Videoteca

The Angry Movie 1978
The subject is anger. This animated film captures the thoughts and actions produced by a young girl's frustration. Coronet Instructional Media.

Aquarium 1978
A non-narrated glimpse of the sea's most unusual inhabitants. A musical score accompanies each creature and emphasizes its appearance, movements and unique behavior. Underwater photography reveals fish that can walk, fish that have hands, fish that swim upside down, strange fish, colorful fish, and poisonous fish.

American Tall Tale Heroes 1974
Portrays, through animation, the adventures of four American folk heroes: John Henry, Stormalong, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill. Describes John Henry's steel-driving abilities, Stormalong's adventures as a great sailor, Paul Bunyan's accomplishments as a lumberjack, and why Pecos Bill was considered king of the cowboys.

Parents -- Who Needs Them? 1973
Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible.

Art for Beginners: Fun with Lines 1973
(1973) Shows lines that children make, lines in man-made structures, and lines in nature in order to introduce lines that can be made on paper and other materials with different tools. For primary grades.

Autumn Comes to the Forest 1972
Displays the various changes which take place outdoors with the onset of autumn. Illustrates the color changes in leaves. Depicts the animals hibernating or storing food and the birds flying south in preparation for winter.

Adaptations of Birds 1972
Shows the adaptations of several birds which enable them to obtain food, fly, swim, and live efficiently in certain habitats. Examines the differences in bills adapted for spearing fish, breaking seeds, tearing prey, or chipping wood. Demonstrates the various toe arrangements adapted by perching, climbing, ground, swimming, and wading birds.

Spring Comes to the Forest 1972
Shows, in a light, charming manner, the sequence of change in the plant and animal life of the forest during the spring months.

Conserving Our Environment: Use and Reuse 1972
A 1970s educational film about the environment and conservation.

Rocks and Minerals: How We Identify Them 1971
Shows how common rocks and minerals can be identified by color, texture, hardness, streak and other standard procedures.

Our Round Earth: How It Changes 1971
An educational film from the early 1970s about geology and how the Earth changes.

Our Round Earth: What It's Like 1971
Views of the earth from the ground, from a plane and from a space ship show major features of the land, the oceans and the atmosphere.

Creating With Textures 1971 star_border 10
This educational film illustrates various textures as students create different kinds of textured art by using ordinary objects and materials.

America My Country 1971
A family’s trip across the United States from San Francisco to New York depicts America as a big and beautiful land of varied climates with rugged mountains, green forests, vast plains, rivers and lakes, ocean expanses, spacious farmland and huge cities. Famous places visited include the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, Washington, D.C., the Old North Church in Boston, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Improving Your Posture (Second Edition) 1971
Four teenagers exhibit good posture in standing, sitting, and walking positions, and demonstrate exercises for posture improvement.

Money: How Its Value Changes 1971
This educational film from the 1970s explains how changes in the value of a dollar are related to concepts such as cost of living, recession, depression, supply, demand and inflation.

North America: Its Rivers 1971
Explores the distinctive features of the major rivers of the continent, and discusses their contributions to the farming, recreation, transportation and hydroelectric power of North America.

North America: Its Plains and Plateaus 1971
This documentary shows the characteristics and location of major plains and plateaus of North America, and discusses some of the ways in which they have affected man's use of the land.

Holidays Your Neighbors Celebrate 1970
Reviews holidays that have come to America from origins all over the world. Shows the many different holidays celebrated by Americans, including Mexican and Puerto Rican Christmas celebrations.

Pioneer Living: 'Preparing Foods' 1970
Shows how a pioneer family prepared their food.

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