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

Ne"ws people organizations events University Film Producers Meet At Williamsburg Producers of educational and documentary films from colleges and universities met August 7 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, for the 14th Annual Conference of the University Film Producers Association. Host for the affair was the Film Production service of the Virginia State Department of Education. Representatives of the major motion picture equipment companies were on hand to demonstrate the latest in movie making equipment. Prizes Awarded in Farm Film Foundation Show Richard G. Turner, visual aids technologist at the New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., won the Farm Film Foundation's 1960 Professional Improvement Award. Mrs. Edith Bennett of Washington, D. C, executive vice president of the Foundation, pre WHEELIT IS ALWAYS READY! —ready to use T —ready fo move ANYWHERE! 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Kirby Brumfield, information specialist at Washington State University, Pullman, and Hays L. Fisher, senior photographer in the Agricultural Extension Service at the University of California, Berkeley, both received honorable mention certificates and checks for $50. Indiana U. Conference Evaluates Airborne TV An Airborne Television Conference and Workshop was held at Indiana University, June 27 to July 1. Over 600 educators from the project's area and from several foreign countries attended the first two days of the conference and 71 took part in the full five-day workshop. Speakers and resource persons brought to the conference included John E. Ivey, Jr., Harold B. Gores, I. Keith Tyler, Gerald F. Winfield, Miss Martha Gable and Edgar Dale. Airborne telecasts will begin on a six-month trial basis in January, 1961. The following September, for six hours a day, a full academic year of telecasts wiU begin from a plane flying over Montpelier, Indiana. Courses will be offered in elementary and high school subjects at a frequency of two to four times per week. Plan Florida TV Institute For Medical Administrators On October 28 and 29, 1960, the Council on Medical Television will present "Teaching with Television: An Institute for Medical Educators." This is a tuition course designed for educators and administrators who have expressed interest in acquiring more information on television fundamentals. These sessions and small group demonstrations wiU be taught by educators actively using television, and illustrated examples will be drawn from among the 23 medical schools now using television for medical education and research. The first day of the Institute, Friday, October 28, will be held at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. On Saturday morning, October 29, participants will board a chartered bus for Jacksonville Cover Scene Ah, 'twas ever thus ... a fella just can't enjoy him.self on the way to school on a beautiful September morning. Only a halfhour late and you get the old what-for from the schoolmaster. Of course, this scene goes back about 2.50 years. Education in America: The 17th and 18th Centuries is a 16-min. production of Coronet Instructional Films. where Dr. Max Michael will demonstrate the use of an open-circuit "scrambled image" TV system as an aid to graduate and postgraduate education. This presentation will employ the microwave link connecting Jacksonville with the medical school at Gainesville. NBA Departmental Status Voted to School Librarians In action taken at its annual conference in Los Angeles, the National Education Association voted departmental status to the American Association of School Librarians, June 30, Calendar. September 24 — October 2 — International Congress on Medical Photography and Cinematography, Cologne, Germany. September 28-30— Illinois Audiovisual Education Association, Aurora, 111. October 10-13-Industrial Film and AV Exhibition, New York City. October 14-15 — Society of Photographic Scientists, Engineers, Washington, D. C. October 14-17— National Association of Public School Adult EducatorsAdult Education Association, Denver. October 19— November 1— San Francisco Film Festival. October 27-28 TV Institute for Medical Educators, Gainesville, Fla. October 28-29— Southern Section Conference, Audio-Visual Education Association of California, Pasadena. 478 Educational Screeiv and Audiovisual Guide — Septe.mber, I960