The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 322 The Educational Screen '^ii/et^itotiaU Editorial Advisory Board WITH real satisfaction we are now able to an- nounce the new Editorial Advisory Board which will be functioning officially as of January 1st, 1940. The list stands exactly as chosen by the ballots sent to 24 leading figures in the field, on a return of 22 out of the 24 ballots. Eight representatives each from the West, Midwest and East constituted the 24 electors. How fully we concur in the choice is evident from the fact that the magazine's own "hope" list for the Board personnel contained fifteen names, and all ten of the "elects" are among the fifteen. Thirty-five names received votes on the 22 ballots. The eleven highest were well out in front of the other candidates. One of the eleven refused to serve. The final Board of Ten therefore stands as follows, alphabetically: Ward C. Bowen, Director, Visual Instruction Division, Uni- versity of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y. Marian Evans, Director, Visual Instruction Center, Public Schools, San Diego, Cal. . W. M. Gregory, Director, Educational Museum, Public Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. J. E. Hansen, Chief, Bureau of Visual Instruction, Extension Division, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. J. A. HoLLiNGER, Director, Department of Science and Visual- ization, Public Schools, Pittsburgh, Pa. Boyd B. Rakestraw, Assistant Director, Extension Division, University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Paul C. Reed, Director, Department of Radio and Visual Education, Board of Education, Rochester, N. Y. W. Gayle Starnes, in charge of Audio-Visual Aids, Depart- ment of University Extension, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Lelia Trolinger, Secretary, Bureau of Visual Instruction, Extension Division, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. W. W. Whittinghill, Director, Department of Visual and Radio Education, Board of Education, Detroit, Mich. It will be noted, interestingly enough, that the re- gional distribution of the Board is perfect—three each from the West, Midwest and East. The tenth member would have made four for the Midwest but the one refusal mentioned shifted the extra representation to the East. The even distribution in the result was evidently not caused by the evenly distributed electorate. Not a single one of the ten was elected by votes from his own region. This is also shown by total votes re- ceived by eleven leaders which summed respectively 17, 15, 14, 13, 13, 12, 10. 10, 9. 8, 7. The other 24 of the 35 candidates showed scattering totals of from six to two votes each. School-Made Movies THE production of films by schools and colleges has been a slow but steady development in this field and is now attaining significant proportions. Inquiries from many quarters as to "what is going on in this line" are greatly on the increase, but witliout adequate answers available from any source. Announcements have been made at various times and places that some- body was going to assemble complete data for answer- ing these questions. We have referred correspondents repeatedly to the announced sources but with only vague results. The Educational Screen now plans to try its hand at helping toward a solution. We are pleased to announce that Hardy R. Finch, head of the English Department of Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut, will undertake the development of a comprehensive cumulative list of school-made films for monthly printing in the maga- zine, beginning soon after the first of the year. Ob- viously, full success for the effort will be conditioned on the degree of cooperation by schools concerned, and only on this. Our most urgent invitation, therefore, is extended to every school and college in the country—which has produced, is producing, or plans production of one or more films of its own—to send full data on such pro- ductions to Mr. Finch, or to this magazine, im- mediately. Let our readers also bear in mind the regrettable fact that not every school in the country is a subscriber to the Educational Screen ! Hence, they will not see this invitation. Hence, a postal merely naming institutions which to your knowledge have produced films, will be a most welcome and helpful aid to success for the undertaking. We will at once write them direct for data needed for inclusion in our monthly column. The sooner you, our readers, start the flow of letters and post cards in our direction, the sooner the new feature can appear. Do your bit right now. Your ac- cumulated bits will make possible systematic dissemina- tion of reliable information on a question of growing interest and importance to this field. The Film Evaluation Project WE WANT 1000 teachers on the National Evalua- tion Committee this year. The excellent show- ing of Score Cards already in file, on more than 1100 different educational films, from a few hundred teachers who started the work last Spring, not only justifies but demands substantial expansion of the project. Late in October we wrote to all teachers cooperating last Spring and invited their continuance. More than half of them have already been heard from, all have ac- cepted with the exception of two zvho have stopped teaching. Evidently the work of evaluation by the standard score card is not burdensome and appeals to forward-looking teachers as decidedly worthwhile. // you are a teacher using films with classes, you belong in the project, at least to the extent of scoring 10 films a year for the national record. // you are a Director of Visual Instruction, your territory should be adequately represented by live teachers of your own selection on the Evaluation Committee. A few words on a postal will suffice to bring by return mail full material—10 Score Cards; prepaid envelope for return of all 10; free copy of new "1001 Films" with its Alphabetical List of over 5000 films whereon may be kept a check record of films evaluated and thus avoid future duplication—-and all the material bearing your judge-number which permanently identifies your con- tribution to the national record. When do we hear from you? N. L. G.