Word: barnyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). The night in 1859 that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs and stringed accompaniments...
...Memphis, Tenn., Farmer Paul Schenk went into his barnyard and found his herd of goats playing shoot-the-chutes down the back of his new streamlined auto. Follow-the-leader fashion they leaped to the hood, then to the roof, slid down the back; had evidently been playing the game all night...
Manhattan's ingenious American Museum of Natural History last week got ready to exhibit the newest trick in museum educational work. Back of a picket fence the visitor sees a stuffed hen looking at a painting of other hens and a rooster in a barnyard (see cut). As the visitor looks a loudspeaker narrates: "The hens in the barnyard seem to us all very much alike. We would have great difficulty in distinguishing one from another if we did not put rings or other identification marks on their legs. But to the hen every other hen in the yard...
...that instant a stage trick of lighting makes the background fade out, and a scene of a barnyard as a hen sees it comes into the visitor's view. The rooster is enormous (see cut). The loudspeaker continues: ". . . for there is a social system in the barnyard. One hen ... can peck another hen . . . without being pecked back, and a third hen can peck still a fourth . . . without fear of retaliation. The rooster stands at the head of this social system, but beneath him,' in a definite social order, are arranged the various hens. This social system does...
...workers assigned to the museum by the Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes...