Educational film guide ()

1949 EDITION 790-791.4 SPORTS AND SEASONS, CanNPB 1947 lOmin sd $25, rent $1.50 790 el-jh-sh Shows how Canadian youngsters spend their outdoor leisure the year round: ice hockey and skiing in winter; maple sugaring and marbles as the snow disappears, then softball and lacrosse; hiking and water sports in the summer holidays. All year round there are organized games and exercises at school, too 791.3 Circus CIRCUS ANIMALS. Academy 1947 llmin sd $45, rent $2.50; also color $90, rent $5 791.3 p-el-jh-ad Guide This film shows how circus animals travel in box cars; how they are unloaded and walk from train to circus grounds. Elephants help unload circus tents, unroll tent rolls, pull heavy wagons. Feeding and watering of elephants, camels & horses are shown. Also circus clown and dog, trained seal who rides on horse back, and exciting activities in the circus "back-yard" A fllmstrip and a set of slides are also available CIRCUS PEOPLE. Academy 1947 llmin sd $45, rent $2.50; also color $90, rent $5 791.3 p-el-Jh-ad Guide How the circus train arrives and is unloaded; how tents are put up. How circus people are fed; how they wash clothes. How a circus clown puts on his makeup and costume. Several clowns rehearsing their act and practicing juggling are shown. Opening parade of circus as people and animals go in "Narrator is not too good in spots." Collaborator A fllmstrip and a set of slides are also available CLYDE BEATTY'S ANIMAL THRILLS. Castle 1943 lOmin sd $17.50 791.3 p-el-Jh-sh-c-ad Also available in a silent version for $8.76 Clyde Beatty in a performance with lions and tigers HERE COMES THE CIRCUS, lOmin sd $17.50 Castle 1942 791.3 J8.75 p-el-Jh-sh Also available in a silent version for The great parade, daring acrobats, thrilling jumps, famous clowns of the Cole brothers circus HERE COMES THE CIRCUS. TFC 9min sd (Magic carpet ser) apply 791.3 el-Jh-sh Produced by 20th Century-Fox Pictures the arrival of the circus, the unloading, the parade and glimpses of the circus itself "Commentary and a musical background. Recommended as being of considerable value in project work in all grades and to classes in designing. Might have some value as background material for social studies in early grades." Advisory committee SAWDUST SIDELIGHTS. TFC lOmln sd (Howe hodge podge ser) apply 791.3 p-el-Jh-sh-ad Shows the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey circus at winter quarters, in transit and In performance 791.4 Moving pictures BIRTH OF THE MOTION PICTURE— ANI * MATED CARTOONS: THE TOY THAT GREW UP. AFFlm 1947 17min sd $65, rent $6 791.4 sh-c-ad A prize film at the Brussels film festival 1947. French version entitled "Nalssance du Cln6ma" is also available (40mln rent $7) A child's toy called the traumatrope led the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau to study a characteristic of the human eye Called the persistence of vision. He used this scientific fact to make up a machine that seemed to animate static drawings. Emile Reynaud developed Plateau's machine further and wajs the first to show animated cartoons. These cartoons of Reynaud, of which one complete story is shown in the film, are as full of fantasy and almost as scientifically accurate as the product of today's animation studios BIRTH OF THE MOTION PICTURE— BIOG♦ RAPHY OF THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA. AFFlm 1947 20min sd $65, rent $6 791.4 sh-c-ad Shows the first man to undertake a scientific study of movement, Marey, a French physician. The film then discusses the problem of having to create a camera which would be able to do the job of multiple cameras on one photographic plate. We then see that it fell to Thomas Edison to invent film which he used in a motion picture camera. Edison also invented a projector but his viewing machine was invented only for one onlooker. It was Louis Lumiere in France who invented a successful commercial projector which could show films to a larger audience. The moving pictures had finally been bom BLACK, WHITE AND GREY. InstDesign 1938 20min si rent $10 791.4 sh-c-tr Produced by L. Moholy-Nagy An experimental film featuring abstract utilizations of light and form "The studies will be of real Interest to camera fans, but tend to be monotonous to the general public." Collaborator COMMON MISTAKES AND THEIR CORRECTION. RFA 1941 15min si (You can make good movies) rent $1.50 791.4 Jh-sh-c-ad One of a series of instructional films on movie making, made by Kenneth F. Space for the Harmon Foundation Analyzes each mistake, illustrating all of the probable causes, and then shows in closeups the methods of correction "Exceedingly practical for the ajnateur movie maker." Collaborator EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE METERS, RFA 1941 IBmin si (You can make good movies) rent $1.50 791.4 Jh-sh-c-ad Produced by Harmon Foundation One of a series of instructional films on movie making, made by Kenneth F. Space Gives clear examples and suggestions for securing properly exposed pictures "Exceedingly practical for the amateur movie maker." Collaborator FACTS ABOUT FILM. IntFlmBur 1948 lOmin sd $50. rent $2.50 791.4 Jh-sh-c-tr-ad Produced by Phototronics Inc. Shows the harmful effects on 16mm film of improper projector cleaning, film threading, film rewinding and the placement of films in cans. Points out the physical qualities of 16mm film which make it susceptible to damage; and demonstrates the ways that film may be protected such as by cleaning the projector parts with a brush and a soft scraping tool, engaging 553