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

tion to report on the progress ol audio-visual teaching methods in their states and to exchange ideas and experiences. Among subjects discussed at this 1954 meeting were A-V clinics for PTA and board of education members sponsored by state departments of education (Ohio has planned such clinics), A-V courses for certification of teachers, tape recording projects, educational television, and the broadening concept of A-V — that is, broadening toward inclusion of all learning materials. New officers of CSSAVO are: President, Clyde K. Miller, Director, Division of Audio-Visual Education, Ohio Department of Education; Vice-President, Russell Mosely, Supervisor of Secondary Education, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; Secretary-Treasurer, J. J. McPherson, Executive Secretary, Department of Audio-Visual Instruction. New members of the board of directors are past-president S. E. Alkire of Illinois and W. D. R. Stovall of Mississippi. Other members of the board are Russell Meinhold of Rhode Island and Garland C. Bagley of Georgia. Following the meeting ot the state A-V chiefs, U. S. Commissioner of Education Brownell called a meeting to discuss A-V activities of the U. S. Office of Education and a contemplated survey of the functions and activities of state audio-visual direc tors. The meeting was presided over by Seerley Reid, Chief of the Visual Education Service, U. S. Office of Education. Still More Get-togethers In other conferences, big and little, other audio-visual groups got together during the convention week to increase A-V know-why and know-how. The Catholic .Audio-Visual Educators, meeting for their 3rd annual convention, brought together teachers from all subject areas and levels to see and hear classroom demonstrations of audio-visual teaching techniques. People from the medical and allied sciences got together lor their first major audio-visual conference to discuss exchange of film information, film evaluation, and problems of film distribution and use. The Film Council of .\merica brought together representatives from all the other A-V organizations to discuss the program of the 1955 .American Film Assembly (to be held next spring). The Department of ,\udio-Visual Instruction and Industrial .Audio-Visual Association took part in the EFLA program; D.Wl also held its official summer board of directors' meeting. Add to all these gatherings ot the A-V clans the sales meetings of leading .A-V manufacturers and producers plus countless smaller meetings ot all kinds of audio-visual groups — and you have the 1954 National .AudioVisual Convention & Trade Show, after six years and despite some cracks and crevices still inspiring evidence that the A-V world is one world. — JNS A-V Briefs • The University Film Producers Association held their eighth annual conference August 16-20 at Ohio State University. Theme: The Film Maker as a Communicator ot Ideas. • A-V highlights of the Minneapolis American Library .Association Conference in June were the first meeting of the Audio-Visual Round Table, the decision to establish a Joint Committee ot the D.AVl-.AV Board, and the decision to hold a pre-conference audiovisual workshop in connection with the ALA Conference in Philadelphia in 1955. • Going and coming: Film-maker Tom Hodge passed through the USA this summer on his way from Kuala Lumpur (Malaya) to London. June and John Hamilton also made the States a stepping stone between their former U. S. government post in Iran and the new post in Tripoli, Libya. Nettie Berg, Chairman of the American Council of .Audio-Visual Education in Israel, went to a;id returned from — yes, Israel. • Religious Film Libraries, an organization representing ten cooperating Protestant denominations, now offers .services from nine strategic locations over the country. Headquarters are in the office of the Protestant ChurchOwned Publishers' .Association, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. • Film Associates of California, producers of educational and industrial films, has announced the opening of new offices and production studios at 10521 Santa Monica Blvd., Los .Angeles 25, California. Paul Burnford. producer of Mnmmah Are Interesting, face of the Earth, Art in Motion, and other educational films has been selected to head up Film Associates' Educational Film Department. • Transfilm, producers of business and industrial films, has made a 13-minute motion picture for the U. S. Navy titled The Unified Sunday School Curriculum. The film is aimed at Protestant .Armed Forces Chaplains throughout the world and explains how the children of Armed Forces personnel can maintain their Sunday School curriculum despite repeated transfers to different Ixises. The major reason tor unifying the curriculum is symbolized by tlie statement ot an .Air Force Sergeant's son who, in a period of four months, made three moves to different areas. Each time his studies dealt with Moses. .After the third repetition of the series ot lessons, the youngster remarked. "I haven't anything against Moses, but there must be somebody else in the Bible tor me to learn about." • Herbert E. Budek Co. has moved to larger quarters at 324 Union St., Hackensack, N. J., to accommodate expanding production requirements. Two more large color developing machines and imported ultra-modern German color printers have been added. o The Film Council of America ser\ed as the clearing house for .American films sent to both the Edinburgh and Venice Film Festivals. Ninety-one nontheatrical films went from the U. S. to Venice and 110 to Edinburgh. • Educational TV will be a reality for some 30 million people by the end of the year when a dozen stations will be on the air, according to surveys by the National Citizens Committee for Educational Television. In 130 other communities citizens are organizing and planning lor non-conmiercial TV stations. • In June the New York State Board of Regents granted a charter authorizing the formation of a Metropolitan Educational Television .Association, a non-profit organization that jjlans to establish a non-commercial station in the New York City area. • Herbert Rosen, president of .-\udioMaster Corporation, New York City, has received two awards for his filmstrip Radio Philatelia, picturing the historical development of radio and television through tlie medium ot stamps. • For your catalog file: .A tree 28-page catalog on 16mm. 35mm, and TV production equipment can be secured lor the asking from National Cine Equipment, 209 48th St., New York 36. A catalog listing over 2,000 2x2 color slides of flowers can be secured from Farnham's Flower Portraits. 2225 Colorado .Ave.. Dept. .A, Santa Monica, California, for 75 cents. 270 Educational Screen