The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

M.m, 19)2 Page 143 year we took 40 reds of movies of track meets, foot ball games and other happenings of interest to the pupils." List of Health Films Available Since the announcement of the List of Visual Aids in Health and Physical Education in the January is- sue of The Educational Screen, Mr. Franklin B. Hoar write- that he has received many requests for this list and that reprints are now available. This li>t was revised and appeared in the April issue of the Journal of Health and Physical Education, published by the American Physical Education Association, Box 363, Ann Arbor. Michigan. Reprint- may be pur- chased at a very nominal cost by writing u> Mr. Elmer Mitchell. Editor >>f the Journal. S. M. P. E. Museum The Society of Motion Picture Engineers ha- estab- lished in the Los Angeles Museum a collection con- taining several thousand objects which show the evolution of the motion picture industry. Among the exhibit- represented are: Muybridge with his "Horse in Motion" experiments for Leland Stanford, various models of projectors including Edi- son, Edison Exhibition Model, Pathe, Amet, Eden- graph, Motiograph, Kinema-Kolor. e exhibit that represents about six years' work is a collection of 1,200 authentic specimens of film made by the pioneers. They vary from four milli- meters to four inches in width. There are 200 differ- ent color attempts recorded, as well as sound, third dimension, processes, and outstanding pictures, and the first piece of film made on the celluloid supplied by < ieorge Eastman to Edison in 1889, and transpar- ent paper used prior to the advent of celluloid. Round Table at N. U. E. A. A visual instruction round table was a feature of the 1932 conference of the National University Exten- sion Association, which was held in Minneapolis, Min- nesota, May 11-13, 1932. The round table meeting was held at noon on Thursday, May 12, and was well attended. The discussions centered around the prob- lems of visual aid extension service to the schools, as offered by several members of the N. U. E. A. Mr. Ellsworth C. Dent, Secretary of the Bureau of Visual Instruction, University Extension Division, University of Kansas, acted as chairman of the round table. Last year. Mr. Dent was appointed representative of the X. C. E. A. to national visual instruction organizations. N ews Briefs From California The Visual Aid- Section of the California Teachers' Association, Southern Section, adopted a program of teacher training a- their main objective at their Spring (.(inference in 1931. The development of the program ha- been put in the hands of a recently formed com- mittee known as the Committee on Teacher Training of the Visual Aids Section. California Teachers' As- sociation S. S. with Mary Clint Irion of Los Angeles as chairman. The committee decided upon certain preliminary procedures. A. To ascertain just what i- being done in the way of training teachers in this field throughout the L'nited State- and in California in particular by writing let- ters to and interviewing deans of education, presidents of teacher:-' colleges, etc.. asking the following ques- tion- : 1. 1- any training given in the use of visual aids to your teachers in training or through extension courses to teachers, supervisors, and administrat- or- in service? 2. If so. does this training pertain to the pedagogical application of the various types of aids, or does it refer to the mechanical problems of the use of MARGARET S. WHITE, Pasadena MARY CLINT IRION, Los Angeles pictures and other visual aids, or both? 3. If you have any such courses, will you please send us a copy of the syllabus of the course? 4. Do you ex|>ect to do anything further than you are now doing in this field? 5. Is it your belief that any further training than teachers in general now have is necessary ? B. To secure the advice and cooperation of the edu- cational leaders close at hand through personal inter- views. C. To submit to the various publications in the field accounts of successful experience in the use of visual tools, and articles of interest regarding the work of the committee. D. To prepare a bibliography of visual aids for the use of instructors in teacher-training institutions who might wish to inform themselves more fully in this held. E. To consider the preparation of a handbook on visual aids. F. If the results of our survey so justify, to present to the State Hoard of Education a plea for the inclu- i Concluded on fat* 145 >