Gottesman Libraries Archival Films

Interview with R. Louise McManus, Part II

Richard Munde, Ken Spelke — Fri, 20 May 1977 23:49:51 -0400

This interview is part of the older Oral History Series at Teachers College. R. Louise McManus (Pd.D, R.N.), the former Chairperson of the Department of Nursing Education (1977-1961), speaks with M. Louise Fitzpatrick (Ed.D, R.N), interviewer. Length, 23 minutes, 13 seconds. The film is in color and directed by Richard Munde and produced by Ken Spelke.

Interview with R. Louise McManus, Part 1

Richard Munde, Ken Spelke — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

This interview is part of the older Oral History Series at Teachers College. R. Louise McManus (Pd.D, R.N.), the former Chairperson of the Department of Nursing Education (1977-1961), speaks with M. Louise Fitzpatrick (Ed.D, R.N), interviewer. Length, 54 minutes, 52 seconds. The film is in color and directed by Richard Munde and produced by Ken Spelke.

8mm Film in Education: Its Emerging Role

EdLab Designer — Sat, 01 Jan 1966 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1044 .E5
Historical Video Footage
Shows how educators are beginning to use 8mm film as an educational tool. Demonstrates how educators brought film into the classroom and shows how subject specific film add to the value of education in the classroom.
Documents different classroom situations where 8mm film is used.
Highlights the fact that teachers are free to move around a classroom and give individual attention to students, when the other students are following instructions on film.
Students are also given the opportunity to explore their own filming for educational purposes.
Playbacks of films taken is also used as basis for discussion and reflection between student and educator.
Shows the beginnings o animation on the 8mm film.

Learning is Searching

EdLab Designer — Sat, 01 Jan 1955 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1049 .L41
Historical Video Footage - 1955
Department of Child Study - Vassar College at New Lincoln School.
A Third Grade Studies - Man Early Tools
This film is an exploration of what tools are. Third graders are taken on field trips to watch various people at work. They are also taken outside where they try to create and make their own crude tools with rocks and branches. There are many in-class discussions.
There are library searches and finds for how the first men lived, and also inventions through time. Students are taught the difference between and invention and a discovery. They are given crude rocks and animal hides to create something new, ie invent.
People are also invited into the classroom to show how the tools they use on a daily basis are used.The students are shown in many engaging games and activities, all which promote learning.
The students also demonstrate their inventions to the class.
Deals with : Problem setting, tentative solutions, testing tentative solutions, formulating and recording findings.

Activity Group Theory

EdLab Designer — Sun, 01 Jan 1950 00:00:00 -0500

RC 488 .A31
Historical Video Footage- Activity Group Therapy- 1950
Treatment for socially maladjusted and emotionally disturbed children ages 8 to 13. This film follows the 65 therapy sessions with a permissive and accepting therapist and the children are helped to overcome their inner difficulties and establish better social adjustment.

The Bobath Approach to Cerebral Pailsy Habilitation

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1958 00:00:00 -0500

RJ 496 .C4B64
Historical Video Footage - 1958

261c 30 min., sd, color
Edward Mysack (TC faculty) and the Newington Hospital for Crippled Children, 1958

Demonstrates different approaches to cerebral palsy habilitation. The film shows an active series of demonstrations and is backed up with images of the causes and results in a written form. A good definition of normal motor skills are demonstrated and then the motor reactions of cerebral palsy are demonstrated.

Challenge of Change

EdLab Designer — Mon, 01 Jan 1962 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1027 .5 .C43
Historical Video Footage -1962
This film explores how new methods are used to stimulate children into new ways or thinking. This particular film is entitled: The case for counseling. Encourages the need for guidance counseling for career advice. Shows a reflection of the purpose and training of a guidance counselor, and the value for the students with whom the counselor interacts.

The Sound of My Own Name

EdLab Designer — Tue, 01 Jan 1974 00:00:00 -0500

LC 5215 .S724
Historical Video Footage- The Sound of my own name -1974.

525d 30 min, sd, col
�Shows how adult education programs benefit people in different areas of the United States.�
Center for Adult Education, Teachers College (1974)

This film highlights the benefits of an Basic Adult Education. It follows 5 people enrolled in this program and demonstrates how this type of education helps a number of adults who would otherwise have remained uneducated.

Teenage Movie Awards

EdLab Designer — Sun, 01 Jan 1967 00:00:00 -0500

PN 1993.92 .T5
Historical Video Footage -Teenage Movie Awards - 1967. This film is hosted by Prof Louis Forsdale, director of a film project in the English Department of Teachers College, Columbia University.
This film shows teenage films produced and directed by teenagers, in any subject area. It shows the range that filming of this time period has to offer.

Additional notes:

337c 30 min, sd, col
Prof. Louis Forsdale introduces segments from the prize-winning films in the Kodak Teenage Film Contest. The segments, made completely by teenagers, include a car chase spoof of James Bond films and a detailed examination of the birth process of a chick. (Eastman Kodak Company, 1967).

Growth - a Study of Johnny and Jimmy

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1958 00:00:00 -0500

HQ 784 .T9G7
Historical Video Footage - Growth: A study of twins Jimmy and Johnny - 1958. This film demonstrates what difference (if any)exercise makes to the motor development of young children. The two subjects, Jimmy and Johnny were subject and for the first 22 months of their lives, Johnny was exercised daily whereas Jimmy was kept in his crib for most of the time.

Living & Learning in a Rural School

EdLab Designer — Sun, 01 Jan 1939 00:00:00 -0500

LC 5146 .5 .L5
Historical Video Footage - 1939.

41b 25 min, sd, bw
�Educational theory is translated into practice as one school attempts to give its children a rich educational experience.�
Teachers College, Columbia University (1939)

This film documents how education and schooling broaden and enrich the lives of youngsters in the rural area who attend school in the village. The film also highlights the lessons the students are taught in social development and etiquette. It also shows how people in the community can contribute to the students' learning of the history of the village and surrounds they live in, specifically to the history of the Native Americans who once lived there.

Keyboard experience in classroom music

EdLab Designer — Sun, 01 Jan 1956 00:00:00 -0500

MT 170 .K5
Historical Video Footage-Keyboard experience in classroom music - 1956.

175b 20 min, sd, bw
�Children and teachers in a third-grade class in a public school use the silent keyboard along with the piano, autoharp, and bells to accompany a dance song. They use the keyboard to learn a new song, to sing a familiar song, and to help create the melody for an Indian dance.�
Bureau of Publications, Teachers College (1956)

This film documents a Third Grade class in Scarsdale NY, where the teacher uses keyboard music to enhance the love and appreciation for music in her students. The use of three senses: sight, hearing and touch helps the students enjoy their learning experience. The teacher uses mute keyboards to help students read and appreciate music.

The teacher as observer and guide

EdLab Designer — Tue, 01 Jan 1946 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1027 .5 .T342
Historical Video Footage- The teacher as observer and guide-1946.

58b 20 min, sd, bw
�How the teacher helps students find better ways to solve their problems.� Films Interpreting Education, No.1.
Metropolitan School Study Council and Teachers College (1946)

This film highlights the importance of teachers facilitating opportunities for students to be able to think and argue critically and how this type of interaction is important for the students' growth and development. This film looks at the teacher as a guide for growth, and how the teacher should show the guidance and responsibility to teach students to look to themselves for answers they need.

Characteristics of a core program

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1958 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1570 .C445
Historical Video Footage- Characteristics of a Core Program -1958

194b sd, bw

�The following characteristics of a 9th grade core curriculum are illustrated: Mutually understood goals and procedures established by teachers and students; units focused on areas of interest to the student in his local, national, and world culture; content chosen from many subject fields; skills taught in context; wide variety of materials used; guidance information utilized in teaching; and large blocks of time schedules.�
Teachers College (1958)

Describes what the definitions of a Core Program are, and how they are meant inform and help students learn to the best of their ability. Core programs focus on areas of interest to both thee student and teacher. It also focuses on bring a whole range of subjects and interests to one lesson. This program helps the students to think critically and holistically.

Meeting in session

EdLab Designer — Thu, 01 Jan 1953 00:00:00 -0500

RA 972 .M5
Historical Video Footage-Meeting in Session -Human Relations in a Group process-1953.

46b 20 min, sd, bw
�A nursing staff discussing hospital staffing problems explores results achieved by the group process in two different settings �authoritarian and democratic.�
Teachers College (1953)

This film shows how the meeting of school groups are determined by the attitudes of the members of the groups. When the group members are disagreeable, the meeting is antagonistic and the meeting is long and hostile. When group members are amicable and congenial then the meeting goes fluidly and consensus and agreement is reached.

We plan together

EdLab Designer — Thu, 01 Jan 1948 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1607 .W33
Historical Video Footage -We plan together- 1948

63b 20 min, sd, bw
�An eleventh grade group plans several months� work for its core class. Pictures a core program in operations showing ways of working that increase zeal and efficiency in individual and group activities.�
Horace Mann- Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation, Teachers College (1948)

This film documents what a core class is and what one student experiences through this process. This explains in depth how the class was guided by a teacher so that the class could learn to process what they wanted their core class to look like for the academic year. The class plans together what they will do for the year, and works on the principal of committee groups and chairpersons for each class session and discussion.

Individualized Reading Instruction

EdLab Designer — Tue, 01 Jan 1957 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1050 .I43
Historical Video Footage-Individualized Reading Instruction-1957.

178b 20 min, sd, bw
�First graders make rapid progress in learning to read through an individualized approach. During the activity period one teacher works with four children who read from books which they have selected, thus enabling the teacher to give to each pupil the kind of instruction that he needs.�
Bureau of Publications, Teachers College (1957)

This film demonstrates the value of individual reading instruction. The teacher does one on one reading instruction with individual students when the rest of the class does activities. The rest of the class works responsibly and leaves the teacher free to help the individual child.

Unmasked Palatal Cleft

EdLab Designer — Sun, 01 Jan 1961 00:00:00 -0500

RD 525 .U7
Historical Video Footage

245b 20 min, sd, bw
�A child with normal palatal structures and two with undetected sub-mucous clefts who underwent routine T&A�s are shown. Close-ups of the children answering questions and reading a passage containing sounds from the Iowa Pressure Articulation test.�
Edward Mysack (1961)

This film describes the condition and the unmasking of the palatal cleft condition. The intention of the film is to inform doctors in the practice about the condition. It uses children to demonstrate their speech so that the viewer has an audible as well as visual image of how the palatal cleft affects speech. It also describes the surgery and speech therapy necessary to correct the palatal cleft condition.

Dynamic Learning

EdLab Designer — Thu, 01 Jan 1931 00:00:00 -0500

LB 14 .5 .D8
Historical Video Footage-Dynamic Learning- 1931

83b 20 min, sd, bw
�Dr. Kilpatrick sets forth some of the principles underlying creative or progressive education. He develops the idea that the child�s learning must be related to real life situations. Methods by which this dynamic learning can be fostered are illustrated in actual classroom scenes.�
Encyclopedia Britannica, (1931)

This film clip shows Professor Kilpatrick demonstrate in a classroom what he thinks "To Learn" means. He speaks about academic learning as well as what he refers to as "home learning". Kilpatrick believes that the child is an active participant - that learning is active and dynamic.

The child at play

EdLab Designer — Tue, 01 Jan 1952 00:00:00 -0500

RJ 503 .7 .P55C5
Historical Video Footage-The Child at Play-1952.

14b 18 min, sd, bw
�Shows the nature of children�s spontaneous play as viewed in a one-way vision room by depicting the unrestrained play activity of a three year old and other youngsters. Education Director � Virginia Axline.�
Bureau of Publications, Teachers College (1952)

This film gives the opportunity to study the quality and characteristics of children's spontaneous play. Adults observe children at play through a one-way glass. The opinion given in the film puts forth the idea that children gain initiative and self-reliance, since they do things in their own time and own way.

A day in the life of a five year old

EdLab Designer — Sat, 01 Jan 1949 00:00:00 -0500

LB 1115 .D3
Historical Video Footage_ A day in the life of a five year old-1949

19b 20min, sd, bw
�Kindergarten children interpret the world around them and a teacher guides them through the day. For laymen, teachers, parents, and students. Films Interpreting Education, No. 4.�
Metropolitan School Study Council and Teachers College (1949)

This film follows a class of five year olds in their daily school life, going to school and documents their reactions and interactions with others in their peer group. The children are taught and learn about social interaction and etiquette, as well as an academic curriculum.

Learning through cooperative planning

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1947 00:00:00 -0500

LB 3092 .L5
Historical Video Footage-Learning through cooperative planning-1947.

38b 20 min, sd, bw
�An elementary school in action, showing how the children learn to plan cooperatively.�
Horace-Mann Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation, Teachers College (1947)

This film follows a school-community project that teaches children the value and applicability of cooperative planning.Cooperative planning teaches students to identify problems, collecting and weighing ideas, making decisions, carrying out plans, keeping records and evaluating results. The students take on an active learning strategy where they form committees and have rotating chairpersons to run the committees.

Guidance program for homet school

EdLab Designer — Tue, 01 Jan 1946 00:00:00 -0500

HQ 772 .G8
Historical Video Footage - Guidance program for Homet School-1946. This film portrays a fictitious story of a socially maladjusted boy, aged 7, in the 2nd grade. The aim of film is to show the efforts of the school and parents to adjust this problem. The role of the educator is relevant as it allows for interaction with all the children. It would seem that the interaction with other children helped Danny adjust socially.

Education in America: The 19th Century

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1958 00:00:00 -0500

LA 205 .B3812
Historical Video Footage_1958

532c 16 min, sd, bw

�Discusses the development of free public school systems from the time of the Northwest ordinance until 1900, including the westward movement, the change to secular education, the rise and decline of the district school, the struggle for tax support and state control, compulsory attendance laws, and the rise of teacher-training institutions. Describes the influence of American textbooks, the effect of the Civil War on education, and the contributions of Daniel Webster, William McGuffrey, Gideon Hawley, and Horace Mann.�
Freeman Butts, Collaborator, Coronet Instructional Films (1958)

Education in America: The 17th &18th Century

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1958 00:00:00 -0500

LA 205 .B3811
Historical Video Footage- Education in America: the 17th and 18th Century - 1958.

530c 16 min, sd, bw
�In actual locations of dame schools, Latin grammar schools, church schools, and pauper schools, portrays the progress of American education from the time when early New England school laws were enacted until provisions were made for public education in the Northwest ordinance. Explains that with the colonial colleges, these early beginnings were the foundation of education in colonial America.�
Freeman Butts, Collaborator, Coronet Instructional Films (1958)

This film follows the origin of puritanical, religious education with the start of Harvard College. It follows the Catechism approach to religious and general education. Obedience, conformity and repetition were the staple of this type of education. It also traces the start of Colonial Colleges and the religious and inter-denominational values of education.

Education in America: 20th century developments

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1958 00:00:00 -0500

LA 209 .2 .E31
Historical Video Footage- Education in America: 20 Century Developments-1958.

531c 16 min sd, bw
�Studies the effects of the industrial revolution on education in America; the influence of Herbert, Binet, Dewey, Thorndike, and others; the appearance of the junior high school and graduate education; the building of central consolidated schools; federal aid to education during the depression years; the G.I. bill of rights, and Supreme Court decisions affecting education.�
Freeman Butts, Collaborator, Coronet Instructional Films (1958)

This film documents the way education was influenced by the industrialization of the 20th century. The concept of tactile education was introduced. Students were now exposed to this type of learning as opposed to the book and rote learning previously associated with education.

Problem solving in infants

EdLab Designer — Thu, 01 Jan 1942 00:00:00 -0500

BF 720 .C6387
Historical Video Footage - Problem solving in Infants -1942.

�The problem-solving process and the development of intelligent behavior are analyzed in a child study laboratory. Shows how children of different ages and temperaments attack the problem of obtaining desired objects which they can see through a glass plate.�

124a 29 min, sil, bw
Columbia University (1942)

This film documents the reaction of six month old babies as they struggle to grasp an object through glass plate obstructions. It further documents a range of infants of various progressive ages with the same and similar glass obstacle and object scenarios.

Growing in art

EdLab Designer — Mon, 01 Jan 1940 00:00:00 -0500

N 350 .G78
Historical Video Footage - Growing in Art -1940's.

100a, 10 min, sd, bw
�Shows that through creative experiences elementary children can acquire artistic knowledge and also grow their social relations in self-reliance.�
Produced by TC students Esther Shevlin and Sam Mukaida (194?)

This film enacts the values of art education as a tool to instruct students in the value of learning to share cooperatively and collaboratively. It also highlights the difficulty some students have to work within a group and how this can be combatted with art education. Children are taught to be positive critics and show understanding for their peers, especially when they are asked to comment on their work. Art education is a good tool for the student's development as it allows for the student to choose his or her own material and, to develop it creatively.

Education through art and home economics

EdLab Designer — Wed, 01 Jan 1947 00:00:00 -0500

Historical Video Footage -Education through art and home economics - 1947

87a 12 min, sd, bw
�Art and home economics teachers work together on sewing projects, demonstrating what can be accomplished when there is cooperation among pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators. For laymen, teachers, parents, and students.�
Metropolitan School Study Council and Teachers College (1947)

This film depicts a class of junior high school girls and how they interact with their teacher and peers with regards to appropriate clothes to wear for their body shapes. They are taught to design their own clothes template appropriate for themselves, and then making and cutting out their patterns. The young women are also taught poise and posture. The study allows the girls to see a completed product that they produced from raw materials.