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

Blue Ribbon Award Winners American Film Festival, 1962 EDUCATION AND INFORMATION 1. Agriculture, Conservation, and Natural Resources DURUM: STANDARD OF QUALITY 38% min., color. Bill Synder Films. Dist. by Sterling Movies, U.S.A., 375 Park Avenue, New York 22, New York. Tells about durum wheat from farm to table. Emphasis is upon research in developing new and improved strains of grain to make better products available to consumer. 2. Citizenship, Government, International Relations HAVE LITTER, WILL TRAVEL 15 min., color. Dynamic Films, 405 Park Avenue, New York 22, New York for New York City Department of Sanitation. Illustrates the "do's and don'ts" required to keep New York clean. Includes both statistics and other facts as well as many illustrations. 3. Classroom Films for Lower Grades WHATS ALIVE 11 min., color. Film Associates of California, 11014 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 25, California. Shows the student the differences between living and non-living things by illustrating that only a thing that can move, respond, change fuel into energy, reproduce, and grow can be said to be alive. PICTURE BOOK PARADE Four color sound filmstrips. Weston Woods Studios, Weston, Connecticut. Each filmstrip contains all of the illustrations and text from the original Caldecott Award winning book and entices children to broaden their world through worthwhile books. CLAS.S 3: Madelinv's Rescue, from Picture Book Parade, color loiiiul filnislrip by Tcslon Woods Studios. 4. Current Events THE BURMA SURGEON TODAY 26% min., black and white. Twentieth Century for CBS News. Dist. by Association Films, 347 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. Tells the story of Dr. Gordon Seagrave who went to Burma in the late 1920's and since has been laboring among these people to improve their health and teach them to take over from him. 5. Economics SIXTY SEVEN SOUTH 25 min., color. Produced and dist. by The Port of New York Authority, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York 11, New York. Gives a step-by-step account of the movement of export freight from its origin to loading aboard vessel at the Port of New York. Depicts typical shipments by rail, truck, and air. 6. Education and Child Development CHILDREN OF THE SILENT NIGHT 27 min., color. Produced and dist. by Campbell Films, Saxtons River, Vermont, for the Perkins School for the Blind. Through following one little deaf -blind girl over a two-year period, the film shows the techniques used to educate such handicapped children. MAKING THE LIBRARY A LEARNING CENTER Three color filmstrips, 42 frames avg. Produced and dist. by Essential Education, Box 968, Huntsville, Texas. Presents the school library, its resources and its services with a particular emphasis on the proper care and use of library materials. 7. Geography and Anthropology THE AGED LAND 25 min., color. Harry T. Atwood, 4456 E. Lee, Tucson, Arizona. Presents an impression rather than a survey of Greece in order to stimulate interest in contemporary Greece. INTRODUCTION TO IRAN: PART I Color sound filmstrip. 57 frames. Produced and dist. by International Communication Foundation, 9033 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, California. Designed as a factual summary, the filmstrip explores Iran's cities and villages; the farmers and nomads; its historical and artistic wonders and the rapid strides toward modernization. Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — August, 1962 439