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

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Visual Committee attached to the Department of Christian Education. Among its activities is an AV Preview Evening, held monthly downtown in the Chicago Temple, where the Federation's offices also are located. An approximately 21/2hour program of motion pictures and other new materials is shown on a theme usually dated a month in advance of major emphases or calendar divisions. Thus, in January, the theme was "Brotherhood," February "Lent and Easter," March "God and His Word," April "Family Life and Mental Health," May "Summer Activities and Camping." .\s part of the Federation's centennary observance, the June theme will be "A Century of Audio-Visuals." In other cities, such as Milwaukee for instance, similar periodical previews are sponsored and arranged by some especially active film library. However the group is brought together, this meeting of supplier and user is of major mutual benefit. Each learns the needs and problems of the other. Both have a :hance really to look at the new Dfferings that producers will as a rule submit without rental cost or jbligation. A lively moderator can ipark an intensely interesting and productive a u d i e n c e-participation experience. Such previews can jsually be arranged at surprisingly nodest expense, in a well-located Jiurch or in a dealer or library projection room. The principal cost )f this type of communication project is for — communication! Use AV During Lent! hy Mae Bahr Librarian, Religious Film Library, and AV Committee Chairman, Dept. of Christian Education, Church Federation of Greater Chicago. light: "Workers Together With Cod," Family Films.