One educator's interdisciplinary interests in literature, film, and culture studies led him to the establishment of "Film Study," an upper school English course in which students develop a sense of "film literacy" through detailed "reading" of visual images; in addition, students evolve a working critical vocabulary…

Writing assignments involving newspaper portfolios or analyzing the content of a film (animated or live action) are interesting because they help students become involved with course content and improve students' critical thinking. A study examined writing assignments of these types from 21 students taking two sections of a course on child…

An assessment of coproductions made by the Netherlands and Belgium. (Author)

Studied influences of simultaneously and successively exposing kindergarten and elementary children to low and high speed motion pictures on their judgment of distance, synchroneity, and isochronism. Concluded the presence of tau and kappa-movement effects in the younger group and anti-kappa effects among the older group. (CC)

Lists and discusses over twenty instructional films useful in college teacher preparation courses and Inservice teacher education. (RB)

Describes how childrens' writing activities provide entries for their own spelling dictionaries. (GB)

Article describes a study undertaken to identify the types of teachers who use intructional films and to identify those situations that are most conducive to encouraging maximum use of instructional films. (Author)

The Multi-Media Reviews Index is compiled on a cooperative indexing basis by professional AV personnel and librarians from coast to coast. The present installment continues the updating service begun in the October 1971 issue of Audiovisual Instruction, and supplements coverage contained in MMRI-1972. (Author)

Describes how teachers can prepare nonphotographic slides on cellophane with the aid of a transparency machine as a substitute for the overhead projector. (RL)

Describes the sexual dimension of racism as reflected in the motion picture portrayal of the black women. (RJ)

Development of film media to teach a dry cleaning program to deaf students at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind is described. (MC)

Presents sample laboratory activities designed for use in astronomy teaching, including naked eye observations, instrument construction, student projects, and cloudy weather activities. Appended are bibliographies of journal articles and reference books and lists of films, laboratory manuals, and distributors of apparatus and teaching aids. (CC)