Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

March, 1946 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 39 Abbreyiations Used for Types of Ploys C Comedy C-D Comedy-Drama D Drama Fan Fantasy F Farce Mel Melodrama ED Educational Drama (Clas) Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapolis. E. W. Ziebarth and R. B. Erekson. Classic Plays For Radio. 1939, $2.25. (DPC) The Dramatic Publishing Company, Chicago. J. L. Latham. Nine Radio Plays. $1.50. (AB) McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. W. M. Abbot. Handbook of Broadcasting , 1941, $3.50. (RWL) Radio Writers’ Laboratory, 10 South Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Sch) Scholastic Publications, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (USE) United States Office of Education, Washington, D. C. H. G. and D. Calhoun, Let Freedom Rmg, Bulletin 1937, No. 32, 60c. ★ ★ ★ Protestant Film Commision Lieutenant Paul R. Heard has been elected executive secretary of the recently incorporated Protestant Film Commission. At their first meeting held at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, the directors set $1,000,000 as an initial goal for a revolving fund to provide religious motion pictures, to advise with the industry and to raise standards of presentation. Lieutenant Heard, currently completing productions for the Navy in Hollywood, will be released from the Navy shortly. He was formerly with the visual education departments of the University of Minnesota and the Methodist Board of Missions. Rome A. Betts, secretary of the American Bible Society, is president of the Film Commission. Free Speech in Films Darryl F. Zanuck, forwardlooking film producer, writing in Treasury for the Free World (Arco Publishing Company, New York) , declares that chaos may result from failure to evaluate properly the amazing recent growth of the screen’s influence in shaping men’s thoughts and actions. He shows in his essay, “Free Speech in the Films,’’ that the film industry was crucial in war, yet “in all the current public discussions about the dictator nations and their control and reeducation, little or nothing has been said about motion pictures. This grave and dangerous oversight by the planners of a better post-war world obviously points to a lack of understanding of the immense and still unplumbed possibilities of the screen in molding and guiding public opinion. It may leave to the vagaries of change a weapon which can be used for incalculable good or harm in shaping the future.’’ Mr. Zanuck advances a plan for the control of fascist films, although he sees it “vital that this great medium of enlightenment, education and entertainment be kept free. It should receive the same privileges and protection accorded the press and be permitted to function with the same freedom here and abroad. Unless the screen is free, within the limits of good taste, it may easily become an object of partisan strife and political reprisal. Then it would be robbed of its chance and real value in the job of reconstructing a chaotic world.’’ RADIO COURSE "A. Course of Study in Radio Appreciation'' BY ALICE P. STERNER Barringer High School Newark, N. J. 22 Curriculum Units — Free Listening — Listening Processes — Music Programs — Popular Programs — News Broadcasts — Radio Comedy — Radio Drama — Sports Broadcasts — Radio Discussions — Radio Speeches — Literary Programs — Radio Censorship — Radio Advertising — The Radio Industry — Foreign Broadcasting — Planning Our Listening — Radio and the Home — Political Programs — Radio and Propaganda — The History of Radio — Radio Technicalities — Influence of Radio 50^^ Free With 2-year Subscriptions to "Film and Radio Guide" EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL GUIDES, Inc. 172 Renner Avenue Newark 8, N. J. WILLIAM LEWIN, Editor