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

Film Strip News New MUSEUM Series 2 New B&W. "The Museum Serves the Community" and *'Behind ihe Scenes In a Museum". Shows importance to community, brings better understanding of service and how exhibits are prepared. $3.50 each Filmstrip Library FILE Outstanding, nationally famous special, holds 15 filmstrips, leatherette covered, inside & outside index, files and looks like a book, protects against dirt, dust and moisture. $2 each Major U.S. Cities Set NEW B&W series, captions on pictures, teaching guide: New Orleans, Philadelphia. Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, etc. $3.50 each Visual Education Consultants, Inc. WORLD S LARGEST EXCLUSIVE Film Strip PRODUCERS FRENCH • NOW A NEW ASPECTS deFRANCE FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING MOTION PICTURE TERRE D'ALSACE JUST RELEASED WRITE FOR INFORMATION ON AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS CONSULTATION BUREAU WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY DETROIT 2 MICHIGAN FRENCH FRENCH -n " FRENCH FRENCH FRENCH The reader's right Send letters to EdSCREEN fr AVGUIDE, 2000 Lincoln Park West, Chieogo 14 December Reactions Editor: Just wanted to say . . . your Dc( ember 1956 issue of EdScreen is the best copy that has come to my desk since I have been receiving same . . Tlianks for the good articles by Mr. Hocknian. He has a keen observation ])oiiit of view in your Church Department (and that, of course, is my field, although we have a kindergarten and first grade making up our Elementary School). 1 liked the Grassell article on the flannel board as well as the article on Tape Recording and Sound Advice by Bildersee . . . Ray W. McClung Minister Music-Education Second Baptist Church Hot Springs, Arkansas Editor: We are, of course, very pleased to read Wayne Howell's Haltering review of our film How to Take a Test in your December issue (page 526). Due to a typographical error, the price of the film is given incorrectly as $150. It really isn't that expensive; just the usual $50. Godfrey Elliott IMcsident. Young America Films 18 E. 41st St., New York 17, N. Y. Editor: If additional copies of this issue are available (Vol. 35, No. 10, with the cover picture of Mr. Pickwick from "A Charles Dickens Christmas"), I should be very much obliged if you would send me a copy . . I am interested in this particular number as a Dickens collector . . . Theodore Hewitson C^ounty Public Library County of Los Angeles, California Editor: I hope you have been deluged with mail protesting a letter published in the December issue of EdScreen (page 529) in which the writer laments the place in the budget, the North Central Standards, and the scope (limited in his mind to checking out books) of the library program in his system. Tliis complaint is then transferred to tlie library program generally in what I can only consider a reckless manner. The letter seemed to be both shortsighted educationally and founded on a lack of investigation of the facts which could only come from inexperience . . . Certainly criticism is healthy, but it should be constructive. How can we build our school program by throwing rocks at one another? If there are two people in a system — both a librarian and an AV coordinator — surely these two should be the best of friends. They should be in constant consultation one with the other. Instructional materials cover both fields and one cannot see it in any other way when he is charged with both jobs in the smaller systems. I suggest that the writer investigate his own situation more carefully, and he will find that a librarian is much more than a glorified clerk. (Some people would have an .'W coordinator no more than a delivery boy.) . . Let us by all means go to the North Central and legislate for standards for AV that will be adequate . . . This (not tearing down the library) is our task, and it will not be done overnight. Many of us remember well when a library was unheard of in a school . . . I could not be more in agreement, as you can see, with your fine editorial which appeared in the same issue as the letter. Let's see that we have the materials to do the job by working together. Each has its place in the curriculum. /. Coleman AV Coordinator 8: Librarian Martinsville Community Unit Schools Martinsville, Illinois Picture with a Purpose "Psst . Harvey, these sunglasses don't help much, do they?" , Editor: I would like to submit the above cartoon for publication in your magazine. I make no claim to possessing artistic talents but the thought behind the picture is one that is ever present with those concerned with audio-visual instruction. Surely, we all realize the shortcomings of today's schools, both new and old, in providing adequate darkening facilities for projection in the individual classroom. Perhaps we can again emphasize the necessity of such facilities through such a pictorial message. George W. Niederhausef Audio-Visual Consultant Clearstream Avenue School \alUy Stream, L.L, N.Y. 60 EdScreen & AVCuide — February, 1957