Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

AS PERSONAL Continued versity starting in February. Ray will teacii several classes in audio-visual materials and methods and will also have responsibility for some film planning activities. For the past three years Ray has served as a member of the DAVI National Committee ou Research. Charles Hoban and Edgar Dale will be on a panel which will review the new National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook on Communication which will be unveiled at the Atlantic City Convention of AAS.'\. J. Edwin Foster is the newly appointed Director of the Medical AudioVisual Institute, Chicago. He is a former member of the staff of the .Audiovisual Center of Indiana University. For the past year and a half he has been working as a member of the staff of the Medical .-\udio-Visual Institute. Charles Bushong, associate director of the Film Council of America, Jias been appointed head of the Foreign Policy Association's new Film Program Service. He will direct the setting up and operation of mobile film units, which service community groups with films and speakers on world affairs, act as consultant to organizations on films about world affairs, and publish catalogs and handbooks on films in the field of international relations. It's Coming "Administering the Audio Visual Program," D.AVI's first yearbook, is now in the hands of the printer. We have had assurance that we will have 25 to 50 examination copies available at the Chicago Convention. The publication of this important treatment of problems involved in administering audiovisual programs will be a milestone in the history of D.WI and a most important contribution to an aspect of the field which has been insufficiently treated up to this time. High publication costs will make it impossible for D.WI to give this yearbook free to all members. However, members will be able to buy it at a reduced cost. Plan now to add this important publication to your personal library and to use it with classes you may be teaching in the administration of audiovisual programs. To Charley Schuller, Editor, and his hard-working staff of chapter editors and writers must go thanks from all of us in the field for the sustained work they have done on this project during the past two years. It's Worth Reading The Bulletin of the Audio-Visual C;enter of Indiana University has become an imposing and informationpacked document. The last issue of ten pages is filled with information. Editor is Wendell Williams, newly appointed administrative associate on the staff. Wendell also has responsibility for some of the center's work with television. Here are a few liighly (ondensed highlights from the bulletin: For the first time the film center circulated in excess of 100,000 reels last year. This represents a nearly 500% increase during the past ten years and this was off-campus .service only. On the campus 4,800 film titles were booked and there were 353 bookings of other types of audio-visual materials last year. The center also produced 9 seven-minute films for television use. Harold Lasswell, professor of law and political science, Yale University, discussed ways in which intangible concepts in relationships with human society can be described and communicated to students in a three-day conference on the campus. In connection with this, he used the film, "Social Process," for which he served as advisor. Next summer an audio-visual workshop one week in length and carrying credit is being planned. Newcomers to the professional staff of the center include Robert Hunyard, who will be instructor in education and program supervisor in the circulation department. John Fritz has been made acting assistant in selection. The Indiana .\udio-Visual Cenunow has 318 tape recordings, most which are usable in the school cm riculum. Hung in Shame Our head, that is — after telling you a couple of months ago that we were shocked when the audio-visual center of a leading university sent us a filr without taking advantage of the new low "book rate." we were thrown into confusion when this selfsame univer sity reported to us that when the film was returned to them through the NEA Shipping Department, it was not relumed al the low rate! We — the university and us — have now straightened our shipping departments out and can be as self-righteous as before if we ever hear of any other audiovisual center failing to use the new low postal rates! We Hope It's Catching .WID of Indiana is paying expenses of its president. Ward Holaday, AudioVisual Director at the Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, to the DAVI Convention in Chicago. Since presidents of state audio-visual associations affiliated with D.WI are automatically members of the Board of Directors, this action assures the state association of having a word in the affairs of the Department and is also a fitting way to honor the president of the state association. It will greatly strengthen D.WI if this step taken by Indiana can be adopted by every affiliated state group every year! — JJM First Annual American Film Assembly The Film Council of America has announced plans for the First Annual .American Film' .Assembly, April 1-3, 1954, to be held at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel. The .Assembly is expected to bring together film users from hundreds of national organizations as well as representatives of all branches of the 16mm film industry. High point of the Assembly will be the Golden Reel Film Festival, a twoday display of recent outstanding 16mm motion pictures. The showings, running simultaneously in each of twelve broad subject categories, will be open to all registrants, furies of users and producers will select one film in each category to be granted the Golden Reel .Award. .Award winners will be announced at a banquet in the Hilton's Grand Ballroom Friday evening, .April 2, and will be reshown the following day. They will be shown subsequently in selected com munities across the nation under the auspices of local film councils. Film categories are: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Geography and Travel; Graphic Arts; History and Biography; Home and Family: Medical Sciences; Religion and Ethics; Safety; Sales Promotion; Science; Sociological and Political Understanding; Training. Competition in the Golden Reel Film Festival is open to all films produced for a principal ])urpose other than entertainment, of 50 minutes or less in running time, and released in 16mm to nontheatrical users in the United States during the period January 1, 1953 to February 1, 1954. Entry is on official entry forms only. Complete information and entry forms may be obtained by writing to the Film Council of .America, 600 Davis Street, Evanston. Illinois. 50 Educational Screen