The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 68 The Educational Screen 16 MM Sound Films on THE UNITED NATIONS AT WAR UNITED STATES films on War ProductJen The Arm Behind the Army Bomber Lake Carrier Tanks Aluminum Building a Bomber Power for Defense Women in Defense Food for Victory Home on the Ran^e Democracy in Action Henry Browne, Farmer C;v;ffan Activities Campus on the March Manpower Safeguarding Military Information Salvage Issues of the War Divide and Conquer The Price of Victory The above films rent at a rate of 50c for the first film. 25c for additional films. CANADA Battle for Oil Strategy of Metais Soldiers All Peoples of Canada Iceland on the Prairies (color) SOUTH AMERICA Americans All Our Neighbors Down the Road IDEALS OF THE FIGHTING FRENCH The Marseillaise—the story of the French Revolution ENGLAND Target for Tonight Learning to Live Health in War Five and Under USSR The Soviet School Child 100,000,000 Women POLAND Diary of a Polish Airman This Is Poland CZECHOSLOVAKIA The Crisis Our Allies—the Czechs CHINA Western Front The Four Hundred Million POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION The City Valley Town And So They Live The Plow that Broke the Plain One Tenth of Our Nation Machine—Master or Slave These timely and significant films ihow what the United States and her Allies are dorng to insure Victory in the fight against tyranny and aggression. Show them in the classroom, the auditorium and In community forums, and hasten the Hour of Victory! For further Information write THE COLLEGE FILM CENTER S4 E. RANDOLPH STREET CHICAGO, ILL. "Gardens of Victory'' a new film on VICTORY GARDENING reviewed and passed by the Office of Civilian Defense Here is a film that millions of Americans should see during the drive for 20,000,000 Victory Gardens in 1943! Sponsored by Better Homes & Gardens magazine and donated to OCD, "Gardens of Victory" is an excellent inspirational 9 minute short in black and white. It is a sound picture, with Basil Ruys- dael of the Lucky Strike program handling the commentary. 16mm. prints are available for $15 complete, 35mm. for $35. "We all feel that your excellent film will make an important contribution to the victory garden movement. I hope you will be able to secure wide and strategic distribution." Donald Slesinger, Chief Visual Training Section, Office of Civilian Defense. Send Orders or Inquiries to BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Des Moines, Iowa on dinosaurs and geological changes; on genetics, and the like. The Film Steering Committee is recommending that these kodaslides be duplicated for use by science teachers throughout the school sj'stem. FLAT PICTURES Illustrative Materials for Conservation Education: I. Pic- tures, Charts and Posters—W. H. Hartley, State ColIeRC for Teachers, Towson, Md.— Journal of Geography, 41 :288 November, 1942. Current periodicals contain much valuable pictorial material on conservation. The alert teacher will build up over the years a collection of these pictures, carefully mounted, catalogued and filed. Use a good quality mounting paper of a neutral or con- trasting shade and affix the picture firmly but artistically with paper cement, scotch tape or dry mounting tissue. Select a standard size mounting paper, 8"xl0" or IT'xM" in size. Government publications available free or at low cost con- tain pictures and charts. It will usually pay to secure several copies of the better illustrated pamplilets, so that one may be clipped and mounted and another kept intact in the classroom library. Another source of pictures and other illustrative ma- terial is the commercial firms which supply sets of pictures especially designed for school use. Some ways in which picture collections have been used arc: 1. First pass the pictures around, have the pupils examine them and then discuss. Use enougli pictures so that each pupil or two pupils has a picture to examine. Don't try to carry on a discussion while the pictures are being examined. Use that time for teacher-pupil conversations, regarding individual pic- tures. 2. Post pictures on the bulletin-board or use them as room decorations. Hold pupils responsible for information contained in pictures so posted. A bulletin board committee should be ap- pointed to arrange the pictures and to call attention to this material. 3. Small pictures may be used in an opaque projector in a thoroughly darkened room. 4. Other ways are for scrapbooks, illustrated talks, testing of information learned. Some sources of pictures, charts and other conservation aids are then given. This is an unusually fine compilation of sources. SCHOOL-MADE MOVIES Are School Movie Clubs Worth While?— Donald E. Eld- ridge— Movie Makers, 17:451 November, 1942 The author discusses the question in the light of his experience with the Motion Picture club of the New Haven (Conn.) High School. This club was established in 1933 to help develop taste and discrimination in going to the movies. The first film made was to help learn the prob- lems of technique and the art of photoplay production. The original Photoplay Club had to be divided into two groups subsequently, one a "movie makers'" group. Pro- duction since that time has included school newsreels, story pictures in silent form, school 'documentaries' such as how the school's weekly newspaper is published, etc. Sound has been used to accompany the films by means of microphone and amplifier. One film made by this group was a two-reel picture, "Education in our Town" for the New Haven Teachers' League. From this difficult assignment the students learned skill in composition; they acquired understanding of the need for selection, emphasis, balance, conciseness, something of symbolism, style and originality, as W'ell as of the need for absolute dependability, painstaking care with details and complete accuracy. Some evidences of the outcome of this movie-making group are: three former members of the club are now in the production business with a company of their own three years after graduation. One boy became an usher in a neighborhood theater and has since been made assistant manager, another was promoted from usher to a member of the exploitation department of a theatrical distributor. Another boy went on to study photography at a profes- sional school and is now working with a production firm. For these boys the movie club was certainly worth while.