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INTERNATIONAL (INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND TRAINING) 19 This nontechnical film, suitable for all audience levels, summarizes the nature of the USAEC exhibit on atomic energy in agriculture at the first World Agricultural Fair, New Delhi, during the winter 1959-60. Various views show the crowds examining the research reactor, master-slave manipulator, the gamma pool, the technical information center, and exhibits featuring radioactive tracers in agricultural re- search, plant mutations by gamma irradiation, atomic energy work in medicine, screwworm fly eradication, food sterilization by irradiation, etc. THE INTERNATIONAL ATOM (1961). 27 minutes, color. Produced by the United Nations Office of Public Information and the International Atomic Energy Agency, for the UN Visual In- formation Board. For sale by Contemporary Films at $152.00 per print, including shipping case. NOT cleared for television, except by special permission of the UN Office of Public Informa- tion in New York. This film, which summarizes and explains the peaceful uses of atomic energy, was produced with the assistance of the government atomic energy establishments and private industry of the following countries: the United States, Canada, West Germany, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USSR. The film defines fission and chain reaction, introduces the idea of heat generation by a nuclear reactor, mentions the use of nu- clear power for ship propulsion, stresses the need for international cooperation in the atomic field, explains what radioisotopes are and how they are packed and shipped, explains how radioisotopes and ra- diation are used in agriculture (rice fields, fertilizer studies, develop- ment of stronger strains of weather- and disease-resistant food crops, eradication of the screwworm fly, etc.). TRAINING MEN FOR THE ATOMIC AGE (1957). 20 minutes, black and white. Produced by the U. S. Information Agency. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. This nontechnical film, for intermediate through college-level audi- ences, shows young scientists from many nations undergoing training at the International School for Nuclear Science and Engineering at USAEC Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. It includes ex- amples of preliminary training courses at Pennsylvania State Univer- sity and the University of North Carolina, and briefly explains the radioisotopes training courses at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. WORKING TOGETHER (1957). 20 minutes, black and white. Produced by the U. S. Information Agency. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries.