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

These are presented in the text of "The New Shakespeare" edited by John Dover Wilson and recorded by The Marlowe Society with professional players under the direction of George Rylands. This recording project was begun about four years ago and it is anticiapted that it will be complete a few years hence. It is interesting, but perhaps not significant, that all of the recordings involved were produced in Europe— in England and Ireland to be precise. As an adjunct to these recordings we are observing a renewed interest in the Sonnets, too. Recently The Spoken Word released a three record volume of all the Sonnets of Shakespeare read in numerical order. Anew McMaster is reader in this carefully studied presentation in which the many moods of the author are portrayed. Again, the variety of uses for a recording such as this stagger the imagination, and in truth it should be found in libraries, in scliool and in colleges throughout the country. The three leading companies in this area of recording Shakespeare performances as the original script was written are London Records (539 West 25th Street, New York), Shakespeare Recording Society (Caedmon Records, 277 Fifth Avenue, New York) and The Spoken Word, (10 East 39th Street, New York). We suggest that you write to each of them to secure information concerning not only what is now available, but also plans for future productions. An Overhead Projector is only as Valuable as its TOTAL USEFULNESS in the Classroom Available with your Keystone Overhead Projector — at reasonable cost — are these prepared materials: 1. Science Transparencies — a splendid series of standard IsVt X 4 in.) slides on Biology, Physics, General Science, Health, Elementary Science. 2. Social Studies Transparencies, standard size,3V4x4". 3. Map Slides, 3y4 x 4 in. 4. Polaroid Transparencies, 3% X 4 in. 5. Tachistoslides for teaching Reading, Music, Typewriting, Shorthand, Arithmetic, Foreign Languages. 6. PRACTICAL USABLE Handmade Slides and Transparency Materials. Etched Glass Slides used with ordinary lead pencil. 7. And Other Uses — projection of 2 in. and 2V* in. Slides, Strip Film, Microscopic Slides, Tachistoscopic Slides. The KEYSTONE Overhead Projector and many of the ■ t e m s listed are available for purchase in many states under TITLE III of the NDEA KEYSTONE VIEW CO., Meadville, Pa. Since 1892, Producers of Superior Visual Aids. /J«<£^o. CARDALOG® Record Reviews on Cards Box 1771— Albany 1, New York n Please enter. -1 year subscription(s) to Audio D CARDALOG, including the FREE Audio CARDALOG Directory of Record Producers. 400 cards10 issues-$25.00 Please send us full information about Audio CARDALOG. Name Organization or School Address City and State Free offer expires September 15, 1961. Price for Directory $5.00 thereafter to subscribers. This is not intended to cast aspersions on the efforts of such producers as Spoken Arts, Columbia, RCA Victor, Decca and others who have offered one or several recordings of Shakespeare's work— but rather to give especial emphasis to these which offer so much that is complete and uncut. For Identifying Recordings We continue our search for devices (not always audio!) to help the audiovisual director in his program. One persistent problem has been that of luimbering recordings in such a way that they can be found again, easily. For a long time, as many know, we have used a grease-pencil but this has not proved satisfactory. Labels failed to adhere and were messy to handle. And frankly we were at a loss to know what means to adopt for our own purposes. But recently, and through a series of unusual circumstances, we started to use a felt point pen and colored ink. It works. Not only can it be u.sed to number or otherwise identify recordings, but it can also be used for a thousand and one other purposes ( identifying machines, films and filmstrips, making signs, doing special art projects, i^reparing large visuals and .so forth) in the audiovisual center. The Marsh 77 felt point pens contained in their drawing and lettering kit number 4 does a splendid job. The kit contains four pens, an assortment of more than a dozen special points, and four tins of special ink. The magic number foin' represents, in this case, four fundamental colors— yellow, blue, red and black. Additional colored ink? available incude violet, green, brown orange and silver. These can be usee to color code the recordings by grade level (yello\\' for the first three grades blue for the intermediate grades, rec for junior high school level and blacl ! for the senior high school) or record ings can be coded by areas to includi music, foreign language, English ant the humanities. Used in any way or combinatioi that best suits the local needs of thi purchaser, this seems to represent ai ideal way to identify recordings. Mor information about the felt-point pen can be obtained from the Felt Poin Pen Division of the Marsh Compan; at Belleville, Illinois. You will wan to check into this for your own use and while you are at it get informatio on the Marsh Squeezo Marker whic uses water color inks and can be har died effectively by the small fry. You kindergarten and first grade teachei may want this sort of tool for thei purposes. 398 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — August, 196'