CHALK TALK

Channel 4 · 200 tapes · 64 hours

Academic film. Someone who has thought about one thing for thirty years, explaining it to a camera.

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What is on CHALK TALK

• Twentieth Century Art: A Break with Tradition (1965)
• 275 Capp St Stephen Parr Tribute Video (2018)
• A Vanishing Heritage (1971)
• Adventure In Venice (1974)
• Agricultural Midwest (1976)
• The American Indian Speaks (1973)
• An Italian Family: Life On A Farm (1975)
• The Ancient World: Greece, Part 1 (1955)
• Art Portrays a Changing World: Gothic to Early Renaissance (1963)
• Atlantic Crossing: Life on an Ocean Liner (1967)
• Be-ta-ta-kin (House Under the Rim) (1955)
• Barking Plate (1974)
• Basic Brown, Basic Blue (1969)
• Berlin: Outpost of Freedom (1959)
• Bertrand Russell Discusses Mankind's Future (1960)
• Bill of Rights in Action: Equal Opportunity (revised) (1982)
• Birch Canoe Builder (1970)
• Birds of the Inland Waterways (1946)
• Bronze: River of Metal (1972)
• Celebrating the Life of Milan Herzog (2010)
• Circus (1959)
• Close-up on the Planets (1982)
• Color in Nature (1965)
• Comets: time capsules of the solar system (1982)
• Computer And The Mind Of Man Pt 1, Logic By Machine (1962)
• Controversy Over the Moon (1971)
• Elastic Collision and Stored Energy (1961)
• Electromagnetic Waves (1961)
• Electrons In A Uniform Magnetic Field (1959)
• Equality under the law, the lost generation of Prince Edward County (1965)
• Europe in Transition: The Late Middle Ages (1963)
• Evidence For the Ice Age (1965)
• Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978)
• Farm Family in Winter (1967)
• Food From The Sun (1967)
• Franck-Hertz Experiment (1961)
• The French and Indian War: Seven Years' War in America (1962)
• Frontier Boy of the Early Midwest (1961)
• Georgia Sea Island SIngers (1963)
• Man and the State: Hamilton and Jefferson on Democracy (1975)
• Harry Bertoia's Sculpture (1965)
• Heartbeat Of A Volcano (1970)
• Interference Of Photons (1959)
• Introduction to Holography (1972)
• Introduction to Optics (1959)
• Invisible Hands (1975)
• Japanese Boy: The Story of Taro (1963)
• Kibbutz Daphna (1964)
• Korea (1975)
• Learning about Light. 2nd Ed (1976)
• Learning About Sound (2nd Ed) (1974)
• Let's Make a Film (1971)
• [Liberace Thanksgiving] (1954)
• Living In A Metropolis (1948)
• Lord, Let Me Die But Not Die Out (1970)
• Macbeth, Part 2: The Themes of Macbeth (1964)
• Macbeth. Part 1: The Politics of Power (1964)
• Magicians Of India (1940)
• Night Club Boom (1946)
• Marxism: the Theory That Split the World (1970)
• The Meaning of Time In Science (1973)
• Mechanical Energy and Thermal Energy (1959)
• Metamorphosis (1958)
• Middle Ages - A Wanderer's Guide To Life and Letters (1970)
• The Midwest, Heartland of the Nation (1968)
• Modoc (1980)
• A Charles Dickens Christmas (Mr Pickwick's Christmas) (1956)
• Music from Oil Drums (1956)
• Nature As Impression (1969)
• Nature as Reality (1969)
• Newspaper: Behind the Scenes (1970)
• Ohrid Express (1965)
• Photoelectric effect (1961)
• Photons (1960)
• Pigs! (1967)
• Plant Pilferage (1966)
• The Portable Phonograph (1977)
• Protein Synthesis: an Epic on the Cellular Level (1971)
• Provincetown: 1953 The First Summer (2007)
• Puerto Rico: Its Past, Present and Promise (1965)
• Random Events (1961)
• River Of No Return (1943)
• The Rocking-Horse Winner (1976)
• Rocks That Form On The Earth's Surface (1964)
• Rocks That Originate Underground (1966)
• The Rutherford Atom (1961)
• Scandinavia - Norway, Sweden, Denmark (1964)
• Simple Waves (1959)
• Skippy and the 3 R's (1953)
• Sound Waves In Air (1961)
• Sound Waves (1969)
• Soviet Union: Changing times (1989)
• Speed Of Light in Air and Water (1960)
• St. John's College (1962)
• The Age of the Rococo: From Divine Right to Equality (1964)
• The Age of Steam: Power for Progress (1965)
• The Fiddler (1975)
• The Hasidim (1972)
• Informers I (1975)
• The Millikan Experiment (1959)
• The Mountain (1947)
• The Odyssey, Part II: The Return of Odysseus (1965)
• The Trio (1953)
• Vacuum Tubes (1943)
• The World Of Enrico Fermi (1970)
• Chess (1965)
• Time And Clocks (1959)
• Time dilation, an experiment with mu-mesons (1963)
• Todd - Growing Up In Appalachia (1970)
• Toute La Bande - Vacances En Bretagne (1970)
• TV News: Behind the Scenes (1973)
• Unicycle: Looking at My World (1976)
• Universal Gravitation (1960)
• Variations on an Italian Theme
• Vectors (1958)
• Village Potters Of Onda (1966)
• Volcano: Birth Of A Mountain (1977)
• Waves On Water (1965)
• Where The Summer Spends The Winter (1954)
• Youth, Maturity, Old Age And Death (1975)
• One Hundred Watts 120 Volts (1977)
• Congruent Triangles (1977)
• Dances of the Kwakiutl (1951)
• Help, My Snowman's Burning Down (1964)
• Inside Magoo (1960)
• Jose Iturbi: Part I (1946)
• Mexican Village Life (1958)
• Picture In Your Mind (1948)
• The Stonecutter (1960)
• Symmetry (1966)
• Wild Men of Kalahari (1930)
• Child's Play (1987)
• Female Pelvic Examination (1957)
• Human Reproduction (1985)
• African Pygmy Thrills (1930)
• Angel And Big Joe (1975)
• At Your Fingertips: Boxes (1970)
• Baja California: the Pacific Coast of Mexico (1949)
• Big Chief 34 Drilling Rig (1955)
• Brake Free (1970)
• Cliché Family in Televisionland (1965)
• Coulomb's Law (1959)
• The Creative Journey: Arnold Blanch (1964)
• Crisis in Levittown (1957)
• Doña Rosa: Potter of Coyotepec (1959)
• Dong Kingman (1954)
• Encore un Hiver (1979)
• Eskimo Family (1959)
• Eugenie (1977)
• Facts About Projection (1950)
• Felipa: North of the Border (1971)
• Frames of Reference (1960)
• Gentle Winds of Change: Uganda (1961)
• Geronimo Jones (1970)
• Granite (1980)
• Hands of María (1968)
• The Happy City (1959)
• Death Valley National Monument (1950)
• Imaging the Hidden World: the Light Microscope (1984)
• Indonesia: New Nation of Asia (1959)
• Japan - Miracle in Asia (1963)
• Journey to the Center of a Triangle (1977)
• Kienholz on Exhibit (1969)
• Latitude Zero (1961)
• Clown (1968)
• Iran (1971)
• Rhinoceros (1965)
• A Magnet Laboratory (1959)
• Maguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses (1952)
• Maya Are People (1951)
• Me and You, Kangaroo (1974)
• Mexican Ceramics (1966)
• Miguel: Up From Puerto Rico (1970)
• Mike Makes his Mark (1955)
• Modern Business Machines for Writing, Duplicating, and Recording (1947)
• [Mona's Candle Light ca 1950s] (1950)
• Paraguay: a New Frontier (1958)
• People Along the Mississippi (1952)
• Posada (1964)
• Pottery Workers of Oaxaca (1952)
• Project Discovery: a Demonstration in Education (1965)
• Railway with a Heart of Gold (1965)
• Rendezvous
• Rough Road to Panama (1947)
• School for Ted (1964)
• Shaw vs. Shakespeare I: The Character of Caesar (1970)
• The Shopping Bag Lady (1975)
• Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1966)
• Solar System (2nd Ed) (1977)
• Spanish Children (2nd Ed.) (1964)
• Stalking the Wild Cranberry: the Making of a TV Commercial (1972)
• Sun Flight: the Myth of Daedalus and His Son, Icarus (1966)
• The Lottery (1969)
• Hangman (1964)
• The Touch of His Hand (1956)
• Transuranium Elements (1962)
• Valley of Heart's Delight (1948)
• Why Don't You Dance? (1990)
• Wildcat (1959)
• Woodblock Printer (1968)

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