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

News about people, organizations, events Have you heard? DA VI in Detroit The 1956 convention of the NEA Department of Audio-Visual Instruction will be held at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel March 12-16. Bob LeAnderson, Detroit public schools Supervisor of Visual Education, is chairman of the arrangements committee. Lewis Saks, Director of Audio-Visual Education in the East Detroit Public Schools and President of the Michigan AudioVisual Association, is program committee chairman. FCA in Chicago The Third American Film Assembh will return to the place of its origin when it meets in Chicago, April 23-27 at the Morrison Hotel. The Golden Reel Film Festival, one of the features of the meeting, is the national showcase for outstanding 16mm informational and cultural motion pictures. .Mso featured at the 1956 American Film Assembly will be the Second Sound Slidefilm Conference and Competition. The following groups will hold meetings during the .\ssembly: .American Federation of Film Societies. Film Preview Center Project, Local Film Councils, Film Producers, and the Board of Directors of the Film Coundl of .■\merica. EFLA in New York The Third Annual Eastern Regional Meeting of tlie Educational Film Library .'Vssociation will be held this year in cooperation with the New York Film Council on January 26 and 27 in the Carnegie Endowment International Center, New York City, where EFLA's office is located. The theme will be: "Special purpose films, their production, presentation, and pot ntialities." A feature of the workshop meeting will be the "biography" of a new documentary film, Tlie Invader, from story outline to final release print. About People Lesi.H'. Frve. director of audio-visual education in the Cleveland Public Schools, died last October. Well known and highly respected in the audiovisual field, he had been in charge of the C;leveland dei)artmeiu since 1911. Sam G. Rose, president of the Victor .\nimatograph C;orporaiion. has presented one of the first 16nmi motion picture projectors to the audio-visual archival collection of the Department of .\udio-Visual Instruction. The archival collection is kept in the new State University of Iowa Library at Iowa City. NEW ADDRESS EDUCATIONAL to new quarters Park West Build nois. SCREEN has in the 2000 ng, Chicago moved Lincoln 14, llli ELEMENTARY: Gains of remedial reading classes through Keystone Tachisto. scopic Training, as high as 7"%%. ^^^ Similar gains have been reported frcm studies made with Primary, Secondary, and College groups — the latter ranging from A?"/, to 210-;}^. REPORTS ON REQUEST. Thousands of Schools are OBTAINING SUPERIOR RESULTS in LEARNING — with Keystone Tachistoscopic Training. Educators have learned that perceptive skill, once regarded as a talent of gifted students, may be developed rapidly in nearly all students who are given modern training. Beading' rates inoresiswl 50% to 75% in a few weeks. Invariably in eontrolled tests, the experimental groups see much FASTER, MORE ACCURATELY, and TAKE IN MORE WORDS at a glance— far outdistancing the control groups. No teaching procedure has ever had such unanimous approval from Research and Controlled Experimentation. Reports on these studies will be furnished on request. KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY, Meadville, Pa. KEYSTONE Tachistoscopic Services — especially effective as aids in REMEDIAL and DEVELOPMENTAL READING, TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND, BOOKKEEPING, CLERICAL TRAINING, MUSIC, ARITHMETIC. Walter K. Scott, (;hief of the .Motion Picture Service for the past tliree years, retired at the end of December, after a long and varied career in government. Rohert N. Dic:k has been appointed radio and television coordinator for the L'niversity of Wisconsin Extension Division, replacing William H. Allen. who recently resigned to become associate professor of cinema education at the University of .Southern California. Donald Ely has resigned his job as director of the audio-visual center at the State University Feachers College. New Pah/, to assume the position of director of audio-visual education for the Hickville (New York) Public Schools. RoBERi C. I.EE.sTMA. assistant director of tiie audio-visual education center at the University of Michigan, has resigned to accept a position with the Foreign Operations Administration as .Vlass Comminiications .\dvisor to the government of Vict Nam. Pail R. Kidd. owner-producer ol Church .Screen Productions, has joined the Society for Visual Education to direct SVE's religious filmstrip production activities. SVT is now the exclusive distributor of Church Screen iilnistrips. [. Patrick Kelly, former staff member of the University of Iowa, is heading a newly-instituted Materials of Instruction Service at the LIniversity of Ne\ada. .Mkndil Siikrman, staff member of Indiana l'ni\ersity's ,\udio-Visual Cen ter. and P.\i;l C. Reed, instructional materials director for the Rochester. N. Y., schools and editor of Educational Sc:reen, launched the NE.V Department of Audio-Visual Instruction's new field service program in December when they served as audiovisual considtants for a week in the DcsMoines, Iowa public schools. Educational Screen