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

Product Review to Find Out" 10-minutes, block-and-white or color, correlates with the Health Elementary Science Textbook Series by H. & N. Schneider. In it a young child experiences the wet world about him. He can see the clouds, smell the damp leoves, hear the raindrops, feel the wetness and even taste the rain. In his home he explores the world that is revealed through size and shape, rough, smooth, loud and soft. $50 end $100. Jack C. Coffey Co., 710 Seventeenth St., North Chicago, III. Booth F36. Filmstrip library plan filing systems for filmstrips, disc records, 2x2 slides, sound slidefilms and records, stereo slides, mobile projector stands for the classroom and school building, mobile projector cabinet-stands, plastic filmstrip cans, filmstrip fibre mailing cases, fixedfocus glass-aluminum slide binders, filmstrip wall and table files for open display of filmstrips, Wheelit projector tables for moving equipment up or down stairs, album record racks. Mobile Wheelit prejectcr table is storage for records and film Coronet Films, Chicago 1, III. Booth G39. During the next twelve month period. Coronet Films will release more than 65 teaching films for classroom use. These new releases will bring to 720 the number of films initiated, written, filmed, and edited by the Coronet Films production staff for the school curriculum. The new releases continue to exemplify Coronet's pioneering efforts in the field of color, for all but a few films are currently ovailoble in either color or black-and-white. A full color booklet in this issue of Educational Screen and Audio-Visuol Guide tells the complete Coronet color story with concrete examples of the superiority of educational films in color. Almost two decades of producing films in color has served to anticipate the tremendous trend to color now being experienced in thousands of classrooms throughout the country. As further evidence of leadership. Coronet has released the first film in its series of projected "educational spectaculars" — "The French Revolution." This and the subsequent films in the series are characterized by their large scole production, dramatic elements, and exciting appeal. They will add a new dimension to the teaching film and set a high standard for educational film production everywhere. Scene from Coronet film "The French Revolution" Geo. W. Colburn Laboratory Inc., 164 N. Wocker Drive., Chicago 6, III. Booth E-30. Complete services to producers of 16mm motion pictures, 35mm slide films and slides — including research and script, photography on location or in studio, processing, edge-numbered work prints, sound recording and re-recording, editing and matching, titling and animation, release printing, mogno-striping, slide film animation, slide duplicoting, Vocuumoting. Compco Corp., 2277 W. St. Paul Ave., Chicago 47. Booth R119. Exclusive Compco reel with patented "Compco Clip" permits threading instantly and surely even in the dork. Holds film firmly yet releases easily when unreeling. Available on all 8mm and 16mm sizes up to 600 feet. Concord Record Corp., 519 S. Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. "Do-lt-Yourself H.M.S. Pinafore." Along with a 12" LP recording of orchestral accompaniment to the best-known airs from the work, o booklet containing words and music is supplied for individuols or classes to sing along. Complete $3.98 — additional booklets $1 each. "Pinafore" is soon to be followed by o do-it-yourself version of the "Mikado." Concord Record 3007, "American Anthology," is devoted to the life and times of America — in all forms and from oil sources. It features American orchestral music from Fry to MacDowell. $3.98. Contemporary Films Inc., 13 E. 37 St., New York 16. Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," beautifully read by Thomas Mitchell, and illustrated with drawings, integrated with special music to recreate the novel in a new motion picture ort form. In color, 30 minutes $250. Rental $25. Co-Operative League of the U.S.A., 343 S. Dearborn St., Chicago 4, III., specialize in films dealing with the co-operative movement and philosophy, in this country and abroad, sold to university extension division and other rental libraries, or rented through regional and state co-op center librories. Free catalog. Cousino, Inc., 2107 Ashland Ave., Toledo, Ohio hove expanded their line of continuous, selfrewinding recording tape cortridges with o unit offering a whole hour's playing time. A new cortridge player, with de-luxe built-in preamplifier, is fitted with a tri-purpose magnetic head to play either monaural or stereo topes through any standard amplifier-speaker. The cartridge, originally designed as a straight message repeater, is being put to work in all kinds of electronic trigger situations. Early application to automatic filmstrip and 2x2 slide projectors is certain. Various accessories, including splicing tape and splicers, are offered in the Cousino line. Cousino recorder with self-rewinding tope cartridge j:a^y«'iHft»;: •■'