The purpose of this article is to categorize the treatment of Indian people in the mass media and to show what Indian people themselves are doing to combat the after-effects of this assult. (Author/AH)

Describes how the students of grade XII of the Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg used the Sony-Rover video-tape recorder in their French culture classes. (PM)

Some first considerations in formulating film study curricula. (CH)

Organizations listed here with descriptive information include film music clubs and music guilds and associations. These are followed by a representative list of schools offering film music and/or film sound courses. Sources are listed for soundtrack recordings, sound effects/production music, films on film music, and oral history programs. The…

The following sections are included in this guide: (1) organizations, (2) training programs, (3) animation courses and programs, (4) distributors of animation, (5) services and equipment useful to animators, and (6) U.S. and foreign film festivals. Descriptive information is included for each listing. The annotated bibliography deals with making…

This guide to films suitable for college courses on Latin American civilization discusses the value of film as a tool for teaching, how to order and use films, and films currently available but unsuited to college audiences. Sixty-four educational films are listed by topic and overall evaluation; a more complete description, including location…

This paper reports the successive steps in the development of an adjective rating scale for measuring audience responses to short previews of coming films. Seven filtering steps were used to reduce an original list of 600 adjectives and adjectival phrases into a final rating scale with 101 words. From factor analyses of the responses of college…

Describes a method for introducing students to the study of film as a means of improving such language skills as reading and writing. (RB)

A study was conducted to examine how the motion picture Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system (G-PG-R-X) affects movie attendance. The study also tested the validity of two behavioral theories: (1) reactance theory, which predicts that when a behavioral freedom is restricted or eliminated an individual is motivated to restore…

Directed to the class or individual with limited film making equipment, this paper presents a "hands on" guide to the production of animated cartoons. Its 14 sections deal with the following topics: understanding animation; choosing subject matter for an animation; writing a script; getting the timing right; choosing a camera and projector;…