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

Two Grand New CHRISTMAS SOUND FILMSTRIPS in One Package! "How We Cot Our Christmas Carols" Fascinating origins of four of our most beloved Christmas carols. (43 frames, full color, with LP record.) Down-to-earth suggestions for preserving the reol meaning of Christmas in the home. 137 frames, full color, with LP record.) BOTH FOR ONLY $12.50 Order from your church supply house or visual aids dealer. Brochure on request. Church Screen Productions 806 Broadway Nashville 3, Tenn. Splices Not Holding? Try WRITE FOR SAMPLE CAMERA EQUIPMENT CO. Dcpt. E-10-8 1600 Broadway. New York 19, N. Y. COMMUNITY HEALTH in Action I6mm, sound, color or b&w, 22'/^ min. Presented In ccM)peration with the National Health Council, this documentary of a good community health program shows that "health is everybody's business. ' ' Can be used to strengthen or create local health councils, to build up citizen support for local health departments, to inform people in school, church and community about the community health program. Produced and distributed by SAM ORLEANS and ASSOCIATES 211 W. Cumberland Ave. Knoxville 15. Tenn. I Which Way To t'eace? \ Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam and Dr. Henry | Hitl Crane debate the validity of the absolute j Christian-pacifist position, and answer questions! put by moderator Bishop Gssrald Kennedy. i IHmm HirW Motion Pirlurc—Mhnin. | Write RADIO & FILM COMMISSION | So. Calif. & Ariz. Conference ' THE METHODIST CHURCH i 954 W. 37th St., Loj Angeles 7. i l)c held in their village. They wonder liow they can make their house beautiiul. Krom a missionary they receive a ])laiu and tend it dutifully. By festival time it is beautiful. In other ways they decorate their little house. It wins the prize, and the prize was just what the family so much wanted, a Bible. An excellent filmstrip on village life. The pictures were drawn by .Anne J. Hansen and she has captured the feeling and flavor of Indian village life. For use with Primary and up. Recommended. (42 frames; color; rental S2; sale S4; source given above) In the filmstrip One Way Street, we have the story of an early teenage boy who lives and plays on the streets of a big city; drifts toward delincjuency; is shy of the Christian center at first but is finally won to its activities and program. Photographed at a center, it can tell the story of all such centers. C:an be shown to adults to help them understand the need for the denominational support of such work. Can be used to lift up questions for discussion; to motivate reading; to give background for a field trip; and to present the social dynamics of the .American city. (80 frames; B&W; rental .'Jl.SO; sale $3.00; source given above) AS WE SEE IT • As we see it the spirit of entertainment is getting left behind in the church field in favor of solid educational and promotional realities. There was a time when the producer's description of his product was more promotional and poetic than authentic. Today the producers are giving us accurate descriptions of content and limited and thoughtful statements of utility. We have come a long way. o The dealers are doing their part to increase total usage. We believe they are on the right track when they put out description lists and catalogues of their films designed for the convenience and use of the user. Both C;athedral Films, Inc. and Family Films, Inc., for example, are serving not only their interests but those of the dealers and es|)ecially the user when they make available such catalogues and descriptive lists as those recently released. Ask your dealer for a copy. • Our mail, and we are glad to have it. contains requests for information about filmstrips and films — which could be gotten in a jiffy from the "Audio-Visual Resource Guide," available with a membership in the Visual Education Fellowship. While we desire to be of help, and want our readers to write in, we simply don't have the time or the staff to dig up a list of good materials on "stewardship," or list "the films telling about the Bible." The VEF membership will bring you or your church more for your money than can be gotten in any other form. Take it from us; we use it ourselves! Write to VEF, 79 East Adams .St., Chicago 3, III. WORKSHOP m. 12 Ihe 12th International Workshop in Religious .Audio-Visual Education, conducted by the Department of A-V and Broadcast Education of the National Council of Churches, was held at Green Lake. Wisconsin, September 2-9. Its international scope was reflected in the presence of religious educators from 19 other lands, as well as from practically all our states. The general theme, "A-V Education for Broader Leadership," was carried out to an unprecedented extent. Each daily general session, under direction of Dr. George Orville Taylor, featured the fully integrated use of at least five different visual tcchni<]ues — plus as many and more taken from the arsenal of modern group dynamics. .\s a result the sessions' "leadership"— more properly participantship — involved practically everyone pre.sent, not only casually once or twice, but actively and repeatedly. If it is true that "teachers teach as they themselves are taught". Dr. Taylor's hundreds of Green Lake "disciples" should prove a mighty leaven in modernizing the educational practices of their respective churches and denominations. .\nd this includes their audio-visual practices, too. Of great promise, also, for the advancement of the entire A-V field were the continuing conferences between top church leaders and a large group of commercial producers and manufacturers' representatives. Six .sessions were devoted to lively, constructive, and cooperative give-and-take meetings out of which came a consensus of findings and recommendations for joint activity in the months to come. A tran.script of the proceedings will be sent to all participants for comment, after which a final report will be worked out by a joint committee for further publicity atid execution. ,\mong recommendations were proposals for a series of one-day grassroots workshojjs arranged jointly bv commercial and religious interests and for much greater heed to the specialized interests of publications important to the broader spread of the .A-V message. .After ten years of annual meetings at the beautiful .American Baptist .Assembly Grounds at Green Lake, next year's workshop is to be held on the campus of the University of Southern California. In 19.57 the workshop returns to Green Lake. — WFK 352 Educational Screen