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

MOTION PICTURES New Films for School and Community Key to listings: All motion pictures listed ore 16mm sound; these will not opeiate on silent equipment. Silent films are especially rioted as "silent"; a few 35mm and 8mm films are also specially noted. Primary Grades The Airport (10 min) Sound. B&W. Rental or Purchase: EBFilms. • The operations of a modern airport are described and the role of airplanes in carrying passengers and freight is illustrated. Animals Growing Up (11 rain) Sound. B&W. Rental: $2.50 for 3 days. Purchase: $50. EBFilms. • The first few weeks of life of a litter of puppies, newborn calf and a hatching of chicks is pictured. The mother is shown caring for the young and closeup scenes show how the animals have grown. Circus (2 films) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: Academy. • Behind the scenes activities that are seldom seen by circus visitors, as feeding the animals and life of the circus people. The two titles ore: Circus Animals; Circus People. Circus Day (11 min) B&W. Sound. Rental or Purchase: EBFilms. • A trip to the circus with all the excitement of clowns, animals and acrobats. The preparations before the performance are shown as well as closeups of the big show. A scene from "Circus Show" Circus Show (17 min) Sound. B&W. Purchase: $67.50. Academy. • The film takes you "under the big top" and shows highlights of an entire circus performance including the big parade, circus ponies and horses, a spectacular balancing act, tight rope walkers and a trained elephant act. Come to the Circus (3 reels) Sound. B&W. Purchase: $75. Library Films. • The world famous Fratellini tjroupe of clowns lead off this filming of a big top show. Caroline Mayor is' photographed in her tightrope walking act. Scenes of trained horses, performing elephants and wild tiger taming. EB Films "The Airport" Creative Hands Series (4 films — 5 V2 min each) Sound. Color. Purchase: $50 each or $190 series. International Film Bureau. • Pictures children with classroom materials demonstrating skills and pastimes but stressing imagination and creativeness. Titles are: Paper Sculpture Shows youngsters creating things from paper sacks, colored paper, cardboard and paint. Part of the group builds a complete circus while others work on their own projects. Finger Painting Shows children using this technique for the first lime and explains how it's done. Model Houses The whole group builds a community, making the houses from cardboard and pasting on doors and windows. Design to Music Each child draws as he listens to music, letting the melodies and rhythm suggest what the picture will be. lohnny at the Fair (10 min) Sound or Silent. Purchase: Sound $17.50, Silent $8.75. Sterling. • The story of a little boy who gets lost at the Canadian Exhibition in Toronto. In the cast are the comedians Olson and Johnson, Joe Louis and Barbara Ann Scott the world champion figure skater. Kitty Cleans Op {11 min) Sound. Purchase: $40. Young America. • Helen plans to enter her pet cat in the school pet show. Camera follows the cat doing the same things Helen does, washing up and eating her breakfast. Let's Look at Animals (10 min) Sound. B&W. Purchase: Young America. • Done entirely in animation and intended to serve as an integral part of a work unit on animals for grade 1 or 2. Shows how our four-footed friends are adapted for living. Mother Goose Stories (one reel) Sound or Silent. Color. Purchase: $40. Bailey. • Animated figurines portray the Mother Goose stories for children. A Pioneer Home (10 min) Sound. Color, or B&W. Rental or Purchase: Coronet. • Historically accurate settings answer for primary students, such questions as: What was a pioneer home really like? What part did children play in everyday family life? Covers the physical surroundings, home furnishings, hard work and simple pleasures that were part of life in the pioneer American's home. Collaborator: Viola Theman, associate professor of education. Northwestern Univ. Pirro Series (10 films) Sound. B&W. Purchase: $17.50 each. Official Films and Gateway. • Pat Patterson has fashioned a little puppet character called Pirro. The first film shows Pirro looking in the mirror and learning. Titles are: Hello Pirro; The Thermometer; The Alarm Clock; The Lamp; The Magnet: The Telephone; The Scale; The Vacuum Cleaner; The Blackboard; The Phonograph. The Princess and the Dragon. B&W. Sound. Purchase: 8mm $5.50, 16mm $17.50. Sterling. • The film that received a gold "oscar" at the recent Second Annual Cleveland Film Festival for its charming presentation of a children's fairy tale. Red Hen (10 min) Sound. Color. Purchase: $75. Arthur Barr. • A red hen slips away from the barnyard flock and hides a nest in the bushes. Only the duck discovers her secret which she shares with the audience. Shows the mother hen hatching and caring for her little chicks. Rikki — The Baby Monkey (11 min) Sound. B&W. Rental: $2.50 for 3 days. Purchase: $50. EBFilms. • The charming story of a mischievous little monkey in the jungle. Real-life photography reveals what Rhesus monkeys look like, how the mother cares for her baby, what monkeys like to eat and how young monkeys climb and play. Seven Little Ducks (10 min) Sound. Color or B&W. Purchase: Bailey. • 6-year-old Carol helps care for a family of Muscovy ducks which she keeps as pets in the back yard. Simple methods of feeding, 20 SEE & HEAR FALL REVIEW