Educational film guide (1945)

EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE 1945 EDITION 598.2-608 WESTERN BIRDS AT HOME. $20; rent $1 1937 Cal 12min 16-si598.2 el-jh-sh-c-adult Birds found in the fields and forests of the West: western crow, yellow-billed magpie. Brewer blackbird, red-winged blackbird, meadow lark, California jay. Stellar jay, hairy woodpecker, hummingbird, western kingbird, white-throated swift, house wren, shrike, white-headed woodpecker, wren-tit, chickadee, bush tit, cliff swallows A&B Kan Ariz $1 Mo 50c WESTERN WATERFOWL. 12min 16-si-$20; rent $1 1936 Cal 598.2 el-Jh-sh-c Habits and nests of birds found near streams and marshlands Pictorial 75c WHITE PELICAN. (Our colorful world ser.) 14min 16-si-color-$60; rent $3 B&H 598.2 Jh-sh-c-adult A color fllm showing over 2,000 birds in great colony. Eggs and young cover the beach. There are interesting shots of the feeding of the young Calhoun PathNE $3 Eng PH Nay TexVE WILD WINGS. 30min 16-si-loan 1929 MichC 598.2 el-jh-sh-c Shows nests and habits of the following Michigan birds: eagle, humming bird, blue jay, red-winged black-bird, Baltimore oriole, Canada geese, winter ducks or old squaw ducks, mallard, pelican, sora rail, least bittern, black tern, Caspian tern, herring gull and loon Wis $1.25 WILD WINGS. (Pepper pot novelties ser.) 1R 16-sd-apply TFC 598.2 jh-sh-c A Warner bros. production available only to schools "A study of some of the thousands of birds that have found a retreat on the Layson Islands near the Hawaiian group in the Pacific Ocean. . . This film is characterized by unusual and artistic photography. "Highly recommended for zoology, grades 10 through college, and art classes above grade 7. Should be of some use in nature study classes, grades 1 through 6. Recommended also for art classes at all levels." Advisory committee Ohio Wis WINTER VISITORS. 12min 16-si-$20; rent $1 1936 Cal 598.2 jh-sh-c Shows the following waterfowl: pelican, sandhill crane, Canada geese, snow goose, Hutchins's goose, white-fronted goose, grey geese, black brant, canvasbacks, whistling swan, brown pelican WOODLAND PALS. (Naturgraphs) 15min 16-sd-$40; rent $2 1933 Bray 598.2 Close-up pictures of a humming-bird which was found starving at the approach of cold weather and was brought into a home and became a household pet. Also studies of the warbling vireo and of cedar waxwings B&H $40; rent $1.50 IdahoSo Fl VES $1.50 WOODPECKER, THE FARMER'S FRIEND. 5min 16-si-$9.50; rent $1 Bray 598.2 el A Finley subject, edited and titled for the elementary grades by Rita Hochheimer "Complete story of the woodpecker; how he finds his food, where he lives, his mark ings, claws, and tail feathers. Interesting shots of young woodpeckers. Film brings out how these birds aid farmer in saving his crops from insects." School management Col 30c LaEd loan Fl LaPI Kan 600 USEFUL ARTS PRECISELY SO. 20min 16-sd-loan 1940 GM 600 sh-c-trade The development of modern standards of accuracy from ancient times. Scientific instruments which measure time to the thousandth part of a second — weigh a dot of a lead pencil on a piece of paper — split a hair-breadth measurement into hundreds of parts are here. Precision instruments do precision jobs Geo $1 607 Technical education TRADE. 607 YOUNG AMERICA LEARNS A 33min 16-sd-loan 1942 Chicago jh -sh-c-tradeadult Presents the story of Washburne trade school. Young men and women receive training in seventeen useful trades and skills 608 Inventions CARAVAN. 30min 16-sd-color-loan 1942 GM 608 Jh-sh. adult "A color screening of General Motors Parade of Progress, a caravan of trucks which toured North America, demonstrating the latest technical developments which have resulted from General Motors research. Outstanding are aviation demonstrations, architectural exhibits, a developmental history of power and various mysterious operations which can be performed with modern kitchen apparatus." Movie makers LAND OF INVENTION. (Films from Britain ser.) 12min 16-sd-$12; rent 50c 1941 BIS 608 Jh-sh -c-trade-adult This film with a Scottish commentator takes its audience around modern Scotland to see the birthplaces of some of its great inventors and present day examples of their inventions At Glasgow university we see the notebook of James Watt with its drawings of his steam engine. Murdoch's discovery of coal gas as a method of lighting is seen in reconstruction. Macadam, of road building fame; Nasmyth and his steam hammer; Neilson and the blast furnace; Tilford the famous bridge and canal builder; Henry Bell and the steamship; Lord Kelvin, inventor of the magnetic compass: Stevenson and his light house; Alexander Beli, inventor of the telephone; and Simpson whose work with chloroform was precursor to modern use of anaesthetics, all these were Scotsmen The film also notes the contributions of American inventors, such as Fulton's help in the development of Bell's paddle wheelers, Edison's refinement of Alexander Bell's telephone, and Guthrie's additions to Simpson's discovery with anaesthetics B&H IdS BraF $15; rent $1.25 Ind Calhoun KCSdS CFG sale apply; rent Minn 50c $1.25 PH Cos TexVE FC $1.50 WashCE $1 217