Educational film guide (1945)

EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE 1945 EDITION 728.9-738 SHELTER — Continued troduces this film. The houses of the Eskimos, Arabs, equatorial Africans, and other backward races are explained The central theme of the main body of the picture is how man has learned to change raw materials found in nature and adapt them to the construction of various types of shelter to suit the various needs of our modern complex civilization. Beginning with the construction of adobe houses by Southwestern Indians this leads on through to the use of brick, cement, steel, and glass in modern construction ft 728.9 Farm buildings SOmin 16-sd-$25.35 1941 728.9 HOME PLACE. * Oastle jh-sh-ctrade-adult A USDA film "Characteristic farm houses in various parts of the country, various types, salient features of architecture, early examples. Spiritual significance. Excellent commentation. Interesting presentation. Well organized." California ft WILL AND THE WAY. 2R 16-si-$18 1935 Castle 728.9 sh-c A USDA film A story of remodeling and modernizing an 80-year-old farmhouse ft 730 Sculpture PLASTER CASTING. 22min 16-si-$42; rent $3 1941 Gut 730 Jh-sh-c "This film depicts the 'waste mold' method of plaster casting from the modeling of the form to the finished work of art. Very good presentation of subject matter. Technical qualities are very good. The film titled 'Plastic Art' (class 739) is almost identical in subject matter." California 111 $2 NatFS $3 VES $3 Wis $1.50 YMCA $3 SCULPTURE IN STONE. 15min 16-si-$25; rent $1 1929 B&H 730 jh-sh Creation in York marble of a crouching jaguar, the work of Anna Hyatt Huntington. The whole process is shown, from the crude block of marble, to the final creative effort of the artist. Details of the technique are shown throughout the progress of the work, and there are frequent close-ups of the tools in actual use. From the block of marble emerges a beast of the jungle, vibrant with life "Couldn't do without it! Makes for much more careful work on part of students." E. L. Cuttriss "Builds respect for the art. Inspiration to work in 3 dimensions." Collaborator BosU $1 IntF Brig Nay Calhoun NJM CFC $1 Ohio Eng PH Fl TexVE Harvard $2.50 TECHNIQUE OF PLASTER SCULPTURE. (Techniques ser.) 15min 16-si-rent $1.50 Gut 730 ih-sh-adult Guide Produced by Contemporary films Demonstration is by Milton Hebald. He uses a cat as a model to preliminary drawing of front and side views. With plaster he next makes a small pjissy, which serves as a three dimensional guide. The artist prepares a block of plaster to carve. Front and side views of the model are drawn on the block as guide lines Basic tools used in plaster sculpture are shown. He chops with his hatchet. Tooth chisels are used for putting in the features. The flat chisel is used to carve out the details. A coarse rasp rounds out the shape and tends to remove the chisel marks. The hand chisel brings out the final details of the sculpture and a small one is used for finishing touches. Puss is completed Ohio YMCA $1.50 737 Numismatics. Medals MEDAL MAKER. 45min 16-si-$75; rent $3 1930 Harvard 737 Jh-sh-c Made especially for the American numismatic society The making of medals and coins is demonstrated by Laura Gardin Fraser, best known for her official Government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd, and for her work for the National Sculpture Society Several sketches precede the final drawings, one for the face and one for the reverse, exactly the size the finished medal is to be. On smooth plaques of modeling clay, three times as large as the finished medal, Mrs. Fraser then sketches in the outlines of her design. Working directly from the living model, deftly she builds up the relief with tiny rolls and balls of clay. With delicate touches of the finger-tips the artist little by little improves the rough figure. The film shows all the steps of transforming these clay plaques into plaster moulds, casts, bronze moulds, and then finally steel dies reduce to one-third the size of the plaques. The steel dies in turn, placed in an enormous stamping machine, stamp out the finished medal "High in showing skills. Not enough detail in some spots." Dale J. Baughman B&H $75; rent $3 IntP BosU $3 MassEd CFC Ohio Fi 738 Pottery ABC OF POTTERY MAKING— THE COIL METHOD. 15min 16-si-$24 1938 BFS 738 eljh-sh-c Produced at the University of Southern California, College of architecture and fine arts "Excellent film showing some of the common tools used, thorough wedging of the clay, and rolling the coils. Detailed demonstrations of forming the base, applying -the coils, blending one coil into another, shaping on the potter's wheel, and smoothing with wet sponge." Harry H. Haworth B&H Col 111 $1 BLACK POTTERY OR BLACK EARTH OF COYOTE PEC. (Arts and crafts of Mexico ser.) 25min 16-si-rent $3 RFA 738 jh-sh-ctradeadult Produced by Harmon foundation in 1943 Shows digging of the black clay just as it was dug before Columbus. Pottery is formed by hand without a potter's wheel. It is spun on two saucer-shaped wheels and smoothed with broken pieces or bits of cloth. The design is put in by polishing A monkey Jug is formed in a simple mold and detail added by hand 339