The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

DAVI NEWS CONTINUED Do You Know? • While doing a little research in preparation for the new brochures on audio-visual centers, Ann Hyer of our DAVI staff found that 6.5 per cent of all the nation's teachers are teaching in one-room schools, which make up approximately 40 per cent of all schools. The average elementary school in the nation serves approximately 75 pupils, and the average high school has an enrollment of approximately 270. Approximately 81 per cent of all school administrative units have less than 10 teachers! • There is a national organization of those who are primarily interested in film music. This organization is the National Film Music Council located in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The Council publishes a journal, Film Music, five times each year. • It may be old hat to you but we were personally delighted to discover the "Leroy Lettering Set" manufactured by the Keuffel and Esser Company. By means of this lettering set, an amateur can produce beautiful lettering for graphic materials of many different sizes from 3x5 cards to 30 X 40 flip charts. Of People and Places • Vernon Putnam is now Production Manager for the Division of Communications at the University of Illinois. • Walter Oberst, of Pasco, Washington, dropped by the national DAVI office to chat about his plans for a year's stay in Washington on a Ford Foundation grant. Walter will spend his time studying the government, taking a little graduate work, and observing audio-visual activities in secondary schools in the DC area. • Julia Anne Lorenz has been added to the staff of John Flory, Advisor on Non-Theatrical Films for the Eastman Kodak Company. Miss Lorenz will collect, index, and maintain a reference collection of literature in the audio-visual field. • Larry Twyford, who was formerly with the Instructional Film Research Program at Pennsylvania State College, has accepted an appointment to the Navy Special Devices Center at Port Washington, New York. He will be a research psychologist with the Human Engineering Division. • Seerley Reid, Chief of the Visual Education Section of the U. S. Office of Education, reports that the USOE Directory of 16m>n Film Libraries is currently being revised. This is one of the finest service publications in our field, so we have no hesitancy about urging everyone to give Seerley all help possible in getting together a good edition for 1952-53. If you have a film library and do not receive a questionnaire from Seerley's office, why not di-op him a note and tell him that you would like to be listed? (Write Chief, Visual Education Service, Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, Washington 25, D. C.) Looking for Film? • Looking for a film that will help sell public education? Try the new NEA film. What Greater Gift (see Ed Screen, Summer, 1952, page 233). It does an excellent job of dramatizing the teacher as a professional worker and also gives a good undei-standing of the basic purpose of education. It can be obtained from your state education association office and from many university film libraries. Watch for . . . • Regular listings of audio-visual materials in each issue of the NEA Journal. The September issue carried a listing of films and filmstrips in economic education; the October Journal, a list of filmstrips and recordings on the UN. Also in the October Journal is a feature article, "First We Shape Our Buildings," by Irene Cypher, CoChairman of our National Committee on Buildings and Equipment. Other feature articles and listings of materials are planned for the future. ^IJM. "HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME?" seems to be the question being asked by this fenced-in lamb in the new Coronet Film, "Farmyard Babies". This primary grade film, made in collaboration with a leading educator, is typical of all Coronet 16mm sound motion pictures; it's modern, timely, up-to-date. Its technical perfection is equalled by its educational value. For information on rental, preview or purchase of this and other up-to-date teaching films, write: C-^ronct Films, Coronet BuiMin", ChicH'^o ], llhnois. Advertisement Writinq I'T niof» (nlTniali^ii ,' Meritir.ii l-PIM AIli'flAI jlRIIM. The Projector that does EVERYTHING FINEST PROJECTION of Slides, standard and handmade, witli 750-1,000 watt illumination — real daylight projection. Instructor faces the class. TACHISTOSCOPE, indispensable for efficient teaching of skills needed for spelling and reading. is available simply by snapping on Flashmeter. MICRO-PROJECTION, with magnification up to 106 diameters on the screen, for entire class to see a microscopic subject ; low-cost attachment. 2-INCH SLIDES and STRIP FILM are shown with brilliant Keystone illumination, up to 1,000 watt, using inexpensive attachments. All with 1 Projector. Write for circular. KEYSTONP: VIEW CO., Meadville, Penna. Since 1892, Producers of Superior Visual Aids. KEYSTONE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR 368 Educational Screen