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

Photography Films: Photographic Darkroom Procedures Series. 16sd. Purchase: McGraw-Hill. • Fundamentals of complete print- ing process of negative. Each film points out wrong and right way of printing and suggests proper meth- ods. Adxmnced Projection Control Composition in Printing Print Contrast Control Print Presentation Quality Control in Negatives — Part "/ Quality Control in Negatives — Part "// Spotting of Prints Communication Journalism Shop Work 35MM FILMSTRIPS History of Aeronautics, The (40 frames) 35si slidefilm. Purchase: Vis- ual Sciences. • P'volution of flying beginning with the mythological contribution of Daedalus, and portraying chronologi- cally every important milestone in aviation history, including the 1943 Heliocopter. Radio and Electronic Symbols (40 frames) 35si filmstrip. Purchase: Visual Sciences. • Sixty symbols and 90 sketches with names, abbreviations and appropri- ate textual matter of devices most commonly used. Woodshop Series (42 to 60 frames) 35si filmstrip. Purchase: SVE. Junior and senior high. • Correlated with textbook. Indus- trial Arts Woodworking. How to handle tools, study of workshop ma- chinery and easy-to-make projects. Safety "Know How" in the Wood- shop Woodworking Machines Making a Project ivith Hand Tools Metal Working Series (48 to 53 frames) 35^1 filmstrip. Purchase: SVE. Junior and senior high. • Based on Modern Metalcraft text- lHK)k. Clear detailed description and demonstration of the correct steps involved in the various stages of metal work. Four titles are: Bending and Beating Down Metal Raising and Surface Decorations Laying Out, Cutting, riling and Drilling Jointing and Finishing Art Metal W«K)dworker's Tools (36 frames) S.'jsi slidefilm. Purchase: Visual Sci- ences. • Details of tools and their use ordi- narily difficult to show a large class. 35MM FILMSTRIPS Communication of Ideas and Ideals Series (42 to 46 frames) 35si film- strip. Purchase: SVE. Junior, senior high, college, adult groups. • Various aspects of different means of communication and comprehen- sion. Titles include: Relation of Personality to Communi- cation Relation of Interests to Communi- cations How to Read: to Understand, to Evaluate to Use How to Prepare a Speech How to Converse How to Write: the Four Uses of Words Hoiu to Deliver a Speech Relation of Ideals to Communica- tion I6MM SOUND MOTION PICTURES History of Writing (27 min) 16sd. Purchase: EBF. Junior high. • Chronological history of writing as a means of communication. How writing evolved from pictures and signs. Analyzes significant features of early Chinese, Mesapotamian and Egyptian writings. Contributions of Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans to present-day alphabet. How to Write Effectively (10 min) 16sd. Color or b/w. Purchase: Coro- net. Intermediate, junior high. • Important rules for effective writ- ing and situations which help to make all writing effective. Material, audience and purpose offered as ele- ments to be considered. Factors in- volved in editing and a unique exer- cise in classroom participation. Story of Printing (40 min) 16sd. Purchase: EBF. Junior and senior high. • Printing from ancient times to the present day. Early methods of repro- ducing pictures by means of carved wood block and gradual transition from printing of pictures to printing of letters. Gutenberg's contributions to printing and evolution of modern type face and improvements in pa- per. Writing Better Social Letters (10 min) I6sd. Color or b/w. Purchase: Coronet. Junior and senior high. • How good letters can be written easily and naturally. Simple prin- ciples of letter-writing which will help students write social letters with less efff)rt. SO I6MM SOUND MOTION PICTURES Newspaper Story (16 min) IGsd Purchase or rent: EBF. • How a modern newspaper i; printed by following through a storj of Boy Scouts finding a lost child Work of the reporter, special editors type-setting and composing room; and the huge presses which automat ically print, cut and fold the paper; ready for delivery. Police Reporter (15 min) IGsd. Ap ply: Ohio U. • Covering of news by a police re porter and how it finds its way intc print. Excellent journalism orienta tion film. Story of Printing (40 min) 16sd Purchase or rent: EBF. • Thousands of years of men's d forts which led to modern letterpress printing. Early Babylonian seal, ear ly Chinese and Japanese prints and central Europe during the early Ren aissance when all processes were done by hand. Time-consuming process ol carving whole explanatory texts froir wood, Gutenberg's workshop, manu facture of movable metal type. Mod ern printing and presses. Language Films I6MM SOUND MOTION PICTURES FOREIGN LANGUAGES La Familia Sanchez (11 min) 16s Purchase: EBF. Senior high and college. • Story of Spanish children in sout| ern Spain told in simple and low paced Spanish. Vocabulary and sen tence structure meet the needs o) beginners. Mexico — Ciudad Encantadora (It min) 16sd. Color. Purchase: IFB. • Famous scenes in and aromid Mexico City, emphasizing buildings statues, gardens and bull fights. Nar- ration in simple, conversational Spanish. Useful for stimulating in terest in a study of Mexican culture and for providing a good example of spoken Spanish which can be com- prehended readily on the third se mester level. Tierra Mexicana. 16sd. Purchase; IFB. • Some aspects of Mexico's economic system and customs as they relate tc the land with simple Spanish narra- tion and titles and several maps. Unusually effective for both stimu lating an interest in the Spanish language and for showing the de pendcnce of Mexico upon its land SEE & HEAR L, i .mniM