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

TO GET MORE INFORMATION If you wish further information obout any of the following materials, use the Reader's Service Coupons at the beginning of this issue or write EDUCATIONAL SCREEN fir AUDIO-VISUAL GUIDE, 2000 Lincoln Park West BIdg., Chicago 14, Illinois. We shall be happy to forward your requests to the sources of these moterials. Prices given for audio-visual materials ore subject to change. Check with the producer or distributor of a particular title for the latest sale or rental price. ARITHMETIC Arithmetic Series: Set i 6fs YAF si col. What Are Numbers, Reading and Writing Whole Numbers, Addition and Subtraction (2 parts). Multiplication and Division, Solving Problems. El. Multiplication Game EXCEL $2.95. Designed for one to six players, it consists of 100 multiplication facts, each problem on a card to be matched with its respective answer cord. Answers moy be placed in various groups on the gome board. ART & EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Adventures of a Baby Fox mp EBF '35 1 3min sd bCrw. A film by Swedish photographer Arne Sucksdorff presenting a trip through the woods, following the antics of a baby fox. Norration is in verse and accompanied by on original music score. Announced as o "tool for creative writing and longuoge arts at all levels of the school curriculum." El-Ad. Bear and the Hunter mp EBF '56 1 1 min sd b&w $50. Story of u bear hunt with a surprise ending designed for use in language arts, reading, creative writing, and English composition and of special interest to art and film appreciation groups. El-Ad. Bells of Atlantis mp FILM IM '55 10 min sd col $125 r$10. Based on Anois Nin's prose-poem, "The House of Incest." Produced by Ian Hugo. "Imoginative camera exploration of o lovely world inspired by the poet and reolized by the filmmaker, a lyric journey to the depths of a dream" Coll-Ad. Children-Made Films 4mp KIN '55 r$3 set. Films mode by British children under the supervision of members of the (British) Society of Film Teachers as a port of film appreciotion classes. The children, in one case 10-1 1 -year-olds, did all the work, including script writing, direction, photography, editing, acting. The aim was to give the children a better understanding of film art. Day in the Country mp CONTEM '56rel '38prod 37min sd b&w r$20. The deMoupassont story of the outing of o simple Parisian fomily. French with English titles. Divertissement Rococo mp KIN '55 llmin sd col $120 r$7.50. Abstract color film composed of oscilliscope and other moving patterns with musical accompaniment. Disordre mp CONTEM '56 1 8min sd b&w r$ 1 5. Attempt to render the restlessness and confusion of Bohemian youth on Paris' Left Bank. French with English titles. Evolution mp FILM IM '55rel 8min sd col $110 r$10. James Davis, American artist, provides a visual experi COMPLETE SERVICES TO PRODUCERS OF 16nim MOTION PICTURES, 35mni SLIDE FILMS AND SLIDES Research and Script Photography, Studio and Location Processing Edge-numbered Work Prints Sound Recording and Rerecording Editing and Matching Tithngand Animation Release Printing Magna-Striping Shde Film Animation Slide Duplicating Vacuumating Film Library GEO. W. COLBURN LABORATORY INC. J64 NORTH WACKER DRIVE • CHICAGO 6 TELEPHONE DEARBORN 2-6286 Want to improve your tape recordings? See page 514 ence on the theme of evolution, concerned primarily with the play of abstract color. Go Slow on the Brighton Line mp KIN '55 rel 4min sd b&w r$3. Produced by a British Broadcasting Corporation television film unit for sheer fun. It compresses a 50-minute, 60 mph train trip from London to Brighton into a four-minute, 750 mph screen journey. The effect was achieved by slowing the cab-mounted camera from its normal speed of 24 pictures a second to two pictures a second and shooting every inch of the way. House MMA '56 sd col r$10. Film composed entirely of 35mm slides showing details of o house that delight on artist's eye. No narration. Musical background. Image in the Snow mp GRYPH '55 29 min sd b&w r$ 12.50. Film poem by Willord Moos with original score by Ben Weber. Fusion of spoken verse, cinematic image, and music. Described as 0 "modern morality whose Christian is a boy led by despair to search a city for salvation." Coll-Ad. Jaxi of Lights mp FILM IM '55 16min sd col $200 r$15. Camera exploration of Times Square. Filmmaker: Ion Hugo. Bosed on poem of Anois Nin. Coll-Ad. Mechanics of Love mp GRYPH '55 7min sd b&w r$IO. Film poem by Willord Moos ond Ben Moore with original score for zither by John Gruen. A boy ond girl moke love. Commonplace objects ore uncommonly related to build on action without octors. Ad. Short Vision mp BRAN 7min sd col. A cartoon work of sombre imagination picturing the end of the world by super bomb. Sunday by the Seo mp CONTEM 15min sd b&w $75 r$7.50. Candid view of the English enjoying the pleasures of the seaside; accompanied by ballads mode famous in English music halls. Tale of the Fiords mp EBF '55 12min sdl b&w. Film story by the Swedish photographer Arne Sucksdorff combining; visuoi beauty with o special musical t score to bring to life the secret yearnings of o little girl of the Norwegianii fiords. For creative writing, social I studies, film appreciotion. El-Ad. Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India: MMA '56 sd col r$I0. Film made up: of 35mm slides showing an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NeW' York City. Visual Variations on Noguchi mp GRYPH 4min sd b&w $30 r$5. Marie Menken, on abstroct artist in her own right, uses the sculpture of the AmericanJoponese artist, Isamu Noguchi, to create o film work of art. Music by Lucille DIugoszewski. Coll-Ad. Why don't teachers use AV materials? See page 510 458 EdScreen & AVCuide — December, 1956