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

Product Beview Visual Sciences, Suffern, N. Y. Latest in the series of handsketched filmstrips in the areas of science and sofety is a set of two rolls in the field of atomic energy called "The History of the Atomic Concept." Part I begins with early Greek ideas and traces the concept through the 1800's to Roentgen's X-rays. Part II includes later views, beginning with 20th century contributions of Thomson, Einstein, Rutherford, Bohr, and many others to the recently discovered Transuronic elements Both rolls $5, postpaid and insured. V-M Corporation, Pork & Fourth, Benton Harbor, Mich. Booth T-40. Exhibiting full line of record changers, stereo tape recorders, phonograph players and speakers. The Tape-O-Motic Recorder also plays stereophonic tapes, picks up from any source for monaural playback, and is usable even as o small PA system. Walloch & Associates Inc., 1589 Addison Rd., Cleveland 3, Ohio. Booth SI 34. Showing Discabinets (sectionol and double-door) for storage and filing of phonograph records, tape recording reel cabinets (sectional and doubledoor) for tapes, film storage cabinets (sectional and double-door I for 16mm film reels and cons, film separator racks for 16mm reels and cans. Also presenting open type film storage cabinets with odjustable racks ond the reelmobile, film handling truck for 16mm film reels ond cons. Wayne State University, Audio-Visual Materials Consultation Bureau, College of Education, Detroit 2, Mich. "Gregory Learns to Read" is the title of a new film showing the teaching of word recognition techniques — how children con be taught to read with understanding. 28 minutes. Color $235; black-and-white $135. Produced in cooperation with the Language Education Department of the Detroit Public Schools. Webcor Inc., 5610 W. Bloomingdole Ave., Chicago 39, Illinois. Booths R 120-121. Displaying its new line of high fidelity tope recorders and phonographs. Foremost in the complete line of tope recorders will be the Educator series, designed primarily for use in the field of education. A special "Teaching Aids" pamphlet prepared by the Webcor Audio Teoching Aids Department will be distributed. The Educator tape recorder features Webcor exclusive no-reel-turnover feature, permitting recording ond playback in two directions without turning the reels over. Plays at 3.75 or 7.5 inches per second. Separate four-speed phonograph and loud speaker system complete the Educotor series system. New Educator tape-recorder designed primarily for use in the field of education. Webster Electric Co., Racine, Wisconsin. The Ekotope Recorder Model 270-AV is specifically designed for school use and features child-proof controls while maintaining beauty of design. Two-speed operation, in-line threading, double broke action, tape-out switch, selection finder, recording level meter, TV-type mike. $269.50. Matched accessories available include remote control, headset, omnidirectional mike, foot control, mixer, stereo-Sf>eaker. Webster is also featuring a new completely transistorized intercom — the "Teletalk" — and a foolproof "retractomatic" crystal pickup that may be dropped on records or pHjshed across them without damage to pickup or record. Wilcox-Goy Corp., Charlotte, Michigan. New Recordio tape recorders include the Models 702, Student, and 712, Prep — both designed for hord usage in the school field. The very latest offering is the Jet, a single-purpose tape cartridge player-recorder handling both sizes of the Cousino cartridge. It will be priced at $129.95. Yale University Press Film Service, 386 Fourth Ave., New York 16, N. Y. The Pageant of America Filmstrips, thirty vital and historically accurate filmstrip documents, picture the life story of the U. S. from primitive Indian times to the present atomic era. Board of Editors includes Ralph H. Gabriel and Clyde M. Hill, Yale; William H. Hartley, Maryland Stote Teachers College; May Hall James, New Hoven State Teachers College. Young America Films Inc., 18 E. 41 St., New York 17. Booth M-69. Exhibiting a broadening list of educational films and filmstrips, climaxing the company's greatest year of activity, in which it released 46 new motion pictures and 49 filmstrips Emphasis will be given to the YAF Science Correlations, carefully compiled correlations of YAF films and filmstrips with each of the nine major series of elementary school science textbooks. Advance informotion on YAF releases for 1957-58 will be given. Zodiac Recording Co. Inc., 501 Madison Ave., New York 22. Newest and finest records for teachers and students of foreign languages $9 per set, educational discount price. Many teachers ore using these albums in classrooms ond also recommending them for home study. Each Zodiac album includes three unbreakable hi-fi LP recordings, together with the text and translation, delightfully illustrated. A new "Teacher's Manual" will be ready in the Fall for this "French As You Hear It" and the other "as you hear it" languages. Another brand new development is the availability of the entire series on tope. Communique From Canada By Bernard Tessier Canadian Director of NAVA In August 1954, under the name of Rivord and Tessier, a commercial company for the distribution of audio-visuol apparatus ond moteriol came into being, at Trois-Rivieres, Que., Canada. On November first of the same year, this organization became the Centre Audio-Visuel Inc. To exercise on effective role in a relatively new sphere, where a particular technique and methodology occupy on important place, two conditions were essential to the success of the Centre: a I To know the available moteriol and the techniques to employ, b) To import to educators the knowledge acquired. Contacts with leading associations interested in these questions, compilation of consideroble documentation, and estoblishment of contacts with a good number of educators in Canada and abroad have enabled the Centre to discover problems and their adequate solution. From the outset, the Centre hos applied itself to cotologuing film strips existing in the French language, ond distributing. It also has announced as one of its projects, the publication of lists of films for special uses. As to apparatus, specialists hove measured their possibilities and purposes. They hove verified their efficiency, the ease with which they ore operated and the manufacturers' service. Bulletins and descriptive folders have presented the conclusions to educators. To provide a more adequate distribution of the required material, the Centre Audio-Visuel now has formed a non-profit corporation under the name of Institut AudioVisuel Inc. This society is at the disposal of educators for any expert advice on subjects pertaining to the communication of ideas by audio-visual means. It will diffuse its influence by recruiting members and the establishment of diocesan audiovisual services. To assure the production of visual and sound material, odapted to present requirements. Novo Films Inc. disposes of the necessary personnel and equipment. Its main office and its studios ore in Quebec city. With the opening of the Centrole Audio-Visuelle, 452, des Forges street, Trois-Rivieres, oil the audio-visual services ore to be found under the same roof: the Institut, the Centre, and Nova Films. A projection and audition room is at the disposal of the public and committees for the evaluation of material.