The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

stioukl be useful with Juniors and Intermediates, and the first can be presented to Primary children if care is exercised in introducing the film. Films are needed which present and explain some of the outstanding music of the church, and it is a ripe field waiting to be harvested by those with the courage, know-how, and imagination. Broad and Rich Is the World How rich is the world? When one-half of Mother Earth's children go to bed hungry every night, something must be wrong! Can her children ever be well-fed? The peoples of areas formerly rich now go hungry. Even here, amidst the lush growth of technology in every area of life, our basic topsoil is di British Information Services One of Europe's undernourished children — a scene from "The World Is Rich," produced by Films of Fact and distributed by Brandon Films. minishing at an alarming rate. Can any civilization survive for long the slow destruction of its topsoil through fundamental mismangement and the twin calamities of drought and flood which follow? The film. The World Is Rich, makes it clear that the world faces a food shortage. It states the case, and asks if suffering, poverty, and himger may not be the tajj-roots of another war. The church must face this problem — at home and abroad. Church people, while proud of such notable agricultural missions as the Allahabad Agricultural Institute in India and El Vergel in South Chile, to mention only two of many, must multiply nianyfold the assistance which it is giving to subsistence peo])le in finding the keys to greater food production. This 4.Vmiinite film should prove useful to church and school groups seeking to understand the present world food crisis, and through discussion to clarify thinking and energize the wills of people to wise and sacrificial action. Produced by Films of Fact Ltd.. it is distributed through Brandon Films Inc. (1600 Broadway, X.Y. 19) and a national network of cooperating libraries. Reconstruction Film Through Church World Service (214 E. 21st Street, N.Y. 10) the two-reel documentary film, This Road We Walk, produced by Julien Bryan, is available to churches, schools and community groups. It is a dramatic picturization of the united church program of relief and reconstruction in Europe and Asia. The pictorial sequences come from China, Japan, the Philippines and many parts of Europe. Prints in both 16mm and 35mm may be ordered through your nearest Church World Service Center. News The various boards of the United Presbyterian Church of North America have linited in the establishment of a Department of Audio-Visual Education, located in the Publication Building, 209 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh 22. and directed by Orville L. Kuhn. This department is building a rental library of visual materials and sells visual equipment to local churches. Mr. Kuhn reports a rapidly-growing interest in visual materials and methods in his denomination. Correspondence: Dear Mr. Hocknian: For a number of years the superb quality of our glassbound stereopticon (3J^ x 4) slides have attracted users in all parts of the country. In reply to your inquiry — and there have been many others — as to how we make them, I submit the following: We owe much to Dr. Albert E. Bailey, the author of the well-known book, "The Gospel in Art." Through the years he secured permission to reproduce most of the religious masterpieces in stereopticon slides. We purchased liis library of slides, and the Bureau of Audio-Visual Aids (ISO.S Race Street, Philadelphia 2) is determined to maintain his standards. Wc obtain, or develop regular negatives if we have them, from the original subjects. These are used by our photographer to reproduce the picture on 3!4 .x 4 lantern slide plate, a glass plate coated with photographic emulsion. Naturally, we use the negatives repeatedly as there is demand for slides. Up to this point it is the common procedure. Now we send the developed plain black and white slide to one of several technical colorists of outstanding ability who. have trained specifically for this exacting process of hand coloring under strong light and magnifying glasses. They do three slides of the same picture at a time. When the hand-colorist has finished, the slides are carefully masked and bound, protecting the emulsion from damage. Permanent labels are then attached and the slide is ready for sending as a sale or a rental. In closing, I might add that where copyrights permit, it is possible to develop fair kodachromes from the stereopticon slides. OSCAR J. RUMPF The Religious Screen William S. Hoekman, Editor A Reprint of 19 Helpful Articles from "The Church Department" of EDUCATIONAL SCREEN SEND FOR YOUR COPY NOW Price 60e March, 1948 129