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FOCUS ON THE NEWS CONVENTION TIME IN CHICAGO • Chicago's Hotel Sherman will be the meeting place this summer for an expected 2500 persons from all parts of the audio-visual field: schools, churches, community, and industry. Groups holding meetings between July 30 and August 5 include the Educational Film Library Association (EFLA), the Catholic Audio-Visual Educators (CAVE), the National Audio-Visual Association (NAVA), the Film Council of America (FCA), the Industrial Audio-Visual Association (lAVA), and the Chief State School Audio-Visual Officers (CSSAVO). EFLA Looks Forward The Educational Film Library Association Conference will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 30-August 1. There will be two general sessions, a number of sectional meetings, three preview screenings, a group of field trips, and a group of demonstrations of equipment. Time will be left open, of course, for EFLA members and friends to attend the NAVA Trade Show. Since EFLA is celebrating its Tenth Anniversary, the conference theme is "Looking Forward — The Next Ten Years." In general, the discussions will center around goals, both realistic and idealistic, which EFLA hopes to accomplish in the next ten years. There will be discussion groups for city and county school audio-visual directors; public librarians; college and university film library administrators; educational film producers; classroom teachers and audio-visual coordinators; and those concerned with informal and adult education. Topics to be discussed include television, censorship, research, teacher training, use of religious films, use of films in fundamental education, and facilities for screening in schools, libraries, and other buildings. There will be three evening screenings of new films. Thursday evening will be devoted to educationally-produced films, followed by the EFLA Board reception. Friday evening new classroom films will be shown, and on Saturday there will be a special screening of experimental and adult films. Two features tried out last year at the EFLA Conference proved so popular that they are being retried and ex CONVENTION SCHEDULE Hotel Sherman, Chicago July 30-August 5 EFLA— July 30-August I NAVA— August 1-5 CAVE— August 3-5 Also holding meetings: FCA, lAVA, CSSAVO panded this year. One is field trips, to be held Thursday afternoon — trips to Coronet Studios and possibly to other producers, to the Chicago Board of Education film library, to a television station, to an industrial organization. The other feature is the demonstration of new techniques and equipment. These may include film inspection and repair, double optical track, stereophonic equipment, and three-dimensional films. Donald Smith, Supervisor of AudioVisual Aids at the University of Illinois, is chairman of the EFLA Conference program. Registration at the EFLA Conference is open to any interested person and includes admission to the NAVA Trade Show. For further information, write Emily S. Jones, Executive Secretary, Educational Film Library Association, Suite 1000, 1600 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. NAVA Talks Business Eleven panel sessions and three general meetings will make up the program of the National Audio-Visual Association's 1953 Convention, to be held August 1-5 at Chicago's Hotel Sherman. The first general session is scheduled for Saturday, August 1. Other general sessions will include the annual NAVA business meeting, a talk on religious audio-visual use on Monday, August 3, and a demonstration of audio-visual techniques in industry on Tuesday, August 4. One of the eleven panels will be a joint session with the Industrial Audio-Visual Association on "Serving Industrial Audio-Visual Users." Other panels will deal with serving the church, educator and dealer relationships, entertainment film problems, dealer advertising and sales promotion, dealer financial and tax problems, overcoming discount and price buying problems, and manufacturer and dealer cooperation for better audio-visual selling. Panel sessions will be at 9 A. M. to 10:15 A. M. and general sessions from 10:30 A. M. to 11:45 A. M. Jack C. Walts of Indianapolis, Indiana, is General Chairman of the NAVA Program Committee. A-V Gets Biggest Show The eighth annual NAVA Trade Show will be the largest ever held with the displays of more than 125 manufacturers and distributors in 160 booths occupying 32,000 square feet of air-conditioned exhibit space. On display will be projection equipment, tape recorders, record players, projection screens, projection accessories, and audio-visual materials of all kinds. The Trade Show will open at noon on August 1 and will end at 1 P. M. August 5. For further information about the NAVA Convention and Trade Show, write Don White, Executive Vice President, National AudioVisual Association, 2540 Eastwood Ave., Evanston, Illinois. CAVE Goes to the Classroom Under the general chairmanship of the Reverend Pius Earth, O.F.M., Dean of Education at De Paul University, the second annual convention of the Catholic Audio-Visual Educators will be held at Chicago's Hotel Sherman, August 3, 4 and 5. 1-^ r -Ti fei-s^-J ^^H ^^H The Very Reverend Monsignor Thomas Quigley (Pittsburgh Diocesan School Superintendent), Reverend Michael F. Mullen, C. M., Chairman of the Speakers Program for the summer CAVE convention (and of Saint John's University, Brooklyn), and Very Reverend Sylvester J. Holbel (Diocesan School Superintendent of Buffalo) talk over a projector and the coming convention in Chicago. The first national CAVE convention last August was so successful with delegates from all parts of the country attending the sessions that the Exploratory Committee composed of thirty school superintendents, supervisors and teachers have given constant supervision to the planning for this forthcoming convention. It is anticipated that it will be even more successful and better attended than was the two-day first national CAVE convention. Reverend Michael Mullen, CM., Speakers Committee chairman. Department of Religion, Teachers College, St. John's University, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jack McKay, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana; Michael Ference, Administrator of AudioVisual Department, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and Clement J. Wagner, publisher of The Catholic Educator, New York City, have carefully considered the diversified interests and needs of supervisors, teachers, catechist^ and chaplains in arranging the three-day program. The program for the 2nd annual (Continued on page 263) 242 Educational Screen