demonstrates growth and development in the boys three years later while attending a special summer program for educable retarded.
An educational film on eyesight which shows headaches, inefficiency in work and accidents to be results of defective vision. By animation and models, the mechanics of the eye are shown and the comparison between the eye and camera lens is drawn. Every movie maker should be interested in the diagram illustrating astigmatism and the film should be of value to schools in impressing the necessity of good vision.
[motion picture] A skilled potter demonstrates the shaping of various pieces of pottery on a potter's wheel. Shows each step in making a bowl and special steps in completing a low, flat plate and a pitcher.
A skilled potter demonstrates the shaping of various pieces of pottery on a potter's wheel. Shows each step in making a bowl and special steps in completing a low, flat plate and a pitcher.
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.
Shows the principle of centerless grinding; the basic elements of the centerless grinding machine; the basic principle of thrufeed grinding; how to set up the machine for an actual job (limited to mounting wheel, workrest, workblade, workguides, and diamonds); and how to true the grinding and regulating wheels.
Shows how to balance the grinding wheel; how to position the work for grinding; how to adjust the work guides; how to take the trial grind; how to eliminate taper in the workpiece; how to use a crown cam to dress the grinding wheel; and how to check the workpieces.
This is the story of a little girl no bigger than a thumb who is carried away from her home by a frog to be the bride of the frog's son. Thumbelina escapes from the Frog with the help of a rabbit. Mrs. Mouse takes Thumbelina into her home to keep house. Thumbelina finds a bird whose wing is broken and nurses him back to health. When Mrs. Moose decides that Thumbelina should marry Mr. Mole, the bird carries the little girl back to her mother. Mr. Mole then decides to marry Mrs. Mouse. Marionettes are used to tell this all-time favorite.
An advertisement for Tic Tac mints in which a series of people (young ballerinas, men on a jog, and women at a gym) sing a jingle to the camera about how the product gives one a "bang out of life." An offscreen narrator notes how the mints are also available in cinnamon variety. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Tic Tac mints in which three sets of people (a man and woman painting at home, an adolescent girl and boy taking a break from tennis, and two middle-aged women at a hair salon) sing a jingle while enjoying the product. An offscreen male narrator declares that a cinnamon variety is now available over a close-up shot of the product. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Beth Rubin, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil
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Footage of Beth, Eddie, and an unknown boy playing Tic Tac Toss in the backyard of the Feil home. A young Kenny wanders around the yard with a dog. Some of this footage would be used in the Tic Tac Toss commercial.
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. This visit to the southeastern United States discusses the role of tobacco in the growth of the Virginia Colony, the importance of cotton and the fall line in making the Piedmont region the textile center of the nation, and George Washington Carver's research on uses for the peanut. Explores the political and cultural heritage of Williamsburg, Virginia. Hosted by John Rugg.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin, Julius Weil, Helen Kahn Weil, Vicki Rubin, Ellen Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, George H. Feil, Amy Feil, Beth Hellerstein, George Feil, Nellie Feil, Harold S. Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Betsy Feil
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Eddie walks through the snow to the bus stop. Tiger, the family dog, plays in the snow in the yard. Naomi, Kenny, and one of his friends get in the Volkswagen and drive away. The film then cuts from a shot of the front yard blanketed with snow to the same view but with the snow melted. Inside the house, two unknown cooks prepare food for a Seder meal. At the Seder, the Weils and Feils read from the Haggadah. The film then shows Beth, Naomi, and the boys doing arts and crafts at the kitchen table. The film ends with a joint birthday celebration for Amy, Susan, and Ellen.
Frank Ferrin, Ellis R. Duncan, John M. Foley, C. Lyle Boyer, Willard Nico
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Warning: This film contains graphic footage of hunting that some viewers may find distressing.
Frank Ferrin filmed and narrated his experience hunting tigers in India.
Discusses the real and imagined fears of children. Tells why children invent imaginary dangers and how to deal with this problem. Also points out how to teach children respect for real danger. Answers questions from mothers and fathers concerning this aspect of child development. (WTTW) Kinescope.
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from then on, anything goes--word cells cavort about to instruct and entertain, animated characters get their words in edgewise, word lore of all kinds lights up the nooks and crannies of the English language. Designed to arouse students curiosity about words and to sharpen their awareness of language, the series includes standard vocabulary development and incorporates terms from specialized vocabularies, foreign languages, and slang.
Bob Smith, wordsmith and author of the teacher's guide, has taught English, philosophy, psychology, education, Latin, and mathematics at levels from the seventh grade to post graduate study. His television work began in 1962. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and three advanced degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Gonzaga University and the University of Michigan.
Presents methods of determining and keeping time and the uses of time. Traces the development, adoption, and designation of time zones and demonstrates the need for an International Date Line. Contrasts the use of Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time in the winter and summer. Portrays the role of the U.S. Naval Observatory in determining the time of day and the role of the National Bureau of Standards stations WWV and WWVH in disseminating time signals. Presents specialized uses of time in determining rate and frequency.
Explores the Oriental concept of time, showing how Eastern philosophy views the future as the tomorrow that never comes. Discusses Western fallacies connected with living for the future, and illustrates how planning for the future is of use only to those who can live fully in the present.
Explores the natural process of aging and the methods used in its study. Indicates that aging might be considered one of the deleterious side effects of radiation. Shows that since radiation injury resembles natural aging in so many ways, radiation has proved one of the best ways of studying the aging process. Points out how research on aging is conducted in the Argonne National Laboratory's animal quarters and in low level gamma irradiation room.
Unit 14 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology. Examines the physics of time constants as applied in mechanical, fluid, electrical, and thermal systems.
Presents by experimental means the dilation of time by using the radioactive decay of cosmic ray mu-mesons. The experiment shows how data are taken from the decay of mu-mesons at rest, mu-mesons which arrive on top of Mt. Washington, and the number that survive to reach sea level. From the results of these time distribution measures the conclusion is drawn that the mesons keep time at about one-ninth the rate they do when they are at rest.
Incorporates footage originally used for the Japanese-produced newsreel, New Philippines News to show the horrible conditions that American prisoners experienced in enemy camps in the Philippines as a way to raise money through the sale of War Bonds.
Describes how any community can provide for academically talented students by using actual classroom scenes as examples of those communities exploring this new educational development. Shows how talent can be discovered through tests and counseling and encouraged by community awareness. Demands that schools must do more than identify motivate and counsel the talented students but must realign and adapt present methodology at all levels of instruction. Suggests that guidance from administrators is necessary to provide the necessary equipment and help in getting quality teaching. Closes with statement by Dr. Charles E. Bish, director of Academically Talented Pupil Project of the NEA, who outlines course suggestions.
A small boy retrieves a discarded trumpet and loses himself in a jazz fantasy of his own imagining. Musical background is a Duke Ellington composition interpreted by Jonah Jones. No narrative is used.
An advertisement for a Timex wrist watch in which a male narrator, standing on a mountain in Banff, describes a 'torture test' while another man attaches a Timex Marlin watch to the side of a ski and films himself with a movie camera while skiing down a slope. The watch swing around and gets banged up but survives the 'test.'
Shows opencast mining, sluicing, and bucket dredging in tin mines in the Malay States; tin as it is shipped to the United States; and the processes of making tin plate, tin cans for food containers; and various tin-base alloys.
Host Dora and Fignewton Frog tell the story of a "tiny little patch of sky", and use charcoal and chalk illustrations to teach about the weather and the different types of clouds.
An advertisement for Tip Top packaged cakes in which an animated boy talks to his grandmother about the product while she gets trapped in a metal cage with a person in a gorilla costume. Submitted for Clio Awards category Baked Goods.
Presents profiles of President William Henry Harrison and John Tyler with emphasis upon the presidential campaign of 1840. Uses maps, period illustrations, and photographs to highlight their childhood, education, pre-political activities, political growth, campaigning, and achievements in the White House.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Nellie Feil, Harold S. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein, Kathryn Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin, Amy Feil, Leslie Feil, Ellen Feil, George Feil, Betsy Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Stanley M. Feil
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Home movie of a cookout celebrating July 4th and the birthday of Daniel Hellerstein at the Hellerstein home (1965). A pregnant Naomi watches as Beth and Vicki help Daniel unwrap presents. Harold hangs flags from the swingset, Herman grills hot dogs, and David and Jonathan mug for the camera. The girls play on the swingset as Naomi helps Mary set the table. Daniel blows out the candles on his birthday cake and the family eats from a picnic table. The next segment shows a celebration for Harold Feil's 75th birthday at his home (1964). He is presented with a large cake and blows out the candles as his grandchildren gather around him. Ends with brief footage taken at an outdoor event at Montefiore.
Describes the life of the Yugoslavian people, and shows some of the changes made in Yugoslavia since Tito's break with Russia. Says that Tito tries to follow Lenin's communism more closely than Russia does and that he has made collective farms, encouraged the rise of factories, and instituted literacy classes and trade schools. Shows American aid to Yugoslavia after the drought of 1950.
Episode 10 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.
Describes the experiences of two African American families when they try to rent an apartment in a middle-sized northern city: one family is repeatedly refused, but the other eventually finds an apartment.
Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and then other singers, including mountaineers, sharecroppers, migratory workers, African-Americans, and railroad builders, are shown.
From the series Ripples. DescriptionIn her studio, professional dancer Carolyn Tate performs a dance she has created for this program. She shows how she experiments with different ways to clap, to turn and to skip, and explains why she chooses certain movements for her quietly joyful dance. She does her dance a second time and invites the audience to give it a name.
Uses a trip to a grocery store to explain who gets the money that is represented by the spread between farmers and consumers. Questions are answered by a store manager, businessmen at a civic club luncheon, and by a speaker at the luncheon. Points out reasons for and importance of the "marketing margin." (Agrafilms, Inc.) Kinescope.
Episode 11 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.
Documents several experiments conducted at the Sleep Research Laboratory of the University of California at Los Angeles in studying the nature of sleep. Presents experiments to determine the relationship of dreams to stomach secretions, the amount of time infants spend dreaming, and the effects of depriving a subject of dreams. Shows the recording and interpretation of electrical impulses from a sleeping subject and the rapid eye movements during dreaming.
Discusses punishment and its consequences. Compares and explains both sides of the spanking issue. Points out alternative means of discipline and shows that children do respect fair punishment. Stresses the importance of observation and imitation in learning right from wrong. Answers questions from parents concerning the child who bites, who won't take a nap, and the problem of consistency in punishment. (WTTW) Kinescope.
Stresses today's need for foreign language instruction to help foster international cooperation and understanding. Learning of a foreign language by elementary school children by the oral-aural method, before learning to read or write the language is suggested as a valuable teaching technique. Television's contribution to a nonprofessionally trained language teacher in both the teachers' own preparation and the teaching of the class is cited. Specially made films with foreign language narrations can be used to give a link between a language and the culture from which is developed. Language laboratories are indicated as means for allowing students more practice in listening and speaking the language than do conventional techniques.
Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the future of scientific endeavor and the qualities which help make a scientist. Explains why the young person interested in science should possess curiosity, imagination, drive, and a critical sense. Points out the necessity of an education in mathematics and the other basic subjects. (KQED) Film.
Shows how scientists determine the content of the cigarette smoke entering the mouth and its effect on rabbits and humans. Shows how tars and nicotine from cigarette smoke are collected in a laboratory and measured, and pictures their effect on skin temperature, breathing, and blood vessels. Presents a relationship between smoking and cancer and concludes by stating that each person must determine for himself whether he wishes to take the risks of smoking.
Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Ph.D., Milan Herzog, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
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Dramatizes the story of a boy who came to Virginia as an indentured servant of the Virginia Company and was given to the Indians as a token of friendship by the Jamestown settlers. Depicts the boy's new life among the Indians and his learning of their town in its early growth.
Fignewton Frog (puppet) and Dora (person) tell the story of Tommy Turtle, using diaramas. Tommy wants to stay awake for the winter and build a snowman, and ends up getting helped by another hibernating animal, a bear. Dora and Fignewton then recommend library books and a trip to the library.
Examines the competitive struggle of cable television operators against movie-theater owners, commercial broadcasters, and the telephone company. Discusses the differences in programming philosophies of commercial and cable TV. Includes a discussion of Federal Communications Commission policies in the regulation of broadcasting.
Explains contrast as opposed to repetition or variation. Defines tonal contrast as modulation or change of tonality and harmonic contrast, or the off-setting of plain harmony by color-harmony. Illustrates with a selection from a Bach cantata. (WMSB-TV) Kinescope.
Again Dr. Jones uses Beethoven’s music as an illustration, explaining the composer’s humorous interplay of major and minor tonalities more fully. He also treats briefly the traditional tonal systems from the time of Wagner to the emergence of new tonal arrangements.
The psychological effects of various tonal patterns are demonstrated in the discussion of this topic. Professor Jones illustrates the varying characters or “atmosphere” of melodies based on scales and modes of different character.
In this program Professor Woodworth explains the concepts of tonality (the musical key) and modulation (a shift in key) and their place in composing music. The relations between keys, and the use a composer makes of these relations is an element which must be understood if the symphony is to be fully appreciated. The program ends with a comparison of Haydn and Mozart, showing how their musical styles developed, and giving examples of the work of each.
An advertisement for Tonka toy trucks in which the toys are arranged to resemble an overhead helicopter shot of a factory parking lot. A narrator describes the Tonka factory in Mound, MN as the "trucking capital of the world" before walking into the lot holding a toy firetruck. One of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Tonka toys in which a male narrator holding a toy truck addresses the camera about a previous Tonka commercial in which a child claimed their toy was broken by an elephant stepping on it. The narrator places the toy truck on the floor and has an elephant stand on it without breaking it. An ending title card boasts, "A toy shouldn't break just because a child plays with it." One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Tonka toy trucks in which two identical twin boys look over the toys in a shop and daydream about using them in an outdoor construction field. A jingle plays about how much boys like Tonka toys. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
Uses a family discussion and a series of cartoons to explain the farm surplus problem. Illustrates how and why surpluses arise. Provides alternatives which might solve the problem. (Agrafilms, Inc.) Film.
An advertisement for Totes stretch boots in which a man struggles to move through a large water puddle at a street corner without getting wet. An offscreen male narrator describes the flexibility and protective qualities of Totes boots as the man is shown wearing the product as he effortlessly walks through the puddle. One of the winners of the 1973 Clio Awards.
Presents scenes of natural objects typifying the things which inspire ceramist Dik Schwanke. Shows him at work in his studio, illustrating his methods of combining pottery and sculpture. Includes background music by the "Shags."
From the series Ripples. Norma Canner and a group of children explore feelings through their fingers, toes and skin. Children experiment with things in the classroom and outdoors such things as crinkly and corrugated paper, big balloons, rope,water, a nylon parachute and live bugs.
Illustrates how the UN meets the need of men and groups everywhere for a forum in which men can speak to each other and to discuss their problems. Shows briefly the forming of the UN, the interrelationships of its component bodies, the part played by the General Assembly regarding the Korean war, and the role of the Communist powers in that conflict. Refers to the peace treaty with Japan and expresses hope for Japan's entry into the United Nations.
Bash Kennett shows some of the things which fascinated children of other times, taking a trip to see some dolls, stereopticons, books and bicycles of early periods which grandfather may have enjoyed as a boy. Songs include “The Devil’s Nine Questions” and “This A’Way.”
How does the air cleanse itself of poisonous substances, including radioactive substances? Philip Gustafson, a biologist in the Division of Biological and Medical Research, and Henry Moses of the Division of Radiological Physics, examine atmospheric fallout and methods now being used to determine and study such fallout. They relate current fallout studies to man and to his environment.
Illustrates how the use of radioactive isotopes in the study of cell division and in medical therapy has helped man overcome disease. Demonstrates some of the many helpful and healthful uses of atomic energy.
George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, is interviewed on this program by Dr. John Schwarzwalder, general manager of KTCA-TV, St. Paul. Mr. Meany talks of the fight to make labor recognized by management as an entity, worthy of consideration. Once this was accomplished, two of the chief aims of trade unionism were to encourage and work for greater free public education, and to raise the standard of living in the United States. There is still much to be done in the area of family problems, but first and foremost, labor’s most important task is to get its workers and their children a fair share, Mr. Meany says. On automation, Mr. Meany states that the trade union movement wholeheartedly accepts the validity of the attempt to lighten the burden of human labor. Labor, however, claims it is necessary that the economy expand sufficiently to offset the resulting unemployment caused by automation. If the economy does not sufficiently expand, Mr. Meany says a shorter work week is the only answer to the labor problems posed by automation. He considers the most important piece of labor legislation in the past fifty years was the Wagner Act of 1935, which gave labor the right to organize. He adds that he considers the Taft-Hartley legislation the most damaging piece of labor legislation. Is American labor pricing itself out of the world market? Mr. Meany says labor must bring the rest of the world up to the standards of the United States rather than cut American standards down to those of the rest of the world.
Pictures Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to illustrate how centers of commerce develop. Shows how the existence of surrounding farmland, forests, and mineral resources give rise to industrial activity, the creation of jobs, and the building of a city and trading center.
Discusses the importance of the shape of signs; the proper placement of signals and roadway markings; the importance of traffic and pedestrian controls; radar and speed checks; the value and necessity of a traffic engineer; and plans for future traffic control. (Cincinnati Public Schools and WCET) Kinescope.
Discusses the training of new personnel in the field of nuclear science. Reviews the history of nuclear science and points out the role of the university, industry, and governmental laboratories in providing educational opportunities in this field. Examines the question of pure research as opposed to applied research. (WQED) Film.
In this program, a youthful prisoner relates his experiences in a training school. Following a description by host Lohman of standard roles attributed to these schools, filmed scenes are shown to examine activities designed for younger inmates. Boone and Lohman explore the misconceptions inherent in the term “training school.” They examine the actual function and operation of this type of institution.
An instructor and a group of high school boys and girls demonstrate the basic fundamentals of trampolining, showing in detail the landing positions, aerial positions, front and back flips, and combinations of these fundamentals which lead to a variety of stunts for the advancing student.
