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

Comments and materials for review should be sent to the department editor—William S. Hockman, 12 June Drive, Glens Falls, N. Y. Mason and his wife, Pamela, telling the stories quite simply and conversationally, with the little girl interrupting to ask questions or to offer similes. But content counts, and in content interpretation and theology is crucial. Not being expert in the field of records, I don't know how you can hear-before-you-buy and find out if these recordings say what you want said in your home or your church. The foregoing caution would apply to a more ambitious series of biblical records by The Library of Sound Education (124 East 40th St., N. Y. 16). This series covers 12 O.T. stories with six records, with about 20 minutes per story. It also offers four N.T. stories on two records. Leif Erickson serves as narrator for both series. My slight familiarity with this treatment of biblical materials makes me hope that someone is not looking upon the Scriptures as hills with gold in them, for this Great Treasure has a way of taking the measure of all who attempt to mine it for profit and gain rather than for spiritual enrichment and understanding. SEMPER FIDELIS . . . Always Faithful The exacting requirements of tiipe reproduction for education in schools and industry are faithfully served hy Rheem Califone's LEXICON Tape Recorder Model 71-T. School Net: $279.50 The distortionless high fidelity of its amplifying system is matched by its rugged durability and case of operation. The LEXICON, with its detachable 12-inch speaker, is the only tape recorder for schools which performs as brilliantly for the auditorium and playing field as for the classroom. Other LEXICON features are the special "perfect-pitch" motor, safety-button protection against tape erasure. It accommodates up to 7" reels at speeds of 3% or IVi inches per second. With the special Tape Counter, you can instantly locate any portion of a recording. Write Dept. f;S-4 for full details on the LEXICON and other Rheem Califone products, including; Classroom Phonographs priced from $54.95. Single Unit Sound Systems for public address and a complete line of Language Lahorotory equipment. califone CORPORATION 1020 N. LA BREA AVENUE. HOLLYWOOD 38. CALIF. FOREMOST MANUFACTURERS OF SELECTIVE AUDIO-VISUAL PRODUCTS FOR EDUCATION Dr. Spencer BFC Gets New Head ' Dr. Harry C. Spencer, well known all across the church AV field, was elected chairman of the Broadcasting and Film Commission (BFC) of The National Council of Churches (NCC) \ at its annual meeting in New York in February. As BFC chairman. Dr. Spencer will give leadership to a central inter-denominational agency through which 20 Protestant and Orthodox church bodies cooperate to develop, produce and distribute religious broadcasting programs and motion pictures. Dr. S. Franklin Mack is the executive director of BFC. In speaking to the commissioners Dr. Mack stressed the need of the churches to put the mass media to the best possible use for the furtherance of the Gospel. He strongly felt thai church members should patronize good films and reject the inferior ones In the area of religious films fo) church use, we would like to com> ment, the BFC has produced some o our best and most useful films. Som* of our worst and least useful conic have been vastly improved or junke* if the producing church agency ha« sought BFC advice and assistant rather than go it on their own skimp) know-how and know-what. In thess days the work of this agency cooperating Protestantism needs to bi generously supported both verbaflJ and financially. Stik*a •letter: PROFESSIONAL LETTERING TECHNIQUE Write for literature Stik-a-letter Co. Rt. 2, box i4oo, Escondid*. 61 198 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — April, 19P