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

EDUCATIONAL SCREEN— The Audio-Visual Magazine January, 1954 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN presents A FREE FILM FESTIVAL STATE FAIR — DAILY "New Woys of Seeing": ART FILMS on subjects ot interest to clubs, churches, schools, and community, -''means films of appeal to children. PROGRAM SATURDAY (adventure) 10:00-1:00 *Pen Point Percussion (invention) '^'Age of Exploration (filmstrip) ^Nonook of the North (classic feature) ^Pacific 231 (trains and music) The Quiet One (57 intense minutes) 2:00-4:00 *5peclol Cartoon Passion for Life ( outstanding French feature — 85 min.) ^A City Sings (choral music) SUNDAY (fellowship) 10:00-1:00 Creation According to Genesis *One God — The Ways We Worship Him Fro Angelico at Son Marco ( 3 very beautiful films for religious and inspirational use) The High Woll (human relations) «A Garden We Planted Together (UN) The Children (UN) The River (brilliont documentary) 5:00-8:00 *Cartoon And So They Live (education) ='•= Instruments of the Orchestra =<=UN Screen Magazine (action report) Passion for Life (starts at 6:30) '■'Boundary Lines (discussion material) MONDAY (using all arts in films) 10:00-11:00 Rhythm of Africa (arts, crafts, dance) ^Images from Debussy (music and vision) *The Loon's Necklace ( perfect storytelling) TUESDAY (other lands ond ways) 10:00-11:00 ^Peiping Family (modern China) Film on South America The River (a section of the USA) WEDNESDAY (Women's Day: education & community) 9:30-10:15 *Cartoon Understanding Children's Drowings ^Kinescope ITV program) — Through the Enchonted Gate: Point a Picture of Sounds The Living Gallery THURSDAY (Governor's Day: New York State) 10:00-11:00 =>lt Takes Everybody to Build This Lond (Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown) ^Corning Gloss Center ^Nature's Half Acre (garden film) FRIDAY (meeting exciting people) 10:00-11:00 Come for a surprise. Meet an artist, a musician, see a sculptor work. SATURDAY (strictly for fun) 10:00-11:00 '^Fiddle De Dee *Cartoons 1:00-4:00 Repeat showings of films by request and occording to popularity (Ed. Note: To find rental sources for films in this list, consult a 16mm film catalog or your local J 6mm film dealer.) The AAUW finds & uses IW WAYS OF by BARBARA CHAPIN LAST YEAR at the New York State Fair, visitors met Madeleine and Henry Moore; visited San Marco, and rode the Pacific 231. They explored the north with Nanook, and the world of Nature's Half Acre. They toured the Corning Glass Center, and saw their own countryside pictured in It Takes Everybody to Build This Land. Art on 16nim films! What does it mean to the growth of our national culture? Stressing art as a manner of expressing what you wish to say in the most effective way, the American Association of University Women has selected films for various study groups and programs which, although listed as "art," are pertinent to international relations, social studies, fellowship: the various AAUW interest fields. What does this do? It shows the fine art film to "non-art" people. Thus a group of women intensely interested in school programs will be interested in a fihn like Understanding Children's Draiuings. It tells them something about child training. .\t the same time, almost unconsciously, they awake to the importance of art training. This is good for children, good for the future of art, and also good for art film rentals. Believing every State Fair needs art in some form, the New York State Division of AAUW offered to run a preview Film Festival as part of the program ih the Women's Building. With the help of the Syracuse Educational Film Library and many independent companies, the committee screened 35 topflight "art" films for an estimated 5,000 people. The people who came were people from farms and rural communities; people who drifted in to "free movies" and stayed; people who read flyers and came at the time listed to see The Qtiiet One and One God: teachers who spent part of their final day of vacation previewing Boundary Lines: people who remarked, "I don't know anything at all about this United Miss Chapin is State Arts Chairtnan of the Neiv York Division of the American Association of University Women. Nations business. Guess this is as good a time as any to find out something," and went in to sit through a complete showing of The Children. There were youngsters who laughed at Gerald McBoing Boing, and gazed wide-eyed at children like themselves singing and dancing, or hungry and neglected, as in And So They Live and The River. There were children who thought Georgie and the Dragon "was the funniest picture I ever sawed," and nurses who wondered wliether Madeleine could be used to prepare a child for a hospital experience. There was an army MD, looking for ways to help his "psyc" patients. He came several days and remarked about The High ]Vall and the UN films especially. There were theological students, and ministers, and women in church work, who spoke their gratitude for guidance to films of real inspirational value, such as Creation According to Genesis, and Fra Angelico at San Marco. WAS IT A SUCCESS? As entertainment, yes. It did not compete in numbers attracted with the auto races and the midway, but it did not try. The auditorium was almost always filled. In some cases, the same people came time and again to see specific films or to request rescreenings. As education, yes. Individuals went away with new concepts and ways of education — direct, as in Passion for Life, the Screen Magazines, and The Family Circus; indirect, as in Peiping ■ Family. They learned a great deal | about "art," and its appeal and joy | and excitement. But this was onlv part of the plan. Upstairs was a "Resource Center" — a place where peo])le who came to see the films could find out how to get them and use them. The informational display itself was a fresh experience in seeing; museum tech, iiicjues were used to provide background for the display of materials, especially designed by George Rimak, director of ".Artmobile" (see cut on facing jjage). The Resource C:enter and its services were announced during screenings and tliose interested were invited to come and ask questions. They did. 12 Educational Screen