1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1926)
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Fourth Edition
NATURAL SCIENCE
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GROUP 90 ( Continued) Microscopic Life
***ln a Drop of Water (1) Examples of life in deep and shallow pond waters.
"Secrets of Life" series by Tolhurst. (VI)
Infusoria (y2) Drop of pond water filmed through high-power microscope; animal and vegetable organisms. (22) ***Life Functions of Animals, No. 1 (1) Biological study of amoeba. Ideal for classroom use. (151)
Life Functions of Animals, No. 2 (1) Biological study of the hydra. (151)
The Living World (1) Microscopic biological study. (A sequel to How Life Begins). (28) Part I Composition of protoplasm; difference between living and nonliving matter.
Part II Characteristic activities of living things. Part III Adaption of protoplasm to its environment. Part IV Cycles of life and meaning of heredity.
Nature's Sex Problems (1) Biological study of microscopic animals. (151) ** Seeing the Unseen (1) Study of minute organisms by means of greatly enlarged models. Photographed under direction of American Museum of Natural History. (IV, 56)
An Unseen World (1) Microscopic life found in water; cell-division, method of feeding and navigation. (XXI)
Some Monsters of the Farm (Y2) Microscopic studies in motion of gorgeous eyes of frog, grasshopper, spider and katy-did. (22)
Studies in Micro-Biology (1) Highly absorbing phases of life invisible to the naked eye. (151)
(See also Groups 20, 95, 104)
GROUP 91 BIRDS Large Birds
***Anne's Aigrette (1) How the egrets have been almost exterminated by plume hunters; egrets in a Federal bird refuge, a great cvpress swamp in Arkansas. (144)
Birds of Prey (1) Sparrows, hawks, condor, eagle. One of the "Screen Studies." (XV)
The Buzzard (1) How it lives and rears its young: how strong kill off the weaker nestlings. (22)
The Menace and Its Destroyer (Y2) Strange-looking African secretarybird. (22)
The Ostrich (1) Study of this bird from hatching to full-grown adult; their habits and use of feathers. (XXI)
Owls (y2) Different varieties. (XX) ** Peter the Raven (1) Hatched in cliff nest, but is bagged and sold; becomes sufficiently domestic to enjoy playing tricks. (22)
The Sparrow Hawk (1) Life history and habits. (22)
Water Birds of the Gulf States (1) Filmed off the Florida Keys. Terns, gulls, pelicans; splendid study of the heron. (XXI)
The White Owl (1) History and habits of these strange birds, photographed at night; nesting habits, methods of hunting and manner of living. (22)
(See also Groups 93, 95, 119)
GROUP 92 Small Birds
***Baby Songbirds at Mealtime (1) Nesting and feeding habits of birds belonging chiefly to the finch and sparrow families; nest of long-tailed tomtit. Well adapted to nature study. (XV) ***Cuckoo's Secret (1) Life history of cuckoo; how it lays eggs in other birds' nests; how young are raised by foster parents; how cuckoo wrecks home of its parents. (22)
No Reg'lar Bird (Y2) Life of the hummingbird. m (22)
The Rook (1) How rook builds its nest; rears young; how it kills off obnoxious pests which feed on farmers crops. (22)
Song Birds as Citizens (1) Familiar song birds at close range, with suggestions for their preservation and encouragement in the neighborhood. (22)
Tree-Top Concert Singers (1) Swallow, robin., titmouse, kingfisher in natural surroundings. (22)
(See also Groups 93, 95, 119)
GROUP 93 General
Bird Life of Louisiana (1) Closeups of nests, eggs, fledglings. (63) *** Birds of Passage (3) Beautiful record of the annual migration of birds of northern Europe down the Nile to Abyssinia. Made by Bengt Berg, famous Swedish ornithologist. ' " (XV)