Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

The reader's right Instructional Materials EDITOR: I have just finished reading your excellent editorial in the December, 1953 issue ("Including the Printed Word!") ... I am glad to see you emphasizing the use of all kinds of "audio-visual materials" by all teachers. There certainly has been entirely too much gadgeteering by so-called audio-visual directors. I have been convinced for a long time that all in the audio-visual field must more closely identify themselves with the whole field of instructional materials before "audio-visual" media will be accepted by all teachers and used by them. The basic ideas you have expressed and which are also expressed in Dr. Swank's article ("Sight & Sound in the World of Books," Dec, 1953, EdScreen, page 436) should be more widely emphasized. It is very fine to give it to the librarians and it is even better to give it to our audio-visual people. Can't we do something about visualizing the ideas that Dr. Swank has expressed and that you so ably reiterated in your editorial in order that a great many more people will have the benefit of this good basic thinking? HERBERT M. ELKINS Herbert M. Elkins Co. 'lujunga, Calif. EDITOR: Congratulations on your December editorial and your whole approach with the Swank message. . . IRVING LIEBERMAN School of Librarianship University of California, Berkeley Thrust into A-V EDITOR: For the past five years I have been functioning as audio-visual coordinator in a small teachers college (average yearly enrollment, 500). My background training has been in science and this was a job which for one reason or another was "thrown in my lap." During the time I have been entrusted with the responsibility as a part-time function, I have tried to develop a creditable program. To increase my knowledge I have kept reading in the A-V field and I have also taken some advanced instruction in the area. ;;<s^ iiiiiiiiiiinr YOIJ CAN BEGIN YOUR ^ MONTHLY FILM FORUM ]%f€P MT * • • "''^'' '^"^ ^"^ ^f These Current Issues SHOULD SENATE DEBATE (the filibuster) BE LIMITED? with • SENATOR ELLENDER • SENATOR DOUGLAS SAN EVALUATION OF THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION with • SENATOR SMATHERS • SENATOR CAIN SHOULD AMERICAN TARIFFS BE LOWERED? with • ERIC JOHNSTON • JOHN LEE COULTER 4 THE ARAB-ISRAEL QUESTION with • ROBERT NATHAN • JAMES ANSARA MODERATED BY MARQUIS CHILDS THE PLAN: American Film Forum, Inc. releases 9 new discussion films on current domestic and international affairs . . . one a month . . . with Senators and Congressmen presenting opposing viewpoints . . . springboards for discussion among students, and adults on all levels. Programs available on a subscription-rental basis. I" Write for prospectus noiv! MERICAIV film Forum, L THIS COUPON es-, Inc. MA AMERICAN FILM fORUM 516 Fifth Avenue New York 36, N. Y. Pleaie lend me complete details including subscription cost. NAME _ ADDRESS CITY _ STATE _ Send letters to the Editor, EDUCATIONAL SCREEN, 64 E. Lake St., Chicago 1, 111. .All in all, my experiences have made me believe that there are others in the beginning stage with programs thrusi upon them who could profit by some of my experiences. In view of this I am sending you an article which offers a few suggestions that have been trieej and found valuable by us. . . . Blanc's article which you published last summer was an inducement for me to submit the article for I agree that he has drawn attention to a very real problem at the level of teacher education. R. H. SIMMONS Coordinator, .Audio-Visual Aids Alban>' State College Albany, (icorgia He are pleased to present Mr. Siminons' article on page 16 of this issue, Too Many Libraries EDITOR: Before someone else calls your at tention to an error in my article ("16mm Films Libraries in the U. S.," November, 1953 Educational Screen) note that in the first table on page 407 the total should read "2,644," noi "2.664." SEERLEY REIE chief. Visual Education Service I'. S. Office of Education Washington, I). C. Keeping Up to Date EDITOR: Where can I purchase a textbool that would explain all the new photo graphic processes in motion pictures sucli as 3-D, Cinerama, Cinemascope and stereophonic sounel? WILLIAM M. BURT Film Librarian \'allev Forge .Artny Hospital Phoenixyille, Pennsylvania See "Looking at the Literature" or. page 28 of this issue.— ED. "A" for Ed. CHURCH EDITOR: I think tliat you deserve an "A" foi your frank reviews of religious audio visual materials. I do hope that reli gious educators who read Edl'cationai Screen will as a result of readin;; your reviews become a bit more criti cal in their selection of materials Only when religious schools will re fuse to accept some of the inadequate films and filnistrips produced for the field of religious education will com mercial producers turn to the religious educator for his advice in planning good instructional materials. IRWIN SOREI Supervisor, AudioVisual Dept. Burt-au of Jewish Education Los Angeles, Calif., Jewish Community Council Educational Screen