https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/70fb2653-ab0f-46e1-8a58-7a35b111de0f Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Produced and directed by filmmaker Richard Lyford, “Into the Known” (c.late-1950s/early-60s) is a scripted color film made for the American Textbook Publishers Institute Inc. promoting the use of textbooks as an integral part of children’s education and dedicated to the “widening of children's universe.” Narrated by American actor John Rodney, the film emphasizes that knowledge is the greatest thing someone can have and uses students of various ages at schools in Los Angeles, California and Yorktown Heights, New York to highlight textbooks on different topics from spelling and simple arithmetic to American governance. Film opens, camera zooms into moon in space (0:19). Montage school-aged kids reading book about moon out loud (0:34). Rocket blasts off into space (perhaps launch of Viking 12), opening credits begin to play (0:56). Siblings sit on sidewalk in suburban neighborhood waiting for youngest sibling to walk to school bus stop (1:22). Group of high school seniors repair what looks like a 1932 V8 Special Speedster (2:43). Likely 1940s Ford model school bus pulls up to curb (3:06). School bell rings, kids run to class at Wilbur Avenue School (3:21). Kids head home from school: Children run off school bus, local neighborhood boy rides bike home and promptly climbs up tree house in backyard (3:56). Teenage girl, Janet, sits under tree, reads A. E. Housman’s poem “The Immortal Part” (4:43). Janet looks up at moon from bedroom window (6:57). Roger, high school student, reads books in room; Camera zooms into textbook with print version of Bill of Rights (7:33). Image of statue of Laocoön and His Sons/ Laocoön Group (on display at Vatican) (7:56). Elementary school teacher leads reading circle with her students in classroom (8:36). Waves crash into rocky shoreline (9:02). Young boy, Ricky, reads out loud book about using the word “want,” footage flashes to him running in field with a small dog (9:35). Ricky works on arithmetic using exercise book (10:00). Scenes of daily life in small New York town: Fresh milk delivered on porch, town hall, courthouse, factory, morning train bringing people and goods (11:11). New York City skyline (12:03). Hands type on keyboard, perhaps Model 8 Mergenthaler Linotype Machine (12:09). Shots of freshly printed newspapers whirling off the press; Camera zooms into shot of sidewalk stand selling newspapers on busy street corner as yellow taxi cabs drive past (12:12). Kid reads book about commerce in the United States, illustration of combine harvester harvesting wheat, manufacturing plant, cargo ship to transport goods (12:35). Likely Boeing Pan-Am 707-300 in sky (13:09). Bedouin men from Arabian Peninsula collect water from well in middle of the desert (13:12). Book with image of United Nations Headquarters in New York on cover (13:32). Footage of meeting of the United States Congress (13:48). Ricky watches neighborhood teenagers continue to repair 1932 V8 Special Speedster (13:55). Student caught by teacher secretly reading One for the Book of Sports by Sam Balter and Cy Rice (published 1955) during American history class (15:49). Chapter on Battles of Saratoga, corresponding illustrations of battle between British Red Coats and Patriots (16:08). Statue of Captain John Parker of the Lexington Militia on Lexington Green in Massachusetts (17:47). Camera pans reference books, encyclopedias neatly stacked on library shelves: art, archaeology, biology, zoology, economics (18:18). Janet reads chapter about Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, recites lines from Romeo and Juliet - Act 2, scene 2 (19:05). Roger reads art history text book, illustration example of 12th century Gothic architecture at Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis (21:04). Montage clips of teachers, parents, principle, superintendant - individuals who all understand importance of good books in schools (22:50). Textbooks being printed on printing press (23:42). Early model of wood, hand-operated printing press (24:40). Another shot of launch of perhaps Viking 12 rocket (25:46). Closing credits (26:20). Film ends (27:14). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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