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

school) "Why hmit it to Juniors or for that matter to Junior High? I think adults would like that. I had never learned some of the things that filmstrip told me tonight." The other titles are; Bible Storie<i of Long Ago, Bible Songs of Long Ago, and Bible Rules for Every Day Living. Excellent, all. One-Fifth of Africa's People The two-part, National Film Board of Canada-produced, 52-minute, b&w motion picture Nigeria: Giant In Africa tells us about Africa's most populous country. Going back into history and then forward through the achievement of independence, this comprehensive film is solidly packed with information and insights. We learn about Nigeria's three-region geography and her crops and industry; we learn about her four predominant peoples: the Yoniba, Ibo, Hausa, and Fulani. In this fine film ancient greatness is related to the splendid achievements of the present. Yet the weak spots are not overlooked. Here is a fine film for your men's dinner dub, for college and university classes, for seminaries, and for just about anyone who wants to be UD on this great African country. McGraw Hill Text Films, 330 West 42nd St., N.Y. 36. Stage For Tragedy Many people think South Africa is fast becoming a stage for tragedy on a vast scale as the show-down between White and Black draws closer. Produced with scholarly objectivity by experts and the National Film Board of Canada (and distributed by McGraw-Hill), the 27-minute b&w film. Black and White In South Africa helps the viewer to understand how things have come to the pass they have, but at the same time does not open very wide a door of hope for the if SPECIAL SALE j^ RCA 400 PROJECTOR-SPEAKERS Brand-New Factory-Packed 10" Speaker, 25 ft. Cable, 1600 ft. Toke-up Reel Regular price $85.00 Our Price Can be used as ouxliiary speaker with any moke sound projector. FLORMAN & BABB, Inc. 68 West 4Slh St., New York 36, N.Y. »37.5" averting of tragic racial rebellion against ruling Whites by the Blacks. An insurance executive sat in with me for this preview and remarked, "Why can't we see more films like this in our churches? That certainly was a gowl film. I didn't know I knew so little about South Africa." There you have it! Let's use this film for the fine educational package that it is. Symphonic Carillon As I write this my hi-fi music system is bringing into my study the beautiful music of J. S. Bach, "Sleepers .\wake," the first band on Side H of an LP record made at the Mountain \'iew Presbyterian Church, Denver, Colorado. In this magnificient record we hear the fine organ of this church and the 64-bell Symphonic Carillon, played by masters of these two instruments: James M. Bratton (organ) and Everett J. Hilty (carillonneur). The Maas-Rowe people, who produced this delightful record, .say it is not for use on automatic tower music systems. It's for enjoyment in the home. It can certainly give that to any music lover. On Side I the Carillon is heard in five bands: Purcell's "Fanfare"; Haydn's "The Musical Clocks"; "Fantasia For Bells," a composition by Everett J. Hilty specifically for the Maas-Rowe Symphonic Carillon; S. Wesley's "Gavotte"; and the Jacobs-Bond ballad, "A Perfect Day." Side II brings the organ and carillon together in Kreb's arrangement of Bach's "Sleepers Awake"; an arrangement of Rudolf Ahle's tune "Blessed Jesu"; Marcello's "Psalm 18"; the Irish folk-tune, "Londonderry Air"; and the wellknown English ballad, "Greensleeves." I can see uses for this record around the church: for pupil listening (of which we have too little!), to provide a special selection in worship services, and as preludes for all kinds of special meetings. (From Maas-Rowe Carillons, 3015 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles 39, Calif.) Not A Lost Week-End When a mature college student goes to spend a week-end as a guest in the home of a rather typical minister, his weekend is far from lost. Having had some serious thoughts about the Christian ministry as a vocation, he comes up against a worm's eye view of what it means in human terms as he accompanies this clergyman on some pastoral errands. All the while he is asking. Is This For Me? The miming time is 45 minutes, and the rental (b&w only) is $13.50. It is recommended for use with Comments and materials for review should be sent to the department editor—William S. Hockman, 27 Prospect Drive. Glens Falls, N.Y. yoimg people in church, camp, conference, and college. Parents, too, should see it. More youth are kept out of Christian vocations by parents than From (lutlifdral Kihiis' prodiKtion "Is Tliis For Me?" most people think jxissible. Just one little sour note: We wish the wife and the daughter had been shown as having a life of their own and not quite so stickily devoted to Pop. Too, this film could use some shortening, perhaps back to 30 miruites, without much loss except where the film-fat is a little too thick. But, with all, recommended and a highly useful film. Saga of Sense and Courage The award-winning film An Act of Faith, which tells the dramatic story of how the Danish people rescued virtually their entire Jewish population from the Nazis during WW II, is now available for church, community and school showing from Carousel Films, Inc., 1501 Broadway, New York 36. Here is a saga of sense and courage beautifully documented. Here is a story of man's humanity to man which is worth looking at in these days of mass indifference to the rights of others. The Danish people, to their everlasting glory, did not look the other way so that the insane Nazis could destroy men, women and children. .Modest people that they are, we cannot but salute the Danes when this film ends, mindful, at the same time, that it was another magnificient peo 268 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 1962