Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

December, 1 945 17 more about visual materials and also felt a need for more time for preview and group discussion at the Conference. Films Made Available for Use at Clear Lake and Higgins Lake Conferences, August 12-25, 1945 FROM UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Defense Against Invasion (Spanish Spoken), 12 min., Sound, 50c, CIAA. Walt Disney, through animation and actual photography, explains in simple and entertaining fashion how vaccination makes the body immune from disease. An excellent health film of interest to adults as well as children. Amazon Awakens, The, 48 min., Sound, Color, 50c, CIAA. This Disney production combines live-action photography and animation to tell the story of the Amazon River Basin, its history, its industrial progress, its richness of natural resources, and the possibilities for its future. Back To Normal, 24 min., Sound, $1.00, BIS. This shows not only soldiers who have lost limbs and been brought back to normal with the use of artificial limbs, but also men, women, and children of civilian life who lost limbs in the blitz. These people are pictured carrying on regular activities in their old occupations or at work in new trades taught them at Government Training Centers. Gracias Amigos, 24 min., Sound, 50c, CIAA. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, this explains the important contributions our southern-republic neighbors made toward winning World War II by furnishing us with raw materials when other sources were cut off. Such products as rubber, nitrates, quartz, sisal, tin, and manganese are shown. My Japan, 24 irrin., Sound, 50c, OWL By use of captured Japanese footage, a Japanese narrator rips aside the curtain of our over-optimism and shows us what confronted r...; as we drew near Japan. Peace Builders, The, 12 min., Soutrd, $1.50, Brandon. This factual and stimulating film summarizes the historic world conferences of the Allied leaders from the Atlantic Charter Meeting through Ottawa, Cairo, Moscow, Teheran, Hot Springs, Bretton Woods, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Criirrean Conference. Devil Is A Sissy, The (Juvenile Sequence), 24 min., Sound, $3, TFC. FILM AND RADIO GUIDE This film deals with parerrt-child relations and gives three contrasting irrethods of handling children — trustful support, physical punishirrerrt, helpless inadequacy. Story With Two Endings, 12 mirr., Soutrd, 50c, OWL With inflation as its thenre, this film portrays what happened at the end of the last war with high biddiirg for new, peacetime goods. Points out that we have a choice now of creating the same ending for the present story or avoiding the catastrophe of runaway prices. Watchtower Over Tomorrow, 18 min., Sound, 50c, OWL The Dunrbarton Oaks plan for an interiratioiral security organization. Growth of the United Nations plan, step by step, from the Atlantic Charter and Moscow Cotrference to Brettoir Woods and Dumbarton Oaks is traced. Re-Creation, 36 min., Sound, 25c, USD A. Beneficial effects of a camping trip in a rratiorral forest upon a tired office-worker. Activities of the forest service. Negro Colleges in Wartime, 12 nrin., Sound, 50c, OWL Wartime activities of four colleges — Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama; Prairie View College, in Texas; Howard University, in Washington, D. C.; and Hampton Institute, in Virginia. Here Is China, 36 min., Sound, 50c, OWL The China that existed before the Japs attacked, showing the peasairt, the laborer, the builder, the fisherman, the school-child — the China that we cair expect to see when the war is over. Kids Must Eat, 24 irrin., Sound, 25c, USDA. Quiz Kids Joel Kupperman, Ruth Duskin, David Davis, and Pat Conlon, with Quiz Master Joe Kelly in a typical quiz session, entirely unrehearsed. Details of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture sponsored community school-lunch program. FROM WARREN’S MOTION PICTURES, BOX 107, DAYTON 1, OHIO: Charm and Personality, Plus Character, 40 min., Sound, Color, $12. Table, social, and business etiquette. PROM VENARD ORGANIZATION, PEORIA 2, ILLINOIS: National Farm Oddities, 20 min., Sourrd, Free. Ideas, inventions, and accomplishments of farm folks. FROM Y.M.C.A. MOTION PICTURE BUREAU, 19 SO. LaSALLE, CHICAGO 3, ILL.: Tale of Two Cities, 48 min., Sound, $6, TFC. A coirdensed version of the feature produced by Metro-GoldwynMayer based on the Dickens novel of the sanre name. Challenge to Democracy, 24 min., Sound, 50c, OWL The story of 110,000 displaced people of Japanese descent and how our government is handling their problenrs. Hometown, USA, 24 min., Sound, Color, $3 B & W, $5 in Color. A survey, in beautiful color, of day-to-day life in an average American community. Challenge to Crime, 12 min., Sound, $1.50. A discussion of juvenile delinquency, starring Ruth Clifton, originator of the “Moline Plan.” FROM WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION, 306 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH 30, PA.: Music in the Sky, 18 min., Sound, Free. One of America’s radio piograms, with John Charles Thomas, Metropolitan star, and John Nesbitt, story teller, at the studio. FROM WAR DEPARTMENT, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT NO. 1, SIXTH SERVICE COMMAND, FEDERAL BUILDING, DETROIT 26, MICHIGAN: Enemy Booby Traps, Sound, Free. How To Get Killed In One Easy Lesson, Sound, Free. FROM MICHIGAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, LANSING 2, MICHIGAN: Better Schools Make Better Citizens. FROM BRITISH CONSULATE, 1574 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG., DETROIT 26: Psychiatry In Action, 72 min., Sound. Rehabilitation of patients suffering from war neuroses. Children Of The City, 36 min., Sound, $2.00. British approach to the treatment of delinquency. Personnel Selection. Recommended for guidance teachers. ONE FILM FROM PHILIPPINE LEGATION IN WASHINGTON. Also: 3 films from Michigan Dept, of conservation: Michigan Canoe Trails, 11 min., Sound, Color, Free. Michigan Timber Harvest, 11 min., Sound, Color, free. Michigan Beaver, Sound, Black and White, Free. Also: 1 slidefilm (sound), 40 minutes: We Choose Retailing. Also: Military ’I’raining (Signal Corps film). Also That Boy Joe, Sound, Y.M.C.A