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"By using pebbles, blocks, rods, colored lines and tables to learn mathematics, teachers help students extract patterns and relationships and systems. Shows how students master computation much earlier than usual. Examples include a boy who first proves to himself that "nine fours is thirty-seven", only to change his mind after recess; and some 5th graders who multiply together two four-figure numbers in their heads, writing down only the answer." [http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2981176~S1a]

Claws?

"(25 minutes) 16mm colour documentary educational film. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it wothout ado or apology, as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am myself, myself alone.' William James. 'Claws?' is a crab's eye view of his world and our ... " [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

We're All Old

"(25 minutes) 16mm colour documentary. This film explores the world of a group of West Vancouver old people who have joined together to help each other. We learn of their hopes, and how they have changed the loneliness of aging into a time of humour and friendship." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

Old Fashioned Style

"(8 minutes) 16mm colour documentary. One job‚ one man, who has been happy for thirty-five years making peanut butter‚ "the best‚ (no additives)!" [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]. Only one element (noted as work print, but no splices so likely final). Miscellaneous note: "Woodward Stores Ltd."

[A Woman Unemployed]

Film shows the increasing depression of a woman looking for work. She holds the Province newspaper and beside her is a sign indicating how long she has been out of work. Clips of still images spliced together make up the middle of the film. It ends with some disembodied hands cracking eggs with words written on them and then serving them to the woman - this makes her happy.

Breakfall

"A high school student finds out there is no meaning to life." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

Programmed Response

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in 16mm format: "Programmed Response deals with elements of the urban environment that condition our responses. It focuses on the idea of Pavlovian conditioning and repetition - the repetition of street lights and bus door mechanisms, as well as aspects of media culture, such as classical narrative film, that program responses." 8 min., 1978 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_i.html#RTFToC31a]

All About Sex

"(15 minutes) 16mm colour comdey, educational film. Ah love, (sigh), A wildly funny look at sex education which can sneakily conspire to involve anyone who dares tackle it!" [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

Labyrinth

"(23 minutes) 16mm colour comedy for film production studies. This film is a must for all young film-makers. Labyrinth is a warm, humorous profile of a young film director as he follows his first film through the intricate processes of a motion picture laboratory." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]. Won in the "Documentary, ex aequo" cateory at the 10th Canadian Student Film Festival in Montreal in 1978.

Nothing Special

"(6 1/2 minutes) 16mm colour educational film. A chldren's film posing moral questions in the Eastern tradition." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

One in a Million

"(12 minutes) 16mm comedy-drama, educational film. One man's addiction to the awesome frustrations of the lottery‚ a mania sweeping Canada in the 70's." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

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