Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

December, 1945 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 19 Caribbean. The Insular Government of Puerto Rico paid for production costs. Each program is 15 minutes in length and occupies one side of a 16-inch transcription. A manual accompanies the series, containing suggestions for the teacher, and including background material and room for notes. This vras prepared by Mrs. Joyce Bartell, Assistant Director, Wisconsin School of the Air. The dramatizations are entitled “The Island,” “The Contrasts,” “The People,” “The Customs,” “The Land,” and “Past, Present, and Future.” Recordings of sound effects and the native music used are authentic and were recorded on the spot. Teachers of social studies, geography, history, American civilization, and related courses may borrow the transcriptions free. Address : U. S. Office of Education Transcription Exchange, Washington 25, D. C. NEA Presents a Fine New Documentary Film Teachers, would you like to see a movie about you ? And your work? You have that chance now for the first time. Assign m-ent : Tomorrow is about you and more than 800,000 teachers in this country. The cast of characters consists of typical American children and their teachers — teachers like yourself, real teachers working at the job of education for a better America. Teaching is an exciting job and second to no other in importance. Assignniefit : Tonioi'row brings this home in forceful and touching manner. It will make you prouder than ever of your job. It will encourage capable young people to consider teaching as a career. It will impress laymen with the signifi cance of education in our nation’s life. Assignment: Tomorrow is a new 25-minute, 16mm, blackand-white, documentary film produced by the National Education Association. For showing to professional audiences this feature film is followed by a 7minute movie trailer describing in animation and real-life pictures the work of the National Education Association. There will be no charge for this film. It has been produced as a service of the National Education Association and is being “From any long-run point of view education is, therefore, the most important single activity of civilized man.” Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce, says this in Sixty Million Jobs. Among his other observations are these : Education for the General Welfare “We must educate our children not only to make a success in life as competitive individuals — but also, and even more important, to work together in the service of the general welfare. In recent years, education has placed so much emphasis on the individual, and so little on the general welfare, that both government and business have become more and more a battleground of selfish pressure groups.” Federal Aid “This is a shocking statement to make, I know — but the United States, considering her material wealth, is one of the most backward nations in education in the world. True it is that in certain states we spend 125 dollars of state and local funds a year to educate a child. But in otherstates the local communities are so poverty-ridden that they find it hard to sperrd even 25 dollars a year. The distributed in cooperation with state and local education associations. Most state education associations have made arrangements for the distribution of this film. Address booking requests to your state education association. In some states there will be a nominal booking and service fee. In case your state association is unable to take care of your request, it will be forwarded to the National Education Association. The NEA will endeavor to take care of requests which cannot be handled by state associations. poor education received by the children born into these backward areas is both a national disgrace and a national peril. Before the war state and local governments spent $3,000,000,000 of which the state and local authorities might furnish $2,700,000,000 and the Federal government $300,000,000. The cost of World War II to the Federal government has averaged around $300,000,000 a day. Surely, it can spend as much in a year to support our public school system — which, after all, is a front line of defense of our national liberties.” Adult Education “As a nation, we would have a much broader knowledge of international affairs if more of us learned another language. None of us is too old to learn something new. It is just a question of wanting to learn with the whole intensity of our being. I put in enough spare time to learn a little Spanish at fifty — a little Russian at fifty-five — and, at fifty-six, enough about flying so I could solo and land a plane by myself. And I have known of others who learned to fly at seventy. Moreover, the older folks, by learning new things, often stimulate their children. I’m sure that if I hadn’t learned Spanish, my daughter and one of my sons would never have studied the language.” Secretary Wallace's Views On Education