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LeapFrog: Math Circus

2004

Watch the Quidget Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics! In this astounding story, Leap, Lily, Tad and wacky Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add, and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts.

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Engagement Party

1956

Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."

6.0

I'm No Fool with Fire

1955

Jiminy Cricket explains the basics of fire safety.

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Spider-Man: Smart Kids Play It Safe

1990

Spider-Man provides a children's safety guide about walking home from school and being home alone.

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Spider-Man: What To Do About Drugs

1990

Spider-man teaches how to say no to drugs and why, including negative effects they have on the body.

6.0

Health for the Americas: Hookworm

1945

Non-theatrical government - war short Produced for Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

5.0

The Road of Health

1938

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in magic drawing, in a style that is highly reminiscent of the 'Giro the Germ' series made for the Health and Cleanliness Council a few years before.

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Electronic Control System of the C-1 Auto Pilot Part 1: Basic Electricity as Applied to Electronic Control System

1943

Animated training film depicting the fundamentals of electricity and how electrical signals can be used to keep an airplane on correct course and altitude through an autopilot.

5.5

Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

1961

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside.

8.0

Outside In

1994

The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self-intersections. Through a combination of dialogue and exposition accessible to anyone who has some interest in mathematics, Outside In builds up to the grand finale: Bill Thurston's "corrugations" method of turning the sphere inside out.