![[movies]](http://archive.org/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Frames of Reference - Richard Leacock
This PSSC film utilizes a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area. The fine cinematography by Abraham Morochnik, and funny narration by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume is a wonderful example of the fun a creative team of filmmakers can have with a subject that other, less imaginative types might find pedestrian.
Keywords: physics; science; PSSC
Downloads: 50,600
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| 1930 Rangoon - Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop)
All rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@pennmuseum.org.
Keywords: Union of Myanmar; Burma; Rangoon; Yangon; British colonies; Travelogue films; Buddhist temples
Downloads: 1,457
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| When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers
This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of women who experienced illegal abortions, doctors who risked imprisonment and loss of their licenses for providing illegal abortions, and individuals who broke the law by helping women find safe abortions.
Keywords: Dorothy Fadiman; Academy Award; Oscar; Concentric Media; reproductive rights; women; women's rights; abortion; abortion laws; abortion legislation; abortion rights; women's history; women's health; personal stories; interviews; reproductive health; reproductive choice; medical issues; health care; medical care; public policy; human rights; doctors; abortion doctors; clergy; back alleys; women's history; illegal abortions; abortionists; Erika Luckett
Downloads: 22,737
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| Iran - Claude Lelouch
Far more than a travelogue with pretty pictures, this little-known film won six international awards shortly after its release. 'Iran' consists of spectacular geographical and archaeological footage interspersed with "slice of life" shots, evidencing best juxtapositional editing we've ever seen. This is a buried masterpiece from the director of 'A Man and a Woman,' 'Happy New Year,' and 'And Now My Love.' Lelouch reportedly shot six miles of footage to make this film, which apparently was sponso...
Keywords: Persia, Petroleum, Qashqai, nomad, Islam, mosque
Downloads: 23,048
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| Happy City, The - William Deneen Productions
Sponsored by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, Bill Deneen traveled three days by bullock cart to the remote leper colony run by Father Cesare Columbo in Ken Tung (Kyiang Tong), Burma. Intended to be a film to be used for fundraising, the film is a fascinating documentary about a humanitarian effort that would soon be terminated by the Burmese government, as shortly after the film was made, Columbo was deported, never to return...
Keywords: Burma; Myanmar; leprosy; Hansen's Disease; Cesare Colombo
Downloads: 61,048
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| Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Part 1
During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life's work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, through the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, as well as the contents of Synergetics...
Keywords: Buckminster Fuller; Dymaxion house; Wichita House; geodesic domes; tensegrity structures; Synergetics
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| Breast feeding : difficult cases - Wellcome Film
This film shows various cases of mothers who have difficulty breast feeding their babies. Solutions to the problems are demonstrated, for instance a case of inverted nipples can be treated successfully with massage and the use of a breast pump. An inadequate milk supply can be supplemented with formula. 'Flabby breasts' can be successfully treated with massage, supplementary feeding and exercise. 2 segments.
Keywords: Anatomy; Breast Feeding; Maternal Behavior; Mothers; Maternal and child health; Anatomy; Breast Feeding; Maternal Behavior; Midwives. Doctors
Downloads: 2,046 |  |
| Ancient World, The: Egypt, Pt 1 - Ray Garner
'Ancient World, The: Egypt' (1951) 66m, dir. Ray Garner. This film taces the story of Egypt from the prehistoric period to the time of the Ptolemies, focusing on the Nile, temples, pyramids and the Sphinx. Here, Garner showcases a single shot of ruins as light and dark as clouds pass, a signature of his. The filmmaker waxes poetic in this statement: "For Egypt is a monument, not to the conqueror or statesman, but to the artist, the architect, the painter, the sculptor, whose works will remain in...
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| French and Indian War, The: Seven Years' War in America - William Deneen
This film uses a large collection of paintings on the French and Indian War to offer a vivid and realistic picture of key episodes, places, and people. It explains some of the differences between French and English colonial policy and ways of life, depicting the battle for Quebec in detail, including the deaths of Montcalm and Wolfe.
Keywords: french and indian war; US History; Encyclopedia Britannica
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| Ancient World, The: Greece, Part 1 - Ray Garner
'Ancient World, The: Greece' (1955) 66m, dir. ray Garner. This film recreates the ancient Greek world through its extant art and literature. The narration is from translations of Greek authors, including Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Plutarch, and accompanies visual impressions of Greek religious philosophy and history through the golden age...
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| Coulomb's Law - Richard Leacock
Here, manic Princeton professor Eric Rogers hosts, continually removing and replacing his eyeglasses, ordering around lab assistants --- he forcefully breaks a glass test tube in the hands of an assistant to demonstrate the inelasticity of water --- and furiously pounds equations on a blackboard (Leacock says the scribblings must have lasted 45 minutes, in what must be one of the more necessary cuts in the history of educational film.) Rogers finally conducts an experiment with a young girl, pla...
Keywords: Physics
Downloads: 4,415
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| WOMAN BY WOMAN: New Hope for the Villages of India - Dorothy Fadiman, Kristin Atwell
WOMAN BY WOMAN documents progressive change for women in some of the least developed villages of India. Vivid images portray the humanity of the people, the beauty of the countryside, as well as the toll of centuries of poverty. In the film we meet women who are coming out of seclusion in order to serve in their communities. The film documents the work of one of the non-profit groups in India working to improve the status of Indian village women and men by making family planning resourcesÃÂÃ...
Keywords: Pyramid Films; Dorothy Fadiman; Academy Award; Concentric Media; reproductive rights; women; women's rights; abortion; family planning; population; Population Communications International; India; Indian; villages; women's history; women's health; personal stories; interviews; reproductive health; reproductive choice; choice; health care; contraception; medical care; public policy; human rights; village doctors Janani; South Asia; Bihar
Downloads: 7,291
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| Hangman - Paul Julian
A cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like quality to Julian's animation. Great musical score by Serge Hovey
Keywords: animation; death; horror
Downloads: 13,507
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| Why Do These Kids Love School? - Dorothy Fadiman with KTEH-TV (PBS)
This award-winning film features nine unique schools, both public and private, California to East Harlem. In these unique schools relationship, creative thinking, and direct experience are valued above memorization of facts. As we struggle with issues of how to provide a quality education for all children, we might look to these successful schools where teachers, students, parents and administrators are involved in creating supportive educational environments.
Keywords: Pyramid Films; Dorothy Fadiman; Tom Peters; PBS; KTEH; school; education; private school; public school; Peninsula School; teaching; learning; no child left behind; educational methods; learning theory; success; student-centered learning; direct experience; public education; alternative schools; progressive education
Downloads: 10,100
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| Basic Brown, Basic Blue - Homer Groening
Ever wonder how Matt Groening of 'The Simpsons' got his quirky sense of humor? Probably from his filmmaker dad, Homer Groening, who passed away in 1996. Although known for his documentaries, Homer Groening directed and narrated this film, ostensibly about color, but filled with an ongoing series of bikini-clad bathing beauties. The film is perhaps best viewed as a graphic artifact that will interest media historians seeking additional insight into the elements that influenced the cartoonist.
Downloads: 32,318
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| Solar System (2nd Ed) - Tom Smith
Tom Smith headed up the Special Effects team at Industrial Light & Magic, where he created all the goodies for the 'Star Wars' films. This is his academic film masterwork, which took over a year to create, over 13 weeks to film, and utilized "traveling mattes," with as many as five separate films running in the background, showcasing wonderful models and graphics. About the making of the film, Tom Smith writes: "I made that film in 1976 with Richard Basehart as narrator and a classical music sco...
Keywords: space; universe; Industrial Light and Magic; ILM
Downloads: 19,772
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| Finding His Voice - Western Electric Company, Inc.
Cartoon showing how sound motion pictures work, produced by a company that was an innovator in the field. Story by W.E. Erpi (pseudonym for Western Electric, Electrical Research Products Inc.). Directors: F. Lyle Goldman and Max Fleischer.
Keywords: Perception: Sound; Motion pictures: Sound; Animation
Downloads: 39,268
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| Timothy Leary's Last Trip
A documentary called Timothy Leary's Last Trip with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters by A.J.Catoline, O.B.B.Babbs, and David Herman. Film features soundtrack including previously unreleased Grateful Dead tracks. Original footage of Leary, The Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead. Includes narration by author Ken Kesey. Exclusive footage of Leary’s final "Cyber Chat" with Ken Kesey on the internet.
Downloads: 9,480
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| Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China - TED.com
Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet -- "All the servers are in Beijing" -- he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country's history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways.
Keywords: TEDTalks; TED; Talks; china; global issues; journalism; social media; technology; TEDGlobal 2012; 2012
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| Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are - TED.com
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
Keywords: TEDTalks; TED; Talks; brain; business; psychology; self; success; TEDGlobal 2012; 2012
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| And So They Live - John Ferno, Julian Roffman
Stark, realistic documentary showing poorly educated "mountain peoples" living in poverty and stricken with disease. Their solace comes in strong family bonds and the prospect of improved educational opportunities. (Prelinger, Rick. "The Field Guide to Sponsored Films." San Francisco: NFPF, 2006)
Keywords: Sponsored Film; Appalachian; Poverty
Downloads: 6,065
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| Calculus: Derivatives 2
More intuition of what a derivative is. Using the derivative to find the slope at any point along f(x)=x^2
Keywords: Salman Khan; Khan Academy
Downloads: 2,514
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| Congruent Triangles - Bruce and Katharine Cornwell
Bruce and Katharine Cornwell are primarily known for a series of remarkable animated films on the subject of geometry. Created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal, they are brilliant short films, tracing Klee-like geometric shapes to intriguing music, including the memorable 'Bach meets Third Steam Jazz' musical score in ‘Congruent Triangles.’ In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct...
Keywords: mathematics, science
Downloads: 17,415
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| Imaging the Hidden World: the Light Microscope - Bruce Russell
To say Russell makes films on biology is sort of like saying Rodin threw some clay on a table and a few minutes later came up with a figure representative of a human. 'Light Microscope' starts out didactically (Russell was a former K-12 biology teacher) in instructing the student on proper microscope technique, then goes off into the hyperspace of lighting techniques, using light and colored filters, that make otherwise difficult-to-see phenomena visible...
Keywords: biology; science; volvox; hydra; amoeba
Downloads: 9,472
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| Magnet Laboratory, A - Richard Leacock
In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when Leacock was hired to produce this twenty-minute version of lab mayhem. Try this: six researchers in a lab at MIT in the late 1950's show-off the power of electro-magnets, and in the process, accidentally set an experiment on fire(Leacock says he did a retake without the fire, but preferred the immediacy of the fire sequence and kept it in)...
Keywords: magnet; degauss; physics; science; PSSC; Leacock
Downloads: 7,099
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| Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Gene Kearney
Alienation, angst, and schizophrenia are powerful themes addressed by Kearney in this forgotten masterpiece. From a story by Conrad Aiken.
Keywords: schizophrenia; teen angst
Downloads: 15,593
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| Technique of the radical abdomino-perineal (Miles's) operation - Wellcome Film
A step by step account and full surgical demonstration of the abdomino-perineal technique pioneered by W. E. Miles. The intertitles provide very technical and detailed explanations of the steps of the procedure that results in a cancerous tumour being removed. 6 segments.
Keywords: Rectal Neoplasms; Colorectal Surgery; Rectum; Surgery; Medical sciences; Rectal Neoplasms; Colorectal Surgery; Rectum; Surgeons
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| Ricky Raccoon Shows The Way - Walter J Klein Company
Shows kindergarten to third grade students the correct and safe ways to get to and from school. A lesson in how to correctly respond to traffic lights and signs, get across streets, ride bicycles, wait at bus stops, and react to strangers' offers.
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| How To Squeeze More Miles From Your Car - Walter J Klein Company
Reveals some of the tricks motorists can use to increase their car mileage. Includes driving, car maintenance, and car buying hints.
Downloads: 418
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| Journey to the Center of a Triangle - Bruce And Katharine Cornwell
'Journey to the Center of a Triangle' (1976) 8m, dir. Bruce & Katharine Cornwell. Another fabulous film by the Cornwells, created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal. Presents a series of animated constructions that determine the center of a variety of triangles, including such centers as circumcenter, incenter, centroid and orthocenter. More on the Cornwells at http://www.afana.org/cornwell.htm
Keywords: mathematics; science
Downloads: 18,406
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| Open drop ether (part one) No 2 - Wellcome Film
A technical film (part of a series) apparently aimed at the inexperienced anaesthetist. The four stages of anaesthesia are demonstrated when the anaesthetist uses the open drop ether method. Good practice is shown. This contrasts with the pitfalls of ether anaesthesia: a comedy of errors about what you shouldn't do. Part one of two. 4 segments
Keywords: Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd Pharmaceuticals Division; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthesia, Inhalation; Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history; Medical equipment; Respiratory systems; Medical treatment; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthesia, Inhalation; Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history; Medicine
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| Treasures From The Royal Tombs of Ur - Revised 1999 - Penn Museum
âAll rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@pennmuseum.org. This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain.â
Keywords: Mesopotamia; Artifacts; Tomb
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| Cliché Family in Televisionland - MPO Productions
This outrageous parody of the prototype 'commercial' family was apparently made as an in-house joke by one of the largest producers of television commercials. Their clients would have never seen this gem, which parodies products as well as the people that buy them.
Keywords: parody; advertisement; asian
Downloads: 30,677
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| Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course - TED.com
Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away the tools, simulators, chip specifications and other building blocks -- they were surprised that thousands jumped at the opportunity to learn, working independently as well as organizing their own classes in the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)...
Keywords: TEDTalks; TED; Talks; computers; education; open-source; technology; TEDGlobal 2012; 2012
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| Centinelas del Silencio - Robert Amran
The real star here is the late aerial photographer James Freeman, whose breathtaking helicopter shots of Mayan and Aztec ruins at sunrise and sunset won an Academy Award for this film in 1971. Although the English version was narrated by Orson Welles, the Spanish version, narrated by Ricardo Montalban, is in better keeping with the ethnic aspect of the film, and no knowledge of Spanish is needed to appreciate his dramatic impact...
Keywords: Maya; Aztec; helicopter
Downloads: 4,601
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| Me and You, Kangaroo
In a touching tale a boy raises an orphaned baby kangaroo in the outback of Australia but due to events beyond his control is forced to return the animal to the wild. A film for animal lovers of all ages. Beautifully photographed and acted. A classic animal story. Awards: AUSTRALIA’S BEST CHILDREN’S FILM AWARD AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL “CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD”
Keywords: Bert Salzman
Downloads: 2,721
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| Je Parle Français, Lessons 1-13 - Milan Herzog
The 'Je Parle Français' series of French Language Instruction films was filmed in 1960-61 and produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Film's Milan Herzog in conjunction with Otterbein College professor La Velle Rosselot, and Georges Matoré, Dean of the Language & Civilization Dept, Sorbonne. Rosselot was the prime educational consultant and curriculum developer for the film project. Her father was a history professor at Otterbein, and her brother Gerald was one of the founders of Scientific Atlan...
Keywords: Encyclopedia Britannica; Milan Herzog; Language Instruction; French
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| Algebra: graphing lines 1
Graphing linear equations
Keywords: Salman Khan; Khan Academy
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| The signs and stages of anaesthesia No 1 - Wellcome Film
A technical film (the first part of a series) apparently aimed at the inexperienced anaesthetist. Most of the film looks at the theory of the stages of anaesthesia using Guedel's chart. This is laboriously annotated with animations to illustrate every reflex present in anaesthesia using the inhalation method. There are four stages of anaesthesia the third stage is when surgery can commence (this is in turn subdivided into planes)...
Keywords: Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd Pharmaceuticals Division; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Respiration; Medical equipment; Respiratory systems; Medical treatment; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Respiration; Medicine
Downloads: 1,031
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| Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness? - TED.com
Diseases of the body garner sympathy, says comedian Ruby Wax -- except those of the brain. Why is that? With dazzling energy and humor, Wax, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.
Keywords: TEDTalks; TED; Talks; activism; brain; comedy; culture; entertainment; evolution; humor; mental health; society; TEDGlobal 2012; 2012
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| Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Part 3
During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life's work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, through the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, as well as the contents of Synergetics...
Keywords: Buckminster Fuller; Dymaxion house; Wichita House; geodesic domes; tensegrity structures; Synergetics
Downloads: 346 |  |
| Good Morning, Mr. Johnson - Walter J Klein Company
Bus etiquette for elementary schools and school bus safety.
Downloads: 240 |  |
| Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal - TED.com
Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible -- but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible use of global resources.
Keywords: TEDTalks; TED; Talks; environment; food; TEDSalon London Spring 2012; 2012
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| 1949 #5 Ecuador - Watson Kintner
All rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@pennmuseum.org. This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain.
Keywords: Ecuador; Guayaquil; Riobamba; Guayas River; Marketplaces; Railroad
Downloads: 16,179
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| Facts About Projection - Robert Edmonds
An old-timey set-up & projection techniques film, set in a school classroom. This film teaches the young projectionist how to put on a good show, and not trip over the cord while doing so.
Keywords: projector; 16mm; Bell & Howell
Downloads: 2,634
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| Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me - TED.com
Melissa Marshall brings a message to all scientists (from non-scientists): We're fascinated by what you're doing. So tell us about it -- in a way we can understand. In just 4 minutes, she shares powerful tips on presenting complex scientific ideas to a general audien
Keywords: TEDTalks; TED; Talks; communication; engineering; science; TEDGlobal 2012; 2012
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| Introduction to Holography - Encyclopedia Britannica, Tom Smith
Examines the process of holography, types of holograms, and the uses of the hologram for artistic and scientific purposes.
Keywords: lasers; holography; science; optics
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| Rhinoceros - Jan Lenica
A animated version of Ionesco’s tale, a play on the theme of conformity.
Keywords: animation; poland
Downloads: 3,346
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| Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether anaesthesia: No 3 - Wellcome Film
A highly technical film for the anaesthetist, showing the apparatus designed to deliver continuous flow of nitrous oxide and oxygen. Ether is shown being added to the mixture of gases in various quantities. Diagrams are used throughout with short sequences of anaesthetised patients in between. The film is structured in parts, as follows Preparation of Apparatus (showing correct flow meters), Induction, Introduction of Oxygen, then Ether, Maintenance...
Keywords: Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd Pharmaceuticals Division; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthesia, Inhalation; Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history; Medical equipment; Respiratory systems; Medical treatment; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthesia, Inhalation; Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history; Medicine
Downloads: 957 |  |
| Open drop ether (part two) No 2 - Wellcome Film
A technical film (part of a series) apparently aimed at the inexperienced anaesthetist. The four stages of anaesthesia are demonstrated when the anaesthetist uses the open drop ether method. Good practice is shown. This contrasts with the pitfalls of ether anaesthesia a comedy of errors about what you shouldn't do. Part two of two. 2 segments
Keywords: Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd Pharmaceuticals Division; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthesia, Inhalation; Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history; Medical equipment; Respiratory systems; Medical treatment; Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthesia, Inhalation; Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history; Medicine
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