Director | |
Producer | Richard Leacock. Watertown, Mass. : Educational Service, Inc |
Contributors | Cast, Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume |
Length | 6 min |
B&W/Color | b&w |
UO Library Catalog description: | Presented by the Physical Science Study Committee with the cooperation of The Commission of College Physics under a grant from the National Science Foundation |
Call # | FILM Ma130 |
Genre | instructional |
Rare | yes |
Online | yes; Internet Archive |
Copyright status | public domain |
Physical condition | good |
Oregon-related | no |
Notes:
The complete film is somewhat more commonly owned, with 15 instances on VHS and film. It was produced by Richard Leacock and is a physics instruction short incorporating a variety of camera tricks and deadpan narration from two professors. The PSSC -Physical Science Study Committee- was a 1950s movement to teach physics in a more intuitive and experimental manner, a partial response to Soviet advances; its course materials are remembered by at least one teacher as examples of outstandingly elegant and challenging course design.
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