14101. Getting Along with Parents (14:17)

Date:
1954
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Summary:
Uses the home experiences of six high school youngsters to portray and analyze the conditions leading to conflict between parents and their adolescent offspring. Shows how a group plan to go to th...

14102. Volumes of pyramids, cones, and spheres (17:12)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Falcon Films; E. H. C. Hildebrandt; Robert Pruitt
Summary:
Uses a combination of animation and live-action photography to logically develop the formulas for determining the volume of pyramids, cones, and spheres. After reviewing the formulas for the volume...

14103. Pack trip in Glacier National Park (15:12)

Date:
1958
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Summary:
A father and his two sons make a hike a demonstration of conservation and safety practices and introduces the viewer to plant and animal life, geological formations and the physical facilities of t...

14104. Digestion, part 2 [chemical] (20:18)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Winifred Cullis; Gaumont-British Instructional Films; Beryl Denman Lacey
Summary:
Uses animation to demonstrate the chemical processes of digestion. Shows the chemical breakdown of foods, the structure and functions of the glands involved, the absorption of digested foods, and t...

14106. Design of American public education (14:58)

Date:
1952
Main contributors:
United Productions of America; Howard T. Batchelder
Summary:
Through animation, the film compares and contrasts the "assembly line" kind of educational process with one that is tailored to meet young people's needs. Shows how in the former little or no cons...

14107. Defense of the Western hemisphere (16:56)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Traces the development of the Good Neighbor Policy, the Rio Treaty against aggression, and the Organization of American States set up at Bogota. Describes the importance to the Western Hemisphere o...

14108. Distributive education (16:00)

Date:
1955
Summary:
Portrays the nature and the role of the Distributive Education Program in the state of Virginia in preparing students for possible future jobs. Shows ow personality traits of an individual provide ...

14109. Howdy Doody's Christmas (08:57)

Date:
1951
Summary:
It's Christmas Eve and Santa hasn't come yet, so Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy, and Clarabell The Clown (Bob Keeshan soon-to-be "Captain Kangaroo") decide to take the Rocket Doodle as transportation and...

14111. Iwo Jima (03:27)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States Marine Corps; War Finance Department of the U.S. Treasury Department

14112. From Renoir to Picasso (31:26)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Presents several artists' works in the schools of sensualism, intellectualism, and emotionalism and describes the characteristics of Renoir's, Seurat's, and Picasso's styles of painting as represen...

14113. Digestion, part 1 [mechanical] (17:48)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Winifred Cullis; Gaumont-British Instructional Ltd.; Beryl Denman Lacey
Summary:
Uses animation to show the mechanical and muscular processes involved in the digestion of food. Includes the absorption of digested food, water, and salts into the blood and the function of the liver.

14114. Bacteria friend and foe. (10:27)

Date:
1954
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Summary:
Describes some of the known bacteria that are found in the air, in liquids, and in the soil. Explains that among the many kinds of bacteria some are harmful to man while others are beneficial. De...

14115. Before they happen (13:59)

Date:
1954
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Summary:
Tells about the work of a municipal fire prevention bureau and depicts a day in the life of a typical inspector.

14117. Deflecting forces (29:47)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Jack Churchill; Abraham Morochnik; Lawrence Silk
Summary:
Professor Nathaniel H. Frank discussed the nature of forces which produce curved paths, brings out the concept of centripetal vector acceleration, and shows how knowledge of the path and mass of an...

14118. Exchanges (10:47)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
Camie, John
Summary:
Depicts an encounter between two train passengers--a black man and a white woman. A brief exchange of glances leads them both into an imagined sequence in which personal fantasies and prejudices ar...

14119. How to Observe (11:07)

Date:
1950
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Stresses that observation is basic to learning the sciences and the arts by showing a boy observing an old house, an example of capillary action, and a science experiment. Emphasizes the importanc...

14120. Gandhi (26:21)

Date:
1959
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Summary:
Highlights events in the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi between 1930 and 1948 and recounts his role in the struggle to free India from British colonialism. Treats his philosophy of passive resistance a...