Low-cost consumer videocassette recorders (VCRs) are used to view copies of educational films in Baltimore, Maryland, schools. Contracts with suppliers secure rights to educational programs and provide videotapes in quantities of from 25 to 100 copies for each title. Federal block grants helped finance the VCR purchases. (MLF)

Discusses the many changes occurring in the entertainment industry that involve videocassette recordings, copyrighted programs, cable television, and movies and explains how the changes are affecting Americans. (EL)

Describes the development of a freshman English program based on the analogy of film as composition and discusses implications of this program for other teachers of writing at a time when television and movies are giving unprecedented competition to the printed page for students' attention. (HTH)

Described are filming of laboratory activities in 14 classes to determine class movement time, pupil centered activity time, and teacher centered activity time. Proportions of times ranged as follows: movement, 4-21 percent; pupil centered, 29-85 percent; teacher centered, 11-64 percent. (SL)

A political science course at Adelphi University that uses films for instruction is described by its design, content, and problems. (ND)

This report is an account of a survey entitled, "A Project to Survey the Motion Picture Production Facilities of Selected Colleges and Universities in the United States," which was conducted by the University Film Foundation during the Spring and Fall of 1960, under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. Reasons for the survey included the…

Provides information on four films dealing with population that are suitable for elementary and secondary classes. Indicates the running time, cost, and distributor of each film, outlines the content and principal theme, and suggests discussion questions and related activities. (JR)

A description of the film loop laboratory system as an attempt to increase the desirability, flexibility, and efficiency of physics experiments for non-science students. (Author)

Short films are suggested to free the student from a self-centered world and place him in confrontation with reality. (SW)

The history of the short film and the single concept film loop is presented. Lists fourteen reasons why it may be necessary to make and use a film loop. Film loop projectors are analyzed according to present features and deficiencies with predictions on future improvements. (DS)