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

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

SPORTS & RECREATION (Continued) Football Highlights 1954 mp IDEAL '55 45min sd b&w $5. Sponsor: Intercollegiate Conference. Condensed review of the most exciting plays of the 1954 gridiron season. Narration by Tom Harmon concerning gomes played by the Big Ten Conference, including Rose Bowl classic. Ad. Fundamentals of Track and Field mp EBF '54 25min sd b&w $1 12.50. Bob Mathias, Olympic champion, demonstrates his special limbering up drills, arm and leg exercises. Fundamental techniques of track events, analysis of Mathias' stride, and specific events presented. JrH-Coll. Let's Train with the Cardinals mp LETS 28min sd col free. Sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Produced by Condor Films, Inc. Takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the major league team. Man of Tomorrow 6mp ALMANAC '54rel sd col. Produced by Hour Glass Productions. Picture creative and recreational activities of teen-age boys. Titles: High Flyers, County Fair, Sailing Snowbirds, Knucides Down, Road Runners, Soap Box Trio. Pacific Soils mp IDEAL '55 20min sd col free. Sponsor: Ev in rude Motors. Searching for the elusive soilfish in a speedy out-board off the coast of Acapulco. Playtime in India mp ALMANAC '54rel sd col. Story of a fabulous playground for children in India. School for Skippers mp BOAT '55 1 3 Vz min sd col or b&w free loan tv. Follows exploits of a novice to boating as he buys his first cruiser, shows it to his family, and takes them out for a ride. He finds there is much to learn about boot handling and manners and customs afloat and hears about the Power Squadrons' free basic course in piloting. The whole family then take the course. Sunday by the Sea mp CONTEM '55 1 5 min sd b&w rent, sell. Shows the English people enjoying the pleasures of the seaside. Adventures are accompanied by popular music hall ballads. Way to Wimbledon mp BIS '54 20min sd b&w r$2.50. Shows the core of the famous Wimbledon tennis courts during off season, preparation for tournaments, how the lots ore drawn, aspirations and anxieties of the first contestant, shots of actual matches, and views of the spectators. West to Key West mp IDEAL 25min sd col free. Sponsor: Evinrude Motors. Father and son take outboard cruise from Key West to the Dry Tortugas. Fishing and skin diving. FIRE HOUSE DOG 1 reel, primary film FILM ASSOCIATtS OF CAIIFORNIA los mmws, c.uioiiu STORIES, FABLES, FAIRY TALES American Legendary Heroes Series 6fs EBF '54 52fr eo si col $6ea. Drawings tell the story of Ichabod Crane, Rip Von Winkle, Poul Bunyon, Pecos Bill, Hiawatha, Uncle Remus. El. Character Building Series 1 6fs EBF '54 39fr eo si col $5ea. Adventures of a cottontail family to point up desirable character traits. Pri. Cottontail Fables Series 6fs EBF '54 40fr eo si col $5each. A sequel group to the Character Building series. Relates further adventures of a family of rabbits, each story carrying a simple moral. Disney Cartoon Parode No. 7 3mp DIS '55rel 26min sd col. Three Walt Disney shorts: Ugly Duckling, Pluto's Fledglings, and Crazy Over Doisy. Fisherman's Boy mp COR '55 lOmin sd b&w $55 col $100. Danny's father is captain of a commercial fishing boat, yet Danny has never been fishing on it. Danny decides to learn about fishing and with the help of Mr. Brown he learns to fish with a pole from the dock and so earns the right to go out with his father on the fishing boot. Pri. Hansel and Gretel mp BAIL '55 llmin sd b&w $50 r$3 col $100 r$5. Grimm fairy tale recreated by artist-producer Roy Harryhousen and enacted by animated figuries. Pri-EI. Lion and the Mouse mp ALT '55 8'/2min sd col b&w $37.50 col $83 r$4.75. Live-oction interpretation of the Aesop fable with original musical score. El. Monkey and the Organ Grinder mp COR '55 I Imin sd b&w $55 col $100. Almost every day Micko, the monkey, did a little dance while Mr. Russo turned the crank of his hand organ. Afterwards, Micko tipped his hat to thank the children who handed him their pennies. One day, however, Mr. Russo fell asleep and Micko went alone to see the children. Frightened by the noise and traffic, he was returned to Mr. Russo's home by the children, who from then on come to Mr. Russo's yard to see the monkey and the organ grinder. Pri. Once Upon a Time mp series RAMP '54. Series of classic stories for children as told by the well-known er^ucotor Mildred Woods and visually presented by artist Eric Askew. Moke use of "stop animation." Titles now available: Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, The Travels of a Fox. Pri, Pet Stories Series 6fs EBF '54 46fr eo si col $6ea. Depicts heolthy relationships between children and pets, and proper care of pets. Captions written especially for young pupils to read. Pri. Running for Sheriff mp ED-V '54 ]2min sd col $100 b&w $55. The appointment of a sheriff for a town of little cowboys provides the occasion for stressing the superior value of sound health habits and good character qualities. Setting characteristic of a western adventure. Pri. Steadfost Tin Soldier mp BRAN '55 14 min sd col $145 r$9. Danish production with English narration. Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale portrayed by puppets. Stories for Young Ears — I 6fs DUK '55 sd b&w. Series of student-participation sound filmstrips presenting stories for use in kindergarten and first grade. Titles: Mosho and the Bear; Chinno, An Indian Boy; Paper Tearing; The Ugly Duckling; Abwo and Her Picture; Alphabet. Pri. Stories from Other Lands Series 6fs EBF '54 45fr eo si col $6ea. Told with original color drawings. Titles: Dick Whittington, Peter and the Dike, William Tell, Joan of Arc, Pheidippides, Robert Bruce and the Spider. El. Tales from Grimm and Andersen 7fs JAM '54 25fr eo si col. Artwork recreates the following famous fairy tales: The Shoemaker and the Elves; The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids; Rapunzel; The Frog Prince; Spindle, Shuttle and Needle; Hans Clodhopper; The Princess and the Pea. Pri. TRANSPORTATION ABC of Jet Propulsion mp GM '54 \1 V2 min sd col free tv. Explains in understandable terms what a jet engine is and how it works, principle of reaction on which it is based, function of its main ports, its advantages and problems, and how it differs from other internal combustion engines. How the some principle is used in other ways. SrH-Coll. Advance in the Air mp BIS 13min sd b&w $45 r$2.50. Recent developments in British aviation as shown at the Fornborough Air Show. Airplanes Are for Susan and Billy! mp KRUSE '54 14min sd col. Shows why 0 plane flies, how a pilot controls o plane in the oir, which subjects studied in school help students become pilots, and how a jet plane flies. Jr-SrH. Arctic Flying mp EDO '54 13 min sd col r$3. The Edo Corporation displays its aircraft in the story of Bud and Connie Helmericks and their twoyear-old daughter, who use their floatequipped airplanes traveling to and from their Arctic home. Shows the family hunting polar bears, seining for fish under ice, flights over rugged mountain ranges, felling giant trees for 0 wilderness home, etc. At This Moment mp ASSN '54 26min sd col free. Produced for Westinghouse Air Brake, Important role railroads hove played in the prosperity of America, carrying produce, row materials, machinery, etc. Demonstrates railroads at work, modern devices, advances in brakes, methods in communication and train control. Aviation Information Film Series 4mp NASAO '55 13min ea sd col. Educational film series dealing with general aviation. Titles: Flying Businessman, Airport America, Agricultural Aviation, The Flight Decision. Big Trains Rolling mp UW '55 sd col free. New version of Association of American Railroads film which emphasizes the service performed by railroads in meeting America's needs. Shows complex operations and maintenance of this transportation system. Fast Freight mp McG-H '55rel si b&w $85. RKO film. Story of "Big George," a mile-long freight, and of the men who make it possible for the train to operate on a strict time schedule. Flying Colors mp UNITED '54 sd col freeloan. How United Air Lines keeps its planes in smooth running order. The camera follows a DC-6 from its arrival at the overhaul dock through "tear down" for 200 maintenance checks and subsequent "build up" for flight testing ond return to service. 462 Educational Screen