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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Elvis J. Stahr, who served as President of Indiana University 1962-1968, recorded forty-four tapes about his life, with plans to write an autobiography. This is the fifth of these tapes, in which Stahr discusses the the latter part of his high school education and arrival at the University Kentucky, as well as the summers spent on his grandparents' farm and his hometown neighbors.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Elvis J. Stahr, who served as President of Indiana University 1962-1968, recorded forty-four tapes about his life, with plans to write an autobiography. This is the sixth of these tapes, in which Stahr details more memories of people and family in Hickman. He discusses topics such as dating, leisure activities, flooding, and his medical history.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Firman E. Bear
Summary:
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
Summary:
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.
Teaching Film Custodians release of a Motion Picture Association of America short film. A high school student, who is having difficulty understanding the textbook explanation of osmosis, discusses the problem with his detective friend. They go to a police laboratory. There a technician demonstrates osmotic pressure and clarifies the student's questions. This film addresses the following concepts: 1) Cells receive air and liquid through cell walls and tissues; 2) cells release waste products as liquids and gasses through the tissues; 3) diffusion of molecules of salt with molecules of water; diffusion through a membrane, or osmosis.
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.
Clarence W. Sorensen, Gordon Weisenborn, John W. Barnes, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
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
Summary:
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
Summary:
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.
