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

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Concordia Films has acted on this assumption by setting into a context of specific use its O.T. film series of fourteen. A handsome booklet, Yesterday, Blueprint For Today, gives the complete course of 14 lessons and tells how tlie film is to be related to each lesson. Each lesson oudine touches the lesson theme set into several pretty sharp questions; a statement of objectives; the film to be used; the Bible references for the film and lesson; and "Thoughts for Introducing the Film." This is good stuff; a move in the right direction. With some denominations laying down on the job of telling their churches what films are available and how they can be used, it is high time that the producerdistributor do the job. Several years ago Family Films, Inc., developed similar utilization outlines for its "Living Bible" series and its "Our Children" series. Announced The American Bible Society (450 Park Ave, N.Y. 22) has announced its "How We Got Our Bible" series of four titles: The Bible Is Put Into Writing, The Bible Crosses Europe, The Bible Comes To England and The Bible Comes To America. They are in color, and the commentaries come both in print and recorded. With recorded narration, the kit is priced at $15.00; with printed, $12.00. Several teaching aids, reasonably priced, can be secured with the series. Not previewed, but a significant series if the quality turns out to be good or superior. Useful Series From Basic SkiU Films (1355 Inverness Drive, Pasadena 3, Calif.) I received four filmstrips: Teaching With Still Pictures— there's a lot of that in the church school, so I was interested; How To Use A Teaching Film— quite a few are used in the church, and we ought to know more of this knack; Effectiveness of AV Materiab— could anything new be said, but I'd take a look anyway; and Using Graphs and Charts In Teaching —could not envision much specific help here, but thought I might find something useful in the public relations angle and in communication in general. How did I make out? Just about as I anticipated. The first has quite i bit to say of help to church teachershow still pictures increase learning how children look at pictures, children's preferences, how to choost the right picture, and using picture; in teaching. The art of James Cross was slightly divertive, a characteristic not needed. The 'paragraphs' on each of the above topics were a little brief it seemed to me. How To Use A Teaching Film had five spokes running out from a hub of sound theory: setting up the room preparing the class, using participatioit, discvissing the film, and reshow. ing the film. I found 12 screen widths a little far back for the last row ol pupils! Frame #9 took some looking to make it out! I found 'preparing the class' pretty shallow and short. It'.' about the heart of such teaching, yot know! Frank Withopf's art was plair graphics, non-distractive and gooc communication. Little new was 'said' in the Effec tiveness of AV Materials. The art o James Cross was both attractive ant communicative but the general con | tent was sketchy. We need more pene I tration, not repetition. In Using C/iart and Graphs In Teaching we found th definitions better than the know-how! The advantages of charts and graph! was pretty well spelled out, althougij most of it is very oblique to th [ church school teaching process. ThI art of Kracky Wilson was clean cij and communicative— as it should b| in a fs with this title! One producer-distributor has seij me his list of eight titles. Look them. Think of the young people, thl men and the women of your chiirc[ who should see these films. Find way to get them into your summ j and fall program. Family of Ghan\ 27 minutes; life in a village. Moroc<' Today, 27 minutes; gives social, eel nomic and culture documentatio j Suez, 14 minutes; film history of carl plus present significance. (Our mj saw this when it came out, and liki| it very much). New Tempo Tunisia, 27 minutes; history, e«| nomics, people, city vs. hinterlani industrial development. And two If ward R. Murrow Reports From A/ri'l 55 minutes each; and his Suez fll which runs 5.5 minutes and briiil the Suez problem down to date. M| safe to assume that each film good content and technical qualit | Area AV Previews Dealers, if the customer won't <»| in and look at your goods, take it to him. Of course you better get sol 240 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, I'l