The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 150 The Educational Screen BRING WORLD BATTLEFIELDS to LIFE in YOUR CLASSROOMS.. ^m^ With all the moving: drama of "on the ."pot" reality. Father Hubbard's "World War 11" Sound Films add lively fascination to classroom studies of far-off places and peoples in the news today. Authentic, en- tertaining:, stimulating. Over 170 colorful subjects, recorded in 16 mm Sound, 10, 12, 30 and 45-minute showing:s. Low Rental Kates. • Wrtte {or DcKripli,. C.I- •k>| ind Rental R>t.>. War tnlormation Films. FATHER HUBBARD EDUCATIONAL FILMS Dept E, 188 W. Randolph St., Chicago, III., or SanU Clara, Calif. SELECTED 16 MM Sound Programs. Low Rentals Send for VICTORY BULLETIN We also sell and exchange 8 mm and 16 mm Comedies. News. Religious and Sports Films. Ask for Catalog. BETTER FILMS 742A NEW LOTS AVE.. BROOKLYN. NEW YORK 3 TIMELY ONE-REEL SOUND FILMS "OYSTER FLEET" Deals With llif Ovsttjr IndiLstry "FUTURE ADMIRALS" Nuviil Aciulrniy IlichliRhts "BALTIMORE—Home of Star-Spongled Bonner" Send for descrfpfive circular and prices. HOFFBERG PROD. l,Ty, ?SS^°r^: PHOTOGRAPHY Photographic Aids to Teaching: Transparencies to Motivate Biological Studies—Charles Tanzer, Bronx High School of Science, N.Y.C.— School Science and Mathematics, 42:758 December, 1942 A science laboratory was decorated by having portraits of great scientists copied from the halftones in books and en- larged on transparent stock (Adlux Defender), mounted on translucent paper and inserted in the window panes. Plate glass covered each print for protection. This is a simple technique and need cost little, for example, 3 dozen portraits cost about $4.00. RADIO How Radio Can Contribute to Creative Living —Dorothy Gordon— Childhood Education, 19:212 January, 1943 The author has had considerable experience in planning and performing radio programs for children. She has found children to be keenly interested in programs that give them a chance to participate. Some of the creative abilities that may be stimulated by radio are: giving children a chance to sing and dance the folk songs they hear over the air, imitating animal sounds, and carrying on manipulative activities as the ones described in a script on how to make simple instruments (reprinted in the article.) PERIODICALS Sight and Sound, 11: No. 43 Winter, 1942. British Film Institute, 4 Great Russell St., London, W. C. 1 "A Course in Cinema," described by a youth organiser, de- scribes a course given by the education department of one of the largest county councils. It is a course in film appreciation in a remote village. A film group meets at the village school- room where a 16mm. sound projector is available. The cost to those attending is no more than the fees usual under the county scheme for further education. The course is divided into two sections: one dealing with the social influence of the film, the other with the artistic characteristics. "The Film in Education," by H. S. Magnay, is a summary of three reports published by the British Film Institute. Briefly it recommended: the production of more films appropriate for .school use following upon wider collaboration between teachers and producers; the provision of funds for rentals by the local education authorities; extending courses for teachers; en- couraging of local and regional film libraries; and the support of a central national co-ordinating institute. "Revolt in the Classroom," by G. Patrick Meredith, lecturer in visual education, deplores the fact that schools and teachers do not keep up with the times in using mechanical devices in a creative fashion. The generalizations made by the author are interesting: a) mechanism is a creative force for freedom; b) education is still basically pretechnic in spite of its frills; c) teachers must be granted the freedom of the Neo-technic Age; d) the co-operation of teachers must be won by showing that the Neo-technic Age has a new life of fulfillment to offer to them; e) all educators, including scientists, sociologists, administrators, architects, etc. must collaborate in constructing the Neo- technic curriculum; and f) Neo-technic schools must have functional architecture. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Films for America at War —Committee on Motion Pictures in Education, American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.—Supplement No. 1 to Selected Educational Motion Pictures. 1942. $1.00 A compilation of about 114 titles on machine shop training, first aid, health, aviation, occupations and war production. This bulletin has brought together information on each film, with respect to local depositories and content description. The ap- praisals have obviously not been prepared with the thorough- ness of the preceding compilation. In most cases, they consist of suggested subject matter applicability. Selected List of Films for Pre-Flight Aeronautics (In Teachers Manual for Science of Pre-FIight Aeronautics for High Schools, by the Aviation Education Research Group, Teachers College, Columbia University, prepared with the cooperation of the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration, sponsored bv Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. Macmillan. 1942 p. 240-245)