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

The New SUiKeUin/eC Filmstrip TABLE-file Keeps filmstrips at your fingertips! Offers instant, visible filmstrip selection! Displays filmstrips in a neat, orderly, handy arrangement! Saves the teacher time and trouble in locating filmstrips! "The Standard Filmstrip Table-/<V» is to a filmstrip what a bookcase is to a book," says one audiovisual director. And no wonder, because this handy Table-/i7tf keeps filmstrips in order, keeps them filed and displayed in a readily accessible arrangement. Each Table-file Add-a-Unit lock-sucks on another, up to 4 on one base. Each Table-/iV« Adda-Unit contains individual key-numbered recessed compartments for 40 filmstrips. -W^m*^%, ■ ■ 1 »_*••••*«. I *••••?;; • w^ /^^■*W|««*g|j||j ^ i 4 No. 40 Add-a-Units on a Special Base on a fable. Standard Filmstrip Table-fiUt ore practical for a classroom, a department, a school building or in on audio-visual department. You can put up two or more stacks of Table-filet side by side, limited only by table space. Or, individual units can be used as a Filmstrip Wall-file. Standard Filmstrip Table-files are mode of heavy-gauge steel, finished in attractive brown hammerloid. Size 8'/j" high X I9Vi" wide x l'^" deep. One No. 40 (40 filmstrip capacity) Add-a-Unit Filmstrip Table-file S12^'' Standard Aadlo-Vlaual Ijlbr»r7 Plans for. types. • rilmstlips • soond filmstrips • disc records • recording tape • 2" X 2" slides also Protector Tables ... 9 sizes and WRITE FOR CKIM.OG SEE TOUR A-V DEALER or SCHOOL SUPPLY DISTRIBUTOR JACK C. COFFEY CO., .nc 710 Seventeenth St. NORTH Chicago, III. Latest additions to audiovisual educational equipment in the San Jose, Calif., East Side Union High School District are the wireless microphones of the "Vega-Mike" type that got so strong a work-out (and much nation-wide TV exposure) at the presidential nominating conventions. Tom Malone (above), history teacher at James Lick High School, listens to student recite over hand-held wireless microphone. The instructor wears a similar "cord-less" mike lavalier style. ]NJg\^5 continued Merrill Gates, assistant county superintendent, reported an increase in the DuPage County cooperative library from 1,310 films to 2,380 during the past year, and an increase in weekly circulation from a top of 425 last year to a normal weekly movement of more than 600. County superintendent Roy DeShane is and has long been an active member of the Illinois Audio-Visual Association. Franklin Institute To Expand Audiovisual Operations The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, has announced an accelerated expansion program to help meet the growing national crisis in science education. Wynn Laurence LePage, institute president, said a $2,500,000 "Program to Advance Science Education," to be in fuU operation in four years, will include: A Junior Science Library at the Institute, stocked with volumes written for youth on all phases of science, and supervised by a trained librarian. A research program in science education which would search for new teaching techniques, particularly for teachers in the elementiU'y and secondary levels. Television and radio facilities for originating science education programs for broadcast through existing radio and TV channels to schools and homes. A "science museum on wheels'" to take exhibits and special demonstrations of scientific principles to outlying areas. A Junior Science Center where students will be able to obtain ma terials and perform experiments ii special laboratory classrooms unde qualified supervision. Creative Film Production T< Be Recognized at Festival Filmmakers whose 16mm motioi pictures are produced "for love rathe than money" are to be invited to sub mit their 1960 films for special Inde pendent Film Makers' S h o w c a s < screenings at the American Film Festi val next April in New York City. Ii response to widely expressed interes in the creative and experimental worl of independent young film producers the Educational Film Library Associa tion, sponsor of the festival, is planninj these new "Showcase" screenings scheduled for April 21 at the Barbi zon-Plaza Hotel, where the Festiva will be held again in 1961. Letters To the Editor: It is with a sense of personal loss tha I noted the passing of Bill Lewin (Ei Screen, October, 1960). He had bee a pillar of strength in the formativ years of our industry and professio and one could always find him i there fighting for AV. We were com petitors during the 14 years I speri' in the AV publi.shing field wit Film-AV World and Teaching Tooi and I always found Bill eminent! fair. I am happy to note that the tit) of your publication inchidt-s the nam^ Bill created. This will serve as a mom ment to him. If any further steps ai' developed to honor his memory pleas* allow me to join such a movement. Syd Cassyd Los Angeles, Cali'i 10 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — January, \9(t