The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 216 The Educational Screen H% au come to St. Louis this summer we hope you'll visit us at our NEW, ENLARGED OFFICES. if you don't, we'd like you to have a copy of our NEW CATALOG listing the 2.000 J6 mm Sound Films we now carry. Just drop us a card. SWANK MOTION PICTURES p. Ray Swank 614 No. Skinker Blvd. L. P. Swank St. Louis, Mo. of pictures, to which there is a subject index at the end of the . book. Various auxiliary collections are described in detail, such as picture sets, post cards, lantern slides, prints, oversize and framed pictures, and posters. The service the Collection renders to schools and other groups in the community, typical requests and how they are met, are other features that teachers and librarians will find helpful in the solution of their own problems. The second half of the book contains a list of the subject headings used by the Newark Library in classifying their picture collection. These are printed on the left-hand side of the page, leaving the right-hand column free for the user's own changes and additions. RADIO Radio Appreciation in Secondary Schools —C. I. Glicks- berg, Southside High School, Newark, N. J.-— Curriculum Journal 14:73-6. February, 1943. This article gives reasons why a course in radio appreciation should be given in high school. Teachers of such a course are advised as follows: 1. Do not impose standards. They must be learned from experience. 2. Let the students decide good and bad. 3. Develop a tolerant, hospitable attitude permitting the in- clusion of divergent tastes and interests. 4. Instill a feeling of confidence, no snobbish appeal. 5. Conversion will be the result of a long process of growth in sensitiveness and insight. 6. The object is to develop understanding of what one likes, self-understanding, to build up self-evolved and self-im- , posed critical standards. PERIODICALS Sight and Sound, Spring, 1943—The British Film Institute, 4 Great Russell St., London WCl. In "Beyond the Box Office" there is a report of the non- theatrical film activities of the Ministry of Information between Sept. 1941 and Aug. 1942. There was a weekly audience of 350,000 and an annual audience of 12 million. There are three media for showing films: the mobile film units, of which there are now 130. These give 1200 film shows a week. Six of them are 35mm. units, and soma of them have gasoline generators to help provide electricity where there is none. Then there are film showings in theaters, out of theater hours, fifty a week having been given last year. These include training films for the Civil Defense and Na- tional Fire Service personnel. And finally, there are the films circulated through the Central Film Library with its sub- libraries in Scotland and else\^here. There were 48,000 book- ings to 3,500 separate organizations with their own projectors. These reached an audience of 4'/l millions. The Library is now booking 1,500 Ministry of Information films a week. A staff of workers in the Ministry of Information's regional offices directs the traveling shows and the out-of-hour the- atrical shows. About once a month there are factory show- ings ; then village groups are given showings about every I two months. Training films for civilians are not shown regu- larly, but when needed. Special audiences have special films, produced for them by agencies of the government. There are special films for farmers ; for housewives; for health workers; for civil defense leaders and workers. Since September, 1940, the Ministry has produced 332 films. Radio-Electronics in Education —Department of Informa- tion, Radio Corporation of America, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York. 48p. Articles in this magazine describe the influence of radio as a science and as a system of communication, with special reference to its educational uses. "Radio-Electronics" is the term used, because new developments in radio and electronics, including television and the electron microscope, were included. Dr. James Rowland Angell first sums up the educational programs of the National Broadcasting System. Paul Thornton in his article, "Recordings Find Wide Use in Teaching Field" describes the music appreciation records, literature records as "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," Shakespearean readings, poetry read- ings by Cornelia Otis Skinner, and so on. There is an article on the use of motion pictures, in group instruction, written by Ellsworth C. Dent; and Sterling Fisher's description of the Inter-American University of the Air. Perhaps the two articles of most outstanding interest are those by Noran E. Kersta and M. C. Banca. The first makes clear not only the fundamentals of television but its possibilities in educational procedure as the broadcasting range is increased. The second article serves to clarify the working principles and growing scope of the new and too little understood invention, the electron microscope. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Free and Inexpensive Learning Materials: 1942 Supplement —Lucille Dcnham—Curriculum Laboratory, George Pea- body College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. Bulletin No. 84. November, 1942. 25c. The material in this bulletin has been organized around topics, alphabetically arranged. Pamphlets, posters and similar teaching aids were carefully examined by at least three persons and compiled with the aid of fifty librarians from the Library School. Criteria for selection are given in the Foreword. The bulletin should be of great value to teachers. Illustrative Materials for Conservation Education —W. H. Hartley, State Teachers College, Towson, Maryland— Journal of Geography. 42:153-7 April, 1943 An up-to-date evaluated listing of films is preceded by teach- ing suggestions based on practical classroom experience. Teaching Materials for Industrial Education —Chris H. Groneman, Texas A. & M. College—/«</»i/nVi/ Arts and Vo- cational Education, 32: 15-18; 55-7; 58A-66A ; 201-2; 244-7, January-June, 1943 This excellent source of information, published serially, in- cludes materials for the teaching of the following areas: auto mechanics, crafts, drawing, electrical trades, industrial trades, metalwork, woodworking. In the January, February and March listings, pamphlets and exhibits are given; in the May and June issues, films are enumerated.