Ancient World Inheritance Second Edition

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Coronet

Color: color

Description: Artifacts, relics, and recreated scenes of the past are shown through a tour of the Oriental Institute, Chicago. Points out the origins of money, our alphabet, the beginnings of science and industry, and the foundations of government and law.

Complete Record: Pyramids, sphinxes (3 shots), map. boys pointing out ax blades and hammers in a museum. Steel mill- forging of metal, copper and bronze tools. Gold bracelets, earrings on red backdrop. ancient coins. man on tractor with plow. man using ox to plow fields. hand looms, sarcophagus. Indians, ancient cloth, mummies. Jars, bowls, pottery that is 5,000 years old. Hopi Indian woman making a jar. potter’s wheel. pottery baking in large oven (kilm). man closes big steel doors. glass vases. paper on big spool. excellent shot of women in factory. big sheets of paper (giant newsprint reels). wool shredded and pressed into sheets to make paper papyrus painting. early forms of communication. man at chalkboard showing ancient alphabet. model of ancient Egyptian state, layout of ancient cities. Romans walking on stone road. man peers into telescope. ancient priests pointing to heavens. spinning globe. map of world. Curators in museum Hammasabi. Stone where laws were first given. meeting of average men in room with US flag.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)