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	Modern Business Machines for Writing, Duplicating, and Recording - Teaching Aids Exchange An intriguing historical film, demonstrating many expensive business machines found in modern offices of the era, including electromatic and Chinese typewriters and machines for filming, stenciling, folding and lithographing. Among the machines shown are Diebold's Flofilm microfiche recorder, the Fileomatic Desk, the Pierce Electronic Wire Recorder, the Soundscriber with plastic disk, the Elliott Stencil Machine with Graphotype machine, the Davidson Duplicator for litho printing, the Davidson Fo... Keywords: Chinese Typewriter; Fileomatic; Graphotype; IBM MOdel A; Stella Pajunas Downloads: 465 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Creative Journey, The: Arnold Blanch - Clifford B. West Filmmaker and artist Clifford West here surveys the life and work of Arnold Blanch, showing him as a teacher and painter in Woodstock, New Jersey. West, who more than 25 films on artists and aspects of art history between 1958 and 1981, utilizes a camera-as-brush technique more in keeping with the approach taken by a painter than a filmmaker. West's serpentine zooms and pans emulate the non-linear way an individual looks at a piece, as opposed to the manner in which a more traditional cinematogr... Keywords: art; painting; fine arts Downloads: 139 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Railway with a Heart of Gold - Carson "Kit" Davidson This film is an account of the Talyllyn Railway, a historic narrow-gauge slate carrier in Tywyn, Wales, and its operation by a preservation society who saved it from being sold for scrap. Although the release date is 1965, it was actually filmed in the early 1950s. Academic Film Archive of North America director Geoff Alexander visited the railway in June, 2009 as part of the process of preparing the film for uploading: "Opened in 1865, the Talyllyn railway was the first narrow-gauge steam railw... Keywords: train; narrow gauge; locomotive; Talyllyn Downloads: 695 Average rating: (1 review)
	Brake Free - Carson "Kit" Davidson The third in a series of films that Kit Davidson made on railways (the others are 'Third Avenue El' and 'Railway with a heart of Gold'), this film is staged on the Mount Washington (NH) cog railway. Winner of the Silver Medal,Venice Intl Festival, and Golden Eagle CINE awards. For more on the filmmaker, visit www.afana.org/davidsoncarson.htm Keywords: Mt. Washington; cog railway; New Hampshire Downloads: 209 Average rating: (0 review)
	Granite - Carson "Kit" Davidson Here, a 25 ton block of granite being burned, drilled, and blasted from the heart of a Vermont mountain, focusing on the machinery used. Filmed at the Rock of Ages Quarry in Barre, VT. Keywords: quarry; Barre Downloads: 260 Average rating: (1 review)
	Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Edward English Lisl Weil, a dancer who often performed in New York with friend Tommy Scherman and his Little Orchestra Society, was also a splendid charcoal artist. Here, accompanied by Sherman’s musical interpretation of the Paul Dukas classic, she soars across the screen, drawing abstract characters on a massive blank board in a timeless, fun film that juxtaposes wonderfully with the better-known Disney treatment in 'Fantasia.' Keywords: charcoal; dukas Downloads: 652 Average rating: (0 review)
	Posada - José Pavón José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was an important Mexican satirist, known for his engravings and broadsides, pillorying the excesses of the regime of Porfirio Díaz. His graphical invention, the Calavera de la Catrina, has become iconic in Mexico, portrayed in print and sculpture. This film provides a history of the artist and his times. Keywords: Catrina; calavera; cientificos; Porfirio Diaz Downloads: 302 Average rating: (0 review)
	Rough Road to Panama - Sullivan C. Richardson The Sullivan C. Richardson Pan American Highway Expedition, 1940-1941. The first of a two-part series describing the first successful attempt to drive an automobile from the United States to the tip of South America the companion is was "Rugged Road to Cape Horn." Here, Richardson and two companions (one of whom is Arnold Whitaker) explore the route that would eventually become the Pan American Highway... Keywords: Pan American Highway; Monte Alban; Atitlan; Guatemala; Mexico; El Savador Downloads: 160 Average rating: (0 review)
	Pottery Workers of Oaxaca - Ralph Adams This film showcases the work of the Jiménez family of Oaxaca, and the legendary Zapotec potter Doña Rosa Real de Nieto, and her traditional technique of below-ground firing. Keywords: Dona Rosa de Nieto; Oaxaca; Mexico; Zapotec Downloads: 421 Average rating: (1 review)
	Mexican Ceramics - Reino Randall and Richard Townsend This highly informative, well-made film focused on four geograophical areas: 1) Coyotepec, 2) Metepec (the art of Timotéo), 3) Tonalá (the work of Señores Palacios and Galván), 4) Puebla. Here we see low-fire pottery making as it was done by primitive methods before the potter's wheel, and the manufacture of the beautiful blue and white Talavera and polychrome high-fire pottery of Puebla. Keywords: Tonala; Puebla'Mexico Downloads: 294 Average rating: (0 review)
	Maguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses - Ralph Adams Adams is a filmmaker whose life and work appear to be completely unknown today, as we have conducted a fruitless search to obtain biographical and filmographic information. He covered a breadth of territory, and we suspect that he might have made dozens of films on Mexican themes. His narration is not the most compelling, but he was a very good cinematographer, and apparently insisted upon superior print materials, as his color is exceptional for the era... Keywords: maguey; pulque Downloads: 275 Average rating: (1 review)
	Doña Rosa: Potter of Coyotepec - Orville Goldner Beautiful color film on Doña Rosa de Nieto, from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, showing her making an olla, and firing her creations in an underground kiln. Keywords: olla; Zapotec; Dona Rose de Nieto Downloads: 176 Average rating: (0 review)
	Baja California: the Pacific Coast of Mexico - Silas Johnson Johnson is another "lost filmmaker, who worked out of Coronado, California. This film boasts beautiful color footage of old Baja, before Pemex stations lined the Cuota and Libre. Hunt travels from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas, enchantingly stopping at the waterless village of Magdalena Bay, Tortuga Bay, and the vineyards at Santo Tomás. Keywords: Santa Tomas; Magdalena; Tortuga; Baja; Cabo San Lucas; Ensenada Downloads: 468 Average rating: (0 review)
	Maya Are People - Les Mitchel Many explorer-adventurer hosts of historical/cultural films viewed their subjects as "objects" (e.g. C. Ernest Cadle and Carveth Wells), their colonialist attitudes seeping precariously through the safety-film. Not so the wonderful and forgotten Les Mitchel, who arrives in the Lacandon area of the Yucatan, shows the chief Obregon K’in (of Agua Azul village, Palenque) how to fire a pistol, takes him on a plane-ride to view his ancestral ruins at Palenque... Keywords: Lacandon; Obregon; Palenque; Les Mitchel Downloads: 1,144 Average rating: (1 review)
	Guadalajara Family - Paul Hoefler Productions Photographed by Willard C. Hahn. Another Hoefler production, focusing on an upper-class family, military school, garden parties, etc. They enjoy themselves and the rustic beauty at a pristine lake nearby,where father intends to build a development. Downloads: 78 Average rating: (0 review)
	Hands of María - J. Donald McIntyre María Martinez was a well-known and historically significant Jemez potter from San Ildefonso, New Mexico, whose work is in most major southwestern museum pottery collections. Here, she is seen building large pieces by building coiling ropes of clay. Keywords: pottery; San Ildefonso; Maria Martinez Downloads: 211 Average rating: (0 review)
	Fisher Folk of Lake Pátzcuaro - Ralph Adams The Taracsan Indians, living on the island of Janítzio, are shown fishing with their butterfly nets, in a rare and damaged film we’re hoping to completely restore, when finances permit. Keywords: Tarascan; Janitzio; Patzcuaro; butterfly net; fishing Downloads: 176 Average rating: (0 review)
	Fabricantes Mexicanas de Ollas - Stuart Roe A wonderful film, depicting the making of ollas, large earthen jars, featuring Carmen Portillo of the Mayan village of Ubalama, firing clay above ground, utilizing branches and old boards for fuel. Keywords: Maya; Ubalama; pottery; olla; Carmen Portillo Downloads: 129 Average rating: (0 review)
	El Cumpleaños de Pepita Meant to be shown to students learning Spanish, this film transcends the didactic, and provides a glimpse into the Mexico that has, in many places, all too quickly disappeared. Pepita and her uncle travel to Lake Pátzcuaro, get their pictures taken by a lakeside photographer, see wonderful dancers, and attend a birthday party. A sweet, moving, wonderful film. (In Spanish) Keywords: Patzcuaro; Mexico Downloads: 122 Average rating: (0 review)
	People Along the Mississippi - Gordon Weisenborn As far as we have been able to determine, this film is the first nationally distributed educational film to embrace the interaction of races and cultures in the United States. Ostensibly a child's film, it's the story of a boy in Minnesota who builds a toy boat and sends it on a journey southward along the Mississippi River. Meandering through scenery beautifully photographed by Barnes, the boat serves as a metaphor for the integration of the American cultures; the boat is found by a Chippewa bo... Downloads: 360 Average rating: (0 review)
	School for Ted - Irving Rusinow Through the clever use of children's clay models, this film decscribes the functions of various individuals associated with the school, including principals, teachers, cafteria workers, crossing gurads, custodians, and the PTA. The audience for this film would have been first-graders. While they do not have significant roles, the Asian and Black students in the class represent one of the earliest examples of integrated classrooms shown in academic film. Keywords: elementary school; integration Downloads: 349 Average rating: (0 review)
	Mike Makes his Mark - Irving Rusinow 8th grader Mike wears a perfecto, idolizes a dropout, and hates the new school. He challenged it by slashing an ugly mark on its front. Then he found that the mark would stay on the wall and on his conscience until he removed it by his own decision. Mike's only interest is in electronics, and he repairs radios as a hobby. His counselor and teachers use his interest in electronics to prompt him to improve his reading and attitude... Keywords: school; tagging; grafitti; perfecto; elecronics Downloads: 322 Average rating: (0 review)
	Crisis in Levittown - Lee Bobker/Lester Becker The Black upper middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. Keywords: african-american; black; racism; housing; urban Downloads: 1,262 Average rating: (0 review)
	Frames of Reference - Richard Leacock This PSSC film utilizes a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area. The fine cinematography by Abraham Morochnik, and funny narration by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume is a wonderful example of the fun a creative team of filmmakers can have with a subject that other, less imaginative types might find pedestrian. Keywords: physics; science; PSSC Downloads: 8,054 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Unique Contribution - Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc. Here, the legendary president of EB Films discusses the 'unique contribution' of educational film to curriculum and learning. The film is geared toward instructors, and provides examples of mediated instructional techniques from filmmakers such as Roman Vishniac and John Barnes. Keywords: mediated instruction; education; history of education Downloads: 479 Average rating: (1 review)
	Why Don't You Dance? - Steven Condiotti From a story by Raymond Carver, filmed in El Cerrito,CA. Here, a sad man puts his possessions on in his front yard to sell, and two strangers arrive as buyers. They remain, to become part of the tableau. Two sets of relationships here are in a state of transition, in a beautiful, touching film that offers no concrete answers. Keywords: relationships Downloads: 907 Average rating: (0 review)
	Project Discovery: a Demonstration in Education - Irving Rusinow This important film focuses on the experimental project most responsible for taking millions of public dollars away from textbook producers, and delivering it into the hands of educational film companies. The result? The blossoming of the academic film movement in the U.S., a filmmaking renaissance that changed the way curriculum was discussed and taught in North America. Here we visit the classroom that toppled the textbook companies, at Mercer Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio... Keywords: education; history of education; mediated instruction Downloads: 656 Average rating: (0 review)
	Poppycock - Carson Davidson Productions Kit Davidson here presents a satire in which the hero overcomes all obstacles against his rival to win a girl and ends in glorious victory. Downloads: 542 Average rating: (1 review)
	Shaw vs. Shakespeare III: ‘Caesar and Cleopatra - John Barnes This passionate interplay between the girl-queen and the wily conqueror provides the groundwork for George Bernard Shaw’s contention that there has been no social progress in the so-called Christian era, founded as it is upon judgment, guilt, and punishment, an era that can be characterized as "one of the bloodiest and most discreditable episodes" in the history of humankind. This is the third and final film in Barnes' 'Shaw vs... Keywords: Shaw; Moffat; Kiley; Grossman Downloads: 660 Average rating: (0 review)
	Shaw vs. Shakespeare II: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - John Barnes In maintaining that Brutus was the least morally-reprehensible character in Shakespeare’s play, Shaw here plays the critic, offering analysis to the scenes played by Barnes’ remarkable cast, led by Donald Moffat, Richard Kiley and Suzanne Grossman. Keywords: George Bernard Shaw; Shaw; Shakespeare; Moffat; Kiley; Grossman Downloads: 1,030 Average rating: (0 review)
	Shaw vs. Shakespeare I: The Character of Caesar - John Barnes This is the first film in Barnes' 'Shaw vs. Shakespeare' series, considered by experts to be among the finest educational films ever made. Here is wonderful introduction to Barnes as an insightful and witty interpreter of Shakespeare on film, the opening film of the triptych focusing on George Bernard Shaw’s belief that, although Shakespeare’s play was superior to his own, the treatment of the character of Caesar was not... Keywords: Geoge Bernard Shaw; Shaw; Shakespeare; Moffat; Kiley; Grossman Downloads: 1,541 Average rating: (0 review)
	Clown - Richard Balducci Along with Larry Yust's 'Lottery', 'Clown' was probably the two best selling ed films ever made. On the surface, it's a cute kid & dog story. Underlying is a possible subtext that fascinates us every time we view the film, and makes for a satisfying, yet ultimately ambiguous ending. Gilou Pelletier is outstanding as the small boy, and the camera work by Guy Suzuki takes wonderful advantage of the terraces of Montmartre. Keywords: Paris; Montmartre; Dog; blind Downloads: 1,506 Average rating: (0 review)
	Magnet Laboratory, A - Richard Leacock In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when Leacock was hired to produce this twenty-minute version of lab mayhem. Try this: six researchers in a lab at MIT in the late 1950's show-off the power of electro-magnets, and in the process, accidentally set an experiment on fire. Or this: half way through the film the phone rings off screen, and host Francis Bitter says "tell 'em I'll call 'em bac... Keywords: magnet; degauss; physics; science; PSSC Downloads: 2,198 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Kienholz on Exhibit - June Steel Born in 1927 in the border area between Washington and Idaho, Kienholz moved to Los Angeles in 1953, where he began making a series of bas-reliefs with found material. Prior to his death in 1994, he was primarily known for his "Assembly Art" sculptures, consisting of mannequins, stuffed animals, and pieces of clothing, focusing on subjects such as controversial as bordellos, back seat sex, and abortion... Keywords: art; los angeles Downloads: 2,113 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	At Your Fingertips: Boxes - Peter Erik and Mary Anna Winkler Reveals the supermarket as a source for every imaginable box, carton and container. Explains that these same receptacles, once they find their way to the home, provide a group of children with material for construction of art objects, playthings, houses and tunnels. A clever, beautiful film, showing children building everything from trains to colored houses, under the direction of Ernest Ziegfield, Ed... Downloads: 792 Average rating: (0 review)
	Imaging the Hidden World: the Light Microscope - Bruce Russell To say Russell makes films on biology is sort of like saying Rodin threw some clay on a table and a few minutes later came up with a figure representative of a human. 'Light Microscope' starts out didactically (Russell was a former K-12 biology teacher) in instructing the student on proper microscope technique, then goes off into the hyperspace of lighting techniques, using light and colored filters, that make otherwise difficult-to-see phenomena visible... Keywords: biology; science; volvox; hydra; amoeba Downloads: 4,421 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Gentle Winds of Change: Uganda - Marshall Segall In 1959, social scientist Marshall Segall traveled to Uganda to study the effects of the breaking down of colonialism on the individual citizen. He chose to focus on the Ba-yankole group,in the area of Mbarara, Ankole region. Although not a filmmaker, used a Bolex camera to make a record of his trip. The result, Gentle Winds of Change Uganda (1961, Columbia U) is a fascinating pastiche of social scenes, such as the making of plantain beer, and a local wedding, and political commentary... Keywords: Ankole; wedding'plantain; beer; milton obate; Mbarara Downloads: 493 Average rating: (0 review)
	Stalking the Wild Cranberry: the Making of a TV Commercial - Gordon Webber This wonderful film traces the steps taken in creating and shooting a television commercial for Post Grape Nuts. This film was produced by George Gage Productions, which filmed the commercial, starring the legendary Euell Gibbons, for the Benton & Bowles advertising agency, with lots of discussions & outtakes. The funky "Cranberry Rag" played by pianist Paul McDonough is delightful. Keywords: advertising; Euell Gibbons Downloads: 1,092 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Solar System (2nd Ed) - Tom Smith Tom Smith headed up the Special Effects team at Industrial Light & Magic, where he created all the goodies for the 'Star Wars' films. This is his academic film masterwork, which took over a year to create, over 13 weeks to film, and utilized "traveling mattes," with as many as five separate films running in the background, showcasing wonderful models and graphics. About the making of the film, Tom Smith writes: "I made that film in 1976 with Richard Basehard as narrator and a classical music sco... Keywords: space; universe; Industrial Light and Magic; ILM Downloads: 8,975 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Wildcat - Dick McCutcheon Follows two Oklahoma wildcatters as they prepare to sink a well. Shows their drilling operations for the Big Chief Drilling Company in Garfield County, OK; Only 1 out of 9 wells are wet, and it takes them 22 days and 6,750 feet to figure it out. Keywords: oil; petroleum; Oklahoma Downloads: 758 Average rating: (1 review)
	Hangman - Paul Julian A cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like quality to Julian's animation. Great musical score by Serge Hovey Keywords: animation; death; horror Downloads: 4,411 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Dong Kingman - James Wong Howe This exceptional film shows painter Kingman at work in New York's Chinatown, shot by master cinematographer James Wong Howe. Keywords: art; painting; Chinese Downloads: 2,546 Average rating: (1 review)
	Japan - Miracle in Asia - William F. Deneen Explains how Japan's rapid industrial growth has influenced the way of life in the country and has affected the international political and economic position of the country. Suggests that Japan turned to industrialization to support a rapidly growing population on a small and relatively poor land area. Deneen shot the aerial shots himself alone, while piloting a single-engine aircfraft, pointing the camera out the window... Keywords: Japan Asia, industrial Downloads: 1,593 Average rating: (1 review)
	Eskimo Family - William F. Deneen Old ways are juxtaposed with the influence of modern housing, food, and clothing, filmed on Baffin Island. Keywords: Nunavut; Arctic; Inuit Downloads: 1,689 Average rating: (1 review)
	Rhinoceros - Jan Lenica A animated version of Ionesco’s tale, a play on the theme of conformity. Keywords: animation; poland Downloads: 1,455 Average rating: (1 review)
	Iran - Claude Lelouch Far more than a travelogue with pretty pictures, this little-known film won six international awards shortly after its release. 'Iran' consists of spectacular geographical and archaeological footage interspersed with "slice of life" shots, evidencing best juxtapositional editing we've ever seen. This is a buried masterpiece from the director of 'A Man and a Woman,' 'Happy New Year,' and 'And Now My Love.' Lelouch reportedly shot six miles of footage to make this film, which apparently was sponso... Keywords: Persia, Petroleum, Qashqai, nomad, Islam, mosque Downloads: 12,818 Average rating: (1 review)
	Death Valley - Paul Hoefler Productions A beautifully shot trip through the Death Valley of the late 1940s, including visits to the ghost town of Ryan, Zabriskie Point, the Harmony Borax Works, and Scotty's Castle. Keywords: ryan; scotty's castle; harmony; borax; Zabriskie Downloads: 1,852 Average rating: (1 review)
	Les Derniers Canuts - Jean Mailland A fine documentary of silk weaving in Lyons, France Keywords: silk; weaving; Lyons; France Downloads: 546 Average rating: (0 review)
	Encore un Hiver - Françoise Sagan This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Françoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse. Keywords: France; elderly; romance Downloads: 2,263 Average rating: (1 review)
	Centinelas del Silencio - Robert Amran The real star here is the late aerial photographer James Freeman, whose breathtaking helicopter shots of Mayan and Aztec ruins at sunrise and sunset won an Academy Award for this film in 1971. Although the English version was narrated by Orson Welles, the Spanish version, narrated by Ricardo Montalban, is in better keeping with the ethnic aspect of the film, and no knowledge of Spanish is needed to appreciate his dramatic impact... Keywords: Maya; Aztec; helicopter Downloads: 1,947 Average rating: (0 review)