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

Sereen Reflections GK Delineascope projects any size slide in any size room Vorsutility is tlic key feature of the AO Spencer GK Delineascope. You can use it to project any size slide from 31^" X 4" to 2" x 2" . . . even the new 10 second Polaroid® transl>arency slides. And you can jirojcct in any size room from the smallest classroom to the larfjest auditorium. Traditional American Optical quality construction and oj)tics assure hrilliant performance under even the most adverse conditions . . . no "corner cut-off" and no fuzzy color aherrations even when you change to different focal length objectives. The AO Spencer GK Delineascope is truly the standard for conij)arison — often imitated hut never equalled. Send for complete information. (9 By Polaroid Corporation American ^ Optical COMPANY INSTRUMCNT DIVISION, BUFFALO 15, NEW YORK 700 Forty Years Ago Educational Screen made the "special announcement" that it had taken over Moving Picture Age, "thus combining the only two magazines in the visual field which have been devoted exclusively to the educational cause and free from embarrassing connections w ith the commercial field." The magazine. The Moving Picture Age, was described as "the oldest and by far the most widely known publication that has ever appeared in the field. For five years— first under the name of Reel and Slide, and since October 1918, under its present name— that magazine has steadily maintained high ideals of service to the non-theatrical cause. It has always put the cause above its profits." Educational Screen promised that the new combined magazine would be bigger and better, and more generally attiactive to its readers. In an article titled "Movies and the Library," Louise Prouty of the Cleveland Public Library said, "So much has been said and written of the people who go to the movies instead of reading, that it is cheering to find a little brightness on the dark side of the picture. Some people read because they do go to the movies." A new department appeared in the magazine devoted to the activities of the Visual Instruction Association of America, which had been organized at the NEA meeting the previous July. In an introductory article titled "What Is the Visual Instruction Association of America," Ernest L. Crandall, first President of the Association, and Director of Lectures and Visual Instruction in the New York City Public Schools, told how the Association had grown out of their experiences with the use of visual aids in the New York schools. He said, "The real moving cause of the inaugm-ation of this Association was the deep rooted conviction of those who had watched the organized growth of visual instruction under the fostering care of our local association here, that this idea was well worth transplanting to other sections of the country." The film service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced that prints of its motion pictures (35mnof course) could be purchased at nominal cost by other film libraries. Twenty-Five Years Ago VV. Gayle Starnes of the University oi Kentucky reported on "The Present Status of Teacher Training in the Use of Visual Aids." His survey di.sclosecl that some eighty institutions were offering separate courses in visual aids; the very first such course had been offered sixteen years earUer, and "the number of institutions offering such courses has increased at the rate of an average of about four each year." By June 1936 a total of some 27,000 students had completed coursesj in visual aids. In a report titled "Enriching Child Learning," F. Gerrit Hoek, Supervising Principal of the Haledon, New Jersey Public Schools, stated, "The Hbrary of good educational sound films is growing rapidly and the 16mm sound projectors have been so perfected and simplified that there need be no diflFiculty in their operation, whether in classroom or auditorium. The research which has been done on the values of the sound film in education, I believe, has conclusively demonstrated its effectiveness and efficiency as a teaching aid. Recent experiments by Arnspiger, Rulon, Westfall, and University of Chicago seem to have shown that there is a very definite place in classroom procedure for sound film." In a later paragraph in his report, Mr. Hoek said, "In our system, no child is permitted to operate the projector. It is felt that this is teaching equipment and as such to be used by the teacher." o « e In his first letter to members of the Department of Visual Instruction written by the new President, Edgar Dale, he said, "We have a department that stands at the forefront in the field of educational progress. Perhaps more than any other department in the National Education Association, we have the problem of interpreting the impact of new technological instruments upon school policy and school material.* In commenting about the need for Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide— December, 1962 I