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

TIk registration desk at the American Film Festival. Registrants, left to right: \ irginia Beard, Cleveland Public Library; Julien Bryan, International Film Foundation; Oiympia Cutino of International Press Service; Kenneth Axthelm of the Brooklyn Public Library. Purpose: Demonstrate anr'. explain the basic types of nuclear radiation detectors. Audience: High School. Content: The basic principle of most radiation detectors, from the gold-leaf electroscope to the Geiger-Mueller lube is explained. The scintillation counter and new solid-state detector « Dik on a different principle which is then illustrated. #14 Science: Mathematics, Astronomy, Geology MAGNETIC FORCE Produced by National Academy of Sciences. Distributed by McGraw P;uil Keed editor of "Ed.Sereen & AV f.uide," presents a Blue Ribbon award to Morton Schindcl, Weston Woods Studios. Hill Text Films, 330 West 42 Street, New York 36, New York. 27 min., color. Purpose: Explain the modem scientific approach to the study of the eartli's magnetic force and reveal how comprehension of tills invisible force can create a better understanding of the Universe. Audience: Junior and senior high science and physics classes. Content: The nature of the earth's magnetic field is explained. Shows how the magnetic field controls the path of cosmic ray particles and other charged particles that make up the aurora. # 19 Graphic Arts and Architecture Double Award A MASTERPIECE OF SPANISH PAINTING 25Vi min., color. Produced and distributed by Radio-TV Bureau, University of Arizona, Tucson. Purpose: Increase awareness of availability of masterpiece of Spanish art. Audience: College and general adult. Content: An iconographic exposition of the most important example of a Hispano-Flemish Retablo, The Retablo of Ciudad Rogrigo by Fernando Gallego. WHALER OUT OF NEW BEDFORD 24 min., color. Produced by Francis Thompson for Old Dartmouth Historical Society and Whaling Museum, Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Purpose: Tell the lives of the 19th century Yankee whalemen as seen in a 1300 foot long painting. Audience: All ages except very young children. Content: A whaleship is seen in New Bedford harbor preparing for a four year whaling voyage. TTie successes and violent failures of whaling in the Atlantic and Pacific are illustrated. #21 Stories for Children BEAVER DAM 16 min., color. Produced by Crawley Fihns. Distributed by Contemporary Films, 267 25 St., New York 1, New York. Purpose: Inform and entertain children. Audience: Children, natural science classes. Content: A farmer is about to shoot a beaver whose dam has flooded the farmer's field, when his two sons find a way of saving the beaver and drainthe field. #33 Health for General Audiences UNSEEN ENEMIES .32 min., color. Produced and distributed by Shell Oil Company, 50 \Vest 50 Street, New York 20. Purpose: Create an awareness of problems of disease, and show efforts being made to eradicate disease and the conditions in which it flourishes. Audience: All interested in medicine and public health. Content: Illustrates how medical science wages war against infectious disease. coMpqo professional <iii(itity reels and cans (ire preferred by... the customers of... OEO.W. COI.BURN LABORATORY, Ino. Only Compco offers "a new dimension in . i)uality" recognized and accepted by leaders In the movie making Industry, compcos su periority is attributed to a new. major, advance in film reel construction — resulting in truly professional reels that run truer, smoother, providing lifetime protection to valuable film. Compco reels and cans are finished in a scratch-resistant baked-on enamel, and are available in all/ 16 mm. sizes — 400 ft.thru 2300 ft. For details' and prices write to: C O Wl PCO corporati 1600 N. SpAurdlng Av«., Chieaoo i on Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1962 303