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

"I like the eighteen pounds it DOESN'T weish'' (weighs only HALF as much as a bulky overhead) and Compare how much MORE you can project □ WRITING WHILE PROJECTING ^<^, M-^ I Kfi TRANSPARENCIES PREPARED BY AUTHORITIES m TACHISTOSCOPIC SLIDES Jg^ /MICROSCOPIC SLIDES ^ POLAROID TRANSPARENCIES #. STRIP FILM 2-INCH SLIDES Keystone COMPACT Overhead zs.ooo ^ to ^Az ^dif-^U^ ANY other overhead projector For a demonstration of the COMPACT Overhead Projector that weighs SO MUCH LESS, and does SO MUCH MORE, write 1^ Meadville, Pa. KEYSTONE VIEW CO. A \ lit^dustry News Teaching Machine 99c A "Univox" teaching machine is being sold through more than 20 supermarket chains at 99c. Maker annoimces newspaper, radio and TV promotion, as well as personal appearances in schools, etc., by leading educators who serve on Univox Board of Education. S.O.S. Takes Over Paramount News A half-mil'lion dollars worth of professional motion picture equipment inventory of "Paramount News," now inactive, will be sold and rented through S.O.S. Photo-Cine Optics, Inc. Educational "Juke Box" Dr. Warren P. Everote, EBF president, at the recent Columbus Film Festival, predicted electronic transmission of educational films "in a system resembling a juke box," under which "the ortly equipment needed would be an electronic screen and a book of numbers indicating the available subjects." "One would dial a film when be wanted to see it," he continued, "it would be conveyed automatically to the screen of his classroom." The teacher, he said, would he "freed of the inconveniences of wrestling with equipment, darkening the room, and ordering a film weeks in advance of need." Today, bv way of contrast, he said, educational films are shown either on television or on "archaic, hot, wheezing projectors." Service Managers on Advisory Board Xot presidents nor marketing specialists make up the Radiant Manufacturing Corp. "Product Advisory Committee," but eleven service managers from the staffs of leading AV dealers, coa.st to coast. Seymour Jacob, viceliresident for A-V sales stated this selection was made 'Tsecause they are the ones who work closest witli equipment and are in best position to make constructive comments based on actual experience." 16mm Projector Operator License? NAVA is sounding tlie alarm over a proposal revived, this time in Columbus, Ohio, to require a licensetl operator on any projector using a 1000 watt bulb. As has been the case in other cities where, over the years, this attempt came up, there is strong opposition from schools, churches and civic groups. Under the proposed columbus ordinance the mandatory license would involve a $25 fee and a 6-month "apprenticeship." Projector Subject to Excise Internal Revenue Service has ruled' that the Kalart/Victor "Soundview" Model PB portable 3-speed phonograph is subject to 10% excise tax, the only item in the firm's extensive A\' line so subject. Price has been . raised on this item. Flying Repair School The National Camera Repair School is offering a novel extension service in the form of a repair clinic to towns where six or more earner a-repair, dealeis or photo shops will be represented. A one to four-man staff is sent by light plane from the school's headquarters at Englewood, Colo. NAVA Equipment Directory National Audio-Visual AsscK'iation, Fairfax, Va., has mailed its initial check list to all known manufacturers of audio-visual equipment, as the first step toward the 196.3 revision of its big annual "Audio-Visual Equipment Directory." Editor "Jim" Hulfish reports that "surprisingly, the most timeconsuming step in editing this director\' has always Ix-en simply obtaining current information from manufacturers." These listings are free. The Directory is truly in a class by itself, a really definitive work, of which more than 8,000 copies (at roughly $■5 each) have been distributed in the past two years alone. Argus Price Reductions Reductions of from $10 to $20 have been announced on the entire Argus line of automatic slide projectors. PEOPLE Dorothy Helen Johnson has l>een appointed senior editor of the materials produced by the Society for Visual Education, Chicago. Dr. Ruth R. Cornfield has become associated with Teaching Audials and Visuals, Inc., as director of its Educational Services Division. 734 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — December, 1962