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Instructional Video10:10
Crash Course

The Birth of the Feature Film

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
A film history video examines how Thomas Edison, George Eastman, and the major film companies formed the Motion Picture Patents company (MPPC) and created a monopoly that controlled the production, distribution, exhibition of films. In...
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Instructional Video12:29
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Soviet Montage

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Why are film montages in movies so compelling? Learn about the origins and effectiveness of the Soviet montage, as well as discontinuity editing and other filmmaking techniques—and political statements—that arose from the...
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Instructional Video10:30
Crash Course

Independent Cinema

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
The formulaic films that once thrilled audiences in the early part of the 20th century now seemed stale after the stark reality of World War II. Foreign films and American independent cinema answered the call for authenticity, leading to...
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Instructional Video9:56
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The Golden Age of Hollywood

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Did movies save America during the Great Depression? Or did the Great Depression save movies? Learn more about the Golden Age of Hollywood with a video that covers the five major film studios, the colorization of big budget movies, and...
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Instructional Video10:01
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Special Effects

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Special effects have come along way since the spectacular illusions of Georges Melies. Young filmmakers learn about the three major types of special effects: mechanical or practical effects, optical effects, and computer-generated imagery.
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Instructional Video11:07
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The Editor

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
The job of the editor is surely one of the most demanding in film production. Viewers of an episode from a film production playlist are introduced to the editor's many responsibilities, the history of editing, and the various types...
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Instructional Video8:47
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The Cinematographer

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Cranes, dollies, steadicams, and special lenses. Viewers focus on the world of the cinematographer with the eighth episode of a playlist on film production. The video details the various responsibilities of the Directory of...
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Instructional Video9:54
Crash Course

World Cinema Part Two

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Explore the rich history of African, Middle Eastern, and South American cinema with a video summary of the most prominent filmmakers from these regions in the 20th and 21st centuries. It discusses Egyptian filmmakers Asmaa El-Bakry and...
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Instructional Video10:21
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Experimental and Documentary Films

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Some of the boldest films in history have been documentaries or experimental films. Explore non-narrative cinema and its avant-garde techniques with a short video about a creative faction in film history. Additionally, the video...
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Instructional Video8:42
Crash Course

Producers

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Everyone knows that films have producers, but not everyone knows exactly what a producer does. An informative video explains what an executive producer, line producer, senior producer do, who can end up with an honorary producer credit,...
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Instructional Video8:44
Crash Course

The Director

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Who's the most important person on a film set? The legendary actor? The influential producer? The head electrician? Or the person who needs to understand the roles of all three? A Crash Course video on film production focuses...
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Instructional Video8:39
Crash Course

Grip and Electric

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Gorgeous cinematography is the result of painstaking, detail-oriented work by many different departments of a film production. An informative video shines a light on the grip and electric departments, the ways they use filters, gels, and...
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Instructional Video10:26
Crash Course

German Expressionism: Crash Course Film History #7

For Students 8th - 12th
The seventh episode in the a film history playlist takes a close look at the rise and fall of German cinema of the post-World War I period. The narrator uses The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and its expressionistic use of mise-en-scene to...
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Instructional Video11:03
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Media Skills: Crash Course Media Literacy #11

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Did you realize that Internet access is a basic human right? For those of us fortunate to have online access, it's essential to have media smarts! Discover the five skills to be media savvy during an engaging video. The host discusses...
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GCFGlobal.org

Office: Working with Icons

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Discover a great way to add graphics to a digital project by using Microsoft Office's Icons feature. Using a helpful lesson viewers discover a library of professional graphics at their disposal. They learn how to scroll through a wide...
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Instructional Video12:18
Be Smart

How Some Words Get Forgetted

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
There's nothing regular about them—irregular verbs turn out to be the most common verbs in the English language. Through an analysis of data, learners discover that Zipf's Law describes the patterns of word usage. 
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Instructional Video4:20
Deep Look

These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
What can fighting fruit flies tell us about our own brains? Junior geneticists explore the common genes of fruit flies and humans and learn how scientists are using the tiny insects to help study depression, anger, and Alzheimer's...
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Instructional Video4:08
Be Smart

What's The Loudest Possible Sound?

For Students 6th - 12th
If a tree falls in the forest and no person is around, does it still make a sound? Students view a short video segment to determine sound and decibel levels of various objects, including the loudest and quietest possible sounds humans...
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Instructional Video8:22
Be Smart

Why Do We Have To Sleep?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Humans are the only mammals who delay sleep. Viewers learn this and other interesting facts in a video that explores sleep in humans. The narrator also discusses how lights affect our sleep, the importance of sleep, and how...
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Instructional Video5:07
American Chemical Society

How Do We Tell Temperature?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Explore the science behind thermometers. Rather than measuring temperature, thermometers track the movement of heat from hot to cold. The installment of the ACS Reactions series examines the chemical response that make thermometers work.
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Other

The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this video, author Anya Kamenetz talks about the benefits and drawbacks of technology use and how families can balance their use of digital media. [58:57]
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Instructional Video
University of California

Connected Learning: The Art of Screen Time Q&a With Mimi Ito and Anya Kamenetz

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An interview with author Anya Kamenetz who wrote "The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life." [44:51]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Pbs Digital Studios

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore top selections from the PBS Digital Studios library. This content is edgy and engaging, educational and thought - provoking - designed to grab your students' attention. Explore our collections curated towards design and...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Intimate, Indispensable Gif: The Art Assignment

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist Toyin Odutola takes a new stance on portraiture, bringing a novel and ingenious approach to the classic art technique. Through this video, learn how culture and identity can be the driving inspiration for intimate artistic...

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