The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 260 The Educational Screen 16MM. SOUND ON FILM for REIVT — EXCHAIVGE — SALE A few of our Large Catalogue of REIVTAL SUBJECTS WILD INNOCENCE * LOST JUNGLE *■ GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST * KEEPER OF THE BEES * I CONQUER THE SEA -k MILLION DOLLAR BABY * IN OLD SANTA FE • MAN'S BEST FRIEND * OH YEAH • HEARTS OF HUMANITY * BLACK GOLD * STRANGERS OF THE EVENING • CITY LIMITS • HANDICAP * KLONDIKE * HIGH GEAR * PARDON MY GUN ■* YOUNG DYNAMITE • LAST OF THE WARRENS * WILDERNESS MAIL * KENTUCKY BLUE STREAK * all PETER B. KYNE'S sub- jects: all RICHARD TALMADGE and RIN TIN TIN, Jr. subjects: all TOM TYLER. JACK PERRIN and JACK HOXIE WESTERNS: all FRED SCOTT'S MUSICAL WESTERNS. Altogether 300 Features and 600 Shorts from which to pick your prof^rams Not One Mediocre Picture in Our Library Film Rental Catalogue — Film Sale Catalogue "Write for them CINE CLASSIC LIBRARY 1041 JEFFERSON AVK. BROOKLYN, N. Y. 2 EDUCATIONAL SOUND FILMS BRING THE HISTORY OF THE TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF UNITED STATES VIVIDLY TO LIFE. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1783 TO 1853 (2 reels) Depicts the Erciwth of the United States from colonial infancy to full continental s'ature. Animated maps are used extensively and boundary disputes are clearly explained. The subject is portrayed in a manner to accord with modtrn teachinR methods. TERRITORIAL POSSESSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES (2 reels) Continues the story of American Expansio.n. It shows. in chronological order, how Alaska. Hawaii, and the other possessions were acquired. Animated maps and authentic views of America's far flung outposts. Original mi;tion pictures of historic personalities and events. Study guides are being prepared for both films. Write for descriptive literature INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PICTURES 52 VANDERBILT AVENUE NEW YORK, NEW YORK MR. ROOSEVELT,***^*^<^^ t WON'T YOU PLEASE RUN AGAIN?" % a- a- A grateful testimonial in song and picture to the man -whose vision and program has aided Democracy and Education so greatly. Music by popul.tr song writer Jay Gorney Directed by Frank Tuttle ONE REEL — 16 mm Soundfilm — Sale or Rent ^ Sheet Music — 35c each Records — 75c each • SOLE AGENTS • GARRISON FILMS "°° broadway NEW YORK CITY «■ •t!cii-i!^iii!ii-bi!i!i!iti!iii!i!i!t!i!i!-k-ii-ic{t-i!-iiix-(s-txiji:-iiii-ti-ixt!i!ii-{iii Make Your Own Grouncl Glass Slides easily and quickly, by using GLASSIVE, an abrasive which makes ground glass slides from plain cover glass for only a fraction of a cent each ! 50c package. Foe IVon-Photographic Slides use CELLOSLIDE. Has many uses—for enlarging illustrative ma- terials, for making song slides, announcements, cheers, etc. Elimi- nates necessity of writing on glass. 500 sheets for $1.00. TEACIIIIMG AIDS SERVICE JA^'A'CA PI «IN MASSACHUSETTS City, a four-reel film on municipal planning, financed by the Carnegie Corporation, is being shown regularly. Florida Film Session A two-day showing of about forty new educational films in six curricular fields, was conducted by the General Extension Division of the University of Florida at Gainesville June 23 and 24 to acquaint Florida edu- cators with new productions. Lectures and class dem- onstrations com])leted the program. SMPE Fall Convention Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, national head- quarters of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, will be the scene of the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Society, to be held October 16 to 19, inclusive. The technical progress which the motion picture in- dustry has made in the past year will be reviewed at tl'.e Convention, in many outstanding technical papers presented by the industries' leading engineers and executives. Progress in Wyoming An increasing and more effective use of visual aids in the schools of Wyoming is promised by a resolution adopted at the State Convention of the Education Association at Rawlins last year. The resolution reads: "Sufficient educational films are now available that the school authorities in Wyom- ing should give special attention to the introduction of all forms of visual aids to education." It is anticipated that the sectional meetings at the Dis- trict and State conventions in the fall of 1939 will give teachers an opportunity to become better ac- quainted with the latest trends in the field through panel discussions and demonstration lessons. Among Ourselves (Concluded from page 247) the development of the Fir.st Yearbook of the De- partment. The Society for Curriculum Study has ap- pointed Edgar Dale to act as chairman, in collabora- tion with F. Dean McClusky, chairman for our De- partment. The Joint Yearbook will show how visual aids can be integrated into the modern curriculum. 7. The Committee working with the Sloan Founda- tion regarding the ]jroduction of films on economic problems recommended that the Foundation proceed with its ]5lans, and add to them a program of teacher training in the use of films for economics. (Since the meeting, an Educational Film Institute, under the di- rection of Dr. Spencer Pollard, economist from Har- vard, has been established at New York University by the Sloan Foundation.) 8. The Teacher Training Committee has sent out a questionnaire regarding techniques of instruction to summer session instructors. 9. The revised constitution was passed, and copies will be mailed to members. 10. The Educational Screex shall continue for the next year to be the official publication for the De- partment.