Business screen magazine (1942)

INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD ISSUES A REPORT ON TRAINING PICTURES ■^ The Natiowl iNDisTHrAi. Conference Board has undertaken a fairly comprehensiMreport on the use of films for training workers and in the recent issuance of its study ] isuul Aids in Industrial Training has added considerable favorable evidence on the value of these materials in speeding our war program. 239 companies, many of them out.standini: producers of war materials, were surveyed li\ S. Avery Kaube of the Management Research Division of the Board. The result appears tu be "an overwhelming opinion that films are a valuable supplement to an industrial training program." The "considerable differences of opinion concerning their uses, advantages and limitations" apparently form the major part of this analysis. Section Five of the Report which deals with the evaluation of the contribution of visual aids to industrial training offers the most interesting testimony in the study. In discussing the advantages of visual aids, for example. e.\ecutives of 121 companies cooperated by providing a detailed compilation in which eleven different advantages were mentioned most frequently. Understanding of Subject Matter was an advantage stated most frequently (^by 108 or 89.3 '^r in the replies. I Interest in Learning and Retention of Material Learned were advantages also most frequently agreed upon. Other sections of the Report deal with the general use of pictures in education, their current use in industrial training, relation to programs, future use and problems and methods of projection. Copies are available only to member Associates of The Conference Board and are not available for public sale. NEW TRAINING MATERIALS rif A new film Drafting Tips, designed to be ;shown to students who have had 40 to 50 hours of drafting instruction in order to impress -tandard practices and procedures not empha-ized in textbooks on the subject, is available through the production facilities of Pennsylvania Mate College, at State (College. Pa. Another subject. Construction of a Light Airplane, proiuced by the .same source, will be of especial interest to flight classes. * The National Safety (Council has announced T omen and Machines as the latest in the vvellcnown series of sound slidefilm programs proi luced for its members. How fo Hold a SlideHlm Program — II 1 U. S. Office of Education Awards Picture Contracts * Announcement was made the past month of the awarding of contracts for 105 sound motion pictures for war training by the United States Office of Education. Films on shipbuilding, aviation construction, ma chine tool operation and other subjects have been awarded the following: Atlas Educational Film Company Bray Pictures Corporation The Calvin Company Dehienes and Company The Jam Handy Organization HarFilms. Incorporated Hugh Harm an Productions Jamieson Film Company Medical Film Guild Photo and Sound. Inc. Ray-Bell Films. Inc. R. C. M. Productio.ns Spot Film Productions. Inc. Emerson Vorke Studios ♦ R. M. McFarland & Associates. Chicago visual specialists, have a series of sound slidefilms on problems relating to women workers in war industrv. for general sale at economical cost. WHAT THE PLANTS WANT ♦ A universal need for pictures dealing with blue print reading is noted in the volume of correspondence received by Bt siness Screen on the subject. Apparently subjects now available do not completely fill the demand. The field of radio production and electronics in general is almost completely devoid of training subjects and again the demand is extremely heavT. Next in volume of requests is the universal plea for a strong, psychologically, powerful motion picture dealing with industrial safety. Thou.sands of plants unequipped with sound slidefilm apparatus also feel that there is an emotional appeal to be stressed that can be made most successfully in this way as well as serving their ecpiipnient. Needless to say a need still exists for a motion picture on the utilization of visual training aids. Plans for such a production have been made and the sooner one is provided for the guidance of war plant training departments, the better. Sequences on the operation and care of modern lf)mm sound equipment would be an important help to thousands of present owners. In the field of industry, films dealing with structural tests are needed for all aircraft plants. The electrical industry also needs films. These brief scenes from a complete new filmstrip present.ition on good showmanship are worth remembering (OVER) No darWening ol windom is neceMary for •hmU classes ol 10 ot 15 students ii the room ha* no direct sunlicht. Wim The screen should be in the darkest part ol the room. t'umbfir Seven • 19i.l i I' >