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

News of the industry: organizations, people and products ySudio-visual trade review National A-V Convention July 22-27, 1955 More people and more groups than ever before are expected to join in the 1955 National Audio-Visual Con\ention and Trade Sliow to be held in Chicago's Hotel Sherman July 22-27, according to a preliminary announcement of convention plans by J. E. Lewis. President of the National AudioVisual Association. This annual audiovisual get-together is planned for all interested in and working with audiovisual equipment and materials. The following audio-visual organizations will hold concurrent national meetings: Educational Film Library Association, Audio-Visual Conference of Medical and Allied Sciences, Association of Chief State School AudioVisual Officers, and National Audiovisual Association. This vear for the first time two other audio-\isual organizations will participate in the convention. An .4udioVisual Workshop for Training Directors in Business and Industry will be sponsored by the Illinois Training Directors' .Association. An .Audio-Visual Workshop for Agricultural Leaders will be presented by "County Agent and \'o-Ag Teacher" Magazine. In addition to these seven separate group meetings, there will be national sales meetings of some 23 equipment manufacturers and producers of materials. One of the major points of interest for meml)ers of all these groups will be the tenth annual National .AudioVisual Convention Trade Show, with more than 165 exhibits of audio-visual materials and equipment — expected to be the largest such trade show in the history of the audio-visual field. Further details about the 1955 National Audio-Visual Convention and Trade Show will appear in the Summer Issue of Educational Screkn. Everyone interested in audio-visual teaching technic]ues is invited to attend. Hotel reservation blanks and copies of the final program may be secured from the National .-\udioVisual Association, 2540 Eastwood .Ave., Evanston, Illinois. General Precision Acquires SVE Stock W. H. Garvey, Jr., President of the Society for Visual Education. Inc.. Chicago, manufacturer and ])roducer of audio-visual aids and photographic equipment, has announced that as of March 7, 1955, Cieneral Precision Equipment Corporation of New York acquired all of the outstanding stock of the Society for Visual Education. Herman G. Place, President and Chairman of the Board of General Pre THEY'RE BLACK Opaque Black THEY DARKEN ANY ROOM Beckley-Cardy LIGHTPROOF SHADES Make any room — into a good projection room. °' Beckley-Cardy Co. These heavy-weight canvas shades — dull black and completely opaque — effect decided savings in adapting rooms to visual teaching programs. With or without fightproof housing. Ask your regular supply house or write for Bulletin 54. 1900 N. NARRAGANSETT CHICAGO 39, ILL. cision Ef|uipmcnt Corporation, announced simultanecjusly that SVE will be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary with the same ollicers continuing excejjt for James L. Garard, formerly Chairman of the Board, and G. B. Miller, formerly Treasurer. ,SVE will continue to function under the same policies as heretofore. New Sales Policy for Vistarama "Squeeze" Lenses Carl W. Dudley. President of Vistarama, Inc., has announced an agreement with S,O.S. C;inema Supply Corporation, New ^■ork. granting the exclusive agency for Vistarama anamorphic wide screen sxsteni of photography throughout the eastern half of the United States with a non-exclusive arrangement in the rest of the coinitr\ and overseas. Vistarama, like Cinemascope, employs an anamorphic "scjuee/e" lens by which images twice the normal width are compressed onto regular 35nnn or Ifinnn negatives. Projected through the C:inematic IV or any of the other Cinemascope-type projection lenses, the picture can lie spread to an aspect ratio of 2.66 to 1. Like Cinemascope, Vistarama is best projected on a slightly curved, all pmposc screen, and stereophonic soinid helps to create the most effective illusion. In addition to regular theatrical use, Vistamara is now available for the industrial and educational fields. Vistarama anamorphic lenses are easily mounted on any professional 35mni or Kimm camera. 1 he new distributor, S.O.S. Cinema SuppK Corporation, has shop facilities for momning Vistarama on any type 16nim or 35mm professional camera. Three New Da-Lites Three new projection screens have been announced h\ the Da-Lite Screen Company, 2711 N. Pulaski Rd.. Chicago 39, Illinois. These screens feature new glas.s-beaded fabrics for more brilliant and improved color projection, new operating ease, new decorator colors, and new long-lasting chrome and metal plating. Ihese screens are Da-Lite's Challenger, Versatol and C^omet. I'he first two have Da-Lite's famous "push-button" oijening. an exclusive Da-Lite feature to help the user set up his screen in seconds. The Comet, Da-Lite's budget 226 Educational Screen