The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 114 The Educational Screen NEW FILMS OF THE MONTH As They Look to A Teacher Committee Conducted by L. C. LARSON Instructor in School of Education Consultant in Audio-Visual Aids Indiana University, Bloomington First Aid: Wounds and Fractures (Erpi) 11 minutes. 16mm. sound. Sale price $50. Apply to producer for rental sources. Teacher's guide furnished. This film focuses attention on the need for first aid knowledge and describes proper procedures in caring for an injured person from time of injury until medical help can be secured. Film opens as a man is struck by an automobile. A crowd quickly gathers and a trained first-aider is immediately at hand. He keeps crowd back, questions victim concerning injury, keeps him warm, examines victim for further in- juries, sends information to hospital, and treats and band- ages leg wounds. Difference between venous and arterial bleeding is illus- trated by animated diagrams, and general method to be used in stopping both types of bleeding is given. Diagrams and photographs indicate six pressure points upon which pressure must be applied to stop arterial bleeding of various parts of the body. A tourniquet is made and demonstrated. The patient is given a mild stimulant and is examined for broken bones. Animated diagram illustrates severe break in leg. Temporary leg, arm, wrist and rib splints are applied. The film closes with a rapid review of the first aid methods used at the time of the accident. Committee Appraisal: An excellent film for teaching the basic principles of first aid in cases involving wounds and frac- tures and to prepare students and adults to meet accident emergencies. It is a pertinent subject and should be widely used in regular courses and for defense classes in first aid and nursing. The committee questioned the representativeness of the placidity shown by the patient in the film. The Electrician (Vocational Guidance Films, Inc.) 11 minutes, black and white, 16mm. sound. Sale price $50. This film shows and describes in comprehensive rather than detailed fashion the work of the electrician in three major fields—power and lighting, communication, and transportation. While the commentator explains the need for highly trained workers in the various specialties represented, the electrical distribution system is traced back from home wiring to the huge turbo-generators of the powerhouse. Electricians are shown repairing and rebuilding generators and motors, repair- ing household electrical appliances, and servicing an electric sign mechanism. How specialized electricians install and maintain telephone, telegraph, and radio lines and equipment is explained while telephone line crews string cross-country wires and repair a cable break across a swollen stream, repairmen service a busy telephone switchboard and a teleprinter machine, and an operator checks the controls of a powerful radio station. This monthly pAge of reviews is conducted for the benefit of educational film producers and users alike. The comments and criticisms of both are cordially invited. Producers wishing to have new films reviewed on this page should write L. C. Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, giving details as to length, content, date on which the film was issued, basis of availability, prices, producer, and distributor. They will be informed of the first open date when the Teacher Committee will review the films. The only cost to producers for the service is the cost of transporting the prints to and from Bloomington. This Cost Must Be Borne By The Producers. Assisted by LLOYD F, EVANS Assistant in Audio-Visual Aids Extension Division Indiana University, Bloomington The need for trained electricians in transportation is out- lined while electric street cars, trackless electric trolley busses, third-rail and overhead electric trains, and Diesel-electric units and passenger and freight trains are shown. P^lectricians are shown working in automotive and aviation ignition service. Many special jobs are shown and described, including the work of the top-ranking graduate electrical engineer. Sug- gested sources of training are described while the interior of a trade school with students "learning by doing" is shown. Committee Appraisal: A useful film for giving students an overview of the many types of jobs included under the general term of "electrician". It will motivate students who are interested in a particular type of job to investigate the field in more detail. The film can be used in science and social studies classes to show the importance of electricity and electricians in an industrial society. Training and skills required and w-orking conditions could have been more effec- tively demonstrated if the electrician's job had been specifically shown in each field, rather than only the machinery which requires his services, as in the case of the high-line, the power- liouse generators, and the radio sequence. The World We Want To Live In (National Conference of Christians and Jews) 17 minutes, 16mm. sound. Free on loan. Prints may be purchased from producer for $15.06. This subject shows development of religious intolerance under old world dictatorships and the existence of a startling amount of the same intolerance in the United States in spite ■of the eilorts of influential persons and groups. Three children, a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew, playing together in perfect amity on an American shore symbolize the democratic ideal of religious tolerance. On the opposite shore of the same ocean, groups are shown denying equal political, social and religious rights to a minority of the people. Synagogues and churches are destroyed, trade unions sup- pressed and gainful employment limited to preferred groups. The film suggests that America, too, is not free from in- tolerance. Many pressure groups and organizations use economic, religious, social and political di.scrimination to further their own ends. Even small children are often intolerant of other children with backgrounds different from their own. Speakers sent out by the National Conference of Christians and Jews to teach the need for religious tolerance are shown in church pulpits and on public platforms. Thomas E. Dewey, former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, .A.l Smith, Eddie Cantor, and Wendell Willkie appear in the film to emphasize that tolerance in all phases of life is absolutely necessary if American democracy is to continue. .-Ml stress the point that "Any weakening of the rights of any is a blow to the rights of all." Committee Appraisal: An excellent film for a study of social and political conditions that contribute to the develop- ment of racial and religious intolerance. It portrays in a dramatic fashion the loss of freedom under dictatorship. The film does not treat discrimination against negroes or persecu- tion of political minorities. The potentialities of the medium were used to a better advantage in portraying effects of in- tolerance than in emphasizing the advantages of tolerance. This use of the medium reinforces the negative approach in the treatment of the subject. Time To Spare (Audio-Visual Aids Service, Mercer County Schools) 18 minutes, black and white, 16mm. sound, sale price $75. Apply to producer for rental sources. Study manual furnished. This film shows some of the activities of the Flat Top