The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

DAVI Regional Meeting at St. Louis The Department of Audio-Visual Instruction of the Xational Education Association, meeting concurrentlv with the regional conference of the AASA, featured the following sessions at the March 1 -2 regional meeting at St. Louis : The Administrator Reports — Summaries of functioning audio-visual programs in the schools. Chairman : Walter Wittich, University of Wisconsin. Te..\chers for Tomorrow — Showing of a one-man produced film, illustrating the production flexibility of the motion picture medium. Charles Schuller, University of Wisconsin. UNESCO's Use of .^udio-Vis lai. Materials i.\ WoRi.nWiDE Education — Edgar Dale, Ohio State University. Reports Follower by Discussion : "Putting Films to Work in the Community". Chairman : Glen Burch, Film Council of America. "School and University Produced Teaching Materials". Chairman: Helge Hansen, University of Michigan. "In-Service Teacher Training in ;\udioVisual Methods". Chairman; George K. Mills. .Audio-Visual Consultant. Kalamazoo P.S. "Future of Television in Education". Chairman : Bruce Mahan. Ford Lemler. Director of the Audio-Visual Education Center, University of Michigan, was in charge of the St. Louis DAVI regional meeting. A similar program was presented at a DAVI regional meeting held in San Francisco February 22-23, under the chairmanship of Gardner Hart. The third of the regional meetings will be held at Philadelphia March 29-v30. under the direction of Rita Hochheimer and Irene Cypher. The three regional meeeings were planned under the leadership of F. Dean McCluskv, President of DAVI. A-V CONFERENCE CALENDAR March 23-24, Fourth Annual Michigan Audio-Visual Conference, Detroit March 29-30, Department of Audio-Visual Instruction Meeting, Philadelphia; Chairmen: Rita Hochheimer and Irene Cypher. (Other DAVI winter meetings have been held at San Francisco (February 22-23; Chairman: Gardner Hart) and St. Louis (March 1-2; Chairman: Ford Lemler). April 1-2, National Association of Visual Education Dealers, New England Regional Meeting, Boston. ALA Films News • A Carnegie grant . . . The Carnegie Corporation of New York approved recently a grant of $32,000 to the American Library Association for the continuation of the present film advisory service for an additional two years. • A successful film conference . . . Record attendance and active audience participation, ALA reports, marked the film .sessions of the ALA Midwinter Conference, held January 21-22 in Chicago. At the opening film-evaluation session alone, more than 600 people watched "The Experts Look at the Films". The large nimibers of librarians and others interested in the library film program who attended and participated in the meetings gave proof, if proof was needed, of the increasingly important role public library film services are playing in community life. INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 141 frames) — A brief survey of the life and times of Shakespeare. 2. SHAKESPEARE'S THEATER (43 framesi — A description of the essential charocteristics and parts of the Globe Theater, and the record of how one class built a model of the Globe. 3. "HAMLET" (60 frames) — A pictorial synopsis of the play, based on scenes from the Lourence Olivier screen version. 4. "AS YOU LIKE IT" (50 fromesi — A pictorial synopsis of the play, based on scenes from the motion picture. Price: $22.50 per set of 8 fllmstrips os listed obove, with Teacher's Guide. Individual filmttrips from the series — $3.50 each, March, 1949 . "HENRY V" (42 frames) — A pictorial synopsis of the play, based on scenes from the Laurence Olivier screen version. "ROMEO AND JULIET" 162 frames) — A pictorial synopsis of the play, based on scenes from the motion picture. "MACBETH" (45 fromes) — A pictorial synopsis of the ploy, based on scenes from the Orson Welles screen version. "A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM" 153 frames! — A pictorial synopsis of the play, based on scenes from the motion •picture. JUST RELEASED —A Series of 8 Filmsfrips for High School English Classes. Prepared at the suggestion of the Deportment of Secondary Teachers of the Notionol Education Associotion. Educationol Adviser. William Lewin, Choirmon of English Department, Weequahic Higli School, Nework, New Jersey. YOMG AMERICA FILMS,INC. 8 Eost 41st Street, New York City 17 129