NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1964)

Leon Lishner. The program was produced by KUON-TV, Lincoln. ^ “Exploring Basic Economics,” a series of 12 programs writ¬ ten by economist and author L. C. Michelon for the South Carolina ETV Center at Columbia, will be shown over the state ETV network this fall in cooperation with technical education centers across the state. ^ A program about the South Carolina Eye Bank, “Out of Darkness into Light,” was recently televised over ETV sta¬ tions WITV, Charleston, and WNTV, Greenville. Produced at the ETV Center at Columbia, the program is a panel dis¬ cussion, featuring Ted Hunter, newly elected president of the Eye Bank Association of America. ► “The Films of Robert Ford,” a recent three-program series over WTTW, Chicago, is about a young Evanston resident who was graduated from Northwestern University two years ago and has since been making his living as a producer of award-winning films. It features interviews with Ford and excerpts from his works, Which have won awards from the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Committee on International Non- Theatrical Events, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. ^ The lecture-recitals and master classes of University of Wisconsin visiting professor of music Paul Badura-Skoda, recorded during his campus appointment last spring, are be¬ ing replayed this fall over WHA radio and TV. The master classes may be circulated by NET. Publications • Mass Media and National Development, 333 pages, by Wilbur Schramm has just been published jointly by Stanford University and UNESCO in Paris. $7.50. • 50c buys Teaching about the United Nations, a new 110- page book by the Office of Education of the Department of HEW. Write the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Gov¬ ernment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402. • An article on South Carolina’s ETV network appears in the August issue of the American Bar Association Journal . Written by William F. Able, a Columbia attorney, the article is entitled “Continuing Legal Education By TV.” It describes the role of the network in assisting South Carolina attorneys to keep informed on legal matters. • Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear: Some Key Film-Makers of the Sixties, by London Times film critic John Russell Taylor, emphasizes the work of Antonioni, Fellini, Bunuel, Bresson, Bergman, and Hitchcock, with some study of Truffaut, God¬ ard, and Resnais. Illustrated with 32 pages of photographs, the book is available from Hill and Wang, 141 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, for $5.95. • Describing over 50,000 non-book educational materials, the Educational Media Index is the first comprehensive directory in the field. The 14-volume set was published by McGraw- Hill after a three-year USOE-financed study done by the Educational Media Council. • “The Show That Wasn’t There,” a TV and radio column by Robert Lewis Shayon on page 27 of the August 15 Sat¬ urday Review, criticizes MSU’s WMSB for deciding not to show the third play in a controversial trilogy on race rela¬ tions they had already videotaped and states that film prints of the three plays are available to TV stations free of charge from the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai Brith, 315 Lexing¬ ton Avenue, New York, N. Y., 10016. • On page 50 in the same issue of Saturday Review, David Stewart, secretary of the JCEB, discusses a new college in the Virgin Islands. • A revised edition of The Audio Visual Advisor by Salva¬ tore J. and Dolores F. Parlato is available from Market Sta¬ tion Box 25, Buffalo, N. Y., 14203, for $1.50. 76 pages. • “Free-Lance Job Opportunity: Educational Television,” by Nancy Vogel, appears in the September 1964 issue of Writer’s Digest. PLACEMENT PERSONNEL AVAILABLE (For information, write Miss Julie Hunt, Placement Service, at the NAEB office in Washington.) October I Position in management, research, state develop¬ ments, or college/university academic affairs. Experience in management affairs, research, state and national agencies, and teaching (elementary through graduate school). Minimum salary $12,000. October 2 Married man, 40, with B.A. and 13 years of ex¬ perience in all phases of broadcasting—sales, program¬ ing, management and ownership. Extremely capable “on air." Interested primarily in challenging position. Will consider any area or foreign country. Would be will¬ ing to teach, program, or manage. Considerable ex¬ perience in broadcasting and public relations. Starting salary $10,000. October 3 Employed Hollywood writer-producer-creator of network programs wishes to establish contact for next year as college teacher or with TV/radio station. Mar¬ ried, 48, two children. B.A. in speech, working on M.A. Started in radio, over-all knowledge of radio and TV. Salary $10,000 minimum. October 4 Experienced producer and director in one of na¬ tion's top ETV stations seeks further opportunity in pub¬ lic affairs and instructional programing in social sciences. He is young enough (24) to work long and hard to cre¬ ate a meaningful and entertaining product. He is married and responsible enough to complete a project within understandable limits posed by his superiors. He would prefer an academic community where his M.A. in po¬ litical science can be completed, and a $5500 to $6500 salary so he can afford it. October 5 Graduate student completing work on master's thesis now available for immediate employment. Engaged, 25, B.S. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: M.A. in communications expected 1/65 from Univer¬ sity of North Carolina. Desires position in ETV (oppor¬ tunity for some teaching preferred). Areas of special in¬ terest are programing and program development: pub¬ lic affairs and station administration. Has workshop ex¬ perience in all phases of production from “cable pulling" to directing. Experienced in theater and in the opera¬ tion of film societies. Interested more in the position and the opportunity it presents than in salary or location. October 6 Electronic technician—FCC First Class license. De¬ sires to earn an ETV technical career through a position affording growth and security. Male, 25, single. US Army service as a reporter-photographer for the Army Pic¬ torial Center. Graduate of R'CA Institutes course in TV production, direction and studio operations. Prefers lo¬ cation in Pennsylvania vicinity. October 7 Commercial TV art director desires similar job in ETV. Married, 32, two children. Experience: 2/2 years in commercial TV as artist, photographer, cameraman, producer, and talent of children's show; 6 years in edu¬ cational, professional and semi-professional theater as designer. B.A. in stage designing: 2 years graduate school. Minimum salary $6800-$750Q. POSITION AVAILABLE (In order to be considered through these channels, the reader must be an Individual Member of the NAEB, with credentials on file with the NAEB Placement Service. Non-members can save time by sending the $10 annual dues and $5 Placement registration fee at the time of inquiry.) OCT-1 Mideastern university needs young learning resources man to plan and develop activities with a new all-uni¬ versity television office. 'Experience with other instruc¬ tional materials desirable. Part-time graduate study pos¬ sible for candidate without Ph.D. Salary according to experience and training. 4 NEWSLETTER