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

The reader's right Send letters to the Editor, EDUCIATIONAL SCREEN, 64 E. Lake St., Chicago 1, lU. life's Barest Essentials Editor: Ihank you lor your letter to (Managing Editor) Thompson, in regard to LlFE's jjlans for expanding elementary and junior Iiigli schools. (See editorial, "New Schools, Economy Too". March. 1954 EdScreen^ page 122). The architects we consulted included only the barest essentials, to add classrooms to existing school facilities in the cheapest way possible, for the shortage of school buildings has become almost a national emergency. They were not interested in introducing new methods into old schools. . . LOUISE R. BETTS for the Editors LIFE, Rockefeller Center New Vork, N. Y. Apparently LIFE would build classrooms to keep studeyils in, not to teach them in. — Ed. EdScreen at Work Editor: I showed the article "Forty Quiet Ones" published on page 57 of the February issue to the director of our Division of Mental Health. Mrs. .Myers was much impressed with this article and since we have tlic film The Ouiet One in our lending library, she would like to have some copies of the article. There are several jisychiatrists who are working with groups of mental patients who she feels would be very interested in seeing your article . . . .Would you give us permission to make a lew duplicates? . . . BERTHA H. CAMPBELL Director. Heallh F.ducation Services Kansas Stale Board of Health 'I'opeka, Kansas Editor: Will you please grant us permission to duplicate in mimeograpli form the article "ABC's of Ciommercial TV for Educators" by Don W. Lyon which appeared in the January, 1954 issue? We'd very much like to place this in the hands of some of our extension workers who are considering telecasting with some of the new stations here in the state. EARLE S. CARPEXl ER Extension Specialist in Visual Education State of Massachusetts, Amherst Permission granted. — Ed. A-V in the Seminary Editor: I cannot tell you liow much I enjoyed reading the C:hurch Department article in the December, 1953 issue of Educational Screen (".Seminaries and the Mass Media," jiage 439). . . . Generally over the country as I see it, students are coming out into the field without that greater vision which is promoted by visual methods in teaching. For example, just imagine going through a whole year's study of Old Testament, New Testament, or Comparative Religions, or Church History without the use of the vast collection of materials now available. .\t least every seminary should have what I call a "V'isedtorium" where each day at certain times films are shown correlated with the courses. . . . But we are a long wav from this as I see it. . . . WALl ER S. RYAN Vale I)i\inity School Need Back Copies? Editor: I have a number of duplicate copies of some back issues of EdScreen and some other .\-V magazines that I'd be happy to send to anyone willing to pay the postage who could make good use of them. ETi v sc:hneider RESS 833 Walton Ave. Bronx 51, New York AUTHENTIC HISTORY-SUPERB QUALITY THE PAGEANT OF AMERICA FILMSTRIPS "The response ot the class was the most favorable I have ever had on a filnistrip." "Each of these groups conceded that these fihnstrips were far and away tlie best example of iiistory portrayal yet seen." Acclaimed by discerning educators from coast to coast, the first units ot these tlociimentary filmstrijjs (each witli illtistrated Teacher's Guide) liave already made filnistrip history in the nation's classrooms * 1. The Story of the American Indian * 2. European Explorers Discover a New World * 3. Spain Establishes a Great Empire * 4. The Rise and Fall of New France * 5. The English Colonies in North America * 6. Life in Colonial America * 7. Patriots and Minutemen * 8. The Thirteen Colonies Win Independence * 9. Free Americaiu Establish a New Nation *10. The Young Nation and Foreign Affairs *ll. Westward to the Mississippi *12. Winning the Far West 13. Early Americans oti the High Seas 14. California, Texas and ihe Mexican War 1."). Slavery anil the War Between the States 16. Union and Reconstruction 17. The Age of Reform 18. Farmer, Rancher and Cowboy 19. Communication in the United States Write today for free illustrated circular 20. Transportation in the United States 21. The Growth of American Education 22. The Story of .Xmerican Sport 23. The .American Spirit in Literature 24. The Story of .American Painting 2"). The .American Spirit in .Architecture 26. I he Story of Iron and Steel 27. 4 he Story of Coal, Oil and Uranium 28. 4 he Story of the Factory *29. 4 he Growth of .American Democracy 30. 4 he Rise of Atnerica as a Wot4d Power YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS FILM SERVICE 386 Fourth Avenue *Units 1-12 immediate delivery; Units 13-30 iireparation well advanced. New York 16, N. Y. 132 Educational Screen