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EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE, 1959 ADVENTURES OF *. Harrison.Ed 1957 lOmln sd color $120, rent $12.50 sh-c-ad Produced by Storyboard for Guggenheim Museum Animated drawings depict the maturing process of man, symoblized by the figure "*" from childhood to adult. Unable to react freely to the world, the adult neither sees nor finds pleasure in new things until, through his own child, he has a rebirth, seeing the world anew EFLA evaluation card No. 3437 AFRICA AWAKENS. World 1958 29min sd b&w (Your world in crisis ser) $80, rent $8 sh-c-ad Produced by Metropolitan Educational Television Assn. , ^, , ^, „ , Discussion of Africa south of the Sahara, with emphasis on problems of emergent nations, economic development and tensions in multi-racial countries. Participants: George Houser, Director, American Committee for Africa; Dr Marguerite Cartwright. Hunter College; Richard Webb. British Information Services AFRICA, GIANT WITH A FUTURE. Educ Serv 1958 30min sd color $195. rent $10 Jh-sh-c-ad Guide Produced by Frances P. Bolton A panoramic report on 16 countries of Africa south and east of the Sahara, visited by Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton as a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, showing the peoples, geography, governments, and social and economic problems. Includes interviews by Mrs Bolton with heads of state and with others LC card Fi A 58-860 AGE OF DINOSAURS. NET 1956 30min sd b«&w (Discovery II ser) rent $4.75 el-Jh-sh Produced by WGBH^ . , ..^ ^ , Describes the rise of animals with backbones during the Mesozoic and Triassic eras. Uses models, dioramas, fossil tracks, and bones to explain the age of dinosaurs AGE OF THE TRANQUILIZER. NET 1956 30min sd b«S;w (Measure of man ser) rent $4.75 c-ad Produced by KQED Comments upon the use of tranquilizing drugs as a means of escape from the problems of modern living. Questions the, idea that problems today are any more burdening than those faced throughout history. Answers the problem with selections from literature and Robert Sherwood's play "There shall be no night" AGE OF THE UNIVERSE In OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS (23 films) AIR POWER (26 films). McGraw 1957 ea 27min sd b&w ea purchase apply, ea rent apply sh-c-ad Produced by CBS-TV Titles are: 1 DAY NORTH AMERICA IS ATTACKED. Depiction of what actually would occur at Continental Air Defense Command Headquarters and other vital installations in the North American defense perimeter on the fateful day of a nuclear attack LC card Pi A 59-39 2 EARLY DAYS. A humorous backward glance at aviation's horse -and -buggy period and serious evaluation of the emergence of the airplane as a military weapon during World War I LC card Fi A 59-41 3. PEARL HARBOR. Ofl[lcial films of the Japanese Navy, captured after World War II. present details of the attack on the American naval bastion at Pearl LC card Fi A 59-46 4. BATTLE OF BRITAIN. The defense of the British Isles by RAF fighter pilots in 1941. featuring portions of recorded speeches by Sir Winston Churchill LC card Fi A 59-35 5. COUNTERBLAST. The RAF Bomber Com mand's devastating attack on the port city of Hamburg, breeding ground for Nazi submarines 6. THE 1930' S. Covers the major struggles of the 1930's and includes glimpses of many of the leading figures of that Eeriod ,C card Pi A 59-45 7. SCHWEINFURT. The massive air raid staged by American B-17 bombers against the German ball bearing industry that ended in one of the greatest defeats the United States Air Force suffered over Germany during World War II 8. CONQUEST OF THE AIR. Describes the advent of the American P-51 fighter plane as a successful long-range escort for United States Air Force bombers over Germany in 1944 focusing on a series of air battles which broke the back of the Luftwaffe 9. JAPANESE PERIMETER. The decisive bat tle at Midway in the Pacific, where American air and naval units turned the tide of the Japanese offensive into a conclusive and far-reaching defeat LC card Fi A 59-65 10. INTERDICTION AND BLOCKADE. How the American high command, faced with the knowledge that there could never be a decisive land battle in the South Pacific, used air and sea power to destroy the Japanese war machine by denying the enemy the vital lines of supply and communication LC card Fi A 59-64 11. ADVANCE THE BOMBER LINE. How American forces took the key islands in the Pacific — culminating in the big battle of Saipan — so that B-29 Superfort bombers could have a base from which to mount aerial attacks on the Japanese mainland LC card Fi A 59-34 12. WINNING OF FRANCE. An account of Allied airground operations against the German 7th Army after the Normandy invasion. Shows how the Allies preceded the breakthrough with the most massive use of heavy bombers as tactical weapons in World War II LC card Fi A 59-54 13. SUPERFORT. The costly invasion of Iwo Jima by the United States Marines and the advent of the B-29 strategic bomber as a decisive weapon in the war in the Pacific 14. VICTORY IN EUROPE. Covers the mili tary situation as of December 1944, when the Allied armies had drawn up to the German border, and describes the maneuvers and battles that crushed the Nazi empire LC card Fi A 59-53 15. KAMIKAZE. Captured Japanese film tells the story of the intensively trained kamikaze pilots-suicide squadrons whose mission was to crash head-on into American aircraft or dive into American Navy ships during the invasion of Okinawa LC card Fi A 59-66 16. DEFEAT OF JAPAN. The United States Air Force's preparation for the mission which ended in the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, and the ultimate surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri LC card Pi A 59-40 17. COLD DECADE— AIRLIFT. The Berlin airlift in 1948-1949 shows a new use for Allied airpower and an unexpected use of military planes 18. COLD DECADE— TO THE YALU. The Soviet-supported invasion of South Korea in 1950 and the political overtones of the East-West cold war, is also the story of the first American jet fighter, the Lockheed F-80 "Shooting Star" 19. COLD DECADE— KOREAN. The Chinese Communist entrance into the Korean War, the first battle of American F-86 Sabrejet fighters and Soviet-built MIG 15's, and the ultimate stalemate between the ground armies leading to the politically-charged armistice talk LC card Fi A 59-37