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Title Spring Comes to the Forest (16mm) (15993)
Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1972 Distributor Coronet/Mti Film & Video (0139)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Shows changes which plants and animals of the forest undergo during spring months.
Subjects Seasons Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Spring Impressions (16mm) (15994) Physical Color; Sound; 9 minutes Produced 1972 Distributor Stepfamily Association Of America (0491)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Follows the progress of a little girl in spring through a field where the grass is almost as tall
as she is, to a stream where she captures a frog to keep the rabbits in her basket company and to the birch woods where she finds forest wildflowers. Subjects Seasons Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title St. Augustine: The Oldest City (16mm) (15573) Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes Produced 1974 Distributor Oxford Films (0408)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), Adult (EJSA) Synopsis Presents a field trip through the United States' oldest city, St. Augustine in Florida.
Subjects Cities and Towns Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title St. Lawrence - More Than a River (16mm) (15574) Physical Color; Sound; 13 minutes Produced 1978
Distributor Canadian Travel Film Library (0092) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis This film explores the broad St. Lawrence from Kingston (Ontario) where it begins,
downstream to historic places and parklands equipped for year round recreation. Historic Fort Henry and Upper Canada Village form the greater part of this film excursion. Subjects Rivers Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Stamps: A Nation's Calling Card (16mm) (15999) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1971 Distributor National Audiovisual Center (0362)
Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis Shows the beauty and meaning found in postage stamps as they reflect our nation's history and heritage. Describes the processes of stamp production from the
first hand-engraved impression to the final printing of millions of stamps. Subjects Postage Stamps Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Stone Soup (Vhs/16mm) (16053)
Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1957 Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP)
Synopsis This old French folktale tells about a clever trick used by three soldiers who are refused food and lodging by a selfish group of peasants. Author BROWN, MARCIA.
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Videocassette: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Story about Ping (16mm) (16056) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes Produced 1957
Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3) (KP) Synopsis Resentful because he is last in line and always spanked when his family boards its houseboat on the
Yangtze River, a young Chinese duck stays away from home one night, but after an unpleasant adventure which almost results in his being cooked, he happily returns to his family.
Author FLACK, MARJORIE, Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 2 copies Title Story of a Book (16mm) (16057) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1962
Distributor Churchill Media (0115) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis Follows the author H.C. Holling through the process of creating Pagoo, the story of a hermit
crab, explaining how he gets the idea, does the research both in the library and by observation, writes and rewrites, illustrates, plans the dummy, and makes final preparations for printing.
Author HOLLING, HOLLING CLANCY. Subjects Authors Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Story of a Book, 2nd Edition (16mm) (16058) Physical Color; Sound; 16 minutes Produced 1979
Distributor Churchill Media (0115) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9) (EJ) Synopsis The viewer watches as author Marguerite Henry plans, organizes and writes a book.
Subjects Authors Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Story of a Writer - Ray Bradbury (16mm) (16060) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1963
Distributor Stepfamily Association Of America (0491) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Reveals the working habits of creative writers by showing how the American
science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury conceives and finally produces such tales as THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, DANDELION WINE and FAHRENHEIT 451. Subjects Authors; Bradbury, Ray, 1920- Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Story of Cinderella (16mm) (16061) Physical Color; Sound; 7 minutes Produced 1958 Distributor National Film Board Of Canada (0369)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis The classic story as seen and interpreted in water colors by fifth-grade Canadian students.
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Story of Good King Huemac (16mm) (16062) Physical Color; Sound; 21 minutes Produced 1979 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Told with animated puppets, tells the story of how underworld creatures conspired to bring evil into the happy Toltec kingdom by poisoning the king. Huemac
tricks his opponent and restores love to the land. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Story of King Midas (16mm) (16063) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes Produced 1954
Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis The story of King Midas and the golden touch, telling how the king learns that greed can bring unhappiness. Author HARRYHAUSEN, RAY. Subjects Children's Films
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Story of My Life: Hans Christian Andersen (16mm) (16064) Physical Color; Sound; 27 minutes Produced 1956 Distributor Macmillan Films (0326)
Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA) Synopsis Gives a biography of Andersen, told in words from his diary and reconstructed by the use of original documents, including drawings,
paintings, photos and Andersen's own belongings from the world of 1805-1875. Subjects Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875; Authors Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Story of Solo (16mm) (16069) Physical Color; Sound; 20 minutes Produced 1977 Distributor Films Incorporated Video (0191)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis An adaptation of slides by Jane Goodall of wild dogs in the Serengeti Plains of Africa. Author GOODALL, JANE,
Subjects Africa; Animals-Behavior Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Strange Occurrence at Elm View Library (16mm) (16083) Physical Color; Sound; 17 minutes Produced 1984
Distributor Filmfair Communications (0185) Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12) (EJS) Synopsis Shows a girl encountering the ghost of Ben Franklin, who teaches
her the proper way to do library research. Demonstrates the use of the card catalog and the READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICALS. Author EBERHARDT, THOM.
Subjects Reference Services (Libraries) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Stravinsky (16mm) (16091) Physical Color; Sound; 43 minutes Produced 1966
Distributor Carousel Films (0094) Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis Shows 73-year-old Igor Stravinsky as he works and visits with fellow artists like George Balanchine, Alberto
Giacometti, and Benny Goodman; as he is honored by Pope Paul VI; and as he revisits scenes of past musical triumphs, recalling milestones in his career.
Subjects Composers; Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich, 1882-1971 Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title STUART LITTLE, pt. 1 (16MM) (16109) Physical Color; Sound; 52 minutes Produced 1968
Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE)
Synopsis Tells the story of a boy, born 5 inches tall and weighing five ounces, with ears, whiskers and tail like those of a mouse. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title STUART LITTLE, pt. 2 (16MM) (16110) Physical Color; Sound Produced 1968 Distributor Mcgraw-Hill Films (0334)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title Suho and the White Horse (16mm) (16133) Physical Color; Sound; 10 minutes Produced 1982
Distributor Weston Woods (0556) Audience Kindergarten, Primary (1-3), Elementary (4-6) (KPE) Synopsis Mystical melodies of the horse-head fiddle recall a Japanese legend about Suho, a poor
shepherd lad, and a newborn foal he finds on the Mongolian Steppes. Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Summer Fishing Dreamland (16mm) (16137) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes
Produced 1978 Distributor Canadian Travel Film Library (0092) Audience Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (SCA)
Synopsis Shows the beauty of the wilderness in northern Saskatchewan. Subjects Canada; Saskatchewan Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Summer in Canada (16mm) (16138) Physical Color; Sound; 11 minutes
Produced 1978 Distributor Canadian Travel Film Library (0092) Audience Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (JSCA)
Synopsis A travelog on Canada from coast to coast. Subjects Canada Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy Title The Sun Also Rises (16mm) (16142) Physical Color; Sound; 17 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 novel, THE SUN ALSO
RISES. Follows the author's widow, Mrs. Mary Hemingway, as she visits the various locations. Author HEMINGWAY, ERNEST, Subjects Authors; Hemingway, Ernest, 1898-1961; Spain
Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Sunset Crater, Arizona (16mm) (16144) Physical Color; Sound; 5 minutes Produced 1979 Distributor National Audiovisual Center (0362)
Audience College, Adult (CA) Synopsis Explores the geological phenomenon that created Sunset Crater in Arizona. Subjects Arizona Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title The Superlative Horse (16mm) (16148) Physical Color; Sound; 36 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Phoenix/Bfa Films (0427)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12) (EJS) Synopsis An allegorical story, based on an ancient Chinese folktale, which proves that things should not be judged by outward
appearances. A young groom, charged to find a "superlative" horse, makes an unlikely choice, but it proves to be exactly the right one. Author MERRILL, JEAN.
Subjects Children's Films Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Superman (16mm) (16149) Physical Color; Sound; 27 minutes Produced 1900 Distributor Star Satellite (0489)
Audience Elementary (4-6) (E) Synopsis Animated version of Superman, Max Fleicher's cartoon. Subjects Children's Films Holdings
16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy
Title Swans Who Needed a Mother (16mm) (16165) Physical Color; Sound; 25 minutes Produced 1976 Distributor Macmillan Films (0326)
Audience Elementary (4-6), Junior/Middle (7-9), Senior High (9-12), College, Adult (EJSCA) Synopsis Follows a flock of mute swans to their winter quarters near the sea, focusing on a pair that
mates, nests, and produces a family. Following a violent storm in which the pair and a portion of the cygnets are killed, an ornithologist takes the remaining cygnets and raises them until they can fly safely.
Subjects Birds Holdings 16mm film: Head Office, 1 copy |
