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

day from 1:30 to 4:30. From 4 to 6 will be taken up by the traditional social "round-up." At eight on Monday there will be the first of four evening general sessions, for which Dr. Walter Crewson, New York State Assistant Commissioner of Education, has been invited as keynote speaker on the topic "Extending Educational Horizons." Tuesday's general evening session is to be addressed by an industry representative. On Wednesday, after a smorgasbord from 6 to 8 in place of the conventional banquet, U. S. Senator Hubert Humphrey has been invited to address the convention. The Thursday night session is to feature a debate on the topic: "Resolved, that Educational Television is the best means of solving problems of teacher shortages, housing shortages, increased enrollment, expanding curricula, improving instruction, and expanding educational opportunity." Dr. Alexander Stoddard of the Ford Foundation and Dr. Hollis Caswell of Columbia University have been invited as the debaters. The Tuesday and Wednesday morning sessions are to be taken over by: meetings of seven occupational interest groups, including, respectively. Adult Education, City Systems, College and University, County and Cooperative Systems, Individual Schools, Research and State Education Departments. Tuesday afternoon from 1:30 to 4:30 will feature what is called a "White House Conference Type Meeting" on the broad topic of "The AV Credo." After a 20-30 minute kick-off speech which Paul Reed, editor of EDUCATIONAL SCREEN &AUDIO-VISUAL GUIDE, has been asked to give, the audience is to break up into round table discussion groups of 8 or 10 persons, whose reports will later be coordinated and reported at the general session the same evening. There is a triple time-table clash, however, between this afternoon discussion, and two rival attractions: 1) The commercial exhibits, ojjening ofKcially at 11 a.m. Tuesday, remain open until 6:00 p.m.; 2) study trips to schools in the Twin City area are offered from 1:30 to 4:30 the same afternoon, and 3) two series of one-hour demonstrations are scheduled to begin at 4:00. Wednesday afternoon is left free to encourage visiting the exhibits, except for a seminar, from 2:00 to 4:30 for school superintendents and college presidents in the North Central area, and a repetition, from 4:00 on, of the previous day's demonstrations. On Thursday the exhibits are to be open Enjoy These Distinctive Advantages of Daylight Projection with LENSCREEN Lenscreen faces daylight windows efficiently — Performs where others fail. • Saves Cost of Darkening Shades • Solves Ventilation Problems • Allows Recitation During Showing • Students Are Alert • Permits Notetaking • Discourages Mischief The POLACOAT LENSCREEN "625" — newest and finest device of its kind — provides a rear-projected clear image 25" x 25" in lighted rooms. For filmstrips, slide and 16mm projection. Write today far Brochure 625 lenscreen panels of gloss or plastic available for custom installation. Ask for Bulletin LS-57. POLACOAT, INC 9710Conklin Road Blue Ash, Ohio from 11:00 to 5:00. Thursday morning is set for an "Idea Swap Shop," and the afternoon for "Study Trips to See TV in Action." The various university breakfasts will be held Thursday morning and the state breakfasts Friday morning. The annual business meeting will take place Friday morning, from 9:30 to 11:30 at which time Dr. Fred Harcleroad, of San Jose State College, will give his over-all conference observer report. Industrial A-V Exhibition The Industrial A-V Exhibition will be held from November 13-15 at the Xew York Trade Center. Friday, November 15, will be devoted to lectures and film showings on Training under the supervision of Dr. Robert Lloyd Cantor, Director of Training at the Ronson Corporation. According to Herbert Rosen, President, this exhibit will be most distinctive, for it will be the first time a show will deal exclusively with current audio-visual equipment and techniques for continuing training sessions, sales meetings, visual presentations, advertising promotions, etc. Speakers at the Exhibition, Mr. John Flory of the Eastman Kodak Company, Mr. George Huntington, Director of Sales Development of the Television Bureau of Advertising, Inc. The Film Producers Association, who had intended to hold their TV Work Shop at the end of November, have moved their date ahead to November 12 or 13 to coincide with the Exhibition in order to give their members an opportunity to attend the show also. NAVA ACOPI Names Hill The new chairman of the AudioVisual Commission on Public Information is Harold E. Hill, associate director of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. He succeeds Dr. Charles Schuller, director of the Audio-Visual Center of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Schuller becomes vice-chairman and will assist Hill during the next year. Contemporary Distributes All British Information Services ICnim films are now distributed by Contemporary Films (13 East 37th St. New York 16 N.Y., and 614 Davis St., Evanston, Illinois. — note new Midwest office). Because of budget-cutting, BIS will no longer distribute nontheatrically in this country.Contemporarywill continue to act as agent for BIS, acquiring new titles as well as distributing the present collection. 526 EdScreen & AV Guide — November, 1957