The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

21Q The Educational Screen Official Department of The Visual Instruction Association of America OFFICERS President— Eenest L. Crandall, Director of Lectures and Visual Instruction in the New " York Schools, New York City. Vice-President— A. G. Balcom, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Newark, New Jersey. Recording Secretary— Dou Carlos Ellis, formerly Director of Motion Picture Division of United States Department of Agriculture. Treasurer— Charles H. Mills, Director of Publicity of the Boy Scouts of America. Corresponding Secretary — Rowland Rogers, Instructor in Motion Picture Production at Columbia University. This deipartment is conducted by the Association to present items of interest on visual education to members of the Association and the public. The Educational Screen assumes no responsibility for the views herein expressed. Luncheon Given in honor of Dr. Charles H. Judd Don Carlos Ellis, Recording Secretary A LUNCHEON, in honor of Dr. Charles H. and Mr. Payson Smith, Commissioner of Educa Judd, Dean of Education of the University tion of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of Chicago and recently appointed by the For the reason that Doctor Judd was to leave National Education Association as Chairman of early in the afternoon for Chicago, he was in a committee to cooperate with the Motion Picture troduced as the first speaker. Doctor Judd briefly Producers and Distributors Association in investi outlined in a most general way the problem of the gating the production and use of pedagogical use of motion pictures in connection with school films, was given by the Visual Instruction As work, as it appeared to him. He emphasized the sociation of America at Hotel Astor, New York great importance of the subject and stressed the City, on April 14th. About seventy-five members need of careful investigation and experimentation and guests were in attendance. Mr. Ernest L. in arriving at the report which the committee Crandall presided. Before introducing the speak hopes to present to the meeting of the National ers, Mr. Crandall stated the significance of the Education Association at San Francisco next June gathering, explained something of the work and and July. Doctor Judd called attention to the purposes of the Visual Instruction Association benefits to be derived from producers and users and outlined the circumstances surrounding the of films coming together in cooperation to deter appointment of the Judd Committee to work with mine what films the schools needed and what the Hays organization. Mr. Crandall announced the producers could furnish. He stated that the the other members of the Committee as fol producers had many films in their vaults and that lows : Miss Elizabeth Hall, Assistant Superin one of the problems was to make such film avail tendent of Schools of Minneapolis; Miss Eliza able. He feels that more experimentation is beth Breckenridge, Principal Louisville Normal needed in evaluating film for school use since no School; Mr. Leonard Ayres, of the Cleveland adequate tests have up to this time been made Trust Company; Miss Susan B. Dorsey, Super and that for use in these experiments it would be intendent of Schools of Los Angeles, California, necessary to prepare a scientifically pedagogical Owing to the abimdance of other material for this month's issue, Mr. Crandall's serial article, "Thumb Nail Sketches in Visual Instruction," has been omitted. The series will be continued next month. — Editor's Note.