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Title Paddington Cleans Up (16mm) (14859)
Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc (0166) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Tells about a small, dark bear and his attempts to demonstrate a vacuum cleaner. Author BOND, MICHAEL. Subjects Children's Films; Paddington Bear Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Paddington Hits Out/a Visit to the Hospital (16mm) (14860) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc (0166)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Tells about a small, dark bear and his adventures in a golf competition and at a hospital.
Author BOND, MICHAEL. Subjects Children's Films; Paddington Bear Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Paddington Hits the Jackpot/a Sticky Time (16mm) (14861) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes
Produced 1977 Distributor Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc (0166) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Tells about a small, dark bear whose experiences as a quiz contestant and a cook bring unexpected rewards. Author BOND, MICHAEL.
Subjects Children's Films; Paddington Bear Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Paddington Makes a Bid/Do-It-Yourself/Something Nasty in the Kitchen/Trouble at the Launderette(16mm (14862)
Physical Color; Sound; 22 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc (0166) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Tells about a small, dark bear and his adventures at an auction and as a carpenter and cook. Author BOND, MICHAEL. Subjects Children's Films; Paddington Bear
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Paddle-to-the-Sea (16mm) (14863) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1968 Distributor Janus Films (0274)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6), Senior High (9-12) (KPES) Synopsis Tells the story of a small, hand-carved Indian and a canoe, both called 'paddle to the sea.' Shows Paddle's
adventures on his journey from the high Nipigon country in Canada above Lake Superior, down through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Atlantic Ocean. From a book of the same name by Holling C.
Holling. Author HOLLING, HOLLING CLANCY. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies Title Painters of America: Peter Hurd (16mm) (14865) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1969
Distributor Coronet/Mti Film & Video (0139) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Peter Hurd talks about why he paints, how he conceives a painting, how he is
motivated, his use of light and color, and the techniques of portrait painting. Subjects Art, Modern; Artists; Hurd, Peter, 1904-1984 Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Pancho (16mm) (14868) Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1961 Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP)
Synopsis A story about Pancho, a potter's son, who competes with all the best horsemen in Mexico to catch the bull with the crooked tail. Author HADER, BERTA.
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Parade, Parade (16mm) (14874) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Virginia State Library And Archives (0543)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Shows the preparations for a Fourth of July parade, as well as the bands, floats, and marchers of the parade itself.
Subjects Patriotism Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Patrick (16mm) (14914) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes Produced 1972 Distributor Wehman Video (0553)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis Uses animation to tell the story of a fiddler who imbues the creatures of the countryside with color and movement, showing the effect of music on
the spirit. Author BLAKE, QUENTIN. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies Title Patriotic Music: Its Influence on U.S. History 1775-1900 (16mm) (14917) Physical Color; Sound; 21 minutes
Produced 1974 Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (KPEJ)
Synopsis Tells the story behind the seven most popular patriotic anthems and how they affected the history of the United States. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Paul Bunyan and the Blue Ox (16mm) (14921)
Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1952 Distributor Coronet/Mti Film & Video (0139) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Puppets are used to tell a story about Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his gigantic blue ox, Babe. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Paul Revere's Ride (16mm) (14927) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes
Produced 1967 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis The poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the
silversmith who gained eternal fame by his midnight ride to warn the Colonial Americans that the British were coming. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Paul Taylor & Company: An Artist and His Work (16mm) (14928)
Physical Color; Sound; 32 minutes Produced 1968 Distributor Pyramid Film & Video (0437) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Shows
how Paul Taylor, an exponent of modern dance, functions as creator and performer. Includes excerpts of several of his dances, as well as interviews with Paul Taylor and with members of his dance company.
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title The Peasant's Pea Patch (16mm) (14944) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Guidance Associates (0216)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Presents a Russian folktale about an old peasant who tries to get rid of some pesky cranes who are ruining his crops.
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Pecos Bill (16mm) (14945) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1972 Audience Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (PE)
Synopsis Presents the story of Pecos Bill through artwork and original music. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Penny Lane (16mm) (14949) Physical Color; Sound; 9 minutes Produced 1975
Distributor Penny Lane Films (0420) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA)
Synopsis Provides information about the toy mechanical banks which were produced in America around the turn of the century. Author DAVIDSON, AL Subjects Toys Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title A Penny Suite (16mm) (14950) Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1978 Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP)
Synopsis An animated story about a carousel whose animals come to life and play like children. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title People of the Buffalo (16mm) (14962) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1969 Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Shows how the buffalo formed the central core of the society of the North American Plains Indians. Subjects Bison (American Buffalo); Indians of North America Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Peregrine (16mm) (14967) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1981 Distributor Echo Films (0161)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Shows the efforts to preserve the endangered peregrine falcons. Captive breeding of the falcons is helping to
increase population while these birds are released into area they once nested in. Subjects Birds of Prey Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Perils of Priscilla (16mm) (14974) Physical Color; Sound; 17 minutes
Produced 1969 Distributor Idaho Camera (0237) Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Points out the needs of a pet cat by presenting the adventures of a cat who endures the
indignation of a busy family and the dangers of being lost in a big city. Without narration. Subjects Animals-Behavior; Cats Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Peter and the Wolf (16mm) (17984) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1981 Distributor Pyramid Film & Video (0437)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12) (EJS) Synopsis This version of Prokofiev's musical introduction to the orchestra features real people and real animals in a
colorful, turn-of-the-century American setting. Ray Bolger, the on-camera storyteller, introduces Peter, his grandfather, and all the familiar characters, while the Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra performs their orchestral
themes. Subjects Children's Films; Music; Orchestra Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Phillip and the White Colt (16mm) (14999) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1973
Distributor National Depressive And Manic-Depre (0365) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis This moving story tells of a lonely boy, mute since age 5, his hunger for
understanding from his parents, and his love for a wild colt, which finally restores his power of speech. Edited by LCA from the feature RUN WILD, RUN FREE. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title A Pickle for a Nickel (16mm) (15009) Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor International Health Awareness Cent (0266)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Relates that a quiet man with a quiet parrot is dismayed when a little boy teaches the parrot to talk.
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title A Picture for Harold's Room (16mm) (15015) Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1971 Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP)
Synopsis A story about a boy who draws a picture on his wall, steps into his picture to draw the moon, and begins to travel as a giant. Author JOHNSON, CROCKETT,
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Picture Trouble/Trouble on the Beach/a Visit to the Theatre (16mm) (15016) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1980
Distributor Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc (0166) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Follows Paddington in a series of misadventures at the seaside, on the beach, and at the theater. Author BOND, MICHAEL. Subjects Children's Films; Paddington Bear
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Pied Piper (16mm) (15018) Physical Color; Sound; 27 minutes Produced 1900 Distributor Unicef (0524) Audience College, Adult (CA)
Synopsis Danny Kaye retraces his 1954 world tour to observe the changes which UNICEF has helped to bring in child welfare, and discovers that children are much alike in every country.
Author KAYE, DANNY. Subjects UNICEF Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Pied Piper of Hamelin (16mm) (15019) Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1976
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis An animated film which tells the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Subjects Browning, Robert, 1812-1889; Children's Films; Poems and Poetry Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Pierre (16mm) (15023) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes Produced 1977
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis Pierre, a most indifferent little boy, responds to every question, suggestion or statement with a flat, "I don't care." Not even an
encounter with a lion can change his attitude—until he's swallowed up! Author SENDAK, MAURICE. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title A Place to Stand (16mm) (15034) Physical Color; Sound; 18 minutes Produced 1969 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Uses a multiscreen format to depict the many facets and advantages of Ontario. Subjects Canada; Ontario Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title A Playground for Baboush (16mm) (15039) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes Produced 1977 Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis An animated story about Baboush whose balloon becomes stuck in the crescent of the Moon. A crew of firefighters, a sultan, and an astronaut attempt to dislodge the ballon, which is finally retrieved by
the creatures of the forest when the Moon completes its normal cycle. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Please Look After this Bear/a Bear in Hot Water/Paddington Goes Undercover (16mm) (15045)
Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Filmfair Communications (0185) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Tells about a small, dark bear whose invitation to live with an English family leads to a series of humorous adventures and misadventures. Author BOND, MICHAEL.
Subjects Children's Films; Paddington Bear Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Plow that Broke the Plains (16mm) (15048) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1969
Distributor National Institute Of Child Health (0372) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Traces the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the
settlement of the prairies through the World War I boom to the years of depression and drought. Subjects Social Problems; Soil Conservation Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title A Pocket for Corduroy (Vhs) (15051) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1986 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis An adaptation of the story of the same title by Don Freeman about a toy bear who wants a pocket for himself and searches for one
when he is left behind in the laundromat. Author TEMPLETON, GARY. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Videocassette: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Polka Dot Leaves on a Purple Tree (16mm) (15080) Physical Color; Sound; 30 minutes Produced 1973 Distributor Acclaimed Video Inc (0002)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis A film about Kaleidoscope, the Hallmark Cards traveling art workshop for elementary school-age children. It is a creative art experience
developed to bring the joy of artistic creation to children who might otherwise be deprived of the experience. Subjects Art Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Ponies (16mm) (15081) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1972 Distributor Oxford Films (0408)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Shows, without narration, the birth of a foal, ponies frolicking, horses eating, drinking, and sleeping, and a pony being groomed and
winning a ribbon in the show ring. Subjects Animals-Behavior; Horses Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Portrait of Grandpa Doc (16mm) (15091) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1977
Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis A young man reflects on his childhood and his relationship with his grandfather as
he paints a portrait of his grandfather who died several years earlier. Subjects Aging; Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Possum that Didn't (16mm) (15100) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes
Produced 1972 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis This modern allegory deals with superficial values,
insensitivity, and self-aggrandizement disguised as concern for others. An upside-down 'smiley, smiley possum' encounters civilization and its misguided boosters. They determine to make the possum really smile and take
him to the city, which serves only to depress him. When the possum escapes and returns to the forest, he learns once more how to smile. Author TASHLIN, FRANK.
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Potlatch Country (16mm) (15108) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1967 Distributor Film Originals (0189)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis A view of unspoiled wilderness areas in north central Idaho. Subjects Idaho Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Potlatch Story (16mm) (15110) Physical Color; Sound; 30 minutes Produced 1957 Distributor Film Originals (0189)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Shows forestry and logging practices as carried on by Potlatch Forests in northern Idaho, the operation of the Clearwater unit sawmill at
Lewiston, Idaho, and the manufacturing of pulp and paper board. Subjects Idaho; Lumber and Lumbering Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Poultry in Review (16mm) (15111) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes
Produced 1941 Distributor Film Originals (0189) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis A look at the poultry industry in the Caldwell area of Idaho, filmed in 1941. Subjects Idaho; Poultry Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Presents Past: Art of the Tin Toy (16mm) (15146)
Physical Color; Sound; 30 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc (0145) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis
A look at the many different types of tin toys that have survived from the 19th century, such as horse-drawn carriages, engines, bicycles, and trains. Subjects Toys Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Prince and the Pauper (16mm) (15174) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1962 Distributor Disney Educational Productions (0153)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis A segment from the feature film, released in 1962. Two boys, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, the son of
an impoverished peasant, destined by fate to look exactly alike, exchange places to experience how each other lives. From the book by Mark Twain. Author TWAIN, MARK
Subjects Children's Films; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Pruning Practices at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens (16mm) (15220) Physical Color; Sound; 21 minutes
Produced 1966 Distributor Center For Mass Communication (0099) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Illustrates when and how to prune trees, shrubs, and
other woody plants and shows the growth of the plants from pruning to blossoming. Includes scenes of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Subjects Botany; Pruning Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Purple Turtle (16mm) (15232) Physical Color; Sound; 12 minutes Produced 1962 Distributor Aims Media (0013)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis An unrehearsed film in which a camera and microphone unobtrusively record the activities of
kindergarten childern as they busy themselves with paints, crayons and clay. Subjects Art-Study and Teaching Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Pushmi-Pullyu (16mm) (15234) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes
Produced 1976 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Doctor Dolittle receives a pushmi-pullyu, a
rare llama with a head on each end, as a gift to help him raise money for his journey in search of the great pink sea snail. Author LOFTING, HUGH, Subjects Children's Films
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Puss in Boots (16mm) (15236) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1958 Distributor Ebec (0160)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Animated puppets enact the story about an ingenious cat who contrives to win for his peasant master a title, a fortune, a
castle, and the hand of a beautiful princess in marriage. Based on the story by Charles Perrault. Author PERRAULT, CHARLES, Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title QUEENS OF HARMONY, pt. 1 (16MM) (15246) Physical Color; Sound; 44 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc (0145)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Documents the activities at the 29th Annual Convention of Sweet Adelines, Inc., an organization made up of female barbershop singers, held
in Seattle in October 1975. Subjects Music; Women Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title QUEENS OF HARMONY, pt. 2 (16MM) (15247) Physical Color; Sound Produced 1978
Distributor Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc (0145) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Quest (16mm) (17950) Physical Color; Sound; 30 minutes Produced 1984
Distributor Pyramid Film & Video (0437) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis On a planet where the lack of light has shortened the life-span
to eight days, one child is chosen to try to find and open a special gate which will let in light. Based on a short story by Ray Bradbury. Subjects Bradbury, Ray, 1920-; Science Fiction Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Quilts in Women's Lives (16mm) (15255) Physical Color; Sound; 28 minutes Produced 1980 Distributor New Day Films (0381)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Seven quiltmakers tell about their art, its importance in their lives, and how it is influenced by their daily experiences.
Subjects Quilts; Women Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy |
