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June, 194} Page 221 Afoisi Thursday was Army Day, with Army, Air Corps and Signal Corps officers giving thirteen lectures, many illustrated, covering numerous war film activities. The talks described the actual filming and producing of army films and their final use in the training and combat fields. The convention closed Thursday night with an illus- trated lecture on "Visual Processes and Color Photog- raphy" by Ralph Evans of the Eastman Kodak Com- pany. Changes in Detroit Visual Department Mr. W. W. Whittinghill, who has been supervising the Department of Visual and Radio Education of the Division of Instruction, Detroit Public Schools, for a long period of years, left that department on April 1, 1943 to become a member of the Business Depart- ment of the Detroit Board of Education. His new title is Director of Transportation and Warehousing. The former Department of Visual and Radio Edu- cation embraced three units—the Visual Section, Radio Section, and Children's Museum Section. These are now constituted as three departments with the following of- ficers in charge: Visual Department, Mr. Joseph K. Boltz; Radio Department, Mrs. Kathleen Lardie; Children's Museum, Miss Margaret Brayton. All three Departments are under the general supervision of Mr. Manley E. Irwin, Divisional Director of the Division of Instruction. Uruguayan Educator Visits the United States Jose Pedro Puig, Chief of the Cinematographic Sec- tion of the National Council on Primary and Normal Education in Uruguay, arrived in Washington April 23, 1943, for a three months' visit at the invitation of the Department of State. Sr. Puig has produced several 16mm. films on edu- cational topics in his country, and has brought four of these films with him to the United States, dealing with rural schools and the life of country children in Uru- guay. It is his intention to show these pictures before teachers in schools and universities, and other groups of persons interested in observing and studying visual education in the other American republics. Sr. Puig is also a writer of note, on educational sub- jects, and regularly contributes articles on educational motion pictures and their possibilities to the Andes de Instruccibn Prhnaria, an official government magazine edited and published in Montevideo. Greatly interested in the war eflfort. Sr. Puig plans to visit several defense plants throughout the United States, as well as the studios of such nontheatrical film producers as Erpi and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Bell and Howell in Chicago. He is eager to see the production of educational pictures here, and to absorb new methods and ideas. Sr. Puig is making a study of visual education as carried on in the schools of the United States and is interested also in observing the use of recordings for musical education. USE OUR PAYMENT PLAN FOR FILM PURCHASES School Film Libraries and cooperative groups find our budget payment plan a helpful, practical method of securing the 16 mm. sound and silent pictures they desire without taxing their resources. Under this arrangement, the films are paid for in convenient monthly installments out of Income. Pictures may be screened prior to purchase. A minimum purchase of 10 subjects Is required. HAVE YOU A COPY OF OUR NEW CATALOG? It Is by far the largest and most complete ever Issued—containing approximately 3000 Entertain- ment and Educational subjects available for rental and sale. H)UJ :LJ1I'I'U;» SOUND ^ JY"^ S„ f NT IMIWliJI.IJHK 25 W. 45th St. Dept. E-6 New York lEA Film Goes to South America The Illinois Education Association film production, "Backing Up the Guns" (reviewed in the October, 1942 issue of Educ.\tional Screen) will be shown to South American audiences through the office of the Coordin- ator of Inter-American Affairs. Both Spanish and Portuguese versions will be prepared to demonstrate to our Latin American neighbors the vital role the public schools in the United States are playing in the war program. Fighting French Distribute Films in U. S. The Fighting French have opened a film distribution office at 723 Seventh Avenue, York City, and have edit- ed ten short subjects in 16mm and 35mm sound versions from the footage photographed by Fighting French sig- nal corps men in Canada, Africa, England and Mada- gascar. These films have been shown mostly to non- commercial groups, such as high schools, clubs, academies. Government military offices, and USO can- teens. A new .series is in preparation, titled "This Is France." It will treat the country as depicted in books and travelogues. Correction Mr. I. C. Boerlin, Supervisor of Audio-Visual Aids at the Pennsylvania State College, is Chairman of the recently organized Pennsylvania Civilian Defense Film Committee, and not Mary A. Kunkel, as stated in the April issue of Educational Screen (News and Notes department).