The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

364 Lantern and Slide The Educational Screen MOTSCO GENERATOR Operates on any AUTOMOBILE or I RU K. Produces ELEC1 ivICITY for Motion Picture Machines and Theatre illumination. Gives the most satisfactory results for LIGHTLMG your School. Church, Lodge or Home. Weight of Complete Outfit only 44 pounds. Full details and literature upon request. Machines — Film and All Equipment for Visual Education MONARCH THEATRE SUPPLY CO., 724 So. Wabash Ave. Dept. 32 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS receive the set and serial number by whicb the slide is identified in storage, but wherever possible such data should also be placed on the mat where they will not become obliterated. Do not attach the labels by rubb'ng all the paste Oiff on a wet sponge and then expect them to sHck on glass. The best, if not a particularly refined method, is to wet them on the tongue, but if this is objected to the moisture should be applied with a small brush preferably dampened in a weak gum solution and the label should be very carefully rubbed down as soon as applied. If this is done there is no reason why it should not last as long as the slide itself. The proper position for the thumb label is the lower left hand corner of the slide when viewed as it appears on the screen. When properly placed the operator picks up the slide by the label while standing on the right hand side of the lantern and it will then appear as it should. The English slide is usually marked with two dots on the upper corners. There are eight ways of putting an English size sHde in the lantern and seven of them are wrong. Unless thumb-labeled the odds are strongly against the operator. The title label should be about 3>^" long and should not project beyond the end of the glass. While this is usually attached to the face of the sljide on the same side as the thumb label, it is better to put it on the back, attaching it to the transparency rather than the cover glass. Many times the binding becomes loosened and the cover glass falls away in handl'ng and if the label is attached to the cover glass it may be lost or misplaced, causing confusion when the slide is sent in for repairs. C. E. C Please Write to Advertisers and I Visual Instruction at the N. E. A {Concluded from page 343) When it is considered that it was only year and a half ago at Chicago that the V^isual Instruction Association was first conceived; that it was organized only a year ago at Boston; that the first motion pictures shown in actual conjunction with the sessions of the N. E. A. were presented at Cleveland last winter, it will be seen how rapid and how wide have been the strides in the direction of increased interest in this field. Whereas, all efforts heretofore made in the direction of incorporating motion picture instruction in the regular program of school activities has been undertaken almost with fear and timidity, there is now a general recognition that no school is up-to-date that does not have its motion picture equipment; that the ideal equipment should bring the motion picture into the class room, or where this js impossible, the specific classes interested must be brought to the auditorium; that no normal school provides adequate curriculum facilities to its students unless some provision is made for training them in technique and the art of motion picture instruction; and that no city school system making a pretense of being up-todate can much longer neglect the appointment of a properly equipped supervisor of visual instruction, in whose hands should lie the full development of this newest and most efficient instrument of education. The annual meeting of the Visual Instruction Association of America was held at Oakland on Tuesday, July 3, at which time the entire official board was elected with the sole exception that owing to the services of Charles H. Mills being no longer available, Mr. George P. Foute, 71 West 23rd Street, New York, N. Y.. was elected as treasurer. \ Mention The Educational Screen