The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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June, 1942 Page 225 Hazel A. Lewis on "Using Flat Pic- tures." Teacher training for religious education can be improved through the use of especially-made motion pic- tures and slides. "Streamlining the Training Program" by Theodore C. Braun describes the use of films such as "Children Learn about Their Neigh- bors," "The New Curriculum in Ac- tion," "In Wisdom and in Stature" and the like. The use of pictures, motion pictures, maps, objects and models, blackboard and class excursions in teaching the Bible is described by Professor Paul H. Vieth in a very concrete article en- titled, "Visualizing Bible Teaching." "We Could Try That" is a symposium of accounts by teachers on the uses which they have made of various types of visual aids. Sources of materials have been col- lected in two forms. The film list has been visualized, by means of a mont- age of stills from each film mentioned. Other information has been grouped in the article, "Resources for Visual Education," including bibliography as well as addresses of distributors. Motion Pictures Build the Mid-Week Service—Russell T. Loesch, Minister, Lake Worth, Florida— Church Manage- ment, 18:16 Feb. 1942. An evaluation of the films used in a series of Christian Life Forums during the mid-week church meetings. Attend- ance increased sixty per cent and the ptople obtained a better view of the work of the Christian church. The first year the series of pictures on the life of Jesus "I Am the Way" was shown and dis- cussed. A new approach was tried in the second year, by using the shorts edited from Hollywood films and distributed by the Human Relations Commission. These films, though not always suitable for church showings, were found useful be- cause they were brief and lent them- selves to discussion. Films are valuable and worth the effort and expense, but better films are needed for a better type of program. Accent on Purpose —William L. Rogers, Director of Visual Education for the International Council of Religious Education, N.Y.C.— International Jour- nal of Religious Ed., 18:10 Mar. 1942. The report of a successful use of films in connection with Sunday evening services in a church in Brooklyn. But, in all the programs. . . the accent is on the purpose for which the films are presented. We cannot expect to obtain worthwhile results with any method un- less we know in advance what results are desired. Perhaps our problem with visual education is that in a sense the strength of a visual aid is also its weak- ness—because it rouses interest we are tempted to use it for that reason alone without stopping to think of the purpose for which it was created. Sources of films for church use are available from the International Society of Christian Endeavor, 41 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass. and from the Harmon Founda- tion, 140 Nassau St. N.Y.C. at 15c. BOOK REVIEW The Audio-Visual Handbook — Ells- worth C. Dent—Society for Visual Education, Chicago, 111. 1942 rev. ed. 227 pp. $1.75. This excellent source book is still further improved by its periodic re- visions, bringing information up to date. Please note the new edition for correction in the May list of Basic Readings (Educational Screen, p. 187). Titles of the six chapter-headings in- dicate the completeness of the con- tents: The Status of Audio-Visual In- struction; Types of Visual Aids and Their Uses; Types of Sound Aids for Schools; Types of Audio-Visual Aids to Instruction; Organizing the Audio- Visual Service; Sources of Informa- tion, Materials and Equipment. Those concerned with the administration and utilization of audio-visual aids will find this handbook invaluable. PERIODICALS Visual Review, 1942—Society for Visual Education, Chicago. Free. The articles in the new Visual Review have been grouped to make reading eas- ier. In keeping with the times, there are several articles on "Visual Aids for De- fense." These include a report by Floyde E. Brooker on the very popular series of mechanical training films produced for the U. S. Office of Education; a de- scription of the use of films for training foremen and supervisors in defense factories, as carried on by the War Pro- duction Board; the work of the Training Film Preparation Unit of Chanute Field, Illinois in the planning and use of films in the training of students at the Air Corps Technical School, an article re- printed from the January, 1942 issue of Educational Screen ; and other interest- ing reports. A valuable group of articles on "Trends in the Educational Field" indicate that there is no moratorium on the use of filmstrips and other visual aids by teach- ers who must continue to educate, war or no war. The use of filmstrips with children retarded in reading in a New York City school is a good complement to the article on the use of kodachrome slides in developing reading readiness in the Humboldt County, California schools—a coast-to-coast hook-up. With respect to administration, there is a descnption of the new service in the state of Georgia, under the chairman- ship of G. L. Hutcheson; the new service in Montana under the direction of Harry Norton, both representing state services. Then there is an article on the Humboldt County, California visual aids service; one on the visual aids library of the Cleveland Museum of Art; and a sum- mary of activities of the Newark De- partment of Library and Visual Aids. "Trends in the Religious Field" in- dicates the growth in interest and use among religious educators. The entire issue of Visual Review points up the tremendous growth of the filmstrip and 2"x2" slide, es- pecially during this emergency where materials and equipment are checked by the priorities regulations. There are several news items about films and other types of visual aids besides those dis- tributed by the publisher. SOURCES OF INFORMATION An Index to Visual and Auditory Aids and Materials —Elizabeth Findly, U. of Oregon Library, and Lester F. Beck, Associate Professor of Psychol- ogy, U. of Oregon— Curriculum Bulletin No. 17, Revised. August 1, 1941 3Sc University Cooperative Store, U. of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 40p. mimeo. -An annotated bibliography of bibliog- raphies and sources of audio-visual aids for rent, purchase or free distribution. Classification is by subject matter area and by type of material. Excellent. Free and Inexpensive Materials —Eliz- abeth Findly, Senior Assistant Refer- ence Department, U. of Oregon Library Curriculum Bulletin No 4. Revised Sept. 1, 1940 25c 20p. mimeo. References include source of pamph- lets, flat pictures, maps and other types of aids. Excellent and up-to-date. Films for Defense: Series I Air Raid Precautions Films, rev. ed. 1942. Compiled and edited by workers of the Writers' Program, New York City WPA, 70 Columbus Ave., N. Y. Free. An excellent compilation, with an- notations and local distributors for every state; also includes quotations from printed reviews. Series II Fire Protection Films. Dec. 1941 Writers' Program, WPA. A list of 45 fire prevention films, some of which have been made for wartime fire-fighting. Well organized. Catalog of the Educational Museum of the St. Louis Public Schools—pub- lished by the Department of Instruc- tion. 228p. A new, impressive catalog, attractively printed, has just reached us from the Educational Museum of the St. Louis Public Schools. Since 1904 the Museum has been supplying St. Louis teachers with objects and pictures to supple- ment their work and enrich the experi- ences of children. This latest catalog affords telling evidence of the exten- siveness of the visual aids maintained by the musuem for classroom use. These teaching materials have been carefully selected and prepared. They include objective material, pictorial material— films, filmstrips, slides, photographs and prints, stereographs, charts—records and transcriptions, reference books. A valuable feature of the catalog is the subject index in the back which enables teachers to discover readily available visual aids on a particular topic, as each listed aid is numbered. St. Louis can be justly proud of its Educational Museum, headed by the capable veteran. Miss Amelia Meissner. The Museum is recognized nationally, as well as by the teachers in the St. Louis schools, as one of the excellent educational museums in the country.