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EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES "1000 and One"
GROUP 24 (Continued) Educational Activities
Silver Bay School (1) Self-explanatory. (170) Social Etiquette (1) Lessons in etiquette. (164) A Tombstone Campus (1) Incidents and persons connected with founding1 of first Methodist college. (87) The University of the Night (2) Need for and value of home-study; shows scope and influence of correspondence schools. (44) What Asheville Did for Thelma (2) A mountain girl at a school where she receives new visions of life. (30) Where Governors Come From (3) Beginnings and present work being done in mountain school ; shows need of such schools. (30)
(See also Groups 107, 124-7, 133, 136)
GENERAL SCIENCE
GROUP 25 General Science
General Science (Series of 9, 1 or 2 reels each) Titles are: Man. Life, Water, Energy and Work, The Earth, Fire and Heat, Air (2), Communication (2), Transportation. (#114, #120, #170) Dewfall — Nature's Jewels (*4) Specimens of dew condensation and frost formation under the microscope. (#20)
Mysteries of Snow (1) Different kinds of snow crystals and what causes them. (920, 49)
Oil Films on Water (Technical) (5) Dr. Irving Langmuir performs and explains many experiments; excellent close-ups. (A61, #61)
Science of Bubbles (1) Explanation of formation, structure and behavior of soap bubbles. (42, 164)
Sunbeams (1) Composition of light and color; objects studied under varying light conditions. (54)
Water (1) Study of some of the natural properties of water that are of use to man. (0164)
Wonders of the Sand (%) Various kinds of crystals under microscope.
(164)
{See also Groups 1-12, 14-16, 18, 20, 22-3, 27-62, 64-84, 86-J.ll, 124-132) GEOGRAPHY
GROUP 26 Human Geography and Anthropology
Geography (Series of 9, 1 reel each) Titles are: People Who Live on a Great Plain, People Who Live by the Sea, People Who Live in a Crowded Valley, People Who Live on the Mountains, People Who Live in the Desert, People Who Live in the Arctic. People Who Live at the Equator, People Who Live Through Industry, Modern Commerce.
(•114, #123, ©164, #170)
Altai (5) Life and customs of people in Altai mountains ; new forms of life in this remote region. (11)
Bedouins of the Sahara (1) Sheep, goats and camels; Bedouins break camp and journey to homes in oases. (#157)
Boats and Fishermen of the Arctic and the Tropics (2 in 35 mm., 1 in 16 mm.) Contrasts boat types and fishing methods of Central Eskimos and Fiji Islanders. (#109)
Caspian Sea (5) Ethnographic sketch of region. (11)
Drifting Dunes (1) Life in little villages on eastern shore of Baltic; fight against windblown sand. (A* 18, A#H4)
The Forest People of Central Africa (1) Study of African pygmies — their crude brush villages, shooting skill and daily life. (#109)
Forest People of Ude (6) Life and customs of a lost tribe in the remotest Ussurian region of Asia. (11)
Houses of the Arctic and the Tropics (2) Snow house of Eskimo contrasted with thatched house of Fiji Islanders. (#109)
Homes (1) Various homes of inhabitants of world. (#58)
In Search of the Meteorite (5) Expedition to Siberian Taiga. Study of meteorite and of the people of region. (11)
Symbols and reference-numbers are explained on page 3.