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

Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide EDITORIAL STAFF Paul C. Reed Editor James R. Cummings Managing Editor William S. Hockmon Editor for the Church Field L. C. Larson and Carolyn Guss Editors for Film Evaluations Max U. Bildersee Editor for the Audio Field Irene F. Cypher Editor for Filmstrips, Flat Materials Phillip Lewis Technical Editor William F. Kruse Trade and Public Relations Consultant Irene Thorson Editorial Assistant BUSINESS STAFF H. S. Gillette Publisher Marie C. Green, Mrs. Ruth M. Lewin Associate Publishers Olive R. Tracy Circulation Manager Patrick A. Philippi Circulation Promotion Wilma Widdicombe Advertising Manager ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Ruth M. Lewnn 1 0 Brainerd Rood, Summit, N. J. (Crestviev^ 3-3042) Audio-Visual Medio, Inc., 45 Ingleside Shore Road, Ingleside, III. EOITOKIAI ADVISOKY SOAtD JAMES W. BROWN, School of Educolion, Son Jom Stoto College, California EDGAR DALE, Head, Curriculum Division, Bureau ef Educotionol Reseorch, Ohio State University, Columbus AMO DE BERNAROIS, Assistant Superintendent, Portland, Oregon, Public Schools MARGARET W. DIVIZIA, Supervisor in Charge, Audio-Visual Education Section, Los Angeles City Schools, Los Angeles, California W. H. DURR, Deputy Superintendent, tiawaii Dept. of Public Instruction, Honolulu, Hawaii CHARLES f. HOBAN, Institute for Cooperative Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia EMILY S. JONES, Executive Secretary, Educational Film Library Association, New York City F. EDGAR LANE, supervisor. Instructional Moterlals Department, Board of Public Instruction, Dade County, Florida F. DEAN McCLUSKY, Professor Emeritus, University of California, P. O, Box 446, Nice, Calif. SEERLEY REID, U. S. Office of Education, Woshington CHARLES F. SCHULLER, Director, Audio-Visual Center, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan ERNEST TIEMANN, Director, Visual Instruction Bureau, Associate Professor, Division of Extension, The University of Texas, Austin DON WHITE, Executive Vice President, Notional Audio-Visual Associotion, Fairfax, Virginia News Commercial TV Rescues A Texas Educational Station Two commercial television stations, KTBC and KONO, have come to the rescue of the new educational television Station KLRN, which will serve the Austin-San Antonio (Texas) area. Because of technical setbacks, KLRN was not able to start telecasting on its original target date of April 9. Stations KTBC in Austin and KONO in San Antonio donated air time so that the 27 participating school districts would not be disappointed and could start television classes on schedule. It was said that vmavoidable delays had been met by KLRN in the delivery of electronic equipment, although the building program was otherwise on schedule and the programming plans are ready. It will mean a two months delay in getting KLRN on the air. Assistant general manager Harvey Herbst said, "We are deeply indebted to these public-minded stations, KTBC and KONO, for their cooperation; it made it possible for us to meet our commitments to all of the school districts signed up for this brand new educational tool." Mitchell Named To Head Up Encyclopaedia Britannica Maurice Mitchell has moved up from the presidency of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., to the same post at the head of the parent book company. New president of EBF is Warren P. Everote, long-time head of its production departments. Dr. Milan Herzog, executive producer with EBF since 1958, takes over as director of production. Missile School Using TV For Audiovisual Instruction The library of the Army Ordnance Guided Missile School at Huntsville, Alabama, has installed TV sets so students can dial for special shows and view them in private booths. The programs come from a file of some 200 audiovisual lessons that show and tell how some of the nation's most powerful weapons are kept in constant combat readiness. They range from a two-hour study of astronaut launchings to a five-minute discourse on keeping dust out of missile parts. The school's mobile TV units recorded them at launching sites, factories and laboratories throughout the nation. The shows, which are recorded on video tape in English and several foreign languages, are used every day to teach missile maintenance to students from all branches of the U. S. forces and 14 foreign nations. .\n appeal is being made for used tapes in behalf of the "Textbooks on Tape" program at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Roxbury, Mass. In this unusual program patients at the hospital read complete textbooks onto tape and make them available to blind students throughout the United Stales and Canada. Any individuals interested in helping maintain the program are asked to mail as many new and used tapes as possible to "Textbooks on Tape," c/o Mr. Hernion H. Scott, President, H. H. Scott, Inc., Ill Powdermill Road, Maynard, Mass. New NAVA Equipment Book Bigger, More Inclusive More than 1,500 different audiovisual products are illustrated, described, and priced in the completely revised, 333-page The Audio-Visual Equipment Directory, Eighth Edition, just published by the National AudioVisual Association. The new directory, larger by far than any of the seven previous editions, features over 850 large photographs of all types of AV equipment including still and motion picture projectors, soimd recording and playback equipment, projection stands and screens, teaching machines, language laboratories, classroom tele(Continued on page 244) 242 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 1962