Shows the factors required by green plants for life and growth: sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and soluble minerals; and describes the process of...
A film produced by John Ott highlighting various plants which exhibit unusual behavior. These include the pitcher plant, sundew, Venus flytrap, and...
The story of the sun and how it affects all life on earth, told through a combination of cartoon animation (produced by UPA Studios) and live actio...
A film that celebrates the work of John Ott while documenting the different uses of stop-motion photography- from cancer research to the effects of...
Footage capturing the construction of Argonne National Laboratory's Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, an early prototype of nuclear reactors used...
Footage of scientists working with a nuclear reactor at Argonne National Laboratory.
Part 6 of the United States Information Agency's "Atoms for Peace" film series. Explains the training programs in nuclear physics for foreign scien...
Brief outtake from a news report documenting the moon eclipse, which took place on November 7th, 1957. The footage was captured at Los Angeles' Gri...
Footage depicting an expo in St. Louis, "New Ideas in Vending," which took place November 5th, 1958. Special attention is paid to a currency detect...
An outtake from a news report featuring Air Force members testing a hot air balloon, right before it lifts for take-off. The last few seconds of th...
An outtake from a news report featuring Air Force members testing a hot air balloon in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1958. Reporters are on the scene, ...
This film is John Ott’s 29-minute narrated version of Helen Tieken Geraghty’s one and a half hour musical stage ...