EMC: Abstracts: K

Updated: 17 Nov 2006

67 titles and 0 series found.

• K.I.T.A., OR WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME, LATELY?
  • 1969 ----- color ----- 23 min ----- 16mm
  • Frederick Herzberg calls "K.I.T.A." (a kick in the ass) the simplest way to get people to work. Improvements in "hygiene": wages, working conditions, fringe benefits, etc., do not have a lasting motivational effect. People are motivated depending on how they are used on the jor, not on how well they are treated.

• K.R.O. GERMANY 1947
  • 1947 ----- b & w ----- 11 min ----- 16mm
  • (Historical Collection) Presents the work of a Kreis Resident Officer, his problems of refugees, shortages, smugglers, ruins and hoarders. (Made for the Control Commission for Germany)

• KABUKI NO HANASHI
  • 1963 ----- b & w ----- 30 min ----- 16mm/vhs
  • Shows historical development of Kabuki from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to the present. Demonstrates acting methods, makeup techniques and costuming. Traces the changes in the physical aspects of the theatre building. (In Japanese without English subtitles) (16mm Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KACHO--A SECTION CHIEF AND HIS DAY
  • 1976 ----- color ----- 27 min ----- vhs
  • Features the professional responsibilities and daily routine of a Tokyo department store section head. Presents the paternalistic "company as family" system, characterized by both obligation and security. Illustrates the decision making process with scenes from staff meetings at several different levels. Portrays the distinctive Japanese view of leadership as a quality which embodies tact, understanding and the ability to motivate by pulling, not pushing. (Deposited by the Japan External Trade Organization)

• KADOSH*
  • 1999 ----- color ----- 117 min ----- dvd
  • (Directed by Amos Gital, screenplay by Amos Gital with Eliette Abecassis, Jacky Cukier; with Yael Abecassis, Yoram Hattub, Meital Barda, Uri Ran Klausner, Yussef Abu Warda, Sami Hori, Lea Koenig) Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra Orthodox, the film explores a hermetic world almost never seen on the screen. Here for ten years the pious Rivka has devoted herself to her husband Meir, but their marriage remains childless. Presumed barren, she is rejected by her community, which prizes children above all else. The story that follows relates the harrowing fate of Rivka, and also her beloved sister Malka--in love with a young man who has fled the community to lead a secular life. As religious fundamentalism achieves new political significance in many countries around the world, the questions at the heart of Gitai's compelling drama resonate far beyond the borders of Israel. [Letterboxed] (In Hebrew with English subtitles) (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KAMABARA (THE SICKLE AND INJURED PRIDE)
  • 1963 ----- b & w ----- 21 min ----- 16mm/vhs
  • A lazy woodcutter, not wanting to work, threatens suicide by using his sickle trying to frighten his strong-willed wife. She mocks him and urges him on until a passerby intervenes. He is humiliated. The woodcutter finds a way to back down and saves his pride. Finally, he accepts his responsiblility with honor and returns to work. (English synopsis) (In Japanese without English subtitles) (16mm Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KANAL*
  • 1957 ----- b & w ----- 96 min ----- vhs
  • (Directed by Andrzej Wajda; with Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar) September, 1944. The advancing German army completes its destruction of Warsaw. Within the ruins of the devastated city a tired group of Polish soldiers and patriots attempt to flee the murderous Nazi grasp. But their only hope for escape lies in the city's maze of filthy underground sewers. And so, descending into the waist-deep, refuse-filled waters, they begin a journey to uncertain freedom. (In Polish with English subtitles) (Restricted to classroom use only)

• KANT
  • 1987 ----- color ----- 44 min ----- vhs
  • (Produced by the BBC; hosted by Bryan Magee) Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities and powers within the mind are the key to knowledge, and that all knowledge is appearance. Knowledge, for Kant, is a complex affair, in which knowing is acquired not just through the senses, but through pure concepts of understanding indigenous to the mind. Countering Hume, Kant insists it is the mind, not the senses, which unifies and organizes sensory flow into meaningful definitions of things.

• KARBA'S FIRST YEARS
  • 1939 ----- b & w ----- 19 min ----- 16mm
  • Presents the Bateson and Mead sociological study of parent-child relationships in Bali. Shows how the characteristic Balinese unresponsiveness is cultivated in early childhood.

• KASHTIN (TORNADO)*
  • 1991 ----- color ----- 34 min ----- vhs
  • Several music videos by, and an interview of, Quebec rock band, Kashtin. Their first album has sold more than 200,000 copies even though the lyrics are sung in their Native American tongue. Segments: Tshinanu (5 min); Tepatchium (The Devils Song) (5 min); E Uassiuian (My Childhood) (3 min); Harricana (4 min); Iskhuess (4 min); Interview from The Journal (12 min). (Donated by the Department of Canadian Studies) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)

• KATHAKALI (DANCES OF INDIA)
  • 1949 ----- b & w ----- 10 min ----- 16mm
  • Ancient classical dances of south India with an interpretation of the hand gestures, facial gestures and body movement. Scenes from an ancient dance-drama are presented with musical accompaniment on a variety of instruments.

• KAWASAKI STEEL: OPENING UP NEW FRONTIERS IN STEEL
  • 1980 ----- color ----- 22 min ----- 16mm
  • (Industrial Japan series) Presents Kawasaki Steel Corporation's developments in steel-making technology by showing production, research, testing and analysis of its steel products. Emphasis is placed on Kawasaki's efforts to deal with demands for resource and energy conservation, as well as its responsibility towards the environment. The firm's international business operations are shown. (Deposited by the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs)

• KAWELKA, THE (ONGKA'S BIG MOKA)*
  • 1976 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- 16mm/dvd/vhs
  • (Disappearing World series) (Odyssey series) The Kawelka highlanders of Papua New Guinea are an intelligent, spectacular-looking people who dress up in elaborate costumes and decorations for a ceremony called a Moka. The essential idea behind the ceremony is that of giving, but the motives behind the giving are complex and ambiguous. Concentrates on the efforts of Ongka, the head man, to gather together a gift of monumental proportions to give to a neighboring, and rival, tribal leader. The gift, gathered with huge effort consists of 600 pigs, cows, a truck, a motorcycle and a small fortune in cash. The larger your gift in Papua New Guinea the greater your victory over the recipient. (16mm and DVD restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KAYAPO, THE*
  • 1987 ----- color ----- ----- dvd
  • (Disappearing World [DVD] series, Part 1) The Kayapo people live in the Amazon forest. When gold was discovered on their land, they were forced to become businessmen: dealing with banking accounts, guarding the mines, and buying and flying in planes to patrol the borders of their land. This documentary deals with desire of the Kayapo people to keep to their ways and beliefs while dealing with the pressures of dealing with business. (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KAYAPO: OUT OF THE FOREST*
  • 1989 ----- color ----- 53 min ----- vhs
  • (Disappearing World series) The Brazilian government and Electronorte wanted to build a vast dam, the Korarao, on the Xingu River near the town of Altamira in the Amazonian rain forest. The lake behind the dam would flood land more than 400 miles upstream, the home of the Kayapo Indians. Using modern transportation and video recordings, Payakan, a chief of the Kayapo, organizes an Indian resistance to the project. Documents the bold political resistance built on traditional values and the media coverage which led to the cancellation of an international bank loan for the project and the Brazilian government's reevaluation.

• KEEP REACHING: THE POWER OF HIGH EXPECTATIONS
  • 1977 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- 16mm
  • Follows the problems of Robert Harrison who has trouble at work motivating his employees and at home his sons. As he realizes that he must have high expectations from people for them to achieve the best they can, we see him improve on the job as well as at home. In seeing his own strengths he can see them better in others, raising his expectations and achieving results. Based upon the findings of Joe Batten's thirty years of experience in helping others solve motivational problems.

• KENNEDY VS. KHRUSHCHEV
  • 1964 ----- b & w ----- 26 min ----- 16mm
  • The discovery in Cuba of long-range Soviet missiles aimed at American cities ignites an explosive crisis pitting President John F. Kennedy against Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy's courageous stand forces Khrushchev to dismantle his Cuban missile sites.

• KENT STATE: MAY, 1970
  • 1974 ----- color ----- 23 min ----- 16mm
  • Chronicles the events at Kent State University following Richard Nixon's announcement of the Cambodian invasion. Protest, force, disorder--culminating in the death of four students and the wounding of nine others. Stills and a rarely shown 8mm film sequence of the actual shootings trace the incidents of a turbulent weekend seeking to discover what factors led to the tragedy.

• KENYA BORAN
  • 1974 ----- color ----- 33 min ----- 16mm
  • (Faces of Change series) In the midst of a traditional herding area, a growing town and a new road encroach upon the territory of a once-isolated desert people in northern Kenya. The complexities brought about by this situation are shown as two fathers and their sons confront difficult choices between old ways and new. (Produced by American Universities Field Staff)

• KENYA BORAN, PART 2
  • 1974 ----- color ----- 32 min ----- 16mm
  • (Faces of Change series) Focuses on the life of Peter Boru, a sixteen-year-old former herdsboy who has become a boarding school student. The question, "Education for what?" is posed when both tradition and forces of change common to the developing areas make the economic outlook bleak for such young people even if they are able to complete the local education requirements. (Produced by American Universities Field Staff)

• KEVORKIAN FILE, THE
  • 1992 ----- color ----- 55 min ----- vhs
  • (Frontline series) Four years ago nobody had ever heard of Jack Kevorkian; today he is the most famous doctor in America, and the most controversial. Kevorkian is celebrated by his supporters as a merciful angel of death; the only man courageous enough to step forward to help those suffering needlessly at the end of life. Presents an in-depth examination of Kevorkian's record, exploring the man, his cases and the issue of doctor-assisted suicide. (Donated by the Department of Anthropology)

• KEYHOLE OF SPACE: IS ANYONE OUT THERE? (WOODRUFF SULLIVAN)
  • 1993 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- vhs
  • (Upon Reflection series) Host Marcia Alvar speaks with Woodruff Sullivan, Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington. As a member of the National Advisory Board on the NASA project searching for extra terrestrial life, Professor Sullivan explains the purpose and method of SETI. He describes the technical advances that make such a project possible. He examines the philosophical reasons for the search and the constant fight for federal funding. He asks Arthur C. Clark's question from Childhood's End, "Who is coming for lunch?"

• KEYS OF PARADISE, THE
  • 1979 ----- color ----- 60 min ----- vhs
  • (Nova series) Traces the history of the discovery of enkephalin, and Beta endorphin, two related pentapeptides with potent opiate agonist activity. Shows how naloxone reverses the morphine-like effect of the newly discovered peptides. Could these discoveries hold the keys to the conquest of pain; could they relieve types of mental illnesses; could they cure drug addiction? The studies have just begun.

• KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, THE (1974-80)
  • 1990 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- vhs
  • (Eyes on the Prize II series, Part 7) Examines the relationship between law and grassroots political struggle as it chronicles Black efforts to inject substance into promises of equality. In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal school desegregation order. Atlanta's first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.

• KHRUSHCHEV: THE BEAR'S EMBRACE
  • 1978 ----- color ----- 24 min ----- 16mm
  • The decade of Nikita Khrushchev saw the Soviet Union thrust into a critical position of international leadership, power and prestige. It represented a marked switch from the authoritarian policies of Stalin to an absolutism tempered by a more personal rule. Shows Khrushchev's movement within the Communist Party in the Ukraine, through the Stalin era, his ascension to Party Secretary, his rise to full leadership, his final collapse and removal. Shows how he provided the crucial link between the closed world of Stalinist Russia and the realities of contemporary international considerations.

• KHRUSHCHEV AND THE THAW
  • 1970 ----- b & w ----- 21 min ----- 16mm
  • Focuses on Nikita Khrushchev's "de-Stalinization" of Russia following the death of Stalin in 1953. Khrushchev was less concerned about further building up of Russia's military strength, instead he planned to raise living standards to the level of the West and, in particular, improve food production. Discusses the Hungarian Revolution and Russia's relaxation of control over her satellites.

• KIDS AND TV (KATHARINE HEINTZ-KNOWLES)
  • 1996 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- vhs
  • (Upon Reflection series) Host Marcia Alvar speaks with Katharine Heintz-Knowles, Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Washington. Professor Heintz-Knowles has studies the effects of television, both in its programming and its commercials, on young children.

• KID'S VIEW OF CANADA, A*
  • 1994 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- vhs
  • Nicolette Saina and her nine-year-old son, Jordan Schroder, traveled across the country to capture the attitudes and beliefs of other Canadian children Jordan’s age. From a logging town on Vancouver Island to a fishing village in Newfoundland, to a native community in the far north, they visited 17 communities and interviewed over 40 nine-year-olds. Always thought-provoking, the kids’ responses range from poignant to hilarious and cover the gamut of issues from racism to clear-cut logging to Quebec separation. A refreshing perspective on Canadian identity and on what it means to be growing up Canadian in the nineties. (Donated by the Department of Canadian Studies) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)

• KILLERS, THE/CRISS CROSS*
  • 1946 ----- b & w ----- 103 min ----- laserdisc
  • (Directed by Robert Siodmak, screenplay by Anthony Veiller, John Huston based on the story by Ernest Hemingway; with Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene) Ernest Hemingway's short story about the man who doesn't try to escape his killers is acted out tensely and accurately, and, for once, the gangster-thriller material added to it is not just padding but is shrewdly conceived to show why the man didn't care enough about life to run away. This classic film noir was Burt Lancaster's film debut. It also confirmed Ava Gardner as a sultry star who would later film other Hemingway heroines.
  • 1948 ----- b & w ----- 88 min ----- laserdisc
  • (Directed by Robert Siodmak, screenplay by Daniel Fuchs based on the novel by Don Tracy; with Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Richard Long) Another classic film noir which deals with double-crossers being double-crossed. Shooting on actual Los Angeles locations (including the Bunker Hill and Angels' Flight areas, Terminal Island, Union Depot and the Civic Center) added to the needed "feel" of realism, along with the performances of Lancaster as the brooding husband and DeCarlo as the manipulative dame who drags him down to his ruin. Once thought "run of the mill" film making, history and time have be good to Criss Cross as it is now generally regarded as one of the best of the genre. [Funded by the Department of Comparative Literature] (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KILLING COYOTE
  • 2000 ----- color ----- 82 min ----- vhs
  • The human hordes are still at it, roaming the last of the Big Open with their guns and traps and poisons, trying to wipe out yet another of their fellow creatures--coyote. Framed by the Calcutta, a coyote-killing contest held in Rawlins, Wyoming, the film ranges through the blandly demonic endeavors of the federal Wildlife Services agency, the problems with dryland livestock production and the slowly evolving relationship of humanity to the rest of Creation. The hunters' wind-burned, beer-drinking vitality contrasts so sharply with the practiced, institutionalized smoothness of the animal-rights advocates that it is hard to decide for whom to root. Less difficult is determining whom to root against. Doug Hawes-Davis and his crew are the first journalists to film the research facilities of Wildlife Services and interview the veterinarians and exterminators who devote their lives to destroying coyotes. Yet everyone interviewed agrees that there has been no reduction in coyote numbers despite over a century of taxpayer-funded persecution.

• KILLING SCREENS, THE: MEDIA AND THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE*
  • 1994 ----- color ----- 39 min ----- vhs
  • Coming to terms with the consequences of violent representation in our culture goes far beyond the casual connection often drawn between viewing violence, and committing it. Respected communication scholar Dr. George Gerbner, shows how coming to terms with what to do about violence in the media goes far beyond questions of censorship and free speech. Addresses the psychological, political, social, and developmental impacts of growing and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent representation. (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KILLING US SOFTLY: ADVERTISING'S IMAGE OF WOMEN*
  • 1980 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- 16mm
  • Through years of research, Jean Kilbourne has detected psychological and sexual themes that appear in most ad campaigns and has edited her findings into a visual commentary on corporate persuasion. Using hundreds of ads from magazines, newspapers, album covers and storefront windows, she presents a concise analysis of a $50 billion industry that preys on the fears and insecurities of every consumer in America. With a mixture of statistics, humor, insight and outrage, Ms. Kilbourne shows that ads may seem harmless and funny by themselves but they add up to a powerful form of cultural conditioning--and their message is deadly serious. (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KING: MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS
  • 1981 ----- color ----- 103 min ----- vhs
  • The most popular film ever made about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. captures all the power and passion generated by this modern American hero. Follows his career through excerpts from his speeches and interviews with those who knew him best. Many years after his tragic death, King's voice still speaks eloquently to the problems of present-day America.

• KING LEAR*
  • 1984 ----- color ----- 158 min ----- vhs
  • (Directed by Michael Eliott; with Laurence Olivier, John Hurt, Leo McKern, David Threlfall, Robert Lindsay, Anna Calder-Marshall, Dorothy Tutin, Diana Rigg, Colin Blakely, Jeremy Kemp, Robert Lang) The late Sir Laurence Olivier spent a lifetime preparing for this most difficult of roles in this most demanding of Shakespeare's plays. The production makes a taut, compressed and difficult play into a work that reaches out to take modern audiences in its grip on the elemental levels of greed and loyalty, lost and betrayed. It is a violent storm on a grand scale that sweeps the ancient Celt and the modern American, the Elizabethian groundling and the Shakespearean scholar before it, leaving emotions shattered in its wake. (Produced by Granada Television) (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KINGDOM COME SCHOOL, THE
  • 1973 ----- color ----- 21 min ----- 16mm
  • The portrait is of a one-room schoolhouse, grades one through eight, where middle-aged Harding Ison teaches and really cares about the youngsters he is with. The Kingdom Come School is a total "open classroom" where learning is fun and important, combined with the cultural heritage of Appalachia.

• KINGDOM OF BRONZE
  • 1977 ----- color ----- 53 min ----- 16mm
  • (Tribal Eye series, Part 4) In 1897 a group of African bronzes arrived in London that caused a sensation. Many European experts refused to believe that the bronzesmiths of the obscure ancient African kingdom of Benin in Nigeria could have developed the sophisticated technique of bronze-casting by themselves. David Attenborough traces the bronzes and the "lost wax" technique back to the craftsmen of Ife, the sacred town of the Yoruba people, predating by a century any European influence.

• KINGDOME, THE
  • 1977 ----- color ----- 17 min ----- 16mm
  • Chronicles the construction of King County's multi-purpose, domed stadium. Traces the stadium project from ground-breaking to completion. Reference to Pioneer Square and the history of the stadium site is included. Film of the inaugural ceremonies and dedication on March 27, 1976, is interwoven with construction scenes in a series of flashbacks. The arrival of the Seattle Sounders, the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Mariners provides an additional dimension and meaning to the Kingdome and this presentation.

• KINGSNAKE PREDATION ON RATTLESNAKES
  • 1978 ----- color ----- 10 min ----- 16mm
  • Shows a kingsnake, Lampropeltis getulis, as it attacks and eats a highly venomous sidewinder. Demonstrates the immunity of kingsnakes to rattlesnake venom and examines the process by which the kingsnake subdues its prey by constriction. Stop-action cinematography shows how the kingsnake swallows prey almost as large as itself.

• KISS ME DEADLY*
  • 1955 ----- b & w ----- 106 min ----- vhs
  • (Directed by Robert Aldrich, screenplay by A. I. Bezzerides based on the novel by Mickey Spilliane; with Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Maxine Cooper, Gaby Rodgers) One dark night, sleazy private eye Mike Hammer picks up a girl on the highway, wearing only a trenchcoat. Soon his car is run off the road; while he's semiconscious, the girl is tortured to death. Telling the police nothing, Hammer pursues the killers himself despite threats, bribes, and bombs. He encounters strange clues, a stranger young lady and, at last, an extremely deadly secret. This film was years ahead of its time, a major influence on French New Wave directors and one of Aldrich's best films. Missing for nearly half a century, the original ending--containing over one minute of crucial footage that clarifies decades of false interpretations--has been found and is featured in this edition. In order to illustrate the vastly different impressions left by each version, the altered/shortened ending is included as well. (Includes original theatrical trailer) [Funded by the Department of Comparative Literature] (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN*
  • 1985 ----- color ----- 119 min ----- vhs
  • (Directed by Hector Babenco, based on the novel by Manuel Puig; with William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga) The complex story of a friendship that develops between two men with radically different perspectives on life. In a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, Molina, a not too subtle homosexual (William Hurt), and Valentin, a political prisoner (Raul Julia), have only one thing in common--they are both political prisoners. To pass the time, Molina entertains Valentin with fanciful narratives from old movies. (Closed-Captioned) (Restricted to classroom use only)

• KLEE WYCK (THE STORY OF EMILY CARR)
  • 1947 ----- color ----- 20 min ----- 16mm
  • (Historical Collection) Paintings of the Canadian artist, Emily Carr, compared with actual motion pictures of Canadian landscape and Indian totems.

• KLUANE
  • 1981 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- 16mm
  • Declared a protected zone by UNESCO, Kluane National Park is situated in the Yukon area of northern Canada. It is a research paradise for glaciologists, geologists, climatologists and geomorphologists. Mountaineers come to scale the impressive heights. Animals are free to roam, protected by stringent legislation. Reveals the many facets of this beautiful park.

• KNOWING NOSE, THE
  • 1990 ----- color ----- 46 min ----- vhs
  • Investigates the sense of smell in humans and animals. In the animal kingdom, it shows that odors play an important part in the mating patterns as well as for safety, recognition and territoriality. Humans, like animals, are capable of the same olfactory responses, although civilization has dulled this ability. Newborn babies and their mothers recognize each other by their sense of smell, strengthening the bonding process. There is evidence that each living thing has its odor imprinted in its genes, as individualized as a fingerprint.

• KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD
  • 1978 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- 16mm
  • (Traditional World of Islam series, Part 5) The Islamic faith has always placed important emphasis on man's need to seek knowledge. This is explained by the Muslim belief that intelligence binds men to God--Allah to the Muslims. Thus early rulers established centers of learning called madrasas throughout the Islamic world. Muslims believe that everything is part of a unified system; that each object has its place in relationship to others.

• KNOWLEDGE OR CERTAINTY
  • 1974 ----- color ----- 52 min ----- vhs
  • (Ascent of Man, The series, Part 11) Science and Humanism--Dr. Jacob Bronowski discusses the development of x-rays and the electron microscope and tells how the of x-rays and the electron microscope and tells how the work of Einstein, Fermi and Szilard led to the construction of an atomic bomb. Contrasts the humanistic traditions at the University of Goettingen in West Germany with the inhumanities at Auschwitz in Poland. Dr. Bronowski sums up: "We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people."

• KOESTLER ON CREATIVITY
  • 1971 ----- color ----- 41 min ----- 16mm
  • Noted writer, Arthur Koestler, discusses his theories concerning the conscious and unconscious processes underlying creativity, emphasizing scientific discovery but considering artistic originality as well. Visually imaginative sequences intercut with the discussion clarify, give examples and lend force to the ideas presented.

• KONARAK: CHARIOT OF THE SUN*
  • 1997 ----- color ----- 24 min ----- vhs
  • (Purva Uttara: Past Forward series, Part 4) (Directed and narrated by Shyam Benegal) Many cultures in many ages have evoked the sun as a deity. Across India worshipers daily greet the rising of the sun in rituals that evoke the age-old verses of the Vedas. On India’s eastern coast a king and his builders created a vast stone chariot for the Sun God that towered towards the sky. Art historian Vidya Dehejia discusses this temple and its significance. (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)

• KOPJES: ISLANDS IN A SEA OF GRASS
  • 1985 ----- color ----- 55 min ----- 16mm
  • Huge outcroppings of granite rock known as Kopjes (pronounced "copies") lie scattered across the grassy plains of Tanzania's Serengetti. They are home to a dazzling variety of animals that have evolved to survive in this rock habitat, and the hunting ground of birds, cats and reptiles that prey on them. (Photographed and produced by Alan Root)

• KOREAN COURT MUSIC
  • 1969 ----- color ----- 15 min ----- 16mm
  • (Ethnic Music and Dance series) The musicians of the National Classical Music Institute perform several different examples of court music, of both the ceremonial and entertainment styles. Playing alternately, the "orchestra on the ground" and the "orchestra on the terrace" of the shrine are featured. (Release of University of Washington Press)

• KOREAN FOLK DANCES
  • 1969 ----- color ----- 25 min ----- 16mm
  • (Ethnic Music and Dance series) "Chul T'a Gi" or rope dance is a tightrope performance, often held in connection with village festivals. Also with village festivals. Also features a number of excerpts from the famous and colorful farmers' dance called "Nong Ak." The performance, held during harvest season with a group of dancers and musicians, shows the execution of several pattern dances with intricate rhythms. (Release of University of Washington Press)

• KOREAN VOCAL MUSIC
  • 1970 ----- color ----- 13 min ----- 16mm
  • (Ethnic Music and Dance series) One of the most highly developed vocal traditions in Korea is to be found in the southwestern province of Choga. Here a number of different instrumental and vocal forms have evolved, of which two prominent vocal forms are presented--the ganga and the pansori. (Release of University of Washington Press)

• KREINIK FAMILY, THE; THE BOSWORTH FAMILY
  • 1979 ----- color ----- 7 min ----- 16mm
  • (Northwest Resource Center for Children, Youth and Families) Two single adoptive parents are shown with their children as they discuss adoption and parenting. Ms. Kreinik adopted two girls and Mr. Bosworth adopted three older boys.

• KREMLIN
  • 1963 ----- color ----- 52 min ----- 16mm
  • Presents the development of the Kremlin in Moscow from its' 12th century origin as a wooden fortress to a complex of government buildings, churches, monuments and palaces. Utilizes art treasures and architecture of the Kremlin to highlight the history of Russia from days when Russians were conquered by the Tartars to the present.

• KRYSTALLOS
  • 1962 ----- color ----- 11 min ----- 16mm
  • Crystal quartz is created by nature and recreated by man. This is the story of how Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric pooled their talents to develop a method of "growing" quartz crystals. (Deposited by Pacific Northwest Bell)

• KUDZU
  • 1976 ----- color ----- 16 min ----- 16mm
  • An offbeat, witty, informative documentary about Pueraria thunbergiana. . . the vine that is devouring the South. Originally brought to this country as a means of erosion control, it is now threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu Band and a cast of other real life characters, plus appearances by Jimmy Carter and Georgia novelist/poet James Dickey, the film illustrates how Southern folk humor and traditions have centered around a botanical pest.

• KURELEK
  • 1977 ----- color ----- 10 min ----- 16mm
  • Paintings of the self-taught Canadian painter, William Kurelek, tell the story of his father who immigrated from the Ukraines to Canada. Pictures the life of the artist and his family on a prairie homestead as well as present-day life in Ontario.

• KWAIDAN*
  • 1964 ----- color ----- 161 min ----- vhs
  • (Directed by Masaki Kobayashi) A collection of Japanese horror stories. "The Black Hair"--A samurai finally returns to his abandoned wife; after their first night together, he wakes up to a-- "The Woman of the Snow:--A beautiful vampire spares a young man who promises to keep her secret; years later he tells his wife and-- "Hoichi the Earless"--A blind monk is summoned to a cemetary by a family of ghosts who-- "In a Cup of Tea"--A writer sees sees the reflection of a stranger in a cup of tea-- (In Japanese with English subtitles) (Restricted to classroom use only)

• KWAKIUTL OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE (A DOCUMENTARY BY FRANZ BOAS)
  • 1972 ----- b & w ----- 48 min ----- 16mm
  • Believed to be the only film which Boas ever prepared, this is of his trip to Fort Rupert, a village on Vancouver Island, in the winter of 1930-31. Boas sought to check and revise his earlier work in the region by recording a wider variety of sources of information on Kwakiutl language and society. Included are scenes depicting traditional Kwakiutl dances, crafts, games, oratory and the action of shamans. (Release of University of Washington Press)

• KYOCERA EXPERIMENT, THE
  • 1982 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- 16mm
  • (Enterprise series) "Theory Z" comes alive in the U.S.A. as the American employees of San Diego's Kyocera Company productively adapt to the owner's thoroughly Japanese managers and American salesmen. In Japan, a sales force operates more as a liaison between company and buyers than as "hard sell" artists. With their limited command of English, Kyocera's managers frequently misunderstand their salesmen's American approach. Kyocera shows something of what two cultures can offer each other.