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of history teaching: what we do today will determine the classroom experience for a generation or more. And above all, what historians need to do is to start talking to one another about their teaching: they need to discover the common ground. FILM & HISTORY NEWS NATIONAL AUDIO VISUAL CENTER The Center announces the availability of seven new films produced for the Bicentennial by the United States Information Agency. In a reversal of previous policy, the Congress has authorized the circulation of these films in the United States. For further information on these films and for a catalog of all the films available for sale or rental from the federal government write: Lynn McCl oud, National Audiovisual Center (NAC), General Services Administration , Washington, D. C. 20409. CONFERENCE ON CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION The Temple University Department of Anthropology has announced that their annual conference on visual anthropology is scheduled for March 9, 10, and 11, 1977. This year the presentations will focus on "the communication of ideology," and are meant "to encompass research from any culture, including our own, on the process wherebysocial and cultural ideologies are formed, transmitted and expressed in behavior." For further information contact: Anthony Kroch, Department of Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122. 95 CHAPLIN FILM FESTIVAL The Historians Film Committee will sponsor a festival of Charlie Chaplin films at the A. H. A. Convention in Washington, D. C. The films, Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940) will be screened twice on December 28th at 4:45 and 10:30 p.m. A workshop on "Chaplin in the History Classroom" will be held at noon on the following day, and will feature a presentation by Timothy Lyons of the Annenberg School of Communications at the Univ. of Penn. In a drive for increased membership, the Committee has arranged for a full-page advertisement in the A. H. A. Newsletter inviting all to attend the festival and workshop, and encouraging them to subscribe to Film & History. ...