Educational film catalog (1936)

EDUCATIONAL FILM CATALOG 677-678 Leather — Continued scraping, stretching, working and trim- ming. Tanning the hide—gathering the tanbark, grinding the bark, soaking the hide, graining, drying, cross section of tanned leather. Manufacturing shoes—cut- ting uppers, sewing uppers, welts and sol- ing "Our audio-visual committee feels that, although these pictures may be helpful to schools unable to afford four hundred foot films, they can in no way compare with longer pictures. The films jump from one aspect of a subject to another with no transitions and they omit important phases. Besides, the editing and photography are amateurish." Collaborator "One of the most progressive practical steps in the film work tool field." Col- laborator Guide $1,75 677 Textiles Growing fibers. (Filmsets in geography 12) 4^min 16-si-$6 1940 Filmsets 677 One of a series of 48 units on geogra- phy. Each unit is composed of 30 or more scenes pertinent to a particular subject. A book of instruction on the use of these specially prepared short films giving the objectives, approach, film outline, lesson story and suggesting supporting units for each film as well as actual pictures from the film is available for $1.75 Contents: Cotton—seeds, planting, cul- tivating, blossoms, boll, picking, weighing, ginning, baling for shipment. Wool—sheep, dipping, shearing, sacking for shipment. Flax—reaping, stacking, retting, drying, beating, combing. Silk—moth, egg, larva, feeding, spinning a cocoon, dipping cocoons, unwinding, cocoons, skeins of silk "Our audio-visual committee feels that, although these pictures may be helpful to schools unable to afford four hundred foot films, they can in no way compare with longer pictures. The films jump from one aspect of a subject to another with no transitions and they omit important phases. Besides, the editing and photography are amateurish." Collaborator "One of the most progressive practical steps in the film work tool field." Col- laborator Guide $1.75 Textiles. (Filmsets in geography 13) 4j^min 16-si-$6 1940 Filmsets 677 One of a series of 48 units on geography. Each unit is composed of 30 or more scenes pertinent to a particular subject. A book of instruction on the use of these specially prepared short films giving the objectives, approach, film outline, lesson story and suggesting supporting units for each film as well as actual pictures from the film is available for $1.75 Contents: How fibers are prepared for weaving—silk, twisting, weaving, spindles, wool, carding, spinning, cotton, cleaning, batting, lapping, reeling. "Weaving—primi- tive hand loom, loom for blankets, cotton loom, silk loom, printing patterns. Gar- ment making—patterns, cutting, stitching, assembling "Our audio-visual committee feels that, although these pictures may be helpful to schools unable to afford four hundred foot films, they can in no way compare with longer pictures. The films jump from one aspect of a subject to another with no transitions and they omit important phases. Besides, the editing and photog- raphy are amateurish." Collaborator "One of the most progressive practical steps in the film work tool field." Col- laborator Guide $1.75 677.2 Cotton Better days for Dixie. 7min 16-si-loan 35- si-nf-loan 1939 U.S. agric. 677.2 ALSO AVAILABLE FROM 16mm: Ken NG SC Tenn The 16mm film may be purchased for $3.37; the 35mm for $8.54 "A short reel revealing in animated car- toon what happens when there is a surplus of cotton. It entertainingly depicts what the South can do to cut down this surplus by diversifying crops and utilizing the land for pastures." South Carolina jh-sh 677.3 Wool From fleece to woolens. (Great changes ser.) 1R 16-si-apply 35-si-f-apply VL 677.3 "Shows weaving by hand loom and in water-driven and modern power mills, fol- lowed by the various processes in the man- ufacture of tweed and examples of the many uses of wool." Producer Guide 677.4 Silk From egg to silk. 8min 16-si-$13.50; rent $1 ICS 677.4 ALSO AVAILABLE FROM 16mm: Kan SC Produced by Film Featurettes, Inc. While a short history of the silk industry in China is given on the sound track, we see several Chinese sorting trays of silk- worms. Silkworm eggs are shown in close- up. It is pointed out that the manufacture of silk has been introduced into many European countries. Eggs are again seen, this time in conjunction with the mulberry buds breaking into leaf: Then we see a baby silkworm emerging from his egg, and see that he has a voracious appetite and grows rapidly. The skin shedding process is shown. This three inch long silkworm is studied in some detail. There is an excellent sequence of the worm as it winds the silken thread around and about its body. Then we see completed cocoons. A cocoon is opened so that we may see what goes on inside. Ten or fifteen days having elapsed, the moth breaks through one end of the cocoon. Mating then takes place. The female next lays her eggs—completing the life cycle. The cocoons are put into hot water and the threads loosened and twisted together to make a silk thread for commercial use. Closing shots are of a loom weaving the silken threads ei-Jh 678 Rubber Rubber. (Filmsets in geography 11) 4^min 16-si-$6 1940 Filmsets 678 One of a series of 48 units on geography. Each unit is composed of 30 or more scenes pertinent to a particular subject A book of instruction on the use of these specially prepared short films giving the objectives, approach, film outline, lesson story and suggesting supporting units for each film as well as actual pictures from the film is available for $1.75 Contents: Wild rubber—huts of the rub- ber gatherers, Indian cutting bark and gathering latex, coagulating rubber into hams, transporting by river boats, cutting si - silent; sd - sound; f - inflammable; nf - safety; p - primary; el - elementary; jh • junior high; sh - senior high; c • college; trade - trade schools 69