11351. Hamlet, lesson 4 : the readiness is all (30:40)

Date:
1959
Main contributors:
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
Summary:
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."

11352. Getting the facts (11:32)

Date:
1953
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Ralph D. Casey, John T. Bobbitt
Summary:
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.

11353. The story of Palomar (39:03)

Date:
1948
Main contributors:
Sidney Zipser, Edison R. Hoge, Walter S. Arnold, Hoge-Zipser Productions
Summary:
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.

11354. The importance of selling (19:41)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
James R. Hawkinson, Hal Kopel, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
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.

11360. GIS Workshop 2023: 01 - Start a map (01:01)

Date:
2023-11-13
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:
IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.