The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

COMMONWEALTH Announces Delivery of 3 New Additions to the Edward Small Group Now making 10 in all Of CfilSTO, HAt^ARD-BENHtnO SANDERS N^iu. cmsTo ' louis Hayward MY SON, i^y gONy ■ ....-^;«„E „o« MASK KIT CARSON ^„„„ J„„ Hall, Vy"" •°"' „„_TUCRS O009I0. fo'-b""'"' ' aV.™ Tom.roll Moo... '«OT» »»°" „„,. FRIENDLY ENEMIES^ ^^^ EXCLUSIVE I6MM DISTRIBUTORS COMMONWEALTH PICTURES CORP. 723 Seventh Avenue. New York 19. N.Y. 390 Focus on the News FCA Goals • Th« Film Council of America is planning a general drive in the coming year to promote international understanding through the use of films on all local community levels. Major projects include the preparation and distribution of lists of films and film materials for use of local groups and the bringing about of a closer relationship between local film councils and national organizations. Among other objectives arc the publicizing of local film information centers and also the establishment of a Committee to Develop a Statement of Policy on the Freedom of the Film, a Commission on Foreign Film Festivals, and an Advisory Committee to the United Nations to study the present i system of film distribution and to ! make recommendations for future distribution of UN films. User-Producer Get-together • A conference planned in an effort to bridge the gap between educational film user and producer was held in Boston in October, where audio-visual directors of the six New England states met with officials of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films to discuss film production and use. The conference was arranged by Kelsey Ballou Sweatt, in charge of audio-visual education for the Massachusetts Department of Education, and R. P. Kroggel, EBFilms regional manager. Main speakers included Dr. John J. Desmond, Jr., Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, EBFilms President Walter Colmes and Vice-President Dennis Williams. Teamwork in California • "Solving an Instruction Problem through Teamwork" will be the theme when the California Audio-Visual Education Association, the Elementary Administrators' Association (Northern Section), and the California School Supervisors' Association (Northern Section) meet in joint conference in Sacramento February 1 and 2, 1952. Friday's sessions will be geared to the supervisory and admirristrative levels, while Saturday's meetings ^vill consider problems of classroom teachers and interested lay persons. Television in New York • The AudioVisual Section (Esther L. Berg, Chairman) of the New York Society for the Experimental Study of Education held a meeting in October in New York City on "Educational Television — Challenge and Promise". Both the basic problems of securing for education its share of TV and the specific problems of educational program production were presented and discussed. Program chairman was Paul Witt of Teachers Col Cover Picture From "Santa Claus in His Woriishop" (Cornell Film Company) HOLIDAY GREETINGS In puppet animation are featured In the little Christmas film "Santa Claus In His Workshop" and its companion, "Carol Singers in the Snow" (both distributed by Cornell Film Company). Each film has a running time of I '/; minutes and is available in color or black and white. lege, Columbia University. Speakers included Ralph Steetle, Executive Director of the Joint Committee on Educational Television; Captain David Hawkins, U.S.N., Director of Training, Third Naval District; Dean Kenneth Bartlett, Director, Radio and Television Center, Syracuse University, and Edward Stasheff , Television Supervisor, Station WNYE, Board of Education, New York City. . . . and California • A completely equipped television studio will be put in operation on the University of Southern California campus during the early part of 1952, President Fred D. Fagg, Jr., an i nounced recently. Simultaneously, SC j will expand its educational TV program. First of its kind at any college in the west, the SC TV studio will be built and equipped as a gift of Captain Allan Hancock, chairman of the SC board of trustees and director of the Hancock Foundation for Scientific | Research. Labor A-V in Chicago I • An all-day workshop on "Labor's Use of AudioVisual Materials" was I, held November 3 at Roosevelt CoUegf in Chicago. Initiated originally by thf Chicago Film Council as part of its program to help special community groups make good use of audio-visual materials, the labor film workshop idea, with college film center collaboration, was developed as a pattern and tried out for the first time by the group of thirty delegates elected by Chicago area locals of the United Automobile Workers (CIO). The day's program included demonstrations of audio-visual materials and their use by the local trade union and an actual workshop session on how tc operate a motion picture projector Among program participants were Willoughby Abner (Chicago Regional Educational Director of the UAW) Herbert Jackman (UAW A-V depart ment director at Detroit headquarters), Hyman Fish (Roosevelt Col1 lege), Aaron Aronin (Jewish Laboi Committee), Frank McAllister (heat; of Roosevelt College's Labor Educa | tional Division), Michael Freedmai | (President, Forway Corp.), and Wil*, liam F. Kruse (representing the Chi | cago Film Council). Educational ScrMi*