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December, 1942 Page 407 THE DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL INSTRUCTION (Conducted l),\ tiAMKs D. Finn) DVI I'losident Culled to (ioviriimoiit Work—A Veteran of the Visurtl Field [{i'tiret-—N'e^^ Appoimmetit for Hohan— From the Xntionnl S.rrelary—/one Reports Ian. *J3-'Jn I'rosrain Winter AtcMini; ol' the DVI, San Franeisco—From the National OlHce—News from /ones II, IV, V, VllI, X Feb. «6(;8 Film Libraiy Directors Meeting in Zone IV—Spring Meeting of Zone III Mar. 9.j lieporlK from Zones I, II, III Apr. 144 Conference Frosrani—Zone II—Zone VI—Cimnecticut Akro- ciatioii Meeting May 188-90 All Roads 1.1 ad to Denver—DVI Program—Radio Confer- ence in Colorado June 232-33 To the Members of the DVI (Cnii/i7/(i fli"it)'-Nev,- DVI Officers.Oct. 307 News from Zone II of DVI Xov. 352 EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN AUDIO-VISUAL EDUCATION (Condneted hy 1>.\VID CioOD.MAN) Motion Pictures versus Lantern Slides in Teaching Certain Units of Biology (Katherine Roue) —A Feasible Pro- gram for Visual Education in the Intermediate Grades (Ftti/e B. Unetson) .Ian. 30-1 An Evaluation of the Use of Visual Aids in the Teaching of Biology {Chnrlm A. Cnte.) FeD. 70 The Present Status of Visual Kducation in Texas {Jack W. Hears) Mar. 110 .Sound and Action in Today's Instructional Film {YirffU J. O'Connor) Apr. Ibl Research in Educational Film (Adolf F. Sturmthat) June 228 'I'he Dtvelopment of the Diorama in the Must urns of the U.S. (Irene Fleteker Cypher) ttept. 2/3 What Are the Educational Values of the Sound-Wlide Film? (F. I). MeClusky-Eslher L. Bern) ttct. .114 The Comparative Etfectiv* ness of Pictorial Teaching Materi- als (Daiid J. Goodman) «ov. 358 The Organization, Administration, and Support of Visual In- struction in California (Harry i£. McPherson) Dec. 400 SCHOOL-MADE MOTION PICTURES (Conducted by Hardy R. Finch) Co-operative Plan of Antioch College Filmed—Houston Schools' Film Jan. 32 Connecticut School Produces—Course in Film Making. . , .Feb. 72 A University Thesis in 16mm Mar. 112 Does a School-made Film Influence High School Students!— Amateur Film Conte-st—i-'ilm on Chrysanthemums Apr. 148 Connecticut TTade Schools Make a Moving Pidure May 192 'Fwo Public Relations Films—Movie Contest Winners—Sum- mer Course in Film Production June 234 Scenario for "The Last Leaf"—School Movie Contest Winners . Sept. 270 A Film on Pedestrian Safety, "Do Vou Walk Safely "—Hand- book for Film Makers—Horse Film Completed by Uni- versity Extension Oct, 309 School Films on Safety—Other School-Made Films Mov. 354 Madison Teachers' Association Produces—-Other Film Reports. .Dec. 392 Question Box, conducted by Godfrey Elliott, in every issue .lanuary- September. NEWS AND NOTES (Conducted by Jcskphinf. Hoffman) Fifth School Broadcast Conference—Museum "Rediscovering Amer- ica*' Program—Film Material on South America—Association tor Edu- cation by Radio—Visual Program on Defense TJieme—University In- augurates Visual Department—Draftees Learn from Nazi War Films —Kentucky Audio-Visual Clinic Ian. 34-37 Government Film Coordinator Appointed—Defense Film Productioli— Film Study Courses—Growing Activitv in Tennessee—South Carolina .Service E.\pands—Another USH.\ Film .Slide Feb. 78-80 .Southwest Audio Visual Conference—Connecticut Visual Meeting— Visual Aids for Defense Training Classes—Dale in Government Work —Material for Pan American Day March 11(5-118 ■Texas Conference on Radio and Visual Education—Visual-Voca- tional Joint Session—Hoban with U. S. Signal Corps—Equipment Committee to -Advise WPB—H. C. Grubbs Presents Educational .\ward —SMPE Spring Convention—Ten Best 1941 Features. . April 154-157 Spring Conference of California Group—First Southwest Audio- Visual Conference May 19(3-198 Visual Education on World Federation Program at Montreal—Ma- chine Shop Films Do Good Teaching Job—Georgia Audio-Visual Meet- ing—Texas Radio and Visual Conference—Amateur Color Films Wanted by .Vrmv—Film .Aids Government Nutrition Program— Workshop on Auditory Problems Uses Films—Ban on Amateur Cam- eras Lifted at Marine Studios June 238-241 Government Film Offices Re-Organized—Government War Film List—Office of Education to Produce More Training Films—Projection Equipment in Elementary Schools—Expansion of College Library— Inter-American .Vctivities—Filn.s Speed Up Army Training—American Education Week—Documentary Film Group Disbands. ... Sept. 276-79 Bureau of Mines Films in Demand—College Film Courses Attuned to War—School Exhibits to Show Wartime Services—Movie Engi- neers Conventi(m—Red Cross Photographic Contest. ..... .Oct. 320-24 Southern Conference on Audio-Visual Education—Training Films on Vocational Program—Tennessee Holds Second Annual Conferences —Nutrition Film Released in 16nim —.\llies to Exchange Films on the War—Role of Films in War Told to S.M.P.E.—Photography Course Offered bv Ohio Universitj—.Vssociation of School Film Lib- raries Discontinued Nov. 360-369 West Virginia Visual Society Revived^New York Visual Section Meeting—Religious Films for Our Armed Forces—Minnesota Visual Group Meets at ME A—2000 Reels of GE Welding Movies in C^e— Projection Courses in .\rmy Camps—Conference Proceedings Pub- lished—University of Virginia Inaugurates Vitual Service. . Dec. 396-8 NEW FILMS OF THB MONTH (Conducted by H. C. Laisson) Monthly Evaluations of Educational I'ilms by a Teacher Committee The Flag Speaks; Power for Defense; ■l-\ A—Feb. 74-6. . . First Aid: Wounds and Frnetures; The Eh etiiciaii ; 'I'he World We Want to Live In; Time to Spare—Mar. 114. . . . Land Birds of the East- ern U.S.; Americans All; Tall Tales; Mastirpiece Paintings in Color Slides—Apr. 152-53. . . . Simple .Machines; Harvests for Tomorrow; .\ Letter to Grandmother: A Guidance Prohti m for Scliool and Home: New York Calling—May 194-5. . . . Hidden Hunger; Uetore the Doctor Comes; A Child Went Forth; Fighting the Fire Bomb—June 236-7. , . . Ring of Steel; Democracy in Action; Columbus; Coal for Victory: Romance of Robert Burns—Sept. 280-3. . . . Scrap for Victory; The Battle Is In Our Hands; Making a Clay Portrait; In Every Day—Oct. aifi--*. . . . Westminster Abbev; Great Lakes; West em Front; Origin of Mathematics—Nov. 356-H. CURRENT FILM NEWS .\nuouncenients and brief descriptions of new tilnis. with sources, on following pages: .Ian. 38, 40—Feb. 82, 84—Mar. 122—Apr. 148, 160—May 204, 206—.lune 240—Sept. 284-6—Oct. 328, 330—Nov. 366, 368—Dtc. 402, 404. AMONG THE PRODUCERS DeVry Versatile .\mplificr—Electricity Slidelilm Set—-ICLA Engi- neer Cited by SMPf:—New G-E Photoflash Lamps Jan. 42 S. V. E. Filnistrip Correlation—Keystone Elementary Science UniU —New Lens Focuses Automatically Feb. 86 Visual Teaching Kit—Spencer Reader for 35mm .Microhlm—New "RADIANT" Screen—Bell & Howell "Flat Kate ' Service Policy— Lite-Lock Shading— A New Classroom Screen Shade—Visual Aids lor Good Teaching—S.O.S. Moves April 162-63 S. V. E. Kodachrome .Slides—.Slide Viewer .June 242 Visual Teaching Kit On South America^New Air-Flo Slereopton— Delivery Status of Radiant Screens Sept. 286 Covarrubias Reproductions—Bausch & Lomb Advertising Expanded —Filmslide on Protection Against Gas—Da-Lite Screens to be avail- able uct. 330 Bell & Howell Awarded Army-Navy "E"—Carbotoy Visual Educa- tion Program—Eastman Flies the "E" Pennant—DeVry Hears from Pearl Harbor .\ov. 370 Visual Instruction in First Aid—Eastman Organizes V-Mail Unit— Filmslide Course in First Aid—Army-Navy Decoration to Bausch & Lomb Dec. 405 MISCELLANEOUS Hand-Mede Lantern Slides (Ann (;ale) —Light (Jan. 22); Doing Your Share (Apr. 143); Caring for Pets (Sept. 262); A Health Program (Dec. 390) Committee on Field Experiences (WiJIiam W. Waltenbfrg). .Ian. 18 The Inter-American Cultural Film Program Feb. 60 A Method for Darkening Classrooms (llefen Price) Mar. 119 Films for Training Shipyard Workers 120 Noteworthy .Joint-Session of Midwestern Forum and Depart- ment of Visual Instruction, Zone IV Apr. 134 Summer Courses in Visual and Audio-Visual Instruction, 1942 Apr. 145, May 186, .Tune 241 In Memoriam: Arthur G. Balcom, Carlyle Ellis May 183 A Besic Reading List for Students of Audio-Visual Education (Mar)/ E. TowneH-Etla Schneider) 187 Films for Defense on the Home Front 200 Religious Film Association Organized 202 "Yout'ii Takes to Wings" 203 Films on the War Program .Tune 22*> Films at Work for Victory .Sept. 265 .\ New Approa(!h to the Home Economics Teaching Problem ( Polly Patter/ton ) 268 Backing up the GunsI Oct. 308 More Films to Train Millions in Industrial Skills 310 A City School System Keeps in Step with the Emergency. . . 312 Darkening the School Auditorium (Byron O. Cvliy) 319 Filmslides Speed Aviation Training (Lyne S. Metcalfe) .... 326 For Wider Distribution of Government War Films to School and Community Groups (Abraham Krasker) Nov. 353 Castle "News Parade" Covers All Fronts 364 A Producer Serves the Church Dec. 388 The Film and International TTnderstanding (John E. Duffan) 391 A Message from the Office of W^ar Information, Motion Pic- ture Bureau 398 They Now Work for Uncle Sam • Charles F. Milner. for .several years head of the Bureau of Visual Instruction, University of North Carolina is now Lieutenant Milner, U. S. N., in charge of visual work at Great Lakes Naval Train- ing Station. Great Lakes, 111. • Dr. H. A. Gray, long associated with ERPI Classroom Films as Director of Field Studies, is Captain Gray in the Aviation School of the .-Xmiy Air Force at Miami. His work is the preparation of instructors' manuals for the air force films and general supervision of the use of films in the dif- ferent training units. • Harold Fleck, president of V'aporate Co., Inc. now serves Uncle Sam as Lieutenant in the Navy. • Albert Reid Bailey, head of Bailey Films Service, Hollywood, California, is now Corporal Bailey, engaged in visual work at Chanute Field, Ran- toul, 111. • Orville Goldner. formerly of Leland Stanford University, California, has been commissioned Lieutenant and is directing the production of training films for the Navy and Marine Corps. His new^ address is Training Films Unit, Bureau of Aeronautics, Naw Department, Washington, D. C.