The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

May, 1943 Page 167 lamps. Some of the statistics derived from these records are tabulated here: Record of Number of Reels Shown in 1941-42 (September to May) Record of Number of Film Subjects Shown in 1941-42 (September to June) (Often more than one reel to a subject) English American Literature (2), Drama (2), Speech (1), Library (2), Journalism (5) Total 12 lAiii</ua(/e IVench (9), German (1), Spanish (32) Total 42 >i'iiat Science American History (57), Modern Europe (4), Psychol- ogy (2), Social Problems (14), World Relations (14) Total 91 Miitliematics Geometry (4), Trigonometry (4) Total 8 Science Biology (79), Botany (9), Chemistry (37), Geology (24), Physics (33), Physiology (18), Zoology (63) Total 263 L I'liimercial Bookkeeping (7), Salesmanship (6), Typewriting (3) Total 16 Home Economics .^ppIicd Economics (39), Clothing (10), Homemaking (39), Foods (17) Total 105 Industrial Arts Auto Shop (38), General Metals (39), Mechanical Drawing (20), Wood Shop (20) Total 117 Music Voice (26), Instrument (15) Total 41 Art Art, (25), Drawing and Painting (7) Total 32 l'h\sicat Education Boys Gym (18), Girls Gym (5), Health (4), R.O.T.C. (6), Sports (10) Total 43 General Education Geography (12), Alcohol (1), General Education (104) Total 117 Vocations Coast Guard (1), Navy (3), Miscellaneous (19) Total 23 Movie Club Entertainment (30), Instructional (31) Total 61 Total Film Subjects booked 645 Total Subject Use in Correlation with Departments 971 Miscellaneous Use The equipment is widely used throughout the build- ing in situations other than film showings. Music for the social hours held in the gymnasium is furnished by connecting the transcription player with various speak- ers of the moving picture equipment. Meetings held in the lunch room, gymnasium, and outside the build- ing have used the equipment as a public address system. As an example, the graduation exercises in the city auditorium makes use of the public address system to line up the graduating seniors. The square dance club uses the equipment each week to amplify both calls and music. The transcription player is finding considerable use with recordings made from outstanding radio broad- casts. The music department uses this same equipment to reproduce the annual music competition for the bene- fit of the boys and girls who play in the orchestra. We own 36 film strips portraying various occupa- tions. These have been shown quite widely in General Education courses. The black shades and screen are used, and the operators handle this equipment in the same way that they do the motion picture film. Summary The use of motion pictures and the other audio- visual aids which we have at South High School are finding constantly increasing use. This year 325 film subjects were requested for the semester commencing September 9, 1943. These requests came from practi- cally every department in the building. Teachers are making better use of films and are learning rapidly to select the type of film which is best adapted to their course of study. In a school the size of South, soine conflicts are unavoidable. We do not have sufficient equipment nor are the films in the fjuilding long enough to permit the ideal use of films in single classrooms. However, we are finding more and better films with more and better use by increasing numbers of teachers. Midwest Forum in July The Fifth Annual Meeting of The Midwest Forum on Visual Teaching Aids will convene this year as usual, but time and place have been chosen to conform with the exigencies of war- time. To avoid transportation difficulties, the Forum will be held in conjunction with the Sum- mer Schools of the University of Chicago on July 23-24 (Friday evening and all day Saturday), when a district conference of school administra- tors is also in session on the campus. The program will be presented in Belfield Hall Auditorium, and the Exhibits will occupy the entire Boys' Gym conveniently nearby. With so large a body of teachers and school executives already as- sembled on the campus, and summer school at- tendance l)eing at its maximum on the dates named, ample audiences for the Midwest Forum may be confidently expected. William C. Reavis, of the University of Chi- cago, School of Education, is General Chairman of the Forum again this year. William F. Kruse, of Bell & Howell Company, is Chairman of the exhibit arrangements. The full program of this Fifth Annual Midwest Foruin will be given in our next (June) issue, well over a month in advance of the meeting.