The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

A-V NEWS NOTES • Bray Studios, 729 Seventh Ave., New York, N. Y., has announced that two pioneers in the field of animated cartoons and technical drawings — J. R. Bray and Max Fleischer — will combine their skills in a new department to be known as "The BrayFleischer Division of Bray Studios, Inc." The new division will direct its attention to further improvements in animation which will involve 3-D cartoons for the motion picture and television industries. • Gloria Chandler Recordings, Inc., 27 W. 12th St., Studio No. 1, New York 14, N. Y., has announced that "Telaventure Tales", 13 30-minute award-winning television programs based on children's books, are available for air rental or for purchase for non-air use (prints have been specially processed for classroom and library projection). For further information about the now famous TV programs produced by Miss Chandler and launched by KINGTV in Seattle as an experiment in stimulating reading, write to Gloria Chandler Recordings. • Cinema 16, 175 Lexington Ave., New York 16, N. Y., is featuring in its spring series of unusual motion pictures G. W. Pabst's classic of the German cinema, Kameradachaft; the National Film Board of Canada's Land of the Long Day, impressionistic study of Eskimo life; and the AF Films release. Images from Debussy. • Third Unitarian Church of Chicago (301 N. Mayfield Ave.) presented during March and early April a series of weekly film programs featuring outstanding examples of socially purposeful and artistically significant motion pictures. Films shown and discussed included such famous "old" classics as The River and Nanook of the North as well as new classics like The Quiet One and the National Film Board of Canada's brand-new intimate portrait of an Eskimo boy, Angotee. • Brandon Films, 200 W. 57th St., New York 19, N. Y., reports that Colette, film story of the life of the world-famous French novelist, will be ready for presentation this winter. The picture was written by Colette herself and directed by Yanick Bellon. Jean Cocteau, long-time friend of Colette, served as production consultant. Both Colette and Cocteau appear in the picture. CLASSIFIED TWO MOVIEFRAME ENLARGEMENTS 5x7 and new negative, from 16 and 35mm. filmstrips. Send same and One Dollar. CURIOPHOTO 1187 Jerome Ave., New York 52. 178 A-V CONFERENCE CALENDAR When known, source of further information about conference programs and reservations is given. Send announcements for the calendar to EDUCATIONAL SCREEN. Editorial Department. 44 E. Lake St., Chicago I. Illinois. APRIL 16-19— Institute for Education by Radio-Television, Deshler Walllch Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. APRIL 23-24 — National Audio-Visual Association Film Conference, Hotel New Yorker, New York City (write Don White, NAVA, 2540 Eastwood Ave., Evanston, Illinois) APRIL 27-MAY I— Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers Convention, Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, California MAY 2—1953 Film Festival of the Film Council of Greater Boston (only films released since Jan. I, 1952 will be considered for showing; write for information and send preview prints to Mrs. Muriel C. Javelin, Boston Public Library, Boston 17, Massachusetts) MAY 5 — Third Annual Meeting and Workshop of the National Council on Jewish Audio-Visual Materials, American Jewish Congress, 15 E. 84th St., New York N.Y. (write Dr. Zaimen Sleslnger, American Association for Jewish Education, 1776 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.) MAY 31-JUNE 6— First Catholic Mission Film Festival In the U.S., to be held In coniunction with the Centenary Mission Exhibit, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, N.Y. (write Monslgnor Vincent W. Jeffers, Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 453 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.) JUNE 25-26 — Audio-Visual Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma • RKO Radio Pictures, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York 20, N. Y., has announced the immediate availability of the following 16mm films dealing with aspects of nature to schools, churches, museums, and other educational groups interested in promoting the conservation of natural resources: Beaver Valley, Nature's Half Acre, Boy and the Eagle, and Savage Splendor. All films from RKO have previously been available to the 16mm field only on a "prior location approval." PEOPLE & JOBS • John L. Hamilton, U. S. Department of State film officer in Tehran, Iran, since 1949, has been given new and wider responsibilities along with a new title: Deputy Public Affaii Officer. • Robert L. Shoemaker has been a)) pointed Manager of the Audio-Visu;i' Division of the DuKane Corporati. of St. Charles, Illinois, according an announcement by J. McWilliam Stone, President. Formerly Sale Manager of the division, Mr. Shcji maker will now be in charge of a.. activities of the division. • John T. Bobbitt, for eight years producer for Encyclopaedia Britai nica Films, has been appointed Director of Adult Education for the educational film company. • Robert Brown, an EBFilms veteran and former teacher, has been appointed district manager for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films in the Ohio area, with headquarters in Cleveland. • C. Richard Smith has been ai)pointed Regional Sales Supervisor in the Tape Recorder Division of Ampro Corporation, with headquarters in CoUingswood, New Jersey. • Radiant Lamp Corporation of Newark, New Jersey, has reported the death of Sales Manager George K. Westhead on February 4, 1953. • E. G. Gerbic, vice president of Johnson & Johnson, announced recently two promotions within the company's Merchandising Department. W. E. Sawyer, Director of Education since 1946 when he joined Johnson & Johnson, has been promoted to Direc ^ tor. Merchandising Services. M. D. Schackner, former Assistant Director of Education, has been given full re I sponsibility for Johnson & Johnson's j extensive retail and consumar educa I tional programs as Director of Educa | tion. Passing of Pioneer: DON CARLOS • Famed film producer Don Carlos Ellis and his wife, active Red Cross worker, were killed in an automobile accident near Bedford, Pennsylvania on March 15 as they were returning to their home in Arlington, Virginia. Few men have had so wide a range of experience or so varied a record of outstanding contributions to the audiovisual field as the 69-year-old Don Carlos Ellis. He was already a wellknown industrial film producer in 1922 when, along with Ernest L. Crandall, A. G. Balcom, Charles H. Mills, and Rowland Rogers, his name appears on the roster of the newly-formed Visual Instruction Association of America as its recording secretary. ELLIS Before that, he had been Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Motion Picture Division. His "Films of Commerce" long set a high standard for intelligent restraint and meritorious coverage. He had been one of the founders of the New York visual education association that preceded the national association, and after the 1932 merger into the DVI-NEA, he served several terms as treasurer of the Metropolitan New York Branch. At the time of his death, Mr. Ellis was chief of the training aids division of the Army's medical illustration service in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Educational Screen i