Linguafilms: 16mm Films on Latin America and Spain

Abstract

For further aid in comprehension, feature films such as "Rio Escondido," "Maria Candelaria," "Ramona," and "La Noche de los Mayas" could be shown each term. One might be shown during Pan American week as supplement to a gala all-school affair centered around some authority on Latin America such as Dr. Lyman Judson of the Pan American Union, Julien Bryan, traveller and lecturer, or Dr. John Furbay, Educational Director of Trans-World Airlines, who could give firsthand, up-to-date information on Latin America. Additional aids to the acquisition of skills are the highly entertaining S. V. E. Picturols, "Spanish Fundamentals," based on grammatical constructions and vocabulary building. As a lively motivation device, the Spanish titles and comments of these filmstrips may be recorded by students on the SoundScriber and synchronized with the showing of the filmstrips, thereby providing opportunity for hearing, seeing, and doing. For maximum effectiveness of the film program, it is obvious that integration of all audio-visual aids with classroom teaching materials should be the responsibility of a planning committee of one or more persons who will coordinate the program and order the films one or two terms in advance, taking into account the over-all picture of the Spanish department and of the school as a whole.