Internet Archive - Collection: academic_films

Modern Business Machines for Writing, Duplicating, and Recording

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:11:39 GMT

An intriguing historical film, demonstrating many expensive business machines found in modern offices of the era, including electromatic and Chinese typewriters and machines for filming, stenciling, folding and lithographing....

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Creative Journey, The: Arnold Blanch

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:47:54 GMT

Filmmaker and artist Clifford West here surveys the life and work of Arnold Blanch, showing him as a teacher and painter in Woodstock, New Jersey. West, who more than 25 films on artists and aspects of art history between 1958 and 1981, utilizes a camera-as-brush technique more in keeping with the a....

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Railway with a Heart of Gold

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:49:23 GMT

This film is an account of the Talyllyn Railway, a historic narrow-gauge slate carrier in Tywyn, Wales, and its operation by a preservation society who saved it from being sold for scrap. Although the release date is 1965, it was actually filmed in the early 1950s....

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Brake Free

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:24:40 GMT

The third in a series of films that Kit Davidson made on railways (the others are 'Third Avenue El' and 'Railway with a heart of Gold'), this film is staged on the Mount Washington (NH) cog railway. Winner of the Silver Medal,Venice Intl Festival, and Golden Eagle CINE awards....

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Granite

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:22:40 GMT

Here, a 25 ton block of granite being burned, drilled, and blasted from the heart of a Vermont mountain, focusing on the machinery used. Filmed at the Rock of Ages Quarry in Barre, VT..

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Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:57:24 GMT

Lisl Weil, a dancer who often performed in New York with friend Tommy Scherman and his Little Orchestra Society, was also a splendid charcoal artist. Here, accompanied by Sherman’s musical interpretation of the Paul Dukas classic, she soars across the screen, drawing abstract characters on a massi....

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Posada

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:36:46 GMT

José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was an important Mexican satirist, known for his engravings and broadsides, pillorying the excesses of the regime of Porfirio Díaz. His graphical invention, the Calavera de la Catrina, has become iconic in Mexico, portrayed in print and sculpture....

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Rough Road to Panama

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:25:12 GMT

The Sullivan C. Richardson Pan American Highway Expedition, 1940-1941. The first of a two-part series describing the first successful attempt to drive an automobile from the United States to the tip of South America the companion is was "Rugged Road to Cape Horn." Here, Richardson and two companions....

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Pottery Workers of Oaxaca

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:24:26 GMT

This film showcases the work of the Jiménez family of Oaxaca, and the legendary Zapotec potter Doña Rosa Real de Nieto, and her traditional technique of below-ground firing..

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Mexican Ceramics

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:23:10 GMT

This highly informative, well-made film focused on four geograophical areas: 1) Coyotepec, 2) Metepec (the art of Timotéo), 3) Tonalá (the work of Señores Palacios and Galván), 4) Puebla. Here we see low-fire pottery making as it was done by primitive methods before the potter's wheel, and the m....

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Maguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT

Adams is a filmmaker whose life and work appear to be completely unknown today, as we have conducted a fruitless search to obtain biographical and filmographic information. He covered a breadth of territory, and we suspect that he might have made dozens of films on Mexican themes....

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Doña Rosa: Potter of Coyotepec

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:21:13 GMT

Beautiful color film on Doña Rosa de Nieto, from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, showing her making an olla, and firing her creations in an underground kiln..

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Baja California: the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:16:48 GMT

Johnson is another "lost filmmaker, who worked out of Coronado, California. This film boasts beautiful color footage of old Baja, before Pemex stations lined the Cuota and Libre. Hunt travels from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas, enchantingly stopping at the waterless village of Magdalena Bay, Tortuga Ba....

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Maya Are People

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:12:56 GMT

Many explorer-adventurer hosts of historical/cultural films viewed their subjects as "objects" (e.g. C. Ernest Cadle and Carveth Wells), their colonialist attitudes seeping precariously through the safety-film....

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Guadalajara Family

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:09:35 GMT

Photographed by Willard C. Hahn. Another Hoefler production, focusing on an upper-class family, military school, garden parties, etc. They enjoy themselves and the rustic beauty at a pristine lake nearby,where father intends to build a development..

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Hands of María

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:08:31 GMT

María Martinez was a well-known and historically significant Jemez potter from San Ildefonso, New Mexico, whose work is in most major southwestern museum pottery collections. Here, she is seen building large pieces by building coiling ropes of clay..

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Fisher Folk of Lake Pátzcuaro

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:02:23 GMT

The Taracsan Indians, living on the island of Janítzio, are shown fishing with their butterfly nets, in a rare and damaged film we’re hoping to completely restore, when finances permit..

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Fabricantes Mexicanas de Ollas

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:59:38 GMT

A wonderful film, depicting the making of ollas, large earthen jars, featuring Carmen Portillo of the Mayan village of Ubalama, firing clay above ground, utilizing branches and old boards for fuel..

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El Cumpleaños de Pepita

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:56:09 GMT

Meant to be shown to students learning Spanish, this film transcends the didactic, and provides a glimpse into the Mexico that has, in many places, all too quickly disappeared. Pepita and her uncle travel to Lake Pátzcuaro, get their pictures taken by a lakeside photographer, see wonderful dancers,....

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People Along the Mississippi

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:43:32 GMT

As far as we have been able to determine, this film is the first nationally distributed educational film to embrace the interaction of races and cultures in the United States. Ostensibly a child's film, it's the story of a boy in Minnesota who builds a toy boat and sends it on a journey southward al....

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School for Ted

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:28:18 GMT

Through the clever use of children's clay models, this film decscribes the functions of various individuals associated with the school, including principals, teachers, cafteria workers, crossing gurads, custodians, and the PTA....

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Mike Makes his Mark

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:50:51 GMT

8th grader Mike wears a perfecto, idolizes a dropout, and hates the new school. He challenged it by slashing an ugly mark on its front. Then he found that the mark would stay on the wall and on his conscience until he removed it by his own decision....

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Crisis in Levittown

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:44:34 GMT

The Black upper middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States..

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Frames of Reference

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:32:19 GMT

This PSSC film utilizes a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area. The fine cinematography by Abraham Morochnik, and funny narration by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume is a wonderf....

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Unique Contribution

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:29:34 GMT

Here, the legendary president of EB Films discusses the 'unique contribution' of educational film to curriculum and learning. The film is geared toward instructors, and provides examples of mediated instructional techniques from filmmakers such as Roman Vishniac and John Barnes..

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Why Don't You Dance?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:33:34 GMT

From a story by Raymond Carver, filmed in El Cerrito,CA. Here, a sad man puts his possessions on in his front yard to sell, and two strangers arrive as buyers. They remain, to become part of the tableau....

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Project Discovery: a Demonstration in Education

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:31:20 GMT

This important film focuses on the experimental project most responsible for taking millions of public dollars away from textbook producers, and delivering it into the hands of educational film companies....

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Poppycock

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:28:50 GMT

Kit Davidson here presents a satire in which the hero overcomes all obstacles against his rival to win a girl and ends in glorious victory..

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Shaw vs. Shakespeare III: ‘Caesar and Cleopatra

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:32:05 GMT

This passionate interplay between the girl-queen and the wily conqueror provides the groundwork for George Bernard Shaw’s contention that there has been no social progress in the so-called Christian era, founded as it is upon judgment, guilt, and punishment, an era that can be characterized as "on....

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Shaw vs. Shakespeare II: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:29:44 GMT

In maintaining that Brutus was the least morally-reprehensible character in Shakespeare’s play, Shaw here plays the critic, offering analysis to the scenes played by Barnes’ remarkable cast, led by Donald Moffat, Richard Kiley and Suzanne Grossman..

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Shaw vs. Shakespeare I: The Character of Caesar

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:08:50 GMT

This is the first film in Barnes' 'Shaw vs. Shakespeare' series, considered by experts to be among the finest educational films ever made. Here is wonderful introduction to Barnes as an insightful and witty interpreter of Shakespeare on film, the opening film of the triptych focusing on George Berna....

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Clown

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:10:45 GMT

Along with Larry Yust's 'Lottery', 'Clown' was probably the two best selling ed films ever made. On the surface, it's a cute kid & dog story. Underlying is a possible subtext that fascinates us every time we view the film, and makes for a satisfying, yet ultimately ambiguous ending....

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Magnet Laboratory, A

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:53:06 GMT

In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when Leacock was hired to produce this twenty-minute version of lab mayhem....

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Kienholz on Exhibit

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:44:54 GMT

Born in 1927 in the border area between Washington and Idaho, Kienholz moved to Los Angeles in 1953, where he began making a series of bas-reliefs with found material. Prior to his death in 1994, he was primarily known for his "Assembly Art" sculptures, consisting of mannequins, stuffed animals, and....

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At Your Fingertips: Boxes

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:56:20 GMT

Reveals the supermarket as a source for every imaginable box, carton and container. Explains that these same receptacles, once they find their way to the home, provide a group of children with material for construction of art objects, playthings, houses and tunnels....

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Imaging the Hidden World: the Light Microscope

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:40:30 GMT

To say Russell makes films on biology is sort of like saying Rodin threw some clay on a table and a few minutes later came up with a figure representative of a human. 'Light Microscope' starts out didactically (Russell was a former K-12 biology teacher) in instructing the student on proper microscop....

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Gentle Winds of Change: Uganda

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:33:39 GMT

In 1959, social scientist Marshall Segall traveled to Uganda to study the effects of the breaking down of colonialism on the individual citizen. He chose to focus on the Ba-yankole group,in the area of Mbarara, Ankole region....

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Stalking the Wild Cranberry: the Making of a TV Commercial

Sun, 04 May 2008 04:15:58 GMT

This wonderful film traces the steps taken in creating and shooting a television commercial for Post Grape Nuts. This film was produced by George Gage Productions, which filmed the commercial, starring the legendary Euell Gibbons, for the Benton & Bowles advertising agency, with lots of discussions ....

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Solar System (2nd Ed)

Sun, 04 May 2008 04:15:46 GMT

Tom Smith headed up the Special Effects team at Industrial Light & Magic, where he created all the goodies for the 'Star Wars' films. This is his academic film masterwork, which took over a year to create, over 13 weeks to film, and utilized "traveling mattes," with as many as five separate films ru....

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Wildcat

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:34:25 GMT

Follows two Oklahoma wildcatters as they prepare to sink a well. Shows their drilling operations for the Big Chief Drilling Company in Garfield County, OK; Only 1 out of 9 wells are wet, and it takes them 22 days and 6,750 feet to figure it out..

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Hangman

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:32:01 GMT

A cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like quality to Julian's animation....

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Dong Kingman

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:20:49 GMT

This exceptional film shows painter Kingman at work in New York's Chinatown, shot by master cinematographer James Wong Howe..

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Japan - Miracle in Asia

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:19:32 GMT

Explains how Japan's rapid industrial growth has influenced the way of life in the country and has affected the international political and economic position of the country. Suggests that Japan turned to industrialization to support a rapidly growing population on a small and relatively poor land ar....

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Eskimo Family

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:15:14 GMT

Old ways are juxtaposed with the influence of modern housing, food, and clothing, filmed on Baffin Island..

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Rhinoceros

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:28:44 GMT

A animated version of Ionesco’s tale, a play on the theme of conformity..

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Iran

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:25:10 GMT

Far more than a travelogue with pretty pictures, this little-known film won six international awards shortly after its release. 'Iran' consists of spectacular geographical and archaeological footage interspersed with "slice of life" shots, evidencing best juxtapositional editing we've ever seen....

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Death Valley

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:14:25 GMT

A beautifully shot trip through the Death Valley of the late 1940s, including visits to the ghost town of Ryan, Zabriskie Point, the Harmony Borax Works, and Scotty's Castle..

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Les Derniers Canuts

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:03:24 GMT

A fine documentary of silk weaving in Lyons, France.

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Encore un Hiver

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:00:10 GMT

This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Françoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse..

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Centinelas del Silencio

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:21:07 GMT

The real star here is the late aerial photographer James Freeman, whose breathtaking helicopter shots of Mayan and Aztec ruins at sunrise and sunset won an Academy Award for this film in 1971. Although the English version was narrated by Orson Welles, the Spanish version, narrated by Ricardo Montalb....

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