Educational film catalog (1936)

721.9-738 EDUCATIONAL FILM CATALOG Planting and care of trees— Continued white-marked tussock moth and in the spraying of trees to control these pests. They leave the school to himt insects and discover eggs, cocoons, and larvae of the tussock moth, a colony of tent caterpillars and a shade tree ruined by borers. In the second unit a grafted tree is planted and the following spring examined. The film ends with the reunion of teacher and pu- pils 37 years after the planting of a school grove and the growth of the trees is noted el-Jh-sh Guide 716 Gardening. See 635 720 Architecture 721.9 Wrought iron Making of wrought iron. 9min 16-si-$30 35-si-nf-$60 Metropolitan museum 721.9 Samuel Yellin making a section of a grille. The cutting, the shaping, and the binding together of the various parts 725 Commercial buildings Empires of steel. 3R 35-si-nf-loan 1931? U.S. steel 725 "Shows the rolling, fabrication, and erec- tion of steel for a modern skyscraper— the Empire State Building, New York City." Producer el-jh Fabrication and erection of the Bank of Manhattan building. 30min 16-si-loan 40min 35-si-nf-loan Am. inst. of steel construction 725 Details of steel construction as shown in the erection of this New York city build- ing 730 Sculpture Sculpture in stone. ISmin 16-si-$25 35-si- f-nf-$75 1929 Harvard 730 Creation in York marble of a crouching jaguar, the work of Anna Hyatt Hunting- ton. The whole process is shown, from the crude block of marble, to the final creative effort of the artist. Details of the tech- nique are shown throughout the progress of the work, and there are frequent close- ups of the tools in actual use. From the block of marble emerges a beast of the jungle, vibrant with life 737 Numismatics. Medals For minting of coins, see 332.4 Medal maker. 45min 16-si-$75 35-si-nf-$225 1930 Harvard 737 Made especially for the American numis- matic society "The making of medals and coins ... is demonstrated by Laura Gardin Fraser . . . best known for her official Government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd, and for her work for the National Sculpture So- ciety. Several sketches precede the final drawings, one for the face and one for the reverse, exactly the size the finished medal is to be. On smooth plaques of modeling clay, three times as large as the finished medal, Mrs. Fraser then sketches in the outlines of her design. Working di- rectly from the living model, deftly she builds up the relief with tiny rolls and balls of clay. With delicate touches of the finger-tips, and with infinitesimal additions and subtractions, the artist little by little improves the rough figure. The film shows in detail all the interesting steps of trans- forming these clay plaques into plaster moulds, casts, bronze moulds, and then finally steel dies reduce to one-third the size of the plaques. The steel dies in turn, placed in an enormous stamping machine, stamp out the finished medal." Producer jh-6h-c 727 School buildings and grounds School beautiful. (Citizenship ser.) 12min 16-si-$24 35-si-nf-$80 prior 1927 DeVry 727 By C. A. Stebbins, formerly with the United States Bureau of education "How a civics class planned to beautify the school grounds and how the plans were carried to completion." Indiana el-Jh Guide 728 Residences Houses of the Arctic and the Tropics. (Harvard Pathe ser.) 30min 16-si-$-48 35-si-nf-$120 Films of commerce 728 "First reel shows how the Esquimos of the Arctic live, the building of an igloo, from the beginning to the placing of the ice slab window, the transferring of family belongings to the new abode, Esquimos having evening meal, family going to bed. Second reel shows life among the Fiji Is- landers, building their thatched huts, etc. Pictures are almost ideal in combining the informative and Interesting." Minnesota See also "Boats and fishermen of the Arc- tic and the Tropics," class 639 738 Pottery Potter's wheel. IR 16-si-loan 35-si-f-nf- loan General electric 738 Manufacture of porcelain insulating parts for electric apparatus, including the mixing of ingredients, molding, turning, glazing, and firing in huge kilns "[Useful in] general science and shop work [Classes]" Am. museum of nat. hist. sh Pottery maker. 14min 16-si-$30 35-si-nf- $60 prior 1927 Metropolitan museum 738 "Introduces us to the workroom of a potter in the 1860's. A lady, accompanied by her granddaughter, enters. The little girl accidentally crushes the vase on which the potter is working. To comfort her he 'throws' another. As the spinning clay takes form the spectator sees repeated the age-old process of the making of pottery." Producer jh-sh Tableware. ISmin 16-si-$24 1929 East- man 738 "Modern methods of manufacture, as compared with old, show perfection in pre- paring clays for pottery. Modeling, casting, firing, decorating tableware." Producer Guide $i - silent; ftd-sound; f • inflammable; nf-safety; el - elementary; Jh - junior high; sh • senior high; c • college 70