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

Arts Visualized: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS-Continued Toys from Odds and Ends (10 min) Sd. Purcliase or rent: Brandon. • Brief display of articles made from odds and ends and detailed demonstration on making one article. Wood, Clay and Fine Arts (11 min) Sd. Color or b/w. Purchase: Pictorial. You and Vour Time (10 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: AssnFlm. • Deals with the proper use of time presenting four typical situations as a basis for discussion. Uruapan Lacquer. Si. Color or b/w. Rent: Harmon. • Lacquerware of Tarascan Indians of Mexico. Wood, Clay and Fine Arts (U min) Sd. Color. Rent: D. D. Livingston. • Primitive and modern arts and crafts; sequence of Diego Riveria painting a mural. THE ART OF GLASS Crystal Clear (28 min) Sd. Color. Loan: Mod. • How fine glassware is made. English Table Glass (33 frames) Purchase: BIS. • Shows the old methods of hand manipulation are still used, in addition to machines, for making delicate crystal and cut glass. How Stained Glass Windows Are Made (15 min) Si. Rent: RFA. • Thorough and complete study from the design to the finished window. Looking Through Glass (18 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: British Inf. • British glass manufactured by hand and by machine. ART IN TAPESTRY Abusson Tapestries (14 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: .AFFlm. • Story of making a modern tapestry with Jean Lurcat designing an original creation. French Tapestries Visit America (30 min) Sd. Color. Purchase or rent: AF Films. • Pictures five centuries of magnificent tapestries loaned by the French government to the U.S. for exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. ART IN WOOD Direct Carving in Wood Si. Rent: Harmon. • Demonstration by Simon Moselsio. From Tree Trunk to Head (42 min) Si. Purchase or rent: Jacobs. • Demonstration of wood carving by Chaim Gross. How a Colored Wood Engraving is Made Si. Color. Rent: Harmon. • Demonstrated by Meta Hendel. Last of the Wood Engravers Si. Rent: Films. • Demonstration by Timothy Cole. Lynd Ward at Work Si. Purchase or rent: AssnFlm. • Demonstration of wood engraving. Timber and Totem Poles (10 min) Sd. Purchase: US Forest Serv. • Indians of Southeast Alaska and the Tongass National Forest shown restoring and copying their totem poles. Wooden Faces o£ Totonicapan (10 rain) Color or b/w. Rent: NYU. • Production of masks and their use in religious festivals in Guatemala. LINOLEUM • LITHOGRAPHY Here's How We Print (11 min) Color or b/w. Purchase: Bailey. • Three basic operations in printing are shown in sequence. Points out value of printing and its uses in daily life. Make a Linoleum Block (15 min) Si. Purchase or rent: Katz. • Shows all steps in making a linoleum block print in detail. Modem Lithographer (11 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: EBF. • Describes detailed techniques of lithographic artists and the processes of duplicating, etc. Sculpture An Experiment in Taste. Sd. Apply: BIS. • An open-air exhibition of modern sculpture arranged by the London County Council. Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Constructions (11 min) Sd. Color. Purchase or rent: MMA. • Explores work of Alexander Calder. Granite: A Saga of Stone Si. Purchase: Harmon. • Quarrying and finishing of granite and its uses for art, architecture and industry. Images in Ivory (10 min) Sd. Loan: Castle. • Describes how untrained boy or girl can learn to carve from soap. Henry Moore (22 min) Sd. Color. Purchase or rent: Falcon. • A film-lecture on a Museum of Modern Art exhibition of sculpture and shelter drawings of the contemporary British artist, Henry Moore. Maillol (22 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: FrancoAmerican. • Day with the sculptor in his Mediterranean studio. Paper Sculpture (5'/2 min) Sd. Color. Purchase or rent: IntFlmBur. • Shows youngsters working without patterns. Designed to leave the imagination free to create after stimulating children's interest and suggesting "how to do it." Sculpture in Stone (15 min) Si. Rent: UWF. • Stonecarving demonstrated through the work of Anna Hyatt Huntington. Stone and Sculptor (20 min) Sd. Loan: Ohio St. U. • Irwin Fry demonstrates sculpture techniques. Sculpturing Is Fun (10 min) Sd. Guide. Loan: Castle. • Illustrates the art of soap carving in simplified form for the beginner. Third Dimension (19 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: CanNFB. • Shows several Canadian sculptors at work, using a variety of materials and techniques. (Sources Appear On Pages 32-34) POTTERY MAKING ABC of Pottery Making— the Coil Method. (15 rain) Sd. Purchase or rent: Bailey. • Gives detailed demonstration of the coil method of making pottery. Black Pottery (25 min) Si. Rent: Harmon. • Arts and Crafts of Mexico Series. Ceramics. Si. Rent: Harmon. • Pottery making demonstrated by Leon Volkraar. Clay Pottery (10 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: Brandon. • Shows pottery making in its many stages. Clay in Action. Silent. Purchase or rent: Films. • Modeling of a portrait demonstrated by Arturo B. Fallico. Colour in Clay (11 rain) Sd. Color. Purchase or rent: BIS. • Shows the making of raodern Staffordshire pottery, with emphasis on its decoration. Crafts of the Fire (10 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: AFFlra. • Depicts fire part in the handicrafts of enamel. Craftsmanship in Clay: Glaze Appreciation (10 min) Color. Purchase or rent: Indiana University. • Introduces glazing as an activity of interest to pottery makers and demonstrates four methods of applying glaze. Designed for arts and crafts classes in high school and colleges. Craftsmanship in Clay: Simple Slab Methods (10 min) Sd. Color. Purchase or rent: Indiana U. • Techniques by which attractive pottery pieces may be made from clay are pictured. Five Towns (27 min) Sd. Rent: BIS. • Pottery industry in England today. Large Pottery of San Bartolo Coyotepec, The (10 min) Si. Rent: Harmon. Let's Play with Clay, Part I: Animals (10 rain) Sd. Purchase: Voung America. • An introductory film on clay work showing how clay is worked with the hands. Let's Play with Clay, Part II: Bowls (10 rain) Sd. Purchase: YoungAraerica. • Another introductory filra to clay work showing how simple objects can be formed by pressing and pinching the clay. Mexican Potters— Clay Art in Old Mexico (11 rain) Sd. Color. Purchase: HoeHer. • Shows crafts and a way of life found in the smaller towns and villages of Mexico. Oldest Art (25 min) Sd. Loan: Franciscan Library. • History of the making of dishes and dinnerware including examples of primitive pottery, early Egyptian and Greek ceramics, Chinese and recent European procelain. Painted Pig, The. Si. Color. Rent: Harmon. • Making of Mexican pottery. Pottery from the Wheel (15 rain) Sd. Color. Purchase: Humphrey. Pottery in the Gold Coast (9 inin) Sd. Purchase or rent: BIS. Pottery Making (11 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: EBF. • Describes four methods: wheel-thrown, coil, plaster mold and slab pottery. Red Pottery of Tzintzuntzan. Si. Rent: Harmon. 24 SEE and HEAR