Cutting And Pasting (raw, silent, 1960s)

Creator: A/V Geeks 16mm Films

Description: Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. This 1960s silent footage for educational film follows an elementary school classroom as students use construction paper, scissors, paste, and folding techniques to build a collaborative paper farm diorama displayed in a sand table. The film carefully documents both proper classroom procedures — selecting materials, wearing smocks, handling scissors safely, and cleaning up scraps — and the step-by-step craft skills involved, including cutting spirals, folding symmetrical shapes, forming paper cylinders, and assembling detailed animal figures like cows, pigs, horses, sheep, chickens, geese, and ducks, complete with manes, tails, feathers, and spots. The project culminates in the whole class gathering around the finished sand table farm, populated with a barn, silo, house, windmill, fences, pond, trees, and flowerbeds, suggesting the film was intended as a teacher's guide for leading a structured art activity that builds fine motor skills while encouraging creativity and collective pride in a shared display.

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xRzBxcpmBE

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