Coronet Instructional Films

In this Coronet instructional film, we learn how to manage and self regulate our emotions when it comes to dealing with short comings and disappointments.

Observes a newly engaged couple as they wrestle with the fears and doubts nurtured by socio-economic differences, family pressures, immaturity, and ambivalent desires. Listens to their secret thoughts and wishes as each tries to cope with the anxiety and frustration-filled situations. States a position for an engagement, long enough to resolve second thoughts and to get to know one another and themselves.

Shows how Jim and Bob use protractor and ruler to study such figures as rectangles, triangles and circles, and such principles as congruence, similarity and symmetry, in constructing a model porch.

Depicts life in a medieval town from the point of view of a young serf. Explains the influence of trade and the role of the merchant and craft guilds in the rise of towns in Europe

Shows interdependence of members of a pioneer family. A typical pioneer school is portrayed.

Shows how a pioneer family prepared their food.

Freedom, rights, obligations, the pursuit of happiness -- meanings of these terms are explored as this film develops its theme that the Declaration of Independence is not a dead historical document, but a vital force and guide to living today.

Explains that different kinds of soil are mixtures of sand, clay, and humus; tells how the weathering of rocks helps make soil; includes simple experiments to show the kind of soil in which different plants grow well.

Presents an inductive experience in reading readiness. Shows a young boy as he interprets the meanings of various road signs during a long automobile trip.

Pig, hippo, and elephant footage strung together with narration. Elephants were included even though they are not related to pigs.

Young Jeff learns the error of his ways.

Goldilocks wanders far from home and stumbles upon the house of the three bears. First sitting in all of their chairs and tasting all of their porridge, then lying in all of their beds she finds the little baby bears the most suitable for her in all three cases. This classic fairy tale was made by Coronet films and stars real life bears.

Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World War II, including the Great Depression and New Deal legislation designed to overcome it. Emphasizes events that had lasting effects on the nation, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the strengthening of organized labor and the growing power of the Federal government.. Continues the story of 20th century America from the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II. Footage shows the Great Depression, strengthening of organized labor, Social Security Act and growing powers of the federal government.

Uses animation and live action photography to describe good food chains, almost all depending ultimately on green plants, and relates these food chains to the larger concepts of the oxygen-carbon dioxide and the nitrogen cycles, and to the unending pattern of life, growth, and decay which is known as the food cycle.

Shows how a pioneer family of the early 1800's selected a site, built a log cabin, cooked, made soap and candles and did other household tasks.

A group of children build a model community. They learn the importance of planning and solving problems together, and of sharing ideas and work.

In this educational film, laboratory demonstrations show the effects of moisture and temperature on the growth of molds. Photomicrography reveals the structure of molds: hyphae, mycelium, spore balls, spores. Beginning with spores on a rice culture, time-lapse photography shows the formation of a new colony.

This educational film shows the development and interdependence of organisms in a pond.

Explains the reformation in terms of the church, the cultural rebirth brought about by the Renaissance, the emergence of national states and the new interpretations of the scriptures. Devotes special attention to Luther and the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized.