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EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE, 1959 LET'S TAKE A WALK IN THE HIGH COUN T R Y — Continued with views of snow-plant, shooting star, wyethia, false hellebore, rein orchis, labrador tea, red heather, and the nests of spotted sandpipers, wood peewees, and a night hawk LC card Fi A 57-929 EFLA evaluation card No. 3677 LET'S TAKE A WALK TO THE MEADOW TO WATCH SOME BIRDS. Gateway 1957 lOmin sd color (Primary nature studies ser) $100, rent $5.50 p-el-ad Depicts a meadow as a place where cows and sheep graze on clover, miner's lettuce, and pimpernel, where butterflies, green and tent caterpillars, and lizards live, and where wild roses and thistles grow. Shows a mother and her daughter setting up a bird blind in a meadow, and seeing a baby gopher, quail, bluejay, grosbeak, redwing blackbirds feeding their babies in the nest, a meadowlark feeding her babies, and young birds leaving the nest LC card Fi A 57-930 EFLA evaluation card No. 3678 LET'S TAKE A WALK TO WHERE THE HUMMINGBIRDS LIVE. Gateway 1957 lOmin sd color (Primary nature studies ser) $100, rent "^5.50 p-el-ad Shows a mother and her two daughters visiting a eucalyptus grove where they find a colony of Allen's hummingbirds, finding several ne.=ts and learning how they are made, seeing eggs, babies in several stages of development, the mother hummingbird gathering nectar and feeding her young, and young birds leaving the nest LC card Fi A 57-928 LETTER TO THE TEACHER. NZealEmb 1958 35min sd b&w free-loan p-el-jh-sh-c-ad Work of the Correspondence School in Wellington in teaching children in isolated communities of New England beautiful vase. Shows how the people furnished their homes, what foods they ate, how they dressed, and how they worshiped. Describes the schools and the education of a young girl in household arts. Includes scenes of a pottery factory which provided the family's livelihood LC card Fi A 59-199 ROLE OF THE CITIZEN, llmin b&w $60. color $110. Follows a boy and his father through the countryside and the city in order to portray the political and economic life in a Greek city-state in 440 B.C., and describes the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in this early democracy. Shows them as they visit a farm and a pottery factory, meet other citizens, and watch Greek youths taking the ephebic oath LC card Fi A 59-200 LIFE IN NORWAY. Dowling 1958 llmin sd color $110 el-Jh-ad Guide Activities of the people in this most northern of European countries. Marketing at the port of Stavanger, deep-sea fishing, building ships, farming and raising sheep, families skating and skiing, and an evening at home during the winter of long nights EFLA evaluation card No. 3859 LIFE IN THE ALPS (AUSTRIA). Coronet 1958 llmin sd b&w $60, color $110 el-Jh Guide Explains that haying, gardening, lumbering, and particularly grazing are activities that fill the lives of people living on the high slopes of the Austrian Alps, and that the seasonal movement of cattle and sheep from lower pastures to higher grazing lands indicates that the farmers have worked out a successful pattern of agriculture in a difficult and challenging Alpine terrain LC card Fi A 58-1145 EFLA evaluation card No. 3893 LEVERS. NET 1957 15min sd b&w (Uncle Wonder's workshop ser) rent $3 p-el Produced by WCET Explains how levers work. Illustrates with a seesaw, hammer, and screw driver. Shows how levers make the lifting of heavy objects easier LIBRARY RESEARCH IN HIGH SCHOOL. Kugler 1959 lOmin sd color $125 Jh-sh Suggests techniques to facilitate the use of the encyclopedia, the dictionary, the card catalog, the "Reader's guide," and the pamphlet file. Briefly explains the construction of Dewey Decimal classification numbers, and describes the parts of a book LIFE IN A .CUBIC FOOT OF AIR. Coronet 1958 llmin sd b&w $60. color $110 el-Jh-sh Guide Explores the life in a cubic foot of air taken from the air around us, examining various living forms such as yeast plants, molds, bacteria, amoeba, and pollen grains. Microscopic views of these plants and animals show something of their structure and life processes. Describes the composition of air and non-living matter in it LC card Fi A 59-151 LIFE IN A POND. NET 1956 30min sd b&w (Discovery II ser) rent $4.75 el-Jh-sh Produced by WGBH ^^r^ .Describes the living things that make up life in a Pond. Shows close-ups of insect }^U^^' * n^o"usks . and invertebrate animals Which form a chain of life in a water community. Tells how to set up a pond aquarium "-'"^et' V^d^'^'^'" ^''^^^^ « «""'>• Core el-sh Guide Titles are: ^^^?nior^?i.f?<P^^T,^^^-13V2min b&w $75, color $137.50. Follows the activities of a +^Si?,^iv, Athenian family in 440 B.C. through the story of a young boy and a LIFE IN THE CITY In OUR NATION'S ROOTS (26 films) LIFE IN THE SEA. EBF 1958 llmin sd b&w $60, rent $2.50; color $120, rent $4 el-Jh-sh Guide Divides sea life into three groups — the plankton, the bottom dwellers, and the freeswimming animals. Describes the inter-relationship of plants and animals under the surface of the sea in providing a chain of food and maintaining a delicate balance of life LC card Fi A 58-455 EFLA evaluation card No. 3816 LIFE LINES. MichStU 1957 26V2min sd (County agent ser) b&w $100, rent apply; color $200, rent apply sh-c-ad Produced by Capital Films Review of the progress in animal breeding research which is developing new types of dairy cattle, hogs and chickens LIFE OF A TREE. NET 1956 30min sd b&w (Discovery II ser) rent $4.75 el-Jh-sh Produced by WGBH Uses the cross section of a tree stump to explain the events in the life of a tree. Tells how insects, weather, hurricanes, and urbanization affect the life of a tree. Illustrates, through experiments, how a tree lifts great quantities of water high in the air ^"^^ ^f^T^THE, SPADEFOOT TOAD. Tenn Game&Fish 1958 13min sd b&w or color (World outdoors ser) purchase apply, freeloan el-Jh-sh-c-ad Relates the hazardous life of one of our V}^^^ secretive toads. An introduction to thf World outdoors" series LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS In DOCTORS IN SPACE (13 fllmsi 44