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66 results for ""Mel Waskin"".

Title ▼ Year Creator Length Holdings
Zoo animals in the wild: elephants

With trumpeting cries and lumbering strides, elephants come thundering across the grassy plains, big ears flapping…

1981 coronet/perspective 5 New York Public Library
Zebras

An animated film of uncommon warmth and humor by the Swedish artist Johan Hagelback. Two zebras…

1988 Coronet Films 11 min Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Why Don't I Fall Up? 1986 Coronet Films 11 min
Why doesn't grass grow on the moon?

Through animation Wondercat learns what plants need to be able to grow--water, minerals, air and…

1986 Coronet Film and Video 11 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Why do spiders spin webs

Wondercat explores the uniqueness of spiders. Answers questions on the building of webs., Wondercat discovers that…

1987 Coronet Film and Video 10 AV Geeks Archive +1
Why do cats have whiskers?

Through animation Wondercat learns about the five senses and how they are used. Wondercat learns about…

1986 Coronet Film and Video 11 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Why can't I fly like a bird?

Wondercat observes the many different kinds of animals, and by comparing them, he discovers how likenesses…

1989 Coronet Film and Video 13 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Who are the people of America? 1953 Coronet Instructional Films 375 Library of Congress +1
Where does sand come from?

Wondercat, an animated, orange, curious kitten, discovers where sand comes from. Movement of sand grains, water…

1989 Coronet Film and Video 11 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Where does rain go after it falls?

Wondercat lets his curiosity guide him into a basic understanding of the water cycle. He learns…

1987 Coronet Film and Video 10 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Where do lost balloons go?

Through animation questions are answered concerning the scientific structure and properties of air.

1986 Coronet Film and Video 11 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
What's the Brightest Star in the Sky? 1986 Coronet Films 11 min
What's The Biggest Living Thing

Impressed with the size of elephants and giraffes, Wondercat sets out to discover what the biggest…

1987 Coronet 11 min AV Geeks Archive
What's inside a seed?

Wondercat, an animated, orange, curious kitten, learns about seed plants, what plants need to grow, and…

1989 Coronet Film and Video 11 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
What good are rocks?

Wondercat compares the colors, patterns and textures of rocks and groups them according to some ways…

1989 Coronet Film and Video 12 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Water Walkers 1989 Coronet Films 11 min
Vampire 1989 Coronet Films 11 min
Tree of Thorns 1988 Coronet Films 10 min
The Planets

Episode of Series “Horizon”. Outlines the research and development of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space…

1986 Coronet Films 24 min Australian Centre for the Moving Image
The Periodic Table and Periodicity 1983 Coronet Films 20 min
The great American student. 1978 Coronet Films 325 Library of Congress
The Earth's Atmosphere 1985 Coronet Films 14 min
Taking Responsibility: What's Wrong with Vandalism

…Written and animeted by David Christianson; Creative director, Mel Waskin; Executive producer, Joel Marks This film…

1986 Coronet (Firm) Internet Archive
Sound, Acoustics and Recording 1986 Coronet Films 14 min
Simple Machines: The Levers 1984 Coronet Films 12 min
Simple Machines - Working Together

Students learn that the more simple machines are used, the easier it is to understand the…

1984 C/O Simon & Schuster Film & Videos 12 min AV Geeks Archive
Simple Machines - Wheels And Axles

Introduces animated, prehistoric characters who demonstrate simple machines. Shows how wheels and axles help reduce friction…

1984 C/O Simon & Schuster Film & Videos 12 min
Simple Machines - Pulleys

Two painters on a scaffold suspended by pulleys are able to raise their own weight and…

1984 Coronet 12 min AV Geeks Archive
Simple Machines - Inclined Planes

Highlights the important distinction between stationary and moving inclined planes. Demonstrates how the slope of an…

1984 C/O Simon & Schuster Film & Videos Oddball Film and Video
Scorpion 1989 Coronet Films 11 min
Rhino 1989 Coronet Films 11 min
Reaction Rates and Equilibrium 1983 Coronet Films 20 min
Puffins 1988 Coronet Films 11 min
Plants and animals depend on each other

Allows children to investigate the question - why is it that plants and animals always seem to…

1991 Coronet Films 12 min Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Otters 1988 Coronet Films 11 min
Ostrich 1989 Coronet Films 11 min
Muscles and Energy 1988 Coronet Films 10 min
Map Skills: Using Scale

Defines map scale, showing large and small scale maps as well as methods for determining the…

1971 Coronet Films 12 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Map Skills: Understanding Longitude

Mapping the earth from earliest times to today has involved the concept of longitude in exploration…

1971 Coronet 15 10 AV Geeks Archive
Map Skills: Understanding Latitude

Introduces and defines such terms as latitude, equator, and tropics and uses animation to trace the…

1971 Coronet Films 11 AV Geeks Archive +1
Map Skills: Recognizing Physical Features

Numerous Maps, Aerial shot of coastline, coastlines, mountains, models of geographic features, U.S. deserts.

1970 Coronet 400 ft. Oddball Film and Video
Light, Color & the Visible Spectrum 1986 Coronet Films 13 min
Light And Images

Examines how light is reflected, refracted, and absorbed and how images are produced in cameras and…

1986 Coronet 11 min AV Geeks Archive
Know Your Library 1983 Coronet Films 13 min
Invertebrates: Sponges, Coelentrates and Worms 1990 Coronet Films 19 min
How to Read a Book 1984 Coronet Films 14 min
How Good Are Rocks? 1986 Coronet Films 12 min
How Do You Know It's Love?

…DIRECTOR: Ted Peshak; CAMERA: Dale Sharkey; WRITERS: Mel Waskin, George Tychsen, Hartley Pfeil; EDITOR: Ace Moore…

1950 Coronet 0:22:00 AV Geeks Archive +1
How big were the dinosaurs

Wondercat learns, by visiting an archeological dig and a museum, to have an appreciation for what…

1986 Coronet Film and Video 13 AV Geeks Archive +1
Heart and Circulation 1988 Coronet Films 10 min