The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 274 c:/f-mona ike ^xoduas.%± "Coronet" Magazine Announces New Visual Aids for Schools A new and unique educational service is being offered to schools by Coronet Magazine and the Society for Visual Education, Inc. This service will start this month, and extend through eight months of the regular school year. Slide- films and reprints of Coronet's interesting and timely "Picture Story" will be fur- nished each month to those who enroll for the service at a nominal annual fee to cover postage and handling. Coronet will pay all costs of production as a con- tribution toward the better understanding of the world in which we live. These visual aids are designed for use in social studies and related subjects, and all will have a direct relationship to the activi- ties, problems, and personalities of the war. Each issue of Coronet contains an m- teresting and timely Picture Story— Slidefilm rolls in Coronet Series usually thirty to forty photographs with explanatory text. These have included such stories as "History of World War No. 2," by William L. Shirer, "The Siege of a Russian City," by Wendell L. Will- kie, "The Story of Lend-Lease," by Ed- ward R. Stettinius, Jr., and "Europe Underground," by Alfred J. Steinkopf. Each has included much valuable mate- rial for classroom instruction. The new service offers these well or- ganized and effective instructional units in two forms—on slidefilms for group instruction, and as a separate bound re- print of the Picture Story for those who do not have slide film projectors, or for individual reference and study. The Sep- tember release will tell the story of sub- marine warfare. This will be followed in October by "China Fights Back," by Madame Chiang Kai-shek. The Novem- ber release will be a picture story of the United States Navy, in full color, both in the reprints and on the slidefilms. Other subjects to follow each month will be equally interesting and timely. The slidefilms will be produced and distributed by the Society for Visual Education, Inc. The cost to schools v;ill be only $2.00 for the entire series of eight slidefilms and booklets, including the magnificent color film on the United States Navy. Reprints of the Picture Section will be available at Ic each in lots of 25 or more, and may be ordered from Coronet, 919 North Michigan Ave- nue, Chicago (11), Illinois, or from the Society for Visual Education, Inc. Both slidefilms and Picture Section re- prints will be distributed each month among those who subscribe to these serv- ices. Each slidefilm will be accompanied by a booklet which will serve as an instructor's manual. There are no other charges or obligations and the slidefilms or reprints become the permanent proper- ty of the schools subscribing for them. For a descriptive circular of this new service, write: Society for Visual Edu- cation, Inc., 100 East Ohio Street, Chi- cago (11), Illinois. New Slides for Aircraft Identification Kit A supplementary unit of 15 new air- craft silhouettes in 2" x 2" miniature slides for Flying magazine's .Aircraft Identi- fication Kit, recently announced by the Society for Visual Education, Inc., is now ready for distribution to the hundreds of users of this kit. The aircraft, and the numbers assigned to them in the kit are: 113. Hawker Typhoon IB; 114. De- Havilland Mosquito; 115. Boeing Clipper ("314"): 116. Lockheed-Vega Ventura; 117. Lockheed Constellation. Three individual silhouettes on sepa- rate slides show side, bottom, and front views of each type of aircraft. The com- plete unit of 15 slides is priced at $3.00. This new material was prepared in ac- cordance with the original plans of Flying magazine to add to their kit of 336 slides, as quickly as detailed information on new types of military aircraft is secured and drawings can be prepared. The Society for Visual Education, Inc., exclusive dis- tributor of this kit, will announce addi- tional units as soon as they are available. The Educational Screen Radiant's New Screens of Non-Critical Materials A new full line of projection screens designed to supply all civilian, educational and visual training needs, yet made of non-critical material, has just been an- nounced by Radiant Manufacturing Corp., 1140 W. Superior St., of Chicago, the major part of whose production is now going to the Armed Forces. Portable, table, wall and ceiling screens in a variety of sizes, all with the well- known Radiant "Hy-Flect" glass-beaded screen surface, will be available for im- mediate delivery in sizes from 22" x 30" to 16' X 16". Many outstanding features of former Radiant lines have been in- Radiant Day-Time Projection Box corporated again in the new line. New models are available without priorities. A new projection screen unit called the Radiant Day-Time Projection Box, de- signed primarily for our Armed Forces, is now available for educational and other visual training use. The shadow box construction of this unit permits the show- ing of pictures in broad daylight to audi- ences up to 150 persons. It can be set up quickly and easily, and just as easily dissembled, all parts fitting into a stor- age case. It is adjustable in height to four different positions. It is said the ability to show sharp and clear pictures in broad daylight, in a well-ventilated room, has drawn enthusiastic response from instructors who have tested the unit. S.V.E. Projectors for Pre-Induction Training Courses The Society for Visual Education, Inc., has been granted permission by the WPB to release a limited quantity of the Model DD Tri-Purpose Projectors to schools giving Pre-Induc- tion Training Courses. The Model DD shows both single and double frame slidefilms and 2"x2" miniature slides in black and white or Kodachrome. It is equipped with a ISO- watt lamp, Anastigmat lens, S.V.E. rewind take- up, and is especially suited for use in classrooms or small auditoriums.