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All About Bobby

IJ 15 min. C

Bobby Ramirez represents all of us. He illustrates the process by which we see and form opinions about the people around us. As Bobby goes through his everyday life, we meet and listen to those who know him. We see that he projects many different images onto his friends and acquaintances. Slowly, we discover the difficulty in saying who and what a person really is, and learn the importance of taking the time to look a little closer.

All the Kids Do It

JH 30 min. C

This film dramatizes the dangers of drinking and driving from the teen point of view. Scott Baio stars as a high school student and Olympic caliber diver who learns why drinking and driving don't mix.

Animals Can Bite

PI 12 min. C

This film teaches children how tominimize the chances of being bitten and what to do if they aree. Live action sequences dramatically detail what should be done in a variety of instances. Caution reather than fear, prompt reporting of any bites, and quick medical attention are stressed.

Are People All the Same?

PI 9 min. C

Clarifies the term "human," defines the word "race", and emphasizes that it is a good feeling to be part of a group. Examines the assumption that all strangers of other races look alike. When a boy wonders why everything can't be the same, the visuals celebrate the uniqueness of each and every person.

Beginning Responsibility: Learning to Be a Good Sport

P 10min. C

In this animated film, students learn to identify and practice ways to be good sports and experience some of the rewards of this behavior.

Calling the Shots: The Advertising of Alcohol

JH 27min. C

Alcohol advertising is big business, and this film shows how the alcohol industry tries to convince people to buy alcoholic products. The film offers a great deal of information concerning alcohol and its use.

Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid

IJH 33min. C

A young orphan wins his battle to save the life of an old blind dog by convincing his uncle that there are values far more important than just being practical.

Bill Cosby on Prejudice

H 25min. C

Because this monologue is given by one of America's favorite comedians, when he hits us with many of our deepest prejudices, the impact is all that greater.

Blackberries in the Dark

I 26min. C

This tells the story of nine-year-old Austin and his grandmother and their personal struggle to come to terms with the recent death of Austin's grandfather.

The Boy Who Creid Wolf

PI 17min. C

This is an animated recreation of Aesop's classic tale of lost integrity. The film challenges viewers to think independently to explore their own values.

Bully Up: Fighting Feelings

P 14min. C

This film shows students that the cool thing to do is walk away from a fight. A strange but sympathetic creature teaches a bully that fighting and name calling cause a lot more harm then they are intended to.

Choosing to Wait: Sex and Teenagers

H 35min. C

This program dramatizes the stories of three teenage couples to show students that they have real choices in making personal sexual decisions.

Conflicts in American Values: Equality Vs. Social Class

H 16min. C

This film defines the conflict between the values of "equalirt" and "success" in American culture. Although the Constitution guarantees Americans certain kind of equality, there are social classes in America based on inequality in personal achievement and wealth. The effects of these oppsing values are examined in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Conflicts, Conflicts

H 19min. C

A judge leaves his courtroom in disgust because people have so much trouble getting along. He then leads viewers through a series of five segments which reveal irritation, disagreement, and conflict either while in the making or in full swing. In each vignette, the judge intervenes and suggest how the incidents could have either been prevented or resolved.

A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo

IJH 16min. C

Bonnie Consolo is a most unusual and inspirational woman. She was born without arms., yet she leads a normal and productive life. To Bonnie, the world is a beautiful; place, and she radiates a rich philosophy that will inspire everyobne to live life to its fullest.

Deaf Like Me

PIJH 23min. C

This is a dramatization about the emotional and communication difficulties of the deaf in a hearing world.

Dickie Builds a Truck

P 12min. C

The story of building a simple truck with the correct tools and methods, illustrates a child's ability to plan and complete a project

Drink, Drank, Drunk

Adult 58min. C

Comedienne Carol Burnette hosts this educational program about alcoholism and its treatment, designed to provide help and hope for alcoholics, their employers, families, and friends.

Dr. Suess on the Loose: Green Eggs and Ham

P 9min. C

Sam I Am is a persistent character eagerly trying to convince an aquaintance to taste his dish of green eggs and ham. When the dish itself does not win favor, Sam begins to concoct a variety of delectable combinations and situations imed at trying to change his friend's mind. At the story's end, Sam's diligence pays off. The dish is sampled and found to be delicious.

Dr. Suess on the Loose: The Sneeches

PI 14min. C

Sneeches are Sneeches. Star-Belly Sneeches are no better or worse than Plain-Belly Sneeches, and Sylvester McMonkey McBean's mechanicalmachine helps to prove this point. In true Suessian style this file subtly informs that differences are only relative, and in essence don't matter.

Dr. Suess on the Loose: The Zax

PI 5min C

A North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zac meet face-to-face midway on their journeys. Niether is willing to budge to let the other through. The ponderous subject of stubbornness, and the inability to change, are presented at their most absurd and humorous best in this short story by Dr. Suess.

Dying

JHA 36min. C

This film brings the subject of dying into the open. This is a story about four people facing their own deaths. They share some of the most precious and personal moments of their lives, giving an understanding to the viewer in an effort to reduce the fear of seath.

The Family: The Boy Who Lived Alone

PI 11min. C

An angry 9-year old reuns away from home because of imagined mistreatment by his family. The film faithfully records his feelings of being alone, and his reactiocs to people he sees on the streets. To get out of the rain, he spends a lonesome night in an abandoned house. Flashbacks of home life contrast with present discomforts: no lights, leaking windows, an empty refrigerator and a bed of newspapers.

Feelings: Don't Stay Mad

P 15min. C

The neighborhood gang and their puppet friends, Herkey and Gooney, all meet on a day when "mad feelings" seem to be inside everyone. Actually, the "mad feeling" was born when Kevin's dad did not let hime take his new kite to school. In anger, Kevin kicked Melissa's lunch sack down the block. Melissa caught the "mad feeling" and passed it on to Gooney, who then fought with Herkey. When the kids meet after school, they still feel angry. Lou, an older boy, helps them discover ways to "get the mad out."

Feelings: What Are You Afraid Of?

P 12min. C

This film is a presentation of scences depicting some of the normal fears of children. The question, "What are you afriad of?" is answered as we see Halloween ghosts, nightmares, spiders, and ferocious animals. New experiences such as starting school, learning to swim, or speaking in front of a group can be heart-pounding times. Part of growing up includes examing our fears and learning how to overcome them.

Free to Be You and Me: Freindship and Coorperation

PI 16min. C

Part I of series, a mini-course in self awareness through songs and stories: Helping, Ladies First, Kitchee-Koo, Marlo and Friends on Sisters and Brothers, Sisters and Brothers Song, Three Wishes

Free to Be You and Me: Expectations

PI 14min. C

Part II of series, a mini-course in self awareness through songs and stories:Boy meets Girl, When We Grow Up, Peering Parents, William's Doll

Free to Be You and Me: Independence

PI 17min. C

Part III of series, a min-course in self awareness through songs and stories: Let's Hear it fro Babies, Atlanta, Sun and Moon, Dupley Pippin, It's All Right to Cry

Frontline: A Class Divided

IJH 58min. C

In Iowa in 1970, a teacher taught her students a special lesson in discrimination. The students returned 15 years later to talk about their experience. Now her lesson is being tught to adults who deal with people of different races.

Frontline: About Mom and Dad

JH 6o min. C

This film examines semnoir citizens in different atmospheres, some living in "old folks' homes," but focusing on those living with their sons or daughters.

The Gift

PI 11min. C

Carol must find a birthday gift for her mother and learns that 75 cents will not buy the gift she wants. A sister helps wrap a gift that Carol has not seen. Carol is hurt when she sees that the gift is only her hand-made card. Her mother explains what a gift really means.

The Good-bye Book (the movie)

PI 12min. C

This is a live-action adaptation of Judith Viorst's children's story about a child's basic fear of being left alone.

Guidance for the 70's: Self-Esteem

IJH 18min. C

A group of teenagers meet with Page Concept instructors to learn about self-esteem and how to build it. The group discovers that communication gaps with parents, rivarly between brothers, sisters, and friends fera of not being accepted as worthwhile or important, and lack of personal accomplishment contribute to lower self-esteem. Thee point is made that while others' opinions of us certainly can affect us, the biggest put-down of all is the one we give ourselves.

Guidance for the 70's: The Blame Game

JH 20min. C

Most of us are so busy blaming others for their behavios that we're trapped in a game no one can win, "The Blame Game." Four teenagers working with counsler Daniel Whiteside try to "translate" their blame-messages into "I-language." To do this, they must express feelings to the "problem person" without using the word "you"

The Hare and the Tortoise

PI 10min. C

This film version of Aesop's fable blends animation, music and contemporary narration to help students develop skills in listening and observing.

Happy Birthday Ray

HA 18min. C

A college party is the setting for this film. The story line addresses some of the responsibilities and consequences related to drinking. This film can serve as a good introduction to related issues.

Home Safety: It's Up to You

PI 12min. C

The audience inspects a typical contemporary home with an on-camera narrator, looking for safety hazards. They find them in virtually every area they tour: living room, bathroom, nursery, stairway, dining room, kitchen, garage, and basement. The tone of the film is positive as the narrator explains what elementary students can do to help rid their homes of situations that can cause falls, burns, electrical shocks, fires, and accidental poisoning.

Home Alone: You're in Charge

PI 19min. C

This film uses live action and animation to give children the confidence and knowledge they need to stay home alone.

How Many Ways Do We Grow

IJ 14min. C

Sometimes it seems it will take forever for our bodies to grow. Yet one day we may awaken and be overwhelmed by our physical stature. While this physical change Is taking place we are developing in other ways as well. It helps to understand tht everyone experiences moments of awkwardness and that none of us grows at the same rate physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially.

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just three Days

IJ 55min. C

This is an amusing film about a twelve year old boy's attempt to become perfect.

The Human Image: Masculinity/Femininity

H 14min. C

How do we define ourselves as women? As men? How have these definitions changed in recent years? Why have they cahnged? To these sometimes perplexing questions, this film suggests both whisical and serious answers.

I Am Me

IJ 16min. C

From the Brady Bunch series. Jan receives a top score and wins an essay contest. Later she notices an error in scoring. Should she reveal ther error which might cause her to lose the contest?

I Am Me - and I Want to Be

PI 12min. C

This light-hearted, fanciful musical for children, explores the importance of indivdual differences in size, shape, color, interests, and abilities. Today's society is strengthened by the great diversity of its people. The creative camera and the songs the children sing, imaginatively portray the concept that happiness begins by knowing and apperciating oneself.

I'm Somebody Special

PI 15min. C

Helps children learn they are already somebody quite worthwhile by just being themselves. Film shows lives of four children: Mexican-American and black. Each person is different, but each is "somebody special" in his own way.

In Toby We Trust

P 30min C. Guide.

This film shows viewers the importance of being honest with themselves and with others.

It Won't Happen to Me: Teen Pregnancies, the Realities

JH 25min. C

This is a program that addresses the many dimensions associated with teenagers becoming parents too early in life. Teen parents and others are interviewed.

Johnny Lingo

IJH 28min. C

A film on self-concept. On a mythical Pacific island a young man, known as a shrewd business man, buys as a wife a shy, homely girl, paying a greater price in cows than previously paid for any island wife. Because he views her as beautiful, she becoms worth his high prices booth in apperance and charm.

Just One Me

PI 11min. C

Photographed in a suburban town, with a real-life black family as the cast. A small boy daydreams od what he would like to be, and the camera transforms him intoi a tree, a road, an automoblie, a merry-go-round, a power shovel, an airplane, and the wind. But in the end he returns home to be himself.

Kathy

PIJH 27min. C

Kathy is born with a debilitating brittle bone disease. But the film is not about Kathy's medical problems nor does it advocate public education for the disabled. It reaches beyond the medical education to the human issues, successfully penetrating apathy and attitudes that are the real barriers to the disabled. Emphasis is on her self-acceptance, independence, and positive thinking. She accepts one of life's most difficult problems. She has learned to accept herslf; accepting that she is who she is.

Kids and Drugs: The Reasons Why

IJ 15min. C

In this film students are encouraged to make their own decisions instead of allowing others to talk them into doing drugs. It also shows then how they can have fun and win social acceptance in more positive ways.

The Kids od Degrassi St.: Connie Makes a Catch

IJ 26min. C

Htree of the kids of Degrassi St. re trying to change themselves to conform with what they think will win them acceptance. In each case, their efforts are failing. It is Rachel's advise, "Just be yourself" that finally proves to be the key to achieving their goals.

Late for Dinner: Was Dawn Right?

P 8min. C

Dawn has disobeyed her mother. She has money that doesn't belong to her. She's late for dinner and gets a scolding. What did she do to get itno so much trouble? She simply tried to return a five dollar bill to a woman who dropped it before boarding a bus . . With complicating results. This open-ended film helps children understand that conflicting feelings are boh common and normal.

The Lemonade Stand: What's Fair?

PI 14min. C

A "values" film that focuses on the meaning on commitment, abligations, and responsibility to others. In this true-to-life situation, three boys open a lemonade stand to make a little spending money. After an unsucessful morning, business picks up in the afternoon, but one boy has gome off to play baseball. His return late in the day leads to an argument about his share of the profits and the film ends. What's fair? Classroom discussions should help young viewers make their own value judgements.

Leo Beuerman

PIJH 13min.

Leo's story is an inspirational tale of human courage, independence, and heroism. Leo was a severely and multiply handicapped man, imprisoned in the seclusion of his own warped and twisted body. But Leo was unconquerable. His indomitable spirit refused to submit to adversity, self-pity, or fear.

Little Bear

PI 20min. C

The "Little Bear" program is designed to help children prevent sexual abuse. The program is for children ages four through eleven. The program is to be used with groups of twenty-five children or less. This is a two part program viewing of the tape and a dicussion are both vital. The tape should not be used unless a discussion period is planned. The teacher's manual contains material for discussion in the classroom, questions, and other follow-up activities.

The Boy Who Liked Deer

IJH 18min. C

In this dramatic and all too believable story, a boy discovers, in very personal terms, the pain that vandalism can inflict. This is an excellent motivator for class discussion and creative writing.

The Lion and the Mouse

PI 13min. C

In this animated version of a popular fable, the king of beast learns that no act of kindness is ever wasted. The lion spares the life of a mouse, and when the lion is caught in a hunter's net, the mouse scampers to his rescue.

McGruff on Personal Property

PI 16min. C

In this program, children will learn ow not to "borrow" without asking, how taking something from a friend puts that friendship at risk, and what happens when people steal from a store. Kids will undersand why everyone must learn not to take things that don't belong to them and how to respect other people's property.

Mirror, Mirror

JH 23min. C

To Larry, all of the classmates and friends seem self-assured and capable, while he feels he is the "biggest, lousiest nobody of them all!" But Larry is shocked into an awareness of his real qualities and potentials when the mirror in his bedroom talks back to him giving him true reflection of his strength.

New Zebra in Town

P 11min. C

This film helps students to appreciate how it feels to be someone new in town; realize that first reactions to differences should not prevent acceptance; and that many different kinds of people can be good friends.

Now I Am Bigger

P 10min. C

Every aniamls begins life as a newborn baby: a duck, a rabbit, and people! As babies grow bigger they are cared for and loved and slowly they learn to do many things: to eat, to wlak, to play, to speak, and to care for themsleves. You know you are bigger when you can do things for yourself.

Only Benji Knows: Should He Tell?

P 4min.C

Is tattling ever justififed? This open-ended film is designed to help chuldren and teachers arrive at some flexiblestandards for dealing with a troublesome problem.

OK to Say NO: The Case for Waiting

H 30min. C

This program gives young people an opportunity to explore the ways in which sex can affect their relationships, education, and future plans, stressing abstinence as a viable alternative.

Oral Communications: Group Problem Solving

JH 13min. C

This is a group discussion conducted by several informed, enthusiastic, and articulate yourselfs. The topic is one of vital interest to all students; the grading system. It points out the advantages of intelligent discussion vs. irrational protest in the solution of problems. This film will familarize viewers with the procedures of effective group discussion and explain its development through various stages.

Overture: Linh From Vietnam

IJ 26min. C

This film attempts to show the difficulty immigrants encounter trying to readjust to a new culture. Linh Tran, a younbg Vietnamese immigrant, befriends her neighbor, a young Mevican-American, when they discover their mutal interst in flute-playing. However, their friendship is threatened when Linh wins the spot in the school band on which Jose had counted.

The Party Is Over

HA 18min. C

This award winning film is based on an actual incident in which an intoxicated young father ran over his own child. (The incident is not graphically shown.) This film provides a dramatic stimulus for follo-up discussion which can be used to share additional information, clarify attitudes, and encourage serious self-examination about how one thinks and feels about drinking and driving.

A Place of My Own

PI 11min. C

In her family's crowded apartment, there is no place that Rosita can call her own. She finally finds one unused spot and there she makes a "place of my own."

Rape: An Act of Hate

HA 34min. C

Hosted by Veronica Hamill, the film includes reenactments and live interviews about rape.

Reflections

IJH 15min. C

A young Chinese boy encounters persistent rejection. His father pressures him to stay uninvolved and distant with outsiders. The neighborhood boys taunt him for his inability to play stickball. Only one person, a young Puerto Rican girl, seems to be friendly. "Reflections" can allude to the dancing beams of sunlight reflected by mirrors. It can also hinnt sadly at what the young boy could become, a reflection of his father, preferring isolation to involvement.

The Report Card: How Does Riccardo Feel?

P 5min. C

A scolding instead of expected praise for a good report card. How could it happen? Viewers see Ricardo busy at school and proud of a good report card he knows will please his mother. But she is having a frustrating day. So when Riccardo bursts into the kitchen and knocks over a scrub bucket, he becomes the target on an emotional tirade. By using the empathy oung viewers will have for Riccardo, teachers can help them see that people do not always control emotions, that anger can be misdirected.

Self Esteem

JH 30min. C

This program focuses on teaching young adults to overcome feelings of inadequacy and replace them with feelings of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.

Seventeen Going On Nowhere

JH 28min. C

This film provides a way for teens to think about achieving adulthood as a natural text stage in their lives instead of as a leap to be feared. Rebellious teenager Pat is a stranger in his own home. Rock music, girls, and marijuana are new priorities in his life as he isolates himself. His father takes him camping, where their relationship, based on communication, helps Pat reach a new understanding of what adulthood demands.

The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody

I 29min. C

A video-age fairy godmother grants seven wishes to young Joanna, who learns how rewarding life can be when she thinks of others before herself.

Sexual Responsibility: A Two Way Street

H 28 min. C

This program dramatizes situation where teenagers might find themselves. It stresses the importance of communication to let partners know what one is feeling and thinking.

Shoplifting: Sharon's Story

JH 25min. C

A teenage girl storlls through the aisles of a department store and pauses at a few counters. In the parking lot she is stopped by a store dectective. She has been shoplifting. Exactly what happens to Sharon after she is shown in this highly effective film which follows her as she is taken to a police station, booked, confined to a cell until her parents' arrival, and summmoned to court the following day.

Soapbox With Tom Cottle: Adopted Teens

JH 30min. C

Adopted teens talk about their experiences with their adoptive parents and about their birth parents. They also discuss their feelings about being adopted.

Soapbox With Tom Cottle: Parents and teenagers

JH 30min. C

The relationship between parent and teenagers is discussed by Tom Cottle and a apanel of teenagers.

Soapbos With Tom Cottle: Teen Pregnancy

JH 30min. C

Tom Cottle discusses pregnancy ampng teenagers with a panel of twon teen mothers and ten teen mothers-to-be.

Somethinf for Nothing

IJ 30min. C

Two bad consumer decisions put the future of Powerhouse in jeopardy. Brenda decides to have a cheap patch-up job on the ceiling in the gym and it later caves in. Then her young friends agree to let a stranger make a free film aboput Powerhouse for showing at the license renewal hearing. Two decisions are made: one for work that is cheap, one for work that is free; and cost is almost more than Powerhouse can bear.

Sons and Daughters, Drugs and Booze.

HA 28min. C

This film is geared for parents whose children have already begun to use drugs and alcohol.

The Star Gazer

P 10min. C

From a Brother Grimm tale, this tells the story of a poor orphan girl whos egenerosity and kindness to others less fortunate than herself is rewarded by stars falling form Heaven as coins at her feet.

Street Drugs

JHA 30min. C

In this film, hosted Jimmy Smits, viewers will learn how drugs affect both the body and the brain. The film covers initial effects, withdrawl, and long term effects of each drug, and males the dangers of drug use clear.

Taleb and His Lamb

PIJ 16min. C

As Taleb watches over his father’s small flock, one male lamb becomes a special friend. When it is taken to the market place to be sold for slaughter, Taleb steals the lamb and runs away into the desert. After four days Taleb’s angry father finds them, and some say that the father sells the lamb to make his son grow wise and strong. But it is also told that he gives the lamb to Taleb to begin his own flock. Which way should it end? You must decide, for true wisdom is born of hard, but just decisions.

Teenagers Talk: Getting through Adolescence

IJH 12min. C

Adolescence is confusing, exciting, difficult, creative. Above all, it is a time of extreme self-consciousness. For these reasons, this film creates an entirely new approach which brings insight but not embarrassment. The film condenses the best thoughts from many hours of interviews with kids who had just been through various stages of adolescence and their thoughts were

Teenage Sex: How to Say Know

H 43min. C

This is a three-part program that will help students with decision making, assertiveness, and communication skills.

Telephone Tips for Kids: Aunties Bell's Surprise

P 23min. C

This video has a situation that calls for an emergency visit to "The Telephone Doctor", who shows the children how important the telephone really is and how to use it properly.

Your Study Skills: Reviewing for a Test

IJ 11min. C

Humorous examples illustrate important preparations for a test: picking the things that are worth remembering, laying out the information in an orderly way, going over it again, if necessary, and repeating the big ideas in one’s own words.

Your Study Skills: Taking Notes from Reading

IJ 11min. C

Fast paced-examples emphasize the value of notes: how they act as a record when a book is not available; help the student read more carefully; help to organize ideas; and help remember what was have read.

Your Study Skills: Using Reference Materials

IJ 13min. C

Fast paced-examples emphasize the value of notes: how they act as a record when a book is not available; help the student read more carefully; help to organize ideas; and help remember what was have read.

ABC of Hand Tools

IJH 36min. C

This is an animated film about the proper use of hand tools: hammer, screwdriver, pliers, wrench, file, saw, chisel, plane, and punch.

Yours, Mine, and Ours

P 11min. C

Points out the meaning of ownership through scenes of seven classroom situations in which proper responsibility for ownership has not been taken. Trains children to recognize group and personal responsibility. Motivates discussion of concepts of correct group behavior.

At the Airport

P 10min. C

Today’s modern airport is a busy complex operation. This film shows the variety of workers involved in assisting passengers, preparing the airplane, and getting the plane safely into the air. Viewers see how each job is essential to the successful operation of the airport.

An Autumn Story: Mrs. Pennypacker's Package

P 11min. C

Mrs. Pennypacker forgets her important package in front of the grocery store. As more and more people try to help return it to her, including the store owner, the delivery boy, and the policemen, the young viewer becomes aware of the variety of workers in a big city. Autumn scenes further enrich the student’s knowledge of the world around him.

Career Opportunities in Retailing

JH 18min. C

Designed to stimulate thinking about the many and varied careers available in retailing. On-the-job interviews with the sales and sales-supporting personnel illustrate the challenges, satisfactions, and frustrations encountered in dealing with customers.

Communicating Effectively: An Essential Skill for Job Success

H 21min. C

The premise of this film is that good communications skills, attitudes and personal success go hand in hand. Various communications techniques are explored including verbal and non verbal.

A Different Drummer

JH 23min. C

A young Indian’s skills as an auto mechanic earn family approval for him to pursue his desired trade instead of attending college. The cast is all Indian, the theme of film makes it applicable for any student faced with a similar decision.

The Doctor

PI 17min. C

This film shows a doctor taking care of children in his office, at a hospital clinic, and in the home of a patient who has measles. Within this framework, the film dramatizes the number of years it takes to become a doctor, and introduces the roles of medical specialists; interns, laboratory technicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, and researchers.

Food Preparation: Meats, Seafood and Poultry

JH 43min. C

This program provides information about the three principal types of entrees served in most restaurants. It describes methods of storage and preparation procedures prior to cooking, and presents selections of suitable cooking methods.

Food Preparatio: Salads

JH 31min. C

In this program the four main types of salads are described and illustrated. It shows techniques for constructing salads and presents demonstrations for making some of the main types of salad dressing.

Food Preparation: Sandwiches

JH 31min. C

This program identifies the four main types of cold sandwiches as well as tea sandwiches and a variety of hot sandwiches. It stresses the importance of neatness and imagination in the construction of appealing, appetizing sandwiches.

Food Preparation: Stocks, Sauces, Gravies

JH 27min. C

This program presents methods of producing rich, flavorful stocks and illustrates the production and use of four kinds of thickening agents. It also demonstrates how to make each of the five leading sauces as well as some of the frequently used small sauces made from the leading sauces.

Food Preparation: Vegetables and Fruits

JH 28min. C

This program teaches ways in which vegetables and fruits are classified and how this helps determine the methods of storage, preparation and cooking. It presents ways of washing, cleaning and peeling fresh vegetables. It also describes preparation and/or cooking methods for fresh, frozen, dried and canned forms of both vegetables and fruits.

Handling Money

JH 12min. C

This training film teaches students how to handle money while using a cash register: counting the money, giving back the correct change, keeping transactions in order, and being aware of counterfeit money and the fast change artist.

The Interview Film: What to Know and What to Do

H 21min. C

What happens when five young men and women apply for a single opening as cashier with a restaurant chain? The complete recruiting, screening, interviewing, and evaluation process is revealed, giving the viewer an inside look at the procedures from an employer’s point of view. One of the five is hired, but the viewers will have to determine which, based on their personal observations and judgements.

Let's Build a House

P 11min. BW

Faith and her father, assisted by Faith’s friend Mark, build a playhouse that is very much like a real house.

Looking at Tomorrow: What Will You Choose?

IJH 15min. C

This film is documentary treatment of seven young women at their jobs: lawyer/congresswoman, bricklayer, violin maker, telephone frame man, employment representative, businesswoman/artist, air traffic controller, and animal nutritionist. Explores careers for women, present and future.

Morning Zoo

PI 11min. C

The early morning pre-opening chores at a large zoo, are seen through the activities of a young girl zoo worker who arrives for her tasks at the children’s section. As she walks through the zoo, she talks about the jobs to be done.

Newspaper Production Using Space-Age Tehcnology

JH 26min. C

Step by step, new systems in a modern newspaper plant are shown. At the same time it gives an overview of various newspaper functions: editorial, advertising, physical production, printing on the enormous presses and related support occupations. A combination introduction shows how we get our modern daily newspaper and how the computer is changing our world.

Our Friend the Policeman

P 11min. C

Skillful photography combines with a charming song to give a view of the many important functions the policeman plays in our society. Key words from the song are superimposed over the appropriate visuals, serving to improve the viewer’s vocabulary.

People Who Care: Health Careers

JH 18min. C

Shows the different professions and jobs it takes to tun a modern hospital.

People Who Sell Things

JH 18min. C

What kind of people are best suited to work in sales? This documentary film follows the lively daily activities of four distinctly different kinds of people, all of whom have successful sales careers. An insurance agent, a real estate broker, a telephone systems salesman, and Cal Worthington, the automobile salesman, reveal the differences in sales professions for men and women.

People Who Work in Manufacturing

JH 17min. C

This film creates through exciting documentary footage, the atmosphere of a sophisticated electronics factory. The film applies to many kinds of manufacturing. It also introduces us to many key personnel who reflect, as they work, upon how they entered their positions and what rewards and problems they meet each day.

Schools and Jobs

P 10min. C

Janet goes to school early one day and discovers how many people it takes to run things . . . janitor, nurse, cafeteria staff, etc.

Story of a Book

PI 11min. C

The film follows real life author Margerite Henry through the exciting and satisfying process of creating "San Domingo and the Medicine Hat Stallion." Highly visual sequences show the steps of this process: getting the idea, doing the research both in the library and by observation, writing and rewriting, illustrating, planning the dummy, and printing.

What Ecologists Do

PI 16min. C

Offers a practical, work-oriented approach to the tasks and tools of ecologists. A useful resource for students who might be interested in training for this growing branch of science.

Intermediate Mathematics: Introduction to Decimals

I 14min. C

Decimals are used in many of our everyday experiences. Real examples illustrate addition and subtraction of decimals, and briefly touch on multiplication and division. A calculator is used to solve some of the more complicated operations with decimals, but students are cautioned that "A calculator can’t think for you." Film also shows how and why we sometimes round-off decimals and the value of estimating in advance what the answer to a problem will be.

Inverse Operation

P 12min. C

This film helps youngsters understand and use the inverse relation between the addition and subtraction operations.

Mathematics for Primary: Addition

PI 9min. C

An animated fantasy. Bunnies, boats, helicopters, desk lamps, and roller skates appear on the screen to illustrate the operation of addition. Mathematical sentences are superimposed on the screen, as sets of objects join together to make new groups andarrange themselves to illustrate the commutative property of addition.

Mathematics for Primary: Division

PI 8min. C

Tennis shoes, dancing chairs, bouncing balls, and shuffled cards scoot and scurry around the screen to illustrate the concept of division. The animated objects divide themselves into groups of varying size, often involving a remainder. Mathematical sentences are superimposed to correspond with the action.

Mathematics for Primary: Multiplication

PI 7min. C

The operation of multiplication is presented through animation as pop bottles line up in rows, socks in pairs, toy cars in columns, and pencils in jars. Mathematical sentences appear on the screen to represent factors and products.

Mathematics for Primary: Subtraction

PI 8min. C

Animated objects including hot dogs, fried eggs, cup cakes, ice cream, and apples appear on the screen, then disappear to introduce and illustrate the concept of subtraction. Mathematical sentences are superimposed on the screen to express the subtraction operation as objects are "taken away."

Math Sense: Addition and Subtraction Work Together

PI 13min. C

In this program viewers learn about the relationaship between addition and subtraction, discovering that there is more than one way to solve the same math problem.

Math Sense: How Deciamls Work

PI 18min C

In this film an odometer on a bicycle sparks the program to explain what decimals are and how they work.

Math Sense: How Fractions Work

PI 19min. C

This program depicts a restaurant where customers order using fractions, the chef cooks all of his recipes with fractions, and all the food must be cut into equal pieces.

Math Sense: How Numbers Work

PI 16min. C

Viewers learn, in this program, that life without numbers would be next to impossible.

Math Sense: Multiplication and Division Work Together

PI 16min. C

Children will discover that multiplication and division skills are essential for performing their tasks quickly and correctly.

The Number System and Its Structure

IJ 11min. BW

This film reviews the concepts on which number systems are based, and introduces the binary system used in electronic computers. A survey of the place of integers, fractions, and negative numbers in our number system, and an explanation of the commutative, associative, and distributive laws and closure principles of arithmetic, will give the student a basis for further progress in mathematics.

Ones, Tens, Hundreds

P 10min. C

A stern cookie maker, a slightly sneaky assistant, and a rampaging cookie machine are the animated ingredients in this beginning film on place values. Children watch Joe try to fill a cookie order, while learning how to count group items by ones, tens, and hundreds, as well as write 2 and 3 digit numerals.

Prime Time

IJ 10min. C

A space station on Earth has a hard time maintaining contact with the multi-headed creatures from the planet Herkey because only those with a prime number of heads are peaceful. A specialist in space communications helps, by demonstrating a method of testing for primeness and distinguishing between prime and composite numbers.

Reading in the Math and Science Areas

IJ 14min. C

This film uses animated and special photographic devices to emphasize the systematic nature of mathematics and science. Both subjects are dependent upon the understanding of special symbols to convey meaning and operational procedures, as well as a specialized vocabulary.

Sets and Numbers

P 12min. C

Helps young children gain an understanding of sets, ont-to-one correspondence, cardinal numbers, numerals, and counting.

Sets, Crows, and Infinity

IJH 12min. C

This film explores the mathematical ideas of sets and infinity. It introduces the comparison of sets and one-to-one correspondence between two sets. An infinity set is shown to be a set which is equivalent to the infinite set of whole numbers.

Shape of Things

IJH 67min. C

This film examines the endlessly inventive patterns of natural things such as crystals, honeycombs, sea shells, eggs, and seeds. It explains the inevitability and efficiency of nature’s shapes.

Length and Distance

IJ 10min. C

Film provides an exposure to a wide variety of measurement activities that are not readily available in the classroom. These activities are designed to teach elementary and junior high students to think and judge in metric units, and to speak in quantitative terms using metric vocabulary.

Let's Measure: Pints, Quarts, Gallons

P 11min. BW

Experimenting, Ricky discovers numerical relationships among the standard measures and learns that the shape of a measure does not affect the amount it will hold. On a trip to the store, he sees symbols for the measures and has fun identifying various quantities.

Measuring

PI 16min. C

Introduces the concept that all things can be measured in a variety of ways. The film portrays the need for standard units formeasurement, and how those units are relevant to our world. The film also provides an introduction to the most commonly used standards of measurement in both the English and the metric systems, and shows how they are equivalent.

Think Metric

IJ 10min. C

Discusses the U.S. change-over to the metric system.

Think Metric: Measure Length

PI 9min. C

Two boys explore their neighborhood with a meter stick and centimeter rule, discovering the comparative size of things about them. The importance of measuring length is explained and the standard units of length are defined.

Think Metric: Measure Volume

I 9min. C

Young boys and girls measure the volume of things in their home and use volume measure to complete household chores. The importance of measuring volume is explained and the standard units of volume measure are defined.

Think Metric: Measure Weight

PI 9min. C

Two girls visit a chemist and learn about the standard units of weight. The importance of measuring weight is explained and the girls compare the weight of common things in their home. Finally, they use their knowledge to bake a "metric" cake.

Volume and Capacity

PIJ 10min. C

This film goes directly to the task of teaching metric measurements. It carefully avoids confusion that results when teaching "about" metrics rather than metric measurements themselves.

Daybreak

I 9min. C EBE

"Daybreak comes first in thin splinters shimmering." The graphic words of Carl Sandburg’s poem set the stage for this camera’s eye view of sunrise over the southwestern desert of Monument Valley. A haunting orchestral accompaniment and Indian poetry underscore the visual expression of daybreak as a natural phenomenon.

Dream of the Wild Horses

IJH 9min. C Mc McGraw-Hill

Already considered one of the most remarkable short films of the last decade, "Dream of the Wild Horses" has won international acclaim. The director utilizes slow motion against soft-focus backgrounds to create dream-like effects that evoke the wild horses of the Camarque.

There Is Nobody Else Like You

PI 14min. C

This film reveals that it is both natural and desirable that people have different appearances, interests, and skills. It documents a trip to the zoo, a classroom discussion, and the activities during school recess. Only a little narration is used. Events of the day and words of children show that each is truly individual.

Through Grnadpa's Eyes

PI 20min. C

Based on the book by Newbery Award winner Patricia MacLachlan, this is a poignant tale of how a young boy learns to really see his world when he visits his blind grandfather.

A Time for Friends

IJH 30min. C

Through a series of vignettes on friendship, depression, drugs, parents, anger and relationships, this film helps educate viewers about how to help one another in crucial situations. Each segment encourages discussion on issues of concern to young people.

Trust Me

JH 17min. C

This film discusses the importance of trust. Directed primarily at teenagers, it shows a variety of situations that illustrate what it means to be trustworthy. It also shows what can happen to relationships when trust is removed.

Victor

PI 26min. C

This is the story of a ten-year old Mexican boy’s struggle to adjust to his new life in America.

We're OK

JH 8min. C

This animated film clearly shows how, according to Transactional Analysis Theory, each of us adopts a psychological life position. The most common position, "I’m OK," disrupts real communication, whereas "I’m OK, You’re OK" allows us to hear each other as equals. This film is designed primarily as a discussion starter for groups interested in more effective interpersonal relationships.

What Can I Do?

JH 22min. C

An investigator/reporter explores the ways each of us can influence the changes going on around us everyday. This is done by presenting the following ideas: make your voice heard, make your influence felt, make your vote count, and change your world

What Makes Us Different?

PI 9min. C

Explains why people's odor, hair texture, and speech patterns differ.

What Price Honesty?

PI 11min. C

The Brady boys find a wallet containing eleven hundred dollars. Agonizing decisions.

What's Your Authority?

IJ 11min. C

Two episodes examine nature of authority and prepare the child to cope with the authorities he will encounter at home, at school, and in society. "Where Does the Buck Stop?" concerns a team captain who must choose between breaking his promise to let an inferior player pitch the last game, or keeping his word and risking loss of the championship. "Come Straight Home" shows a girl caught between two conflicting authorities; her mother, who has told her to come home immediately after school, and her teacher, who is keeping her after school as punishment.

Whazzat?

P 10min. C

Adapted from the East Indian folktale " The Six Blind Men and Elephant" this film is designed to stretch young imaginations and instil some thoughts about cooperation.

Where's Your Loyalty?

IJ 11min. C

These vignettes involving dilemmas of loyalty, aid children in formulating and examining their codes of living. In "The Missing Pills," a girl discovers stolen pills in her brother’s room and must decide whether to report him or risk letting her father, apharmacist responsible for the pills, lose his job. In the second, "Gang Fight," a boy must choose between being loyal to his gang or to his school, by trying to stop a fight. Pat answers are not given.

Who Needs Rules?

IJ 11min. C

Two episodes follow an opening montage ranging from the simple everyday rules of getting along, to more complex rules of federal law. "The Shaggy Puppy Story" presents the dilemma of whether or not two children should keep a stray dog in anm apartment house that prohibits pets. In the second sequence, a boy involved in a playground row is torn between the school rule against fighting and his father’s order to defend himself.

Why We Need Each Other: The Animals' Picnic Day

PI 9min. C

The animated film introduces the basic concept that the differences between people are valuable. To celebrate the splendor of a sunny day after a rainstorm, the animals have a picnic in the wooded valley. At their picnic they discover that each one’s differences are not ridiculous, but rather useful in helping others.

Yes and No

17min. C

The importance of self-discipline is stressed in this whimsical animated fable of a boy’s visit to yesland where the people can do anything they want. The havoc that reigns here illustrates the impracticality of always doing what you want.

Courtesy: A Good Eggsample

PI 10min. C

Eggs play the starring role in this animated film about courtesy and rules at school. Benedict, the "rotten egg," is hurt and Eggbert helps him. Then Eggbert realizes the importance of being kind, helpful, and courteous to others.

If Books Could Talk

P 10min. C

In animation, we see two children go to the library where they find books that talk. The books tell the children what is in books and how they should be treated. If we take good care of books, they will repay us by sharing their stories with us. We must handle them carefully, keep them in safe places, protect them from the weather, not eat while we are reading, or abuse them in any way. Most important, we should remember that sharing a good book is like sharing a good friend.

Library Report

IJ 24min. C

Set 30 years in the future where some homes are run by computers and computerized robots, the film shows in a humorous and informative way, the steps for researching, organizing, and writing a library report.

The Mind's Treasure Chest

JH 90min. C

The Mind’s Treasure Chest encourages turning a library into an adventure. This is an all-night story of two students as they race against the clock to uncover the information they need.

Primary School Bus Safety

P 14min. C

Film describes safe procedures for walking to school or to bus stop; waiting for the bus, entering, leaving, and riding a bus. Safety rules are the same as those used by adult drivers.

Reading Is

P 25min. C

This film is designed to motivate youngsters to spend more time reading. It tells the story of an unhappy girl who has shut everyone out of her life and made TV her escape. She eventually learns the excitement and comfort found in reading. And through reading she learns the answers to some of her problems.

Schools and Learning

P 10min. C

Brian learns many things at school, and in a visit to the airport he shows his grandmother how he uses what he learns.

Schools and Sharing

P 10min. C

By getting together, two groups figure out a way in which both groups can enjoy things equally by sharing.

Taking Care of Myself

P 12min. C

Illustrates the importance of developing self-discipline in home and school environments. Dickie’s activities show good family attitudes, citizenship practices, mental and motor skills, and good health habits.

Where There's a Will There's an A

H C

This is a step-by-step training program to help students achieve higher grades. This seminar teaches students to learn more in less time with higher retention.

Your Study Skills: Doing an Assignment

IJ 11min. C

Gus has won another Assignment-Doing Champion Medal. He presents a film-within-a-film that clarifies the steps to follow indoing an assignment, underlining such points as: making sure you understand the assignment, being a self-starter, and having a plan.

Your Study Skills: How to Use a Textbook

IJ 13min. C

Demonstrates the special clues in textbooks: preface, table of contents, glossary, index, words in special style or print, pictures, maps, cartoons, summaries, and review questions. Visual effects, music, and sound emphasize ways to use these clues to preview, read for detail, and review.

First Fifty: EBE’s Golden Anniversary Retrospective

H 18min. C EBE

This film presents an excellent history of the motion picture as it is used in education. It shows the contributions to learning that are possible through the use of various technical capacities.

TV: Behing the Screen

PI 15min. C Churchill

Shows children how television shows are created by writers, editors, and film crews. Reveals how special effects and dramatic productions are done. Introduce various television jobs.

A TV Guide: Thinking about What We Watch

IJ 17min. C Churchill

A police show, a commercial, and other vignettes lead children through an investigation of the "reality" and values on television. Racial and sexual stereotypes, job depictions, and easy solutions to problems are examined.

All About Music

PI 14min. C Pyramid

This film shows children how the basic elements of music might have been discovered. When a caveman named Ogg loses his girlfriend, his expressions of despair lead to a discovery of rhythm. His attempts to regain her affections bring about the development of melody and harmony.

Chino’s Tale

PIJH 17min. C

This film gives students insight into the matter of aging. If Chino were human, he’d be 105. As a cat he’s 15. Miss Mixter and he have aged together, and now Chino seems not to care. The vet says he’s just old, and it would be kindness to "put him away." Students see the wisdom and roots of social justice in Miss Mixter’s indignation at the idea of discarding the aged.

Who's Who in the Zoo?

PI 12min. C

This unusual career education film capitalizes on young children’s irrepressible fascination with wild animals. It introduces a number of typical careers involving animal care. The director’s staff includes curators, keepers, zoologist, kitchen workers, docents, and a publicity director.

Why Me?

PIJH 20min. C

"Why Me?" is a film about your police force. Almost everyone has some interaction with the police occasionally. We are stopped for a vehicle inspection or for a traffic violation. We are questioned about neighborhood theft or stopped while out late at night. Sometimes we are just given advice by a local officer. Whatever the reason, our first reaction is often "Why me?". This film follows reasons behind the actions when the average citizen is confronted.

The World of Print

IJH 20min. C

Film shows development of graphic arts, primarily printing and modern procedures of printing. Useful for pre-field trips, for study of newspapers, and for career education.

Your Job: Applying For it

H 14min. C

Interviews with workers of varying ages and education show that the way to apply for a job and get it, is by following a planned procedure which includes getting good leads, sticking with it, selling yourself, and making the most of what you’ve got.

Your Job: Finding the Right One

H 13min. C

The film shows how young people can locate jobs suited to their needs and abilities. Time and effort can be saved by a clear appraisal of abilities and interest, as well as past and future training. The film then shows how to organize a plan of action that will you get the "right" job.

Your Job: Fitting In

H 16min. C

After witnessing the actions of an employee who is fired for doing "too little" and the actions of an employee who is fired for doing "too much", the viewer is challenged to decide how he would respond to each situation.

Your Job: Getting Ahead

H 16min. C

Experienced workers, interviewed at their jobs, give tips on getting ahead...tips that we see applied by a young man entering a career as a newspaperman. Questions are answered concerning job changes, recognizing dead-end jobs, picking areas for advancement and planning for additional education.

Your Job: Good Working Habits

H 13min. C

An interview with two high school graduates on their first full-time jobs help us recognize work of good quality, performed with safety and satisfaction. Good work habits, such as working steadily, concentrating, and planning ahead, can lead to promotion, a raise, and other benefits.

Your Job You and Your Boss

H 16min. C

The relationship between worker and boss is seen from both points of view. Interviews with supervisors and employees at their jobs answer many of the important questions faced by young people regarding dependability, familiarity, and authority.

Your Erroneous Zones

A 102min.

Wayne Dyer talks about ways to cut through emothional red tape to take charge of one's life. A copy of his book "Your Erroneous Zones" is included.

Presentation Excellence

A 78min.

Walter Cronkite describes strategies and techniques to improve oral and visual communications. Workbooks are included.

Persuasive Negotiating

A 60min.

Herb Cohen offers instruction on how to negotiate for different circumstances and situations. The package includes a workbook and Cohen's book, "You Can Negotiate Anything".

Assertive Discipline Phase I

This media package, consisting of video tapes and workbooks, is the basic training program for teachers, administrators, and support staff. They learn the skills that are needed to develop and implement a behavior management program. In Phase I, educators learn how to assume an assertive attitude and develop a plan for eliminating discipline problems in their classrooms and schools.

Assertive Discipline Phase II

The Phase II program builds upon the skills learned in Phase I. Phase II explores the most advanced techniques in classroom management and teaches the application of those skills to every activity of the school day and the school year, the goal being to elevate teacher performance to the master level.

Mathematics with Manipulatives

This is a series of six twenty minute videotapes demonstrating how to use manipulative materials to teach mathematics in K-6 classrooms. The tapes show actual lessons taught to children in regular classroom settings. Five of the tapes focus on one manipulative material each: Base Ten Blocks, Color Tiles, Cuisenaire Rods, Geoboards, and Pattern Blocks, Several materials are used on the sixth tape, Unifix Cubes, Multilink Cubes, Color Cubes, Attribute Blocks, Tangrams, and Two-Color Counters.

Le Petite Poule Rouge

IJH 16min. C

This film uses the aural-lingual method. It enables the beginning student to hear the language (narrated by a native speaker), as he sees the object or action described. Through the retelling of a simple story, this natural approach to language learning enables the student to learn easily a simple vocabulary and correct pronunciations.

Les Trois Ours

IJ 15min. C

Presents the story of "The Three Bears" with French narration. A vocabulary review is included at the end of the film.

Alfareros de Puebla

JH 14min. C

An attempt has been made to intergrate geography, history, and a little philosophy in the narration of this fascinating film on the art of pottery and tile making.

Artes Creativos de Mexico

H 16min. C

An attempt has been made to intergrate geography, history, and a little philosophy in the narration of this fascinating film on the art of pottery and tile making.

La Caperucita Roja

IJH 15min. C

This film presents the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in simple Spanish using animated drawings for visuals. Each noun, adjective, and verb is visualized by an object or action on the screen. It also involves the viewer in a vocabulary review at the conclusion.

Descubrir Veracruz

H 16min. C

The ancient Fort of San Juan de Ulua guards the harbor of modern Veracruz, capital of the state and site where Cortez first landed in North America in 1510. The film is a kaleidoscope of scenes from this Gulf Coast region, home of some of the earliest Indian groups of Mesoamerica.

Espana es Asi

JH 16min

This film is designed to introduce the beginning student of Spanish to the culture of Spain. The spirit of the film is a blending of the old and new, from the castles of Toledo and Gothic churches to the avenues and skyscrapers of modern architecture.

Estos Fueron los Mayas

H 16min. C

For at least 4000 years, Yucatan has been a center of civilization. The story of the Maya, who built vast and complicated structures sparks the imagination. Today the Mayas work in industries, and speak Spanish along with the language of their ancestors.

Fiesta de San Fermin

J 18min. C

An attempt has been made to integrate history, religion, fiesta, and philosophy in the narration of this fascinating film on the Fiesta de San Fermin. The narrative is moderately easy and direct. At the same time, it contains enough idiomatic expressions to retain a native flavor.

Fray Felipe

IJH 15min. C

This is a Spanish language version of the popular round "Are You Sleeping, Brother John?"

La Gallinita Roja

IJH 16min. C

The story of the Little Red Hen is presented in animation with a simple Spanish narration. Beginning Spanish language pupils can follow the familiar story as they learn Spanish by hearing it.

Championship Marching Percussion

JH 14min. C

This film covers the elements of building a championship marching percussion section, the precision method, tonality in percussion, selecting instruments, mallets, carrying devices, timp toms and how to write for them, scoring to challenge your players, the traps, field positioning, and visual presentation. Examples of the Vanguard repertoire.

Discovering American Indian Music

IJH 24min. C BFA

The American Indian has a rich and varied musical tradition. Film shows songs and dances of tribes from various parts of the country, authentic costumes, and social and ceremonial functions of the music.

Discovering American Indian Music

JH 24min. C Soc. St.

This program presents the songs and dances of tribes from various parts of the country performed in authentic costumes.

Discovering the Orchestra

IJH C SirS Music

This video program, hosted and conducted by Paul Anthony McRae, is separated into five video tapes: A-Strings, B-Brass, C-Woodwinds, D-Percussion, and E-Orchestra, each introducing the different types of instruments used in the orchestra.

Froggie Went A-Courtin'

PI 8min. C Barr

The film opens with a group of small children clustered around a folk-singer guitarist. They are singing about the adventures of the beloved amorous Froggie. The drama begins. In full costume, with props they make themselves, the children act out the entire song in mime. The cast is ethnically mixed and includes handicapped children in key roles.

La Historia de los Aztecas

H 19min. C

In 1325, the Tenochas (Aztecs), searching for a place to settle, found the long-awaited symbol on a lake island... an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. The great metropolis of Mexico City occupies the same site.

Monumento al Sol: La Hostoria de la Piedra del Sol

H 16min. C

A masterpiece of sculpture, the Aztec calendar stone has become a world-famous symbol of Mexico. It is not a calendar. It is a monument to the sun, worshipped as one of the most important gods of the Aztecs.

Las Muchas Caras de Mexico

H 16min. C

Mexico is a land of fascinating contrasts; geologically and historically. Modern architecture rubs shoulders with remnants of past glories. Mexico will always have many faces.

La Navidad en Oaxaca

H 14min. C

Christmas in the southern city of Oaxaca is a colorful and gay fiesta, reflecting the customs and traditions of the ancient Zapotecs and Mixtecs, as well as the Spanish.

La Primera Ciudad de las Americas - Teotihuacan

H 17min. C

The world-famous pyramids of Teotihuacan (the place of the gods), are the remains of a great city founded 2000 years ago. Teotihuacan was abandoned around 800 A.D., but it is still revered by Mexicans as an example of the skills and artistry of their forebears.

Puerto Rico Es Asi

JH 16min. C

The film is designed to acquaint the student of Spanish with the people and sites of Puerto Rico by introducing Rafael Gonzales, his family, his work and their everyday occupations.

Spain: A Journey with Washington Irving

JH 25min. C

Guided by Washington Irving’s travel diary from the 1820’s, the viewer follows in his footsteps, visiting both cosmopolitan and provincial cities in Spain. Spanish language.

Traveler's Special: Conversational Spanish

JH 15min. C

The story concerns senor Miller, a traveler with limited Spanish-speaking ability, who arrives in Mexico on a business trip. The student accompanies our traveler as he carries out the necessary functions which "test" his language ability.

Los Tres Osos

IJ 15min. C

This animated film presents the story of The Three Bears with a simple Spanish narration and review. Beginning Spanish language pupils can follow the familiar story as they learn Spanish by hearing it.

AB The Algebra Show: An Introduction to Algebra

JH C

This video program is designed to help teachers meet the mathematical needs of each student in the classroom. Using a television game show format, the lessons hold the attention of students as they join with the contestants in the filmstrips to answer questions on The Algebra Show. A teacher’s manual and workbook are included. The workbook may be reproduced for classroom use.

Associativity

P 12min. C

Aids children in understanding the associativty property and how to apply it in a variety of adiion situations.

Clock Talk

P 11min. C

This film is designed to demostrate to the young viewer the importance of learning to tell time. Many different types of timepieces are investigated, as well as the jobs they perform.

A Day in the Life of a Dollar Bill

PI 11min. C

Skip’s unique $1 bill begins its trip when he uses his savings of $5.20. Once Skip spends the money, we follow the $1 as it passes from hand to hand. After this series of interactions, the bill returns to Skip, who considers plans for spending it again.

Donald in Mathmagic Land

IJH 26min. C

Donald Duck participates in a remarkable adventure. Finding himself in Mathmagic Land, the ancient Greeks tell him about some of their basic mathematic principles. Successive sequences illustrate how mathematics enters almost every phase of daily life. Donald learns how math is related to music, art, architecture, mechanics, and games. Even chess, basketball, and billiards involve math!

Equations

P 12min. C

Helps young stduents and correctly use equations to express the quality relation between numbers.

Futures: Agriculture - Aircraft Design

JH 30min. C

In part one, Jimmy Smits joins Jaime Escalante to discuss innovation in agricultural engineering, aquaculture and hydroponics, as introduced by specialists - all of whom use mathematics to "feed the future". In part two, former Blue Angel, Navy Liutenant Commander Donnie Cochran shows students that only through the understanding of math could engineers design crafts that would stay in the air.

Futures: Architecture and Structural Engineering - Automotive Design

JH 30min. C

In part one award-winning architect Frank Gehry joins Escalante in taking viewers on a ride on the Viper, Magic Mountain’s most daring roller coaster. In part two, Indy 500 champion Danny Sullivan joins Escalante and demonstrates the math concept of velocity, leading to an exploration of the world of auto design and engineering.

Futures: Cartography - Fashion

JH 30min. C

In this program, Edward James Olmos joins Escalante and Carlos Hagen-Lauthrup, head of UCLA’s Bruman Library, as they explore state-of-the-art mapping processes. Actor Kadeem Hardison and top model Cindy Crawford join Escalante and the students in discovering the practical realities of fashion designing and marketing.

Futures: Water Engineering - Optics

JH 30min. C

Film director James Cameron (The Abyss) joins Escalante to explore the water supply from New York to California, where literally billions of gallons of water are needed daily. In this program, students will see inside Bell Laboratories, Lasermedia and the University of Arizona’s Optical Sciences Center.

Futures: Putting Man in Space - Sound Engineering

JH 30min. C

In part one, astronaut Dr. Bonnie Dunbar joins Escalante to take students through Johnson Space Center in Houston to demonstrate how much math is fundamental to our ability to operate in outer space. part two, deals with the use of the language mathematics in the world of modern sound technology.

Futures: Statistics - Sports Performance

JH 30min. C

The first program has Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chairman of President Bush’s Council on Physical Fitness discuss with Jaime Escalante the role of statistics in determining the physical fitness of our nation’s youth. Part two shows Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and coach Bob Kersee joining Escalante to explore the impact mathematics is having on world class athletes.

Geometry: What's That?

I 14min. C

Whimsical animation takes us back to the first use of geometry as a tool for measuring the land and its development, and into the geometry of space and infinity. Along the way we develop an understanding of the three basic elements of geometry: point, line, and plane.

Legend of John Henry

IJH 11min. C Bosustow

The ballad of John Henry, sung by Roberta Flack is the story of the greatest steel driving man of them all. With a deadline of tunneling railroad track through Big Ben mountain before winter, the railroad bosses decide the progress of John Henry’s crew is not fast enough to get through in time. Bringing in a steam drill to cut through the mountain poses a great challenge to John Henry, who declares, "Before I give in and let the steam drill win, I’ll hammer myself to death."

Magic and Music

IJ 17min. C Disney

A magical tour into the musical realm and into the visual fantasies that music can inspire. In an impression based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Flight of the Bumblebee", a beleaguered bumblebee whirls through an animated world of images. An excerpt from the internationally famous FANTASIA establishes the connection between music, mood, and image as Beethoven’s "Pastoral" transports students to the serene heights of Mt. Olympus, an idyllic region where mythological creatures dwell.

The Magic Pony Ride

PI 23min., C McGraw-Hill

A lonely little girl and a weary pony meet a magic man who transforms the street into a technicolor playground and a pony into a unicorn that the little girl rides with joy.

Marching Corps Style

JH 11min. C

Marching Corps Style teaches the elements of marking time, leg lift, the glide step, flanking movements, body carriage, maintaining interval, the interval stick, distance, cover, dress, and turns.

The Nutcracker

PIJH 26min. C Barr

With the music of P.I. Tchaikovsky. In this version of Hoffman’s enchanting tale, the heroine is Marie, a serving girl, who breaks the spell cast by the evil Mouse Queen to free her Nutcracker Prince from his wooden prison. Before the drama ends, the toys and Christmas tree ornaments rally to the call of a tiny bugle to follow their Nutcracker General into battle against the army of the evil Mouse King. After the battle Marie and the prince live happily ever after in their magical kingdom.

Peter and the Wolf

PIJ 14min. C Disney

Delightful visual interpretations of Sergei Prokofiev’s famous orchestral fairy tale. Peter is represented as stringed instruments, the bird as a flute, the duck as an oboe, and the cat as a clarinet. Grandfather is portrayed by a bassoon and the hunters by kettledrums

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

P 14min. C Coronet

The old tale of the sorcerer’s apprentice, who enchants a broom to carry water for him, is retold in a puppet fantasy to the music of Dukas’ well known scherzo "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice." The sorcerer returns in time to prevent disaster, and the apprentice learns a lesson.

Weight and Mass

IJ 10min. C

This film provides an exposure to a wide variety of measurement activities that are designed to teach elementary and junior high students to think and judge in metric units, and to speak in quantitative terms using metric vocabulary.

Weights and Measures

IJ 14min. BW

While building a model railroad, Tommy begins to realize the importance of weights and measures. He learns more about their practical value when he visits his uncle’s farm, his neighborhood grocery store, and the post office. Using animation and live photography, the film translates abstract terms like "square foot" into clear visual images.

AIDS Compilation

H 10min.

In this program, former Surgeon General C. Everett Coop, talks to srudents about AIDS.

AIDS: What Everyone Needs to Know

HA 20min. C

This is a survey of the facts and myths about AIDS. Animation explains in simple terms how the immune system works and how the AIDS virus destroys the system’s ability to fight off other diseases. In the film, AIDS patients talk, imparting an understanding of the reality of the disease.

A Half Million Teenagers . . . Plus

JH 17min. C

A physiological examination of gonorrhea and syphilis, and a strong appeal to good sense in seeking treatment. Young people describe experiences and raise questions. Extensive animation.

How to Keep from Getting V.D.

H 20min. C

Dr. Walter H. Smartt, Chief of Division of V.D. Control Los Angeles County, explains and illustrates how V.D. is transmitted from an infected person to a sexual partner during sexual intercourse. 1. symptoms, 2. examination, 3 effects, 4. cure, 5. what to do to keep from catching V.D. Preview essential; parental permission advised.

Understanding AIDS: What Teens need to Know

H 20min. C

This program details the latest information about the AIDS virus and how teenagers can protect themselves from it.

V.D. Very Communicable Diseases

JH 19min. C

Dramatized presentation of how's, why's, wherefore's, and ramifications of veneral disease, syphilis and gonorrhea. Teacher preview essential.

Auto Accident: What to do Afterward

H 10min. C

Every year thousands of motorists bring legal and financial hardships upon themselves because they do not know what to do at the scene of an auto accident. A concise list of guidelines is presented to assist the motorist in dealing with an accident.

Defensive Driving Tactics (2nd Edition)

H 15min. C

The offensive driver is not alert. This film shows why he isn’t and demonstrates how to protect against him. After showing that most accidents begin long after they happen (e.g., argument at home, sleepless night, etc..) the film illustrates such basic rules of defensive driving as planning ahead in traffic and being willing to give way to another driver. Finally, a 23-mile National Safety Council test drive with two drivers is staged to show that in the one-hour-plus time it takes the car to complete the run, the offensive driver comes in ahead by only two minutes, but has committed 78 violations on the way.

Face Yourself

H 22min. C

Four automobile accident victims come to grips with the real causes of their accidents. They find out how emotions and personality traits contribute to auto accidents.

Getting Busted

H 27min. C

An informative dramatization of what it really is like to get busted for driving under the influence. Tells it "like it is": being apprehended, arrested, booked, and finally brought to trial.

Hot Wheels

JH 30min. C

This is a detailed film about drinking and driving. It shows a realistic situation in which teenagers get drunk and drive into a serious accident.

Kevin's Story

H 19min. C

Kevin talks with high school students to share his experiences and new-found feelings after he caused the death of a young girl when he drove while intoxicated.

Alcohol: The First Decision

IJ 9min. C

The use of alcohol is an accepted practice in many segments of our society. Billboards, liquor stores, and newspaper and magazine ads invite everyone to try alcohol. On the other hand, evidence clearly shows that the misuse of alcohol can cause serious problems. Each individual needs to make his/her own decision about using alcohol, basing that decision on as much information about the drug as is available.

Benny and the 'Roids

JH 26min. C

This is the story of a teenage football player who has worked hard to be a starting linebacker on this year’s team. When practice begins, however, he finds he still cannot handle his bigger and stronger teammates. Viewers follow Benny over the next few weeks to see the effects of anabolic steroids on Benny’s football efforts and social life.

Drug Abuse: Everybody's Hang-up

IJH 11min. C

This film shows that drug abusers are found in all levels of society. Drugs are used for many reasons: a college student or truck driver staying awake, people looking for "kicks," people joining the crowd, people seeking escape. Presents situations, but no answers.

Drug Babies

HA 30min. C

"Drug Babies" deals with the epidemic of the 90’s: children who have been prenatally exposed to drugs. This film discusses the problems and solutions to this epidemic as seen by treatment of professionals: doctors, lawmakers, social service agencies, foster care-givers, educators, and mothers recovering from drug addiction.

The Drug Problem: What Do You Think?

IJH 17min. C

Defines a drug as any chemical that alters normal biological functions. Suggests that media/ads promote drug use. Stimulates discussion that will help one think realistically about the abuse of common drugs and the danger of buying street drugs.

Drugs: A Primary Film

P 9min. C

Vignettes of situations familiar to children are used to explore the correct use of drugs by the doctor and at home. The danger of drug misuse is exemplified by a girl who eats a whole bottle of aspirins and must visit the hospital emergency room. As children enjoy a variety of fun activities, the film emphasizes the positive attitudes needed for a rich healthy life.

Drugs and the Nervous System

IJH 18min. C

The film explains how drugs affect the body by working indirectly on the nervous system (discussion of aspirin illustrates this effect). The serious disruption of the nervous system caused by consumption of other substances is the main thrust. The film discusses the use of airplane glue, amphetamines, cocaine, barbiturate, alcohol, opiates, marijuana, PCP, LSD, and various combinations.

Epidemic! Kids, Drugs, and Alcohol

JH 26min. C

Addresses the issue of youthful drug abuse: marijuana smoking and its damaging effects on the body; the deadly combination of teenage drinking and driving; and the influence of music, television, motion pictures, and peer pressure on America’s drug culture. The film has been endorsed by the National Education Association.

The Feminine Mistake: The Next Generation

JH 32mn. C

This program brings the issue of women and smoking into the present. Viewers will hear from women who are experiencing the harmful consequences of smoking and from anti-smoking activists.

Grooving

JH 31min. C

Grooving" has no professional actors, no script, and no adults. It brings a group of 14 to 18 year old drug users, non-users, and ex-users together in a series of confrontations over several days. The superficial reasons to smoke marijuana, or not to, are challenged or brushed aside. Deeper motivations slowly surface: "to be cool and hip," or "to escape personal problems."

Snowstorm in the Jungle

HA 51min. C

Traveling through the Amazon, Jacques Cousteau discovers an abundant growth of coca plants used to make cocaine or coca paste. An investigation leads to drug traffickers and users.

Speedscene: The Problem with Amphetamine Abuse

JH 17min. C

The abuse of amphetamines is documented in this film. It serves to inform students of the long term dangers.

The Tobacco Problem: What Do You Think?

JH 17min. C

Presents historical perspective and timely data on the smoking habit and health risks. Although ad campaigns continue to glamorize smoking, researchers demonstrate that heavy smoking now is known to cause malignancies. Footage shows U.S. Congressional hearings concerning warning labels, rebuttal from consumers and tobacco companies, and debate by teenagers on the pros and cons of smoking. The question is asked: how would the prohibition of smoking affect the national economy?

Alexander Has a Good Day

P 11min. C

The adventures of a delightful little boy introduce students to the good health habits that make for a successful, happy day. These include adequate sleep, cleanliness, good nutrition, play and exercise, rewarding achievements in class, and healthy relationships with classmates, teachers, and parents.

Alexander Learns Good Health

P 10min. C

Alexander eats too much and sleeps too little and is unable to play with his ball team. He improves his habits with proper diet, rest, cleanliness, and exercise. Later he pitches a winning game.

Body Defenses Against Disease

IJ 14min. C

Using a blend of electron photomicrography, animation, and live-action photography, the film provides viewers with glimpses of disease-causing organisms and the action of antibodies on disease-causing germs. It also emphasizes the importance of immunization in disease prevention.

Calories: Enough Is Enough

JH 12min. C

Our bodies need certain amounts of energy expressed in calories. This film shows how one may determine if intake is too great. It discusses the importance of regular weight checks and their dangers of being too fat or too thin.

Clean and Bright

PI 10min. C

A film about personal hygiene. An amusing story about the problems Mr. Williams encounters giving his pet elephant a bath. The recurring theme is one that will not escape children: every animal looks and feels better, is healthier, and appears happier when it’s clean and bright.

Dairy Products: From Moo to You

IJ 14min. C

The film shows what dairy products are and how many of them are made. Includes major breeds of dairy cattle, itemizing top milk-producing states in the U.S. It follows the production process from the dairy farm, step-by-step through the dairy plant, to the retail outlet. It discusses the food value of milk and illustrates some non-food by-products (glue, paints, plastics, and medicines).

Danger: Poison

PI 10min. C

Film shows children the many types of potentially dangerous substances around the house.

The Doctor is In: Multiple Sclerosis

JH 26min. C

This program shows the variety of symptoms that plague its victims, and how a positive attitude and a willingness to make changes in one’s lifestyle can mean better health.

The Doctor Is In: Muscular Dystrophy

JH 26min. C

This program looks at how muscular dystrophy sufferers deal with a disease that has no cure.

Eat, Drink, and be Wary

JH 21min. C

Shoppers, cooks, kids, and critics (the latter including Dr. Jean Mayer), vent their views on eating habits. The nutritional losses from processing and the refining of grain and rice are explored. The reasons for increased use of food additives and the controversies over such additives are explained. A sour look is taken at the high sugar content in food, especially breakfast cereals. The role of advertising in changing our food habits is dramatically illustrated.

Food for Fun

PI 10min. C

This film is an imaginative story about nutrition. The favorite meals of a number of animals (meat for tigers, carrots for rabbits, milk for kittens, etc.) are used to explain the basic food groups. This film helps develop wholesome eating habits in younger children.

For Tomorrow We Shall Diet

JH 24min. C

A young woman, confused by fad diets, seeks advice from her doctor on how to lose weight. The film follows her as she learns to change her eating habits and reduce calories while maintaining proper nutrition. The dangers of fad diets are also discussed.

Habits of Health: Food to Live and Grow

PIJ 14min. C

In this film students are helped to understand the importance of good diet as they watch the growth and behavior of rats fed some familiar foods. While the experiment develops, students see examples of the four basic food groups that are important to good health, and they watch other young people as follow all too familiar eating habits.

Habits of Health: Keeping in Top Shape

PI 13min. C

We all want to be in good shape. We can be if we develop good health habits, like getting plenty of rest, eating good meals, exercising, and keeping clean. There are some things we need to avoid: eating too much candy and drinking too much pop, forcing ourselves into poor posture, and watching too much TV. instead of selecting a reasonable amount of programs. Food, exercise, rest, and cleanliness are keys to vigorous, good health.

Habits of Health: The Physical Examination

PI 10min. C

When we’re very young, most of us are examined by a physician. Then, when we go to a new school, the nurse records all medical changes. It is important to have regular checkups to see if our bodies are growing properly.

Haelthy Habits for a Healthy Life

IJH 17min. C

This film explains that cardiac, circulatory, and respiratory diseases are considered today’s national health problems. Through animation, the physiological workings of these systems are explained. The film also expresses the importance of developing good health habits and practicing them.

Heredity and Enviroment

HA 27min. C

This film is recommended for use in Psychology, Sociology, Child Development, Teacher Training Classes, and for parent groups.

Junk Food

PI 14min.

Fat Albert and Slim are busy stuffing themselves with goodies when the gang puts on the World’s Greatest Circus. But when it’s time for the Super Junkyard Bowl Championship Game, Fat Albert stocks up on the right foods and exercise, while Slim drops the ball as he learns that you can’t get your energy in the candy store.

Learning about Fruits We Eat

PI 11min. C

Flowers on trees, bushes, and vines develop into fruits we eat for energy and good health. Following fruits to the market, the grocery store, and the table, we learn about their remarkable variety in appearance and taste.

Run Dick Run Jane

JH 20min. C

Best selling film dealing with physical fitness and prevention of heart disease. Based on Kenneth Cooper’s book, The New Aerobics.

Snacks Count Too

JH 10min. C

What makes up a daily diet? What is a snack? Nutritious and non-nutritious foods are discussed. Aims to show how to develop and follow a food policy that includes appropriate snack foods.

Soaps, Scents, and the Hard, Hard Sell

JH 16min. C

Good personal hygiene habits are demonstrated in an unusual setting, and the humorous analysis of television commercials helps explain why expensive, highly advertised products are unnecessary. Bathing, washing hair, brushing teeth, body odor, lice, and acne are discussed. Humor and an original musical score with lyrics make this an appealing film on an important subject.

Then One Year

IJ 20min. C

The film deals primarily with the physiological changes in boys and girls at the onset of adolescence, as well as with the worries and tensions of that troubled period.

Wasting Away: Understanding Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

JH 40min. C

Using a selection of case studies, this program helps students explore the social, cultural, and psychological pressures that can lead to anorexia or bulimia. Typical abnormal behavior, physical symptoms, and psychological effects are investigated. The individual and family therapies that can lead to an understanding and recovery are also detailed.

You Can Do Something Acne

JH 16min. C

This film is for those students who may experience a major social and psychological problem as a result of acne. It offers a clear cause and effect explanation of what may have seemed a mysterious and unjust affliction. It offers a positive and constructive course of action.

Busy Bodies

PI 10min. C

A film about self-motivated exercise. Running, jumping, climbing, and stretching are some of the exercises that keep our animal friends busy and healthy. Children can also develop good health habits by engaging in exercise. Reassures the viewer that it’s not necessary to be "the best" at games or sports in order to enjoy them.

Fitkids Aerobics

IJ 44min. C

This aerobic video program has 11 routines to help students exercise. The program includes an audio cassette tape with music and vocal instruction, and an instructor’s guide.

Girl's Sports: On the Right Track

JH 17min. C

Summarizes the recent changes in girls’ sports. Through a short history of track and field (with original archive footage of Babe Didrickson and Wilma Rudolph) we see the limitations that were placed on women in the past.

Introduction to Tennis

JH 14min. C

Designed expressly for a teenage audience, this film follows the working day of a tennis instructor and tells how his students feel about the game.

tubby the Tube

P 81min. C

This animated story tells about a little tuba who tires of only being able to sing "oompah, oompah," and decides to leave the orchestra to go off and find a melody of his own.

Walt Disney's Grand Canyon

IJH 29min. C Disney

All the grandeur of this majestic natural panorama, including its many moods, its diverse inhabitants, and its contrasting seasons, is depicted in magnificent color photography with the musical background of Ferde Grofe’s "Grand Canyon Suite." No narration.

Who's Afraid of Opera?

PI 57min. C

With the help of puppets, Joan Sutherland explains excerpted sections from Faust and Rigoletto.

A World is Born

IJH 20min. C Disney

From the renowned film Fantasia, comes the "Rite Of Spring" sequence. The film illustrates how music can translate to the screen, evoking mood, color, design, motion, and vivid mental images. Scenes include new life and raging monster battles.

Colonila and Revolutionary Songs

Off Your Duff

JH 30min. C

Experts, amateurs, and beginners encourage us to get up and do something -- jogging, walking, or belly dancing. They also give logical advise and sensible suggestions for finding the right kind of exercise for each of us.

Sports for Life

JH 21min. C

As nine people enjoy the sports they have chosen for themselves, they discuss the value of exercise for physical health: the opportunity to escape from everyday problems, the need for competition, the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, and how team sports help them function with other people.

Volleyball: Dig It

IJH 14min. C

"Volleyball: Dig It" has a double purpose. It stimulates interest in sports and competitive volleyball, while providing instruction and models for skills development.

Women's Gymnastics, Beginning Level

JH 18min. C

Film covers floor exercises, balance beam, uneven parallel bars, and vaults.

Women's Gymnastics, Intermediate Level

JH 18min. C

Film covers floor exercises, balance beam, uneven parallel bars, and vaults.

Young Women in Sports

IJH 16min. C

"Young Women in Sports" focuses on four exciting young athletes and the ways they have benefitted from their participation in sports. It explores their feelings about competition and about themselves as women and athletes. Each young woman is seen doing the work of her sport, training by herself or with her coach.

Bike Talk

P 10min. C

This film is for students who are just beginning to form permanent bicycle driving patterns. Emphasis is placed on the fact that bicycles are vehicles subject to traffic rules and regulations.

Boating Safety and Rescues

IJH 12min. C

A film from the "Life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Fire: What Makes it Burn

PI 12min. C

Uses simple laboratory demonstrations to show what is needed to make fire, what a flame is, how combustion takes place, how a fire can be dangerous, and safety measures for fire control.

Help Woodsy Owl Spread the Word

PI 18min. C

With singing and dancing this film entertains as well as educates children on ways they can help Woodsy spread the word: Give a hoot, don’t pollute.

The Life You Save(First Aid)

JH 17min. C

Four true cases in which knowledge of basic first aid saved lives. Scenes are re-enacted by the four teenagers who knew what to do. A boy applies direct pressure to the wound and stops the potentially fatal bleeding of a child in a bicycle accident. A girl, whose father severs an artery, saves his life by knowing the four pressure points of the body where arterial bleeding can be stopped. A boy saves a child he discovers unconscious in a refrigerator by applying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Another boy saves his small sister who has ingested poison. In addition, a basic treatment for shock is demonstrated.

New Breath of Life

JH 24min. C

First aid for choking victims and mouth-tomouth resuscitation.

New Poulse of Life

JH 30min. C

A presentation of the latest basic life support principles and techniques for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Recommended by the National Research Council, American Heart Association, and the American Red Cross.

Non-Swimming Rescues

IJH 10min. C

A film from the "life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Preventive Lifeguarding

IJH 12min. C

A film from the "Life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Primary School Bus Safety

P 14min. C

Film describes safe procedures for walking to school or to bus stop; waiting for the bus; entering, leaving, and riding a bus. Safety rules are the same as those used by adult drivers.

Quiet Please

IJH 18min. C

Produced by the Sertoma Foundation, Keenan Wynn talks to young people about the damage they can do to their hearing by exposing themselves to loud noise.

Removal form the Water

IJH 10min. C

A film from the "Life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Safety with Electricity

PI 11min. C

This film demonstrates that electricity can be dangerous. It shows how these dangers can be minimized by simple safety precautions and illustrates some of the ways in which we use electricity. Simple experiments and demonstrations show the nature and sources of electricity, and illustrate desirable practices with electrical equipment and appliances.

School Bus Safety and Courtesy

PIJH 15min. C Centron

Deals with personal safety and courtesy to and from the bus stop, and on the school bus. Also illustrates correct emergency evacuation procedures.

Schools and Safety

P 10min. C

Knowing and following safety rules is emphasized when David has an accident on the way to school.

Sniffy Escapes Poisoning

P 6min. C

This film explains in language and action why we should not take medicines and unknown substances.

Special Equipment Rescues

IJH 10min. C

A film from the "Life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Snorkeling Skills and Resue Techniques

IJH 12min. C

A film from the "Life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Street Talk

P 7min. C

The objective of this film is to increase student awareness of various street signs and markings, and to form good pedestrian habits, thereby reducing the number of serious accidents in this age group.

Survival Swimming

IJH 10min. C

A film from the "Life Saving and Water Safety" series.

Walking Home from School

P 13min. C

Jane’s assignment is to look closely at the things around her as she walks home. Looking thoughtfully, she sees details she hadn’t noticed before: in house shapes, street signs, walks, and gardens. Safety is stressed in crossing streets and driveways. Reading (house numbers, etc.) is presented in a natural way.

Water Safety: An Introduction

PI 11min. C

This film illustrates a variety of ways to avoid water accidents, the right and wrong ways of helping yourself or someone else in trouble, and survival floating techniques.

Latitude, Longitude and Time Zones

IJH 13min. C Coronet

This film helps the viewer to understand the development and use of the system of locating places on earth, using latitude and longitude. Discover the relationship between longitude (meridians), and the measurement of time and time zones. Determine the function of the International Date Line. It also explains why each meridian can be used as the basis for a standard time zone.

Learning to Read Maps

PI 12min. C EBE

A fanciful story featuring a lost clown (performed in mime), helps the viewer understand how maps are useful: how maps are graphic representations of real places, how physical features are represented by symbols on a map, how to find directions without a compass, and how to calculate distance to a destination.

What is Space?

IJ 11

How to Measure Time

IJ 11

Energy and Work

IJ 11

The Gentle Art of Saying No: Principles of Assertiveness

H 41min. C

This is a three part program on assertiveness: Part I establishes the necessity for assertiveness training; Part II spotlights specific techniques for achieving assertiveness; Part III elaborates techniques for assertiveness.

The Newborn calf

PI 11min. C

A film that reveals the birth and early development of a calf in the most natural way possible...just as it happens. The absence of narration encourages viewers to interpret the film more freely and to react more personally. After viewing the film, students should be able to discuss the interdependence of living things, and to accept a more detailed biological explanation of reproduction as part of the life cycle. Teacher preview essential.

Abstraction

IJ 10min C Films Inc.

The artist has a large repertory of abstract qualities to choose from, including color, structure, dark, and light. Which ones he chooses and how he uses them depends on what he sees, and what he wishes to express.

The Art of Seeing

IJ 10min. C Films Inc.

This film focuses on using the eyes for artistic perception. A farmer’s journey to market with a truckload of strawberries provides the background for learning to "see", for discovering the variations of color, shape, pattern, and texture in the environment.

A Boy Creates

PI 10min. C EBE

Demonstrates a boy’s imagination in transforming "junk" into meaningful art forms. He uses lifeless figures in a deserted amusement park. From discarded bottles, plastic objects, cast-off wood, and metal, he fashions a figure and places it on a log. His "found art" sculpture becomes a person in a roadster that soars airborne on a magical journey.

Color

IJ 10min. C Films Inc.

Here, color is examined for its emotional effects, influence on perception of size, shape and depth, and interaction with other colors. Color is essential to painting. Through its use, the artist reproduces recognizable objects, establishes lighting conditions, creates a new sense of depth, or lack of it, and suggests a mood. The organization of a painting involves balance, harmony, and movement, each of which depends on the artist’s skillful use of color.

Color, Color Everywhere . . . Red, Yellow, blue

PI 11min. C Coronet

Young children will have fun exploring and examining the three basic colors in all their variations as they appear in objects familiar to them.

Creating with Watercolor

JH 20min. C Crystal Prod.

A motivating film portraying the many facets of watercolor painting. Cecile Johnson, A.W.S., demonstrates her techniques and discusses her philosophy of the medium.

Creative Arts and Crafts of Mexico

JH 16min. C Films Inc.

Since the Olmecs created their gigantic stone sculpture almost 4000 years ago, arts and crafts have flourished in Mexico. The techniques of their ancestors are used today by Mexican artists and artisans.

Cubism

JH 20min. C BFA

This film traces the development of Cubism, then analyzes the three main stylistic forms of Cubist art: Analytic Cubism, Collage, and Synthetic Cubism. The film presents and virtually dissects many paintings by Picasso, Braque, Gris, and other Cubist artists.

The Day the Colors Went Away

P 10min. C Lang. Arts/ Art

In this animated film a little girl finds out what this world would be like if it had no colors. When she creates a painting mess, all the colors get angry and leave. When the girl persuades the paints to return, the world becomes bright and beautiful once again.

Discovering Color

IJH 16min. C BFA

Colors differ in three ways: hue, value, and intensity. Hues are the names we give to parts of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Between the basic hues there are many in-between hues. The value of any hue can be lightened or darkened by adding white or black. The intensity of any hue can be lowered or dulled, by adding its complementary hue

Discovering Line

IJH 17min. C BFA

This film is designed to illustrate the way in which line records movement. A line is a path of action which leads the eye through space. The movement induced by a line is a major element in art, and the ability to perceive line divorced from form can become a major aesthetic skill.

Discovering Perspective

IJH 14min. C BFA

We live in a world of depth and distance. Some things are close to us, some far away. We can create the appearance of distance on a flat surface by using perspective. Overlapping, vertical position, graying colors, varying detail, varying size, and converging lines are techniques used to create perspective.

Expressionism

JH 7min. C BFA

Almost all paintings of this style attempt to show some kind of dynamic movement. The painter with a solid background in drawing is able to take liberties with conventional proportion as a means of emphasizing certain aspects. The film shows how the expressionist patterns are powerfully designed to give a glaring directness.

Fiddles and Whimmydiddles

PI 17min. C Journal

A day in the life of two children of pioneer times provides young viewers with an opportunity of seeing the simple but captivating toys of that era. Among the many toys that the children play with are China dolls, wooden tops, limber-jacks, and a gee haw whimmydiddle.

Fiqures

IJ 14min. C Films, Inc.

Artists have always been attracted to the human figure and rendered it in many different ways, using distortion and simplification for more powerful expression. Interpretations reflect the temperament, culture, and place in the history of the artist.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

IJ 30min. C BFA

Based on a Newberry Award winning book, the film features Ingrid Bergman as Mrs. Frankweiler. We follow a young girl who runs away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They set out to learn about everything in the museum, when they come upon a breathtaking statue which is the center of controversy. Is it one of Michaelangelo’s? Their search to solve the mystery takes them to the grand estate of recluse, Mrs. Frankweiler, where the mystery is solved.

Gruesome Gray Monster

P 9min. C Coronet

Can you imagine a world without colors? When the Gruesome Gray Monster steals all the colors and leaves the world a gray, drab place, no one seems to notice but Kathy. With the help of the color red, Kathy confronts the monster at his gruesome gray castle and wins a contest to get all the colors back. Combining animation with live action photography, the Gruesome Gray Monster gives children practice in color identification and discrimination. It also encourages creative expression.

The History of Printing

IJH 22min. C HFE

This film traces the genesis of printing back to its earliest times. It shows the influence from China and the Far East, the printing of the first book; the Gutenberg Bible in 1450, and the invention of the first metal printing press in America in 1838. It concludes with the giant newspaper industries of today, which use the most modern printing techniques.

Impressionism

JH 7min. C BFA

Inspiring paintings, used with the cooperation of the country’s top art museums, serve as examples of this kind of painting. Basic characteristics explained are: simplification of form by comparative analysis, texture and heavily painted surfaces, generalization of objects, and broken color techniques.

Indian Art of the Pueblos

IJH 13min. C Soc. St.

This film shows how modern Indians have preserved symbols and art forms which communicate the history and religion of their ancestors.

Indian Artists of the Southwest

IJH 14min. C EBE

Modern Southwest Indians have retained a remarkable measure of ancient art and craft techniques as part of their cultural heritage. In this film, three Pueblo Indian tribes, the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo introduce four of the major art forms: stone and silver work, pottery making, weaving, and Kachina carving.

Let's Draw with Crayons

PI 10min. C Coronet Films

This film provides an art lesson describing how to use and care for crayons, and some of the many interesting effects one can achieve through different crayon techniques. It stresses creative drawing, poster making, and other crayon crafts, such as imprinting a design on cloth.

Light

IJ 11min. C Films Inc.

Light is an important element in art, and the film illustrates how artists use it: the juxtaposition of patterns of light and dark, the use of color to create a sensation of light, the heightening of dramatic effect with strong illumination, and the softening, clouding of impact with diffused, mottled light.

Maria: Indian Pottery of San Ildefonso

IJH 27min. C Holiday Video

In this program, Maria Martinez, noted Indian pottery maker, demonstrates the traditional Indian ways, beginning with spreading of sacred corn before clay is gathered. Also shown are the mixing of clay, construction of pottery, hand decorating, and building of the firing mound.

Missions of the Southwest

IJH 15min. C Barr

This film details the Spanish Missions’ role in the United States, showing some of the characteristic features of the buildings and how they play an active role in the present day Southwest.

Movement

IJ 10min. C Films Inc.

There are two kinds of perceived motion: actual and apparent. Both of these are explored in the film, which analyzes the character of movements of fish, birds, fire, and natural objects, as well as the movement of machines and movement in painting and architecture.

Non-Objective Art

JH 8min. C BFA

Establishes what this style is and how it differs from other types of painting. Attention is directed to non-objective things in nature, and these steps are followed in investigation: basic elements (line, shape, color), uses of non-objective art in industrial design, unique interests of the creative painter, and outstanding examples of noted painters.

Orange and Blue

PIJH 15min. C Lang. Arts/Art

This silent film stars Orange and Blue, two bouncing balls with the curiosity and exuberance of small children. Their adventures take them from the natural world to the man-made world.

The Renaissance, Its Beginning in Italy

H 25Min C EBE

Photographed entirely in Italy and France, this film portrays the rise of the Renaissance, a period when, starting in Italy, Europe awoke to a new awareness about man and his surroundings. Examples of Renaissance painting, sculptures, and architecture are included.

Shape

IJ 10min. C Films Inc.

Shape is our principal means of differentiation between objects. Even without color or surface details, we can usually identify objects by their characteristic outline. By focusing on and emphasizing the basic shapes of things around us, the artist lets us see as he does and gives us a fuller understanding of the essential qualities of the world around us.

Space

IJ 10min. C Films Inc.

The film shows how the artist sees and utilizes space as a vital element in his work. The sculptor works in three dimensions, so that the work encloses space, exists in space, or moves in space. The painter’s creation of the illusion of space is demonstrated by the linear perspective, aerial perspective, overlapping of objects, and vertical placement of objects.

Surrealism

JH 7min. C BFA

We usually think of things being in a certain place. The Surrealists take things out of their usual settings and rearrange them into situations that are unnatural and often weird. Paintings are sometimes half-day, half-night, reflecting the space and time of the mind. Surrealistic symbols offer a quality of intrigue and mystery.

Textures

IJH 10min. C Aims

Directed toward developing a visual consciousness of surface, this film explores factors which influence our impression of texture: light, point of view, and function. Examples range from sculpture to kitchen utensils.

Using and Caring for Art Materials

P 11min C Centron

Shows children how to care for various art materials (paint, crayons, scissors, paper, clay, brushes, glues, paste, etc.), and motivates them to use the proper methods.

The Making of a Continent: Corridors of Time

H 56 min. C Films Inc. H 56 min. C Films Inc.

"The Making of a Continent" explores the geological events that shaped North America. "Corridors of Time" focuses on the Colorado Plateau.

The Making of a Continent: Land of Sleeping Mountains

H 56 min. C Films Inc.

This part of "Making of a Continent" focuses on the Great Basin which was formed when the Pacific’s floor slid under the continent, pushing up the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Map Projections in the Computer Age

IJH 10min. C Coronet

The use of computers in map making has allowed cartographers to produce more accurate and specialized varieties of maps. This film shows cylindrical, conic, azimuthal, and equal-area projections, revealing the functions and distortions of each, and points out that computers produce maps mathematically, instead of by projection.

Maps and Landmarks

PI 11min. C BFA

Children use objects in their environment as landmarks to help them find their way. Large and small, natural and man-made, landmarks are used to determine location and direction. We trace a family’s trip to grandmother’s house and back, seeing first the real objects used as landmarks. The trip is then retraced on a model of the area, and on a simple pictorial map.

Maps: Where Am I?

I 11min. C Aims

An introductory approach to the understanding of maps: direction, symbols, and scale. Aerial photography, graphic comparisons, and animation supplement live action.

Alaska, U.S.A.

IJH 22min. C BFA

We see Alaska’s size and location, learn about her population, and survey her geography with its extremes of climate. The film discusses the development of her natural resources of fish, timber, and agriculture. Types of transportation and communication, recreation, native plants and animals, and places of interest are also shown.

Map of Hawaii: Hawaii’s Land and its Uses

IJ 18min. C Paramount

Surface and aerial photography and animated maps explain how land forms, elevation, and climate affect the ways in which man uses the land for cities, military establishments, tourists, agriculture, and related activities. Illustrative scenes range from the growing of taro in the valley bottoms and lowlands, to Volcano National Park with elevations above 10,000 feet.

Map of Hawaii’s Origin, Land, and Climate

IJ 18min. C Paramount

Animation and special maps, as well as surface and aerial photography explain creation of the islands, the present day appearance of land forms and their locations. Graphics and time lapse photography are used to explain how the trade winds and rainfall influence the island climate.

The American Desert

PIJ 18min. C Stanton

The forces of nature are constantly changing the desert. These forces include: wind, often in the form of a violent sandstorm; heat, cold, and the lack of humidity; and water, an erosive force during desert rainstorms. The viewer sees the consequent effect on the landscape because of these changing conditions.

American Southwest/Land of Enchantment

IJ 8min. C RMI

A colorful display of America’s Southwest, featuring Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, Arches National Monument, and a mud flood on the Little Colorado River. Prairie dogs, rattlesnakes, horned toads, and deer are shown in their natural state, together with various cacti, desert flowers and plant life.

Arizona Adventure

IJH 28min. C Arizona Mining

This film presents a history of Arizona through the use of still pictures, mostly from Arizona Highways. It takes the viewer from prehistoric times, through Indian civilizations, Spanish explorations, Mexican territory, cession to the United States, organization as a territory, Indian conflict, and growth of agriculture industry and cities.

Colorado River: Water and Power for the Southwest

PIJH 16min. C BFA

The Colorado River supplies water to seven western states. The film shows how a combination of men and machinery has harnessed the Colorado River to serve the needs of the land and its people. Once arid lands are now productive. The film also shows the series of dams constructed by the federal government to control the river’s power.

Desert Industry

PI 11min. C Aims

Film gives a panoramic view of uses of the desert. Industries include: copper mining by the open-pit method (Ajo), salt making at the Great Salt Lake, and extraction of chemicals from the water in Death Valley. Also shows how organizations (Armed Forces, Desert Museum, Kitt Peak, etc.) utilize the dry climate for their benefit.

Geology of the Grand Canyon Country

IJH 17min. C BFA

This film describes in detail the geologic history of the Grand Canyon and the immediate surrounding areas in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. The beginning of the film shows some of the basic principles relating to the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossils, emphasizing the origin of the rocks in the Grand Canyon. A geologic time scale shows the history as it moves step by step through each of the rock formations represented in the Grand Canyon area.

Fog

PIJH 9min. C

This film captures the poetic and artistic mood of fog as the scientific phenomena of its textures, patterns, and motion are explored. Carl Sandburg’s poem "Fog" was the inspiration for this non-narrated film. Views of fog rolling into the valleys, clouding sea and ships, and obscuring landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge encourage observation of environmental changes.

Geyser Valley

IJH 9min. C

Yellowstone’s awe-inspiring geysers and other thermal phenomena are vividly shown and heard in this non-narrated film. Viewers travel through picturesque valleys, over deep caverns, and rocky precipices where nature has carved her phenomena. Unusual forms, movements, and striking colors suggest many possibilities for writing, drawing, painting, and storytelling.

Gruesome Gray Monster

P 8min. C

Can you imagine a world without colors? When the Gruesome Gray Monster steals all the colors and leaves the world a gray, drab place, no one seems to notice but Kathy. With the help of the color red, Kathy confronts the monster at his gruesome gray castle and wins a contest to get all the colors back. This film gives the children practice in color identification and discrimination and encourages creative expression.

I Like Clouds

PI 7min. C

An inductive approach explores the fleecy, fluffy, full, and frighten but fast, free-flowing clouds.

I Like the Desert

PI 11min. C

Eploring the desert, the film shows many animals whose natural colors lend protection from their predators. It also visits ghost towns and cities. This is designed to prod the inquiring mind.

I Like Trees

PI 9min. C

Through verse and narration, the film tells about trees in the city, country, on mountains, and in the desert: colors, sizes, shapes, uses. This film is for rhythmic activity, art, science, language arts.

I Like Water

PI 8min. C

This film defines many forms of water found in earth, observes importance of water to all living things, and stimulates appreciation of beauty of water areas.

Waves and Energy

IJ 11

Three Fox Fables

P 11

Grand Canyon

JH 26min. C Films, Inc.

The late Joseph Wood Krutch, naturalist, author, and drama critic, produced this film on the Grand Canyon. It is based upon his writings.

Life in Parched Lands

I 30min. C McGraw-Hill

The object of this film is to give viewers a trip to the Sonoran Desert enhanced by intimate glimpses of desert life available only through telescopic lenses. They see and learn how an astounding variety of organisms have become adapted to living in a home that is arid, awesome, and amazingly beautiful.

Making the Desert Green

I 16min. C EBE

A case study for the Pacific Southwest region, this film introduces the concept of water management and scientific farming. It shows the method of irrigation used in the Coachella Valley, California, which has changed its dry soil into the richest farm land acre for acre in the world.

Man’s Basic Need: Natural Resources

PI 11min. C EBE

A study of two New Mexico towns, emphasizes the importance of natural resources to man’s existence. One is a ghost town deserted by miners after they could no longer afford to buy water. Hatch, another town in the valley, prospers as a rich farming community. The difference? Wise use of the Rio Grande River through dams and irrigation.

National Monuments of Southern Arizona

IJH 30 min. C. Holiday Video

This program explores scenery as well as the natural and cultural histories of eight National Park Service locations in Southern Arizona.

Rio Grande: Where Four Cultures Meet

IJ 16min. C BFA

The Rio Grande wanders shallow and muddy for more than 1800 miles on its course to the Gulf of Mexico. People of four cultures settled along the Rio Grande: Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans. These cultures have interacted and contributed to the lifestyle of the people of this region.

The Southwest

IJH 14min. C McGraw-Hill

The film discusses are the character of the Spanish and Indian Cultural traditions and their contributions to present day southwestern life. Also discussed are: the rapid growth of major urban centers, changes in agricultural production resulting from large scale irrigation projects, and the development of new industries (aerospace, tourism, and retirement communities). Problems brought about include: rapid urban growth, human rights, environmental protection and overcrowding.

The Southwest

IJH 27min. C Natl. Geog. 1983

In this film the viewer learns about a land rich in energy resources yet poor in life-sustaining water. Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas are the states included in the Southwest, which is indebted to the Indian and Spanish heritages that give it a unique character.

Through the Grand Canyon by Boat

IJH 20min. C Chevron

This film follows an expedition directed by Norman Nevill from Lee’s Ferry to Lake Powell in the 1940’s, prior to the use of rubber rafts. Scenes of boats running rapids were taken from cameramen on the banks of the river. Scenes show the Grand Canyon, swiftness of the river, and demonstrates the cutting of the gorge by water. The viewer explores Indian ruins along the way, stops at Phantom Ranch, and Havasu Creek.

A Visit with Cowboys

PI 11min. BW EBE

The song "Home on the Range" sets the mood for this interesting and informative film on the modern American cowboy. The camera follows Don, a city boy from the East, to an Arizona cattle ranch. The story of Don’s experiences on the ranch is told by Rancher Ryan, his host.

The Central Farming Region: Food for the Nation

IJH 14min. BW McGraw-Hill

Students will discover many of the reasons why the vast heartland of America is a major source of food for the nation and the world. Maps and overlays show the important natural resources of the region: the system of rivers that drain the rich soil, the favorable climate and rainfall, and the flat or gently rolling land.

The Climates of North America

IJH 17min. C EBE

Explains that the variables of temperature and rainfall determine the major climate zones of the continent. North America has examples of most of the climates: extreme cold, desert dryness, tropical heat, heavy humidity, and a variety of mountain climates.

The Great Lakes Area: Men, Minerals, and Machines

IJH 15min. BW McGraw-Hill

Introduces students to four men whose work is related to the manufacture of steel and the fabrication of steel products. By seeing the work that they do, students will better understand the natural and human resources which have made the Great Lakes region one of the outstanding industrial areas in the world. The film shows how the ore is removed from the earth and processed.

The Great Plains: From Green to Gold

IJH 14min. BW McGraw-Hill

A visit to the farm of Tom Mason, a wheat grower in south central Kansas, introduces students to the farming methods of the Great Plains, and shows them what life on a plains farm is like. The film also shows the entire wheat farming cycle, from preparation of the land, to harvest of the ripened corn.

The Gulf Coast: The South’s Land of Opportunity

IJH 15min. BW McGraw-Hill

The film begins by emphasizing the importance of the warm climate and its benefits for tourism and agriculture. The Gulf Coast region is also noted for its mineral wealth, and the film shows how these minerals: salt, sulphur, phosphate, and petroleum are obtained. The importance of the port cities of the Gulf Coast is shown in visits to Houston and New Orleans.

The Interior West: The Land Nobody Wanted

IJ 20min. C EBE

Highlights the unique geographic features of the sparsely settled Interior West. Presents the different points of view on how the land and its resources should be used, now that irrigation and water control make it possible to farm and build modern cities there.

The Making of a Continent: The Price of Gold

H 55 min. C Films Inc.

"The Price of Gold" shows that California’s Central Valley was formed during the birth of the Sierra Nevada. The gold deposits and rich soil that resulted had a huge impact on the area’s history.

The Making of a Continent: Collision Course

H 58 min. C Films Inc.

"Collision Course" shows evidence of continental collisions and the fossilized remains of earth’s life litter in the wasteland of Canada’s Great Slave Lake.

The Making of a Continent: The Rich High Desert

H 48 min. C Films Inc.

This shows that the Great Plains rest on miles of sediment laid down over millions of years and the last Ice Age left the Great Lakes and made the area the breadbasket of the world.

The Making of a Continent: The Great River

H 48 min. C Films Inc.

This program shows that the Mississippi was born when the Rockies rose in the west, tilting the land eastward, and the Ice Age diverted rivers to the north and south.

Magic and Music

IJ 17min. C

This is a magical tour to the musical realm and to the visual fantasies that music can inspire. It is an impression based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Flight of the Bumblebee," in which a beleaguered bumblebee whirls through an animated world of images. An excerpt from the internationally famous "Fantasia" establishes the connection between music, mood, and image as Beethoven’s "Pastoral" transports students to the serene height of Mt. Olympus.

The Man Who Bought Monday Night

IJ 16min. C

Where do story ideas come from? Projector stops involve the audience in creative thinking and writing parallel to that of the film.

Pigs

PI 11min. C

Dawn: timid sparrow discovers bulky shapes and sounds of heavy breathing. Blimp-like rotund shapes stir, arise... pigs! Faces, tails, personalities. No commentary.

Rainshower

PI 14min. C

The sights and sound, beauty and rhythm of rain are depicted. It shows the changing moods of a day when a rainshower comes to plants and animals on a farm, and to people at work in a community. This film offers a rich experience in looking and listening. Narration is used for the introduction - the rest is natural sound.

Observing and Describing

PI 13

Autumn is an Adventure

Zoo Babies

The Mid-Atlantic States

IJH 27min. C Natl. Geog 1983

This film shows students a region of great diversity: densely populated cities to lonely country roads, busy factories and seaside resorts. Students will become familiar with the major cities and learn about similarities and differences.

The Middle Atlantic Seaboard: Great Cities... Megalopolis

IJH 17min. C McGraw-Hill

This takes students to the highly urbanized area that stretches from New York City to Baltimore, pointing out the features that distinguish the area as a whole. It introduces the concept of megalopolis, and discusses the many problems caused by the growth of the super-city. Focusing upon the three principal cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, the film shows how nearly one-half the nation’s foreign trade passes through these three ports.

Mississippi River: Trade Route of Mid-America

IJH 19min. C BFA

A comprehensive treatment of the Mississippi River and its two principal tributaries, the Ohio and Missouri Rivers. Maps locate the rivers and their drainage basins, the cities they serve, and their great agricultural belts. Featured are the locks, dams, power plants, conservation projects, the use of the river for transportation, and the principal industries.

North America: The Continent

IJ 16min. C Coronet

The basic geographic structure of the continent is shown in this film. The coastal highland region, the Western Cordillera and the Appalachian Highlands from the Canadian Shield to Central America. Land forms and climates of the major regions are seen in relation to the human use that has produced highly developed agricultural, industrial, and urban societies.

The Pacific Northwest: Putting Water to Work

I 19min. C McGraw-Hill

Emphasizes the importance of water in explaining marked regional differences in the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.

The Rocky Mountain Area: Backbone of the Nation

IJH 16min. BW McGraw-Hill

This film shows the importance of the Rocky Mountain area to the entire United States, especially to those who live in the Intermountain and Pacific Coast areas. Students see how water from the mountains is used for irrigation as far away as California, and learn why the Rockies are such an important source of timber, minerals, and pasture land.

The Sheep Rancher

IJ 16min. C EBE

This case study of a typical sheep rancher in Wyoming focuses on the changes in this industry.

The Southeast: Challenge and Change

I 14min. C McGraw-Hill

This film acquaints students with recent economic and social developments in the southeastern states of the United States, and comments upon the social and economic changes that can be expected to continue as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Southern New England Region: New Industries

IJH 13min. BW McGraw-Hill

This film traces the early beginnings of manufacturing in New England. It shows that the early settlers found the area unsuitable for extensive farming, but abundant in water and rapids that could be used to power machinery. The film tells how the first factory was quickly followed by many more until New England became an important producer.

United States Regions: The Midwest

IJ 20min C Geography

This program overviews the region’s climate and topography and traces the economic lifeline of the Midwest from ore mines in Minnesota to steel mills in Indiana and car factories in Detroit; from the harvesting of wheat in South Dakota to the trading of commodities in Chicago.

United States Regions: The Mountain Region

IJ 23min C Geography

This film highlights relationships within places. It shows how people in the region modify or adapt to the natural environment to meet their needs.

United States Regions: The Northeast

IJ 22min C Geography

This film highlights the large and dynamic cities of the region, assesses the problems of the cities and looks at the region’s industries.

United States Regions: The Pacific Region

IJ 23min C Geography

In this program viewers will go from the highest point in North America, Mt. McKinley, to the lowest point, the desert floor of Death Valley.

United State Regions: The Southeast

IJ 21min C Geography

This program demonstrates relationships between the physical geography and the human activities of the region. It explains how the Southeast region interrelates with the rest of the United States and the world.

United States Regions: The Southwest

IJ 22min C Geography

This program deals with the Southwest region, a region rich in Spanish and Mexican influence. Viewers tour an oil rig and a cattle ranch, and learn how the dry climate and land of the Southwest are both assets and liabilities for future growth.

A Visit to Wild Rice Country

PI 10min. C Journal

The film depicts the harvesting technique of this naturally grown food staple and gives insight into the lifestyle of the Indians of the Great Lakes Region.

Africa: Living In Two Worlds

IJH 16mins C EBE

Vivid pictorial scenes illustrate the contrasts between centuries-old tribal communities and customs, and new African nations, typified by mechanization, growing city populations, and the people’s intense desire for education. Presents both the benefits and problems of building strong, independent countries.

The Continent of Africa

I 15mins. C McGraw-Hill

Gives full coverage of the four major regions of Africa: the dry North, the forests of the West, the industrial South, and the highlands of the East.

Country of Islam

IJH 16mins. C Churchill

A picture of Morocco seen through the eyes of Mustafa, a boy who leaves his village home and journeys to a city to seek an education. Included are a farewell to the scenes of Mustafa’s childhood, the adventures and acquaintances on the road, the uncertainty of a boy coming to a strange city, and finally his acceptance into a new life, into new homes, new friends, and a new school. This story is the vehicle for a consideration of the country’s economy, culture, and the religion of Islam.

Discovering the Music of the Middle East

JH 20min C Geog/Soc. St.

In this program, the similarities of much of the music of the Middle East and Balkans are traced back to the spread of Mohammedanism. The film explores the concepts of highly ornamental melodic lines and asymetrical rhythms and combines the music with dance.

Egypt: Gift of the Nile

IJH 29min. C Centron

Of the seven ancient wonders of the world, only the pyramids of Egypt survive. Inextricably entwined with the mystique of the pyramids, are the names of the mighty Pharaohs: Tutankhamen, Khufum and Ramses the Second. This film examines the majesty and mystery of the great Pharaohs and their incredible monuments.

Family of the Bush: Son of Warriors

PI 11min. C McGraw-Hill

A provocative study of the life and customs of the African Masai tribe, one which views the act of becoming a warrior as an integral part of manhood. The viewer spends a day with a Kenyan Masai family, watching the women and children work at daily tasks while the young men journey to the fields to protect the cattle.

The Middle East

IJH 14min. C EBE

Illustrates the region’s vital importance to the rest of the world, and shows the influence of geographical conditions and cultural traditions on the present development of the region. Pictures the people, their way of life and their work. Also reveals the historical traditions of the countries included in this region, and the changes that are taking place.

The Middle East: The Need for Water

JH 16min. C McGraw-Hill

The film brings to students an understanding and appreciation of the people of the Middle East. It shows how people use new irrigation techniques and farming methods to overcome the handicaps imposed by aridity and unfavorable surface configuration.

The Middle East-History and Development: Ancient and Modern

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

This film probes the economic factors that helped cause the region’s stagnation and explores other internal and external developments that retarded Middle Eastern growth and further isolated the area from the age of world progress.

The Middle East-History and Development: Holy Land

JH 25min C geog/Soc. St.

This program illustrates the historical claim of Jews and Palestinians to the area we call the "Holy Land" and introduces the attachments to Middle Eastern Territory of Christianity and Islam.

The Middle East-History and Development: The Middlemen

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

This film shows us that the culture and history of the area’s people, the area’s geography and environment, and the recent expansion of Western influence have combined to shape the behavior and attitudes now prevalent in the Middle East.

The Middle East-History and Development: The Study of Oil

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

This program assesses the role of oil in the development of the Middle East from ancient times to the present.

The Middle East-History and Development: The Torchbearers

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

"The Torchbearers" shows how Islam helped bridge the 800-year gap between the fall of Rome and the onset of the European Renaissance in the early Fourteenth Century.

The Middle East-Society and Politics: Captains and Kings

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

This study shows some of the historical, religious, and cultural reasons for autocracy’s dominance in the Middle East.

The Middle East-Society and Politics: Family Matters

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

This film examines the development of the extended family and the cultural norms that evolved alongside. It explains the role of women in the region’s predominantly patriarchal system.

The Middle East-Society and Politics: New Frontiers

JH 25min C Geog./Soc. St.

This program focuses on one of the major historical sources of Middle East tension: the redrawing of the region’s map following the First World War.

The Middle East-Society and Politics: Sects and Violence

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

In this film viewers observe that within certain groups of all three major faiths, religious activism often leads to political activism and confrontation.

The Middle East-Nations and States: Change-Turkey and Saudi Arabia

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

Representatives from Turkey and Saudi Arabia discuss recent developments that have shaped the contours of two countries at opposite ends of the spectrum of Middle East change.

The Middle East-Nations and States: Homeland-Israel and Palestine

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

This film probes the continuing Arab-Israeli struggle. Guests representing the two sides discuss the thorny problem which results when both Jews and Palestinian Arabs claim the same territory as their homeland.

The Middle East-Nations and States: Identity-Lebanon

JH 25min C Geog/Soc. St.

In this film, a Lebanese expert discusses several of the key historical and religious issues that have fostered violence and civil war in this beleagured state.

The Middle East-Nations and States: Independence: Egypt and Algeria

JH 25min C Geog/Soc.St.

In this film experts from Egypt and Algeria discuss the historical benchmarks of their respective struggles for independence - the rise of Nasserism in Egypt and the full-scale Algerian revolution against French control.

The Middle East-Nations and States: Revolution-Iraq and Iran

JH 25min C Geog/ Soc. St.

In this study, we learn that a tradition of revolution emerged in the post-World War II Middle East.

Oasis: Living in a Desert Community

JH 29min C Geog.

This program takes viewers to the Tunisian oases Nefta and Douz to observe the rituals of daily life, and to witness the changes caused by intervention from the outside world.

Peoples of Africa

JH 16min. C McGraw-Hill

Shows Africa as a continent of many nations and cultures, and reveals how the people of Africa earn their living. Students see Africans of many origins working together to help Africa take its place in the modern world.

Preserving Egypt’s Past

IJH 23min. C Nat’l Geog. 1982

This film teaches the students about Egypt’s past while staying in the present, and shows how scientists are trying to preserve the ancient monuments and hieroglyphics.

The Suez Canal

IJ 11min. C EBE

Reviews the story of the canal’s construction, political conflicts over control, and its development as a link to world trade. Operation and maintenance of the canal are shown by a ship on its twelve-hour journey from Port Tewfik to Port Said.

Touring Egypt

JH 60 min. C

This is a video tour of Egypt. Viewers will visit Egypt and discover why Egypt was considered the most civilized nation of ancient times.

Two Deserts: Sahara and Sonora

IJ 17min. C LCA

A close look at sharply contrasting lifestyles of farmers in the Sonoran desert and Bedouin tribesman. It reveals why in one desert man changed the land and in the other adapted himself to it.

Two Families: African and American

IJH 22min. C LCA

This film depicts two family structures, one in Central West Africa and one in New York City. It explores what may account for the differences.

Burma: People of the River

IJH 14min. C EBE

This film explores the varied regions and ways of living in Burma. The viewer sees the rivers that serve as highways, the rice fields in the delta and river valleys, the jungle that yields teak wood and bamboo, and Rangoon, center of commerce transportation.

China: A Network of Communes

JH 15min. C EBE

Today in China, over 50,000 rural and urban communes organize workers into cooperative work/living environments. This film by Jens Bjerre visits farms, a Manchurian steel mill, and a Peking textile factory to examine communal organization, the workers and what they produce. The film shows the handling of child care, birth control, and medical care (including acupuncture); and the duties of Peking "street committees." The film explores the success of the system and China’s goals for the future.

China: An Open Door, Part I- An Awakening Giant

H 20min. C Aims

The film states the principles and ideals upon which Chinese Communism is founded and describes the kind of society that leaders are trying to attain. Through his personal acquaintance with the officials of the People’s Republic of China, AP newsman John Roderick has been able to compile a dramatic documentary.

China: An Open Door, Part II- The Past Is Prologue

H 19min. C Aims

Presents insight into the major internal struggles of China, including the Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists and the role of the Red Guard in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The strong personal leadership qualities of Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai are brought to light through a visual biography of each man.

China 1: A History

IJH 22min C Barr Soc. St./Geog.

This film profiles many of China’s contributions to the world: the martial arts, acupuncture, fine pottery and porcelain, and great philosophers, like Confucius and Tao.

China 2: Feeding and Clothing China’s Millions

IJH 14min C Barr Soc. st./Geog.

Viewers will see what life is like in a commune and a factory in China’s northern plains. The area’s numerous factories are producing goods that are helping China become economically self-sufficient in the modern age.

China 3: A Human Geography

IJH 21min C Barr Soc. St./Geog.

This film illustrates how China’s many mountain ranges and other geographical features have served throughout history as natural barriers from the rest of the world. Viewers are shown the four main regions of China looking at lifestyles, peoples, climates, customs, religions, and land areas.

China 4: Zhao Xuan at School

IJH 14min C Barr Soc. St./Geog.

In this film viewers follow a junior high-level student, Zhao Xuan, through an average school day. Serving as narrator, Zhao explains that Chinese schools emphasize moral development and physical fitness as well as intellectual learning.

China: An Open Door, Part III- Today and Tomorrow

H 15min. C Aims

Presents a comparison of the new China with the old and discloses Mao’s substantial progress in urban development, business administration and medical care. The viewer will gain insight into contemporary Chinese lifestyle and culture.

Ganges: Sacred River

JH 27min. C EBE

Film follows the Ganges from Himalayan origins, through the heart of India, to Calcutta, and the Bay of Bengal. A visual panorama of modern Indian life shows its dilemmas and contradictions and India’s dependence on the water cycle.

India: Pakistan and the Union of India

IJH 17min. B&W EBE

This film portrays the ways in which tradition, land, and climate have shaped the ways of life in India and Pakistan. It points out India’s complex problems of overpopulation, religions, nationalities, and languages.

India: Struggle for Food

I 18min. C McGraw-Hill

Shows students the problems facing the farmer in India. Little rainfall and antiquated agricultural methods result in very low and poor crop yields.

India: Urban Conditions

I 19min. C McGraw-Hill

The film clarifies the concept that population growth in India is so rapid that it tends to negate government attempts to raise food production and better the living conditions of the people. It also shows how language is a divisive rather than unifying force in India. There are 12 major languages.

Japan: An Interdependent Nation

IJH 24min. C IFF

This contrasts and compares traditional and modern Japanese lifestyles by showing farms, factories, families at home, a disco, supermarkets, fishermen, kabuki theater, a samurai movie, baseball, a political rally, and a university class. Historical black and white footage and animated maps add to the understanding of Japan. A comprehensive overview of one of the most important industrial nations in today’s world.

Letter from Indonesia

IJH 16min. C Churchill

This film portrays Indonesia as a nation: her geographical location and size, her people and their mode of life, and the reliance on American concepts of freedom in their struggle for independence. It concludes with a brief review of current educational and social reforms following 300 years as a colony.

The Philippines: Island Republic

I 16min. C McGraw-Hill

Introduces viewers to the physical characteristics of the Philippine Islands. It presents the Philippines as a relatively new country, successfully governing itself and achieving a stable economy (one of the richest in Southeastern Asia), while retaining its ties with America and American goods.

Russian Life Today - Inside the Soviet Union (second edition)

IJH 19min. C BFA

In this film, viewers see the people of Soviet cities and rural communities at work, in school, and at home. Scenes of their stores, markets, transportation, and public buildings include unique shots taken inside homes, hospitals, factories, schools, art galleries, and the Kremlin. Views of the farming communities and the village markets show a d`ifferent side of Soviet life.

The Soviet Union: A New Look

IJH 26min. C IFF

The fact that this vast country is made up of such diverse areas as Siberia, Central Asia, and Europe is reflected in the wide range of climate and the great variety of its citizens’ customs, dress, and backgrounds. Viewers see schools and universities, artists and a ballet school, a tractor factory, new housing construction, a family spending an evening in Moscow, and the role of women in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union: Large and Diverse Land

JH 16min C Geog./Soc. St.

This program illustrates the diversity in Soviet terrain, climate, vegetation, and natural resources and demonstrates how these factors affect economic activity.

Soviet Union: Living in a Planned Society

JH 18min C Geog./Soc. St.

This program examines how Soviets live in a planned society based on the Marxist theory of communism. It also presents challenges faced by the Soviet government, as well as examines the ways the Soviet government is attempting to meet those challenges and upgrade the quality of life for all its citizens.

Soviet Union: People and Cultures

JH 22min C Geog./Soc. St.

This program points out that Russians represent only one of more than one hundred ethnic groups that live in the Soviet Union. This film enables viewers to meet some of these groups, and to learn how their heritages, lifestyles, and goals differ from one another.

They Look a Lot Like Us: A China Odyssey

IJH 29min C Geog./Soc. St.

Struck by the physical resemblance between themselves and the Chinese, Inuit children take a trip to China to investigate the theory that they are actually descended from the Chinese. This film is the chronicle of that trip, told by the children themselves

Vietnam: A Historical Document

JH 56min. C Carousel

A complete study of the Vietnam War as it really was: a long and painful conflict that has had lasting effects on both Vietnam and the United States. The film explains the U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the events that led to our withdrawal.

Vietnam Today

JH 18min. C Paramount

"Vietnam Today" is a sensitive, encompassing overview of South Vietnam’s three distinct geographic areas. The viewer is introduced to families that live in each region. It shows the traditions, challenges, and changes that are part of Vietnamese life.

Canada: Landform Regions

I 15min. C McGraw-Hill

The principal purposes of this film are to provide mental images of these landforms, describe their locations, and help students understand how they occur.

Canada: The Industrial Provinces

IJH 16min. C EBE

Surveys the history, geography, and economy of English-speaking Ontario, and French-speaking Quebec. The film shows how both influenced Canada’s culture. Describes terrain, natural resources, major industries, sources of power, and transportation facilities.

Canada: The Pacific Provinces

IJH 16min. C EBE

Examines resources and products of British Columbia, showing regions where fish and timber exist, the Fraser Valley, with its rich farms and zinc, lead, coal mines, and describes the power plant at Kemano and the irrigation of land near Lake Okangan.

Canada: The Prairie Provinces

IJH 16min. C EBE

Surveys Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Describes the recent oil discoveries, which are vying in importance with the traditional wheat production of the region. Pictures the growing industries in the cities, and the physical geography of the region.

Canada - True North: The Relationship

IJH 57min C Geog./Soc. St.

This program provides a basic overview of the relationship between Canada and the U.S. and of Canada’s struggle to assert and maintain its own identity within this relationship.

The British Isles - The Land and the People

IJH 21min. C EBE

Traces the physical geography of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The film reveals ways in which the land has influenced the way of life and national character of the British people.

Christmas in Denmark

PIJH 7min. C Barr

Following customs hundreds of years old, a Danish family prepares a traditional Christmas on its manor farm. Decorations are made, treats set out for animals, and a special tree is chosen for decoration. On Christmas Eve the ritual of placing rice porridge in the attic for the Christmas elf is followed and the family enjoys its holiday dinner. Games, songs, and other aspects of age-old traditions are shared as the celebration continues.

Eastern Europe: Unity and Diversity

IJH 18min. C McGraw-Hill

A survey of Eastern Europe and the varying nationalities and industries of which it is composed. The emergence of East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia as modern industrial states is compared to the plight of such underdeveloped nations as Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria, which have a deficiency of coal and iron ore.

England

JH 60 min. C

This is a video tour of England from the Chronicle Travel Library.

European Culture Region: Its People at Work

JH 26min. C McGraw-Hill

This film serves as an introduction to the modern Europe Geography Series. It covers the Western European Peninsula from many different viewpoints.

Faces of Man: Germany - A Nation of History

JH 25min. C Screenscope

A visit to a country of many industries, this film takes the student through scenes of great historical importance and introduces the people and the history. The view of this country will help the student to better understand and evaluate the history of this century by providing a perspective of the people and places.

The French Way

IJH 13min. C Barr

This film will help the student of Geography and History appreciate the philosophy of the French people and understand the influences which affect the decisions and actions of the French nation. It is a study of contemporary France which emphasizes the Frenchman’s viewpoint and way of life.

The Low Countries: Very Much Alive

JH 18min. C McGraw-Hill

In this film students will see how the imagination and bravery of the people of Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) have made these small nations models of efficiency that the world looks to with admiration.

Nations of the World: West Germany

IJH 27min. C Natl. Geog. 1987

This film introduces the Federal Republic of Germany-a vital, productive member of the European and world communities.

The Netherlands: Blueprint for an Urban Society

IJH 17min. C EBE

Reviews the development of the Dutch people. How they have battled the sea to create land for a rapidly growing population and the factors that have made the Netherlands one of the leading nations in industry and trade.

Scandinavia

IJH 22min. C EBE

Shows how the people of Scandinavia, through cooperative action and industrial development, have been able to create a high standard of living for themselves. Also provides an overview of each country: the physical geography, natural resources, agriculture, commerce and industry, and the life of the people on the farm and in the cities.

Scandinavia: The Reward of Excellence

JH 18min. C McGraw-Hill

This film points out that although Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all have common ancestors and are in many ways alike, geography and the distribution of natural resources have made them different.

Spain: The Moorish Influence

JH 28min C Geog. Soc. St.

This program encompasses Spain’s epic story of conquest and reconquest at the crossroads of two worlds. The film describes the shifting social and political realities of the Islamic and Christian kingdoms.

Superjet to England

IJH 30min. C TWA

Stonehenge, Canterbury, Stratford-on-Avon, Tower Bridge (doesn’t show London Bridge which is now in Arizona), Parliament buildings, Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, No.10 Downing Street, Bank of England, Cambridge, etc.

Superjet to Greece

IJH 30min. C TWA

This film shows pictures of the ancient ruins of Greece in Athens, Salonica, and a number of islands. Olive and tobacco harvesting are shown.

The United Kingdom: Crowded Islands

JH 19min. C McGraw-Hill

This film examines the reasons behind the United Kingdom’s economic prominence in the world today. To offset her need to import most of her food resources, she has become one of the world’s biggest exporters of machinery, textiles, and electrical appliances.

Video Visits: Ireland

JH 50 min. C

In this video viewers will visit Ireland, the Emerald Isle. They will see stone castles, Dublin boulevards, Georgian mansions and many of the sights that make Ireland attractive to so many tourists.

Video Visits: Paris

JH 50 min. C

This video tour will journey to Paris, the City of Light. Viewers will visit the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. They will also visit many of the places and sights that make Paris one of the most visited and popular cities in the world.

Village of Switzerland

IJH 16min. C Churchill

The intimate sights and sounds of a village in the Alps. There are scenes of Eva and her grandfather bringing milk from their farm, as well as scenes in and out of school where the class is studying the economy of the region. Viewers shop, have a cheese fondue, meet Ursula’s fiance at the livestock fair. There is a citizen’s arms inspection and a glimpse of Swiss democracy at a town meeting.

Western Europe: An Introduction

IJ 20min. C Coronet

The vigor and energy, traditions and cultures of one of the world’s most industrialized areas are blended in this overview of the 15 nations of Western Europe. From an oil platform in the North Sea to an olive grove in Spain, from the grain fields of Great Britain to an automobile plant in West Germany, Europeans create out of their historic differences a competitive, technological society that finds unifying bonds in the Common Market and the European Parliament.

America’s First City Teotihuacan

JH 17min. C Films Inc.

The world-famous pyramids of Teotihuacan (the Place of the Gods), are the remains of a great city founded 2000 years ago. Teotihuacan was abandoned around 800 A.D., but it is still revered by Mexicans as an example of the skills and artistry of their forebears.

Central America: Changing Social Pattern

JH 15min. C Barr

Explores the problems facing all the under-developed people of the word struggling to be part of the twentieth century. In Central America the people can be separated into two distinct groups: the wealthy of Spanish descent who own most of the land and control the governments, and the Indian masses who live in poverty and illiteracy.

Christmas in Oaxaca

JH 14min. C Films Inc.

Christmas in the Southern city of Oaxaca is a colorful and gay fiesta, reflecting the customs and traditions of the ancient Zapotec and Mixtec as well as the Spanish.

Discover Veracruz

JH 16min. C Films In.

The ancient Fort of San Juan de Ulua guards the harbor of modern Veracruz. It is the capital of the state and the site where Cortez first landed in North America in 1510. The film is a kaleidoscope of scenes from this Gulf Coast region, home of some of the earliest Indian groups of Mesoamerica.

The Many Faces of Mexico

IJH 16min. C Films Inc.

Mexico is a land of fascinating contrasts geologically and historically. Modern architecture rubs shoulders with remnants of past glories.

Mexico: A Changing Land

IJH 21min. C Alfred Higgins

The land of the ancients, once the greatest civilization on the North American Continent, is today becoming a modern nation. The people of Mexico are taking the resources of their land and turning them into new products to make a better life for themselves.

Monument to the Sun: The Story of the Aztec Calendar Stone

JH 16min. C Films Inc.

A masterpiece of sculpture, the Aztec calendar stone has become a world-famous symbol of Mexico. It is not a calendar. It is a monument to the sun, worshipped as one of the most important gods of the Aztecs.

Panama Canal

IJH 11min. C Coronet

Tracing the history of the Panama Canal, from its construction to the 1978 Treaty, this film explains how it operates and its significance to world transportation. A trip through the canal and views of life in surrounding cities help develop understanding of this great waterway.

The Story of the Aztecs

JH 19min. C Films Inc.

In 1325, the Tenochas (or Aztecs), searching for a place to settle, found the long-awaited symbol on a lake island: an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. The great metropolis of Mexico City occupies the same site.

These Were the Maya

JH 16min. C Films Inc.

For at least 4000 years Yucatan has been a center of civilization and the complicated structures spark the imagination. Today the Maya works in industries, and speaks Spanish along with the language of his ancestors.

Antarctica: Desert of Ice, Sea of Life

IJH 29min. C McGraw-Hill

The use of archival film footage, still photographs and interviews chronicles early antarctic expeditions. This documentary examines the past and future of Antarctica. Antarctic study was brought into modern age in 1923 with Admiral Byrd’s pioneer flight over the South pole. Expeditions that followed include that of Capt. James Cook and Capt. Robert Scott. The animal and mineral resources of Antarctica are vast, and currently the continent is protected from exploitation by the unique 13-nation Antarctic Treaty signed in 1959.

Australia

IJH 22min. C EBE

Depicts the many geographic, social, economic, and cultural concepts important to an appreciation of this country. From the fringes of the continent to the limitless range land of the "outback," the film gives insight into Australian life.

Australia: Challenge of a Growing Nation

I 17min. C McGraw-Hill

Dramatically portrays Australia as it really is: a nation almost as big as the United States, with a total population of only a few million more than New York City.

Oceania

JH 16min. C McGraw-Hill

This film helps students understand and appreciate the vastness of the South Pacific region of Oceania. It depicts the major cultural groups of this region, the geological development, and geography of the islands. Adaptation made by inhabitants of Oceania to their environment is shown. The social changes taking place are discussed.

The Amazon, People, and Resources

IJH 21min. C EBE

Explores the great valley of the Amazon:the swampland and jungle, primitive Indian villages, river traffic, and harbor cities. Typical family and village scenes illustrate the various ways which people along the Amazon gain a living from the river and jungle.

Argentina: People of the Pampas

IJH 16min. C EBE

The object of this film is to illustrate important phases of ranch and city life in Argentina; to show the influence of location, climate, surface features, and natural resources on the ways of life in the region; to promote an appreciation of the background and development of Latin American culture.

Brazil: People of the Highlands

IJH 17min. C EBE

Illustrates different ways of life as represented by four men and their families: the prosperous owner of a large coffee plantation, a tenant farmer on the plantation, the owner of a small cotton farm, and a factory worker in Sao Paulo.

Colombia and Venezuela

IJH 19min. C EBE

Pictures of life of a Colombian coffee grower, a Lake Maracaibo oil worker, and a Venezuelan professor. Surveys major topographical features of both countries and illustrates current methods of developing and utilizing natural resources.

Peru: People of the Andes

IJH 19min. C EBE

Illustrates the ways of Cuzco, once the capital of the Inca empire. The film contrasts community life in a self-contained Indian village with that of the tenant farmers on the haciendas. Peru’s economic progress is reflected in the new mining camps, improved transportation, and the wealth concentrated in the modern capital of Peru.

South America Today

IJH 27min. C IFF

Presents the background of a huge, diversified, rapidly changing continent with its variety of political, economic, and social experiments. The film discusses the future of more than half our hemisphere. Topics: Trans-Amazon Highway, new steel mill, university, political rally, air lines, street demonstrations, great varieties of people, early history to modern development, and three traditional institutions: the hacienda, the church, and the military.

The Red Balloon

IJH 34min. C

Once upon a time there was a boy of Menilmontant who was singled out by a red balloon. Everywhere he went - to school, market, home - the balloon followed him. Some adults are charmed by the boy and his balloon; others, the schoolmaster and the bus conductor, are not. Some children are fascinated by the balloon; others attack, puncture, and "kill" it. But the instant the balloon releases its last gasp of helium, all the balloons of Paris rebel, leave their owners and carry the boy aloft in triumph.

Silent Safari: Cheetah

PIJH 11min. C

This film shows the fleet cheetah, the fastest mammal, in action on the Serengeti Plains of Tanzania as it hunts its favorite prey, the Thompson’s gazelle. Unsuccessful, it playfully attacks a topi, then dodges a scavenging lion. Hunt scenes show how the cheetah uses its tail for balance when turning suddenly in a chase, reaching speeds up to 70 miles per hour. When a mother cheetah and two cubs stalk and bag a gazelle, they are joined in the feast by hyena and other scavengers. No narration.

Silent Safari: Elephant

PIJH 11min. C

This follows the African elephant through his daily routine of foraging, dusting, playing, roaming, and drinking his average 60-gallon-a-day intake from a water hole. Physical characteristics of this 10-12 foot high beast are graphically illustrated in use...the ears for cooling the body, the trunk for gathering up to 350 pounds of hay eaten daily. No narration.

Silent Safari: Giraffe

PIJH 10min. C

The giraffe, the tallest mammal, is shown at home in Tanzania. Close-ups examine its unusual shape and size; the marking which camouflage it in the bush country; a height of 18 feet that allows it to feed on leaves and bark from treetops; long legs that can carry it at 30 miles an hour when galloping. Independent family units feed without fear near lions and follow simple daily patterns for foraging, carrying tick birds, and drinking. No narration.

Silent Safari: Lion

PIJH 11min. C

One look at the magnificent mane, powerful jaws, and tawny coat bulging with muscle makes it easy to see why the lion has earned the title "King of Beasts." The hunting activity is the highlight of this film. The lioness who is the provider for the family can maintain a high speed for only short distances, so the prey is usually a calf or a weak adult. No narration.

Silent Safari: Zebra

PIJH 10min. C

Like the horse it resembles, the zebra travels in large herds, following edible grass and available water. Chief among its striking physical traits are the striped markings that help camouflage them in the uneven light of dawn and dusk when they are most often hunted by lions. Scenes show zebras as sociable and playful, greeting each other with conversational barking noises, enjoying running games, and grooming each other with their teeth while they depend on friendly birds to signal approaching danger. No narration.

Spring: Six Interpretations

IJH 14min. C

Spring is a unique season of the year, a time when life renews itself and the world seems to begin again. It has a special meaning that can be expressed in many ways. Poetry is used to search for the meaning of life. Photography seeks to capture the essence of each moment. Music expresses innermost joys.

Think of a Cloud

PI 10min. C

Clouds are an ever present source of visual imagery that can inspire fresh ideas and poetic moods. But clouds are more than that. They perform very useful functions. This non-technical film takes a look at clouds from the poet’s point of view, and also from the point of view of the scientist who can understand the subtle interplay between different forces in nature.

The Tree

PI 10min. C

Sitting under a tree, a girl discovers how living things depend on each other and how much there is to see. She observes a community of living things and discovers she is a part of it, too. Birds, sow bugs, earthworms, and people are important to the tree, just as the tree is important to them.

Walking Home from School

PI 13min. C

Jane’s assignment is to look closely at the things around her as she walks home. Looking thoughtfully, she sees details she hadn’t noticed before - in house shapes, street signs, walks, gardens. Safety is stressed in crossing streets and driveways. Reading (house numbers, etc.) is presented in a natural way.

Why Man Creates

IJH 25min. C

Explorations, episodes, and comments on creativity are offered. Combined are humor, satire, and irony with serious questions about the creative process and how it comes into play for different individuals. Eight major sections: The Edifice (animated history of the world built on ideas); Fooling Around (ways ideas can begin); The Process (young creator’s struggle); Judgment (society’s role in the process); A Parable (fate of a bouncing ball that does not fit old patterns); Digression (the relation between ideas and institutions); The Search (scientists’ systematic development of new ideas); and The Mark (exploring why people need to create).

Zoo Animals in Rhyme

P 11min. C

Amusing rhymes tell us something about zoo animals children love most -the lion, monkey, elephant, kangaroo, giraffe, bear, and many others. A basis for storytelling, vocabulary building, rhyme-making, and many related activities, this film also brings to the classroom beginning science concepts about animal life.

The Author’s Eye: Katherine Paterson

IJ 25min C

Katherine Paterson is introduced in her study in her Vermont farmhouse. Students will see how Paterson incorporates research into the process of writing a fictional story and will learn the history behind the writing of "Bridge to Terabithia.

The Author’s Eye: Roald Dahl

IJ 25min C

In this program students will learn how to create interesting and humorous characters, read drafts of Charlie and the "Chocolate Factory" and letters and stories Dahl wrote as a child.

Beowulf and the Old English Tradition

HCA 38min. C

This program introduces students to the origins of the English language and literature. This journey into Celtic-British culture and the oral epic tradition leads through Caedmon and Bede and culminates in a detailed examination of the greatest masterpiece of the age, Beowulf, and of its protagonist, who is the first tragic hero.

Comedy of Manners: Moliere, the Misanthrope

HCA 52min. C

As an example of the Comedy of Manners, this film offers an authentically baroque version of Richard Wilbur’s artful translation, starring Edward Petherbridge.

Creativity: A Portrait of Maya Angelou

H 60 min. C

In an interview with Bill Moyers, and back in her home town, poet Maya Angelou tells about her painful childhood days in a small town in Arkansas.

Emily Dickinson

HA 29 min. C

Actress Julie Harris hosts this film about the America poet.

Euripides: Medea

HA 90 min.

This is Robinson Jeffers’ translation of the Euripidean drama.

The Fir Tree

PI 28 min. C

This is the Hans Christian Andersen fable of a young fir tree who longs to leave the forest in hopes of becoming a glorious Christmas tree but finds loneliness and despair when he is left to wither away in the barn.

Gallipoli

JH 111min. C

A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown, combined with national pride, bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. The echoes of history blend with the friends’ compelling destiny as they become part of a legendary World War I confrontation between Australia and the German allied Turks.

Haiku

IJ 7min. C

The study of Japanese Haiku provides two basic areas of learning: the syllabic structure of the English language, and the independence of all things in the life experience. It is not intended as a "song" poem, but a picture poem. Its structure is a relatively rigid, although when written in English this rigidity must be relaxed in order to accommodate the differing rhythms of the language.

Hamlet

H 155min. BW

In this Academy Award winning film, Laurence Olivier stars in and directs the classic version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Hamlet

JH 216min. BW

The play by William Shakespeare is presented.

The Hangman

H 12min. C McGraw-Hill

Maurice Ogden’s allegorical poem has a resonance of truth with bitter overtones of recent history. The mood is accentuated by the simple ballad form and builds to a climax with unremitting tension: The coward, who has simply let others die to protect himself, becomes the Hangman’s final victim.

Harlem Renaissance: The Black Poets

JH 16min. C

Poetry and songs express the economic and social conditions of blacks in the Harlem ghetto.

Hiawatha’s Childhood

I 12min. C

Animated drawings illustrate narration of Longfellow’s classic poem.

Huckleberry Finn

IJH 210min C

Based on the book by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn takes an adventurous trip through the Mississippi river with a runaway slave named Jim.

Jack London’s To Build A Fire

JH 15min. C

What is it like to feel cold invade your body to its very center? This screen adaptation of Jack London’s famous short story dramatizes the encounter of man and nature at its most dangerous. London was fascinated by men who did not recognize that nature was often deadly because it was so deceptively beautiful.

The Jilting of Granny Wetherall

JH 57min. C

Hosted by Henry Fonda, this film is based on the book by Katherine Ann Porter about one day in the life of Granny Wetherall.

Julius Caesar

JH 116min. C

Based on the play by William Shakespeare, Emperor Caesar, returning to Rome after a triumphant battle, is unaware that Cassius, Brutus, and Casca are disturbed by his growing power and are secretly plotting his assassination.

Julius Caesar: An Introduction

JH 28min. C

A talented English company performs key scenes in this abbreviated version of Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar. Brief narrative bridges are used to connect the scenes, forming a compact, comprehensible, and dramatic introduction to the play. The adaptation preserves the scene of tragedy which exists in the full-length drama.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

PI 20 min. C

This is the Washington Irving story about Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster who was chased out of Sleepy Hollow by the Headless Horseman on Thanksgiving night.

The Lottery

HA 18min. C

This is Shirley Jackson’s most famous story about the people of a small American town who have the strange ritual of stoning a person to death. The story asks questions about violence and tradition that provoke student discussion.

King Lear

HA 158 min. C

In this Shakespearian drama, Sir Lawrence Olivier plays the title role.

Macbeth

HA 148min. BW

Shakespeare’s play is presented on video.

Madeleine L’Engle: Star-Gazer

IJH 30min C

This is a portrait of the celebrated writer, author of "Wrinkle in Time".

The Man Without a Country

JH 25min. B&W

This film is a dramatization of Edward Everett Hale’s classic story of Philip Nolan, the man who renounced his country.

Mark Twain

H 26min. B&W

This film biography shows the experiences and varied environments of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which furnished material for his stories, essays, and novels. Hannibal, Missouri was the river front town he knew as a child and wrote of in later life. We see, through the use of actual photographs, a comprehensive picture of Twain’s life - its color and excitement, its tragedies and its successes.

Birds: How We Identify Them

Black Widow Spider

First Aid for Children

Meet the Author: Betsy Byars

PIJ 12min C

Newberry award winning author of "The Summer of Swans" Betsy Byars is presented in this video.

Meet the Author: Jean Craighead George

PIJ 16min C

Through photographs and interviews, viewers will understand how george’s life and love of living things are reflected in her books.

Meet the Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

PIJ 17min C

Using historical photographs, maps and other documents, the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder is traced from her childhood on the frontier to the writing of her successful Little House books.

Meet the Author: Mildred Taylor

PIJ 21min C

This video takes viewers to Mildred Taylor’s home in Colorado, where she continues to chronicle the history of the Logan family.

Meet the Author: Marc Brown

PIJ 19min C

This visit with Marc Brown offers insights into the imagination of one of America’s most popular children’s book authors and illustrators.

Meet the Author: Russell Freedman

PIJ 20min C

This program introduces students to the writer in his home in New York City, where he has written more than 34 books for young readers on a wide variety of subjects for young readers.

Meet the Author: Stan and Jan Berenstain

PIJ 13min C

In this video the creators of the Berenstain Bears books are introduced in their Pennsylvania home where they discuss their lives, their children, and, of course, the bears.

Meet the Author: Ted Geisel

PIJ 14min C

Geisel explains how Sneetches, Cats in Hats, Loraxes and other creatures came to be.

Meet the Author: Virginia Hamilton

PIJ 15min C

This program introduces Virginia Hamilton, the author of Newberry Medal book, "M.C. Higgins, the Great".

The Mockingbird

JH 39min. B&W

Part of the trilogy, "In The Midst Of Life," this film is about a private in the Union army during the American Civil War. While standing night guard, he sees a vague and shadowy figure and fires his rifle. The next day, he goes in search of his victim and finds the body of his own twin brother in a Confederate uniform. The shock of his discovery causes him to desert the army.

The Nutcracker

PIJH 26min. C

In this version of Hoffman’s enchanting tale, set to the music of Tchaikovsky, the heroine is Marie, a serving girl who breaks the spell cast by the evil Mouse Queen to free her Nutcracker Prince from his wooden prison. Before the drama ends, the toys and Christmas tree ornaments rally to the call of a tiny bugle to follow their Nutcracker General into battle against the army of the evil Mouse King. After the battle, Marie and the prince live happily ever after in their magical kingdom.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

H 27min. B&W

This widely acclaimed film completely succeeds in capturing the tone and atmosphere of Ambrose Bierce’s hypnotic tale of life on the brink of death. As a Civil War prisoner is about to be hanged, he miraculously escapes...or does he? In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," the ambiguities of time and space are as much the protagonists as are the characters.

Paddle to the Sea

IJ 28 min. C

A children’s odyssey, from the story of Holling C. Holling, this is a film about a little Indian in a canoe which was handcarved in the northern forest, and in the spring, launched toward the sea. There are many adventures, all photographed with great patience and an eye for the beauty of living things.

The Poet’s Eye; Shakespeare’s Imagery

H 40min.

This film enables the audience to read Shakespeare with better understanding. To illustrate Shakespeare’s abundant and unique imagery, the film presents "visual quotations" from his work, to show how "the poet’s eye... gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name."

Pride and Prejudice

JH 44min. BW

An edited version of the feature film based on the Jane Austen’s novel, this re-creates the modes and manners of rural England in the early nineteenth century.

Reading Poetry: Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

IJH 12min. C

Poe viewed poetry as closely allied with music, thus his excellent selection of words, sounds, and rhythms to achieve the desired mood in "Annabelle Lee." Although many of his works are considered "Gothic and bizarre by critics, "Annabelle Lee" deals with love which to Poe was a manifestation of "supernatural beauty."

Reading Poetry: Mending Wall

IJ 10min. C

In "Mending Wall," as with many of his other works, Frost uses an ordinary, everyday experience as a basis for making general observations about human character and values. Two farmers are working together to repair their stone fence, as they have every spring. Frost’s point of view is expressed through one of the men’s questioning about the necessity for walls.

Reading Poetry - O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman

IJH 12min. C

During the Civil War, Walt Whitman served as a volunteer nurse, helping the wounded in military hospitals. About this time, he watched Lincoln walk by his office every day, but the two men never met. This poem was written to express his own and the nation’s grief after Lincoln’s death. The film is designed to relate the poem not only to Lincoln, but to other real and folk heroes of modern times who died by assassination.

Reading Poetry - The Creation

IJH 12min. C

"The Creation" is the story of Genesis told in the language of the black culture. It is one of seven sermons in verse of God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson and is a perfect example of the gentle warmth, humor, and depth of feeling within the black culture.

The Reference Section

PI 22min. C

Off to the library to write a report on space travel, Glenn is unprepared for the talking almanac that locks him in the reference room for an unusual lesson on the room’s many uses. He learns how the encyclopedia, Who’s Who, Current Biography, Statistical Abstract, Atlas, Reader’s Guide, Almanac, and card catalogue all help him with his report.

Robert Frost

JH 10min. C

A biographical sketch of Frost portrays him as a restless soul, cobbler, editor, teacher, Pulitzer winning writer. "Mending Wall" is read by actor Leonard Nimoy.

Romeo and Juliet

JH 45min. C

Franco Zefferelli’s production brings Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" to a modern interpretation of the tale of history’s most star-crossed lovers. This film extract, featuring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting preserves plot continuity as it traces Romeo and Juliet’s love from their first meeting to their self-inflicted deaths.

The Scarlet Letter

H 230 min.

Hawthorne’s classic is presented in four parts.

The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody

I 29 min. C

A video-age fairy godmother grants seven wishes to young Joanna, who learns how rewarding life can be when she thinks of others before herself.

Selected Sonnets by Shakespeare

H 40min

Four examples from the complete program have been selected to conform to a single classroom period. The program containsSonnet 65, Sonnet 66, Sonnet 94, and Sonnet 127.

Shakespeare of Stratford and London

JH 32min. C

Shakespeare is a literary enigma, a magnificent writer about whom, to many people, little is known. This film takes viewers to England and brings Shakespeare’s fascinating story to film. It is discovered that he was not a bookish playwright, but a sensitive writer profoundly influenced by his surroundings.

Shakespeare: Soul of an Age

H 54min. C

This motion picture moves from landmark to landmark in Shakespeare’s life picturing authentic maps, buildings, towns, estates, and cities. Sir Michael Redgrave recites passages from key speeches in Shakespeare’s chronicles, comedies, and tragedies - fifteen in all.

Sidewalks and Similes

PIJ 13min. C

Scenes of a lovely countryside are followed by city scenes as the narrator points out that beauty exists everywhere, even in ordinary things, when we learn to look for it. He suggests simlies for various shapes of lampposts: necks like giraffes, heads like faucets, shades like Chinese hats. By using memory, imagination, and a skillful play on words, the poet sees what is special in ordinary things and can find something to write about wherever he looks.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

J 10min. C

This is the immensely popular Jules Verne story about Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, and the adventures they shared with their crew.

West Side Story

JH 152min. C

Unabridged, this is the movie about the modern day Romeo and Juliet.

What Happens in Hamlet?

H 30min. C

Hamlet is introduced as a play with three movements: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. The major characters and movements and the interrelationships in the play are discussed.

The Alphabet Dragon

P 16min. C

A poor farmer releases an Alphabet Dragon from an evil spell. His reward is one wish for every letter of the alphabet. As each letter appears in the upper corner of the screen, the farmer and his wife wish for an item beginning with that letter. Wishes begin modestly, but increase in grandeur until the letter "Z," when they say "Zero!" What happens after that provides a final review of the entire alphabet.

Dictionary: The Adventure of Words

PI 16min. C

Tim received an "F" on his report card and is told "to correct the spelling and look up some new words." As he searches for his dictionary, it comes to life and introduces itself to Tim. Sharing its favorite words, it explains how to use the alphabet and phonics to find words and other information it contains.

The Gila Monster

PI 9min. C

"The Gila Monster" is a motivational language development film designed for student participation. The film is divided in three sections that show the Gila monster in its desert environment. The first section is devoted to developing listening skills. Parts two and three are verbal response sequences that encourage completing sentences and answering questions.

Magic Moments: Me, Too?

PI 4min. C

A boy, alone on the beach, sees other boys building a sand castle and asks to join them. When the group refuses, the lone boy destroys the castle. In talking about "Me, Too?" children automatically discuss their own feelings about being rejected and rejecting others. Most will find, perhaps to their surprise, that they have been in both positions.

Magic Moments: What If?

PI 4min. C

Here are four situations that are often difficult for children to cope with when they occur in real life. These vicarious experiments are an excellent way for children to work out appropriate responses in advance or, if they have already met the situations, to better understand why they responded as they did. Two typical situations are: a girl finds a wallet; a boy’s ice cream cone is knocked out of his hand.

Magic Moments: What’s Happening?

PI 5min. C

Five situations are shown, each one an intriguing part of a story, for students to complete. In one situation, for example, a group of children is pushing a huge, psychedelically painted box along the sidewalk. What is in the box? Why is it painted that way? Where are they going with it?

Magic Moments: Whose Shoes?

PI 4min. C

A heavy booted authority figure stands over a small child; a child runs after a car, trying to make the driver stop; boys and girls are dancing when something makes them stop and run away. These incidents, typical of the five shown in the film, motivate students to discuss what might have happened, and to tell how they would feel and what they would do if they were in the shoes of the children in the film.

Magic Moments: Bang!

PI 3min. C

Students see and hear a boy making "music" in the timeless ways of children: by banging on cans, hitting pots and pans together, striking bottles, and dragging a stick along a picket fence. This contains broad science implications.

Magic Moments: Clap!

PI 5min. C

A small boy walks through a park clapping his hands - and recruits a passer-by to clap with him; a large group of school children yells and claps with abandon. These situations and the others depicted in the film will help children better understand clapping as a way of having fun and of expressing appreciation.

Magic Moments: Follow Me

PI 6min. C

his film shows children playing follow-the-leader along the streets of their neighborhood and through a playground. It will spark lively and profitable discussions about how it feels to be a leader and a follower.

Magic Moments: Magic Hands

PI 7min. C

In four situations, four different children are suddenly granted "Magic Hands" that can make frozen cones multiply, turn bullies into frogs, and solve other problems magically.

Magic Moments: Fantasy of Feet

PI 8min. C

In this film, feet walk, dance, run, jump, hop, wear sandals, flippers, slippers, boots, wooden shoes, and no shoes at all. A pair of cowboy boots does a lively square dance - all by itself! "Fantasy of Feet" will have children talking enthusiastically about all the kinds of shoes there are, why there are so many, how feet serve their different functions.

Magic Moments: Hands Grow Up

PI 7min. C

Much of children’s play is an imitation of - and a preparation for - adult activities. "Hands Grow Up" shows children at play (like children playing with mud) and a corresponding adult activity (in this case, a potter shaping a vase). Besides giving children the pleasant feeling of being "grown up," the film shows them a wide variety of occupations that they are, in a sense, training for every day.

Magic Moments: Lopsideland

PI 5min. C

Children love to stand on their heads to see the world upside down. "Lopsideland" shows them this world - and the people and animals in it - upside down, right side up, sideways, and diagonally. The film provides an important early lesson in looking at things from different perspectives.

Magic Moments: Toes Tell

PI 7min. C

A barefoot girl steps on and feels many textures with her toes: fur, gravel, sand, paint. Viewers will be delighted with this opportunity to tell how the textures shown would feel to their feet and what they would do with their own feet, such as pick up a pencil with their toes.

Magic Moments: Getting Along

PI 3min. C

An old gentleman sitting on a park bench finds himself embroiled in a quarrel between playmates, which he deftly smooths over. Throughout the film the emphasis is on hands - the placating hands of the man and the angry hands of the children. Students see how hands and their movements show emotions, often emotions that are not expressed in other ways.

Magic Moments: Getting Even

PI 4min. C

A group of boys disrupts a girls’ soccer game. To get even, the girls "ambush" the boys, squirting them with water pistols. The film provides a wonderful opportunity for children to talk about revenge. When, if ever, is it justified? What are the results?

Magic Moments: Holding On

PI 5min. C

A small boy goes to Fisherman’s Wharf and to a carnival with his father. Suddenly, he’s lost! What panic and terror, in the midst of a carnival frolic! What a wonderful feeling to be found again! "Holding On" offers students the opportunity of describing usually unspoken emotions in therapeutic terms.

Magic Moments: Magic Sneakers

PI 9min. C

A boy finds a wondrous pair of magic sneakers but an evil blue monster wants to take them away from him! Thanks to the magic properties of the sneakers, the boy is able to outwit the monster. Yet he abandons the sneakers. Why? Viewers will enjoy deducing why from the clues in the film.

Magic Moments: Choosing Up

PI 7min. C

The children in this film choose up for many different games in many different ways. After each choosing sequence, the game involved is shown in a delightful speeded-up version. The film provides a variety of discussion topics: the reasons for choosing up, the fairest ways to do so, etc.

Magic Moments: Guessing Game

PI 7min. C

This split screen film shows pantomimists miming an action (like pretending to throw a ball). The blank half of the screen may show something different than what the actors are miming. It’s up to the viewers to call out what matches and what doesn’t.

Magic Moments: Join Hands, Let Go!

PI 9min. C

A group of children joins hands, skips, and sings a catchy game song, "Join Hands, Let Go!" Each time the children "let go" the scene cuts to a comedian performing an action that ends unexpectedly and humorously.

Magic Moments: Matching Up

PI 5min. C

In this split-screen film, torsos are projected on the screen, followed by feet. Students must quickly decide which match and which do not.

Pokey Little Puppy

P 7min. C

There were five little puppies who liked to explore. Each day they would dig a hole under the fence to get out and would scamper to the top of the hill. Pokey Puppy was never able to stay up with the other four puppies as he was always so busy looking at things. The film develops readiness for reading and numbers through the use of the written language and numerical symbols.

You’re Not Listening

JH 20min. C

In the midst of his performance, a Shakespearian actor angrily laments that NOBODY is listening. He leads viewers through a series of humorous, thought provoking vignettes that illustrate techniques for building seven basic listening skills. This stresses that anyone can learn to listen with hard work and practice, but rewards are great: a good listener has many friends, knows the joy of sharing with others, gains knowledge of the world.

Conducting a Meeting

JH 12min. B&W

This demonstrates and explains to group leaders and group members the basic pattern of parliamentary procedure that contribute to an efficient and successful meeting.

Creative Problem Solving

IJ 13min. C

Step-by-step, this film shows young students how to solve problems in a systematic, creative, and logical way. Two boys, curious to know why a pair of crayfish fight, learn the three basic steps of problem solving: gathering information, forming hypotheses from that information, and testing the hypotheses.

Adding and Subtracting

Principles of Flying

In the Bush

Finding Information

PI 11min. C

In learning to raise a baby bird a boy gets information in a number of ways: by advice from "an authority," by observation, by consulting reference materials in the library, by doing an informal experiment and by exploring community resources. This film imparts an awareness of the process of learning and problem-solving.

Oral Communications: Group Problem Solving

JH 13min. C

This is a group discussion conducted by several informed, enthusiastic, and articulate youngsters. The topic is one of vital interest to all students - the grading system. Pointing out the advantages of intelligent discussion vs. irrational protest in the solution of the problems, this film will familiarize viewers with the procedures of effective group discussion and explain its development through various stages.

Oral Communications: Planning a Speech

JH 15min. C

Through the experiences of Ron, a high school student and musician, viewers see how to select a topic and organize a speech. Ron plans a speech about his hobby (contemporary folk singing) and learns that he must organize the content according to the nature of the material and present his speech in terms that will both inform and interest his audience.

Your Communication Skills: Listening

IJ 11min. C

Audience participation and an animated "communication line" show why a listener must tune out conflicting inner and outer signals, why no communication can take place when the listener doesn’t understand speaker’s jargon, and what the listener can do when the speaker hasn’t organized his material well.

Your Communication Skills: Speaking

IJ 11min. C

An animated "communication line" shows the path a message takes between speaker and listener. Demonstrations that subjectively involve viewers show why a speaker must select language to suit the audience; how to control nervousness; and ways to can avoid being boring, confusing, or antagonistic.

Your Communication Skills: The Exchange of Ideas

IJ 11min. C

Communication skills can be improved by studying incoming and outgoing messages, and trying to decide why some are easier to understand than others. The viewer is given a chance to do this, and to sense the different responsibilities that go with sending and receiving verbal communications.

Find the Vowels

P 11min. C

Children are asked to respond verbally as they discover for themselves the sound of each vowel.

The Long Vowel Sounds

PI 15min. C

The film briefly reviews the long and short vowel sounds, emphasizing the former. It discusses the idea that the sound of a single vowel is determined by the letters that follow it. The film shows three rules for long vowel sounds in long words.

Phonics and Word Structure

PI 15min. C

This film briefly reviews the rules for the long and short vowel sounds in their most easily understood form. It then goes on to show that words sometimes have more than one meaningful part - roots, suffixes, and prefixes. It shows how to apply the rules for pronouncing vowel sounds to the meaningful parts. The film employs "live" scenes, animation, and graphics to present the ideas, the words, and their structure.

Putting the Rules Together

PI 14min. C

The film shows that the rules for pronouncing the long and short sounds of single vowels can be put together and reduced to a few simple rules. The idea that an unstressed vowel always has the same sound, is introduced and related to other rules.

Reading and Critical Thinking

IJ 15min. C

Various examples are presented to explain that the student must understand an author’s purpose and point of view because every author has personal feelings involved when writing. From this knowledge, the student is shown how to separate fact from opinion by becoming familiar with propaganda techniques and by checking for supporting evidence.

Reading in the Humanities

IJ 14min. C

This film discusses the approaches a student should adopt when reading materials in the Humanities. The material includes defining words by contextual clues, recognizing the author’s mood and purpose, and finding the main ideas and supporting details. Emphasis is also given to recognizing the format of the material and developing vocabulary power by understanding the various connotations of single words. In addition, the cause-effect relationship found in social studies books and the imagery found in poetry are explained.

Reading Skills: The Vowel "a"

P 13min. C

The short and long sounds of the letter "a" are discussed, emphasizing the effects of the final "e," the "ai" combination, and the "ay" combination at the end of a word. The film encourages children to respond verbally as they participate in exercises using the concepts that have been explained.

Reading Skills: The Vowel "e"

P 13min. C

Designed to show the major patterns of letters that give the vowel "e" its long and short sounds, "e" followed by only a consonant, "e" followed by a consonant and a final "e." It further covers "ee" together in the middle of a word, "ee" and "ea" at the end of a word, and "e" at the end of a word not followed by a consonant. This film also encourages the child’s oral participation.

Reading Skills: The Vowel "i"

P 13min. C

Bringing to bear the varied resources of the graphic and cinematic arts, the film deals with the long and short sounds of the letter "i," emphasizing the effect of the final "e," the "ght" combination, and the final "y" acting like the letter "i." The film encourages children to verbally participate.

Reading Skills: The Vowel "o"

P 13min. C

This film is designed to show major patterns of letters which give the vowel "o" its long and short sounds. It encourages children’s oral participation.

Reading Skills: The Vowel "u"

P 13min. C

This is designed to show major patterns of letters which give the vowel "u" its long and short sounds. The film encourages children’s oral participation.

Short Vowel Sounds

PI 12min. C

The film reviews the long and short vowel sounds, emphasizing the latter. Then using "live" scenes and graphics, the rules for short vowel sounds in long words are presented.

Up to the Moon

P 11min. C

Word-play film focuses on words from the Dolch list: up, down, walk, run, girl, stop.

Video Ways to Reading: Coati

PI 10min C

The series "Video Ways to Reading" represents an advance in relating the sound and sense of oral language to the reading process. In the first film, " Coati", a young coati has an adventure while its mother is away from the den looking for food.

Video Ways to Reading: Coyote

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", this film finds mother coyote watching her babies while father coyote goes out hunting. One curious pup sets out to explore the world, but his mother growls, telling him to return to the safety of the den.

Video Ways to Reading: Desert Creatures

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", this film shows desert-dwelling creatures that have adapted in various ways to their harsh environment.

Video Ways to Reading: Flying Squirrel

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", this film depicts a mother flying squirrel going out to search for food after leaving her babies safe in an old tree.

Video Ways to Reading: Mallard Duck

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", this film has a mother duck encountering dangers while leading her newly hatched family to the water.

Video Ways to Reading: Owl and Weasel

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", a curious young owl almost becomes dinner for a weasel.

Video Ways to Reading: Pocket Gopher

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", a quick-thinking pocket gopher uses all his resources to outsmart a hungry gopher snake.

Video Ways to Reading: River Otter

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", river otters swim about in play and in search for dinner.

Video Ways to Reading: Skunk and Wolf

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", a mother skunk uses her unique means of defense to warn a wolf to stay away from her and her family.

Video Ways to Reading: White Tailed Kite

PI 10min C

From the series "Video Ways to Reading", a mother white-tailed kite tries to give her babies flying lessons.

What Is Active and Creative Reading?

IJ 12min. C

When the student realizes that reading is a personal experience in which the author and reader come together to share ideas, he can become an active and creative reader. A variety of situations are demonstrated in this film to show the student how to stretch his mind and imagination to fully enjoy the pleasures of active and creative reading.

What Is Effective Reading?

IJ 12min. C

This is an overview film that shows students engaged in the various processes which will help them become effective readers. The film begins by helping students realize that they bring experiences, feelings, and attitudes to reading which aid them in getting meaning, interpretations and values out of reading. The film goes on to show how skills are developed and demonstrates the processes of critical thinking.

The Who and Why of Reading

IJ 13min. C

This film points out that reading is important in many ways in making modern living possible. It gives many examples of how much we need to know how to read in order to get through each day - street signs, labels, recipes, personal mail, telephone directories, etc. It also shows how practically everyone who has reached success in the modern world reads - the President, astronauts, parents, etc.

Why We Need Reading: The Piemaker of Ignoramia

PI 12min. C

Amusing animation portrays the story of a land called Ignoramia whose citizens cannot read or write. Problems abound until the little piemaker meets a Bookworm who teaches her to read. The people discover that reading can open the way to new careers and happier lives for everyone.

Your Communication Skills: Reading

IJ 11min. C

Understanding written messages involves more than just a good understanding of the symbols used and the ability to adjust reading speeds. It requires the ability to distinguish fact from fiction and the ability to relate the new messages to the many messages and ideas already stored in the brain.

Effective Writing: Sentence Sense

JH 11min. C

Morgan can’t play in the big game unless he improves his sentence writing skills. The coach shows Morgan some of the fundamentals of sentence writing, using sentences from such writers as Jefferson, Twain, Dickens, and Churchill as models.

Falling Water

PI 12min C

This film captures the beauty and power of falling water, from a trickle in northern Oregon, to the haunting beauty of Yosemite Water Falls, to the majestic power of Niagara Falls.

Fire

PI 8min C

With a unique animation technique, this film shows the phenomenon of fire, its impact on a forest community, and the slow process of nature reasserting itself. It stimulates students to talk and write about their feelings and their many different interpretations.

Fun With Words: From Words to Sentences

P 11min. C

This demonstrates how naming words and doing words make sentences when used together, and how modifiers add meaning to them. Cartoon stories told by an imaginary Mr. Brown show how sentences can be more interesting when varied, and when short ones are combined to make longer ones.

Fun With Words: Sentences to Paragraphs

PI 11min. C

An imaginary trip around the world provides the basis for an interesting story, but it isn’t paragraphed correctly. Together a boy and a girl make paragraph revisions based on catching the reader’s interest, arranging sentences in logical order, and using introductory sentences.

Fun With Words: Words That Add Meaning

P 11min. C

Adjectives and adverbs help describe a city apartment building, the families who live in it, and the things they do. Words that add meaning are combined with words that name and do (nouns and verbs), to present an introduction to sentence building and storytelling.

Fun With Words: Words That Name and Do

P 11min. C

The viewer learns about Larry and his activities by using words that name (nouns) and words that do (verbs). Nouns and verbs tell us about Larry at home, school, and at play, and on visits to the zoo, theatre, and airport.

Fun With Words: Word Twins

P 11min. C

Dan and Don are twins who think word twins are fun. From their collection the viewer learns that there are several kinds: words that look alike but don’t sound alike, and words that both look alike and sound alike, but have different meanings.

Let’s Write a Story

PI 11min. C

This film offers incentive for creative writing. In the first of three sequences we watch the antics of a dog. The projector is turned off and the class describes the scene using imaginative words and phrases. A second episode is the stimulus for writing vivid sentences, the third for writing a complete story.

Mean, Nasty, Ugly Cinderella

IJ 16min. C

How does character influence story? Projector stops involve audience in creative thinking and writing parallel to that of the film.

Nouns and Adjectives

PI 9min. C

Harvey and his high flying kite help the Wizard show how much more interesting and descriptive nouns can be when used with various adjectives to describe size, color, degree, quality, and other attributes.

Parts of Speech

IJ 13min. BW

A fun-filled afternoon at the beach provides an opportunity to use the parts of speech in building the pictures we see.

Prepositions

PI 10min. C

Harvey, the lifeguard, comes to the rescue. A frantic and hilarious escapade in the ocean leaves Harvey exhausted and the Wizard confident in his knowledge that understanding and identifying prepositions should no longer trouble anyone.

Story of a Book

P 11min. C

Film follows a real-life author, Marguerite Henry, through the process of creating "San Domingo and the Medicine Hat Stallion." Highly visual sequences show the steps of this process: getting the idea, doing the research, writing and re-writing, illustrating, planning the dummy, and printing.

Tommy, Suzie, and the Cardboard Box

PIJ 15min. C

Around three main characters, Tommy, Suzie, and a cardboard box, three different stories are created, each of which begins in the same way. Skillfully written narration permits the viewer to feel involved in helping create the stories. This film serves to illustrate and motivate imaginative creating writing.

Verbs and Adverbs

PI 9min. C

A wild bicycle ride by Harvey, with all the zany action of a Keystone Kops routine, enables the Wizard to do his job. He points out all sorts of verbs and illustrates the many ways in which adding adverbs makes the verbs much more expressive and more fun to use.

Verbs: Recognizing and Using Them

JH 11min. C BW

Done completely in animation, this film shows how to identify the complete subject and the complete predicate of a sentence. We see how to recognize three distinct functions of verbs in sentences. Effective recognition and use of verbs is encouraged.

Words

PI 14min. C

This film explores the joy of writing. Chidren work with teacher to make letters and words with their bodies; brainstorm words of alliterative sentences; pantomime words; use words as inspirations for stories; compose cinquains; and visit a printer to have their cinquain realized in type.

What’s Red Riding Hood Without the Wolf?

IJ 16min. C

Students explore the concept of the protagonist, his goal, and the obstacles to its attainment. This film helps students stretch their imaginations when constructing stories.

Your Communication Skills: Writing

IJ 11min. C

Information, feelings, and abstract ideas can all be communicated from one person to another with the proper words. Subjective demonstrations help show how to select words which will most accurately communicate a particular message, and what effects the appearance of a written message may have on the reader.

Adventures of a Young Eagle

P 18min. C

In this film, children will find parallels in their own growing up experiences. The young eagle, eager to leave the nest, falls to the ground when he fights a large eagle owl. His adventures involve encounters with a fox, wildcat, porcupine, and other enemies. Mother eagle keeps watch and sees he does not get into really serious trouble. The film ends with her guidance in teaching him to fly.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

P 11min. C

This animated fable points out the familiar moral that people can’t play all the time but must work and save for a time of need. While all the ants labor industriously to provide for the coming winter, the grasshopper rests in the summer sun. But when winter comes, the grasshopper finds it difficult to live and it is the ant’s turn to sing and play.

Appy’s Adventures

PI 20min. C

Appy is a baby bee whose adventures consist of learning to survive, i.e., collecting pollen, falling into a brook, escaping a hungry toad. The film uses narration, personification, music, and footage of real bees to portray the "growing up" of a bee.

Arrow to the Sun

IJ 12min. C

This is a film of the award-winning story by Gerald McDermott. From the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico comes this classic tale of a boy’s search for his father - the search for manhood and a place in society.

Bearskin or "The Man Who Didn’t Wash for Seven Years"

IJH 20min. C

This is a re-creation of one of Grimm’s best, but less known tales. Homeless, lonely, a wandering young soldier meets a strange cloven-hoofed man (known in lore as the devil). He will lose his soul forever if he fails a challenge. Draped by the devil in bearskin, he must vow never to wash, comb or cut his hair, nor cut his nails for 7 years. A tale of courage, endurance, and character which becomes increasingly intriguing as Bearskin’s journey unfolds. Unexpected twist brings a surprising and unsettling ending to this classic story.

Boy and a Boa

PIJH 13min. C

While we watch the adventures of a bright and enterprising young boy and his occasionally disappearing pet, we learn a great deal about snakes, and some other members of the reptile family.

Cabbages and Kings

PI 17min C

This is a classic Griimm Brothers tale about a very vain princess who spurned and ridiculed every suitor until her angry father decreed that she marry the very next beggar who showed his face in the castle.

Caterpillar

PI 16min. C

One day while playing his harmonica, a boy finds a caterpillar who delights in dancing to his music. The caterpillar performs all over the world. The little boy is therefore very unhappy and puzzled when his friend disappears at Christmas time. Then spring comes, and one day a beautiful butterfly appears, dancing to the little boy’s tune.

Christmas in Germany: A Story of Giving

IJ 24min C

This holiday film, set in present-day Nuremberg, features the charming Christmas customs and decorations and crafts of Germany .

Christmas Time: A Happy Time

PI 10min. C

Sure to provoke the imagination of any child: Miniature drama presented in store windows, excitement of decorating the Christmas tree, the brilliance of colored lights that create a fairyland downtown, warmth of a party for hospitalized children, fun of using popular Christmas toys.

Circus

P 16min C

This film focuses on the diverse elements that combine to produce "the greatest show on earth". It shows how every member of the circus must perform a variety of jobs to keep the show running smoothy.

Corduroy

P 16 min. C

This is a live action film about a little girl who finds a teddy bear in a department store. The teddy bear is misplaced after he goes looking for a missing button for his overalls.

Cricket in Times Square

PIJ 26min. C

A cricket who plays all types of violin music highlights this engaging story based on a Newberry Honors book by George Selden.

The Day the Colors Went Away

P 10min C

In this animated film a little girl finds out what this world would be like if it had no colors. When she creates a painting mess, all the colors get angry and leave. When the girl persuades the paints to return, the world becomes bright and beautiful once again.

Fable of He and She

PIJH 11min. C

Sex stereotyping is the theme of this amusing film. Creative clay animation depicts the tale of "Hardibars" and "Mushamels" who discover that traditional male and female roles can indeed be discarded.

Familiar Tales around the World: Cinderella (Chile, Africa)

PI 14min C

This videotape has two variations of the classic story, "Cinderella". The first is "Maria Cinderella" from Chile, and the second, from Africa, "The Maiden, the Frog, and the Chief’s Son".

Familiar Tales around the World: Sleeping Beauty (France)

PI 13min C

This is the traditional version about a princess who pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and sleeps deeply for a hundred years.

Farm Animals in Rhyme

P 11min. C

Whimsical rhymes take us on a trip around a farm as we look for its owner, Mr. Brown. We see many familiar farm animals and hear the sounds they make and see the things they do. Mr. Brown finally returns leading a bus load of children from the city who have come to see his farm, and everyone has a delightful time.

Faerie Tale Theatre: Beauty and the Beast

PI 50min C

Susan Sarandon and Klaus Kinski star in this version of the popular play memorialized by Madamme Leprince de Beaumont in 1756.

Faerie Tale Theatre: Puss in Boots

PI 51min C

This version of the popular children’s tale stars Ben Vereen and Gregory Hines.

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rumpelstiltskin

PI 48min C

This faerie tale is acted out by Ned Beatty, Shelley Duvall and Herve Villechaize.

Faerie Tale Theatre: The Dancing Princesses

PI 50min C

Lesley Ann Warren and Peter Weller go dancing in an enchanted fantasy world.

Faerie Tale Theatre: The Tale of the Frog Prince

PI 55min C

This Brothers Grimm tale is acted out by Robin Williams and Teri Garr.

The Frog King

PIJH 15min. C

This is a humorous, live-action version of Grimm’s folk tale, set in 1890 America. It is the story of a girl, her father, a frog - and a promise. It is about the sometimes painful process of growing up, about friendship, fairness, responsibility, transformation, and parental authority.

Gilberto and the Wind

P 7min. C

A delightful story is told about Gilberto and his friend the wind and how the wind affects his child’s world.

Harry the Dirty Dog

PI 18min C

This is a live-action adaptation of Gene Zion’s popular children’s book about a dog who likes to do everything except take a bath.

Harry and the Lady Next Door

PI 20min C

Harry the dirty dog returns to more advantures as he battles wits with an aspiring opera singer.

How Beaver Stole Fire

PIJH 12min. C

This is a re-creation of an American Indian myth on the origin of fire. Caroline Leaf’s special sand animation technique and an original Indian score capture the intimacy of the storyteller’s art for this colorful legend.

How the Bear Lost His Tail

PI 17min. C

This delightful children’s film uses puppet animation to tell its Aesop-type fable. A wily fox hoodwinks the naive bear who is teaching him how to catch fish with his own tail...ever since then the bear has no tail.

How the Elephant Got His Trunk

P 5min C

Based on the "Elephant’s Child" from Rudyard Kipling, this film follows the adventures of a baby elephant whose curiosity results in a tug of war with a crocodile that changes the appearance of elephants forever.

Little Girl and a Gunny Wolf

P 6min. C

The inner-city kindergarten children of the California Elementary School use cutout paper designs to illustrate a story based on "The Gunnywolf," by Wilhelmina Harper. They also provide narration and song.

The Little Rooster Who Made the Sun Rise

P 11min. C

The well-known fable with a moral is retold in this colorful animated cartoon. Children will be delighted by the animals of the farmyard and by the little rooster who discovers that his crowing does not really make the sun rise, but who acquires an even greater pride in doing his job in waking his farmyard friends.

Littlest Angel

PIJH 14min. C

Charles Tazewell’s story is presented on film in a straightforward translation, omitting sentences only where the picture made the meaning clear.

Little Toot

P 9min. C

A mischievous little tugboat that keeps cutting capers in New York harbor is banished beyond the 12-mile limit until, through heroic efforts, it redeems itself.

The Lorax

PIJ 24min. C

In "The Lorax," Dr. Seuss tells what happens to the land of the "Thneeds - things, things that everyone needs," out of the Truffula trees. To the horror of the Lorax, who speaks for nature’s resources, waste materials are coughed into the pure air and water.

Molly’s Pilgrim

PIJ 23 min. C

A Russian Jewish immigrant reinterprets the meaning of Thanksgiving during a class project.

The Moonbeam Princess

P 18min. C

Animation depicts the charming story of a little princess sent to earth on a moonbeam. Found in a bamboo grove, the baby is raised by a woodcutter and his wife until she grows to lovely young womanhood. Three princes vie for her hand by attempting extraordinary feats, but they all fail. Recalled to her original home on the moon, the princess leaves a gift of magical flowers for her loved ones on earth.

My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

PI 9min. C

Who is the most beautiful woman in the world? The question is answered in this charming folk tale from the Ukraine. It is harvest time, and all the villagers for miles around are harvesting the wheat. But Varya is lost. She cannot find her mother. What does her mother look like? Her answer is, "My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world."

Mythology of Greece: Hercules’ Return from Olympus

IJH 13min C

The objective of this film is to learn about Hercules, the greatest hero of Greece and a demigod of supreme self-confidence and physical strength. Viewers will learn about two of Hercules’ twelve exploits and see the difference between the human and the divine.

Myrhology of Greece: Jason and the Argonauts

IJH 20min C

In this film viewers will learn the myth of Jason, of his quest for the Golden Fleece, and of the many perils he and the Argonauts encountered on the way to victory.

Mythology of Greece: Perseus

IJH 20min C

The objective of this film is to learn the myth of Perseus, who, with the help Hermes, slays the fearsome gorgon Medusa and saves the beautiful Andromeda.

Mythology of Greece: Phaethon

IJH 4min C

In this film viewers will learn the myth of Phaethon, the brash, insolent youth who wanted to drive the chariot of the sun, and will understand both the beauty and the high price of pride.

Mythology of Greece: Prometheus

IJH 18min C

The learning objectives are to learn the myth of Prometheus, the Greek god considered to be the savior of humanity, and to witness as Prometheus gives people the skills to make life easier, and finally, in open defiance of the gods’ edict, gives people the sacred fire.

Mythology of Greece: Theseus and the Labyrinth

IJH 20min C

The objectives are to learn the myth of Theseus, his return to his father in Athens, his defeat of Procustes, his heroic slaying of the Minotaur, and his gaining the kingship of Athens.

Mythology of Greece and Rome

IJ 16min. C

Myths of ancient Greece and Rome are presented - stories about gods that men invented to explain natural phenomena and behavior, often teaching moral lessons. The film depicts tale of Ceres and Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne, and Bellerophon and Pegasus.

Narcissus and Echo

IJH 10min C

The Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo tells the story of the handsome Narcissus who is punished by the gods for being unable to love anyone other than himself. The myth is presented twice in the film: first, with pictures and music only, and then with narration added.

The Night Before Christmas

PI 10min. C

This is a unique film edition that uses original music, sung and spoken by Jerry Steiner. It utilizes a delightful 3-dimensional animation technique.

The Night the Animals Talked

PI 23min. C

Lyricist Sammy Cahn collaborated with Jule Styne to write this animated musical about the Nativity. It is not the traditional Christmas story. It is about the birth of Christ as seen through the eyes of the animals in the stable. Through this new and entertaining approach Cahn and Styne have drawn from the animals attitudes that reflect today’s problems of intolerance, even though the action takes place 2000 years ago.

North American Indian Legends

IJ 21min. C

Dramatic adaptations of authentic legends are presented.

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

IJH 24min C

This is a classic Mark Twain story about a man who would bet on anything and his pet frog was his favorite betting animal.

Paddle to the Sea

IJ 28min. C

A children’s odyssey, from the story of Holling C. Holling, this is a film of a little Indian in a canoe which was hand carved in the northern forest and, in the spring, launched toward the sea. There are many adventures, all photographed with great patience and an eye for the beauty of living things.

Pinocchio

PI 87 Min. C

A Walt Disney animated classic.

The Printing Book

P 10min. C

This beautifully simple story explores some of the thoughts which can flood young minds as they wake up and prepare for the coming day. Read by Sidney Portier.

A Rainbow of My Own

P 6min. C

A little boy searches for a rainbow of his very own.

Rich Cat, Poor Cat

P 8min. C

Contrasts and comparisons illustrate the differences between the way rich cats live and the way Scat, a poor cat, lives. Read by Bill Cosby, this film motivates children’s interest in reading.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

PI 26min. C

Rudyard Kipling’s immortal story, about a mongoose vs. two dreaded cobras, is narrated by Orson Welles.

Runt of the Litter

PI 12min. C

A film extract from "Charlotte’s Web," this is the story of the little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur, who found a friend in a spider named Charlotte. Saved from her father’s axe, Wilbur became Fern’s pampered pet until he was sold. In his new surroundings Wilbur moped, feeling unloved and alone. But he was cheered when a beautiful gray spider introduced herself as Charlotte and offered to be his friend.

Sioux Legends

IJH 20min. C

Legends of the Plains Indians are acted out by members of the Sioux tribes in South Dakota. A narrator tells of the history and legends of their ancestors, as the film shows scenes of the daily life as well as the magical stories.

Sparky, the Colt

PI 11min. C

The story of the first weeks in the life of a colt shows how he becomes acquainted with the farm.

A Special Trade

PIJ 17min C

This is a film about an old man and a baby who grow older together. When Nellie was young, Bartholomew would take her for walks in her stroller; after they got older, it was Nellie’s turn to push Bartholomew in his wheelchair.

Spotty, Story of a Fawn

PI 11min. C

The adventures of Spotty, a wild fawn, shows how he discovers other animals in the forest.

Tasha and the Magic Bubble

PI 20min C

This program follows a little girl’s fantastic journey floating through the air inside a bubble. Tasha and her sister show viewers the joy and limitless fun that await any child who uses his or her imagination - a truly powerful tool.

Tawny Scrawny Lion

P 7min. C

An awareness of the use of some written symbols or words to convey ideas is exhibited throughout the film via a simultaneous presentation of the spoken word and the written word.

Tchou Tchou

PIJH 15min C

In this film images alone tell the story of toy blocks building a child’s city. All animation is within the confines of the six sides of each block. It tells the story of a block dragon destroying a block city and the block children who outwit the dragon in a surprise ending.

Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman

PI 15min. C

In this animated film students follow the adventures of Teeny-Tiny and his two brothers, who get lost in the forest. An ugly witch offers them shelter, which results in a series of hair-raising adventures.

The Ugly Duckling

P 11min. C

Adapted from the classic tale by Hans Christian Anderson, this film uses real animals to tell the story of the baby swan who is raised with a brood of ducklings and rejected because he is different. After spending a lonely winter trying to find a friend among many different animals the "ugly duckling" returns to the pond, where he discovers his true identity as a beautiful swan.

Urashima Taro

PI 11min C

This is an animated adaptation of an ancient Japanese folk tale about a poor young fisherman who, as a reward for saving a young sea turtle’s life, is taken to a fabled kingdom under the sea.

A Visit from Space

PI 11min. C

This is a delightful cartoon, based on the new world of space as seen through the fantasy of the modern child. It tells of the adventures of a little girl who meets an inhabitant of a distant planet.

Walt Disney Christmas, A

PI 46 min. C

A collection of six cartoons presents Christmas the Walt Disney way.

Where the Wild Things Are

P 8 min. C

This animated film tells about a little boy who, making mischief in his wolf suit, creates a fantasy world where he reigns as King over the Wild Things.

Why We Have Elections: The Kings of Snark

I 9min. C

This colorful animated film whimsically speculates about the concept of how elections might have evolved. After "Bad King Boris" died without heirs, the people of Snark try different ways of choosing a new king, until they think up the idea of elections.

Wilbur’s Story

PI 15min. C

Based on the book "Charlotte’s Web," Wilbur is dismayed at the prospect of becoming bacon. His literate friend Charlotte the Spider schemes to save him by weaving his praises into her web. Wilbur becomes a celebrity and Farmer Zimmerman is convinced that he is indeed "some pig." Wilbur is assured of a ripe old age.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

PIJ 100min C

Children learn lessons as they visit Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Wonka teaches Charlie and his fellow visitors that sweetness of heart surpasses that of a candy bar and that honesty is more important than the inventions and products of a zillion candy wonderlands.

Windflower

PIJH 20min C

In this non-narrated film a youngster discovers the power of his imagination when his model of a hotair balloon inflates to full size and takes him on a lyrical journey over the autumn countryside.

The Cactus Wren

Air and What It Does

Thermometers and How They Work

Sound and How It Travels

Wind and What It Does

Water and What It Does

Our Post Office

Animals in Winter

The Big Green Caterpillar

Map Projections in the Computer Age

Where Should a Squirrel Live

Why Seasons Change

Froggie Went - a - Courtin'

Stop Look and Think

How Trees Help US

Our Wonderful Body: Medicines, Drugs, and Poisons

Our Wonderdul Body: How We Keep Fit

Ways to Find Out

Wonders of Growing Plants