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

News pointing up its adaptability to photojournalism. The conference was attended by more than 300 student editors from four-year and junior colleges throughout the state. Israel Education Leader Is U. S. Visitor A recent visitor to the offices of the American Council on Audio-Visual Education in Israel was Dr. Noah Nardi, director of the Pedagogic Center of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Israel. Dr. Nardi is engaged in a project with the Jewish Education Committee in New York and plans to visit school systems as he travels across the United States before returning to Israel. Ford Foundation Grant For Radio Exchange The Ford Foundation has announced a grant o f$500,000 to expand the exchange of educational and cultural radio programs between the United States and countries throughout the world. Under the grant, the Broadcasting Foundation of America (B.F.A.) will integrate all its operations with the National Educational Television and Radio Center's (N.E.T.R.C.) new International E.xchange division. Since the Ford Foundation granted it $200,000 in 1958, B.F.A. has expanded; it now supplies about 18 hours of cultural, musical, and educational programs weekly from radio stations in 40 foreign countries to more than 200 American commercial and educational radio stations. Letters To the Editor: Your October, 1959, issue has again come to our attention and I think warrants comment, even at this late date. It should be very gratifying to you to find that your publication is followed so avidly. Unfortunately we are finding it embarrassing. The article "Criteria for AV Equipment" by Philip Fayen contains several implications which we do not believe are justified. Mr. Fayen asks the question, "Does the projector have a rating of 350-500 watts?" A 300-watt projector with a good optical system could conceivably put more light on the screen than a 500-watt projector with a poor one. Wattage is not necessarily a measure of a projector. Mr. Fayen asks that 10 foot 1amberts be registered on a light meter focused on the screen. This is a rating applied to movie projection. The ASA standards for still projection suggest 5 foot lamberts instead of 10. The Some of llic educators who met at a reeeiit AV workshop on overheaii projeotioii in Sah Lake City: from left. Dr. W. Donahl Kriitnhaiigh, president of Utah State Audiovisual Directors association: Eric V. Burtis, Ozalid Co.; G. Leon Beutler, Utah State University; Dr. Eldon Drake, Utah Slate University; R. LeRoy Lindeman, audiovisual director, Brigham Young University; G. C. Cooper, audiovisual director, Idaho State College. whole discussion is rather out of pi ; under a projection test because it more a test of a screen than a p jector. Under "Tape Recorder," Mr. Fa; asks "Does the amplifier have a po\ rating of 10 watts, or at least 7 wt as absolute minimum?" Although w; age is a factor in amplifier perfoi ance it is not the whole story, and I Fayen's implication that 7 w< should be considered a minimum is tremely misleading. Mr. Fayen asks "Is this a four tr; or a two track recorder?," imply that it should be one or the otf With the possible exception of as a play-back machine in music preciation courses, it is hard to th of any use for either machine. T problems of stereo rec-ording are si that the usage will probably not oci in academic circles, and the cost such equipment would not be ju: fied. Leonard W. Caul LaBelle Industries, 1 (1) Light output today cannot measured in lamp wattage, true. ( Comparative screen brightness is fair gauge if rival machines are test on the same screen. (3) Wattage o put (re distortion factor) is an acce able yardstick in selecting an amplil for the job it will be asked to do. Dual track recorders have other ec cational applications besides stei music. Mr. Coulson's comments re "she ping around" will be run next mon -Ed. Calendar 1 May 1-7— Society of Motion Picti and Television Engineers, Los A geles. May 2-6— American Society of Trai ing Directors, St. Louis, Mo May 4-7— Annual meeting, Institi for Education b>' Radio and Te vision, Columbus, Ohio. June 19-24— American and Canadi Library Associations, MonI Quebec. June 26-July I — National Ediici Association, Los Angeles. July 5-Aug. 12, August 15-26-Syi cu.se University Summer Workshi on A-V Materials in Libraries, Syi cuse, N. Y. July 8-9-New York State Audi Visual Council, Schenectady, N. July .30-Augiist 4-N"ational Institu for AV Selling, Bloomington, In August 6-9— National Audi o-Visu Convention, Chicago. August 17-23— International Religio Executive Consultation, Bouldtl Colo. 216 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 19*