Educational film guide ()

1949 EDITION 940.547-946 U.S.S. FRANKLIN — Continued damaged, she manages to make port under her own power. She stops at Panama for repairs and then sails on to New York. ^ ^^, "Second part of the reel Includes battle scenes on Okinawa." Film world 940.547 World war, 1939-1945 Hospitals. Internment and prison camps CAMPS OF THE DEAD. AFFlm 1945 20min sd $65, rent $6 940.547 ad Available with English or French commentary . . -i J ii. A story of starvation, torture and death in the camps of Buchenwald, Dachau and many others MAIDENEK. Brandon 1945 14min sd $36, rent j2 940.547 c-ad Barracks of butchery camp of destruction. Atrocity film showing visit of commission after war to camp. Ends with hanging of Germans OUT OF BED INTO ACTION. USAlrForce 30min sd loan 940.547 sh-c-ad Shows the reasons behind the AAF convalescent training program PERISHABLE RUSH. USAirForce 20min sd loan 940.547 Jh-sh-c-ad Formerly released thru the U.S. Treasury Dept. Shows how the Air force evacuated wounded men from the Pacific to their homes and hospitals in the United States 942 Great Britain BRITAIN AND HER EMPIRE. Forum ed MOT * 1946 17min sd $56 942 Jh-sh-c-ad Guide Gives a pictorial exposition of the relationship of England to her two score colonies, protectorates and mandates. Highlights the outstanding characteristics of the free and self-governing Dominions and also presents an analysis of the British people and Britain's basic institutions — the Crown and the democratic form of government which functions under it OPERATION VITTLES. 15min sd loan USAlrForce 1949 943 943 Germany AIRLIFT TO BERLIN. Flory 1949 llmin sd (America's resources ser) $50, rent $2; also color $90. rent $3.50 943 el-Jh-sh-ad Shows how the airlift works and stresses the scope of the problem of which the airlift is one symptom — the tensions that have arisen between wartime allies GERMANY TODAY. RKORadio 1948 16min sd (This is America) apply 943 sh-c-ad Shows the ruins and the breadlines, the life of Germany under the military government of General Lucius Clay, the denazification trials and the children of Germany, the hope of democracy in central Europe. In the American zone a free press and radio, and a free motion picture screen have begrun to be restored. In democratic elections a higher proportion of eligible voters turn out than in the United States. But 300,000 American troops must stand guard against the everpresent threat of a return of Nazi terror c-ad-tr A reflection of the personnel and the achievements of the airlift supplying blockaded Berlin RISE AND FALL OF NAZI GERMANY. Forum ed MOT 1947 ISmin sd $55 943 sh-c-ad Guide The war in Europe in a capsule. Hitler's conquests, his defeats and the occupation of Germany are documented 943.7 Czechoslovakia CZECHOSLOVAKIA. * ITmin sd $55 Forum ed. MOT 1948 943.7 Jh-sh-c-ad-forum Guide Includes the complete history of Czechoslovakia— from its birth at Versailles up to and including the Communist coup 944 France FACE BEHIND THE MASK. TFC llmin sd (Historical mysteries) apply 944 Jh-sh-c Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "The story of a mysterious young man who spent his life in prison at the order of Louis XIV. . . Recommended for social studies and BYench history, grades 6 and up; suggested also for use in college classes to stimulate historic research." Advisory committee THE NEW FRANCE. 17min sd $55 Forum ed. MOT 1947 944 Jh-sh-c-ad-forum Guide France, after the devastation and high cost of war in Europe, emerges with a very shaky political set-up — but with a definite plan for economic reconstruction. This 5-year plan is put into operation with the help of U.S. capital, but its success depends largely on the government administering it 945 Italy STRICKEN PENINSULA. BIS 1945 17min sd $47.50, rent $2.50 945 Jh-sh-c-ad-forum Shows how a war-devastated Italy, with help from Allied organizations, is gradually bringing order out of chaos. The physical conditions of Italy have been repeated In all the liberated countries of Europe. The collapse of Fascism left Italy politically and morally unprepared to take over the situation. The picture reveals how the Allies set about restoring health and freedom first to Naples, and then to other liberated areas in Southern Italy 946 Spain SPANISH EARTH. Brandon 1937 62mln (International film classics) sd rent $15 946 sh-c-ad Produced by Joris Ivens. Narrative written and spoken by Ernest Hemingway A documentary of the recent civil war in Spain "The most powerful and moving documentary film ever screened. . . It is a motion picture of compelling artistry." NY Herald Tribune "The theme Is . . . critical and the conception important. It fails to convince in spite m