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Opening credits of film 'Story of Science' from International Library of Visual Aids.

Film 'Story of Science' from International Library of Visual Aids. Acknowledgments and opening credits of the film as music plays in background.

Date: 1937
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023086
Manufacture of glass and preparation of lenses at Bausch and Lomb Company in New York.

Narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. Light passes through a glass. Prism causes the light to reflect in other direction. Animated picture of magnifying lens. Workers making glassworks in the Bausch and Lomb Company in New York, mixing sand and glass and then stirring of the molten mass in a furnace. Prince Rupert test of a glass drop. The glass mixture is dropped on ground for test and hammered. Cooling of large pot containing molten glass. Large tongs used to remove clay pot from furnace, and then pot covered with insulating material. Pot broken away after glass is cooled . The big piece of glass is broken into small lenses. Workmen examining and choosing lenses for grinding. Grinding of lenses with polishing agents. Animated picture of lenses in a microscope and the change of the course of the rays of light to show the larger virtual image. Assembly of a microscope. Microscopic view of various germs including typhoid and diphtheria. An unborn chicken in an embryo, viewed through the microscope. Blood circulating in a frog's foot, through the microscope. Malignant blood cells. Crystallization of various chemical elements viewed in the microscope.

Date: 1937
Duration: 5 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023090
Children arrive at a school in the southern Appalachian Mountains

Children arrive at school in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Girls and boys enter the building with paint buckets in hand (perhaps lunch buckets). View of a small wooden outhouse or shed behind the school building.

Date: 1935
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023110
Students at an Appalachian industrial or training school in western North Carolina

Young men and women at an Appalachian industrial school or training school gather around an evergreen tree with a teacher and examine it. One of the school buildings in the background. School students walking on a road near school playground facilities. Children playing basketball in the background. Children cross a wooden bridge and proceed up a hillside path to reach a school building atop a hill. Possibly a facility of the Appalachian Industrial School or the Penland School of Handicrafts which provided skills and training to Appalachian Mountain children.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023116
Slate quarry in the southern Appalachian mountains

Man rides horse on dirt road in the southern Appalchian Mountains of western North Carolina or eastern Tennessee. 1930s era car drives past. Group of men working at a slate quarry. Using large sledge hammers, they hammer wedges into crevices and pry up large pieces of slate. A man puts a piece of slate into position for a building project.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023117
Man drives a miniature racing car inside Empire State Building in New York, United States.

Man drives a "pocket edition" racing car inside Empire State Building in New York, United States. The Racing car enters elevators and turn in the corridors of the building. Aerial view of the Empire States Building. Man drives on the roof top.

Date: 1934, April 9
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023129