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

News people organizations events DA VI Registration Hits 3,250 at Florida Convention The final registration count for the annual convention of the Department of Audiovisual Instruction, NEA, was 3,250. The event, held April 24-28 in Miami Beach, attracted more than 1,600 out-of-state visitors. Much of the rest consisted of building audiovisual coordinators who were released from their duties for a day to take in the convention. F. Edgai' Lane was local convention chairman. Named DA VI president for 1961 was Ernest Tiemann, director of the Visual Instruction bureau. University of Texas. SMPTE Members Hear New Advances In 8mm Film New developments which are bringing soimd to 8mm motion picture film were the topic of a May 9 session during the 89th convention of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in Toronto, Canada, at 9:00 a.m. John Flory, advisor on non-theatrical films for Eastman Kodak Company, who opened the session with a discussion of "The Future Role of 8mm Sound Film," considered 8mm sound film "another milestone in the communications revolution," which may extend the boundaries of the motion-picture industiy ju.st as paperbacks have extended the field of publishing . Some major technical and economic obstacles must be overcome, he says, however, before the potential of 8mm for home entertainment, community service, religion, medicine, science, business and industry, and education can be fuly realized. William D. Hedden and Kenneth B. Curtis of Calvin Productions, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, presented a paper in this session on "Early 8mm Sound Developments." CCNY Presents Flaherty Awards For Year 1960 City College of New York presented its 12th annual Robert J. Flaherty Award for "outstanding creative achievement" in films of a factual nature to Primanj, the filmed account of the 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary between President John F. Kennedy and Senator Hubert Humphrey. Honorable mention in the annual competition went to the NBC television documentary Sit-in and to Pow Wow, a record of the rehearsal in the rain by the University of Minnesota marching band. Educational Media Council Names Foster Director The appointment of J. Edwin Foster, Ed. D., to the post of executive director of the Educational Metiia Council, with offices at 250 West .57tli Street, New York City, has been announced by EMC Chairman Dr. This display was created to dramatize the film service of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The library through its film department, lends 16mni sound films, filmstrips and slides free of charge to organized groups and responsil)le adults in the city of Baltimore. The collection includes documentaries, subjects of general adult interest, and other selected films. J. Edwin Foster Charles F. Schuller, director of the Michigan State University Audio-Visual Center. The council is an organization of national associations dedicated to advancing the use of new media in the Nation's schools. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and Indiana University, Dr. Foster was formerly with the American Heart Association where he established and directed the Department of Audio-Visual Materials., For a year prior to that, he was an associate professor of adult education at the University of Manitoba after having .spent two years as a W^estcm Canadian representative of the National Film Board of Canada. He also has served as a teacher and principal in Canadian schools. For the Educational Media Council, Dr. Foster will direct all staff services and will act as special piojects director for the programs developed by the organization. Transatlantic Exchange Of Tapes By Students Students of Muskegon High School (Mich.) and students in Bologna, Italy, are exchanging views and opin (Continued on Page 268) 266 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1961