Films for classroom use (1954)

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FOREWORD Teaching Film Custodians, Inc., is a non-profit organization of educators established to distribute to educational agencies and institutions selected motion pictures produced by the following companies: Columbia Pictures Corporation RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Educational Pictures Corporation Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Loew's, Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Universal Pictures Company, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Started in 1939, Teaching Film Custodians, Inc., is the oldest of the sev- eral educational services of the motion picture' industry. It is responsible for making available to schools films which are educationally useful and which are not available from other sources. The program is carried on without profit to the producing companies or to any educational agency responsible for implementing this service. Board of Directors The Board of Directors of Teaching Film Custodians, Inc. are the follow- ing: Karl T. Compton, President of the Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Honorary Member). Mark A. May (Chairman), Director, Institute of Human Relations, Yale University. Arthur S. Adams, President, American Council on Education. Frederick H. Bair, Department of Education, State of New York. Stephen M. Corey, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Royal B. Farnum, Executive Vice President, Rhode Island School of Design. Willard E. Givens, Former Executive Secretary, National Education Associa- tion. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, New York City. Jay B. Nash, Retired Professor of Education, New York University. Roy E. Simpson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of California. A. L. Threlkeld, Former Superintendent of Schools, Montclair, N. J. Trustees For the purposes of expediting the execution of contractual leasing ar- rangements with schools and for holding in trust the fees paid by schools, Teaching Films Custodians, Inc. has appointed three trustees. The present trustees are Mark A. May, Willard E. Givens and Carl E. Milliken, former Governor of Maine and former Executive Secretary of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. 3