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ALPHABETICAL TITLE LIST VIRAL GENES^ ^., ^ In VIRUS (8 films) VIRUS (8 films). NET 1960 ea 29min sd b&w ea $125. rent ea $5.25 sh-c-ad Produced by KQED Titles are: ^ BETWEEN LIVING AND THE NON-LIVING. Shows how various viruses fit between the largest nonliving molecule and the smallest unit of life. Uses models to explain the organization of various kinds of molecules and viruses. Reviews the first experiment in which a virus was isolated, purified, and crystallized. Concludes, with a discussion on the importance of viruses in the understanding of all Uving matter LC card Fi A 61-513 CANCER. Discusses the relationship between viruses and cancer; explains how viruses can cause cancer in animals and why it is believed they may be responsible .for cancer in humans. Summarizes the important known facts about viruses, and indicates directions which future research in virology might taite LC card Fi A 61-519 GIANT MOLECULES. Presents an analysis of the structure of viruses and how they are studied. Explains how an electron microscope works. Uses film clips of experiments to demonstrate the cultivation, isolation, and purification of viruses: discusses the difference between viruses LC card Fi A 61-514 HOW A VIRUS KILLS. Explains how a virus destroys cells, using animated films and microcinematography to show how a virus enters a cell, stops its normal functions, and reproduces more viruses. Tells how the new viruses are made and describes their method of escape to infect other cells. Discusses possible methods of controlling virus diseases LC card Fi A 61-517 KILLERS AND CARCINOGENS. Dr Harry Rubin tells the story of such viral diseases as smallpox and rabies, discusses the development of vaccination, and explains in detail how a polio virus attacks a cell and eventually is capable of killing a man. He analyzes the activity of viruses which cause cancers in animal cells, discusses various cures for viral diseases, and explains the need to guard cells against viruses. He demonstrates how virus cultures can be grown and used for inoculation and describes some of the processes which may be developed to cure virus diseases LC card Fi A 61-215 THE STUFF OF LIFE. Discusses the degree to which viruses possess properties of life. Compares the chemical content of chromosomes and viruses; relates the information discovered from the study of chromosomes and viruses to life's creation and formation. Uses microcinematography to show how mutations within viruses can be formed and identified LC card Fi A 61-515 THREAD OF LIFE. Presents an analysis of nucleic acid, using a large model of the tobacco mosaic virus to explain its structure. Demonstrates how a virus can be reconstituted from nucleic acid and protein molecules, and discusses the recent discovery in the alteration of nucleic acid to form mutations of the original virus. Presents a theory which may account for the way in which genetic information is stored in nucleic and then translated into a specific protein structure LC card Fi A 61-518 VIRAL GENES. Presents an analysis of bacteriophages and how they may change. Explains why bacterial viruses are useful to scientists studying different life forms. Uses diagrams and animation to show how bacteria reproduce within a cell and how mutations of these viruses can be identified. Describes the "copy" errors responsible for mutation, and the ways in which cross-breeding among viruses takes place LC card Fi A 61-516 THE VISION-STRIP AUDIO-VISUAL CLASSROOM. IntFlmBur 1960 14min sd b«S:w $78. rent $7.50 c-ad Produced by Walter A. Wittich Examines a modern classroom construction in terms of economy of construction, pupil health, teaching efficiency. Shows that the use of low vision strip windows permits pupils to have contact with the out-of-doors, while the use of artificial light guarantees uniform levels. Anticipates the use of audiovisual projection equipment in every room by light control facilities EFLA evaluation card No. 4231 VISIT TO CUBA. See VAMOS A CUBA VISIT TO PUERTO RICO. IntFlmBur 1962 17min sd color $175 el-Jh Initial scenes establish Puerto Rico's location, population, racial heritage, geography and topography. Surveys chief crops and farming methods. In San Juan and other major cities we see the lingering influence of Spanish tradition, and the widespread modern developments and prosperity that have resulted from the island's development program A VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION (2 films). Franciscan 1962 sd color set $265, ea $135; rent set $15, ea $10 sh-c-ad Produced by Alice and Harvey Richards Titles are: PART I. WOMEN OF RUSSIA. 35min. Shows the lives of ordinary people — how they live, work, their hopes for the future and for their children. This section shows some of the dramatic changes which have been made in the lives of women and children Part 2. FAR FROM MOSCOW. 33min. Explores the old and new in seldom traveled Siberia and in ancient Asian Tashkent VISITEMOS A PUERTO RICO. IntFlmBur 1962 17min sd color $175, rent $9 Jh-sh Guide Spanish narration Describes, in clearly enunciated Spanish, the modern, prosperous life of the Puerto Rican people and improvements and benefits which they have come to enjoy under the aegis of democracy — on farms, in villages, industry, education, and public health VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY IN CATTLE. ArizU 1959 7min sd b&w purchase apply, rent 75c sh-c-ad Explains the major problem of lack of vitamin A in dry .grasses and other range forage. Pictures vitamin A deficiencies In cattle— pink-eye, lack of coordination, enlarged joints, lack of heat tolerance. Shows and discusses research techniques, both on the farm and in the laboratory, and the dramatic recovery from deficiency symptoms upon daministration of vitamin A A VOICE FOR MERCURY. BellTel 1962 14^min sd color free-loan jh-sh-c-ad Produced by Audio Productions for Western Electric Co. Puts the audience in the shoes of a space traveler as the last few minutes of the countdown tick away. Shows the tense activity during flight at several tracking stations and scenes of the building of the globe-circling communications and tracking network for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Project Mercury VOICE FROM YESTERDAY. Hour 1962 27^min sd b&w $180, rent $9; color $300, rent $13.50 Jh-sh-c-ad Sponsored by Third Order of St Francis A professor discovers a way to bring back voices from the past, and hopes to reproduce words of wisdom from the greatest personalities for the benefit of present-day humanity. When information about his discovery leaks out, he finds himself hounded bv commercial interests and agrees to bring back the voice of Christ on international radio. When that message is flouted, the professor destroys the invention 65