Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

LITERATURE & DRAMA American Authors Series 6fs YAF '55 si col $33. Life and work of Alcott, Clemens, Irving, Longfellow, Poe ond Whittier. EI-JrH. American Poets Series 6fs EBF '54 49fr ea si col $6ea. Biographies emphasize major influences which affected each poet, as well as influence of each on American literary culture. Titles: William Cullen Bryant Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitmon, Emily Dickinson, Sidney Lanier. JrSrH, Character Makeup for Men mp U MINN '55 IVmin sd col $160. Shows the octor developing and applying his own character makeup. The actor is finally shown with his completed makeup under actual stage lighting. SrH-Ad. Each Man's Son mp NFS '54 }AVim\n sd b&w. One of the "Horizons" series on the work of Canadian writers and artists. A dramatized excerpt from the novel by Hugh MacLennan, to illustrate the strength of this writer's stories. Education of Smoky mp TFC '55 9min sd b&w $40 (lOyr. license). Excprpt from 20th Century-Fox film "Smoky." Devised to serve as an introduction to western literature ond the novels of Will James. Presents the sequence of the capture and training of Smoky as a prize cowpony. JrH. The Gift of the Magi mp TFC '55 20min sd b&w $80. (lOyr. license). O. Henry's famous short story of the young newly-weds who sold their most prized possessions to exchange Christmas presents. JrH-SrH. Hamlet and King Richard II rec COL '55 12" 33-l/3rpm $1.98. Six excerpts from "Hamlet," including the famous soliloquies. Three scenes from "Richard 11" — Lcnd'ng Scene, In Wo'-" In Prison. Performed by Maurice Evans ond company. Last Leaf mp TFC '55 20min sd b&w $80 (10 yr. license). O. Henry's story of the girl whose will to live is sustained by the masterpiece of a painter whom everyone considered a failure. Jr-SrH. Literature and Language of Learning tapes PHONO 7.5ips dual track $17.95 single $12,95ea 3.75ips dual track $8.95 single $5.95eo. Library of prerecorded readings from the great Greek ploys to grass-roots Americana. Includes works of Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Gray, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Poe, Browning, Chekhov, Carroll, Whitman, Wilde, Irving, Horte, Pope, Coleridge, Tennyson, Cicero, Byron, Kipling; the Hebrew and Latin Languages. Living Heritage Series topes EMC 1 5min ea 7.5ips $6.95 3.75ips $4.95. Dual track tapes, presenting a complete program on each track. Dramatizations in English of the greot myths, legends and epics of ancient Greece and Rome. The Golden Legend Series 15 topes); The Trojan Cycle Series (5 tapes); The Aeneid Cycle Series (2 topes); The Great Author Series (7 topes). SrH-Ad. Mocbeth fs FH '54 26fr si b&w. Produced in England. Key scenes from the theatrical production of the ploy starring Orson Welles. Accomponyinf script explains scenes. you Can ASSIGN RECORD LISTENING in Music, Modern Ijjnguages, Social Science, English. No costly booths are needed with AVR Hi-Fi equipment. Hi-Fi Speaker optional. fl PHONO UNIT, J79.95 SUAL RESEARCH AVR HI-FI PHOMO and tABPHOHtS^ BASIC HI AUDIO VI Dept. U5I2 531 S. Plymouth Ct. Chicogo 5 Macbeth mp BRAN '55 rel 85min b&w apply for rental rate. Based on the ploy by William Shakespeare. Directed and produced in Scotland by Orson Welles OS a Mercury Picture. Music by Jacques Ibert, conducted by Efrem Kurtz. Stars Orson Welles as Macbeth, Don O'Herlihy as MocDuff and Roddy McDowoll as Malcolm. SrH-AD. Macbeth mp ASSN '55 1 20min b&w free loon to high schools and colleges. 16mm kinescope of the Maurice Evans two-hour television presentation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," shown Sunday, Nov. 28, 1954, on the NBC-TV network. Hallmark Cards, the Kansas City greeting cord firm which presented Mr. Evans' "Macbeth" on its Hallmark Hall of Fame drama series, is finoncing the processing and distribution of the 16mm kinescope recordings for the school field. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Introduction to the Play mp COR 13min sd b&w $68.75 col $137.50. Key scenes from the Shakespeare ploy ore staged. Familiar passages and significant actions ore used to illustrate the setting and plot of the play. Narrative exposition clarifies the way in which characters act, their relationships to one another, and the language in which they speak. SrH-Coll. Nicholas Nickleby fs FH '54 54fr si b&w. Produced by J. Arthur Rank. Photographs from the theatrical production of Dickens' novel, featuring key scenes with accompanying booklet containing the narrative. Pickwick Popcrs fs FH '54 46fr si b&w. Produced in England. Token from the theatrical production, presents selected incidents from the novel. Poet's Gold 2rec RCA 45rpm. Carl Sandburg's poems, read by him, on 2 sides; on the other 2 sides, the poet sings songs from his "Americon Song Bog." JrH-Ad. Road to Canterbury mp BIS '54rel 23min sd col r$5. Literary and historic sights along the great Roman thoroughfare: Globe Theatre, Anchor Inn (from which Samuel Pepys watched the Great London Fire), the Great Brewery (where Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary). Bull Hotel (where Dickens' Mr. Pickwick stopped), etc. SrH-Ad. Shakespeare Recordings RCA '54-'55. Shakespeare's ploys read by performers from the "Old Vic" Company in London. A Midsummer Night's Dream, recorded by Moiro Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Sterling Holloway; Romeo and Juliet, with a cost headed by Clair Bloom ond Alan Badel; Macbeth with Alec Guinness in the lead role; Hamlet (produced by "Theatre Guild on the Air"), played by John Gielgud, supported by Dorothy McGuire and Pomelo Brown. SrH-Ad. Stories from Shakespeare Series 6fs EBF '55 49fr ea si col $6ea. Color drawings with coptions. Condensations of his best-known ploys: Hamlet, Mocbeth, Henry V, Julius Caesor, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream. SrH-Coll. Story of My Life — Hons Christian Andersen mp BRAN '55 27min sd b&w $125 r$7. Danish-produced biography of the great storyteller. Released to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Andersen's birth. Story Tellers of the Canterbury Tales mp use '54 16'/2min sd col $155 r$5 tv. Produced to introduce the Age of Chaucer to students of English. Presents the origin of present-day English through the use of an authentic manuscript, figurines representing Chaucer's Canterbury-bound pilgrims, famous lines of the poetry. Medieval-design music played on authentic instruments, and a narration in Middle English. Coll-Ad. Treasure Island mp DIS '55rel 95min sd col. Walt Disney's live-action interpretotion of the Stevenson masterpiece. Voice of France topes NATL dual track 7. Sips $5.95 3.75ips $4.85. Series in English. This Is Marseilles (25minl, which catches the spirit of the port city ond features the work of Rostand and Marion Vandal. Down to the Riviero (30min), o dramatization with music, and the poems of Villon and Mistral. This Is Poris I20min) , a travelogue of this city with music by Guy LoFarge and poetry by Villon, Moliere and Hugo. MEDICAL SCIENCE Atomic Apothecary mp MEDICAL '54 38min sd b&w $295 r$25. Out of the original research unit at Ook Ridge, Tennessee, come the results of investigation on the use of isotopes in biology and medicine. Shows activities in newer research centers. Children with Nephrosis mp NPF '55 12 min sd b&w free loan. Detailed presentation of all the known facts about this mysterious killer of children. Two versions of the film are available, one for the medical profession and one for lay audiences. Conquest o{ Pain mp TFC '54 20min sdl b&w $80 (lOyr. license). An excerpt from the Paramount production, "The' Great Moment." Depicts career of William Morton, the 19th century; Boston dentist who perfected ether as> 0 safe anaesthetic in surgery. JrHSrH. Education for Childbirth 4mp MED ARTSi '54 sd b&w. Titles: Prenatal Cate,\ Labor and Childbirth, A Normal Birth, { Postnatal Core. SrH-Coll. Fight: Science Against Cancer mp IFBi '54rel 21 min sd b&w $65. Produced! by Notional Film Board of Canada. Relating the successful treatment of a patient suffering from skin cancer, the film survey the battle waged by science against the dread disease. Animation i techniques and magnified sequences permit the camera to explore the mysterious universe of the body cell. Condensed version of the documentary, Challenge: Science Against Cancer. 446 Educational Screen'