16mm Filmography
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The Alphabet

Dr Frank Baxter uses a map to show how our alphabet, which originated with the Phoenicians some 3000 years ago, was passed to the Greeks and then to the Romans. He traces the changes in form through which the A, B, C, D and others have passed.

More in Milestones in Writing Series

  1. Papyrus 1956
  2. Pictographs 1956
  3. Printing 1956
  4. Paper 1957
  5. The Alphabet 1957

Related films

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, sound, description, catalog record

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