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

jNjeWS continued new station will shun canned material from the BBC and the Ford Foundation." This is quite untrue, said Jackson. While no specific programs of any type have been selected yet, the Channel 9 directors expect the station to become an affiliate of the National Educational Television network (Ford Foundation supported) which is making quality educational programs available to virtually aJl of the educational television stations in the nation. It is hoped that such programs will include BBC dramas, Boston symphony performances and other great offerings. L. C. Larson of Indiana On Mission To Africa, Europe L. C. Larson, director of the AudioVisual Center of Indiana University, left November 21 on a five week tour of Africa and Europe. His trip took him to Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, France, and Belgium. He returned to Blootnington on Christmas Eve. Working with the Ministry of Information in Sierra Leone, Larson conducted a review of the contract which calls for the Audio-Visual Center to furnish advisory services and assistance in the development, production and use of communications media in the educational system and for programs in agriculture, health, and general community improvements. After leaving Sierra Leone, Mr. Larson made a tour of Liberia to study the existing communications media program in that country. Paris was next stop, with the point of interest there a visit with UNESCO. From Paris he flew by helicopter to Brussels where he visited Audiovision Beige to discuss the distribution of Indiana University films and NET films on the continent. University of Akron Will Open Own TV System The University of Akron plans to begin operation of a closed-circuit TV system reaching 35 classrooms. The system, being installed by RCA, will carry courses for credit ranging from mathematics and science to public speaking. Provision also is being made for the University of Akron TV Center which will broadcast over education channel 55 and will produce instructive courses for distribution over the Ohio State TV network. Additionally, it will be possible to telecast from the campus studio through the facilities of WAKR-TV, Akron. Dr. Ray H. Sandefur, head of the speech department, said the university will commence closed-circuit transmission of five credit courses at the beginning of the next semester. The courses are Analytic Geometry, Reasoning and Understanding in Science, Education in American Society, and two courses in Effective Speaking, one introductory in nature and the other more advanced. Bell & Howell Antiques For DAVI Archive Display Important additions to DAVI's historic equipment and publications archives are represented in recent gifts from the Bell & Howell Company. On direction of president Charles H. Alan Morrison, left, president of the Industrial Audio-Visual Association, chats with Frank Lovejoy and Roy Munima of U.S. Steel. Lovejoy addressed the fall workshop of the association in Princeton, N. J., in October. Percy, the company's patent museu was opened by A. C. Sonnenberg I DAVI archivist Wm. F. Kruse. 5 pieces of vintage equipment and fascinating collection of early lih ature were selected. The equipment includes a "Film 16mm camera and projector datii back to about 1923; a Pathesco] 28mm projector, ca. 1915; a 35m Barker Brothers combination moti( picture projector and camera ca. 191 a DeVry filmstrip projector ma< about 1925; and a Kodaslide project in plastic case ca. 1937. The literature goes back to 191 the oldest a collection of testimonis to the B&H professional 35mm camei including Robert J. Flaherty's shootii of "Nanook," and a budget calhng f eight actors at $60 a week, earner man at $35 a week, and carpente and electricians at the same rate. Tl 'latest" of the literature describes tl DeVry World War II "Jan" now mac exclusively by Bell & Howell, and tl relatively current Architect's Visu Equipment Handbook and Acoiist Treatment of Auditoriums. Photographic Society Plans Fine Arts Show for 1961 The Photographic Society of Ame ica has mailed a leaflet to all membe and all affiliated clubs inviting sul mission of pictures for the thii Photography in the Fine Arts exhib now scheduled for 1961. Workshop On Techniques For Illinois AV Specialists A county-wide workshop and inst tute on visual education at Willov brook High School, Villa Park, II featured three "you can do-it-you self" demonstration sessions on ph' tography and on production of m. terials for opaque and overhead pr jection. Each 30-minute session w> repeated three times (between 4:i\ and 6 p.m.) to give everyone a cham to take in all three. A dozen or more commercial « hibits ringed the main lobby. After a school-cooked chicken dii ner, the evening assembly program heard Dr. Walter Wittich of the Ur versity of Wisconsin demonstrate tl* role of audiovisuals of classroom i sti-uction. Included in his demonstr tion were an excerpt from the sile Yale "Chronicles of America" filn and sound color motion pictures, fill strips and tape recordings for a unit ■ our 50th state. Saturation use of audi visuals in one community brought : most unbelievably improved resul according to Wittich. (Continued on page 10) Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — January, I9i