O FILM -LECTURES 



The Museum is offering its 129tfi series of Saturday afternoon programs starting Marctt Z 

 These illustrated lectures, open to adults and the children of Museum Members, are 

 held in James Simpson Theatre at 2:30; reserved seats are held for Members until 2:25. 



CMLAOS BY KENNETH ARMSTRONG 



w From Vientiane, the administrative capital, to Luang Prabang, the royal capital, and right 

 #%up to the Red Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay, Kenneth Armstrong has filmed 

 tr paradoxical Laos. Inhabitants of a warm, green land, with a taste for fried river moss and 

 ^ toad stew, Laotians simply refuse to see the world as a whole. An area of steep chasms, lime- 

 2 stone cliffs and rich alluvial plains, Laos can grow enough rice, bamboo, flowers and toads 



to keep its people happy forever. But outsiders are interested in their rice if not their toads; 



and in their strategic geographical position. Laos is in crisis, and Ken Armstrong shows us 



a gentle, dreamy-eyed, flute-playing, explosive Laos. 



OOUTDOOR YEARBOOK BY KARL MASLOWSKI 



_ Here is a rare combination of the usual and unusual — albinos of catfish and red-tailed hawk; 

 f^ a patternless copperhead; a blond meadow mouse and a blue bullfrog. Normal wintertime 

 lY* activity of gray foxes, snowy owls and Cooper's hawks contrast with the exceptional behavior 

 ^ of the bright-colored Baltimore oriole that wintered in snowbound Ohio. Lives of humming- 

 2 birds, eagles, cricket wasps and whitetailed deer are portrayed against time lapse sequences 

 of blossoming tulip trees, autumn foliage and snow and ice. 



^ALASKA BY HARRY R. REED 



The name "Alaska" was derived from an Aleut word meaning "great land" and every inch of 

 Z Alaska lives up to its name. It is an incredibly big, beautiful land of sharp contrasts. There 

 O are massive, snow-capped mountain ranges and vast flat tundras, towering forests and ancient 

 ~ glaciers, picturesque villages and modern cities, steep-walled fjords and expansive ice fields, 

 ^ meandering Arctic streams and plunging waterfalls, and much more that makes Alaska a 

 ^ Fantasyland of the North. Alaskan wildlife is well represented by shy caribou, giant moose, 



bothersome black bears, rare Toklat grizzlies, busy beavers and little Parka squirrels. 



OTWO WORLDS OF POLYNESIA BY STANTON WATERMAN 



W Of the two worlds of Polynesia, one involves an island people, both gentle and beautiful, with customs and 

 qI skills and a way of life that has resisted the impact of Western man. Their land environment includes 110 

 ^ islands, ranging in size from populous Tahiti to the tiny atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago. The other world 

 2 of Polynesia is the underwater world of the lagoons and the barrier reefs, abounding with life, color, and action. 

 In this world the fight for survival is constant and unchanged. 



OTHE CONGO BY LEWIS COTLOW 



wThe key to Africa is the Congo. The key to the Congo is its tribal system. There, Africa is fragmenting. 

 flC Blacks are at sword's point; whites are on the run. Economy is in jeopardy. Leadership is a sometime thing. 

 ^ Crisis in the Congo affects the future of all Africa. For more than 25 years sub-Saharan Africa has been 

 S Louis Cotlow's specialty, primitive people his focus, animals his joy and the Congo's fate his concern. 



(OMEXICO BY GENE WIANCKO 



I After centuries of colonial rule, followed by violent revolutionary upheavals, Mexico now builds upon the 



■~ vast potential and native intelligence of her own people. These people, for the most part, had their origins 



jr in the Indian cultures of Mexico. This outstanding motion picture tells their story: the story of the capa- 



^ cities and potentials of the Mexican people and their ways of life. For those unable to take the Museum's 



Mexican Tour that leaves April 3, this film is a good alternative for seeing that fascinating country. 



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