The Slide Tape Collective 36 Lee St. Cambridge, MA 02139 617/492-2949 Janet Goldwater, Sarah Kuhn, Stephen Lewis Community groups who want to use non-print media to tell their story are frequently attracted to film and video and often overlook the less expensive and equally effective vehicles of slides and slide tape to perform the same function. The Slide Tape Collective is the only organization in the country whose purpose is to help people make, distribute and exchange noncommercial slide tape shows. They have published an excellent guide, Producing Slide Tapes, by ·Stephen Lewis, 1975, $3. This manual primarily emphasizes technical information: black and white slides, mounting, storage and filing, viewing, rear screen materials, duplication, copying, synchronization of slides and sound, dissolve, and sound. The Collective is currently compiling a Slide Show Directory, the first comprehensive national catalog of noncommercial slide shows. If you have or know of slide shows that should be li~d, send them a self-addressed stamped envelope to receive a form f()r listing. They can also act as.a distributor for slide shows. They will make a copy of your show for their library at a cost of 22 cents per slide, plus $6 per carousel, which they then loan out for free or at n~minal cost. (RE) Feminist Films Available in Portland, Oregon, Fall1976, 28 pp., prepared by members of the Women's Resource Center, the National Organization.for Women, the ~en's Resource Center and the Creative Outlet, free from: Feminist Films Box 843 Portland, OR 97207 503/235-3433 A guide to sources of films, videotapes and slide shows (many of them locally produced) on feminist issues available for rental or purchase in the Portland area. This is an excellent first step in making accessible alternate views to traditional roles for women and men through non-print media. Recommended for public schools systems and libdries and as a model for other cities. (RE) December 1976 RAIN, Page 19 WHAT IS SLID·E TAPE? A slide tape is like a movie with still pictures. It consists of a sequence of slides linked to a narration or sound track which can be as complex as you like-anything from a script read aloud as you change the slides to a prerecorded mix of music, sound and narration. Slide tape is a good tool for organizing. You can use it to alert people to a community problem. I(you are doing door-to-door organizing, you can give showings of a slide tape in living rooms, libraries or schools. Usiqg slides to help ¢mphasize a problem gives you the advantage of visual impact. People will see what you mean. Slide tape is also an educational tool. You can use it to teach people a skill or to describe how to set up a co-op or community newspaper. Teachers can use slide tape to present ideas which scholars, educators and other teachers have condensed into audio-visual form. And slide 1 tape can be a medium for teaching a creative approach to film study, and humanities and esthetics in general. ' You'll need to have or borrow a camera, slide projector and tape recorder (if you want a recorded sound track), but the cost of making the slide tape itself is fairly low. You could put together a 30-minute presentation for $30-$50. These are the basic steps in making a slide tape: 1. Organize what you want to show-the text, the images, the music. 2. Photograph the images, scenes, titles using Pan X black and white film, or color slide film. 3. Develop into slides directly in a tank (no darkroom necessary) using Direct Positive Reversal chemicals (available in kit form) and cut and mount in cardboard slide mounts using an iron. The cost is about 6¢ per slide for black and white and 14¢ for color. 4. Prepare narration: written script with indications for slide changes or recorded narration/ music/sound on tape impulsed with a synchronizer ($20-$50) for automatic playback. The principal advantages of slide tape are: low cost, ease of editing and change of content, dominance of sound as_the primary moving force. How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers ;· Nancy Brigham, 1976, $1.25 fro'm: The New England Free Press 60 Union Square Somerville, MA 02143 Straightforward explanation 'of how simple printing processes work, what they can do and how to prepare material for printing. A handy primer packed with useful information in spite of a somewhat confusing layout. (TB) ' The Library Hands-On Book, 1974-75, copies available free while they last from: · J ovanna J. Brown Dean of Library Services The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA 98505 A model resource on how to access a library. Written and illustr-ated with great wit, this information packet speaks in a personal manner to the library user about such exotic subjects as the vertical file, LC classification and interlibrary loan, as well as demystifying reference, acquisitions and cataloging. The text describes not only what services are available but why the library functions the way it does. This is one library that wants to make the riches it has to offer ea-sily accessible to its patrons. (RE) GOOD THINGS Environmental Action ·Reprint Service (EARS) Catalogue 50¢ from: 2239 East Colfax Denver, CO 80206 3 0 3 I 320-6537 Want a handy way to get hold of most alternative energy and major AT materials we mention? Order them from from Producing Slide Tapes EARS. Their newest annotated collection 'is 20 pages packed full of familiar goodies, including papers, books, plans ·and films. Once on _their mailirig list, you '11 continue to receive their useful catalogues. (LdeM) . Thoughts, Governor Jerry Brown, $2 from: City Lights Books , 1562 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 94133 City Lights has published a runaway best seUer in this selection of thoughts of ·california's Governor Jerry. Brown. In a period when the grey mush of Washington gets thicker and thicker, it's heartening to feel some real questions being asked and some real attempts·being made to find workable ways to' do things. A lo\ of very fine people are assembling in Sacramento. Some good sh_ould come of it. These quotes give a sense of the thoughtful questioning and probing behind it. (TB) Community Planning Report, $65 ($70 if billed), weekly, from: Resources News Service 1046 National Press Building Washington, DC 20045 An excellent newsletter focusing on the problems of growth and community, put out by some good folks in Washington D.C. Keeps tab on government hearings, new legislation, upcoming gatherings on the east coast, new regulations published in the Federal Register, recent rulings in the courts, federal researoh grants and contracts, and a listing of relevant books and resources. Always full of useful information for communities trying to chart a new future. (TB)
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