Educational film guide ()

136.7-153 EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE YOUR CHILDREN AND YOU. BIS 1947 31min * sd $60, rent $3.75 136.7 sh-c-ad Made for the British Ministry of Health in cooperation with the Central Council on Health Education Concerns the care of young children from the first months to the age of four or five. The straightforward commentary offers advice on sound training on the physical side, and on the psychological side gives hints on the prevention of unnecessary fears, of boredom and of maladjustment. The approach is realistic, for the film shows the home as it really is and portrays the struggles of average imperfect parents and average imperfect children "Information is practical with sound empbasis on the psychological handling of the child through affection and the giving of a sense of security." Library journal "An outstanding film on child development and care. Suggests ways parents can deal with problems in parent-child relationships. Would recommend it as a 'must' for all parents." Collaborator 137 Personality BABY MEETS HIS PARENTS. EBF 1948 llmin sd (Personality development ser) 545, rent $2.50 137 sh-c-ad Guide Collaborator: Lawrence K. Frank, director, Caroline Zachry Institute of Human Development Points out how differences in personalities can be accounted for, not only by heredity, but also by the human relationships and environmental factors experienced during the first years of life. Explains, with life situations, how the infant personality is influenced directly by the extent to which the baby finds fulfillment of his basic needs — food, elimination and loving care 1 50 Psychology THE BOSS DIDN'T SAY GOOD MORNING. TFC llmin sd (MGM miniatures) apply 150 jh-sh-c-ad Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "A story about the psychological effect a boss' failure to say good morning has on an employee. "Jones is happy; he is loyal and takes pride in his work. We see him leaving home in a happy mood. At the offlce, however, the boss comes in, passes him without a greeting. This alarms Jones who thinks it is an expression of dissatisfaction with his work. He is given an important sales order to rush to the factory, but is in such a state that he puts it absent-mindedly in his pocket. At home he is unhappy and unreasonable with his family. He spends a sleepless night, and a Sunday, which is usually a happy day for the family, Is grim. He finds the order in his pocket; decides to resign. "He writes a letter to the boss, gives it to his son to mail. He goes off by himself to his golf club where he meets the boss. The boss asks about the order, he is glad to hear he hasn't sent it in because the credit of the purchaser was found to be bad. Jones rushes home. Happily, the son forgot to mail the resignation. He kisses his wife and son. and all is well. "The narrator remarks that perhaps the boss merely had indigestion the morning he failed to greet Jones. "Recommended for discussion for social studies in the junior and senior high school, and for elementary school use in connection with the parent-child relationships." Advisory committee 151.3 Animal psychology DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR OF THE WHITE RAT. IntFlmBur 19mln si $13, rent $2 151.3 c Produced at Columbia University, by Professors Warden and Jackson Covers the physical and behavioral development of white rat from birth to three months of age. The sensory and motor activities of the young are illustrated for various age levels. The maternal care and nesting behavior of the adult are also shown PROBLEM SOLVING IN MONKEYS. IntFlm liur 17min si $25, rent $2.50 151.3 sh-c-ad Produced at Columbia University by Professor Warden Covers the behavior of cebus and rhesus monkeys in complex toolusing tasks "Subject matter good, but too often repeated. Film becomes rather monotonous toward the end." Collaborator TESTING ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. IntFlm Bur 17min si $28, rent $2.50 151.3 c Produced at Columbia University by Professors Warden and Gilbert The first part illustrates the following tests on the white rat: (1) hunger drive, using the Columbia obstruction method, followed by table comparing the various drives; (2) maze learning on the elevated and Warner -Warden mazes, followed by an animated learning curve. The second part illustrates the following tests on the monkey: (1) visual discrimination, using the pulling-in technique; (2) tool-using on single and multiple platforms. It also shows a sample of "neurotic" behavior in the monkey when the problem becomes too difficult for solution 1 53 Understanding HOW TO JUDGE AUTHORITIES. Coronet 1948 lOmin sd $45; also color $90 153 el-jh-sh-c-ad-forum Guide Collaborator: William G. Brink, professor of education, Northwestern University Bill encounters a puzzling conflict between statements of "authorities." But unlike most of us. Bill uses intelligent evaluation practice. He considers the "internal evidence" on each authority, the experience from which each speaks, and the evidence of his own experience to reach sounder decisions HOW TO JUDGE FACTS. Coronet 1948 lOmin sd $45; also color $90 153 Jh-sh-c-ad Guide Collaborator: William G. Brink, professor of education, Northwestern University Helps students establish a judicious mental attitude toward fact-finding. Like Jim, the higii school sophomore who writes a "sensational" story for his school newspaper, they'll learn to guard against platitudes, false analogies, assumptions and double meanings "This well-written film concretizes the process of arriving at an objective estimate of a specific situation. It may be said, perhaps, that even the grreenest reporter would have gone first to the obvious source of information, the high school authorities. Yet everyone's daily experience attests otherwise. Moreover — and this is a point which should be of especial interest to teachers — the basic situation, excellent as it is, does not absorb interest away from the principles in question. The incidents are so devised a^ to turn the mind from the particular to the general problem of how to judge facts." Nat. bd. of review 324