Reading Maps [Motion Picture Film]
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- Created Date
- 1955
- Description
Reading Maps is one of several educational films Clarence W. Sorensen made for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. This film describes the tools for effectively reading a map by outlining the definitions and applications for a map’s scale, direction sign, legend, and title.
Grayscale
Sound
- Creator
Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Clarence W. Sorensen Collection - Motion Picture Films
Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - North and Central America
NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library’s Historic Film Collections II - Monochrome Acetate Negatives and Motion Picture Film
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Publisher
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc
- Subjects
- Maps
Scales
Keys (Legends)
Bird's-eye views
Map reading
Juvenile literature
Map scales
Surveyors
Documentary films
Travelogues (Motion pictures) - Type
- moving image
- Format
- Safety filmFilm: 16mm
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982. Reading Maps [Motion Picture Film]. 1955. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12642. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982, (1955) Reading Maps [Motion Picture Film]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12642
- MLA citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12642>.