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Title The Daisy (16mm) (11249)
Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1967 Distributor Texture Films (0514) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis A flower which successfully resists the attempt of a man to remove it, yields to the loving hand of a happy child. No dialogue. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Dancers in School (16mm) (11258) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1971 Distributor Pennebaker (0417) Audience College, Adult (CA)
Synopsis Chronicles the work of several California dance teachers in a program of dance instruction taught in several California school systems. Shows how the program stimulated the creativity of both instructors
and pupils. Author PENNEBAKER, D. A. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Dancing Lion: An African Folktale (16mm) (11260) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes Produced 1978
Distributor Filmfair Communications (0185) Audience Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (PEJ) Synopsis Musicologist Andrew Tracy briefly discusses African rhythms and
demonstrates how each of the 12 beats sounds. He then illustrates the role of music in African storytelling by having children clap and chant responses as he relates a tale of a dancing lion.
Author TRACY, ANDREW. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Dancing Princess (16mm) (11262) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis A king offers his daughter's hand and half his kingdom to the one who discovers how the princess' slippers become worn to pieces each night.
Author GRIMM, JACOB, Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title DANGER ON DARTMOOR, pt. 1 (16MM) (11266) Physical Color; Sound; 57 minutes Produced 1981 Distributor Lucerne Films (0323)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis Filmed in Dartmoor National Park, England. Tells the story of three adolescents lost on the moor where an escaped convict is hiding. A
wild dog befriends them and guides them to safety. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Darius Green and His Flying Machine (16mm) (11275) Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1975
Distributor Aims Media (0013) Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Tells the story of a boy who defies the elements of nature by building a flying machine in the barn. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title A Dark, Dark Tale (16mm) (18060) Physical Color; Sound; 4 minutes Produced 1983 Distributor Weston Woods (0556)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Employs iconography to trace a cat's journey up dark stairways and along dark passages, around sharp corners and behind
windblown curtains. Tension builds until the surprise ending. Author Brown, Ruth Subjects Children's Films; Halloween Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title David and Goliath (16mm) (11284) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1974 Distributor Pyramid Film & Video (0437)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Uses animation in a depiction of the Biblical account of David and Goliath. Author COUCH, MAL. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Dawn Horse (16mm) (11286) Physical Color; Sound; 18 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Stanton Films (0488)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Describes how the culture of the American Indian has been an expression of his unity with the earth. Reveals the
meanings behind American Indian music and verse. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Day Is Two Feet Long (16mm) (11299) Physical Color; Sound; 8 minutes Produced 1967
Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ)
Synopsis Attempts to create visually the haiku experience, using only natural sounds and subtle color photography. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Dear Kurt (16mm) (11336) Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes
Produced 1973 Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis Follows a young boy as he builds a soap box racer, wins his local
competitions in New York, and goes on to compete in the 1972 All-American Soap Box Derby, held in Akron, Ohio. Author CIHI, BOB. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Death in the Afternoon (16mm) (11337) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1968 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Views of people and places in Spain portrayed by Ernest Hemingway in his book, Death in the afternoon. Follows the author's widow, Mrs.
Mary Hemingway, as she visits the various locations. Author HEMINGWAY, ERNEST, Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title DEATH OF A LEGEND, pt. 1 (16MM) (11340) Physical Color; Sound; 50 minutes Produced 1971
Distributor National Film Board Of Canada (0369) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Examines the nature and plight of the wolf and relates it to the plight of other
species of North American wildlife that have fallen afoul of predatory man and his technology. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title DEATH OF A LEGEND, pt. 2 (16MM) (11341) Physical Color; Sound Produced 1971
Distributor National Film Board Of Canada (0369) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Death Valley (16mm) (11347) Physical Color; Sound; 19 minutes
Produced 1983 Distributor Kaw Valley Films (0283) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Presents a history of Death Valley as well as an explanation of the geological origins, geology and and climate of the valley. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Decoraters Limited (16mm) (11356) Physical Color; Sound; 17 minutes Produced 1982 Distributor Lucerne Films (0323)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis A group of English children, delighted with results of decorating they did to an old circus wagon, decide to enter the decorating business. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Deer and the Forest - a Story Without Words (16mm) (11358) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1968 Distributor Ebec (0160)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis A visual story of deer and other animals as they move through the changing seasons in the forests of Hungary.
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Delicious Inventions (16mm) (11369) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis Excerpted from the 1972 Paramount Pictures motion picture entitled Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. Five lucky children tour Willy Wonka's
wonderful factory. Their bad manners and disobedience sometimes have dismaying results. Based on the book entitled CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY by Roald Dahl. Author DAHL, ROALD. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Devil and Daniel Mouse (16mm) (17968) Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor Beacon Films (0058)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis This imaginative adaptation of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" gives the classic story a contemporary setting, Jan and Dan are an unwanted folksinging
duo, so Jan sells her soul to the Devil to become a top rock star. When the Devil comes to claim his due, her old partner, Daniel Mouse, insists on a trial. As Jan's defense counsel, he saves her by proving that music
can save your soul and a song from the heart beats the Devil everytime. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Dictionary - the Adventure of Words (16mm) (11413) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes
Produced 1978 Distributor Barr Films (0055) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ)
Synopsis A dictionary explains the information it contains to a young boy and shows him how to use the alphabet and phonics to find words. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Discover the Idaho Experience (16mm) (11441) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes Produced 1980 Distributor Film Originals (0189)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA)
Synopsis An advertisement for Idaho! A vacation experience discovered via one-hundred and fifty scenes of Idaho color. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Discovering American Indian Music (16mm) (11446)
Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes Produced 1971 Distributor Bfa Educational Media/Phoenix Learn (0063) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Authentically costumed American Indians from various tribes around the country perform songs and dances. Describes the social and ceremonial functions of the music and portrays how Indians live today.
Includes a composition by American Indian composer Louis Ballard. Author WILETS, BERNARD. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Discovering Composition in Art (16mm) (11447) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes
Produced 1964 Distributor Amethyst Technologies, Inc (0038) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Defines
composition in art as an orderly arrangement. Provides guidelines for developing composition, such as selection of a subject, creation of a center of interest, balance of objects in the composition, and use of positive
and negative space. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Discovering Harmony in Art (16mm) (11449) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1966 Distributor Amethyst Technologies, Inc (0038)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Discusses the harmony in nature and in the creative works of man and explains how harmony may be
achieved in art by limiting, repeating, and relating objects, colors, and shapes. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Discovering Perspective in Art (16mm) (11451) Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes Produced 1962
Distributor Amethyst Technologies, Inc (0038) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Explains that we live in a world of depth.
Shows how to create the appearance of distance on a flat surface by using perspective. Illustrates overlapping, vertical position, graying colors, varying detail, varying size, and converging lines as techniques used to
create perspective. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Discovering Texture in Art (16mm) (11452) Physical Color; Sound; 17 minutes Produced 1961 Distributor Amethyst Technologies, Inc (0038)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Explains that every surface has texture and that an object may have several textures. Points out
that we learn about textures by touching the surfaces of objects and looking at the way light reflects from these surfaces. Shows how man uses paints, tools, and materials to change the texture of surfaces.
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Discovering the Music of Japan (16mm) (11457) Physical Color; Sound; 22 minutes Produced 1967 Distributor Barr Films (0055)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Explains and demonstrates the use of Japan's three major musical instruments, the koto, the shamisen and the shakuhachi. Discusses both
their history and current use. Depicts traditional Japanese singing and dancing. Author WILETS, BERNARD. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Don't Knock the Ox (16mm) (11501) Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes
Produced 1970 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Highlights one of the few remaining links with our pioneer past, the International Ox Pull, held annually in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Dorothy and the Parrot (16mm) (11513) Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1975 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Presents an animated puppet story about Dorothy and her parrot Coco, who tries to impress Dorothy by showing off when they have
a quarrel. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Doughnuts (16mm) (11518) Physical Color; Sound; 26 minutes Produced 1964 Distributor Weston Woods (0556)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Homer Price, America's favorite 10-year-old, is up to his ears in doughnuts, thanks to a doughnut machine gone berserk. How
Homer manages the doughnut dilemma and emerges a hero is recreated on the screen for the many youngsters who have always wished that this favorite story could really "come true. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS, pt. 1 (16MM) (11521) Physical Color; Sound; 54 minutes Produced 1967 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Traces the history and drama of the sea, the ships, and the men who sail them. Includes historic footage of clipper
ships rounding Cape Horn, of the modern tall-ship era, and of the 1957 voyage of the replica of the Mayflower. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS, pt. 2 (16MM) (11522) Physical Color; Sound
Produced 1967 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Dr. Seuss on the Loose (16mm) (11524) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Presents three cartoon stories which help children understand how people behave. Illustrates the pressure to conform, the inevitability of change and
resistance to something new. Author SEUSS, DR. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title Dragoncastle (16mm) (11528) Physical Color; Sound; 13 minutes Produced 1980
Distributor Western Media Products (0555) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Uses clay animation to tell the tale of a noble dragon who is driven from the kingdom by a fierce knight. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Dream of the Wild Horses (16mm) (11529) Physical Color; Sound; 9 minutes
Produced 1960 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis A cinematic poem which uses slow motion and soft focus camera to
evoke the wild horses of the Camargue District of France, showing them as they roam on the beach. Author COLOMB DE DAUNANT, DENYS, Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Eagle and the Moon (16mm) (11569) Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor University Access (0528)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Presents the story of a young Indian prince who, in order to show how brave he was, captured the moon and the sun from the sky. Shows how the wicked raven
stole these shining treasures of the heavens while the tribe was celebrating the great feat. Explains how the tribe, when it discovered the theft, enlisted the aid of the eagle to find the sun and the moon and return
them to their rightful place in the sky. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Edward Ardizzone (16mm) (11609) Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes Produced 1978
Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis A profile of author and illustrator Edward Ardizzone, showing him in his studio in Kent, swapping
drawings with children on the village green, and recalling his childhood through sketches derived from his impressions of the past. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Elisabeth and the Marsh Mystery (16mm) (11632)
Physical Color; Sound; 21 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ)
Synopsis Tells the story of an inquisitive little girl who discovers an exotic bird in a marsh near her home. Based on the book by Felice Holman. Author HOLMAN, FELICE, Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Elsa and Her Cubs (16mm) (11635) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1971 Distributor Benchmark Films (0059)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Documents the story of Joy and George Adamson, who lived in Kenya, and cared for the lioness Elsa, from the time she
was a cub until she in turn had cubs. Author ADAMSON, GEORGE, Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Elsa the Lioness (16mm) (11636) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1968
Distributor Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc (0145) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Documents the story of an orphaned lioness who was raised by a family in
Kenya. Explains that she had to be taught to hunt in order to survive in the jungle when she was set free. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Emperor's New Clothes (16mm) (11649) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes
Produced 1967 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis The Peppermint Players enact Hans Christian Andersen's story of a vain and foolish emperor. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title Emperor's Nightingale (16mm) (11650) Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes
Produced 1976 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Original artwork dramatically brings to children the Andersen fairy tale. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title End of the Trail (16mm) (17938) Physical Color; Sound; 53 minutes Produced 1967
Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Series America...A Look Back (0024) Synopsis Tells the story of the Plains Indians and
their role in the American westward movement starting in 1849 and ending with the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Subjects Indians of North America Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Endless Sea (16mm) (11666) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1971 Distributor Learning Corporation Of America (0307)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Presents a voyage on the CSS Hudson, a Canadian oceanographic vessel designed for sea study. Shows
the infinite world of plankton and explores the continental shelf, the undersea mountains and the abyss of the great depths. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Energy and Morality (16mm) (11669) Physical Color; Sound; 33 minutes
Produced 1981 Distributor Bullfrog Films (0078) Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis Uses narrative, animation and interviews with energy experts Amory Lovins and E.F.
Schumacher to explore the relationship between the energy available to a society, how the society makes use of that energy, and the influence of these factors on the values held by that society. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Erie Canal (16mm) (11711) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Weston Woods (0556)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis The happy-go-lucky folk song is sung with gusto as we squeeze through narrow locks, duck under low bridges and glide through the
countryside. For those who like to sing along, the song is repeated with the words on the screen. Author SPIER, PETER. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title ETHIOPIA: HIDDEN EMPIRE, pt. 1 (16MM) (11714)
Physical Color; Sound; 52 minutes Produced 1970 Distributor National Geographic Society (0370) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis
Explores the topography and the social, religious and political history of Ethiopia. Visits the various Moslem, Judaic and Christian tribes of Ethiopia, viewing their customs and religious celebrations.
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title ETHIOPIA: HIDDEN EMPIRE, pt. 2 (16MM) (11715) Physical Color; Sound Produced 1970 Distributor National Geographic Society (0370)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Expanding Universe of Sculpture (16mm) (11760) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1970
Distributor Hartley Productions (0219) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Explores contemporary sculpture, using as examples works by artists Reuben Nakina, Alex
Lieberman, David Burt, and Doris Chase who express their attitudes toward their work and the philosophy that motivates them. Includes a multi-media show which combines music, dance, light, and sculpture and demonstrates
the uses of a wide variety of materials. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Ezra Jack Keats (16mm) (11873) Physical Color; Sound; 17 minutes Produced 1970 Distributor Weston Woods (0556)
Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis Introduces the personality and art style of Ezra Jack Keats, Caldecott Medalist, author and illustrator of well-known picture books. Concludes with the complete
motion picture adaptation of A LETTER TO AMY. Author KEATS, EZRA JACK. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy |
