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

^mm^mm MOTION PICTURES GEOGRAPHY today. This film can also be used as background material for a class studying the Spanish language. Collaborator: F. G. Neel, DepL of Education, Canterbury College. This Land ol Ours Series (Individual titles in Color) Sale price: $85. each. Dudley Pictures Corporation. • This colorful series of meaningful travelgeography pictures includes 18 completed pictures on our country ranging from Arizona to Maine and from New York City tc Wyoming. This World of Ours Series (Individual titles in color) Sale price: $85. each. Dudley Pictures Corporation. • Picture series on other lands including Cuba, Costa Rica. Mexico, and Panama. Turn out the Guard (14 min Color. Sale: $62.50. Scandia Films. • Portrays the colorful changing of the Guards at the Royal Palace in the capital city, Stockholm. The World School ol Adventure Series (various titles — from 17 to 36 minutes) Color. Sale or rental: apply for price and nearest distributor. • Rough Road to Panama (36 min). Rugged Road to Cape Horn (36 min), lungle Rubber (23 min), This is the Place (17 min), and Land ol the Crimson Clilfs (34 min) are the five titles already completed in this colorful and authentic travel-adventure series. A Yank in Sweden (27 min) Color. Sale: $122.50. Scandia Films. • Takes the audience on a sightseeing trip through Sweden with a former GI. We see Stockholm, the waving cornfields of Scandia, and the roaring waterfalls and snowclad mountains of Lapland. TRANSPORTATION Bob Learns about Ocean Trade (11 min) Color. Sale price: $65. Frith Films. • Bob learns how each country exports the product it can raise best and about how the commodities flow in and out of the great harbors of the world. Of special interest to children is the cargo which includes wild animals from Siam. Caravans of Trade: Story oi Transportation (20 min) Sale: $75. Films, Inc. • Beginning with ancient scenes of the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, the story of man's development of transportation is unfolded as it took place during the centuries and as it culminates with today's modem means of transportation. Scenes include sequences on Learn all about a "Freighter at Sea" Scene in the "Mississippi River" series Crusades, ships of Columbus' time, Fulton's steamboat, Stevenson's locomotive, the automobile and the airplane. Freighter in Port (14 min) Sale price: $112.50 color or $56.25. b&w. Academy Films. • Shows and defines the various parts of the ship and their uses. The ship's crew is shown at work, a lifeboat drill is demonstrated and the work of the longshoreman is portrayed. The film points out the ocean freighter's importance as a link in international trade. Freighter at Sea (17 min) B&W. Sale; $67.50. Color, $135. Academy Films. • Sequel to Freighter in Port. Shows activity of crew, duties of officers, and life aboard an ocean-going freighter. Sequences reveal food preparation, safety devices such as direction finders and radar, map and chart room, activity on the bridge, and the constant coordination and vigilance which identify the operation of this sea-going community. Story is told about the experiences of a young boy, Ralph. Mississippi River — Lower River (14 min) Sale price: $112.50. color or $56.25. b&w. Academy Films. • Features the important features of the river from its junction with the Ohio river to the mouth of the Mississippi and brings out the differences from the Upper River. Animation and maps show the elevation drops. The problem of floods and the importance of the river as a highway are brought out. Mississippi River — Upper River (14 min) Sale price: $112.50. color or $56.25. b&w. Academy Films. • The story of the Mississippi river from its source to its central section at St. Louis. Photographs and animation show the drainage area, the importance of dams, how the locks work and the importance of agriculture in the upper valley. Sale in Port (17 min) Color. Sale price: $95. Frith Films. • An appreciation of the magnitude of man's work in building the breakwaters and piers which make a safe harbor. Transportation in the U. S. (17 min) Sale: $55. March of Time. • Quickly traces the growth of transportation in the U. S. as the factor which has mingled its people, brought about the quick change of ideas and methods, and carried the nation's standard of living to its present height. Sequences show passenger carriers and freight carriers of all types. The attempts which the American railroads are making to recapture lost markets and public favor are shown. Tugboats (10 min) Sale: $45. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. • The tugboat pulls a freighter out of its berth at the dock to begin a long ocean voyage. It tows a large oil barge across the harbor, and finally joins other tugs to dock a giant ocean liner. Tugboat's crew and the tug's mechanism and how it is operated are shown. Harbor activities are presented showing boats and ships of various types, buoys and lighthouses. HOME BUILDING Building a House (10 min) Sale: $45. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. • Clearly portrays the basic processes in the construction of a low-cost, woodframed, one-family home. Close-ups depict various tools in actual use. Various types of interior and exterior finishing work are explained. Country Homes (11 min) B&W. Sale price: $22. British Information Services. • Shows the new type of permanent massproduced houses designed to keep pace with current urgent national demands. Farm Homes Beautiful (19 min) Color. Sale: $150. National Film Board of Canada. • Gives many practical suggestions on the improvement and remodeling of two farm homes. Making Bricks lor Houses (10 min) Sale: $45. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. • A complete story of processing our oldest building material, the brick, from the time crude shale is dug from the ground until the finished bricks emerge from the kiln. The processes: grinding, mixing the clay with water, brazing, cutting and baking are shown leisurely and with complete understanding. Prairie Homes (20 min) Color. Sale: $150. National Film Board of Canada. • Essentially a film on homemaking. Shows how trees and shrubs and flowers can transform a group of windswept buildings into an attractive home. Towards a Uniform Plimibing Code (27 min) B&W. Sale: $33. Housing and Home Finance Agency — Castle. • A pictorial record of a series of tests conducted by the National Bureau of Standards to determine answers to three controversial problems in plumbing, namely, self-siphonage of fixture traps, stack venting and wet venting. HOME ECONOMICS Basic Fibers in Cloth (10 min) Color or B&W. Sale: Color, $90. B&W, $45. Coronet. • A discussion of major fibers, comparing the cloth effectiveness of each for various home uses. High-magnification photography is used for comparative analysis of length, elasticity, washability, strength, heat con "Young Housewife" at work (see Page 33) 32 SEE & HEAR