Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

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32 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume XII, No. 6 Edward Stasheff, presiding, and some of the students partcipating in the CBS television program, “There Ought to Be a Law.’’ 26 were able to get professional experience in this manner during 1945. An interesting sidelight on The World We Live In was its value in demonstrating the possibilities of educational television to groups of educators. At the request of Maurice Ames, Science Supervisor for the Board of Education, the students demonstrated a typical program, dealing with photosynthesis, at a November meeting of the Society for the Experimental Study of Education in New York City. They repeated the program on December 1st at Atlantic City, before the annual meeting of the New Jersey Visual Education Association. It is amusing to note that what little fan mail has been received has come from schools in Montclair and Glen Ridge. It would seem that at least two New Jersey teachers were able to acquire television receivers sooner than their metropolitan colleagues. The suggestion that a series of educational broadcasts be evaluated by specimen classes was taken up by NBC. A plan to conduct such an experiment with junior-high-school classes in general science was jointly announced in August by John E. Wade, Superintendent of Schools and John Royal, Vice-President in charge of NBC’s Television Department. The series is scheduled to begin in April. It will be broadcast weekly during a convenient school hour. A selected junior-high-school class will receive the broadcast in NBC’s Viewing Studio 980. Teachers and students will join in evaluating each broadcast. Another phase of WNYE’s television activities is the training of teachers in the use of video broadcasts. With so new a medium as television, it was felt that the first step was acquainting teachers with what television is, and how it operates. Accordingly, the Du Mont Laboratories set up, at WNYE’s request, a meeting at Station WABD for the Speech Association. Teachers were conducted through the control room, the studio, the teletheatres, and the offices. They observed a broadcast, were themselves televised, saw films