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The Status of Audio-Visual Instruction 13
aids when and as they are needed.
It should be mentioned here that, although the 1936 survey was the most complete at the time, many more schools have begun the systematic use of audio-visual aids during the past few years than during any similar period in the past. Thousands of filmstrip projectors, motion-picture projectors, radio receiving sets, phonographs, and school sound systems have been purchased by schools. Also it is reported that schools have purchased thousands of filmslides, motion pictures, lantern slides, and phonograph records, which would change the general picture considerably from what it was in 1936.
Survey by U. S. Department of Commerce
At the request of the nontheatrical motion-picture industry, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is making a survey of facilities for showing educational and industrial motion pictures among all schools in the individual states and territories of the United States. This survey is being conducted in co-operation with the U. S. Office of Education and the American Council on Education. The cost of the survey was underwritten by fifteen of the leading film distributors and manufacturers of projection equipment.
Part I of the completed survey, "Motion-Picture Equipment in Colleges and High Schools," was published in January, 1941, and is being distributed by the Educational Department, RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., Camden, New Jersey. The survey data, reported in Part I, include those high schools and colleges which own, can borrow, or can rent motion-picture projectors for 16 mm. or 35 mm. film, silent or sound. In addition, similar data are included concerning silent and sound slide film projectors. These data are summarized in the introduction to the published report of the high school and college portion of the survey* as follows:
"The present survey covers 12,443 16 mm. motion-picture projectors and 2447 35 mm. motion-picture projectors which were reported as owned by colleges and high schools in the United States and its possessions. Of the 12,443 16 mm. projectors, 6059 are silent and 6384 are equipped for sound. Of the 2447 35 mm. projectors, 1624 are silent and 823 are sound.
"Of the total number of projectors in the United States and its
*"Survey of Motion-Picture Equipment in Colleges and High Schools in the United States and Its Possessions," 1941. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.