15191. Clocks and time (15:06)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells us that there were no clocks or watches aboard the Mayflower and that the watch was invented after the first settlers in America had landed. The history of mechanical methods to tell tim...

15192. Co-existence (29:50)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
National Educational Television
Summary:
Teenagers from Pakistan, Vietnam, Germany, and Yugoslavia discuss socialism in Yugoslavia and Russian Communism. Questions the definition of the word "freedom." Analyzes the prospects of reunificat...

15193. Co-operative work in the South (15:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The neighborliness of people in the South gives rise to many stories of help to others living nearby. The assistance with plowing, picking of crops and helping “catch up on work” is told, then the ...

15194. Colonists and their countries (14:58)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes the various groups of settlers that came to this country and founded colonies. Tells of the first French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish settlers. Discusses their lives, homes, an...

15195. Combustion & Combustion Products (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate the process of combustion and the by-products produced. Explains how combustion depends on fuel, air, and heat. Illustrates combustion with liquid and s...

15196. Copy-cats : unusual similarities among animals (30:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Visits the Brookfield Zoo to discover those animals which look and live alike but are unrelated. Explains that copy-cats occur in the plant, bird, and animal, worlds, and tells why. Uses film clips...

15197. Costumes of Our Country (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
How the clothes of people living in this country have changed is shown by Bash, in pictures and in living pictorial groups. From the early Spanish peaked helmet and bloomers, through the Cavaliers,...

15198. Country fairs (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash starts at the earliest meetings of groups of people, the church festival, and traces the development of gatherings on through the country fairs. The camp meetings of the Methodists give rise t...

15199. Covered Bridges (14:52)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash tells the romance crossing streams and takes a film trip to see some historic covered bridges which are still in use. Covered bridges had many unusual features including the special toll charg...

15200. Covered Wagon Trip (15:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of an imaginary cross-country trip in a covered wagon. Explains the preparation for the trip. Describes the difficulties encountered on such a journey. (KQED) Kinescope.