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

See § Hear INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIO-VISUAL EDUCATION Contents for December New Tools for the New Job: Guest Editorial by H. R. Lissack 7 Sec and Hear News-Letter 9 More Straws in the Wind: Field Report by Charles R. Crakes. .35 SEE X: HEAR INTERNATIONAI. Seeing & Hearing, British Pattern by John Hamilton 10 (in the International News-Front: A Report by Benoit-Levy. .11 Sweden: Pattern for Our Thinking by Esther L Berg and Margaret A. Lindquist 12 Films for Africans by Egon Larsen 32 AUDIO-VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS Television in the Classroom by Harvey Marlowe 14 School Broadcast Conference Report by H. B. McCarty 15 Visualizing Visual Needs by Arthur Stenius 26 World Without Words by N. S. Davison i~ E. Carlton Moore.28 Filming Educational Patterns by Dr. Joe Park 30 SPECIAL feature: designs FbR VISUAL EDUCATION The Classroom: Focal Center of Learning 19 Classroom Facilities for Audio-Visual Equipment 20 Sound Conditioning for Good Hearing 22 Ventilation and Darkening Suggestions 24 source listing of new materials New Films for General Educational Use 33 Published by Audio-Visual Publications, Incorporated E. M. Hale, President O. H. Coelln, Jr.. Publisher Walter A. Wittich, Editor John Guy Fowlkes, Editor William Ball, Art Director Tom Bartingale, Circulation Manager Robert Seymour, Jr., Eastern Mgr. Edmund Kerr, Western Mgr. at New York City at Los Angeles OflSce of the Publisher: 157 E. Erie St., Chicago, 11 Eastern Offices: 501 W. 113 Street, New York City Western Offices: 1132 W. 17th Street, Los Angeles Circulation Dept: See & Hear, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Iwsiie 3 of Volume 2, publislictl Dccemlwr, 1946 at 157 E. Erie Street, Chicago (M) by Audiovisual Publications, Inc. Trade Mark Registered U. S. Pat. Office by Audio-Visual Publications, Inc. Entire Contents Copyright 1946. By subscription: $2.00 per ichool year; $3.00 with Yearbook. Foreign J3.00. GIFT OF THE MAGI • EDITORIAL • ^^^TT^HE AGELESS stories of I Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Rice, and others are being made available to the children of America through the newly established Chil- dren's Film Library." This is the announcement that perhaps has culminated a genera- tion of efforts on the part of wom- en's clubs, religious better-film councils, and American parent- teacher associations. That this an- noimcement should come from Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, is to his credit. Among the films that are being announced as the complete library of entertainment films suitable for use by young children are the fol- lowing twenty-eight: Blondie Brings Up Baby, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Five Little Peppers in Trouble, Young Tom Edison, The Human Comedy, Adventures of Huckleber- ry Finn, The Hoosier Schoolboy, The Barefoot Boy, Alice in Wonder- land, and Little Miss Marker. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Two Thoroughbreds, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, The Poor Little Rich Girl, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Fartn, Three's a Family, Knicker- bocker Holiday, Song of the Open Road, Sis Hopkins, Young Buffalo Bill, The Underpup, Sandy Gets Her Man, The Mighty Treve, Green Pastures, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Prince and the Pauper. When we examine these as expe- rienced teachers, as movie-goers and critics, we will recognize some that are outstanding. We will recognize others that, perhaps, while of inter- est to young people, carry no par- ticular socially desirable patterns xvhich will seive as, object lesso^ns to be emulated by children. Biu now we come to this point of highest significance: At long last the Motion Picture Association is recog- nizing that there is such a need as entertainment films for young chil- dren. In this respect we offer our (continued on page four) SEE AND HEAR