Educational film guide ()

1949 EDITION 323.35-325.73 323.35 Community life GROWTH OF CITIES. BBF 1942 llmin sd (American history ser) $45, rent $2.50 323.35 Jh-sh-c Guide Collaborator: Robert S. Lynd, Columbia University "Explains factors which determine the location and growth of cities. Shows the general trend toward organization throughout the United States. Various types of cities and citj plans are presented. Factors involved in the decentralization of the city into the metropolitan area are clearly presented. The film includes the presentation of the prevailing trends of city planning." Wisconsin "Good technically. Doesn't cover the subject adequately. Poorly presented. Good animated maps and diagrams." California LESSONS IN LIVING. Brandon 1945 22mln sd (Building the peace ser) $50, rent $2.50 323.35 sh-c-ad-forum Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Shows how a school project revitalized a community by giving the children a part in community life. The community of Lantzville, British Columbia, a cross-section of nationalities and industrial groups — farmers, fishermen, lumbermen and railroad workers — had a dispirited public school. The school and community changed and this film is the story of their transformation "Outstanding. Unusual." Collaborator "This Aim places responsibility for his environment on the local man, where It should be." Collaborator LIVING IN A METROPOLIS (GREATER NEW YORK) UWP 20mln sd (Earth and Its peoples) $100, rent $6 323.35 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Guide Produced by Louis de Rochemont Associates The giant city of New York has been selected as the subject of this film. Nowhere else could boys and girls better learn about just what constitutes a metropolis. The portrayal of the fact that in New York city millions of people of different cultural and racial backgrounds live together in peace, all eventually becoming Americans, makes this an engrossing film story 323.4 Freedom of the press STORY THAT COULDN'T BE PRINTED. * TFC llmin sd apply 323.4 Jh-sh Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "The history of John Peter Zenger, preRevolutionary War printer and publisher, who was persecuted, arrested and tried for publishing reports reflecting upon the honesty of His Majesty's Colonial representative. "Zenger's friend, John Alexander, sought and received the assistance of the able retired lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, of Philadelphia, whose presentation before the jury Is a masterly statement on the freedom of the press. Zenger's acquittal was one of the first victories for freedom of the press and contributed to the inclusion of this doctrine In the Bill of Rights. "Highly recommended for junior and senior high school classes in civics, social studies and American history." Advisory committee 323.6 Citizenship JUNIOR CITIZEN. Gateway 1947 19min sd $90, rent $4 323.6 jh-sh-ad-forum Produced by Contemporary Films, San Francisco On a vital theme — good citizenship in our democracy, the awareness of our progressive schools of its importance and the role they are playing in its development The subject matter is divided Into four parts: sharing a common understanding, fitting into our economic life, conserving our natural resources, conserving our human resources. The film shows graphically how our school children are guided year by year from the beginning, first learning to play and work together, then to appreciate the many cultures that contribute to our civilization, then, as they develop and capacities grow, to understand, appreciate and gradually assume the responsibilities of community life, to value and learn to help in conserving our natural and human resources, and to earn a living in a congenial occupation 324 Elections FIGHT FOR HONEST BALLOTS. UWF 1941 40min sd rent $1.50 324 sh-c-tr-ad What active citizens can do to Insure clean elections, through watchful enforcement of existing election laws. The Chicago procedures shown are applicable, with modifications, to most cities GENERAL ELECTION. BIS 1946 20min sd $47.50, rent $2.50 324 sh-ad-forum Traces the mechanism of an election in Britain from its inception to its final conclusion. Each candidate goes through the required formalities of being proposed and seconded; each plans his campaign with his agent, and travels through his district addressing his constituents. Posters and pamphlets are printed, meetings are held. Polling Day plans are drawn up. What actually happens on Polling Day — the methods of voting, the precautions for secrecy, the counting of votes and the final declaration of the result, are all shown in detail HOW WE ELECT OUR REPRESENTATIVES. Coronet 1947 lOmin sd $45, also color $90 324 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Guide Collaborator: Dr Jerome G. Kerwin, professor of political science. University of Chicago Explains the functional basis of our democracy— our election system. Registration, primaries, electioneering, voting, methods of counting ballots, and the over-view of the responsibility of voting intelligently to make our democracy work are the basic contents of this film TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER. NYU 1945 20mln sd (American scene) rent $4 324 Jh-sh-ad Produced by the Overseas Branch of the U.S. Office of War Information Explains the process by which Americans exercise one of the most important privileges of democracy— the secret ballot. The story Is told thru watching an election In one town, from the opening of the polls to the counting of the ballots 325.73 United States — Foreign population AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY. NAM 1942 15min sd $26.50, loan 325.73 jh-sh-c-ad .■^°<^"^®<^ ^y Paramount Pictures, Educational Division "Through the medium of dramatic "flashbacks into 20 years of the life of an immigrant, this film reintroduces Americans to those simple rights and opportunities which made our shores 337