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

^tii^^V ^m.1 See 16 mm sound film, 28 minutes in full color V A new film, "GOOD THINGS HAPPEN OVER COFEE," that fosters understanding of our latinAmerican neighbors. See Latin Americans work and play in picturesque surroundings; breatti-talcing scenic views; the coffee story from seed to cup — the foundation of our Latin-American trade — the cup of friendship among Good Neighbors. The largest and best list of FREE FILMS with educational and popular interest. Wide choice of MUSIC FILMS opera and classical selections for music appreciation groups. Recently added: "Inside Opera," with Grace Moore, and "The Great Waltz." New HISTORY FILMS: "Johnson and Reconstruction," and "Winning Our Independence," (from Teaching Film Custodians). Over 1300 titles available, including excellent features, cartoons, and comedies. Write for our new, 1949-1950 Cotolog of SELECTED MOTION PICTURES ASSOCIATJON FILMS? HEW YORK 19 35 West 4Sth St. CHIUGO 3 206 So. Michigan Ave. SAN FRANCISCO 2 3S1 Turk St. DALLAS 4 3012 Maple Avenue PARTSIMPARTER 3 For teaching partsof-the-wrhole, fractions, decimals, percentage, angles, sectors. DOUBLE DISC shows instantly any part-of-the-whole from zero to unity. Set includes teacher DOUBLE DISC, 24 student DOUBLE DISCS, two wall charts and instructions. Allows full pupil participation wholly controllable by teacher. New audio-visual answer to a major teaching problem. Send $2.00 to EXXON AIDS, Box S. H. MUlbrook, N. Y. Write for Extra Copies of Health Film Report • Extra copies of the Health & Welfare Report, listing 010 films and .sources, may be obtained at cost of 50c per copy poslpaid; lots of 10 or more at 25c each. Order while limited supply lasts from: See & Hear 812 N. DEARBORN, CHICVGO 10 BIS Release "Voice of Ulster" ♦ British Information Services announces the release of a sound black and white film Voice of Ulster. The film is 18 minutes in length and available for rental. The story of the farmers and workers in Northern Ireland is simply told with scenes of the country's cities and industries presented. Australian Filmstrips Reduced ♦ The Australian News and Information Bureau announces a reduction in the purchase price of filmstrips from $2.50 to $1.50. Filmstrips are available from this distributor on a purchase basis only. Dayton Subject of New Film ♦ Gem City, a 16 mm silent film visualizing the story of Dayton, Ohio, is available through the Allied Film Service of Dayton. This 20-minute film, which shows the early history of Dayton, its industries, cultural institutions, buildings and other points of interest, may be rented for $3 per day, $7 per week or purchased for $67.50. Film on N. Y. Children's Clinic ♦ A Visit with the Children, a fifteen-minute sound film, is available on a free loan basis from the Memorial Cancer Center of New York City. The film is a fund raising effort, describing a typical day in the Children's Clinic and Ward of the Center. Narrator is Raymond Massey. Part of the film is in color and part black and white. Aids Cause of U.S. Education ♦ The National School Service Institute has released two films for loan or purchase on the subject of education and its contributions to the community. In Pop Rings the Bell, 20 minutes, black and white, sound, the nation's schools are presented as an investment that pays off large dividends for the community. Emphasis is placed on how the taxpayers wJio support the schools each personally profit from their investment. The Sixth Chair is an 18 minute, black and white, sound film which stresses the importance of modernization of school buildings, classrooms and use of modern classroom tools. For further information write National School Service Institute, Shop 307, Palmer House, Chicago 3, Illi "The Information Film" Is Published by Columbia Press ♦ A sur\ ey of the importance of nontheatrical films in modern civilization has just been completed by the Twentieth Century Fund and the Public Library Inquiry through the Columbia University Press. Findings indicate that the 16mm film is the most powerful method of communication open to educational agencies today with the possible exception of television. Directing the survey was Gloria Waldron of the Twentieth Century Fund's education staff. The survey reports that the problem confronting the non-theatrical field in the United States is threefold. First, more good documentary, training, information and art films must be produced. Second, distribution must be improved. Third, a greater audience must be secured. As a solution of the problem the survey suggests three lines of action. First, the creation of a national film center to finance and encourage the production of needed films. Second, the building of networks of local film-lending libraries through the public, school, university and state libraries. Third, the establishment of more local community film councils under the Film Council of America, which now has over a hundred active councils on a local level in operation. A study of the value of film as a media for educational agencies brings out these points: (1) films make the information felt and add conviction to the learning process (2) many subjects can best be illustrated using films (3) many people will watch films who do not feel able or inclined to read or listen to lectures on the subject (4) the film focuses group attention with adults more effectively than other techniques do. The Twentieth Century Fund is a foundation for scientific research and education endowed by the late Edward A. Feline. The Public Library Inquiry was financed by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the Social Science Research Council and was undertaken at the suggestion of the American Library Association. Director of the Inquiry was Robert D. Leigh. 42 See & Hear