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

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watering, housing, and protective fencing are demonstrated along with the characteristics and life habits of the domesticated Muscovy. Young America's "We VWt the Seashore" We Visit the Seashore (10 min) Sound. B&W. Purchase: Young America. • Tells a story built around a typical day's activities of two primary grade children who are on a visit to the seashore. Aimed at stimulating oral and written composition and at providing young children with background experiences. A Visit With Cowboys (11 min) Sound. B&W. Rental; $2.50 for 3 days. Purchase: $50. EBFihns. • Cowboys are presented, as seen through the eyes of a red-blooded American boy who is visiting a ranch for the first time. Horses are rounded up and broken to the saddle. Scenes of bulldogging and bucking broncos wind up the film. We Make Butter (11 min) Sound. B&W. Purchase: $40. Young America. • Dick and Jane visit Cousin Billy's farm and learn from Aunt Ruth how butter is made. Teacher's guide included. The Zoo (10 min) Sound. Color. Purchase: EB Films. • Designed for young children who may never have seen a zoo. Gives a glimpse of a variety of live animals living in "barless" cages as though they were in their native habitats. Collaborator: Robert Bean, Director of the Chicago Zoological Park (Brookfield Zoo) where the film was photographed. Intermediate, Junior and Senior High School THE FINE ARTS Art lor Everybody (10 min) 16mm or 35mm. Sound. B&W. Rental: $1.50. Purchase: $25. Nat. Film Board of Canada. • This film portrays the role an art gallery can play .in the lives of the people in a community. Scenes of art exhibitions from many nations. Special emphasis is placed on how the gallery can help develop the imagination and talent of children, through participation in painting and modelling, costume makir^ and pageants. Barber of Seville (21 min) Sound. B&W. Purchase: $100. Official Films. • The highlights of Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" are pictured. Angelo Questa directs. The orchestra and chorus are from the Rome Opera House and members of La Scala and Rome Opera companies are cast in the feature roles. Christmas Slippers (32 min) Sound. Rental or Purchase: Brandon. • An operatic short based on the music from Cheravichki by Tschaikowsky and the story of Vakula, a blacksmith by Nikolai Gogol. Circling the Square (11 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Rental: $3. Purchase: B&W $30. Color $75. Contemporary Films. • A filming of the annual outdoor art spectacle in Washington Square Park in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York. Closeups of paintings of Justine Fuller, the wood sculpture of Nicholas Mochamiuk and the water colors of Mimi Korach and Dong Kingman are pictured. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (2 reels) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $75, Color $180. Admiral. • Stephen Foster's song which was written as a tribute to his mother for her devotion, faith and constant encouragement of his aspirations in music. Drawing For Beginners (4 films) Sound. B&W. Purchase: Young America. • Artist Gene Byrnes who draws the comic "Reg'lar Fellers" demonstrates the ease with which one can leam drawing. All drawing, the film points out, is variations of four fundamental shapes. The films were produced in cooperation with Professor Elise Ruffine, New York Teachers College, and Harriet Knapp, consultant in arts and crafts. The titles are: The Circle; The Rectangle; The Square; The Triangle. Living Silver, Sound. Purchase: A. F. Films. • An illustration of the art that goes into making of fine silver. The uses of contemporary handwrought silver appear in formal and simple settings, adding a distinctive and personal touch. The beauty and elegance of each piece is shown to be as distinctive as the style of a great painter. Collaborator: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Margret Graver, Consulting silversmith. Handy and Harmon. Mcillol (2 reels) Sound. B&W. Purchase: Franco-American. • Scenes of the sculptor at work In his studio showing his technique and some of his most famous work. Matisse (2 reels) Sovmd. B&W. Purchase: Franco-American. • Matisse is shown sketching his grandson. Also there is a slow motion sequence of the Scene bom "Rikki" (see opposite page) MOTION PICTURES artist painting a portrait. Commentary available in French or English. Merry Christmas (one and a half reels) Sotind. B&W. Purchase: $35. Sterling. • The world famous Vienna Boys' Choir sings many of the world's most beloved Christmas Carols. Story of fihn shows boys preparing for a festive Christmas party. Opera-On-Film Series (6 films) Sound. B&W. Purchase: Official Films. • The six films in this series, photographed directly on stage of the Rome Opera House, have been edited and condensed to an average running time of 25 minutes each. Plot, story continuity, and chief arias have been preserved in each case, and English commentary provided by Olin Downes, music critic of the New York Times. Cast features artists of both Rome and LaScala companies. Each film accompanied by teachers guide. 1. Gormen 4. Don Pasquale 2. Marriage of Figaro 5. William Tell 3. Barber of Seville 6. Ludo Painting an Abstraction (1 1 min) Color. Sound. Rental: EBFilms. Purchase: $90. EBFilms. • Mr. O'Hara, nationally known artist and teacher, chooses a subject and then demonstrates his own method of "abstracting" certain elements for a water color painting. The subject used is the same as in his previous film Painting Reflections in Water. Steps of the BaUef (21/2 reels) Rental: $3.75. Purchase: $76. BIS and D. D. Livingston. • Gerd Larsen, Alexander Grant and others are featured with music by the London Philharmonic. The film pictures the production and creation of a ballet. Kenneth Spencer, Basso (10 min) Sound. B&W. Purchase: $16. Eastin. • Kenneth Spencer, a Negro basso, sings four numbers: "Passing By" by Purcell; "Oh No, John", an English folk song; "Deep River" and "Every Time I Feel the Spirit," two spirituals. His accompanist is Jonathan Brice. Vienna Philharmonic Series (4 films; opprox: 10 min each) Sound. B&W. Purchase: Ableard. • These films constitute the first four releases in a series which will eventually Include 12 to 14 titles. All feature the famous Vierma Philharmonic Orchestra and were filmed on location at the Salzburg Festival or at Radio Vienna. Each title is devoted to all or part of only one composition; conductors include Krips, Boehm, and Schmidt-Genter. 1. Tales, from the Vienna Woods — Strauss 2. 5th Symphony — Beethoven 3. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik — Mozart 4. Orpheus In Hades — Offenbach What Is Modem Art? (2 reels) Sound. Rental: 1 reel $4.50, 2 reels $9. Purchase: 1 reel $90, 2 reels $175. Princeton. • A girl photographer and an artist meet at the Museum of Modem Art in New York. She objects to some of the paintings and sculpture as "mumbo jumbo, sheer nonsense." The artist begins explaining modem trends saying, "We don't paint the object, we point what we feel." Collaborator: Museum of Modem Art, New York City. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWENTY-FOUR) OF NEW CLASSROOM FILMS 21