Educational film guide (1948)

323.6-326 EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE 323.6 Citizenship JUNIOR CITIZEN. Gateway 1947 19min sd $90, rent $3 323.6 Jh-sh-ad-forum Produced by Contemporary Films, San Francisco On a vital theme — good citizenship in our democracy, the awareness of our progressive schools of its importance and the role they are playing in its development The subject matter is divided into four parts: sharing a common understanding, fitting into our economic life, conserving our natural resources, conserving our human resources. The film shows graphically how our school children are guided year by year from the beginning, first learning to play and work together, then to appreciate the many cultures that contribute to our civilization, then, as they develop and capacities grow, to understand, appreciate and gradually assume the responsibilities of community life, to value and learn to help in conserving our natural and human resources, and to earn a living in a congenial occupation 324 Elections GENERAL ELECTION. BIS 1946 20min sd $37.50, rent $2.50 324 sh-adult Traces the mechanism of an election in Britain from its inception to its final conclusion. Each candidate goes through the required formalities of being proposed and seconded; each plans his campaign with his agent, and travels through his district addressing his constituents. Posters and pamphlets are printed, meetings are held. Polling Day plans are drawn up. What actually happens on Polling Day — the methods of voting, the precautions for secrecy, the counting of votes and the final declaration of the result, are all shown in detail HOW WE ELECT OUR REPRESENTATIVES. Coronet 1947 lOmin sd $45, also color $90 324 el-Jh-sh-c-adult Guide Collaborator: Dr Jerome G. Kerwin, prof of political science, Univ of Chicago Explains the functional basis of our democracy— our election system. Registration, primaries, electioneering, voting, methods of counting ballots, and the over-view of the responsibility of voting intelligently to make our democracy work are the basic contents of this film TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER. NYU 1945 20min sd (American scene) rent $4 324 Jh-sh-ad Produced by the Overseas branch of the U S Office of war information Explains the process by which Americans exercise one of the most important privileges of democracy — the secret ballot. The story is told thru watching an election in one town, from the opening of the polls to the counting of the ballots 325.73 United States — Foreign population AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY. NAM 1942 15min sd $26.50. loan 325.73 Jh-sh-c-adult Produced by Paramount Pictures, Educational division "Through the medium of dramatic 'flashbacks' into 20 years of the life of an immigrant, this film reintroduces Americans to those simple rights and opportunities which made our shores the goal of millions of oppressed peoples and made our way of life the envy of all other nations. "The story, in terms of one man, of the development of our country as a whole is an account of the rise of an immigrant to a place of significance in his community. "A simple, moving, very effective story. A general interest film." School management "Altho NAM propaganda, I consider this outstanding for junior high and above." Collaborator GREEN IE, TFC 1942 lOmin sd (MGM minla * tures) apply 325.73 Jh-sh-c-adult Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "A little Polish refugee boy comes to America with his father. The boy attempting to become a part of this new world and make friends, is at first ridiculed by the boys on his street, but is finally accepted by them in true 'Yankee* spirit." Advisory committee IMMIGRATION. EBP 1947 llmin sd (American history ser) $45. rent $2.50 325.73 jh-sh-c-adult Guide Collaborator: Henry Steel Commager, head of history dept, Columbia univ Shows by photographs and animated maps how the United States became populated, and why Europeans left the Old World for the New. Photographic scenes of families leaving their homes for this country tell the human side of the story. Peasants fleeing from economic exploitation, political refugees and religious fugitives, are all depicted in scenes which conclude with shots of Ellis Island and the induction into full American citizenship of immigrants "Film should prove excellent in primary grades in such areas as social living and communication arts. Latter heading includes language, dramatics, and graphic arts." Film world SPANISH INFLUENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. Coronet 1948 lOmin sd $45; also color $90 325.73 el-jh-sh-ad Guide Collaborator: Frederick G. Neel, Dept ot education, Canterbury college Points out that even tho Don and Dolores live in the United States, our Spanish heritage plays an important part In their lives. In their ranch-type house they have Spanish furniture, listen to Latin tempos on the radio, and even many of the words which they use are Spanish in derivation. When their study turns to the rest of the country, they discover the Spanish missions from Florida to California, the horses and cattle originally brought here by the Spanish and many other things "Title should have read 'Mexican influence in the U.S.' " Collaborator 326 Negroes COLOR OF A MAN. color loan IntFlmFd 1946 ISmin sd 326 Jh-sh-cadult-forum Sponsored by the Congregational Church Two shadows are on the ground. The camera moves from them onto the face of a man, and a voice says: "This man is free, white and 21." The camera moves to another face, and the voice says: "This man Is — 21" A simple documentary story of conditions in the South, of jim crow and deliberate withholding of opportunity for education and economic opportunity NEGRO FARMER. Castle 1938 24min sd $30.84 326 Jh-sh-adult Produced by the U S Dept of agriculture Outlines the work of the Federal and State Extension Service among Southern Negroes. Shows what is being done to further the cause of better farming and better living 266