The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

for the THE STAFF PAUL C. REED— Editor JUNE N. SARK— Assistant Editor WILLIAM S. HOCKMAN— Editor Church Field ROBERT E. SCHREIBER— Editor for the Corr mercial Field L C. LARSON— Department Editor ETTA SCHNEIDER RESS— Department Editor JOSEPHINE HOFFMAN— Business Manager DAVID E. CAESAR— Advertising Manager PATRICK A. PHILIPPI— Circulation Manager EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD WALTER S. BELL, Director of Audio-Visual Education, Atlanta Public Schools, Atlanta, Georgia EDWARD G. BERNARD, Head, Instructional Materials Program, Board of Education, City of New York IRVING C. BOERLIN— Supervisor, Audio-Visual Aids, Pennsylvania State College JAMES BROWN, Supervisor, Instructional Materials Center, University of Washington, Seattle EDGAR DALE, Head, Curriculum Division, Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University AMO DE BERNARDIS, Supervisor, Audio-Visual Education, Public Schools, Portland, Ore. ELIZABETH GOLTERMAN, Director, Division of Audio-Visual Education, St. Louis Public Schools, St. Louis, Missouri GARDNER L. HART, Director, Audio-Visual Education, Oakland Public Schools, Oakland, California F. DEAN McCLUSKY, Lecturer in Education and Director of Audio-Visual Education, University of California at Los Angeles FRANCIS W. NOEL, Chief, Division of AudioVisual Education, California State Department of Education, Sacramento, Calif. PAUL WENDT, Director of Visual Education. Service, University of Minnesota THURMAN WHITE, Head of Department of Visual Education, University of Oklahoma The EDUCATIONAL SCREEN Is published monthly except July and August by The Educational Screen, Inc. Publication Office, Pontiac, Illinois; Executive Office, 64 East Lake St., Chicago, Illinois. Printed in the U.S.A. Entered October II, 1937, at the Post Office at Pontiac, Illinois, as Second Class Matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Marie C. Greene, Publisher Address communications to The Educational Screen, 64 East Lake St., Chicago, III. Los Angeles Office: John A. Bassett, Western Advertising Representative, 3757 Wllshire Blvd., Fairfax 2301. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Domestic $3.00 Canada 3.50 Foreign 4.00 Single Copiat 35 Educational see THE MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS Founded fn 1922 by Nelson L. Green* Contents for October, 1948 Page EDITORIAL What is a Proverb Worth? Paul C. Reed 382 ARTICLES Ada Helps the Teachers Mary Leigh Palmer 383 Have You Tried Them? Marion H. Seibel 385 Hidden Values in Filnns Rita hlochheimer 387 Report from Paris . Edgar Dale 389 A Visual Centre in Australia Charles Lynch 390 DEPARTMENTS The Church Department William S. Hockman 392 Television and the Church . . . Creating Readiness (Andrew M. Sebben] . . . Flat Pictures Evaluated . . . New China Film — "The Peiping Family" Teacher-Committee Evaluation of New Films L. C. Larson 399 The Literature in Visual Instruction Etta Schneider Ress 402 Records on Review Max U. Bildersee 404 Audia-Visual Trade Review Robert E. Schreiber 413 OTHER FEATURES DAVI Meeting (376) . . . FCA Looks to the Future (380) . . . Trade Directory for the Audio-Visual Field (422) . . . Index to Advertisers (424) COVER: The tang of fall and Halloween ... in a still from the Encyclopaedia Britannica film "Autumn on the Farm", one in a series of classroom motion pictures on the theme of seasonal changes. Volume XXVII Number 8, Whole Number 265