NAEB Newsletter (Dec 1958)

her young viewers to think in French and to speak it properly. She repeats a great deal, and then pauses to allow the learner to repeat after her. At times the camera moves in very close so that the shape of her mouth as she forms each syllable is clearly visible. She makes the language simple and exciting .... for adult learners, too. ► The Cincinnati public schools are finding that telecasting to school screens has fine advantages for teaching. At present, the Board of Education is beaming more than 12 hours of instruction a week to various grade levels, conserving on teachers while offering better preparation and elaborate presenta¬ tions in such courses as Biology, Driver Education, and Home Economics. Biology is telecast to 70 junior and senior high school students for a half hour three mornings a week as part of a carefully designed combination of video and in-school instruction. Biology has par¬ ticular advantages for TV instruction. Interesting guest-lecturers who lack the time to appear at each individual school can “visit” all involved via the WCET (Cincinnati) studios. Complex experiments can be prepared ana more expensive materials used. And there’s no such thing as a bad classroom seat. The TV camera gives everyone a good view as in¬ sects are studied or fish dissected. ► Chet Huntley, NBC award-winning news com¬ mentator, has accepted a new role as host for the new “Ten for Survival” series distributed by N.E.T., because he feels that “People have so little realiza¬ tion of the importance and urgency of what we’re dealing with in the nuclear age.” The series began November 13. Well-known stage and screen artists read from John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” in the first program. The program, about the dropping of the first atomic bomb, showed with dramatic impact the effects of nuclear weapons, and man’s need to adjust to his environment in a way never before contemplated. Taking a completely new approach to the prob¬ lem of opening men’s minds to the facts of nuclear warfare, “Ten for Survival” will demonstrate in¬ delibly that, with knowledge, survival in a nuclear crisis is possible. The series will underscore the fact that the knowledge which is man’s surest means to survival is being rejected by the American public for a variety of reasons. The series will document the reasons for this rejection and lay the groundwork for acceptance of the hard facts of nuclear weapons and radiation. “Ten for Survival” is presented by the National Broadcasting Company and the National Educational Television network. It was produced in cooperation with the U. S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobiliza¬ tion. PERSONNEL ► Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize winning sci¬ entist, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the ETRC. Dr. Seaborg has pioneered in ETV as the featured performer on the “Elements,” a N.E.T. science series. The eminent nuclear scientist recently was named chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. ► Edgar E. Willis of the University of Michigan and John Young of the University of North Carolina have been appointed to the program staff of the ETRC for one year. Willis, a member of the Mich¬ igan faculty since 1952, formerly served with the Radio Department of the Detroit Public Schools. Before joining the Michigan faculty he was professor of speech in charge of radio and television at San Jose State College in California. Young is on a leave of ab¬ sence from the University of North Carolina where he has been assistant director of the University Com¬ munication Center at Chapel Hill, and of Station WUNC-TV. ► Two more pioneers have been added to our grow¬ ing list. They are: Dr. Clarence Morgan, Director of Broadcasting, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute, Indiana; and Richard Hull, Director of Radio and Television, Ohio State University, Col¬ umbus, Ohio. TV TECHNICAL TIPS —Cecil S. Bidlack Last month we promised a mailing of the data on modification of the galvanometer mounting platform on the GPL kinescope, recorder. We don’t have this data for you because the GPL and J. A. Maurer Companies haven’t come to a definite decision on just how it’s to be done. Here is what is involved in this modification. First, there’s no physical difference between the Model I and the I-Prime. The I-Prime is 3 db bet¬ ter at 7000 cycles, has 30% less distortion and gives better definition on the sound track. If your Model I galvo needs repair, an overhaul will cost you $120 plus parts or it can be converted to the Model I- Prime for $300. One reason for the modification of the mounting platform is to permit the use of an F- Prime (variable area) galvo. Since its snout is shorter, .270 inches of the shoulder of the platform must be milled off to permit proper focus on the film. At the same time this milling operation is per¬ formed, Maurer representatives would like to see the method of mounting the galvo changed. They have machined the bottom of the galvo assembly and threaded it to permit it to be fastened by two screws from below. They feel that it is desirable to have DECEMBER 1958 9