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

AV in the Church Field by William H. Hockman Editorial Comment • We believe that TRAFCO (1525 McGavock St., Nashville 3, Tenn.) would be pleased to send to all interested persons a reprint of an article by Mr. Robert G. Glazier in which he discussed the past, present and possible future of the AV movement in the Methodist Church. He starts in the Twenties and brings you down to now. Very revealing to all who did not travel this road like I did, part of it as a Director of Education in a local Methodist church. Of course there are problems, but the Television and Radio and Film Commission of the Methodist church knows where it wants to go in serving its denomination, and that is much more than can be said of some other pretty large denominations which don't as yet have such a unified TV-AV group. • We woiJd like to do a little repenting. That may be a little strong, however, when what we want to report is a change in judgment or opinion. After seeing Exploring Ancient Cities (produced by Family Films, Inc.; see Dec. Ed Screen) we must report that we like it. It held my interest, instructed me, made me want to use it with both young people and adults, with circles in the church and with adult Bible classes especially. It would be hard, you see, to like (the filmstrip) Biblical Cities that much! Now I suppose I like them equally! m fILM OOCTOftS ® SPECIALISTS in the science of FILM REJUVENATION RAPIDWELO Process for: • Scratch-Removal • Abrasions • Dirt • "Ra Send for Free Brochure rapid Founded 1940 37-02C 27th S».,Long Island City I.N.Y. FILM TECHNYqUE • About this time ministers , and directors of religious education, and others, are being asked to teach AV courses in summer leadership and lab schools. In some instances they will be asked to be general AV resource people to other teachers in the same school. This is a good idea. We are for it. The single course is on the way out. All courses, we believe, need to be enriched with AV materials and its methodology. Last year Rev. Harold M. Taber taught a course in the lab school at Albion, Michigan. He not only taught, he left a fine record of his planning, of what he did, how he did it, and an evaluation of the results. This is in mimeographed form, and we believe that, as long as they last, he will send copies to other teachers who request them. Send at least 10 cents in postage. (88 West Waterloo, Box 96, Casnovia, Michigan) • We believe that more films should be used in series. Once we ran the St. Paul series right through. It was some 3Vi hours as we remember. We remember, too, that no one left. We recall that folks commented on what an impact this whole film-story made on them. Now this same idea was carried out with Cathedral's Living Christ Series. The producer has a special rental arrangement for those who would like to book these films for a weekly series. It is too long for one sitting, like the St. Paul. How one minister did this is nicely described by him in a reprint from a denominational paper. We believe that The Rev. James G. Ludwig, III, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Elkins Park, Philadelphia 17, would be glad to send copies of this reprint to those asking. Across the 12 Sunday evenings his attendance was good, and the interest keen. He was greatiy pleased with his adventure in faith.' • We believe that the fihnstrip as a medium has come ahead in the past two years in .several ways. First, there is the whole matter of standards. What a pleasure to have them coming through with green frames on the front and red on the back end! Hownice to be able to read the tides right off the film without a magnify glass! Getting the size of the fra and therefore the image, is not q\ so noticeable. But films is film, i there is a lot of 'temper' in them ; But, if they were too limp and lack an inherent 'personahty' they woul( go through the projector so well. ] ished and slicked up, they certai are taking the wear better and nicer to handle. That brings us to the second p( of progress for this lowly work-he of instruction: replacement. Now Ff ily FUmstrips, Inc., has joined th ofi^ering to replace worn and dj aged filmstrips if returned to them their can and accompanied by cents to cover the bare costs of h dling and postage. This is botii gen ous and fair and ought to entx)ur! ownership, it seems to us. • Two comments in this departm recentiy have brought more mail tl anything for a long time: that cert concerns would rent filmstrips, i that professional standards have b< developed for the filmstrip as a r dium. We believe that many churcj are too poor to buy filmstrips. Let remind you right away that tliink you are too poor is just as effective being that way. We believe that church is too poor to start buying fil strips. Churches, like people, 1: what they are convinced tiiey ne what they want badly enough. It just that simple. Now, if some concern can rent fil strips for a while and get churcl started using them, get them depei ent on them to a considerable degr will these churches not then begin: buy? We believe they will. Service Publication The Audio-Visual Resource Gu is a unique publication. It is comp hensive, reliable, usable and just ab< indispensable. Now that it is sold the rock-bottom price of $2.95, church, no minister, no director shot be without it. Just the other da> minister phoned me from a nearby C for information right there in ' guide. If he does that twice he \ pay the phone company the pricei the Guide. The Fifth Edition contains evali tions of 3,000 church-related mot pictures, filmstrips, recordings a slide sets, arranged through the b< I alphabetically. Himdreds of chui workers, educators and A\' lead have hammered out these evaluatii as preview committees meet month month in many parts of the count 38 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — January, 15