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  • "...And They Lived Happily Ever After"
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 13 min.
This film takes a long, hard look at marriage and motherhood as expressed in the views of a group of young girls and married women. At regular intervals, glossy advertisements, (extolling romance, weddings and babies), flash across the screen, in strong contrast to the words that are being spoken.

  • 1895 Lumiere Program
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Year : 1895Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 15 min.
Shows examples of the early films of the Lumiere brothers. These were among the very first films projected to audiences.

  • A Baby Is Born
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Year : 1974Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 23 min.
Shows how a married couple deals with the birth of their first child. Examines some of the problems and anxieties which can accompany first births in the hospital environment.

  • A Bird's Life
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 9 min.
Animated fantasy in which a woman, overwhelmed by her family, overflowing pots and never ending chores, tries to free herself from the domestic prison of her life. She seeks entertainment at a hypnotism act, where she learns that she can actually fly. The film offers a sobering birds eye view of women's roles.

  • A Broken Bridge
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Year : 1970Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 35 min.
Shows the remarkable methods used by American therapist Dr. Irene Kassorla to restore communication between autistic children and the outside world. This film was made during actual therapy sessions over a period of six months.

  • A Change Of Heart
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Year : 1985Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 15 min.
This film outlines the risk factors leading to heart disease and presents three basic lifestyle choices that can minimize your chances of heart attack: proper diet, not smoking, and regular exercise. Medical and health authorities explain what heart disease is and what you can do about it, while celebrities offer advice based on personal experience.

  • A Child's Garden Of Verses
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Year : 1968Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 11 min.
Robert Goulet reads Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of poems about the happiness, sadness, adventures and dreams of his childhood. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.

  • A Conversation With B.F. Skinner
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Year : 1972Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 23 min.
Using terms and examples a layman can understand, Dr. Skinner answers some of his most persistent critics, and covers the origins of behaviorism and its basic principles. Dr. Skinner discusses some of the problems involved in implementing behavior modification systems in open and closed settings, and concludes with a discussion of the survival of a culture and the definition of man.

  • A Cross Cultural Approach To Cognition
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Year : 1976Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Demonstrates an invariant sequence of milestones in the psychological development characteristic of all human beings, regardless of the environment in which they live.

  • A Farewell To Arms
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Year : 1932Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 79 min. 2 reels
Depicts the human consequences of war in a story of two lovers, played by Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Based upon the novel by Hemingway, this was the top grossing film of 1933 and was nominated for three Academy Awards.

  • A Healthy Day
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Year : 1979Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
This film stresses the importance of health and safety issues in preschool programs. Includes the signs and symptoms of common childhood illnesses, the necessity for early screening, observing for possible handicapping conditions, and accident and disease prevention.

  • A New Way Of Living
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
Dramatizes a real estate broker using effective arguments to close the sale of a house, and using equally effective techniques to sell the advantages of condominium ownership.

  • A Scrap Of Paper And A Piece Of String
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Year : 1964Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 6 min.
Produced in a special technique of string animation, this beautifully designed film tells of the friendship between a scrap of paper and a piece of string. The human aspects of the relationship make an irresistible tale as, simultaneously, the film points out the usefulness and significance of paper and string to our culture and economy. The original score of Dixieland jazz plus the antics of the string and paper in assuming many shapes and sizes make this film entertaining to children of all ages. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.

  • A Trip To The Moon
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Year : 1902Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 7 min.
This may be the first film to attempt to depict what a trip to the moon could be like. It is also one of the most popular films of Melies and is filled with fantastic sets, beautiful women in skimpy suits and the trick photography which is so characteristic of his work.

  • Abnormal Behavior
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Year : 1971Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 28 min.
The purpose of this documentary is to alert the viewer to the differences between the popular myths and the reality of an actual mental hospital and its patients.

  • Adjusting And Repairing The Thermo-Expansion Valve
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Year : 1945Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 21 min.
Describes the design of the bellows type and diaphragm type automatic thermo-expansion valves. Explains how to adjust, check and service the bellows type valve.

  • Adolescence: The Winds Of Change
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Year : 1976Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
The physical, sexual and cognitive changes in adolescents are presented and discussed by child development authorities. The effect of parental attitudes on development is explored.

  • Aftershock: The Victims Of Crime
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Year : 1983Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 25 min.
This powerful documentary sheds light on the personal agonies of victims of violent crime, while illustrating how the many people who play a role in our criminal justice system interact within the context of a crime incident. This is an Administration of Justice Department film.

  • Aging
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
This film rebuts the common stereotype that old people constitute one homogeneous group. It emphasizes the individuality of the elderly, and the variety of needs and satisfactions to be had in older age.

  • Air Masses And Fronts
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Year : 1948Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 26 min.
Describes the troposphere, the formation of clouds, warm and cold fronts, and cyclones, and explains the conditions responsible for different kinds of weather.

  • Alice The Toreador
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Year : 1925Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 9 min.
An animated cartoon that incorporates the antics of a live action girl in an account of the girl's adventures with a tame steer in a bull ring.

  • All Kinds Of Buildings
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Year : 1974Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 8 min.
A film that heightens children's awareness of the world around them. Through a wide spectrum of familiar experiences and objects, children learn to examine visual data. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.

  • American Women Portraits Of Courage
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Year : 1976Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 57 min. (2 reels)
Highlights the careers of ten American women who fought to establish, preserve and expand the rights and liberties of all people. From the heroism of the Revolutionary War through the battles against slavery, racism, sexism, Victorian prudery and the exploitation of labor, the film offers a tribute to women who have helped shape American destiny: Sybil Ludinton, Deborah Sampson, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Belva Lockwood, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, "Mother" Mary Harris Jones and Rosa Parks.

  • An Astronomer's Dream
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Year : 1898Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 11 min.
One of the earliest surviving hand-colored trick films.

  • An Edison Album
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Year : UnknownType : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 13 min.
Early examples of the films of Thomas Edison. Included: "The Kiss", "The Old Maid in the Drawing Room", "Street Car Chivalry", "Romance of the Rails", and "Rescued from an Eagle's Nest".

  • An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
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Year : 1962Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 27 min.
This tale of the supernatural by the prolific American writer Ambrose Bierce was translated into film by the Academy Award winning French film maker Robert Enrico. It concerns a Civil War soldier in the process of being executed by hanging who, through a wisp of fate, escapes and makes it home, with an ironic ending.

  • Anaphylaxis In Guinea Pigs
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Year : 1961Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 8 min.
Demonstrates anaphylactic shock, using a guinea pig sensitized with egg albumen and a control animal injected only with saline solution. Animated sequence shows bronchioles of lungs closed off by smooth muscle contraction.

  • Annabell Dances
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Year : 1898Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 2 min.
"Annabell's Butterfly Dance" and Fire Dance" two subjects of great historical interest are reproduced from the hand-tinted original.

  • Anti-Matter
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 14 min.
Animated film explaining anti-matter, its discovery and postulations about anti-matter existing in space. Explores the possibility of constructive use of anti-matter to release energy from the annihilation of matter. Winner of an academy award.

  • Art
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Year : 1965Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 4 min.
Uses rapid cutting techniques to show 3000 years of art history.

  • Art In Glass
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Year : 1972Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 13 min.
Features Croatian painter Antun Matika and Italian glass blowing virtuoso Ermanno Nason as they collaborate on glass sculptures from drawing, scheme and draft to the final moment in the glass blowing workshop.

  • Ascent Of Man
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 52 min. each
#1: Lower Than the Angels
Explores the anatomical and intellectual changes which gave rise to man's superiority among the animals. New computer techniques illustrate man's evolution, while x-ray and slow motion photography of an Olympic athlete in action show the complex interweaving of mind and body.
#3: The Grain in the Stone
Focuses on the architectural and building expressions of man, from the Greek temples of Paestum and the cathedrals of medieval France to modern Los Angeles.
#6: The Starry Messenger
Presents the story of man's early study of astronomy. Traces the origins of the scientific revolution through the conflict between fact and religious dogma, culminating in the trial of Galileo.
#9: The Ladder of Creation
Explores the controversy around the theory of evolution developed simultaneously by Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin.

  • At Your Fingertips: Boxes
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Year : 1970Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 11 min.
Shows how containers for everyday products, such as cereal boxes, milk cartons, and very large crates for refrigerators and filing cases can be turned into creative and inexpensive playthings for children.

  • At Your Fingertips: Cylinders
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Year : 1970Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 10 min.
Explores the creative possibilities children can build from household materials, such as totem poles, rockets, animals and free form sculptures with rollers from paper towels, cardboard cylinders and salt boxes.

  • At Your Fingertips: Play Clay
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 9 min.
One of a series of films showing how children can make creative objects from things that are usually overlooked or thrown away. Gives simple instructions on making a dough from flour, salt, and water, which can be modeled like clay into animal and human figures or elements for a necklace.

  • Awareness: A Film On The Dharma
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 24 min.
Parable tracing the development of Buddhism from its origin 2,500 years ago, when a young prince struggled to achieve the highest reaches of human awareness. Includes views of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, which is an expression of awareness.
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  • B.F. Skinner And Behavior Change: Research Practice And Promise
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Year : 1977Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 45 min.
Depicts the behavioral movement, its founders, its theoretical basis and research methodology, and practical applications in therapy and interactions. Describes Dr. Skinner's laboratory research, his influence on behaviorism and shows behavioral interventions. Discusses social and ethical issues of behavioral methods.

  • Babysitter
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Year : 1971Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 15 min.
A puppet film about a little chick's efforts to escape from its "babysitter" - the shell from which it was hatched. A whimsical, nonverbal tale. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.

  • Bacteria
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Year : 1985Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 23 min.
This film examines the principal forms in which bacteria occur, explores the structure of a typical bacterial cell, explains its reproductive processes, and documents the importance of bacteria in the worlds around us and within us.

  • Bambi Meets Godzilla
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 2 min.
Satire on film credits features a confrontation between Godzilla and Bambi.

  • Barney Oldfield's Race For A Life
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Year : 1913Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 16 min.
Barney Oldfield, Mable Norman, Ford Sterling, the Keystone Kops, and the "Blitzen Benz" star in a Victorian melodrama in which Mable is tied to the railroad tracks by the villain and rescued after a suspenseful race between a locomotive and a motor car.

  • Basic DC Meter Movement
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Year : 1954Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 3 min.
Shows a representative meter, describes essential components and explains their functions.

  • Basic Electricity
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Year : 1948Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 20 min. 2 reels
Animated cartoon explaining such terms as voltage, current resistance, voltage drop, direct and alternating current, magnetic fields, induction and parallel circuits.

  • Basic Electricity: AC Parallel Circuits
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Year : 1959Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 5 min.
Illustrates series and parallel circuits, explaining current flow and voltage drop across each lamp.

  • Basic Electricity: AC Series Circuits
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Year : 1959Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 4 min.
Shows elements of an AC series circuit. Demonstrates by sine waves and circuits the effects upon the phase relationship between current and voltage. An LCR circuit examines the effects of voltage and shows what a generator sees when XL exceeds XC and vice versa.

  • Basic Electricity: Capacitance In AC Circuits
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 7 min.
Defines capacitance and demonstrates how a capacitor works. Explains capacitive reactance and phase angle. Discusses the physical factors that affect capacitance and the effect of capacitance in an AC circuit.

  • Basic Electricity: Inductance In AC Circuits
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 7 min.
Defines inductance and explains its cause and effect in an AC circuit. Illustrates inductive reactance, the factors that affect inductive reactance in an AC circuit, and the phase relationship between current and voltage as a result of the presence of inductance in the circuit.

  • Beach And Sea Animals
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Year : 1958Type : FilmsColorization : unknownLength : 11 min.
Close up underwater photography shows the body plan, adaptations and inter-relationships of the starfish, sea urchin, crab, octopus, lobster, sponge, anemone and nudibranch. This is an Oceanography Department film.

  • Beauty Knows No Pain
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 25 min.
shows the ordeal of training and testing to which coeds submit themselves in order to join the Kilgore (Texas) Rangerettes and share in the glamour of the football field. Includes interviews with members and is partly narrated by the group's director. Some viewers will applaud the dedication and patriotism shown by these young women, while others will criticize their exploitation as sex objects and their indoctrination to"All-American" values. Subtle satire throughout.

  • Because They Love Me
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Year : 1980Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 31 min.
Jessie 10, and Andrea 14, are both loved and abused - not physically, but emotionally. As we follow the family from Jessie's birth to the prospect of still another child, we see how parents unintentionally harm their children by unrealistic expectations, the inability to handle feelings and conflicts, and the pressures of their own unfulfilled needs. We see that parents tend to follow, willingly or not, the only model of parenting they have had - the one they grew up with, and we recognize the critical need for learning new behaviors.

  • Becoming American
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Year : 1983Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
Han Sou and his family, preliterate farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war consumed native Laos. Little prepares these settlers from a medieval world for the shock they face when they step into life in 20th century America. Over a nine month period, the family faces the culture shock, prejudice and adaption common to new immigrants, as the family's odyssey is recorded on this film.

  • Ben Hur
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Year : 1907Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 10 min.
Of historical interest to students of cinema and drama, this version was photographed like a stage play, It was produces without obtaining the rights to the story, resulting in a suit which established the author's rights in motion pictures.

  • Big Business
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Year : 1929Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 28 min.
Presents Laurel and Hardy in a comedy in which Stan and Ollie are Christmas tree salesmen in California.

  • Black History: Lost, Strayed Or Stolen
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Year : 1968Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 54 min. 2 reels
Studies the contributions of black people to the development and wealth of the United States. Points out that these contributions have not usually been a part of the history taught in public schools.

  • Blocks: A Medium For Perceptual Learning
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 16 min.
Illustrates how building blocks form a framework for perceptual learning in children, encouraging the exploration of vertical and horizontal space and the building of architectural patterns. The coordination and measurement skills children gain from playing with blocks will assist them later, in their formal academic work.

  • Born Dying
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Year : 1984Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 20 min.
Presents the agony of a couple who suddenly find themselves the parents of an infant with severe mental and physical handicaps. It also considers the personal anguish and the critical role of the nurse who must provide direct care for the baby until a treatment decision is made. The film does not attempt to resolve the treatment/no treatment dilemma; rather, it lends structure to a particularly complex problem by crystallizing the perspectives of the many individuals interested in the outcome of the parent's decision: the pediatrician, the maternal grandmother, the paternal grandfather, the assistant administrator of the hospital, the mother of a handicapped child, a right to life representative, and an advocate for the handicapped. This is a Nursing Department film.

  • Brats
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Year : 1930Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 21 min.
Unique among Laurel and Hardy films, Stan and Ollie play double roles, both the babysitters and the children.

  • Buddhism, Man & Nature
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Year : 1968Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 14 min.
Alan Watts probes deeply into philosophy of the inter-relationship of man and nature. Photographs and scenes of Chinese and Japanese art show the harmony of Buddhist philosophy with nature and illustrate the influence of this oneness upon the art.

  • Buffet Layout And Service
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Year : 1980Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 12 min.
Illustrates techniques of buffet layout, dramatic table display, and food service. Describes procedures for buffet equipment setup, and explains differences between types of buffet service.

  • Building Children's Personalities With Creative Dancing
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Year : 1954Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 30 min.
In teaching dancing to a group of boys and girls, the teacher skillfully guides each child toward a unique and personal style, leading them from point of embarrassment and tenseness to an eventual demonstration of creative expression.

  • Business, Behaviorism, And The Bottom Line
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Year : 1972Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Defines, under the direction of B.F. Skinner and Elizabeth Hall, the terms of behaviorism, operant conditioning, reinforcement, and shaping as they apply in the business world. Illustrates how millions of dollars have been saved in an industrial setting through a performance system based on accurate feedback and positive reinforcement.

  • Busy Bodies
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Year : 1933Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 20 min.
Features Laurel and Hardy as workers in a planing mill, with the famous scene of the model T and the bandsaw.
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  • California Gray Whale
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Features the biology and history of the gray whale, including documentation of its long migration route. This is an Oceanography Department film.

  • Capriccio (CHC)
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 5 min.
Dances of peasants and aristocrats enhance the tale of a gypsy fortune teller. Performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

  • Catch'em Being Good
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Year : 1980Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
Presents research based methods for dealing with students who have academic and social difficulties. The more rewarding application of positive discipline based on warm teacher-child interaction is contrasted with traditional but ineffective ways of responding to common behavioral and performance problems. Demonstrates the effectiveness of positive attention, soft reprimands, response costs, peer support, daily report cards, and student self evaluation and instruction.

  • Centinelas Del Silencio (Sentinels Of Silence)
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Year : 1971Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 19 min.
This Spanish language film, winner of two Academy Awards, was shot entirely from a helicopter as it hovered over seven archaeological sites in Mexico. As the camera discovers massive pyramid mounds, elaborate relief carvings, and mysterious steps, a spiritual and aesthetic impression of those ancient civilizations emerges.

  • Ceramic Artist Of Japan
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Year : 1961Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 20 min.
The Tokyo National Museum presents examples of the ceramic arts which represent the Japanese culture.

  • Chemical Families
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Year : 1962Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Explains how chemical similarities among the elements have provided the basis for logically dividing them into families. Explains how atomic numbers have provided the key to the ordering of the elements in the periodic table. This is a Chemistry Department film.

  • Chick, Chick, Chick
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 13 min.
Observes chicks and chickens in a barnyard setting as they awaken, stretch, eat, drink, explore the environment, and encounter other farm animals and a predator. A mother hen sets on her egg; throughout the film we return to watch the chick's progress as it hatches and struggles to break free. Without commentary, the sound track consists of natural sounds and lively music. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.

  • Child Abuse: It Shouldn't Hurt To Be A Kid
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Year : 1986Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 27 min.
The responsibility to report suspected child abuse is not optional; it is mandatory. Mandated reporters include educators, medical and law enforcement personnel, social service employees and day care providers. This film advises mandated reporters of their responsibilities under the law. It defines child abuse and teaches how to recognize it. In addition it explains how to report suspected child abuse and what will happen after the report is made. Civil and criminal penalties for failure of mandated reporters to report suspected child abuse are indicated.

  • Childhood Aggression
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Year : 1976Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 31 min.
Tim was an antagonistic, belligerent, hostile, hyperactive child - a "brat". He was constantly in conflict with his family and peers, making the lives of those around him a misery. His seemingly insurmountable problem behavior was dramatically altered and he achieved a degree of harmonious interaction with his family beyond what anyone might have thought possible. Narrator Dr. Gerald R. Patterson, internationally renowned child psychotherapist, explains that Tim's disruptive behavior was the natural result of a mutual conditioning process whereby pain control was used by his parents to train Tim to behave as he did, and by Tim to train them to strike out at him. As illustrated by this award winning film, they were taught to replace this self defeating process with a systematic method of behavior modification.

  • Children In Autumn
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Year : 1958Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 11 min.
A young boy and his sister observe the gradual change from the green of summer to the brown and red of autumn, the changes in the animal world, the days growing shorter, and the weather becoming cooler.

  • Children Learn Science
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Year : 1976Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 18 min.
Shows how teachers in schools that practice individually guided instruction help children learn science. Illustrates individual and group activities and various patterns of mastering the material.

  • Child's Play
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Year : 1978Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 20 min.
Play is the prime instrument in the development of a child's personality and in the creation of a sound, well- adjusted individual. This film shows how mental, social, emotional and physical growth are linked to a child's form of play, and how these forms change as the child grows older.

  • Christian Mysticism And The Monastic Life
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 20 min.
This film attempts to give the viewer the feeling of the mystical experience, enhanced by the concepts of the great Christian mystics. Filmed in the monasteries of Europe and America, the film presents the recurrent theme that love leads to enlightenment.

  • Clay
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Year : 1966Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 15 min.
Presents basic rules for working with clay and demonstrates shaping by pinching, throwing on the potter's wheel, sculpturing, slab construction, and molding over an inflated balloon. Also shows several methods of decorating and the correct use of a kiln for firing. Elementary school level film.

  • Cognitive Development
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Uses animation to explain Piaget's theory of cognitive development and live action to examine Dr. Siegfried Englemann's behaviorist view of intellectual development.

  • Communicating Nondefensively: Don't Take It Personally
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Year : 1983Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Clear the lines of communication by giving and receiving criticism, the positive way. This film exposes the defensive behavior which too often hampers morale and productivity, and shows how to turn it around.

  • Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda
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Year : 1975Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
An exploration of the whole spectrum of nonverbal behavior: tone of voice, posture, facial expression, gestures, use of space, eye contact, and body movement. Employs excellent and sometimes humorous dramatic vignettes - mostly in organizational settings -to show how nonverbal signs act to reinforce or contradict verbal messages, and how an understanding of nonverbal communication can enhance managerial effectiveness.

  • Computer Animation
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Year : 1970Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
Discusses how, as animated films have become indispensable tools for educational and training purposes, the role of computers in their production has steadily increased. Shows and discusses animations generated by both analog and digital computers for weather displays, architectural and engineering stress analysis, aircraft navigation and landing instruction, and also as works of art.

  • Concept Development In Outdoor Play
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Year : UnknownType : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 18 min.
This film presents the unique advantages the outdoors provides when painting, sand play, water play, woodworking, music, water painting, and science and dramatic play activities are taken outdoors. The effects of greater space, environment, trees, sun, wind, and the boundless quality of sound are shown in relation to the activities mentioned above. The development of concepts relating to reading, math, science, social studies and aesthetics are presented.

  • Conscience In Conflict
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 34 min.
Excerpted from "A Man for All Seasons". Features Orson Welles describing the dilemma of Sir Thomas Moore, who is about to be executed because he has chosen to die rather than compromise his beliefs. Explains that he is making an existential stand.

  • Continents Adrift: A Study Of The Scientific Method
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Year : 1971Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 15 min.
Shows how a scientific hypothesis becomes established in a study of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that at one time all of the continents were one. Discusses paleomagnetism, sea floor spreading, magnetism in rocks and the drift in magnetic poles.

  • Controlling Behavior Through Reinforcement
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Year : 1956Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 16 min.
Shows how varying reinforcement schedules affect the behavior of pigeons. Compares the outcome of tests with the results of similar experiments made in a typical elementary classroom. Explains that this schedule produces behavior that is persistent and difficult to extinguish.

  • Cooperation Across Boundaries: The Acid Rain Dilemma
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Year : 1987Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 32 min.
This film explores acid precipitation as a problem calling for political and diplomatic solutions. It looks at the effect of acid rain on U.S.-Canadian relations and on interstate and interregional relations within the United States. Attempts to come to grips with the apparent conflicts that arise between safeguarding the environment and protecting the economy.

  • Cops
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Year : 1922Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 22 min.
This famous Keaton short is an epic, straight out chase in which hundreds of uniformed policeman join in hot pursuit of the elusive Buster. The city street locations form a real obstacle course of challenge for Keaton's real skills and daring. The opening sequence is an ironic comment on capitalistic enterprise.

  • Corduroy
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Year : 1984Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 16 min.
The story of a stuffed bear who waits patiently on a department store shelf for somebody to take him home. He embarks on a storewide search for a missing button. After risking his life to find the button, he finds a home with a young girl. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.

  • Corn And The Origins Of Settled Life In Meso-America
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Year : 1964Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 41 min.
Describes efforts to discover the nature of the wild corn plant from which modern corn has been cultivated. Explains the search for the earliest trace of the domestication of corn in digs in Meso-America. Discusses how scientists have created a synthesis of evidence that the earliest settled life in Meso-America occurred in the central highlands of southern Mexico.

  • Cosmic Zoom
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Year : 1970Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 3 min.
The zoom, a rapid focus from one point to another, goes from a boy fishing on a river to the most distant point of the universe, then back again and into a final infinity - the atom of one living cell within the boy. This nonverbal film leaves the viewer with a vivid awareness of the immeasurable grandeur of space and minuteness of matter.

  • Counseling Skills Evaluation
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Year : 1974Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 15-30 min. each
Titles in the series are:
#1: Measuring Counselor Communication(15 min.)
Presents twelve portrayals of people in distress. The situations cover a range of human problems: parent-child relations, dependency, depression, anger, existential questions about life's meaning, extreme shyness, problems with drugs and alcohol usage, aging, sexual problems, infidelity, and anxiety. Film viewers should respond in writing to each portrayal with the verbal response they would use if they were actually trying to help each client in the film.
#2: Rating Counselor Response(30 min.)
The same twelve portrayals in Part I are followed by five different counselors' responses. Each response is evaluated by the subject and rated on a five point scale; the ratings are compared to those of experts.

  • Courtroom Performance
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Year : 1979Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
A murder trial is followed through its critical stages in this illustration of the police officer's role in the courtroom. The film focuses on the pre-trial preparation and courtroom testimony of an experienced officer who helps the prosecution wrap up a conviction. This is an Administration of Justice Department film.

  • CPR For Rescuers
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Year : 1985Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
This film was designed to supplement CPR training classes for health care professionals and emergency medical technicians. It covers assessment, one and two rescuer CPR, child and infant CPR, jaw thrust and mouth to mask techniques, and choking (conscious and unconscious).

  • Cracking The Stone Age Code
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Year : 1971Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 52 min.
Depicts the research and the hypothesis of Professor Alexander Thom, who is convinced that the megaliths in Britain and Normandy are highly sophisticated astronomical observatories, used for predicting eclipses and developing calenders. On site photography at Stonehenge and other Druidic locales enhances Thom's explanation and diagrams.

  • Crayon
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Year : 1964Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 15 min.
Explores a wide range of visual expression with crayon to introduce the student to the techniques of rubbing, resist, sgraffito, printmaking, encaustic, and batik. Emphasizes the pleasure of working with crayon in more or less sophisticated ways. Elementary school level film.

  • Creative Movement For The Developing Child
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Year : 1970Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 26 min.
Depicts young children from the Congregation Emanuel Nursery School in San Bernardino, as they do imaginative dances with their teacher. Explains the physical developmental needs of young children, and the approaches through movement to meet these needs.

  • Cross Cultural Development Of Sex Roles And Social Standards
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Year : 1976Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 22 min.
Study of the basic mechanisms by which social standards and sex role orientations are acquired. Children are shown as they learn by the mechanisms of observation, limitation, praise and punishment.

  • Cry Of The Marsh
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Year : 1969Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 12 min.
Shows what happens to the natural resources when a prairie marsh is drained. Includes scenes of the beauty of the marsh and its wildlife, and of the terror involved in the process of draining the marsh and burning the grasslands.

  • Curious George Rides A Bike
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Year : 1958Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 10 min.
Based on the book by H.A. Rey, the iconographic film tells the story of a little monkey who is given a bicycle. This film belongs to the SBVC Child Care Center and is limited to campus use.
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  • Dancing Mothers
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Year : 1926Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 53 min. 2 reels
Clara Bow, the "it girl", plays a fast living woman who becomes involved with her mother's roguish boyfriend in this society drama by Herbert Brenon. Based upon the play by Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Golding.

  • Darrow Vs Bryan
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Year : 1965Type : FilmsColorization : b&wLength : 25 min.
Utilizes photographs and documentary film footage to illustrate the events leading up to the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial", the social context for the anti-evolution movement, and the dramatic courtroom clash between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow.

  • Day Care Today
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Year : 1973Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 30 min.
Provides a view of three functioning day care centers - a community oriented center, a factory related day care center for children of employees, and a university related teacher training center. Illustrates the diverse possibilities of day care and the potential for meeting the needs of preschool children.

  • Dead Birds
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Year : 1963Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 83 min. 2 reels
Depicts the people of the Dani tribe of West New Guinea. The Dani identify with birds and emphasize this association by decorating themselves with feathers and colored clays. Like birds, they see themselves as destined for slaughter, and their entire lives are dominated by the elaborate wargames they enact with neighboring tribes. The ghosts of slain comrades are seen as a constant danger until avenged through an attack on the enemy.

  • Death And Dying: A Teenage Class
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Year : 1981Type : FilmsColorization : colorLength : 10 mi