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1949 EDITION 909-912 NEWS PARADE OF THE YEAR— 1947. Castle 1947 llmin sd $17.50 909 el-Jh-sh-ad Also available in a silent version for $8.75 Includes the Texas City disaster, Florida hurricane, British royal tour of South Africa, wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the World series NEWS PARADE OF THE YEAR— 1948. Castle 1949 llmin sd $17.50 909 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Also available in a silent version for $8.75 Includes the Berlin airlift, revolt in Bagota, western floods, Palestine crisis, Holland's new queen, presidential election NEWS REVIEW OF 1945. OfflciaJ 1946 lOmin sd (News thrills) $17.50 909 Jh-sh-ad Also available in a silent version for $8.75 Includes the final victory of World war II, the bombing of Nagasaki, a typhoon in the Pacific and New York's welcome to the war heroes NEWS REVIEW OF 1946. Official 1947 lOmin Sd (News thrills) $17.50 909 Jh-sh-ad Also available in a silent version for $8.75 Shows the Important events of the first year of victory — Bikini bomb test, coal strike, United Nations meeting and sports events NEWS REVIEW OF 1947. Official 1947 lOmin sd (News thrills) $17.50 909 sh-c-ad Events pictured include hemisphere defense pact, battle for Georgia governorship, flight around world, American Legion parade, Texas City disaster, Collyer mystery and a tropical hurricane YESTERDAY LIVES AGAIN. Castle 1937 lOmin sd (Old time movies) $17.50 909 Jh-sh-ad Also available in a silent version for $8.75 Reedited from original negatives. Includes pictures of Lillian Russell, Enrico Caruso, Buffalo Bill, inauguration of McKinley, the San Francisco fire and Theodore Roosevelt see Kidd in prison in 1701 under sentence of death. He writes a letter to the authorities promising to lead them to his treasure If, in return, they will spare his life. He is hanged, however, and the contents of his letter made puWlc. "Three present-day business men . . . discuss a plan for finding the Kidd gold. One of them says his information will take them to a small island off the coast of Madagascar. A dramatization of the story he tells shows the pirate and his band attacking a ship, finding a treasure chest, burying it. Kidd shoots the two men who know the hiding place, but draws a crude map of the location. The business man claims to have this map. "Another of the three men conjectures that Kidd was not a pirate, but had been commissioned by the King of England, and that his crew mutinied and seized the chest. "It should be useful in stimulating Imaginative writing in high school English classes. It might also be of Interest to college students who are doing historical research." Advisory committee GEOGRAPHY FROM THE AIR. Air-Age 1946 12min sd $40 910 Jh-sh Guide World geography as seen from the air. From footage taken by the Air Transport Command, scenes from all over the world have been selected to Illustrate outstanding geo grapliical elements TOWARDS UNITY. Brandon 1935 llmin sd $30, rent $1.50 910 Jh-sh-ad A Pathe production showing that fundamentally the peoples of the earth are very alike. This film is a definite plea against racial and national prejudice and for peace 910.7 Map drawing IMPOSSIBLE MAP. CanNFB 1948 lOmln sd color $75, rent $2.50 910.7 Jh-sh-ad A grapefruit, paint and brushes, a knife, transparent celluloid sheet and paper are used to show how difficult it is to make an accurate representation of the world on a fiat surface. The grapefruit, painted to approximate a globe, is sliced and peeled. The pieces are arranged under the celluloid and the painted area copied. The result is accurate in the center but distorted toward the poles. Various arrangements are tried, but the difficulties of representing the globe's land areas on a flat surface are obvious 910 DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL GEOGRAPHY ALONG THE LIFE LINE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Nu-Art 1938 llmin sd (Screen travelers ser) $17.50, rent $1.50 910 Jh-sh-ad Also available in a silent version ($8.75, rent $1) "An excellent fllm showing a trip from India thru Suez— Mediterranean— Gibraltar to England. A pre-war vintage — no propaganda. La Varre photography up to usual excellence. Recommended for current history classes and geography classes studying the countries involved." Committee on classroom films CAPTAIN KIDD'S TREASURE. TFC lOmln ♦ sd (Historical mysteries) apply 910 Jh-sh-ad Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ^ , "Conflicting theories in regard to Captain Kidd's treasure are here illustrated. We 912 Maps AIRPLANE CHANGES OUR WORLD MAP. EBF 1942 llmin sd (Social studies ser) $45, rent $2.50 912 Jh-sh-c-ad Guide Collaborator: George T. Renner, Jr, Teachers College, Columbia University "Describes the evolution of world map concepts and how the airplane has drastically reduced travel distances. Sequences include the problem of projection distortion; early maps and globes; latitude and longitude; Mercator's, Mollweide's, and Goode's projections; and distance contrasts between points on the globe by land, water, and air travel routes. "The Great Circle route Is traced on Mercator's projection, and airplane and steamship travel distances are compared. Alaska Is shown to be closer to Berlin than Is New York City. In conclusion, the film shows how from Tokyo, Berlin and Chicago the outer limits of each area can be reached by air within twenty -four hours, and that consequently our thinking with regard to the world 573