LANGUAGE and WRITING 12-100 29 1957 AOK Indiana University Notes That Language Symbolizes Experience and Writing Symbolizes Language
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Title FilmNo Min Year LocationProducerDirector COURSEDESCRIPTION LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 02: LANGUAGE AND WRITING 12-100 29 1957 AOK Indiana University Notes that language symbolizes experience and writing symbolizes language. Shows relationship between written and spoken language. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 03: DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE 12-101 30 1958 AOK Indiana University Discusses relationship between language and culture and whether one language is older, better, or more diffi- cult to learn than another. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 04: LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO LANG. LEARNING12-102 29 1957 AOK Indiana University Describes difference between literary and spoken language, and discusses four types of stress used in speaking and how they affect foreign language learning. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 05: SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE 12-103 29 1957 AOK Indiana University Explains how linguists analyze and classify significant sounds of language. Discusses phonetics and phonemics. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 06: DIALECTICS 12-104 29 1958 AOK Indiana University Five guests from different geographical areas of the U.S. illustrate differences in pronunciation. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 07: GRAMMAR, PART 1 12-105 30 1957 AOK Indiana University Examines structure, patterning, and classification of words. Explains how the linguist defines a word in terms of base, vowels, and stress patterns. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 08: GRAMMAR, PART 2 12-106 29 1957 AOK Indiana University Continues discussion of grammar and word classification. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 09: HISTORY OF THE INDO-EURO. LANG. FAM.12-107 29 1958 AOK Indiana University Explains how linguists developed a systematic reconstruction of Germanic languages. Describes contributions of Grimm and Verner in study of the laws of language development. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 10: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE12-108 29 1957 AOK Indiana University Discusses breakdown of the Proto-Germanic language into related families of languages. Traces dialects of England about A.D. 600. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 11: ALPHABET 12-109 29 1958 AOK Indiana University Explains various writing systems, including Sanskrit, Chinese, and Arabic and discusses the significance of hieroglyphics in the development of written language. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 12: LINGUISTICS SCIENCE 12-110 29 1958 AOK Indiana University Analyzes deficiencies and strong points of phonics and word methods of teaching reading. Shows examples of patterning in the English spelling system. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 13: LANGUAGE AND MEANING 12-111 29 1958 AOK Indiana University Explains the part structure plays in determining meaning in language. Discusses relationship of para- language and kinesics to language and meaning. MUSEUM 12-114 30 1980 AOK Richard Chisolm Documentary on museums. Filmed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, MD. Shows life behind the scenes in one of the country's major museums. CAMPAMENTO 12-118 30 1971 AOK Carousel Films ITRelates history of Nueva Havana, a slum community on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, that with the help of the Revolutionary Group MIR, struggled for and achieved social change. FRANCIS BACON: FRAGMENTS OF A PORTRAIT 12-119 30 1966 AOK Michael Gill ITInterview with artist Francis Bacon. Discusses his painting and philosophy. SECRETS OF A SOUL 12-12 68 1926 AOK G.W. Pabst Dramatization of psychoanalysis based on Freud. Uses dream sequences and multiple exposure. IRISH, THE 12-120 30 1977 AOK Edmond O'Brien Distinguished actor Edmond O'Brien speaks for Dennis Mulligan, who fled the famine-ravaged Ireland of 1855 for America, taking with him his bride. His poetic narrative personalizes the fascinating engravings and photos which recreate the role of the Irish in building the cities, canals, railroads and politics of America. ITALIAN AMERICAN 12-121 26 1975 AOK Martin Scorsese Academy Award nominee director Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father in their home in New York's "Little Italy". Their recollection of family legends, their parents arrival in New York, and the early immigrant experience from a popular history of a highly colorful ethnic group. ENERGY: A CONVERSATION 12-131 26 1972 AOK Dennis Sanders ITScientists Linus Pauling, George Wald, and Philip Morrison, discuss the nature of energy, focusing on the topics of entropy, atomic energy, and a new source of energy. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY 12-132 60 1967 AOK McGraw Hill Discusses the social problems created by technology and the probability of correction in the near future. ASTRONOMY BEFORE COPERNICUS 12-133 20 1971 AOK BBC Open UniversityFilm shows how Copernicus' discoveries disproved earlier theories that the earth was the center of the universe. SCIENCE AND VICTORIAN SOCIETY 12-134 22 1967 AOK NET Film discusses Darwin's "Origin of Species" and the controversy that arose with it. Expansion of science, industrial science, technology, chemistry, biology, and geology are also discussed. VOLUME AND SURFACE INTEGRALS 12-136 24 1971 AOK BBC Open UniversityVOLUME AND SURFACE INTEGRALS is part of a course on Mechanics and Applied Calculus. This film was known in previous catalog as NEWTON'S LAWS. MACHINE IN ENGLISH COTTON INDUSTRY, THE 12-145 30 1971 AOK BBC History of cotton processing machinery. END OF AN OLD SONG 12-149 26 1969 AOK John Cohen ITBallad singer Dillard Chandler reveals music and ways of life in parts of North Carolina that have hardly changed in the past 40 years. TOKYO OLYMPIAD 12-15 34 1965 AOK Kon Ichikaeva Short version of the three-part film on the 1964 Olympic games held in Tokyo. IN THE GOOD OLD FASHIONED WAY (2ND COPY) 12-150 35 1974 AOK Appalachian Films Shows how members of the Old Regular Baptist Church, one of the nation's oldest religions unique to the American Appalachian mountains, are struggling to maintain their unique forms of worship in the face of diminishing church membership and lack of interest from the young people. HIGH LONESOME SOUND, THE 12-152 30 1963 AOK Audio Brandon FilmsDescribes the folk music and hard life of the mining area of the Eastern Kentucky Mountains. Includes music by Roscoe Holcomb, the Shepherd family, Regular Baptist Church, Holiness Church of God, and Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Glimpses the various types of ballads, spirituals, bluegrass, and rock & roll music of theirs. AMERICA BECOMES AN INDUSTRIAL NATION 12-153 25 1967 AOK McGraw Hill Shows the development of the U.S. from a nation of farms and villages to one of the leading industrial nations during the period between 1776 and 1876. Discusses the role of inventors such as Eli Whitney in industrial growth. RAINFOREST 12-157 28 1968 AOK NET Merce Cunningham and Dance Co. at the 2nd Buffalo Festival of the Arts, 3/9/68. Music by John Cage and David Tudor. Discussions with Merce Cunningham. MASS OF ATOMS, THE, PART 2 12-171 28 1967 AOK MLA Presents an experiment in which the masses of a helium atom and a polonium atom are determined. Rate of decay of polonium is measured after a three-week period. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 01: TALKING OURSELVES INTO TROUBLE 12-172 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Develops the idea our language determines the limits of our world. Shows general semantics involve the triple relationship of speaker to propositions, to a listener. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 02: MAPS AND TERRITORIES 12-173 30 1956 AOK Indiana University Points out the need to be aware of the powers and limitations of symbols, especially words. Discusses the idea of "map" language. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 03: WHAT IS LANGUAGE? 12-174 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Shows that language is a series of self-contained systems and words can have quite different meanings within different linguistic systems. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 04: HIDING BEHIND THE DICTIONARY 12-175 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Illustrates how dictionaries are prepared. Points out how word meanings are inferred from the environment, and that no word has exactly the same meaning twice. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 05: WHERE IS THE MEANING? 12-176 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Discusses the fact that many of us make the naive assumption that the meaning is in the word. Indicates four basic conditions of meaningfulness. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 06: EXPERIENCE AS GIVE AND TAKE 12-177 30 1956 AOK Indiana University By using the "trapezoid window" illusion created by Adebert Ames, Jr., Dr. Hayakawa illustrates experience involves a transaction between the perceiver and things or events perceived. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 07: TASK OF THE LISTENER 12-178 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Illustrates the nature of the self and the self-concept to answer the question: Why are some of our communications welcomed and why are some ignored? LANGUAGE IN ACTION 08: HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW? 12-179 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Develops the idea that what we know of the objective world is a product of our nervous system and hence an abstraction from sensory data. Traces levels of abstraction. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 09: THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING 12-180 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Indicates that advertising, in stressing the values and virtues of a product, commits a multitude of semantic crimes, because of absence of information and deluge of effective connotations. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 10: SEMANTICS OF THE POPULAR SONG 12-181 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Contrasts the lyrics of popular songs with those of the blues. Shows how popular songs fit Wendell Johnson's I.F.D. concept, and contrasts this with the blues lyrics. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 11: WORDS THAT DON'T INFORM 12-182 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Indicates that only a small proportion of our utterances in everyday life can be described as purely informative. Discusses presymbolic language and their importance in establishing further communication. LANGUAGE IN ACTION 12: WHAT HOLDS PEOPLE TOGETHER? 12-183 30 1959 AOK Indiana University Man's primary means of survival is communication. Goes through the various stages of societal organization, around language.