NAEB Newsletter (May 1948)

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TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS FILM STUDY FOR TELEVISION USE D r. Cyril StaucL director of research for the Eastman Kodak Company, report s e stablishment of studios in Rochester fo r study of the photograph ic p ropertie s of the image on the motion picture screen—and the relation of these properties to the image on the television screen. Staud saws the study this far (advertis ¬ ing" shows and newsreelsTindicate prints which give good quality on motion picture screens, also give satisfactory images when transmitted by televisio n. TELEVISION CALLED POTENT EDUCATIONAL FACTOR Edwin Hinck, sales manager of Industrial Television, Inc., reporting a test of TV at Nutley High School (New Jersey) quotes the school principal as saying, "Tele¬ vision can be not only a potent educational factor, but is valuable as a recreation¬ al aid, in curbing juvenile delinquency and in the promotion of inter-group understanding and race and cultural relations." Television was used to bring students such events as UN meetings, convening of the Congress, and sports events. ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION GRANT'S TV TRAINING AT WESTERN RESERVE I The graduate school of Western Reserve University at Cleveland received $5000 I from the Rockefeller Found at ion' - ! or the extension of experimental television j programming work taking place in laboratories at YiIRU. President Winifred Leutner, announcing the grant said, the foundation support | will extend the training of advanced students and provide two fellowships of | $1,800 each to Kathryn Watson and Joan Rorimer, M.A. candidates. Among their i objectives: scripts suitable for television adaptation, TV scenery design, j TV play direction problems. i j W T estern Reserve University has worked in close cooperation with WEWS, Cleveland, | and Y:orking in cooperation with WHK, Cleveland, produced the first TV shoY/ in I that area. Director of TV instruction at MU is Professor Larclay S. Leathern, | head of dramatic arts. STASSEN PREDICTS TV WILL BE 'VOTE GETTER 1 Harold Stassen.* Republican presidential candidate, v/as the first political figure to use TV as a vote-getter weapon as the initial guest in the new CBS TV series, "Presidential Timber." Stassen regarded the appearance as a major event, and predicted the medium will in the future be included in the plans of all political aspirants. Said he, "As the night follows the day, all public figures will use television.* 1 SPECIAL NOTICE TO N-A-E-B MEMBERS The Board of Directors of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters is especially interested in knovjing full details of television activity on the part of any member institutions or any educational institutions in any of the six N-A-E-B regions in the United States. To date reports are very incomplete. From some in di cations it would appear a number of schools have cooperative production arrangements.with comm ercial tele¬ vision stations of the kind now engaged in by Waldo Abbot at the. UnAyc rsij.y_of Michigan (Ann Arbor) who produces programs for a Detroit station. Je sol icit your support in supplying information about existent projects, i planned ..projects or any contemplated applications. Please send fu l1 informat i on to your region al director or to Richard B« Hull, NAEB president, ~c7o Station W01» Ames.i.Iowa.