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

AV industry news B&H "Language Master" Bell & Howell announces the extension of its educational offerings to include the EUamac "Language Master," which plays back words and sentences from pre-recorded magnetic strips mounted on specially prepared Dards and which may also carry information in printed word and picture. Dr. G. Paul Moore, professor and lead of the Dept. of Communicative Disorders at Northwestern University, las been retained as educational conultant. dent in Sculpture Ellsworth C. Dent, Esquire v-p, was )resented with a 3-D sculpture porait of himself on the occasion of his 5th anniversary as Coronet Films' ales head. The presentation speech Erv Nelson went back to Dent's etting up the University of Kansas 6mm film library in 1926, his pubhation of Visual Instruction Neios from 929 to 19.32 (when it was merged ith Educational Screen), his authorlip of the oft reprinted Audio Visual Jandhook in 1934, his work at the ational Park Service and at RCA and VE; and his long list of top-level re5onsibihties for NAVA, DAVI, NEA, rogramming Program U. S. Industries, Inc., announces the Dening of an additional programriting center in New York to .suppleent its •50-man staff at Santa rbara. Nine programs are ready for e "Autotutor" and "TutorText" )oks for home (or school) study, in ath, electronics and law. About 2.5 hers are expected to be completed is year and next. Ozalid-Brady Tie-in A "Masters Program" of materials and instructions with which teachers may prepare their own visuals for overhead transparency projection will be offered by Ozalid this fall. The materials will be produced by the Robert J. Brady Co. The kits will be available first in general science, algebra, chemistry, beginning electronics, and biology. Transparencies copied from book illustrations reportedly may be produced with the kit for as little as 3.5 or 40 cents each. RCA Moves RCA has begun occupancy of its new 50-acre "Telecommunication Center" in Meadow Lands, Pa., near Canonsburg. The marketing division, including AV .sales and educational services, is among the first to move to the new quarters a 50,000-square foot administration building and a 138,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant. PEOPLE John ]. Dostal has been named vice president in charge of the New York Regional Office of Electronic Teaching Laboratories, according to an announcement by president John E. Medaris. William E. Reder is now advertising and merchandising manager for Radiant Manufacturing Corporation. He was formerly a Johns-Manville division advertising manager. Neal Keehn, General Film Laboratories' sales-vp, has named Jack West central division manager. The job was formerlv held bv Keehn. 1-1 larnr-Bialc cliissnioin (Innoiislraliini of I . S. Indiislrics" Aiiti>Tul«r Mark II liirh look place rccriitly at .San Marro's High -School in Saiila Harliara. California. Iiisi' stmlcnls are tryinj: oiil llii nnils for a conrsc in niallicnialiis. hi C.\TIO.\AL SCRKE^ AND AlJDIOVIStAL GuiDE — SepTEMBKR, 1961 YOUR 35 mm PROJECTOR WILL Z-O-O-M MIGRGSGOPE SLIDES! ■ New fl.5 Elgeet Zoom Microtar Attachment converts your projector for continuously variable magnification of slides ■ Focus at any magnification-zoom image stays sharp ■ Zoom magnification dramatizes the projected image for lectures, demonstrations ■ True, variable iris controls field size for concentration of interest on select areas ■ Positive lock spring device secures slide ■ Adapters fit unit to most popular 35mm slide projectors; unit removes instantly for normal projector use ■ Complete Elgeet Zoom Microtar Attach: ment-with appropriate adapter for your projector-$64.50 When ordering, please specify make and model of projector you will be adapting. For furtlier details or for orders, write to: DEPT. es-4. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT DIVISION Elgeet Optical Co. 838 Smith Street, Rochester, N. Y. 505