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.
fainilinr harmonies of this music have also been arranged for the con\entional western instrinnents in Music of Bali (3-10" recordings, Sdiirnier) .
Political issues, as well as cuUural and economic features, are discussed in Indonesia— An Empire's Problem'{film. 18min., MOT). The film traces the backgiouiul of Dutch rule and the independence movement and iliscusscs the points of negotiations between natives antl Dutch before self-rule was granted.
.\ useful introduction to life in Malaya is Malay Peninsula (fdm, lOmin., Coronet). This is a rapid sur\e\ of the peoples in cities and villages, their principal economic activities, their religion and the interaction of primitive and modern cultures. An intelligible portrait of primitive social existence in the area is presented in Nomads of the Jungle—Malaya (fdm, 20min., UVVF). In it, the imit of the faniih' is stressed, and the way in which it must exploit the basic resources of the tropical region is told with skill and realism.
The activities of the inhabitants of a typical atoll in the Pacific area are pictured in Pacific Island. This particular film was made on Likiep, one of the Marshall Islands group but might well have been any one of the other islands in this area.
Outstanding social documentaries are presented in the "Ear til and Its People Series" (UWF).
FILMS ABOUT INDIA
•k A class showing of Farmers of India (fdm, 20 min., UWF) would make almost unforgettable such characteristics of the great sub-continent as extreme poverty, crowded living, crude standards, and religious customs. Yet Chota Lai's family in the middle Ganges valley, in spite of their ineffective farm equipment, has food to sell. They are able to buy clothing and allow young Chota Lai to attend school. Scenes shift skilfully to show the family working in the fields, in their simple home, in the teeming city, worshipping in the temple, and Chota Lai in school. Basic materials for understanding the human qualities of the complex society and culture of India are available in the display. Peoples of India (28 panels, Life) , thirt\ pictures by the distinguished photographer, Margaret Bourke-White; in the filmstrip. Peoples of India (SVE); in the portfolio or filmstrip on India (18 plates or 40 fr., ICP) ; and in the characteristic musical expressions in Folk Music of India
"Our World Neighbors"
(4-10" recordings, EFL) . A vivid, colorful account of many of the prevalent customs and traditions of a Hindu conununity is Village in India (color film, 10 min., TFC) . A recent March of Time production, India — Asia's New Voice (17 min.) also includes some of the religious customs of the caste system; primarily, however, the fdm provides views of those peiplexing economic, social, and political questions that confront the new dominion government. •
SOURCES OF THESE MATERIALS Brandon Brandon Films, Inc., 1700 Broadway, New
York 19, N.Y. Coronet Coronet Instructional Films, Coronet Building, Chicago 1, 111. EBF Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., 1150
Wilmette Avenue, Wilmette, III. EFL Folkways Records and Service Corp., 117
West 4f)th Street, New York 19, N.Y. FREC Federal Radio Education Commission, Federal Security Agency, Washington 25, D.C. Gateway Gateway Productions, Inc., 40 Fremont
Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. ICP Informative Classroom Pictures Publishers,
Grand Rapids 2, Mich. IFF International Film Foundation, Inc., 1600
Broadway, New York 19, N.Y. Life Life Photographic Exhibitions, Room 1909,
Time and Life Building, 9 Rockefeller
Plaza. New York 20, N.Y. NewWorldNew World Recordings, 156 Fifth Avenue,
New Y'ork 10, N.Y. NYT School Service Department, New Y'ork Times,
229 West 43rd Street, New York 18, N.Y. RKO I6mm Educational Division, RKO Pictures,
Inc., 1270 Sixth .\venue. New York 20, ■ N.Y. SB The Stanley Bowmar Co., 513 West 166th
Street, New York 32, N.Y. Schirmer G. Schirmer, Inc., 3 East 43rd Street, New
York 17, N.Y. SVE Society for Visual Education, Inc., 1345 Di
versey Parkway, Chicago 14, 111. TFC Teaching Film Custodians, Inc., 25 West 43rd
Street,' New York 18, N.Y. UWF United World Films, Inc., 1445 Park Avenue,
New York 29, N.Y. VW Visual Workshop, Inc., 13 East 37th Street,
New York 16, N.Y.
Editor's Note: A great majority of the useful films and fdmstrips listed in this comprehensive article are available in your nearest school or regular commercial library for pr»view or rental. There are many outstanding materials among these subjects . . . Use them -wisely — but use them! This is a highly important area in the social studies.