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USEFUL! products for your A-V equipment SAFE-LOCK PORTABLE PROJECTOR CABINET AND STAND All steel, 42' high, 29" X IV plywood top with safety rail. Gives over 1 1 cu. ft. for storage of projector, speaker, etc. Adjustable shelf. Safe-locking panel door. Four 3' casters, two with brakes. Baked enamel finish in tan or gray. Model No. 42 "^ PORTABLE STEEL PROJECTION STAND Four 3' casters, two with brakes. Height : 41'. Stable, tapering design (19' x 3I1/2' at bottom) 1 8' x 26' at top. Rail on 3 sides. With non-skid rubber shock-proof mat. All steel, with 1' tubular steel frame. Baked enamel in tan or gray. Model No. 41 TAPE AND FILM CABINETS For every need ... 5' or 7' tapes, film strips, slides. Cabinets are all steel, with full suspension drawers. Photo shows each type of cabinet stacked on handy Mobile Cart. YOUR INQUIRY promplly answered on above Hems; also, Film Storage Racks, Record Storage Cabinets, Phono Carts, Lecterns. SINCE 1905 MFG. CO. Oapl. 212 Ontario SI. S.E., MInnTCpollt 14, Minn. Ulseful ^itmdtrlpd By IRENE F. CYPHER Asiiociate Professor of Education Dept. of Communication Arts New York University Once upon a time in a review we said that a certain filmstrip was designed "to use in a discussion situation." Well, we wish we could unsay or recall that particular review, for it implies that there are times when filmstrips are not to be used for discussion purposes. If there is anything that should accompany the use of filmstrips, it is discussion. We stress this because so much of the material received for preview recently has been in the area of international relations and world affairs. Should this type of material be used without plenty of time allowed for discussion, then something is radically wrong with our teaching methods. If ever there was a time when thoughtful consideration and discussion were called for, it is now. Here is the material; make your own selections, thread your projectors — but then, for goodness' sake discuss what you and your pupils are seeing! Most of the troubles in the world can be traced to failure to discuss the important issuesl BERLIN (Single strip; produced by Visual Education Consultants, 2066 Helena St., Madison 4, Wisconsin; 53.50.) Actually this is a series of some thirtythree pictures, showing the location of Berlin itself, areas affected by the war and the division of the city into zones, and some of the landmarks within city limits. What this sequence provides is a springboard from which to launch into a study of the role of this same city in the affairs of the nation of which it is the heart, and the international situations with which it is connected. It provides a series of "topical sentences" so to speak, with which to advance into research, reading and positive analysis of current newspapers, magazines and television programs and news broadcasts. Useful for social studies at many grade levels. CANADA: PEOPLE AT WORK (6 strips, color; produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1150 Wilmette Ave., Wilmette, Illinois; $3 per set, $6 single strips.) At long last we seem to be giving some well deserved' attention to the affairs and people of our neighbor, Canada. This series gives us an over-view which ranges from one coast to the other and includes both farm and city activities. Individual titles give a clue to subject coverage — "Fi-shermen of Nova Scotia," "Villages in French Canada," "Farm and City in Ontario," "Wheat Farmers of Western Canada," "Vancouver and the Western Mountains," "Logging in Canadian I Forests." The material is designed to highlight items included in the average curriculum for middle grades geography in schools of the United States. It stresses both geographical factors and ways in which the people of Canada live and work. One gets a feeling of the interdependence of the land and its people. Photographs have been well chosen to show main areas of historic interest. SCANDINAVIA: A REGIONAL STUDY (9 filmstrips, color; produced by Eye Gate House, Inc., 146-01 Archer St., Jamaica 35, N. Y.; §25 per set, $4 single strips.) Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland provide the scenes for this series. In each instance attention is given to the land, the people and the industries. It is well sometimes to consider the relation of these countries to each other — four very diverse groups, all too often regarded as being "one Scandinavia." There are unique differences which make it important to understand each country and to see it for what it is as an individual member of the group of nations of the world. That is the most important fact brought out by these filmstrips, and makes them useful for social studies. CANADIAN FILMSTRIPS (3 strips, black and white; produced by National Film Board of Canada and available from Stanley Bowmar Co., Valhalla, N. Y.; $3 a strip.) One of the best contributions made by the National Film Board of Canada has been the filmstrips providing us with 92 EdScreen & AV Guide — February, 1 959