Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

26 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume XII, No. 9 break with what to them seems a status QUO. In this case, as in too many other college-nurtured linguistic gymnastics, there is a close relationship between “linguistic” and its nextdoor neighbor in the dictionary, which is linament — and linament, “gentle reader,” may be snake-oil at “just twenty-five cents or one-fourth part of a dollar a bottle — step right up, friends, and buy your bottle now while Jerry plays Tiirken in the Straw.” If anyone doubts the oiliness of the game, let him spend a nickel and procure a copy of the May, 1946, issue of Woman’s Magazine at any A & P Store, turn to page 25, and read. No, we do not need to plug A & P ; it is doing very well on its own. There may be greener fields than this, but did you ever count the Greens in this one? And they are all models ! They smoke “Model.” Copyright 1946, B. A. Aughinbaugh Virginia Forges Ahead in Audio-Visual Education SIX TWO-DAY AUDIO-VISUAL INSTITUTES are to be held in cooperation with Virginia collegiate institutions from July 8 through 2.3; July 8 and 9, Virginia State College: July 11 and 12, William and Mary; July 15 and 16, Farmville S. T. C.; July 17 and 18, Madison College; July 19 and 20, University of Virginia; July 22 and 23, Radford College. Nine Virginia teacher-training institutions are offering courses in audio-visual education this summer. Opaque Projection OPAQUE PROJECTION is the title of a pamphlet by J. Y. Taylor. State Bureau of Teaching Materials, Richmond, Virginia. It includes many helpful teaching suggestions concerning ways in which the opaque projector may be used. ANOTHER NEW PAMPHLET issued by the BTM in Richmond is titled Classroom Planning for Andio-Visnal Aids. Prepared by Ollie B. Fuglaar, Assistant Supervisor (jf the Bureau of Teaching Materials, the eight-page pamphlet treats in outline the problems of seating arrangement, screen sizes and types, darkening and ventilation, projector and speaker stand construction, and other topics. Projector Covers H. L. FIREBAUGH, principal of the Powhatan, Virginia, High School, suggests that Home Economics classes prepare dust-proof covers for all projection equipment. Such covers are valuable in protecting mechanical and electrical parts of projectors. Dark Shades HOW TO DARKEN CLASSROOMS is one of those problems facing everyone interested in making increased classroom use of projected audio-visual materials. The method developed by Charles L. Jennings, principal of the William King High School, Abington, Virginia, may be of some help to others. Mr. Jennings has placed a screw eye on each side of the upper extension of the window casing. Through these eyes he runs a loop of cord which extends to the bottom of the casing. Tied to the cord is a snap which can thus be hauled to the top of the casing. The window covering is made of black cloth on an old window shade roller wide enough to cover the window completely. To darken the room the shades are placed on the sill, the snaps are attached to the shade, and the shade is drawn to the top of the window, thus allowing the shade to unroll on the sill as it is drawn up. Mr. Jennings reports that he darkened twenty-three classrooms at a cost of only $35. How to Win Friends MRS. MARGARET JETER, principal of the Courthouse School, Princess Anne County, Virginia, has an interesting answer to some of the parents’ concern over the use of educational films in the classroom. She has organized a “demontration” lesson around the film, Virginia — T h e Old Dominion. Parents are the “students” for the evening as she attenqjts to interpret for them how films can