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

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route boy and the loss of his bicycle. The use of insurance and how it works is explained. What Is a Contract? (10 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $45, Color $90. Coronet. • A study of the principles embodied in a contract: mutual assent, competent parties, legal bargain, consideration in both oral and written contracts. Story illustrating these terms concerns two boys who take a summer job and soon find themselves in debt. The drawing up of a contract solves their difficulties. Collaborator: Dwight A. Pomeroy, professor of law, Univ. of Utah. What Is a Corporation? (10 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $45, Color $90. Coronet. • Three types of business organization are explained and illustrated: single proprietorship, partnership and corporation. The advantages and disadvantages of each is pointed out. Collaborator: Raymond E. Glos, Dean, School of Business Administration, Miami Univ., Oxford, O. BUSINESS EDUCATION Improve Your Handwriting (10 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $45, Color $90. Coronet. • This film was planned for wide usage from the fifth grade through high school. The emphasis is placed on how to acquire legible handwriting. Collaborator: Raymond C. Goodfellow, director of business education. Board of Education, Newark Public Schools. From "Writing Better Business Letters' Writing Better Business Letters (10 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $45, Color $90. Coronet. • Three basic elements of a good business letter are stressed: clarity, brevity and cotortesy. Collaborator: J. Paul Leonard, president, San Francisco State College. ECONOMICS OF LIVING (Occupations and Trade) American Portrait (25 min) Sound. B&W. Loan: Association. • Alan Ladd is featured in a story of the major role played by salesmanship in creating our American standard of living. Special emphasis is placed on the life insurance salesman. Chilean Nitrate (one reel) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $45, Color $90. Coast Visual. • Mining and processing of nitrate of soda in the Atacama Desert. Shows uses of nitrate and its importance in the economy of Chile. Cities: Why They Grow (10 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&W $45, Color $90. Coronet. • A study of how cities grow by observing what the workers who live in the cities do. Does not treat sociological problems or deal in statistics, but is concerned mainly with the economic factors which give rise to the growth of cities. Coal Coimtry (18 min) Color or B&W. Rental or Purchase: Flory. • Mines in the West Virginia fields are showm in operation. Contrast is made between open pit strip mining and underground mining. How the veins were formed is described. Cotton Series (11 min each) Color. Sound. Purchase: $80 each. Hoefler. • The principal cotton producing areas of the world are pictured and then the step by step story of cotton in America unfolds from the time of its introduction to the present. Second film deals with hand and mechanical picking of cotton crop, and the process of ginning and manufacturing cloth. Cotton Planting Cotton Picking Date Culture (11 min) Color. Sound. Purchase: $80. fioefler. • Filmed at the Dept. of Agriculture experimental date garden at Indio, California. Scenes of the date industry in the Coachella valley from growing through packaging as well as a history of dale culture since its introduction into America. Down to the Sea (23 min) Sound. B&W. Rental: $3.75. Purchase: $67.50. BIS. • A description of the entire operations of building a ship from the designer and his experiments with models in a tank until the completed ship sets off on its native voyage from England to Rio. Energy In Our Rivers (10 min) Sound. Color or B&W. Rental or Purchase: Coronet. • The complete story of water power and its uses from the days of the old waterwheel which turned grind and mill stones, to the massive dams and hydro-electric plants of today. Shows how the huge reservoirs of water captured by these modem structures are used to furnish electricity to cities and factories. Collaborator: T. F. Barton, chairman, Dept. of Geography & Geology, Southern Illinois Normal Univ. Here's How We Print (I reel) Sound. Color. Purchase: H. Arthur Klein. • Illustrates the whole process of printing begltming with setting type in the stick, locking up and press runs. Designed for intermediate grades. Hill Sheep Farm (19 min) Sound. B&W. Rental: $2.50. BIS. • The scene is laid in the hills of Scotland on a sheep farm. Beautiful scenery shots Show the rugged terrain and the difficulties of the sheep farmer through the seasons of the year. Iron Mining (14 min) Sound. B&W or Color. Purchase: B&.W $56.25, Color $112.50. Academy. • A filming of open pit iron mining in the Mesabi Range in Minnesota. Scenes of mam A scene in "Iron Mining" (Academy) moth power shovels digging tons of ore at one bite are shown. The ore is pictured in transport by truck, conveyor belt, rail and lake steamer. Loading docks and automatic loading machinery at Duluth are featured. The ore' boats going through the Sault St. Marie locks are also pictured. Salesmanship Man to Man (25 min) Sound. Loan: Remington. • Elmer Wheeler the president of Tested Selling Institute and author of several books on salesmanship outlines his five principles of selling and explains them in detail. Rivers Peterson, managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association explains how these principles can be applied to selling of hardware. Other Industries & Trade Once Upon a Time (14 min) Sound. B&W. Rental: $2.50. Purchase: $47.50. BIS. • The story of clock making in England. Shows history and modem methods of mass production. Paper Forests (II min) Rental or Purchase: Flory. • A trip to the forests of northern Canada which supply the wood from which much American paper is made. Scenes in the lumber camps, cutting, hauling, floating and work at the mill. Purse Seining (ID min) Sound. Color. Purchase: $85. Johnson-Hunt. • A semi-documentary film on the fishing industry. Shows the type of boats and equipment used to operate a purse seine. Scenes of the fishing fleet in port, repairing nets, preparation for a voyage, the search for fish, setting the net and stowing the catch are presented. Searchlight on the Nations (20 min) Sound. B&W. Rental or Purchase. Films of the Nations. • Dramatizes the role modem communications play in current world affairs, particularly in the work of the United Nations. Shows how the radio, telephone, the press, etc., help in the rapid diffusion of knowledge that is essential to the peace and welfare of the world. Produced by the United Nations Film Board. Tuna Series (II min each) Color. Sound. Purchase: $80 each. Hoefler. • The story of tuna fishing and canning industry from catching the fish to canning. Titles are: Tuna Fishing: Tuna Packing. OF NEW CLASSROOM FILMS 25