See and hear : the journal on audio-visual learning (1945)

Arts & Literature: sculptor is seen working in his studio giving a clear and lucid understand- ing of the various processes involved in casting bronze, plaster and terra cotta. Tools and their functions also described. Creation of a Portrait (1 reel) 16sd. Color. Purchase or rent: EBF. Art and art appreciation classes in high school and college; adult groups; museums and art galleries. • Portrait technique of Abel G. Warshawsky studied from the first free brush strokes on raw canvas to a completed painting. Emphasis on artist's use of the classic technique of glazing by which the great Renais- sance painters achieved great depth of color and texture in their work. Elements of Design (1 reel each) 16sd. Purchase: YAF. High school, college, adult groups. • Basic principles of design in art and other phases of everyday life. Includes three titles Shape, Light and Shade and Composition. Finger Painting Techniques (1 reel) Color. Purchase: Johnson-Hunt. • Depicts a medium through which the average person, without artistic talent can find artistic expression. Experts demonstrate how easy it is to create pleasing designs with finger paints. Recommended for elemen- tary and advanced art classes, art ap- preciation and recreational groups. Franklin Watkins (30 min) 16sd. Color or b/w. Purchase or rent: AF. Junior and senior high, college, adult groups. • Franklin Watkins at work on his two large nuirals. Death and Resur- rection. Detailed analysis of the ar- tist's portrait technique as used in painting the late Justice Owen J. Roberts. Also series of other paint- ings including the famous lire Eater. Grandma Moses (22 min) 16sd. Color or b/w. Purchase or rent: AF. Junior and senior high, college, adult groups. • Follows 90-year old Grandma Mo- ses, who has been painting for only Editor's Nche: Throughout this Fall Inventory, emphasis in listings is placed on materials especially pro- duced for classroom use by qualified educational producers. For your pre- view conveiiieiue, contact the a-v dealer or educational library source nearest you or write the key source given in each listing. 28 the past 12 years, as she paints, sit- ting on the old family Bible, the special preparation of her painting boards that gives her work its subtle luminosity and an exhibition of her work. Jefferson the Architect (1 1 min) 16sd. Purchase or rent: IFB. • Jefferson's contributions to post- colonial architecture and design. Monticello, shown in detail gives in- sight into the manner of living of Jefferson and his friends in Virginia. Life Hangs by a Thread (18 min) 16sd. Color. Apply: Brandon. Intermediate, junior and senior high, college, adult groups. • How marionettes are made and operated by experts. Stage construc- tion, complete assembly of the mari- onette, and manipulation of the doll. Painting an Abstraction (10 min) 16sd. Color. Purchase or rent: EBF. • Elliot O'Hara, American artist and teacher presents his own charac- teristic technique of "abstracting" design elements for a water-color painting. Emphasis on careful ar- rangement of planes and color in a unique pattern. Painting with Sand: A Navajo Cere- mony (10 min) 16sd. Color. Pur- chase or rent: EBF. • Traditional sand painting heal- ing rite as performed by a Navajo medicine man for his ailing son. Primitive Artists of Haiti (11 min) 16sd. Color. Purchase: EBF. • Development of the centre d'art founded some years ago by two American artists. Suggests the social and economic background of the Haitian people. Study of genuine primitive artists and their work. The Renaissance (1 reel) 16sd. Color or b/w. Purchase: Coronet. • The Renaissance as representing a mental attitude and a human spir- it. From Galileo's telescope to Leo- nardo's notebooks, from the Medici Palace in Florence to St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. Rodin (24 min) 16sd. Color. .Apply: World Film. • Biography of the spiritual father of contemporary sculpture. His in- comparable creations, photographed in France and the U.S., are illus- trated in every movement and detail. Rome — City Eternal (11 min) 16sd. Color. Purchase: EBF. Ju7iior and senior liigh, adult groups. • Ruins, statuary, architecture and art preserved in St. Peters highlight important aspects of the significance of Rome through the ages. Rubens (45 min) 16sd. Apply: Brar don. Senior high, college, adult group. • Nature and form of Rubens' pain ings in relation to his predecessor contemporaries and successors. Spli screen, animation and other lecl niques for analyzing the evolution c Rubens' form and his developmcn Sculpturing Is Fun (10 min) 16s( Loan: Castle. • Art of soap carving in simplifie form for the beginners. , THE DANCE § 16mm Sound Motion Pictures Desperate Heart, The (13 min) 16s( Apply; Livingston. • Modern dance solo on the agon of loss of a beloved by America dancer, Valerie Bettis. Study of mov ment and motion. Fable of the Peacock (15 min) 16s< Color. Purchase or apply: Brandoi Intermediate, junior and senii high, college, adult groups. • Famous Indian fable told t dancers and musicians from Indi Stylized hand gestures and facial e; prcssions explain the story. Mask (20 min) 16sd. Purchase < rent: AF. Senior high, college, adult group • Experiences of a girl who encou ters disappointments in the wor around her and is finally forced i assume a mask of indifference. Pure visual presentation withotu narr tion, sound or titles, dependir throughout on pantomime and dan movements to illustrate the psyche ogy theme of the film. Moor's Pavane, The (121^ min) IGs Color. Purchase: Brandon. Senior high, college, adult groiif. • Othello told in terms of moveiiie during a suite of court dance Danced by Jose Limon and grou Music arranged by Simon Sado from Henry Purcell. People Dance (10 min) 16sd. Pt chase: Brandon. Junior and senior high, colle^ adult groiips. • Dances related to social and et nomic backgroimds from the prin tive stomp through the discipline classical ballet, up to present d jive. Old and new dance styles wi the periods they represent. Steps of the Ballet (22 min) l(i^ Purchase: EBF. Junior, senior high, adult groui • Modern ballet narrated i)y Rolx Helpmann choreographer ai dancer of the Sadler's Wells Ball Basic ballet positions and moxcniei and their significance. Work of t choreographer, solo dancers, co poser and designer of stage scttir in the creation of a ballet. ] SEE & HEA L