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

String Choir (11 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: EBF. • Portrays wide variety of musical moods and effects conveyed by stringed instruments. Reveals various techniques of performance on stringed instruments; uses full orchestra of symphony players. Symphony Orchestra Series (10 min per subj) Purchase: EBF. • Includes demonstration of the sections of the symphony orchestra. On separate reels. Titles included: 1. Brass Choir 2. Percussion group 3. String choir 4. Symphony orchestra 5. Woodwind choir Woodwind Choir (11 min) Sd. Purchase: EBF. • Various wcxxlwind instruments, supported by full orchestra, are shown and heard iir typical passages from standard orchestral compositions. Opera on Film Alda (9 min) Sd. Apply: Commonwealth. • National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra plays the Triumphal March from Verdi's opera with a mixed chorus singing. Barber of Seville (25 min) Sd. Purchase: OHicial. • Comic opera by Rossini. Carmen (25 min) Sd. Purchase: Official. • Tragic opera by Bizet. Christmas Slippers (32 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: Brandon. • Excerpts from the opera "Cherevichki" by, Tchaikovsky. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. Don Pasquale (23 min.) Sd. Purchase: Official. • Donizetti's opera about a wealthy bachelor, who decides to punish his rebellious nephew, Ernesto by marrying himself and providing another heir. Faust (1 reel) Sd. Purchase: ICS. • True operatic presentation from the first act of Gounod's opera. Faust, finding himself ageing, sells his soul to Mephistopheles for renewed youth. Inside Opera (25 min) Sd. Purchase: Assn. Flm. • Stars Grace Moore as young singer who wins scholarship in Europe featuring excerpts from "La Traviata," Lucia diLamermoor," Carmen," and "Madame Butterfly." Lucia DiLammermoor (25 min) Sd. Purchase: Official. • Tragic opera by Donizetti. Marriage of Figaro (25 min) Sd. Purchase: Official. • Mozart's comic opera. Pagliacci (12 min) Sd. Purchase: Int. 16mm Corp. • Two scenes from the opera, "Pagliacci". Henry Hull, Broadway stage star, heads a cast of expert actors. Alexander Smallens, Philadelphia Symphony conductor conducts the orchestra. Dan Gridley, Rose Tcntone and others do the singing. William Tell (25 min) Sd. Purchase: Castle. • Historic opera by Rossini. Local Sources: many films listed in these pages are available from local libraries. Great Soloists (Also see Concert, Classics— Page 27) Eula Beal (10 min) Purchase: Official. • Four reels of vocal classics sung by Eula Beal, young contralto, piano accompaniment. Concerto (3 min) Sd. Purchase Tel-E-Pic. • Three minute arrangement of Tschaikowsky's Concerto played by Arthur Koch. Mildred Dilling (1 reel) Sd. Purchase: ICS. • Harpist plays Zabel's "The Fountain"; Hasselmann's "Fireflies"; Welsh Air "March of the Men of Harlech", arranged by John Thomas. Emperor Waltz (3 min) Sd. Purchase: TelE-Pic. • Three minute arrangement of Strauss composition played by Arthur Koch. First Portfolio (1 reel) Sd. Purchase: ICS. • Paolo Gallico, piano ensemble, plays Strauss's "Artist's Life" and Chopin's "Minute Waltz". Jakob Gimpel (10 min ea. reel) Purchase: Official. • A series of seven reels with albums of great composers played by pianist, Mr. Gimpel with close-ups to show playing techniques. Carroll Glenn (1 reel) Sd. Purchase: ICS. • Violin rendition of Wieniawski's "Mazurka"; Tschaikowsky's "Canzonetta"; Hobay's "Hi, Kitie". Golden Mountains (10 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: Brandon. • Dmitri Shostakovitch plays "The Waltz" —from his score "Golden Mountains"— at the piano accompanied by the Moscow Orchestra. Igor Gorin (1 reel) Sd. Purchase: ICS. • Largo Al Factotum from Rossini's The Barber of Seville sung by Baritone. Igor Gorin. Myra Hess (10 min) Sd. Purchase or rent: BIS. • Artist plays the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in F minor. Liszt Concert (9 min) Sd. Purchase: Post. • "Liebestraume" and "Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody" by Franz Liszt are played by concert pianist. Yehudi Menuhin (10 min ea. reel) Purchase: Official. • Series of ten reels with Menuhin playing musical masterpieces on the violin with close-ups of violin techniques. Moonlight Sonata (10 min) Purchase: Official. • Played by Paderewski, includes Minuet in G by Paderewski. Paderewski Concert (30 min) Purchase: Official. • Available in three reels. I. Polonaise— Chopin. II. Minuet in G & Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. III. Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Polonaise (10 rain) Purchase: Official. • Played by Paderewski in person. Polonaise (3 min) Sd. Purchase: Tel-E-Pic. • Three minute arrangement of Chopin composition played by Arthur Koch. William Primrose (1 reel) Sd. Purchase: ICS. (continued on the next page) THREE !!. TEN OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL FILMS OF 1949 • The International Film Foundation is proud of the fact that of the ten outstanding films of 1949 chosen by a national panel of audio-visual leaders in the recent Scholastic Teacher Magazine poll, three were produced and are distributed by the INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION. The three chosen were: SAMPAN FAMILY, PICTURE IN YOUR MIND, and (produced jointly with Affiliated Film Producers) PRINCETON. • • • If these subjects aren't in your library why not order prints today through your visual education dealer or direct. Wrife for deseriptiva lil»ratur» on these and our other lifles. INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION 1600 BROADWAY NEW YORK 19, N. Y. HERE'S THE REALLY VERSATILE VIEWER — More Economical, Too! •» #1225 VERSATILE SLIDE VIEWER for 35min to 2Vi" slides Versatile, automatically centers alt slides from 35mm. to 2'/," x 2V/' (including Bantam). Shows brilliantly illuminated, enlarged views tlirougti a fine optically ground and polistied lens. Complete with bulb, on-off switch and 6 foot cord. All-steel construction, handsomely finished in ottroctive grey wrinkle enamel. #1225 Viewer $5.95 Use Brumberger Slide Files for safe and systematic storage of valuable slides. Mount them in Brumberger All-Steel Slide Binders (with Glass). Sample binders on request. Wrilt for flit CATAIOC 24 Ttiirty-Fourfh St., Bklyn. 32, N. Y. "Visualizing the Arts" 3!