Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

Jawuory, 1946 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 53 Bruce A. Findlay Now Heads L.A. Instructional Aids and Services Branch Bruce A. Findlay, formerly Supervisor of the Audio-Visual Education Section of the Los Angeles City Schools, has been promoted to the position of Head Supervisor of the Instructional Aids and Services Branch of the Los Angeles City Schools, which includes three sections : Library and Textbook Section, AudioVisual Aids Section, and Guidance and Counseling Section. This new position affords an opportunity for Mr. Findlay to supervise the correlation of the printed page and the screen. Ellsworth C. Dent Now "Coronet" Executive The appointment of Ellsworth C. Dent as Educational Director of Coronet and General Sales Manager of Coronet Instructional Films is announced by David A. Smart, Publisher of Coronet and President of Coronet Instructional Films. “The selection of Dent for these important assignments,” said Mr. Smart, “is but one step in expanding the educational services of the magazine and Coronet Instructional Films. The sound film studios at Glenview, Illinois, which are the most modern and complete for the production of 16mm sound motion pictures in color, are increasing their production schedules to add new films each month to more than 60 subjects now available. At the same time, extensive research is being conducted to determine the film requirements of schools and other training institutions, so that the most useful subjects can be produced. These activities will be coordinated with those of Coronet magazine for one primaiy purpose— to provide the most effec Make Literature LIVE In the Classroom The following Teaching Film Custodian (M-G-M) subjects are ideally suited to classroom study; "Treasure Island" Lionel Barrymore Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper "Tale of Two Cities" Ronald Colman "Mutiny on the Bounty" Clark Gable Charles Laughton Franchot Tone "Romeo and Juliet" Leslie Howard Norma Shearer John Barrymore "David Copperfield, the Boy" "David Copperfied, the Man" Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan W. C. Fields Freddie Bartholomew Each subject 4 reels Rental: $6.00 (Special Series Rate) Write for Free Catalogue "2" of SELECTED MOTION PICTURES Y.M.C.A. MOTION PICTURE BUREAU New York 17, N. Y. Chicago 3, III. 347 Madison Ave. 19 So. LaSalle St. San Francisco 2, Cal Dallas 1, Tex. 351 Turk St. 1700 Patterson Ave. five visual and other aids to classroom instruction and adult education.” Mr. Dent comes to Coronet with a broad experience of more than 22 years in the visual field. This work started when he was placed in charge of the Bureau of Visual Instruction at the University of Kansas, in 1923. During the fall and winter of 193334, he organized the visual instruction service for the intermountain area at the Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and wrote the first edition of the Avdio-Visual Handbook, the fifth edition of which is now on the press. From Brigham Young, he went to Washington, D. C., to organize and direct the Division of Motion Pictures, U. S. Department of the Interior, and from there to the Radio Corporation of America, Camden, N. J., as Educational Director. He left RCA three years ago to become General Manager of the Society for Visual Education, Inc., Chicago, where he is still completing special projects preparatory to devoting full time to his new assignments. S.V.E.'s 813 Slidefilms A new S. V. E. Picturol Catalog of 813 educational slidefilms, many of them new or revised and some of them just released, has been issued by the Society for Visual Education, Inc., Chicago. It is the first postwar catalog of S.V.E. filmstrips and includes subjects for use in practically all courses from kindergarten to college. Navy's 35mm Films on Non-Flam Stock? All films now being sent to the U. S. Navy are on acetate cellulose, and the nitro-cellulose prints are being called in. Meanwhile, there appears to be a division of opinion as to the efficiency of the non-inflammable film. Some experts claim that the images projected from acetate stock are not so clear as those printed on nitro-cellulose, even though the former is just as durable and equal in cost. While the acetate stock is fireproof and eliminates booth hazards insofar as ffame is concerned, the possibility of a complete switch to the non-inflammable film is remote unless a better definition of objects can be obtained, the experts say. Forthcoming Documentary on the Adoption of the UNO Charter It would take thirty hours of continuous running-time to screen the 163,000 feet of film which were made of the proceedings of the United Nations Conference at San Francisco. These 163 reels are now being cut and edited to make a definitive documentary of the event.