Observes a newly engaged couple as they wrestle with the fears and doubts nurtured by socio-economic differences, family pressures, immaturity, and ambivalent desires. Listens to their secret thoughts and wishes as each tries to cope with the anxiety and frustration-filled situations. States a position for an engagement, long enough to resolve second thoughts and to get to know one another and themselves.
In this Coronet instructional film, we learn how to manage and self regulate our emotions when it comes to dealing with short comings and disappointments.
Shows interdependence of members of a pioneer family. A typical pioneer school is portrayed.
Shows how a pioneer family prepared their food.
Freedom, rights, obligations, the pursuit of happiness -- meanings of these terms are explored as this film develops its theme that the Declaration of Independence is not a dead historical document, but a vital force and guide to living today.
Presents an inductive experience in reading readiness. Shows a young boy as he interprets the meanings of various road signs during a long automobile trip.
Depicts life in a medieval town from the point of view of a young serf. Explains the influence of trade and the role of the merchant and craft guilds in the rise of towns in Europe
Young Jeff learns the error of his ways.
Explains that different kinds of soil are mixtures of sand, clay, and humus; tells how the weathering of rocks helps make soil; includes simple experiments to show the kind of soil in which different plants grow well.
A group of children build a model community. They learn the importance of planning and solving problems together, and of sharing ideas and work.
In this educational film, laboratory demonstrations show the effects of moisture and temperature on the growth of molds. Photomicrography reveals the structure of molds: hyphae, mycelium, spore balls, spores. Beginning with spores on a rice culture, time-lapse photography shows the formation of a new colony.
Uses animation and live action photography to describe good food chains, almost all depending ultimately on green plants, and relates these food chains to the larger concepts of the oxygen-carbon dioxide and the nitrogen cycles, and to the unending pattern of life, growth, and decay which is known as the food cycle.
Scott, a high school dropout, has no diploma, no job, no future and finally no girl. He is faced with the decision of continuing his education or continuing a life without hope or meaning.
Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World War II, including the Great Depression and New Deal legislation designed to overcome it. Emphasizes events that had lasting effects on the nation, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the strengthening of organized labor and the growing power of the Federal government.. Continues the story of 20th century America from the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II. Footage shows the Great Depression, strengthening of organized labor, Social Security Act and growing powers of the federal government.
Shows how Jim and Bob use protractor and ruler to study such figures as rectangles, triangles and circles, and such principles as congruence, similarity and symmetry, in constructing a model porch.
Reviews holidays that have come to America from origins all over the world. Shows the many different holidays celebrated by Americans, including Mexican and Puerto Rican Christmas celebrations.
Shows how a pioneer family of the early 1800's selected a site, built a log cabin, cooked, made soap and candles and did other household tasks.
Uses a real-life situation to clarify the elements of mutual assent, competent parties, legal bargain and consideration--both in oral and written contracts.
This educational film shows the development and interdependence of organisms in a pond.
Explains the reformation in terms of the church, the cultural rebirth brought about by the Renaissance, the emergence of national states and the new interpretations of the scriptures. Devotes special attention to Luther and the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
