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

above, which brings the total outlay to $320.60. As a Director of Christian Education in a local church I am eager to preview this new material. I shall show it to the Board of Christian Education and ask it two questions: Shall we use it? How shall we pay for it? I can hear some one ask— "That amount of mone\' would buy up to 30 new filmstrips for our AV library, would it not?" Since the Board sets educational policy, I shall let them simmer a while in the juice of their own questions. More on this "fascinating and unique self-teaching" device in July, if I get a chance to see it. Tapes for Church Use "Christianity and Communism" was a part of the ABC network "Pilgrimage" series moderated by Quincy Howe and produced in cooperation with the BFC of the National Council of Churches. There are eight titles: The Present conflict; Man and Society; Literature and the Arts; Economics; War and Peace; Diplomatic Relations; Education; and Communist China. The format is dialogic discussion between two 'experts' on the subject. Running time close to 30 minutes. I assume the quality in the others is up to that of the first— which I listened to (pre-audited?). Information, prices, etc. from Reigner Recording Library, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. This is, it seems to me, high-potential program material for youth groups, men's clubs, family nights and service clubs— all sorts of off-the-air use where informed opinion on a subject is needed to motivate the discussion of a local group about some pretty important themes. Marriage Filmstrips Suppose you have a couple in your study who need to face up to the fact that marriage makes a difference in the way living is or is going to be; or you want to spell out nice and clear that marriage requires adjustments; or you want to talk about the intimacies of marriage; or you want to get over that marriages ought to last and can last . . . how would you get a bracket of ideas before the couple? Talk? Ask and probe, and coax? Yes. Bum up an hour going around Robinhood's bam? After seeing Family Filmstrip's "Marriage Counseling Kit" I know what I would do: Show the couple the filmstrip dealing most closely with the Comments and materials for review should be sent to the department editor-WUliam S. Hockman, 27 Prospect Drive, Glens Falls, NY. problem before me. I'd have four titles to choose from: Marriage Makes A Difference— you can't go on acting like you're single after you're married; Marriage Requires Adjustments— mostly in yourself, and leave the dear spouse to make his or her own under the motivation of love; Intimacies of Marriage — the unwritten law of mutuality can lead to satisfying and satisfactory sexiuil life; and. Making Marriage Last— how marriage can be so satisfying a way of life that the partners will want it to last. You may know all of this if you do much marriage counseling. So do a lot of us! But can you wrap it up in such a compact, precise, compressed edition as these filmstrips? Besides, they are objective. There it is, the pictures before both you and the couple. There is the commentary, coming off the record. It, too, is objective. Here is an inanimate third party saying things for counselor and counselee to hear and think about. Here then is the substance of what you will talk about. It is not what you said, or the couple said (or could not say) but what the filmstrip .said. You will interpret and add to this. And since it was Wayne Oates (wellknown authority on counseling) and Samuel Southard speaking via the filmstrip, you can be sure that it was distilled common sense and science generously sprinkled with Christian insights. Joan Lemmo has done an ingratiating job on the art. Mildly diverting, it keeps the subject from being too soggy. Vic Perrin gets the commentary onto LP records with both charm and effectiveness. There are 40 frames in each title and the ruiming time is 8 minutesjust right! The kit (4 filmstrips, 2 records, and printed scripts) sells for $25.50. A real bargain. Just think, you can be an expert— with two nationally famous marriage counsellors as your assistants! Available through your local dealer. What The Bible Tells Family Filmstrips, Inc., has prod>iced four filmstrips which attempt to give an overview of the story the Bible tells. If you are looking for filmstrips which creep across the landscape of biblical history on their hands and knees, don't get these. These don't even run; they fly. They let you see some of the peaks of Israel's history; view some of her tallest leaders. Here are the titles: Storis of the Early Old Testament (13 minutes); Stories of the Later Old Testament (8 minutes); Stories About ]esus (9 minutes); Stories of the Early Church (8 minutes). Written by Doris Clore Demaree, narrated by William Woodson, the art work of the first two is by G. W. Burnett. In the last two the art work is by Earl and Carol Marshall. It is fresh and different; and don't worry. It communicates, and that's the acid test. This series is for juniors and junior hi and right on up— since most adults need this view of bibhcal times and leaders, also. These four form a great visual time-Une to hang detailed learnings on. The price complete is $25 through your usual dealer. For the Primary Family Filmstrips has produced a two-unit set of filmstrips in color and with recorded dommentary for the primary department. They are: ]esus Is Not Afraid, and Jesus Lives. The running time is 8 minutes for the first, seven for the other. Margaret Redfield's writing is straightforward narrative in a suitable vocabulary. The art— a bit hard to categorize— is by Video Crafts, Inc., and passable. Wendell Noble's narration is good, but the background and ending music is abominable. How long, how much longer, indeed, must we suffer this theatrical carryover! Even if the ignorant customer yammers for it, can't he be denied in the name of comon sense and a respect for the nature of the material under treatment and psychological necessities of good comunication? Missionaries Interviewed Within minutes after tliree missionaries got off their plane at Idlewild on December 3, 1961, one of the top AV men of the Methodist Missions Board was interviewing them on how and why they were 'tlirown' out of Portugal's African colony, Angola. Within days this LP recorded interview was out in the hands of alert leaders getting its information-giving job done. We hope several thousand folks sent in right away for one of these discs— $1.00 each from A-V Service, Methodist Board of Missions, 475 Riverside Drive, New York 27, N.Y. We found it interesting; we will find uses for it So will you. Congratulations, Bill F. Fore, Herbert Lowe, and J. A. Engle, on your alertness and grumption and get-up! Would that some other Boards were less "boardy" and more awake to possibilities! 328 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1962;