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

NEW! The WILD RICE Story . . . "Mahnomen — Harvest of the North" 17 Min. Color $170. NEW! Behind the scenes on a scientific expedition with Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN" 17 Min. Color $170 Preview prints from FILM RESEARCH COMPANY Box 1015, Minnoopolis 40, Minnototo. s cratches on film distract attention The whole purpose of your films may be frustrated by damaged physical condition Peerless Reconditioning restores films to presentable condition and keeps them in service EERLESS FILM PROCESSING CORPORATION 165 WEST 46lli STREET. NEW YORK 36, NEW YORK 95« SEWARD STREET, HOUYWOOO 31, CALIF. ber 1 issues of each offered four exercises in the appropriate language, each intended for specific instructional purposes. Each offers experience in comprehension (with the foreign language spoken at normal speed), imitation (with adequate pauses for student imitation of heard sounds) and questions (with provision in record timing for student responses) followed by the presentation of the correct answers with added time allowance for student repetition. The most startling development is the presentation of an inexpensive (a quarter!) 7-inch 33.3 rpm recording which becomes the property of the student and which goes home for practice use. This gives the teacher an immediate opportunity to send the speech model home with the studentsomething she could never do before! Then, there are the everlasting favorites, the fairy tales. And these too have invaded the language field. Or is the reverse true? Has the study and teaching for foreign languages invaded the field of stories for children? Spoken Arts offers "Contes Des Fees" (Spoken Arts 787) which includes "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge," "CendrUlon," "Les Fees" and "La Barbe Bleue." You will immediately recognize these as "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "The Fairies" and "Blue Beard." These are read with simplicity and charm as are the stories included in "Ninos . . . dejad que OS cuente un cuento." (Folkways FC 7833) which includes six favorite stories for children, including "Rumpelstiltskin," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Puss in Boots," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella" and "Hop o' My Thumb." Either of these recordings may be used in beginning language classes to speed aural comprehension and language FREE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS DIRECTORY OF RECORD PRODUCERS ON 3 X 5 CARDS AN AUDIO CARDALOG EXTRA already distributed free to all subscribers ORDER AUDIO CARDALOG BEFORE September 15, 1961 AND GET YOUR FREE DIRECTORY, TOO Audio CARDALOG PC Box 1771 Albany 1, New York Directory available at $5.00 to subscribers after September 15, 1961. understanding, giving the student bot confidence and facility. Perhaps the subtlest factor involve in these several presentations, eac involving the considered judgment c an imi)ortant sector of the languag materials suppliers, is that althoug applicable to the so-called 'languag laboratory,' they are not fundamer tally laboratory materials solely ust ful in these machines, but rather ar intended for classroom presentatior involving teacher and student in im mediate and continuing contact, bu are applicable to the machine as wel The machine application is definitely and appropriately, secondary. Keep Up With Jones'es Speaking of language laboratories we were rather shocked at recent ev; dence of the position these have take in sales presentations and school pridi Certainly we had never anticipate that the "Madison Avenue approach would become an issue in sales t schoolmen but it may indeed hav done just that. One neighbor chil called on us recently and proudly ai nounced that, in assembly program their principal had informed the; that "now our school will be as mwl em as any because we will have language laboratory in Septembeil This, the child proudly told us, macj the school an 'up to date' school. We chanced to meet the schol principal a few days later, a chan we manufactured, and the discussiil of the new installation indicated 1 1 development of an electronic— nn I chanical monstrosity which would everything but grade the papers a I put on boots and snowsuits come w ter. We did not ask, but we suspect will also pour tea at PTA meetirj next year. We asked about the materials to used in the new installation and were assured that this was really problem. After all, the salesman H assured the principal that staff mel bers could make the recordings, i f after all they needed only to reol what was in the text book and t would meet individual needs beca each student would be working se-] rately. Further, he added, "We now have a modern language j | gram!" 'Twas not so long ago (less than] years!) that the central sound sys f was sold on exacdy the same bol And the pictorial representation oim status symbol was a stuffed-sl-| smug, self-satisfied, fatuous wholly superior 'school administrsj 244 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 1