Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (1932)

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71 CLASS 1 — Travel, Sports, Manners and Customs REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER High above the timber line mountain goats pick their way over ice and along ledges. Kids follow their mothers among the cliffs, feeding on the scanty vegetation of the barren heig-hts. 984 feet standard length Rental $2.00 1503 Code CARBO The Arid Southwest Eastman Classroom Film A study of this film will give children a better understanding of a comparatively little-known section of our country. Unit 1 locates the hot deserts of the world and pictures a desert sandstorm, remains of a petrified forest and sagebrush. It contrasts giant and melon cactuses, diagrams the root system of a melon cactus, and shows a traveler getting water from a barrel cactus. Unit 2. Most unusual views of animal life in an arid land include a Gila monster, a horned toad, desert scorpions, a rattlesnake, a desert tortoise, a prairie dog, a badger, skunks at play, a wild cat, and a coyote. Unit 3. The nomadic life of the Navajo is shown in winter and summer quarters. The men care for their cattle, while the women perform their daily tasks of carding, spinning, and weaving wool. 980 feet standard length Rental $2.00 1504 Code CARBU Mexico Eastman Classroom Film Dealing with typical native life and activities, the film pictures the latent possibilities of Mexico, and also shows its recent progress. This unit traces the march of civilization within the tropics, and shows that surface structure and geographical location have produced an astonishingly wide range of climate and vegetation in Mexico. Scenes of cocoanut palms, bananas, oil fields, the drilling, storage, and shipment of oil, the sugar cane industry, and the sisal fiber industry in Yucatan, indicate a few of the products of Mexico's tropical lowlands. Life on a hacienda is compared with that in a provincial town. Silver mining is pictured. Views of a modern powerhouse and dam show how mountain streams are utilized. Vegetables are gathered from the famous floating gardens. Scenes in Mexico City contrast the old with the new. 996 feet standard length Rental $2.00 1505 Code CARBAR From Haiti to Trinidad Eastman Classroom Film Haiti is located on a map of the West Indies ; passengers arrive in a local tender; places of interest in Port-au-Prince, native life, and the coffee industry, are pictured. For maximum enjoyment