Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

FEBRUARY, 1946 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 47 position of 16mm sound prints does not receive sufficient attention from projector manufacturers. No person would be satisfied to view a 16mm projection with the picture out of focus. Yet it is a common practice to reproduce 16mm sound films with the scanning beam focused on the wrong side of the film and therefore out of focus for the particular purpose. Most projectors have scanning beams focused in one position for reproducing sound films which have standard emulsion positions, in which the emulsion faces the screen. A great many film productions result in a nonstandard emulsion position in the finished print. This means that the sound quality must suf fer when projection is made on a projector that does not permit focusing the sound track on either side of the film. Kodachrome prints made from a Kodachrome original and black-and-white prints made from a film that was originally shot on reversal film from which a dupe negative was made are in this category. The film distributors can be instrumental in improving the quality of 16mm sound if they will refuse to accept poor results. The future of the 16mm film distributing industry depends on offering decent quality in sound. No industry has ever been able to grow and prosper on poor quality merchandise. The science of producing 16mm sound has progressed to the point where any second-rate material or reproduction cannot be blamed on the fact that this is the best that can be done. It is up to the distributor to insist on good results if he would see his industry advance. S.V.E.'s Plant Expansion The Society for Visual Education, Inc., pioneer Chicago manufacturer and producer of educational slide and slidefilm projection equipment, Picturol teaching materials, and accessories, has announced completion of its expansion program in Chicago. All production of equipment is now consolidated in the company’s modern daylight factory building at 1345 Diversey Parkway. A Junior-College Audio-Visual Center In Colorado Reprinted from the Pueblo Star-Journal An audio-visual teaching materials center has been authorized by the Pueblo junior college committee to be set up at the visual education department of the college, which is under the direction of Ernest Tiemann. The center will provide schools and organizations with selected audio-visual teaching aids. Sound and silent pictures, slide-films, slides, transcriptions, pictures, charts and posters will be made for educational use. The primary purpose is to provide the needs of Pueblo county and then expand the center to aid organizations and schools all over Southern Colorado. The department now owns about $5,000 worth of teachingmaterials and equipment. An ad ditional $5,000 has been appropriated to secure basic classroom teaching films and other visual aids. The department recently increased its housing facilities for classroom films by installing a special shipping and checking section. Film racks, which were declared surplus by the army, were placed in the department to make space enough for 500 film titles. In Pueblo county today there are 23 sound motion-picture projectors being used for school purposes. By fall, it is expected that there will be 40 projectors in operation. In order to service these projectors properly, it is essential that a regional film library be established. There are now about 350 producers of edu cational, religious, and industrial films in the United States. The productions must be channeled into the local educational institutions, and without regional film centers, these productions will not reach their intended users. Advisory board members, including Mrs. Nettie S. Freed, county superintendent of schools ; Robert Baulesh, chairman of district 20 visual education committee ; Franklin Getting, district one visual education committee director, and Miss Claire Knox, city librarian, are assisting in making plans for the center so that it will be more effective. The board will help preview various teaching materials and will enlist the cooperation of classroom teachers in this