Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

36 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume Xll, No. 6 FILMS OF MERIT 16MM SOUND SILENT 8MM For Teaching, Recess and Entertainment RENT SALE Write for complete list tary and Aviation organizations, and the World Court. This series will be augmented by the programs, Music of the United Nations, Home Around the World, and Tales of the Foreign Service, which will replace the current NBC University of the Air programs beginning with the summer months. The foreign-service program will draw its material from the files of the Foreign Service Office of the U. S. Department of State, most of which will be entirely new to the American public. Whenever feasible, NBC stations will arrange civic activities and broadcast programs in their local areas on the theme of the United Nations as well as commemorative activities for United Nations Week. Plans thus far include public meetings, displays, special music, and programs clarifying UNO activities. It is also expected that civic clubs, churches, and educational organizations will support the general plan. “NBC’s United Nations project,” said Dr. Angell, “effects a new concept in the use of broadcasting as a world-wide medium of understanding and cooperation. Through interna tional exchange of radio programs for the education of the world’s peoples, one of the greatest communications media of the world will help to promote the plans for peace.” Dr. Angell announced that the entire project will be under the supervision of Sterling Fisher, director of the NBC University of the Air and assistant public service counselor. "MASSACHUSETTS PLAN" POPULAR NBC University of the Air Series Wins Official Collegiate Credit Attempts have been made in the past in various sections of the country to adapt the facilities of radio to the teaching process. However, it remained for the Massachusetts Department of Education, Division of University Extension, to formulate in “The Massachusetts Plan” a concrete method of providing educational programs carrying full collegiate credit. The Division of University E.xtension selected Our Foreign Policy, heard each Saturday night between 7 :00 and 7 :30 EST over the NBC Network, as the basis for the first course offered under “The Massachusetts Plan.” This series of broadcasts features men and women who are formulating America’s foreign policy. It is the only program on the air which has the complete cooperation of the Department of State in Washington. This broadcast is supplemented each week with a quarter-hour program on Saturdays at 9:15 A. M. over WBZ-Boston, WBZA-Springfield. The local program is in charge of Dr. Leland M. Goodrich, Professor of Political Science at Brown Uni versity and Director of the World Peace Foundation. Dr. Goodrich is the course leader throughout the series of twentysix weeks. He has guests from universities in New England. Among them are Dr. Payson Wild, Associate Professor of Government at Harvard ; Dr. Anton De Haas, Professor of International Relations at Harvard; and Norman Padelford, Professor of International Relations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The Massachusetts Plan” already is receiving an enthusastic response throughout the region. Our F'oreign Policy has been selected also as the basis for a special course by the University of Maine’s Extension Division. The new course, designed to assist teachers in understanding current world problems, especially in terms of international relationships, will be presented by the university’s history department. Students will listen to and report on the weekly broadcasts. Texts of the NBC discussions, as well as approved bibliographies of pertinent articles in books and magazines, will be given to each student. Full university credit will be given for this course, which will begin with the NBC broadcast of October 13, 1946. It will be heard over the Maine stations of WRDO-Augusta, WLBZ-Bangor, and WCSH-Portland, all NBC affiliates. What remains is to make the project national during the academic year 1946-47. Inevitably radio will bring the college to the student. Eventually, through FM and television, educational courses will be truly democratized. Our Foreign Policy is blazing a trail which is destined to mark a new era in popularizing the study of international relations.