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

AV industry nev\^s Teaching Machine Seminar The Electronics Industries Association national conference held a seminar recently on teaching machines, with USOE-NDEA representatives among the speakers. It was reported that the Chicago conference "agreed that such devices as the teaching machine by no means signify present or future obsolescence of the teacher." The featured speaker is reported as telling the conference that development and use of electronic teaching aids, including television and such audio systems as the language laboratory, are being retarded largely for economic rea.sons, and that "their present employment is cheifly on an experimental basis (but that) time is approaching, however, when electronic devices can fill an important role." EBF Presents— "Temac" After si.\ months of classroom tests in Roanoke, Virginia, programmed math courses are to be put into distribution this fall by EBF's "Temac" division. Subjects include first and second year algebra, language of algebra, plane geometry and trigonometry. Scheduled for January, 1962, are courses in solid geometry and intermediate calculus. Several language programs are ready and more are in preparation. Education Gifts at Record High "Giving-USA," annual summary of philanthropy published by the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, reports gifts to education during 1960 at a record high of $8.2 billion, as compared with 1959's $7.8 billion. This represents 16 percent of all giving, as compared with 14 percent last year. Religion tops the gift list with 51 percent. DuPont Film via Bell & Howell A new Du Pont color film, 8 and 16mm movie and 35mm slide film sizes, will be distributed by Bell & Howell, starting 1962, by which time the merchandizing and processing arrangements will have been completed. This is du Font's first venture into the amateur film field, although its products have been known to professionals for more than 30 years. AVCOPI to RAVCOPI While the secular educational activities of the Audiovisual Council on Public Information have been transferred to the more recent Educational Media Council, AVCCOPl's Religious Education Committee is continuing without interruption several important public information projects paralleling the veiy effective actions of the erstwhile parent body. Robert Hinz, Con Cordia Films, St. Louis, is the new chairman, replacing the Rev. Donald Lantx, Family Films, Hollywood. Recordak Teaching Machines Recordak, EK's microfilm subsidiary, is making a study in depth of requirement and preferences regarding teaching machines. A questionaire is being circulated asking opinions on screen sizes, manual versus electronic operation, and many other petinent characteristics. "S.O.S." Expands Functions Reflecting growth of activity from motion picture theatie supply to modern photo instrumentation on innumerable fields, 35-year-old S.O.S. Cinema Supply Corp. is now named S.O.S. Photo-Cine-Optics Inc. President J. A. Tanney and his fellow officers continue in charge. Paramounts to EBF-Films, Inc. Paramount Pictures' feature length entertainment films, excluding deMille's The Ten Commandments, are to be released in 16mm by Films, Inc., Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., subsidiary. (Continued on next page) NOW IN THOUSANDS OF CLASSROOMS! "Ttrliar" for llialil. II CATio\AL Screen and Audiovisual Guide — August, 1961 AVR RATEOMETER _ Tops the list of America's Reading Learning Aids because of its proven performance IT'S VERSATILE . . . fits into any reading improve ment program. IT'S ACCURATE . . . Lifetime electric motor provides clock accuracy, trouble-free service. STUDENT CENTERED . . . requires minimum assistance. Students master its use in minutes. EASY ON BUDGET* . . . Actual classroom experience over a 5-year period shows that costs run as low as 37c per pupil. Teachers say: "Pupila love working with them" . , . "best of its ^rp©" . . . "more convenient*' . . , *'so quiet" . . . "flexible and adaptable" . . . "rate increase 70 to 300%." Complata with manual, carry-case, $39.95 5 to 9 units, ea. $35.95 ■ 10 or more, ea. 5.13.05 Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded Send orders to AUDIO VISUAL RESEARCH Depl. U18 523 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago S factoky: I!ox 71, Waseca. Minncsola SIMPLE I ErFECTIVEl DURABLE I 407