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Title Sacajawea (16mm) (17952)
Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes Produced 1974 Distributor Films For The Humanities And Scienc (0190)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis The true story of the Indian girl who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition. Recounts the events of the eight months
prior to the sighting of the Pacific Ocean in 1805; their struggle to survive the Missouri River crossing; their encounters with wild animals; the discovery of the Great Falls.
Subjects Indians of North America; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title SACRED GROUND, pt. 1 & 2 (16MM) (15552) Physical Color; Sound; 52 minutes Produced 1978
Distributor Word Publishing (0569) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Presents a documentary look at the geographical locations within North America that are considered sacred to the American Indian. Subjects Indians of North America Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sam, Bangs & Moonshine (Vhs) (15586) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Samantha has difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality until danger threatens her cat, Bangs. Based on the award-winning
book by Evaline Ness. Author NESS, EVALINE. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Videocassette: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sananguagat: Inuit Masterworks (16mm) (15590) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1975 Distributor National Film Board Of Canada (0369)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis This program alternates between an exhibition of Eskimo carvings and views of the daily life in the Iglootik settlement of the Northwest
Territories. Subjects Inuit Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Sanctuary—The Great Smoky Mountains (16mm) (15592) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes Produced 1979
Distributor National Audiovisual Center (0362) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA)
Synopsis Examines the landscape, foliage, and wildlife of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the changing seasons. Subjects Parks Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sara's Summer of the Swans (16mm) (15598) Physical Color; Sound; 33 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc (0145)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12) (JS) Synopsis A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her 5-year-old brother gets lost. Based on the Newberry Award winning
book by Betsy Byars. Author BYARS, BETSY CROMER. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 3 copies
Title Saskatchewan: Faces, Places, Memories (16mm) (15600) Physical Color; Sound; 13 minutes
Produced 1976 Distributor Canadian Travel Film Library (0092) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA)
Synopsis Shows Saskatchewan as it might be discovered by a family on a camping vacation. Subjects Canada; Saskatchewan Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Saw Timber (16mm) (15612) Physical Color; Sound; 23 minutes Produced 1966 Distributor Film Originals (0189)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Describes the resources of the Boise Payette tree farm in central Idaho. Shows the work of a forester, explains some principles of forest
management, and describes practical logging operations. Subjects Idaho; Lumber and Lumbering Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Scottish Symphony (16mm) (15663) Physical Color; Sound; 30 minutes Produced 1972
Distributor Benchmark Films (0059) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Traces the journey of the young German composer, Felix Mendelssohn as
he traveled throughout Scotland in 1829. Movements of the Scottish symphony accompany scenes of the sights that moved him to compose the symphony. Features the London Philharmonic, conducted by Otto Klemperer.
Author DIECKMANN, HEINZ. Subjects Music; Symphony Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Sea Fever (16mm) (15665) Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1966
Distributor Aims Media (0013) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Presents a visual interpretation of John Masefield's poem SEA FEVER, which
expresses his reminiscences of salt air, clear skies, and the freedom of the sea. Author MASEFIELD, JOHN, Subjects Poems and Poetry Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title SEARCH FOR NATIONAL UNITY, 1800-1927, v. 1 (16MM) (15671) Physical Color; Sound; 22 minutes Produced 1967 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Students see how today's problems began with the disappearance of the Manchu dynasty, leaving China without a unified government. Hatred of
foreigners and economic collapse help create such revolutionaries as Sun Yatsen, followed by Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Tse-Tung. Subjects China Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title THE SEARCH FOR ULYSSES, pt. 1 (16MM) (15674) Physical Color; Sound; 53 minutes Produced 1965 Distributor Carousel Films (0094)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis British sailor and scholar Ernie Bradford explains his theory that Homer's Ulysses really lived. Associates the journey of Ulysses as told
in the Odyssey with geographic locations which can be identified today, showing views of the Land of the Lotus Eaters, the Sirens' Rock, the Cave of Cyclops, Scylla, Charybdis, and the islands of Circe and
Calypso. Author HOMER. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title THE SEARCH FOR ULYSSES, pt. 2 (16MM) (15675) Physical Color; Sound Produced 1965 Distributor Carousel Films (0094)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Seasons (16mm) (15682) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1980
Distributor Echo Films (0161) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Powder skiing, cross country, and bump skiing set to poetry of the changing seasons from fall to winter to spring skiing. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Seasons of the Elk (16mm) (15683)
Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1981 Distributor Berlet Films (0060) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Presents live-action
views of an elk through the four seasons and witnesses the winter migration of thousands of elk to the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, Wyoming. Discusses the problem of poaching and the place of legitimate hunting in
thinning the herds of elk. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Seven Ravens (16mm) (15756) Physical Color; Sound; 21 minutes Produced 1973 Distributor Learning Corporation Of America (0307)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis European animators recreate the Grimm fairy tale in which a seven-year-old girl sets out on a quest to free her seven brothers who have
been turned into ravens by a revengeful old witch. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title THE SHADOW CATCHER: EDWARD S. CURTIS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN, pt. 1 (16MM) (15776)
Physical Color; Sound; 88 minutes Produced 1975 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis This is a
program about photographer-anthropologist Edward Curtis and the Indian people he worked with from 1895 to 1930. Includes all of Curtis' recoverable film footage of life among the Kwakiutl, Hopi, and Navajo
Indians. Author MCLUHAN, T. C. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title THE SHADOW CATCHER: EDWARD S. CURTIS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN, pt. 2 (16MM) (15777) Physical Color; Sound
Produced 1975 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Shape (16mm) (15787) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes
Produced 1968 Distributor Documentary Educational Resources (0154) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis An exploration of shapes in nature and in art, how they function and how they are perceived and interpreted by an artist. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Shepherd Dog and His Flock (16mm) (15801)
Physical Color; Sound; 8 minutes Produced 1969 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Shows two German shepherd dogs as they help their masters to herd sheep. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Shoemaker and the Elves (16mm) (15807) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1972
Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Tells the brothers Grimm story about a poor and unfortunate shoemaker, who
has his misfortune reversed by the midnight activities of a pair of skilled cobbler elves. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title A Shopping Expedition/Paddington and the Old Master/a Disappearing Trick (16mm) (15809)
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 attempts at shopping, painting, and magic result in a series of misadventures. Author BOND, MICHAEL. Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Silent City of the Rocks (16mm) (15826) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor Appalshop, Inc (0041)
Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis In southern Idaho, nature has exhibited its artistry by carving from granite, strange and diverse shapes. This film depicts the rugged simplicity of the
"Silent City of Rocks. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Silent Night: Story of the Christmas Carol (16mm) (15829) Physical Color; Sound; 15 minutes Produced 1970
Distributor Coronet/Mti Film & Video (0139) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (KPEJ) Synopsis Explains how the song SILENT NIGHT was conceived
by an Austrian priest in 1818 and became well-known throughout Europe and America. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Silver Wires, Golden Wings (16mm) (15835) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1980
Distributor Echo Films (0161) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Details the efforts of electric utilities to prevent the electrocution of birds of prey on power
lines. Shows how many utilities have installed special nesting platforms on transmission towers. Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Ski Racer (16mm) (15857) Physical Color; Sound; 36 minutes Produced 1970
Distributor Pyramid Film & Video (0437) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Attempts to capture the excitement, anxiety, and thrills of competitive skiing.
Subjects Skis and Skiing Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Skinny Skiing (16mm) (15859) Physical Color; Sound; 17 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor Spectrum Films (0486)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis A group of cross-country skiers talk about the sport, telling how it is a way of life for them rather than a pastime. Shows them skiing in
various settings. Subjects Skis and Skiing Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Sky Capers (16mm) (15860) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1968
Distributor Pyramid Film & Video (0437) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Pictures the sport of skydiving, showing how the participants jump from an airplane at
high altitudes and free fall before opening their parachutes. Subjects Skydiving Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Sky Is Blue (16mm) (15862) Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1976
Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP)
Synopsis A little boy and his kite are carried into the blue yonder, and run into some strange creatures. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sl-1: America's First Fatal Nuclear Reactor Accident (16mm) (15866) Physical Color; Sound; 60 minutes Produced 1984 Distributor Direct Cinema Ltd (0152)
Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis A documentary using recently declassified government data regarding a life-taking nuclear accident that happened in the early 60's near Idaho Falls. It was
discovered that it could have been caused by worker misconduct. Subjects Idaho; Nuclear Reactors Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sleeping Beauty (16mm) (15868) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes
Produced 1971 Distributor Ebec (0160) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis An adaptation of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about the wicked fairy and the princess who slept for one hundred years. Author GRIMM, JACOB,
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title Sleeping Beauty, Brier Rose: A German Folktale (16mm) (15869) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1970
Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Animated puppets dramatize this fairy tale about the Princess Brier Rose, who is
cursed to sleep for a hundred years. A valiant prince breaks the spell; good triumphs over evil. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Small Predatory Mammals (16mm) (15876) Physical Color; Sound; 12 minutes Produced 1971 Distributor Centron Corp. (0104)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12) (EJS) Synopsis Introduces the concept of predation, distinguishes between carnivores and omnivores, and examines some of the
physical adaptations of weasels, minks, raccoons, and gray foxes that help make them successful predators. Author MASLOWSKI, KARL H., Subjects Animals-Behavior Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Smallest Elephant in the World (16mm) (15879) Physical Color; Sound; 6 minutes Produced 1965 Distributor Aims Media (0013)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis Uses the story of a little elephant who finds acceptance and happiness in the circus to show that each individual is important no matter how
different. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Smiley (16mm) (15887) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1979
Distributor Third Eye Films (0515) Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis A story about a boy, who discovers a lost dog. He tries unsuccessfully to find the dog's owner, and all the while
he and his parents grow more and more attached to her. Some surprising twists take the boy through a gamut of emotions from high hopes to sadness. Subjects Children's Films; Dogs Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Snowman (16mm) (18039) Physical Color; Sound; 26 minutes Produced 1983 Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Elementary (4-6) (E)
Synopsis Presents an animated, nonnarrated story about a small boy who brings his snowman into the house one night to play with commonplace objects even children take for granted. Later they fly all the way to
Scandinavia to find Santa Claus the center of the snowman convention. Author Briggs, Raymond Subjects Christmas Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies
Title So Little Time (16mm) (15918) Physical Color; Sound; 29 minutes Produced 1968 Distributor Working Group (0570)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Discusses the decline in the waterfowl population of North America. Includes pictures of extinct birds and of threatened species.
Subjects Extinct Animals; Water Birds Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Soap Box Derby Scandal (16mm) (15921) Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes Produced 1975
Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Tells the story of a boy's experience in the 1973 Soap Box Derby and his involvement with the scandal when the race
was won with an illegally designed car. Raises questions about winning, losing, and cheating. Author CIHI, BOB. Subjects Children's Films; Hobbies Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Song of Seasons (16mm) (15941) Physical Color; Sound; 27 minutes Produced 1978 Distributor Canadian Travel Film Library (0092)
Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis Shows the change of seasons on Cape Breton Island and the sheep ranching industry of the Island and the attempts to upgrade the flocks.
Subjects Canada; Travel Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Song of the Prairie (16mm) (15942) Physical Color; Sound; 18 minutes Produced 1951 Distributor Macmillan Films (0326)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis A cartoon satire on the traditional western, with a singing cowboy hero, a snarling villain, a beautiful heroine, and a wonder horse.
Subjects Motion Pictures, Westerns Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Sophocles the Hyena (16mm) (15945) Physical Color; Sound; 12 minutes Produced 1971
Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Describes the adventures of four animals who, on their way to Cat School, meet a
ferocious hyena who is looking for a cat to eat, but doesn't know what one looks like. Author MOREN, JIM. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sound of Sunshine, Sound of Rain (16mm) (15949) Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes Produced 1983 Distributor Filmfair Communications (0185)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis This animated program, based on the book by Florence Parry Heide, provides insights into the life of a blind, seven-year-old
black boy and his intimate world of sounds and touch. Author HEIDE, FLORENCE PARRY. Subjects Blind; Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Soup and Me (16mm) (15951) Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor International Health Awareness Cent (0266)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small town in Vermont. Based on the book by Robert Peck.
Author PECK, ROBERT NEWTON. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies Title Soup for President (16mm) (15952) Physical Color; Sound; 24 minutes Produced 1978
Distributor International Health Awareness Cent (0266) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ)
Synopsis A story about two best friends and their loyalty to each other during election time at school. Author PECK, ROBERT NEWTON. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The South (16mm) (15953) Physical Color; Sound; 12 minutes Produced 1974 Distributor Oxford Films (0408)
Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA) Synopsis Presents a study of the people who make the South a distinct cultural and geographic entity within the whole of
America today. Describes the history and geography of the South. Subjects Southern States Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sparky, the Colt (16mm) (15964) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes Produced 1950
Distributor Coronet/Mti Film & Video (0139) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP)
Synopsis The story of the first weeks in the life of a colt, showing how he becomes acquainted with the farm. Subjects Children's Films; Horses Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy |
