https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/afd471bc-a83b-4204-a7b6-2abbf8fbcb2a Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This black and white and color 1954 Encyclopedia Britannica film outlines the production process of creating educational films in a celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary (TRT 18:34). Safety leader: Central Washington University Media Library Services (0:06). Title card: Encyclopedia Britannica Films (0:24). Opening titles (0:31). A hand holding a pen composes a memo on a clipboard. Subject: “Making Films that Teach” (0:48). Our host is revealed in a 16mm film editing suite lined with film canisters and reels on rewinds (1:02). Closeup of the man smoking a pipe and facing the racks of film reels (1:26). A framed portrait shows a date range of 1836-1847: “The McGuffey Readers. An effective use of pictures in education” (1:27). Our host speaks, as if to the portrait (1:35). Back at the desk, writing on the clipboard (1:51). An actor portraying William Holmes McGuffey materializes. He points to the portrait, from which he has vanished (2:10). Our host pats a 16mm film reel (2:50). A bookshelf. A woman wearing glasses retrieves a book and sits down at a desk, browsing (3:10). Spines of books about education (3:38). Three men in suits and ties review documents in an office (3:46). Closeup of a typed script outline (4:16). Two men compare notes. Counting on outstretched fingers (5:00). Leafing through pages of a script. Pan to a board with a shot list (5:28). A producer reviews the plan with his staff (5:44). A set on a soundstage. Scenery flats, the long arm of a boom mic, lighting equipment and folding chairs. A cameraman points a film camera (6:05). A clapboard marker for scene 10, take 2. Actors portraying George Washington and Thomas Jefferson act in period dress with white wigs (6:28). Cutaway to the director, script supervisor, and cameraman (6:58). Cutaway to the boom mic operator (7:09). Two men operate a machine which illustrates a planet orbiting the sun (7:29). Building the gear-like device. Dissolve to an actor spinning the gear (7:35). An actor in Renaissance garb looks through a telescope (7:50). A balance scale operated by bearded men in classical robes (8:04). The Leaning Tower of Pisa (8:09). Scientists of old with chemist’s glassware, a microscope (8:16). Children at a school lunch table (8:28). Film lighting equipment staging outdoors (8:32). Four glass vials contain smoke from a supply of cigarettes (8:41). A factory worker and a nylon thread machine. Flames of an Indiana steel mill in action (8:48). A film crew on location outside the US Capitol (9:29). A man at the head of a family dinner table. A boy feeds a dog spaghetti (9:56). Indian women modeling saris (10:10). Men in hijabs walking (10:26). Two men with a 16mm film camera (10:30). A turtle lays an egg (10:42). Ants and bees in microphotography (10:54). A man seated at an illuminated animation camera stand holds up an animation cel painted with a human outline (11:30). An illustration of human sinuses in cutaway profile zooms into animation (11:40). A camera points into a woman’s mouth (12:10). A larynx expands and contracts (12:17). An eardrum vibrates (12:27). The moon. X-rays show shifting bones (12:43). A ball rolls down an incline, the film stopping as it hits numbered intervals. Time-lapse footage of a plant (12:58). A photographer turns lights on and off in a room full of plants (13:38). A 16mm film editor at a Moviola style editing console (14:26). A 35mm film editor sends a reel of film on rewinds through a frame counter, marking it (14:42). A sound engineer at an audio mixing console (14:53). A 35mm film projection booth with multiple mechanical rewinds and a projector (14:58). Film shifts to full color (15:31). Children drag a Christmas tree through winter snow. Climbing. Sniffing flowers, pointing skyward (15:45). A painter’s harbor landscape. Baby and adult birds. A monarch butterfly (16:14). McGuffey vanishes (17:42). End titles (18:21). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." 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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