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

LANGUAGE ARTS & STUDY SKILLS Constructing Reports Series 6fs EBF '54 49fr ea si col $6ea. Steps involved in writing a good report. Designed for English composition classes. EI-JrH. Effective Speaking Course rec AM HOME '54 5 double-side 10" 78rpm. $8.95. Radio announcer Milton Cross presents the Walter O. Robinson Course in Effective Speaking. Fun with Speech Sounds mp COR '54 1 Omin sd b&w $55 col $ I I 0. Designed to help children improve their speech habits. Shows how some difficult sounds should be practiced. Through audience participation, children ore encouraged to pronounce sounds used in poems and rhymes. Pri. High Speed Reading mp LTS '54 Smin sd b&w $36. Produced by Caspar Cisneros Barnette. Closeup pictures of the eyes of o man reading at 2,200 words per minute, 3,800 wpm, and 4,200 wpm, and slow-motion pictures of reading at 6,120 wpm. Shows techniques used to help him develop this reading speed along with examples of the way in which slow and fost readers read. Coll-Ad. How We Find Out fs WAYNE '54 50fr si b&w $3.50. Shows youngsters how and where to find information, using both school and community resources. Illustrates how students may do simple research projects. EI-JrH. Hunter and the Forest mp EBF '55 Smin sd b&w. An imaginative nature film telling a story in pictures instead of words, designed to provide material for student-written stories. Music score composed especially for the film PrI-HS. Jimmy Visits the City mp COR '54 1 1 min sd b&w $55 col $110. Correlated with primary readers, the film is designed to enrich the child's understanding of some of the characteristic features of a city — tall office buildings, congested streets, elevated trains, department stores — which ore all a port of Jimmy's first exciting trip to the city. Pri. Learning to Study mp EBF '54 14min sd b&w $62.50. Indicates that learning through formal study is essentially similar to learning that takes place through other forms of experience. The steps required to master the art of study are shown in detail. jOral and Written Expression 4fs & 3rec (16-inch, 33-l/3rpm) JAM '55 3368fr ea col $28set $8.50ea. Produced by the Los Angeles Board of Education. Actual classroom sessions show how oral and written expression con be more effectively taught in the elementary grades. Coll-Ad. FASTER, BETTER READING Easy to Use • Lowest Cost • Portable «/»TEOMET£Relt>ctricrL'adinii accelerator, '•l:i.^sro«m or homeuse. Dirt-ct ri-adiriK rate calcululor. SH' lon^, . L"i H):'. Complete with study man , iKil. curry-case carton . . $3S.OO EYE-SPAN TRAINER-I'laHtic Model 10. lrT!r.r..v«'s visuiil spfcil, Bpcunicy . . . 6no , Riantml. case . , S7.S0 «UOI0 VISUAL RESEARCH. Dept U, 531 S. Plymouth Ct., Chlcato 5 teu/ Two fJe Classroom Films for secondary and college speech, theater arts, English SPEAK UP! I6nun sound color or b/w for the elementary grades The Lion J The Mouse am 1 6mm sound color or b/w Alturas Films p. O. BOX 1211, SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. WRITE FOR PREVIEW PRINTS The Peddler and the Monkeys mp COR '54 1 I min sd b&w $55 col $1 10. The Story of "The Peddler and the Monkeys" is first read by a teacher and then acted out by the children in her class. Designed to encourage the oudience to act out the story and other stories. Pri. Picture Stories for Reading Readiness 7fs JAM '54 si col $H,50set $2.35ea. Composed of a series of pictures without captions, the f ilmstrips ore designed to prepare children for their first reading experience. Each visualizes a succession of experiences familiar to primary-grade children. This encourages them to create a story of their own. Titles: The Squirrels' Picnic, Lost at the Fair, Puppy Plays a Trick. The Loose Tooth, Buying a Pet, Surprise for Daddy, Let's Go to the Zoo. Pri. Poems Are Fun mp COR '54 1 ] min sd col $100 b&w $55. A class discovers how exciting good poems con be, and that they can be written about any subject. Choral speaking and im Public Speaking: Movement and Gesture mp COR '54 lOmin sd col $110 b&w $55. Helps beginning speakers understand the functions of movement and gesture in speaking. Demonstrates common techniques and suggests ways to develop ease and spontaneity of action. Jr-SrH. Raccoons' Picnic mp EBF '55 5min sd col or b&w. Produced by Crawley Films, Canada. Adventures of Beatrice and Willie, two young raccoons. Designed specifically for language arts but includes simple concepts suitable for elementary science. Pri. Reading 1 3fs & 1 1 rec (16-inch, 33-1/3 rpm) JAM '55 19-74fr ea col $96set $8.50ea. Produced by the Los Angeles Board of Education. Color photographs and sound recordings of actual classroom sessions trace the sequential steps in reading development from the kindergarten to the fifth and sixth grades. Coll-Ad. Report on Donald mp U MINN '54 20min sd b&w $80. Illustrates the problems of the stutterer and how his difficulties can be analyzed and controlled. Entering college, freshman Donald Carter has a bad speech block and goes to the Speech and Hearing Clinic for help. His history is reviewed to indicate how his severe block developed. He then works on his difficulty at the Clinic, gains control over his speech, and becomes a better socially adjusted person. Sandy Is a Ground Squirrel fs AV '54 si b&w $4. Story of a live baby ground squirrel who was brought from the mountains to a children's museum. His antics are used to illustrate the alphabet. Designed as a supplementary reading experience. Classroom activities are woven into the filmstrip to evoke natural pupil participation. Pri-EI. Speak Up! mp ALT '55 12i/2min sd col $133 b&w $57.50. A high schoolaged boy, faced with the necessity of talking before o school assembly, and his family are involved in a story which emphasizes the necessity of learning to speak effectively in school, social life, and business; explores and analyzes the feelings and attitudes involved in the common fears and insecurities of the person faced with the speaking task; and provides instruction OS to the steps necessary for making good preparation and delivering on effective talk. HS-Ad. Steps in Building a Paragraph 4fs SVE '54 40fr ea si col $5ea $19set. Designed to teach the fundamentals of creative writing by helping children "want to write" and showing them the easy step-by-step procedure involved in working with paragraphs. EI-SrH. Why Study Speech mp YAF '55 lOmin sd b&w $50. Guidance film designed to help students understand why the study of speech techniques is important to them now and in their future daily life and how they can find opportunities in school life to improve their speech techniques. Work Habits 6fs McG-H '54 sd (12" disc 2 sides 78rpm for each I b&w $51 set $9.50ea. Designed to stimulate children to build good work habits through dramatic appeal and pupil participation. Each filmstrip tells the story of a pupil with a particular problem. Titles: Julie Was Lost (following directions) (54fr). Sandy Got Stuck (thinking before acting) (49fr) . Eddie Wasn't There (concentration) (53fr). Susie Went Hunting (neatness) (46fr). Carol Hod Problems (checking work) (43fr). Barrie Didn't Report (perseverance) (53fr). EI-SrH. When writing for more information, please mention EDUCATIONAL SCREEN'S Blue Book Issue. 3lue Book Issue 445