The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 52 The Educational Screen Pictures as Teaching Aids"—Dr. V. C. Arnspiger, Director of Research, Electrical Research Products, Inc. The afternoon session was devoted to an exhibition of Teaching Aids in the classroom and also a com- mercial display of machinery, equipment and material useful to the teacher. Chicago Branch Meets The Second Meeting of the Metropolitan Chicago Visual Education Association, affiliated with the Na- tional Education Association, Department of Visual Instruction, was held Saturday, February 11, 1933, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M., at the McCormick Branch of the Young ^\'omen's Christian Association. All persons interested in the wider and more effec- tive use of lantern slides and motion picture films in schools, churches, clubs, and public libraries, were invited to be present. The program included the following: Forenoon Session at 10:00 A. M. Dr. H. Ambrose Perrin, Superintendent of Joliet Public Schools, presiding. 1. Opening remarks by the President. 2. Address and Demonstra,tion: "Slides Made in the Class Room"—Miss S. Naomi Anderson, Visual Instruction Department, Chicago Board of Education. Discussion. Membershij' Application Blank Office of the Secretary, Department of Visual Instruction, 1812 Illinois Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Date I herewith make application for D .\ctive □ Asso- ciate D Institutional D Contributing Membership in the Department of Visual Instruction of the National Eduaction Association, combined with the National Academy of Visual Instruction, covering the period of one year from date. Check below the preferred date for payment of dues. n Remittance attached □ First of next month. D Name Position Residence City and State I am CD ) a member of the I am not D ( National Education Association Note: Make checks payable to the Department of Visual Instruction. 3. Address and Demonstration: "Teaching Pri- mary Reading with Lantern Slides"—Miss Marie E. Cuddy. 4. Business Session. Luncheon at 12:00 Nuon Paul G. Edwards, Visual Instruction Department. Chicago Public Schools, Presiding. Short Talks at Lunch Topic: "Some Progress Observed in \'isual Instruction'' Speakers—Dr. Dudley Grant Hays, Miss Stella E. Myers, Nelson L. Greene. Afternoon Session at 1:30 P. M. Dr. Perrin, Presiding. 5. Address: "How a County Superintendent Uses Educational Motion Picture Films"—W. C. Petty, County Superintendent of Public Schools. Waukegan County, Illinois. 6. Address: "Teaching Dental Health by Play Project Method"—William F. Kruse. A projection of the film "Grandfather Molar," loaned through the Courtesy of the Chicago Dental Society, will be made. 7. Address: "University Program of Educational Talking Pictures"—Dr. Frank N. Freeman, School of Education, University of Chicago. A projection of some of the sound pictures made with the co-operation of the University of Chicago will be made. Special Visual Department Meeting in June The two-meetings-a-year ])ractice of the national visual instruction (organizations in the i)ast will be changed for 1933. The usual February meeting will be combined with the summer meeting, and will be held concurrently with the sunuuer session of the National Education Association at Chicago next June. This concentration of effort should mean a still more significant program than at preceding semi-amuial sessions. Film Production Activities {Concluded from page SO) h'raunhofer and Company, Berlin, is European rep- resentative of Mentor, with offices in Berlin. Ham- burg, Budapest and Vienna. He is also general man- ager of Photochrome Company, Inc., which controls the \\'olfe-Hiede process of natural color production in both 35 and 16 millimeter. The fir.st releases of Mentor Pictures in the edu- cational and scientific fields will be available March 15. Sound tracks for the American market will be recorded in New York. Silent versions will be edited bv Thomas Hogan, formerly with Pathe Audio Re- view, who also will be in charge of all recording.