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a 14 minute color or bl/wh Sound 16nim maiterpiece.
Photographed and directed by the famous Swedish artist OLLE COMSTEDT, member of the American Society of Cinematographers, Hollywood.
Sale $160 color -$50 bl/wh Single day rental:
$8.00 color-$4.00 bl/wh
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20 minutes, color or bl/wh, Sound, 16mm.
Unanimously declared the finest Wild Animal picture ever made. The talk of the recent NAVA trade show in Chicago.
Superb color! Real life drama
Sale $175 color$60 bl/wh
Single day rental:
$6.00 color$3.00 bl/wh
Request preview prints and complete cotalogue from
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62 West 45lh Street '• New York 19, N. Y.
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ographed pamphlet is available from the Connecticut State Department of Education. Hartford. The price, if any, is not known.
(4) Amo DeBernardis, Director of Instructional Materials, Portland Public Schools, 631 N. E. Clackamas St., Portland 8, Oregon, has just completed a doctoral study of audio-visual education in Oregon schools. We have not heard yet how his findings will be published, but if you are interested in an extremely thorough state study, you might write him for information about this.
(5) William King, Coordinator of AudioVisual Education for the State of New Jersey, is now deep in plans for a survey in his state. We hope he'll make his findings generally available.
Are You Old Enuf?
Do you remember when? Do you remember who? Have you any? In short, if you are one of the "oldtimers," Dr. Winifred Crawford, Chairman of the Committee on DAVI Archives, would appreciate greatly your help in assembling information about the past history of DAVI. Any old programs, minutes of meetings, or other historical data that you may happen to have would be of great interest to her and her committee. Drop her a letter or mail your materials to Dr. Winifred Crawford, Director of Audio-Visual Education, Montclair Public Schools, Montclair, New Jersey.
Committee at Work
• With the motto in mind, "He who lives in a glass house is probably a teacher in one of our new schools," Foy Cross, of New York University and chairman of our national committee on Buildings and Equipment for Audio-Visual Education, is moving fast and far to get a study under way before too many more school buildings are constructed that have little or no provisions for the use of a wide range of audio-visual materials. Plans of considerable scope have been made involving a great deal of cooperation with the American Association of School Administrators, the National Audio-Visual Association, the Association of Chief State School Audio-Visual Officers, American Institute of Architects, and a host of other national organizations.
From where we sit, it looks as though the work that Foy is doing holds the greatest promise for influencing the planning of school buildings of anything that has ever taken place in the audio-visual field. At
meetings from coast to coast we have been told how urgent this work is, and we are glad to report that Foy's program is being developed in proportion to the urgency of the situation.
The committee is going to need a lot of work, however, and if you have any ideas on the subject or can help in any way, please don't be bashful about offering your assistance. Now, just visualize a large hand pointing a finger directly at you with the equally large words, "WE NEED YOU!" Send your bales of suggestions to Dr. Foy Cross, School of Education, New York University, Washington Square, New York 3, New York.
Watch the NEA Journal
• Watch the December issue of the NEA Journal for a center pictorial spread on a comprehensive instructional resources program for the big city school system. The work that Amo DeBernardis is doing in Portland has attracted so much attention nationally that he has been asked to prepare this special feature for one of the choice spots in the Journal. At least two other major articles in the audio-visual field are planned for appearance in the Journal this year.
"Schools Today"
• Since these newsnotes must be completely up to date, we thought you'd be interested in this statement of what's wrong with schools today:
"The teachers of today just go on repeating things in a rigmarole fashion, annoy the students with constant questions, and repeat the same things over and over again. They do not try to find out what the students' natural inclinations are, so that the students are forced to pretend to like their studies, nor do they try to bring out the best in their talents. What they give to the students is wrong in the first place and what they expect of the students is just as wrong. As a result, the students hide their favorite readings and hate their teachers, are exasperated at the difficulty of their studies and do not know what good it does them. Although they go through the regular courses of instruction, they are quick to leave it when they are through. This is the reason for the failure of education today."
Maybe you'll be surprised to hear that this statement is taken from "The Wisdom of Confucius" (Modem Library Edition, page 26). This might well serve to re-emphasize the fact that we must be at least as much concerned with the philosophy of education governing the use of learning materials as we are with the nature of the learning materials themselves.
—J. J. McPherson DAVI Executive Secretary
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