Director | |
Producer | Coronet Instructional Films |
Contributors | Collaborator, Viola Theman |
Length | 11 min |
B&W/Color | b&w |
UO Library Catalog description: | With a children’s puppet play as an example, explains simple rules of punctuation, shows the significance of the various symbols of punctuation and their relation to the written expression of thought. For intermediate and junior high school grades and teacher training classes. |
Call # | FILM Ma137 |
Genre | instructional |
Rare | yes |
Online | no |
Copyright status | public domain |
Physical condition | fair |
Oregon-related | no |
Notes:
Viola Theman (1906-1982) was a professor of education at Northwestern University. She consulted on a number of Coronet instructional films. Theman conducted several key studies in the 1940s on gifted African-American children, helping to refute racist theories about whites having superior intelligence.
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