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

FILM SERVICES TO PRODUCERS OF 16MM MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS Sound Recording Magnetic Transfer Editing and Matching Titles and Animation Colburn Color Positives Mogno-Striping Filmstrip Animation Slide Duplicating GEO. W. COLBURN LABORATORY INCORPORATED 164 No. Wacker Drive, Chicago 6 Telephone DEarborn 2-6286 New VUGRAPH Overhead Projector. It's unique ! Beseler's new VU-GRAPH Is the projector you use in a fully lighted room. The picture flashes OVER your head -onto the screen -while YOU face the class to see who understands, who needs help. Use prepared transparencies or quiclily make your own. VU-GRAPH projects in blacl( and white or full color; slides, stencils, models, even your own writine-as you write! 4 models including new portable. Teaclier operated-no assistant needed. Free Demonstration at your convenience. Free Brochure: "Get Your Point AcrossFast!" Lf^efuC ^ilntdtripd By IRENE F. CYPHER Associate Professor o( Education Dept. of Communication Arts New York University CHARLES (SedG^s^ COMPANY CAST ORANQC. NttW JER9«Y The other day we happened to be observing a sixth grade class "in action." Lo and behold, the teacher used exactly seven frames of a filmstrip, then turned away from the projector and started her group on a production project which involved making transparencies for use with an overhead projector. Now that's what we call sensible utilization of a filmstrip! There were thirty-eight frames in the filmstrip, but she neither tried to hurry through the complete strip nor did she "apologize for not showing it all." She simply used what she and her pupils needed at the moment and made it a part of the normal course of work. Perhaps the day of sensible visualization techniques is approaching at long last! ALASKA TWENTIETH CENTURY FRONTIER (Single strip, black and white; produced by Current Affairs Films, 527 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y., as a public service for the New York Journal American.) Alaska is "the topic of the hour," and interest in the 49th state runs high. This filmstrip gives a picture account of the resources, industries, living problems and future potential of this great area. By highiighting the facts and features of outstanding importance the viewer is led to see the meaning of statehood and to a consideration of what constitutes .Alaska's major problem if it is to be developed. "This type of filmstrip is best suited for use in a class where there will be discussion of social and economic matters. Its use will enable a teacher to focus attention on major issues and to stimulate pupil interest in current matters of national and international importance. AMERICAN AUTHORS (C strips, black and white; produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1150 Wilmette .Ave., Wilmette, 111.; .?18 set of 3, $3 single strips.) Irving, Cooper, .\kott. Holmes, Whittier and Longfellow are names that represent much to all students of American literature. These authors have contributed to the reading pleasure of many. The filmstrips (adapted from motion pictures of the same name.s) give us an insight into some of the events in the authors' lives and focus attention on their better known writings. In this way the strips can be used both as introduction to the people and as guides to the literary works for which they are famous. The general scope is adapted to junior and senior high school work in .American literature. AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES SET NO. 2 (6 strips, color; produced by Young America Films-McGraw-Hill Text-Film Division, 330 West 42nd St., New York 36, N. Y.; $32.50 per set.) There are many events and personalities connected with the growth and development of our country. This series deals with the major developments from 1789 to 1850. Included are the problems and policies of the new government, the place of the young nation in world affairs, growth of the western sections, industrial and agricultural expansion and social change and sectional controversy. The presentations are correlated with standard curriculum units and follow the sequence of study usually covered under the title of American History I. Interest is centered on significant problems of each period and on the people who helped to carry out the progress set up by the government and its leaders. Suited to study in grades 7 through 12. INSTRUMENTS OF THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (6 strips, color, with records; produced by Jam Handy Organization, 2821 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit 11, Michigan; $51 for complete set of 6 filmstrips and 6 33-1/3 rpm records; $8.95 for individual strips and records.) 36 EdScreen & AV Guide — January, 1959