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

I ■ COLORSLIDES 1. FILMSTF nps ■ Producing filmstrips in color? Your prints are only as good as your masters . . . and your masters are at their best when we make them FRANK HOLMES LABORATORIES 7619 SUNSET BOULEVARD LOS ANGELES 4 6, CALIFORNIA Write lor brochure Classroom TV at Fisk a\ COMPIETE MOTION PICTURE LABORATORY FACILITIES PRINTING PROCESSING ' RECORDING All 1 6nitT\ motion picture and 35mm slide and film strip service — radio transcriptions .^^^ FILM SERVICE FILM PRODUCTION FISK University, Nashville, Tennessee has inaugurated a closed-circuit instructional television program. Part of an extensive new academic development schedule, the teaching by television over the university's closedcircuit system is designed to improve the quality of instruction and to stimulate scholastic achievement by making its courses more widely available. The majority of the courses to be televised are of the large enrollment or multi-section variety such as survey courses for freshman students. TV will also be used in small-class situations having lecture demonstrations where minute or microscopic objects are to be observed. In addition to a completely equipped TV studio, a major innovation will be extensive use of classroom program origination. The unattended classroom TV cameras were developed by and installed with the assistance of the TV equipment manufacturer. General Precision Laboratory of Pleasantville, New York. The adjoining campus of the Meharry Medical College has also been linked by closed-circuit with the viewing of surgical operations by students, interns and the resident staff especially in mind. Complete program flexibility is achieved through the ability to originate programs at any point in the system's coaxial cable distribution. Basic equipment for the classroom TV installation consists of four vidicon cameras and a switching unit for pushbutton selection to follow classroom action. A total of 28 receivers will be located in ten classrooms and in Study Centers in five residence halls to bring students educational programs which are not a direct part of class assignments. In one of the university's auditoriums, seating 300, a GPL television projection system will throw pictures up to 16 feet in width on a large screen. Each classroom will be equipped with two 24" receivers to accommodate 25 to 30 students for ideal viewing conditions. A large Chemistry Building classroom will have four receivers to give close-up views of experiments and demonstrations taking place in the front to students seated in the rear portion of the room. Still another receiver will enable students, teachers, and visitors in the Experimental Nursery School to watch the activities and behavior of small children without being seen. A small camera mounted unobtrusively on one of the walls relays the picture information. With present enrollment at approximately 800, and an anticipated optimum enrollment of 1200 by I96I, no single facility on the campus is large enough to accommodate the entire student body. However, by using all the classrooms and study centers joined by the closed-circuit loops, all the students can see a televised program at the same time. 224 ABBOTT ROAD EAST LANSING^ MICH. Dr. Vivian Henderson of the Department of Economics at Fisk University lectures to class in originating room while a much larger number of students receive the instruction simultaneously in other classrooms equipped with television monitors. A student aide in the foreground is ready to switch cameras in following the movement of the professor. 66 EdScreen & AVGuide — February, 1 957