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Explains the technique of froth flotation used in concentrating minerals from low-grade ores. Hydrophobicity and flotation are shown at laboratory scale, then at pilot-plant scale, finally in industrial...
'Papio hamadryas’, ‘Papia anubis’. The inclusion of an alien female hamadryas baboon and a female anubis baboon in their harems by male hamadryas baboons. The females, placed at first in cages and...
A field crop of potatoes stunted by attack from ‘Heterodera rostochiensis’ (now Globodera) exemplified the economic importance of this group of nematode pests. By means of high-power cinemicrography,...
Gliding, sailing and beating flight are presented as the basic types of bird flight. In animated sequences, lift and propulsion are explained. Pecularities of hovering, take-off and landing are shown for...
The events leading up to and resulting from the Munich Agreement, from the Versailles peace treaty and the rise of Hitler to the Munich crisis itself. Analysis of important personal, diplomatic, political...
Thick pine logs are split in the courtyard with a hatchet and wedges. Inside the house the slips of wood are marked off with the use of a pattern and cut with a hand saw to different lengths. The shaping...
Comprehensive fundamental demonstration of mitosis as exemplified in animal and plant cells, using animation sequences. The clawed toad ‘Xenopus laevis’; tissue culture cells from the tadpole heart; the...
Illustration of a number of basic semiological terms (action, structure-specific and combined signal systems) of biocommunication using the courtship of birds of paradise and bower birds as examples. Several...
Begins with conditions in Barcelona which had become the seat of the Republican government in October 1937. Shows a wide range of leading Republican politicians including Aguirre, Azaña, Companys, Martínez...
Shows conditions in Madrid during the Civil War. Extensive shots of air attacks and bomb damage as well as fighting in the University City and scenes of children helping to build barricades. Several notable...
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