This material is available at the Department of Audiovisual Education, Winchester School. Materials may be ordered on special forms available in each school, or by phone calling extension 8687. These materials will be delivered to the school and collected every Monday or Thursday, according to the schedule posted in the school office.
Volume 18—Issue 7
15 min.—Color—(m.h.)
FATHER OF THE SPACE AGE-A special color report, March 1976.
A film biography of Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who launched the world’s first liquid propellant rocket on March 16, 1926.
Volume 18—Issue 1 & 2—1975-76
22 min.—color—(i.m.h.)
FAITH IN OURSELVES-A special bicentennial color issue—October 1975.
A stirring pictorial panorama in sight and sound mood and music of the people, place and events that helped shape America’s heritage and history.
Volume 14—Issue 6
13 min.—B & W—(m.h.)
THE GOLDEN DOOR-Rare, still photographs and historic action pictures are blended with contemporary scenes of Ellis Island to recall America’s immigrant heritage and its influence on our development as a nation.
Volume 15—Issue 3
13 min.—color—(m. h)
SATCHMO AND ALL THAT JAZZ-An entertaining and informative film biography that relives on music and words . . . sight and sound . . . the life and times of Jazz immortal Louis Armstrong.
Volume 7—Issue 3
20 min.—B & W (m.h.)
AMERICA-THE MELTING POT
YANKEE CALLING (p. 114)
29 min.—color—(i.m.h.)
This unique film vividly recalls the history of those Yankee Craftsman, inventors and peddlers who made Connecticut into a manufacturing state during the period from the end of the Revolution to the start of the Civil War. Yankee Calling traces these developments through the eyes of a young craftsman of today, who finds out why doing one’s thing is an old Connecticut tradition.
WHY WE NEED EACH OTHER-ANIMALS PICNIC DAY
10 min.—color—(p. i.)
One person is often very different from another and this story introduces the concept that those differences can be beneficial to all of us.
OUT OF SLAVERY-1619-1860
21 min.—B & W—(m.h.)
Traces the history of the Negro in America from his first arrival to the outbreak of the Civil War. Pictures slavery in the ancient world and outlines the development of the slave trade in America. Depicts the life of the Negro as a slave in the South and as a free man in the North. Shows, his role in the American Revolution and discusses slave labor as the foundation of Southern wealth.
MY LIFE TO LIVE
24 min.—B & W (h.)
Rod Kellogg, a young college student feels he should do what’s expected of him, is really not the person he’d like to be. His search for self-identity leads him to put into perspective his childhood memoirs and his parents, death until he finds himself and begins to live his own life.
IRVING WASHINGTON
18 min.—B & W—(m. h.)
Brings to life significant episodes in the life of Washington I., the first U. S. writer to receive prominent recognition in the world of literature. Traces Irving’s early life in N.Y., and describes his travels and life abroad.
“I . . . HAVE A DREAM.”
Life of Martin L. King
35 min.—B & W (m. h.)
The story of this dedicated man’s 1ife and the forces that brought him to the leadership of his people are explored by using actual new film footage.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS part 1 & 2
60 min.—color (m. h.)
It deals with the role Douglass played in the abolitionist movement from the time of his escape from slavery up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation; depicts the tremendous courage of a fugitive slave in his fight for freedom for his people.
A. LINCOLN
20 min.—B & W (i. m. h.)
The film follows Lincoln’s life from youth, through legeal and political careers to his election as president.
It also highlights the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.
A. LINCOLN—part 3
27 min. B & W (i. m. h.)
It shows Lincoln from the teenage boy at a backwoods “blab school” to the tall young man starting a life of his own.
PEARL S. BUCK. “AN AMERICAN FROM CHINA”
p. 40 of catalogue
TWAIN, MARK-GREAT AMERICAN AUTHOR
p. 27 of catalogue
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN-AMERICAN LEADER
p. 26 of catalogue
MARTIN L. KING JR.: “There Comes a time”, “How Long America”, “I Have a Dream”, “We as a People”.