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• [Pt. 1] East Asia: China (98 fr.). Puppets of China (28 fr.). Korea (74 fr.). Japan (137 fr.)
• [Pt. 2] Vietnam (7 fr.). Thailand (43 fr.) Malaysia (14 fr.). Cambodia (24 fr.) Burma (89 fr.). Indonesia (83 fr.). Phillipines (70 fr.)
• [Pt. 3] India I (59 fr.). India II (25 fr.). India III (33 fr.). India IV (38 fr.). India V (15 fr.).

A pictorial history of the development of various theater and dance arts of Asia.

The major acts of prayer and pilgrimage to Mecca are illustrated step by step. The life rituals of birth, circumcision, marriage and death are described. Festivals honoring the saints in Egypt and scenes from the Muharram drama in Iraq are included. Aspects of popular Islam are also shown: charms and calligraphy, herbs and incense, each an aid to living life in accord with the teachings of Islam.

• Origins: 1735-1899 (74 slides)
• The formative years: 1900-1927 (91 slides)
• The golden age of musical comedy: 1927-1942 (70 slides)
• Musicals as a serious art form: 1943-1959 (100 slides)
• Searching for new directions: 1960-1980 (100 slides)

A pictorial history of the development of the American musical theatre from its origins to modern-day musicals produced as recently as 1980.

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• 1. After Jackson Pollock (33 fr.)
• 2. Between painting and sculpture (43 fr.)
• 3. Art in movement and optical invention (39 fr.)
• 4. Revised traditions, image makers and pop art (32 fr.).

Presents art works representative of both individual artists and various movements of the '50s and '60s and emphasizes the dominant American influence on works of this period.

Gives an overview of the direction of art in the 1970's, with examples of sculpture, paintings, and photographs that reveal its diversity and lack of dominant style. Shows that the varying perceptions of individual artists are what makes the art of this decade most vital.

• 1. Cycladic and Minoan (36 fr.)
• 2.Mycenaean, Geometric, Daedalic and Early Archaic (36 fr.)
• 3.The Archaic period (35 fr.)
• 4. Greece and Magna-Graecia (37 fr.)
• 5.The Hellenistic period (34 fr.)
• 6.The Etruscans (34 fr.).

A survey of the sculpture, architecture and art of Greece, beginning sometime in the third millenium BC with the stone age and early bronze age, continuing through the full classical phase of the 5th century to the decline of Greek art during the Hellenistic period and ending with the Roman conquest of Greece in 30 BC. Also included are slides of the art of the Etruscans, inhabitants of Italy before and during the early Roman period, whose work is so heavily dependent upon the Greek that it is considered in relation to it.

"Art of the 80's represents both well-known and ingenue artists, both American and foreign.... Painting and sculpture are in the fore, but the newest most dynamic mediums are also seen in video and 'room installation' presentations, which address ideological as well as aesthetic issues"--teacher's guide.

• 1. Early Christian art (37 fr.)
• 2. Byzantine art. The First Era, 330-717 A.D. (pt. 1) (35 fr.)
• 3. [Byzantine art] The First Era, 330-717 A.D. (pt. 2) (37 fr.)
• 4. Byzantine art. The Second Era and the Third Era (pt. 1) (37 fr.)
• 5. Byzantine art. The Third Era (pt. 2) (35 fr.)
• 6. Byzantine art. The Fourth Era, 1254-1453 A.D. (37 fr.).

A brief overview of the paintings, carvings, architecture and artifacts of early Christian times. Concentrates primarily on art and architecture throughout the Byzantine Empire, from the founding of Constantinople to its' fall to the Turks in 1453.

• 1. The pyramid age (37 fr.)
• 2. The age of great temples (32 fr.)
• 3. The Amarna period (43 fr.)
• 4. Age of the Rameses, the Ptolemies, and the Roman Empire (45 fr.).

Views of Egyptian architecture, artifacts and art, ranging from the Predynastic era (c.6000-3100 B.C.), through the multiple dynasties and ending with the thousand-year breakdown of Egypt's almost total isolation and its final occupation by the Romans in 30 B.C.

• 1. Greek painting (44 fr.)
• 2. Roman painting (41 fr.).

Part 1 consists mainly of vase paintings beginning with the end of the Geometric period (8th century BC). It concludes with a brief look at the mosaic and painted copies of fourth-century and later works. Part 2 concentrates on Roman painting of the first century BC to the early second century AD.