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Jun 1, 2017
06/17
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National Film Board of Canada
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Uses medieval settings, music, and animation, in order to present a version of the Christmas story. Without narration
Topics: Jesus Christ, Children's films, Christmas stories, Nativity
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( 1 reviews )
Topic: Women''s Issues Women
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Why Do We Still Have Mountains Examines the psychological causes of wife beating and the emotional, as well as physical, repercussions on women and their children. Discusses the emergence of wife beating as a serious social problem and offers possible solutions.
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mountains, Erosion
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Basic instructional film for classroom use
Topic: Motion pictures
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Deals with the full range of human figure shots from the long shot to the extreme close - up. Considers the framing of shots when two people are involved and then those containing three, four and more people. Presents modern warfare from the soldier's point of view. Stresses the number of men killed in taking one military objective. Shows how during World War II the people of San Pietro were too stunned to realize they had been liberted.
Topics: Filmmaking., Motion pictures,, Television.
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Print
Topics: African-American, Cities - New York City
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Apr 21, 2016
04/16
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MacDougall, David. pro; MacDougall, Judith. pro
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Note: With English subtitles
Topics: Ethnology, Turkana (African people), Anthropology, Manners and customs
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Nov 30, 2015
11/15
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Paul Killiam Productions
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Film Firsts Part 2 (1959) Includes classic silent films and footage of some of film's firsts, including the first cartoon, the first Tarzan, and excerpts from "cliffhanger" serials from 1914-1929. First animated cartoon (1909); use of life- sized models and miniaturization in horror films; introduction of the “business tycoon'' and social criticism; symbolic freeze of ac- tion; table-top photography; double expo- sure and mirrors for special effects; under- water photography (1917);...
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Topic: Motion pictures
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In 1967 Dr. Margaret Mead, world famous anthropologist, returns to the village of Peri on Manus Island, New Guinea, which she previously visited in 1928 and 1954. She tells the story of the people's emergence from the stone age existence, on her first trip, into modern ways of living
Topics: New Guinea., Anthropology., Women.
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Mar 31, 2017
03/17
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Lorenz, Konrad, 1903-1989; Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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Produced by the Institut für Film und Bild. Konrad Lorenz
Topic: Mallard
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Jun 7, 2016
06/16
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Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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Scenes of hamsters living under semi-natural conditions. Illustrates initial courtship and pairing, digging or burrow system with two nest chambers, and the mother's care of the young for approximately two weeks post partum
Topics: Hamsters, Animal behavior
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Sep 1, 2016
09/16
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Nuremberg (Germany). Freiherrlich von Tucher'sche Brau-Administration. Abteilung Berlin
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Mar 31, 2017
03/17
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Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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Illustrates general motor activities of the octopus, including respiratory movements, probing with tenacles, walking along the bottom, and swimming. Specific activities include pigment migrations resulting in light and dark phases, capturing and eating a crab, moving and arranging rocks in front of the home cave, and mating. Each section is preceded by a short title in German
Topic: Octopuses
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Mar 14, 2017
03/17
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Universität Innsbruck. Department of Experimental Psychology
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Presents scientic experiment proving that human vision is largely dependent on the impressions made by other senses, especially the sense of touch
Topic: Vision
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Mar 9, 2017
03/17
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Smith, G. Buckland; International Film Bureau
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Also issued with English narration
Topics: German language, Travel
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Feb 25, 2016
02/16
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Böll, Heinrich, 1917-1985; International Film Bureau
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This German-language teaching film adapted from the story by Heinrich Böll concerns the power of a state over the lives of individuals in time of war. The drama revolves around nineteen-year-old Bruno Schneider, whose hopes and plans for the future are shattered when he receives a postcard ordering him to report for army training. Set in Germany in 1939. Suggested as a stimulus for oral discussion and original composition for advanced students
Topic: War and society
