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Meaning of Percentage, The

Reel Number: 221676-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 10:00:05

TC Ends: 10:08:55

Duration: 00:08:50

Title. Most of title missing; choppy. Animation w/ narration explaining fractions, decimals, percent etc. Grid divided into 100 squares as example of hundredths / percentages. 10:02:54 Illustrations of percentages using drawings. CU school test paper w/ hand writing grade of 100%. Half-eaten cake “50% has been eaten”. 10:03:31 Traffic on four-lane divided parkway. 10:03:38 Cars in city parking lot. 10:03:46 Grid used again to show spaces for 100 cars. 10:05:36 Cartoon illustration of group of tall people gradually turned into short, fat people by fairy (animation) - percentage of short & tall. 10:07:24 Various illustrations of percentage. 10:08:26 Signs in store windows showing use of percentages in everyday life - ‘33% Off’’; ‘100% Wool’; ‘Pure 100% Vermont Maple Syrup’ etc. Kids looking, pointing. The End. Simplistic Educational Films; Elementary Mathematics; 1940s;

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