The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 194 The Educational Screen Miscellany of the Month Events and Achievements Surveys and Statistics Plans and Predictions VISUAL education meetings scheduled ACCORDING to the Wendt Re tiottw ^f ti,„ „,^„., , .• r • .l for July are : A port : F ^1 • , ^ Questions facmg the T^ r -.T , T . -T-iI A , f^ .,. ^. . television-planners are these (I) Department of Visual Instruction at The Army has SO to 75 Directors of will the coaxial-cable method or the Pittsburgh, Pa July 4 when the 944 Visual Aids; 250 L'branes of audio ,elay-station method prove better for Representative Assembly of the NEA visual materials ; and 250 copies of each nation-wide television broadcast? (2) opens ,ts conference^ film produced. The Signal Corps pro will television broadcasts be more «:o Conference on AudioVisual Aids, held duced 270 films in 1943 alone— its total ,,r>r,i;^oi ^„,i „fl-„^* f ci x , ^, ,,.,.., c • TT • •. „, ^ » f .u u ■ I ,,„C. iiomical and effective from film or from by the Visual Aids Service University P oduction for the war being nearly 1000 ^-y,., pickup" ? (3) Will television news of Illinois Urbana, July 11-13. films, which is five times the films made .^place newsreels-or will newsreels be Audio-Visual Institute, University of by Erp. >n a decade and over. But cost ,^^a. as always and televised to reach the Wisconsin, Madison, July 17-22. per-tilm is higher than Erpi s. •• i j Sixth Midwestern Forum on Visual • The Will Havs Report says: national audience more quickly than by Teaching Aids at Bellfield Hall, Univer In 1943 theatres sold over $770,000,000, ,':'.'"''"^'°" °* P""'^ ^° theatres? (4) sity of Chicago campus, July 21-22. in War Bonds, and personal appearances William Fox poses another question— as Further data on these programs will by stars another $1.337,000,000-total over '° whether theatres will be turned into be given in the June issue. $2,000,000,000. Theatres collected $3,000, ^^^^ses when real television comes. • The "first film piade expressly for tele 000 for the Red Cross. $1,600,000 for the * Televised News Programs from Press vision presentation," says Will Bishop, United Nations Relief, and $2,000,000 for Association, Inc., radio affiliate of the MGM publicity director, is titled "Patrol the March of Dimes. AP, may be inaugurated this month ling the Ether" and was shown on April Further data are that 417 features and through Filmedia, Inc. They will be sum10th to a trade audience by Zenith Tele 449 short subjects were released in 1943 maries from news camera films. vision Station W-9XZV. . . . that Teaching Films Custodians Inc., • Bell Telephone plans post-war tele • The Federal Communications Commis a branch of the Motion Picture Producers vision development with 7000 miles of sion has received 109 applications, so far and Distributors of .America, now has a co-axial cable linking important cities this year, for new broadcasting stations. library of 6000 16mm short subjects for coast to coast, north to south, complete Of these, 66 were for Frequency Modu the use of schools (!) ... and that 1307 by 1950. First circuit New York to lation, 25 for Television, and only 18 for new reels were added in 1943 (!)... that Washington, ready in 1945. Another standard broadcasting. Many think this the Industry's main functions are "enter plan, by American Telephone and Telepoints the trend of the future. tainment. information, inspiration," edu graph Co., will construct micro-wave • Uruguay showed the Sonja Henie pic cation not mentioned. length relay stations 30 miles apart betures. But Uruguay has no ice. So a • The Commission on Motion Pictures in tween New York and Boston for regular wave of frantic roller-skating swept Uru Education has started spending the $100, television broadcast guay. "Trade follows the films," re 000.00 given it bv the Motion Picture « n ■ < marked Motion Picture Herald. Industry. It will first "survey the post ' „ . ^^P"' ^°' '"'° P"'" <^^'« ""^''C' • De Mine's technicolor war saga, "The war application of films to the school jnly withhold his name) with the wishStory of Dr. Wassell," was given a bril room." then recommend a "program of " thought, emitted as prediction, that liant preview in the nation's capital before specialized teaching film production," then \/ post-war period will see "a good top-ranking Army, Navy, Marine Corps tell how to "integrate visual education "•"'"', '°"", P''°J^'^""' ' 3^'="'able to Ofi^cers, Congressmen, Senators, Su with school curricula," and then will con schools at $25m (sic !). Such absurdity preme Court Justices, and social leaders sider the sources of teaching film pro '" P"'". '* ^ '"^" d'^service to the field. of the District of Columbia. Receipts of duction-(l) the organized eiKertainment ^ ^^ '^'^'^^ * misprint, we hope. $25,000.00 went to the Navy League's film industry, (2) commercial producers, •There is much agitation in England Red Cross Fund. (3) specialized educational producers. As toward the idea of having war projec • An elaborate and unique exhibit — ar to which will emerge as the major source tors "given to schools after the war." ranged at Dartmouth College for Navy of teaching films, the field can only await Head of the Boys and Girls Cinema Clubs, trainees and other students — presents the the Commission's conclusions. .At present J Arthur Rank, and the director of Gaucomplete history of the three-dimension it appears that, after analysis of the mont-British Instructional Ltd., Javal, picture : From the invention of the stereo Teaching Films Custodians achievements a""^ staunch promoters of the plan. A scope by Oliver Wendell Holmes and rare so far, "several of the_ Commission mem group »f civic-minded Members of Parstereoscopic photos taken before the Civil bers believe that this record points the liament, headed by the educational expert. War — through the hey-day of its social way toward even greater use of Holly Kenneth Lindsay, are trying to amend the success when the stereoscope replaced the wood product." The ultimate findings of Government's Education Bill to require family album for home entertainment, the Commission should be of extraordin every school to install a projector. Javal's showing a completely furnished model of ary interest to the educational field ! five-year plan, ending as the war began, a Victorian parlor — and down to the • The over-all record total attendance on • aimed at a projector each in 21,000 Engpresent-day Vectograph which, through a single picture is announced as 51,000,000 ''^^ and Welsh schools. Final achievepolarized spectacles, is teaching the for "Gone with the Wind." Some five ment, 500 projectors installed in the five Armed Forces air photography, geometry, million saw it twice, a half million three y^^rs ! Obviously the sales effort needs map-making and other wartime subjects. times. help. The proposed free disposal of war • .An Army film— "The Negro Soldier" • Comparative motion-picture theatre fig projectors will speed up results con(4 reels), a Frank Capra production, ures for two years are interesting : siderably. written and supervised by a negro, Carl Gross admissions (without tax) for • Wendell Willkie's "One World" will ton Moss, who also plays a leading role 1942 $1,193,400,000 be produced by Darrvl Zanuck for 20th IS a social documentary of high interest 1943 $1,363,250,000 Century Fox, of whkh Mr Willkie is and of more than wartime potentiality. Average ticket price for Chairman of the Board. Expected to cost It pleases the negroes. It can make white 1942 25.5 cents about $3,000,000. Profits to be divided people think, even change their attitudes. 1943 27.5 cents between the Wendell L. Willkie Fund, a It IS now being released to theatres Weekly ticket-buyers for charitable foundation, and Simon and through the War Activities Committee. 1942 90,000,000 Shuster, publishers of the book. At Mr. and a 16mni version will be available 1943 95,000.000 Willkie's request, the picture will not be June 15th through the OWL (But Gallup poll says about 65,000,000) shown until after the November elections