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551.5-551.58 EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE WEATHER WIZARDS — Continued the modern Weather Bureau. The story l3 then unfolded of the value of the Weather Bureau to agriculture; using as a specific illustration the California citrus industry." Minnesota , ,, ^ "Somewhat misleading; should be used in social studies rather than science classes." Collaborator ^ "A one minute film stretched." Collaborator WINDS AND THEIR CAUSES. Coronet 1948 lOmin sd $45; also color ?90 551.5 el-Jh-sh Collaborator: Walter A. Thurber, professor of science. State Teachers College, Cortland. N.Y. Pete's model airplane crashes and he sets out to discover the facts behind thermals, cumulus clouds and thunderstorms. Then the great winds of the earth are explained 551.57 Moisture, ice. Clouds. Rain. Snow ADVENTURES OF JUNIOR RAINDROP. USForestServ 1949 lOmin sd color loan 551.57 el-Jh-sh Shows the need for everyone to be informed on good watershed management. Raindrops, like children, become delinquent and lawless. The animation is supplemented with "live" action scenes showing contrasting results of poor and good watershed management AEROLOGY — FOG. Castle 1948 25min sd color $116.86 551.57 sh-c-tr Produced by AValt Disney for the U.S. Navy Discusses, with animation, the theory of fog formation; differentiates between ground fog and advection fog; and shows how and why fogs occur under various conditions AEROLOGY— ICE FORMATION ON AIRCRAFT. Castle 1944 48min sd $56.14 551.57 jh-sh-c-tr-ad Produced by the U.S. Navy Shows processes of ice formation, effects of lee on aircraft, and explains how wing ice. Ice in the pilot tube. Ice on the propeller ajid Ice in the carburetor become flying hazards AEROLOGY— THE WARM FRONT. Castle 1948 21min sd color $96.19 551.57 sh-c-tr Produced by Walt Disney for the U.S. Navy Animation explains the meeting boundaries of warm and coid air, dangerous stratifled layers of clouds, how to plan a course around them, types of visibility, precipitation, and ceiling conditions, and circus, clrrostratus and altostratus clouds AEROLOGY: THUNDERSTORMS. Castle 1944 ♦ 41min sd $48.99 551.57 Jh-sh-c-tr-ad Produced by the U.S. Navy Deals with the formation of thunderclouds; points out their Identifying features; discusses alternatives a pilot may follow when storms are encountered, and dramatizes one pilot's experience with a thunderstorm Animation and some straight photography are used CLOUDS. USWeatherBur 1939 llmln sd loan 551.57 Jh-sh-c-ad This is a revision of the silent film released In 1927 "Won 2nd prize at the International Exposition of Agricultural films held in Rome, May 20-27, 1940." Ed. screen "This film is one of the most beautiful we have seen photographically. It is valuable as a nature study film and as a film for the study of meteorology. The various types of clouds are shown, and the movement of high and low pressure areas across the country is described. Weather forecasting as the result of cloud study is discussed. "The commentary is at times a bit too technical and rapid to be followed by younger students, but with proper preparation, any teacher in the levels indicated should find it very effective." Collaborator "Beautiful photography; artistic sequences." California CLOUDS AND WEATHER. School ed Castle 1948 6min sd $7.81 551.57 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Re-Issued. Classroom version of a longer film produced by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture just before the war Shows types of clouds, how they are formed and their significance in weather forecasting FLOOD. Castle Smin sd $10.51 551.57 sh-c-ad A USD A film Floods cost the people of the U.S. more than $100,000,000 every year. Thej' cause spectacular damage to large cities, but the greatest loss is to our farmers — loss of livestock, crops, land that cannot be planted, topsoil. This film shows the causes and consequences of floods to farmers and to the nation, and demonstrate what individuals can do to help prevent floods FLOOD WEATHER. 32min sd loan USWeatherBur 1937 551.57 Jh-sh-c-ad Weather forecasting for river navigation and flood protection. Scenes of the Ohio and Potomac river floods SNOW HARVEST. Castle 1943 25min sd color $130.53 551.57 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Produced by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service from whose regional ofRces it may be borrowed Shows the importance and hazardous activity of making snow surveys in the West; the techniques of measuring snow to forecast irrigation and other water supplies. The fllm includes beautiful winter scenery WHAT MAKES RAIN. YoungAmerica 1946 * lOmin sd (Elementary science ser) $40 551.57 el-Jh Guide Collaborator: Dr Gerald S. Craig To introduce the young child to the concepts of evaporation and condensation as they apply to water cycle "This film is an excellent presentation for intermediate grade science classes of the rather complicated water cycle. The narrator has a pleasant style, and the explanation is built slowly and well reinforced. The terms used are shown on the screen at the appropriate moment, and each is well illustrated. The explanation of the water cycle is greatly simplified, but the actual formation of drops of water and other details need not enter into an explanation on this level." Ed. screen 55 1 .58 Deserts THE DESERT. Barr 1947 lOmin sd $40, also color $75 551.58 el-Jh-sh Guide Typical desert regions are pictured and their existence explained by the use of a con Z8&