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

• Pictures with a Purpose: To help stem the rising tide of juvenile delinquency in New York City, Transfilm, motion picture producers, has offered to make a film on the subject at cost. The offer was made to the city administration. Mark of a Man, fifth film in the public relations series produced by the National Education Association, is being made in the metropolitan area of Washington, D. C. The film shows how schools help prevent juvenile delinquency. A color film telling in pictures and words the remarkable success of an Akron, Colorado girls' club organized to help the Washington County Hospital has been produced and made available to the public by the Colorado Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. The group, known as the JUGS ("Just Us Girls") was developed in the .Akron High School to provide the hospital with trained technical assistants and to encourage more young women to select nursing as a career. Cornell Films of New York City has released a documentary film paying tribute to Mrs. Lane Bryant on the fiftieth anniversary of the maternity garment she created. The film traces the "liberation of pregnant uomen." • Write to: Business Education Films, 630 Ninth Ave., New York 36, N. Y. for a free list of more than 160 titles of rental motion pictures for commercial education teachers and training directors ... to Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C, for a new supplementary list of films on child life (15 cents). Ask for Supplement No. 1, "Motion Pictures on Child Life." The original film listing is also still available from GPO for 40 cents ... to .Association Films, 347 Madison Ave., New York 17, N. Y., for its 40th annual film catalog, "Selected Motion Pictures," describing more than 1400 free-loan and rental films ... to the .American Dental .Association. 222 East Superior St., Chicago 11, Illinois, for a catalog of ".Audio-Visual Materials in Dentistry" ... to .Society for Visual Education, 1345 W. Diversey Parkway, Chicago 14 for a 20-page booklet describing filmstrips and slidcsets for Thanksgiving and Christmas ... to Coronet Films, Coronet Bldg., Chicago 1 for a free copy of the Coronet anniversary booklet describing "15 Years of Progress at Coronet Films" ... to Young America Films, 18 E. 41st St., New York 17, N. Y., for copies of the new YAF catalogs of teaching films and filmstrips. The Eyes Have It for fast, retentive learning AMERICAN OPTICAL OPAQUE PROJECTOR Young and old learn faster, retain more through visual teaching. Simj)lest way is with an AOt Oiiaque projector the world's finest. With large 10" x 10" aperture, it projects practically anything that's opaque and not more than 3'A" thick. Screened image is large enough for whole audience to see. In Schools. Projects test papers for comparison, news clippings, coins, gears, anything from a postage stamp to World Atlas. Costs Little to Run. With an AO Opaque projector there is no film to buy — no rentals to pay — no slides to make — the whole world provides your material. In Churches. ShowsBiblestories, pictures from books and other teaching material to large groups of people. Simple to Operate. Just flip a switch and insert copy. The AO Opaque projector focuses easily — keeps cool, with the projected object completely protected by quiet motor driven fan. Readily portable. 1000-watt lamp gives unmatched screen brilliance. Lj-*^ AO^ Educator -500 For 2" X 2" slide and film strip. 500watt blower cooled — 3Ji", 5" or 7" projection lens. merican tT. M. Reg. by American Optical Company CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS October, 1954 317