AV News 184 - May 2011
When Peter became the Science Adviser and then later Senior Adviser for
Buckinghamshire, he was co-author with Doug Kincaid of over twenty books, on
science for young children; these needed copious photographic illustrations.
In-service sessions were required and in 1969 Peter saw one guy, the Audiovisual Aids Adviser, use his hands in front of two Kodak Carousels to fade from
one image to the next, so soon there were two-projector AVs to illustrate what the
books were trying to say.
After a number of years Peter had moved on to become Chief Education
Adviser for the Royal County of Berkshire where using AV became more and
more pertinent and effective. First there was a compact twin-projector: a Rollie
job which seemed to be very good, but then managed to break down on important
occasions so it was back to Kodak Carousels, this time three of them with an
Imatronic Triangle.
Peter formed a group of over-a-hundred Berkshire teachers interested in using
photographs in their teaching; Sir George Pollock was very helpful with the Group
and mentioned the Royal Photographic Society. Peter tried to encourage the RPS
to accept this experiment as a way of expanding the RPS membership. (There
were more teachers interested in photography than there were members of the
RPS!) Eventually, after two years, a paper Peter had written was put to Council
who dismissed the idea of developing Associate Schools within about half an hour!
Having found the RPS and achieved his Licenciateship in 1984 with a set of
prints, Peter ventured up North to an RPS AV Day. He remembers it well and
recalls an AV by Keith Brown about a young woman crying when she learned
about the death of John Lennon. He sho ݕ