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Rentol, sale. Collaborator: S. Ralph Powers, Teachers College, Columbia University. Users: Highschool and college instruction to chemistry. Content: Provides an introduction to a study of chemistry, including importance of chemistry in modern living and an indication of how it will affect the future. A costumed scene shows alchemists stirring their brews, as narration explains that this was the rudimentary beginning of chemistry, the search for the elixir of youth and how to change lead into gold. Joseph Priestly is named as the father of modern chemistry and shown as an actor performs the oxidation experiment. Lavoisier's development of research methods is also depicted. A table of elements is shown and narration explains the importance of their identification. In a classroom setting a chemical change, phosphorus and iodine, is demonstrated. The three basic areas of chemistry, inorganic, organic, and physical, are named and demonstrated. THE ABC OF JET PROPULSION 'Power Primer series' SPONSORED. Sound, 20 min., color. Loan. Produced by Soundmasters, Inc., for General Motors Corporation. Users: Junior high through adult oge groups interested in jet propulsion. Content: Explains, through animation, the basic principles of jet propulsion, illustrating how the jet principle is also used with gar turbines, turbo-prop airplanes, and rocket propulsion. Introductory sequences quickly and humorously trace the ideo of air travel from dragons, to balloons, men with wings, and the Wright brothers. Three cartoon characters are introduced as Air, Fuel, and Ignition, who do not understand how jet planes can fly without propellers. Through cross-section drawings, the film explains what a jet engine is and how it works, the principle of reaction on which it is based ,the function of each of its main, parts, its advantages and problems, and how it differs from other internal combustion engines. Jet principles are also illustrated in use in gas turbines, turbo-prop airplanes, and rocket propulsion. In the conclusion, the three cartoon characters take a ride in a jet plane, and then plan to ride to the moon. Comment: The film is entertaining, and the animation tends more to moke explanations easier to of I low, rather than distract. Distributor: Film Library, Public Relations Dept., General Motors Corporation, 3044 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit 2. THE PHOTOGRAPHER EDUCATIONAL. Sound, 26 min., b&w. Sale. Content: Explains and illustrates the principlase of picture composition and photographic artistry. Explanations are given by Edward Weston, a leading American photographer. Distributor: United World Films, Inc., 1445 Park Ave., New York 29. OLD VIRGINIA SPONSORED. Sound, 12 min., color. Loain. Available for TV. Produced by Martin Bovey Films for Minneapolis-Moline Co. Content: Makes a tour of th historical points of interest in Virginia. Beginning the tour at Mount Vernon, the film moves down the Potomac to Gunston Hall. On the James River, Carters Grove and Jamestown is shown before going on to Williamsburg, restored to Colonial authenticity by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The film journey also includes Charlottesville, the University of Virginia, Monticella, the agriculture of Virginia, and the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. Distributor: Film Library, Minneapolis-Moline Co., Minneapolis 1. OUR PEOPLE IN MUSIC AND SONG EDUCATIONAL. Sound, 64 min., color. Rentol, showing with lecturer. Produced by NewmanSchmidt Studios for Heid-Sarapa Enterprises. Content: Depicts Serbian, Croation, ond Slovenian folklore through songs and dances by American groups who are descendants of the three nationalities. Amateur and semiprofessional choral groups, church choirs, and dancers sing the songs and dance the dances that they learned from their parents and grandparents. Included are wedding scenes, harvest scenes, and others. Although made primarily for showing to nationality groups, there is explanatory English commentary at intervals. The participating groups are principally from the Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Akron area. Distributor: George Heid Productions, William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh 19. •in review WORLD OF LITTLE THINGS EDUCATIONAL. Sound, 15 min., color or b&w. Sale to educational institutions. Users: Upper elementary, highschool, and college general and biological science. Content: Introduces fresh water, marine, and microscopic plant and animal life through timelapse photography and dark-field microscopy. At the beginning, the historical background of the microscope and Leeuwenhoek's work are briefly sketched. Then, typical minute mentazoa and protozoa found in fresh water are identified. The anatomy and physiology of the amoeba, volvox, Paramecium, and didinium are presented, and the relationship of plants and animals to each other in a waterdrop aquarium. Next, planktonic animal life are identified; flatworms, medusa, segmented worms, protozoan, polychaete larvae, and rodiolarians. Microscopic plant life follows with a discussion of algae and diatoms. The concluding sequence of the film relotes the moral and spiritual values indicated to the scientific considerations previously discussed. Comment: Enhanced by the use of dark-field microscopy which gives brilliant color to the animals and plants under the microscope this film is a noteworthy introduction to the minute population that inhabits the earth. The narrative is clear and concise, and blends with background music into a most interest-provoking accompaniment to the superior pictorial presentation. The narration's summary, indicating an infinite wisdom and design behind the varieties of life on earth, provides a provocative synthesis with the scientific explannations of the film as to the creation of life on earth. Distributor: Moody Institute of Science Educational Film Division, 11428 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 25, Calif. ATOM SMASHERS I Magic of the Atom series) Previewed by FILM & A-V WORLD, June 1954. EDUCATIONAL. Sound 12'/2 min., b&w. Sale. Available for TV. Produced by Handel Film Corporation. Technical assistance: Atomic Energy Commission on dthe University of California at Los Angeles Atomic Energy Project. Users: Highschool science and current events clubs; adult audiences. Content: Identifies various types of atom smashers, briefly explaining their principle. The complicated equipment in the Brookhoven laboratory in Long Island is shown in the introductory sequence. Inventor of the cyclotron, Ernest Lawrence, and his first tiny accelerators, meosuring only four inches across, are depicted. In contrast, the betatron with its 10,000 ton magnet is shown. A model of the betatron is compared to the size of a model of a man. On a drawing of the betatron, the path of the atom is shown. As preparations for the smashing of an atom are bing made with a cyclotron at Brookhaven, narration explains the atoms travel at 30,000 miles per second. The synchrotron, shown at Berkeley, is said to speed the atom to 186,000 miles per second. Dr. Edward McMillan, inventor of the synchrotron, is depicted . When the cosmotron is shown, narration states that its energy almost equals that of the cosmic roy. It is explained how science makes its calculations from results made on films. The cloud chamber is briefly described and the concluding sequence shows a photograph of the smashing of an atom. Comment: The film impresses one with the huge machinery necessary for smashing particles thot can't even bee seen. The explanations are as simple as possible, but still very technical for the average audience. Distributor: Handel Film Corporation, 6926 Melrose Ave., Hollywood 38. MIGHTY MINIATURES SPONSORED. Sound, 15 min., color. Loan. Produced by Miniature Precison Bearings, Inc. Content: Describes the manufacture and inspection of miniature barings ond their application in precision mechanisms. It shows in detail how bearing rings are machined and polished, and how the completed assembly is tested for concentricity, torque, ring dimeter, and other dimensions and characteristics. The conclusion demonstrates the manufacturer's quality control program and packaging methods. Slanted for technical societies and engineering groups. Distributor: Engineering Dept., Miniature Precision Bearings, Inc., Keene, N. H. 320