Lincoln Middle School Collection
Inclusive Dates
circa 1950 – 1988
Abstract
Chicago Film Archives acquired this collection from the Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, Illinois. The collection consists of educational films made for primary and secondary school-age children. Film producers and distributors in this collection include BFA Educational Media, Coronet Instructional Films and Encyclopedia Britannica Films. Film subjects range from grammar, science and history to social manners and world cultures. Selected highlights listed from the collection include films that tie into Chicago and the Midwest.
Collection Items
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Items with Viewable Media
- 18th Century Home Life in Virginia
- 50 Stars and 13 Stripes
- 101 Dalmatians: A Lesson in Self Assertion
- 1812 Overture, The
- Aborigines of the Arnhem Land, The
- About The Human Body (Part I) Rev.
- About The Human Body (Part II) Rev.
- Accident, The
- Advance of Science: Underseas, The
- African Elephant, The
- After the 'Ouch'
- Age of Discovery: English, French and Dutch Explorations (Revised)
- Age of Discovery: Spanish and Portuguese Explorations (Revised)
- Air and What It Does
- Air Pollution: A First Film
- Alaska
- Alaska and Hawaii
- Alcohol and Drugs: How They Affect Your Body
- Alcohol, Drugs or Alternatives
- Alexander The Great and the Hellenistic Age
- All About Fire
- All About Fish
- All Things Animal
- All Things Plant
- Alone at Home
- Amazon
- American Experience: Our Living Traditions, The
- American Indians Before European Settlement
- American Parade: The Second Revolution, The
- American Revolution: The Background Period (Revised)
- American Revolution: The Postwar Period (Revised)
- American Revolution: The War Years
- Amphibians
- Analyzing Advertising
- Ancient Chinese, The
- Ancient Egyptian, The
- Angel and Big Joe
- Anger: Handle With Care
- Angus Lost
- Animal Architecture
- Animal Behavior: The Mechanism of Imprinting
- Animals Breathe in Many Ways (Revised)
- Animals Hear in Many Ways (Rev)
- Animals Move in Many Ways
- Animals Prepare For Winter
- Animals See in Many Ways
- Animals With One Foot
- Another Bad Month at Grey's Grocery
- Ant and the Grasshopper (An Aesop Fable), The
- Antarctica
- Ants: Hunters and Gardeners
- Aphid Eaters - Eve's Research Project, The
- Archaeologists At Work
- Arctic Borderlands In Winter (Revised)
- Arrow to the Sun
- Arrow to the Sun
- Art of Shooting, The
- Australian Wildlife
- Autumn
- Background of the Civil War
- Balance of Life and The Space Age
- Ball That Wanted To Play, The
- Bear in Hot Water, A
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beetles: Backyard Science
- Beginnings of Exploration, The
- Benjamin and the Miracle of Hanukkah
- Better Safe Than Sorry II
- Bicycles Are Beautiful
- Bill of Rights in Action, The
- Birds of the Arctic
- Black Roots In Africa
- Boomsville
- Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, A
- Boy To Man (2nd Revision)
- Boy Who Liked Deer, The
- Boyhood of George Washington Carver, The
- Buffalo Hunters of the Plaines
- Burns: First Aid Treatment
- Buttercup
- Butterflies Are...
- Butterfly The Monarch's Life Cycle
- Canada: Its Land & Its People
- Canals: Towpaths West
- Canterville Ghost, The
- Capitalization With Ralph And Stanley
- Captain James Cook (Short Version)
- Case Of The Elevator Duck, The
- Cat that Drank and Used Too Much, The
- Causes of the Seasons (Revised)
- Changing Forest: A First Film, The
- Charlemagne: Unifier of Europe
- Choice, The
- Christmas Tree
- Christopher Columbus (Short Version)
- Circus Story
- Classic Tales Retold: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Classifying Animals & Our Place in the Animal Kingdom
- Claudius - Boy of Ancient Rome
- Clean & Neat With Harv & Marv
- Clean Up Your Act
- Clean Up Your Act
- Clothing and Fashion: A History
- Cold Front
- Colonial Life in New England (Revised)
- Colonial Life in the Middle Colonies (Revised)
- Colonial Life in the South (Revised)
- Color It Living
- Comet
- Commercial Potpourri
- Community Keeps Healthy (Revised)
- Community Keeps House, A
- Community: People Share A Place
- Computer: Tool for the Future
- Computers: Tools for People
- Concert for Clouds
- Concert, The
- Consequences
- Constitution: The Compromise That Made A Nation, The
- Continents Adrift
- Continents of the World
- Controlling Variables, Making Measurements
- Coral Reef
- Countdown To Survival: Tornado
- Country Mouse and the City Mouse, The (An Aesop Fable)
- Cow, The
- Craftsmen
- Creating with Cartoons
- Crickets: Backyard Science
- Cry of the Marsh
- Cycle of a Flowering Plant Part I: The Plant Cell, Male and Female Flower Parts, The
- Danger - Poison
- Dawn Of The American Revolution: A Lexington Family
- Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo, A
- Deaf Like Me
- Decimal Operations and Uses
- Decisions! Decisions!
- Declaration of Independence
- Dentist: A First Film, The
- Desert Southwest
- Dictionary: The Adventure of Words
- Dinosaur Age, The
- Dinosaurs: A First Film
- Discovering American Indian Music
- Discovering Color
- Discovering Composition In Art
- Discovering Dark and Light
- Discovering Line
- Discovering Texture
- Don't Be Afraid, It's Only A Test
- Donald's Crime
- Doppler Effect, The
- Drugs: A Primary Film
- Ducks, Geese, and Swans
- Earth: It's Water Cycle, The
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Earthworm: Anatomy and Dissection
- An Egg Becomes a Chick
- Eighteenth Century Life in Williamsburg, VA. Community Life
- Electricity: A First Film
- Electricity All About Us
- Electrons at Work
- Elements, Compounds & Mixtures
- Elephant Eats, The Penguin Eats: Nouns, The
- Eli Whitney
- Emily Dickinson
- Energy and Work
- Energy Connection, The
- English and Dutch Explorers, The
- European Culture Region: Its People At Work
- Everybody Knows That!
- Everyone Helps in a Community (Rev.)
- Everything is Something
- Exploring Space: Beyond The Solar System (Second Edition of Beyond Our Solar System)
- Exploring Space: The Moon and How It Affects Us (Second Edition of The Moon and How It Affects Us)
- Exploring Space: The Solar System (Second Edition of The Solar System)
- Extinction: A Lesson From The Past
- Eye: An Inside Story, The
- Eyes Are For Seeing
- Families of the World: India
- Families of the World: Spain
- Families of the World: Turkey
- Families of the World: Zambia
- Family Living and Sex Education #1 Life from Life
- Family Living and Sex Education #5 A New Human Life
- Farms in the Fall
- Farms in the Spring
- Farms in the Summer
- Farms in the Winter
- Fence, The
- Fiddles and Whimmydiddles
- Find Yourself, Then Your Job
- First Aid Action
- First Aid: Drug Emergency
- First Aid for Children
- First Film On Insects
- First Flight of the Wright Brothers
- Fish
- Fish Family
- Fish From Japan
- Flag is a Symbol, The
- Food Cannery, The
- Food Chains: A Bond of Life
- Food: Energy from the Sun
- Footsteps on the Ceiling
- Forces
- Fosbury Flop, The
- Fossils: From Site to Museum
- Foundling, The
- Fox and Bear
- France in the New World
- Francisco Pizzaro (Short Version)
- Freckle Juice
- Freedoms
- French and Indian War (Rev. Ed.), The
- French Explorers, The
- French Revolution, The
- Fresh Water Pond, The
- Frog Goes To Dinner
- Frogs are Funny, Frogs are Fat: Adjectives
- From Start to Finish
- Frontier Experience, The
- Galileo
- Garden Plants and How They Grow (Exploring Science)
- Germ Fighting with Harv and Marv
- Geysers, Lava and Hot Spots
- Gift, The
- Gilly, The Salamander
- Girl to Woman
- Giving Tree
- Going to School Is Your Job 2nd Edition
- Good Citizens
- Good Sport Game, The
- Grasslands of the World
- Gravity and What It Does
- Great Animal Stories: Seasons of the Elk
- Great Britain
- Great Lakes States, The
- Greenhouse
- Growing Up On Broadway
- Had You Lived Then: Life in a California Mission 1790
- Had You Lived Then: Life in a Gold Mining Camp 1850
- Had You Lived Then: Life in a Midwestern Small Town 1910
- Had You Lived Then: Life in an Eastern Seaport Town 1870
- Hailstones and Halibut Bones - Part I
- Hailstones and Halibut Bones (Part II)
- Handy Dandy Do-It-Yourself Animation Film, The
- Hare and the Tortoise, The
- Harry, The Dirty Dog
- Health: Communicable Diseases, 2nd Edition
- Healthwise: Allergy? Aller-choo!
- Hear Better: Healthy Ears (Second Edition)
- Heartland, The
- Hearts and Arteries in Trouble
- Helicopter Ride! (Second Edition of Billy's Helicopter Ride)
- Help I'm Shrinking
- Help Woodsy Spread the Word
- Henry Ford
- Herman Melville
- Hidden Earth
- Hideout, The
- High Plains: Caribou Country, The
- Hitler: Anatomy of a Dictatorship
- Holidays Your Neighbors Celebrate
- Homework and Study Habits
- Hopi Indian (Revised), The
- Hopi Indian Village Life
- Hopscotch
- Housefly (Third Edition), The
- How Animals Live in Winter
- How Do They Make Baseballs?
- How Do They Make Tennis Balls?
- How Do You Know You're Growing Up
- How Do You Tell
- How Flowers Make Seeds
- How Green Plants Make and Use Food
- How to Build an Igloo
- How to Make a Mistake
- How to Save a Choking Victim - The Heimlich Maneuver
- How We Know the Earth Moves
- Human Body: Circulatory System (2nd Edition), The
- Human Body: Digestive System (Second Edition), The
- Human Body: Muscular System (Second Edition), The
- Human Body: Nervous System (Second Edition), The
- Human Body: Skeletal System (Second Edition), The
- Human Growth
- Human Nervous System, The
- Hungry Walrus, The
- I Am
- I Am Joe's Heart
- I'm Feeling Alone
- I'm Feeling Happy
- I'm Feeling Sad
- I'm Feeling Scared
- I'm Mad At Me
- I'm Mad at You
- If Books Could Talk
- Imagination
- Importance of Values, The
- In Search of Inca Treasure
- In Search of Mayan Mysteries
- Inconstant Air
- Industrial Revolution in England
- Industrial Worker in Kenya
- Industrial Worker, The
- Insect Anatomy
- Inside Government: Congressman
- Introducing Globes (Revised Edition)
- Inuit Legends Series Boy with a Big Heart
- Inventors And The American Industrial Revolution
- A Is For Atom
- It's The Law!
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Jamestown Colony (1607 Through 1620), The
- Jefferson's Monticello
- Journals of Lewis and Clark, The
- Joys of Kinetic Art
- Justice Under Law: The Gideon Case
- Juvenile Delinquency: It's Up To You!
- Kids & Drugs: Reason Why
- Lab Safety: The Accident at Jefferson High
- Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back
- Lakes, Rivers & Other Water Sources
- Land
- Language of Graphs (Second Edition), The
- Lascaux: Cradle of Man's Art
- Launching the New Government (1789-1800) (Revised)
- Leaf
- Leap Across Time (Japan)
- Learn From Criticism Game, The
- Learning About Seeds
- Leisure Time Photography
- Lend a Paw
- Leonardo Da Vinci - Giant of the Renaissance
- Let's Make a Map
- Let's Talk About Alcohol
- Let's Talk About Tobacco
- Let's Write a Story
- Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant: Part II
- Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant: Part III
- Life in a Pond
- Life Science: Response in a Simple Animal
- Light
- Like Father, Like Son
- Lilith Summer
- Little Tadpole Who Grew, The
- Living in the United States (2nd Ed.)
- Living Planet
- Logdrivers
- Loom, The
- Loon's Necklace, The
- Lost Pigeon
- Low Blood Sugar Emergencies In The Diabetic
- Lower South, The
- Machines, Engines and Motors (Research)
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mammals
- Man: The Incredible Machine
- Mapping the Earth's Sunrise
- Maps Show Our Earth
- Maps: Where Am I? 3rd Ed.
- Masai in Tanzania
- Me: A Self-Awareness Film
- Me And You Kangaroo
- Me, Myself
- Meadow: An Ecosystem, The
- Measuring Time: Calendars and Clocks
- Medieval Gilds, The
- Medieval Knights
- Medieval Society: The Villagers
- Meeting Strangers: Red Light, Green Light (Revised)
- Melody
- Member of Society, A
- Mendel - Father of Genetics
- Metric Meets the Inchworm
- Metric System
- Microscope And Its Incredible World, The
- Microscopic Life: The World of the Invisible
- Mid-Atlantic States, The
- Middle East: Mosaic of Peoples (An Overview), The
- Miller Grinds Wheat
- Millions of Pies
- Minerals and Rocks
- Minorities: What's a Minority
- Miserable Merry Christmas, A
- Mississippi River: Trade Route of Mid-America
- Molds and How They Grow
- Molly's Pilgrim
- Molly's Pilgrim
- Monkey and the Crab
- Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs
- Monkey Who Would Be King, The
- Moon: Adventure in Space (3rd Ed.), The
- Mountain States, The
- Mountains and Mountain Building
- Movements of Plants
- Mr. Lincoln's Springfield
- Mr. Pasteur and the Riddle of Life
- Musicians in the Woods, The
- My Grandson Lew
- My Side of the Mountain
- Napoleon: The Making of a Dictator
- National Anthem
- Nature of Life: The Living Cell, The
- Nature of Science: How Ideas Change, The
- Nature's Ever Changing Communities
- Navigation: Tool Of Discovery
- Neatos, The
- New Eating On The Run Film, The
- New England
- New Zebra in Town
- Nicky: One of My Best Friends
- North Wind and the Sun (An Aesop Fable), The
- Northwest: Mountains to the Sea, The
- Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The
- Nutcracker, The
- Nutrition: Fueling the Human Machine
- Observing Behavior
- Oceanography: Science of the Sea
- Of This We Are Proud
- Oil And Its Products
- One Big, Round World (Concepts for Geography)
- Our Angry Feelings
- Pacific Coast States, The
- Paddington and the "Old Master"
- Paddington Goes Underground
- Papa Penguin's Home Movies
- Paragraphs With Ralph And Stanley
- Pardon Me For Living
- Parents?
- Park Community, A
- Party's Over, The
- Paul Bunyan: Lumber Camp Tales
- Pearls in the Alphabet Soup
- People
- People Bringing Life to the City
- Peru: Inca Heritage
- Peter and the Wolf
- Phillip and the White Colt
- Photography - How it Works
- Pigs
- Pioneer Blacksmith
- Pioneer Home (Log Cabin)
- Pioneers of the Plains (Sod House)
- Place That Comma
- Plants And Animals Depend On Each Other
- Plants Make Food (2nd Edition)
- Plants that Grow from Leaves, Stems and Roots
- Plastiphobia
- Playground Safety: The Peeperkorns
- Please Look After This Bear
- Please Take Care of Your Teeth
- Pledge and the Anthem: Behind the Words, The
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Plymouth Colony: First Year (Revised)
- Poetry for ME
- Poisons All Around Us
- Pond-Life Food Web
- Pony Express, The
- Popcorn Lady, The
- Portrait of a Whale
- Posture Perfect with Harv and Marv
- Predators and Prey
- Prehistoric Times
- Prejudice Film, The
- Promise, The
- Protecting Endangered Animals
- Protists: Threshold of Life
- Punctuation With Ralph And Stanley
- Puritan Family of Early New England (Revised)
- Puss in Boots
- Qingalik and the Sea
- Railroad Builders, The
- Rain Forest People
- Rainy Season in West Africa
- Reading Self-Improvement: Variable Speeds (Second Edition of Reading Improvement: Effective Speeds)
- Reading Skills #2 Phonics and Word Structure
- Red Hen, The
- Reference Section, The
- Remarkable Mountain Goat, The
- Reptiles
- Restricted Circulation
- Rhyming Dictionary of Animals, The
- Rhyming Dictionary of Boats
- Rhyming Dictionary of Planes
- Rhyming Dictionary of Trucks
- Rights, Wrongs And The First Amendment
- Rise of the American City, The
- Rise Of The Roman Empire
- River Journey on the Upper Nile
- River People of Chad
- River, The
- Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
- Rocky Mountains, The
- Round Robin
- Route One
- Rufus M., Try Again
- Rules Are Good Directions
- Safe Play: Danger Places
- Salt: The Essence of Life
- Salt: The Hidden Threat
- Sam
- Scandinavia: Unique Northern Societies
- Science Skills Film No. 3: Defining, Classifying, and Identifying
- Sea Turtles: Race For Life
- Seacoast People
- Seasons and Days
- See Better: Healthy Eyes (2nd Edition)
- Seeds Grow Into Plants
- Serama's Mask (Bali)
- Sets, Crows and Infinity
- Seven With One Blow
- Shadows On Our Turning Earth
- Shoplifting: It's a Crime
- Shopping Bag Lady, The
- Shopping Expedition, A
- Simple and Compound Machines: How They Work
- Skateboarding to Safety
- Skin: It's All Around You
- Sleeping Feel Good Movie, The
- Slima The Dhowmaker (Tanzania)
- Slime Molds: Plant, Animal or ?
- Snails: Backyard Science (Revised)
- Solo
- Sound
- South America: History and Heritage
- South America: Land and People
- South American Andean Indians
- Southwest Indians of Early America
- Southwest, The
- Spanish Influences in the United States (Second Edition)
- Special Trade, A
- Spectacular Canyons
- Spiders: Backyard Science
- Spinning Wheel (third edition)
- Spring
- Squirrels Are Up, Squirrels Are Down: Adverbials of Place
- Stained Glass: A Photographic Essay
- Stalking the Wild Cranberry: The Making of a TV Commercial
- Star Spangled Banner
- Statue of Liberty, The
- Stephen Crane
- Stop, Look & Think
- Storms: The Restless Atmosphere
- Story of a Book (2nd Ed.)
- Story of a Writer
- Story of King Midas
- Strange Case of Mr. Finch, The
- Stray, The
- Studying: A Way to Learn
- Studying Chemical Interaction
- Studying Electricity
- Studying Fluid Behavior
- Studying Gravitation and Mass
- Studying Heat And Its Behavior
- Studying the Behavior of Light
- Summer
- Taleb And His Lamb
- Targets
- Teddy - The Rough Rider
- Teenagers Talk: Getting Through Adolescence
- Ten Times Empty (Greece)
- Then One Year (Revised)
- There Is Nobody Else Like You
- Think and Be Safe
- Think Metric! (Second Edition of The Metric System)
- Three Golden Hairs
- Through Grandpa's Eyes
- Time Changes the Land
- Time, Lines and Events
- Time-Out For Basketball
- Toads: Some Are, Some Aren't
- Tools for Cutting: Stone Axes to Lasers
- Top of the World: Taiga, Tundra, Ice Cap, The
- Track and Field for Boys and Girls (Field Events)
- Tree (2nd Ed.), The
- Trees, the Biggest and the Oldest Living Things
- Truman and the Atomic Bomb
- Truman And The Cold War
- Truman And The Korean War
- Turn a Handle, Flick a Switch (2nd Revision)
- TV Guide, A
- Twelve Days of Christmas
- Two Little Owls
- United States Expansion: Louisiana Purchase (Revised)
- United States Expansion: Oregon Country (Revised)
- United States Expansion Overseas (Rev.)
- United States in the 20th Century: 1900-1912
- United States in the 20th Century: 1920-1932, The
- Universe
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Up Pill - Down Pill
- Upper South, The
- Use and Care of Books
- Use Your Eyes
- Vanished Vikings, Part I: Erik the Red, The
- Vanished Vikings, Part II, The
- Victory at Yorktown
- Village in India 50 Miles from Poona
- Village of the Rainforest
- Visit to a Maple Sugar Farm, A
- Visit to a Sheep Farm, A
- Visit to a Theatre
- Visit to Apple Cider Country, A
- Visit to the Movie Studio, A
- Visit With Farmer Joe, A
- Visit With The Animal Doctors, A
- Visit With The Ranchers, A
- Vitamins: What Do They Do
- Volcano: The Birth of a Mountain
- Vowel "A" (Revised Edition), The
- Vowel "E," The
- Vowel "I," The
- Vowel "O," The
- Vowel "U," The
- Vowels and Their Sounds
- Voyage to the Arctic
- Walk Safely
- War of 1812 (Revised), The
- Washing Feel Good Movie, The
- Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capitol
- Weather: Come Rain, Come Shine
- Wellness: It's Not Magic
- Westward Growth Of Our Nation (1803-1853)
- Westward Movement IV - Texas and The Mexican War, The
- What Are Letters For: Initial Consonants
- What Are Letters For: Vowels
- What Color is Skin?
- What Do Flowers Do: A First Film
- What Is A Cat?
- What Is Measurement
- What is Poetry?
- What is Rhythm
- What Makes Weather?
- What Mary Jo Shared
- What's in a Shadow?
- What's In A Spider Web?
- What Time Is It? (2nd. Ed.)
- When the Wind Stops
- When You Grow Up
- Who Are The People of America (2nd Edition)
- Who Stole The Quiet Day?
- Why Animals Live Where They Do
- Why Be Physically Fit
- Why Man Creates
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears
- Why We Need Doctors: No Measles, No Mumps for Me
- Wild Animals Adapt
- Wild, Wild World of Animals: Deadly African Snakes
- Wild, Wild World of Animals: Kodiak Island
- Wild Wild World of Animals: The Spider
- William
- William Penn and the Quakers (Penn Col)
- Williamsburg Restored
- Williamsburg: Story of a Patriot
- Winter
- With Bernadette In New Guinea
- With Claudia In Australia
- With Oscar in Peru
- Woodland Indians of Early America
- Word Wise: Compound Words
- Word Wise: Prefixes
- Word Wise: Root Words
- Word Wise: Suffixes
- Word Wise: Word Families
- Workers Depend On Each Other
- World Beneath the Sea
- World Cultures and Youth: Joshua's Soapstone Carving (Canada)
- World Cultures and Youth: Laroussie The Saddlemaker (Morocco)
- World Cultures And Youth: Lee's Parasol (Thailand)
- World Cultures and Youth: Richard's Totem Pole (Canada)
- World Cultures and Youth: Tanya The Puppeteer (Russia)
- World Cultures And Youth: Yang-Xun The Peasant Painter (China)
- World Cultures And Youth: Yohannes The Silversmith
- Writing Says It All
- Yanis And His Dream
- Yankee Craftsman
- Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
- Yoshiko The Papermaker (Japan)
- Your Food
- Zlateh The Goat
- Zoo
- Zoo Animals in the Wild
Collection Identifier
C.2015-07
Extent of Collection
679 reels of 16mm film
Language Of Materials
English
Subject
Custodial History
The Lincoln Middle School Collection was originally stored in the library of Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, Illinois. The films were donated to Chicago Film Archives in July 2015.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to on-site access. Appointments must be made with Chicago Film Archives. Due to the fragile nature of the films, only video copies will be provided for on-site viewing.
Use Restrictions
CFA does not own copyrights to the films in this collection.
Creators
Coronet Films and Video
(was created by)
BFA Educational Media
(was created by)
Encyclopedia Britannica
(was created by)