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	Lavoisier Fourier Faraday - Lavoisier,A.L. Keywords: GENERALITIES; Polygraphies. Collective works Downloads: 573
	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: 388 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: 799 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: 373 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: 1,601 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: 1,088 Average rating: (0 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: 681 Average rating: (0 review)
	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: 9,377 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: 494 Average rating: (1 review)