GIVIL INFORMATION AND EDUCATION SECTION
Information Division
Exhibits Branch
SUBJECT; Exhibits Branch Activities Report for Two Weeks Ending 31 March 1949

1. Production and Distribution

1. Completed distribution of fifty (50) sets of fourteen (14) panels on the Public Employment Security Office exhibit and fifty (50) sets of twenty-one (21) panels on the Coals for Japanese Women exhibit to Military Government teams.
2. Completed tinting one hundred and fifty (150) sets of sixty-eight (68) photographs each (totaling 10,200 photographs) on the Labor Education exhibit to be made into opaque projector slide series.
3. Completed four (4) CIE Function and Organization Charts to be used for orientation purposes.
4. Completed kami-shibai on Traffic Safety consisting of twenty-one (21) original drawings.
5. One hundred and fifty (150) sets each of the nine (9) types of United Nations posters were delivered to the United Nations Association of Japan for use and distribution by that agency.
6. Twenty-five (25) sets of eleven (11) panels on the At the Railway station exhibit, produced by the Ministry of Justice, concerning the new law for the Inquest of Prosecution were mounted for distribution to Military Government team.
7. Completed one (1) set of eleven (11) panels on the School for Foresters exhibit.
8. The following twenty-one (21) exhibits were loaned for showing to Japanese audiences;
   

   Date	Name of Exhibit	Place
   15 Mar-20 May	Modern Interior Design	Nagano Expedition
   18 Mar-20 May	◆◆◆ New England	1 April to 20 May
   19 Mar-29 Mar	Modern Education	P.T.A. Magome 2nd
   19 Mar-29 Mar	P.T.A.	Primary School
   22 Mar-10 Apr	School for Foresters	Forest. Div., Tochigi Praf.
   23 Mar-15 Jun	Children in America	Nagano Exposition, Children's
   23 Mar-15 Jun	Modern Education	Cultural Hall 1 April to 15 Japan.
   23 Mar-15 Jun	4-H Club
   23 Mar- 7 Apr	Pub. Emp. Sec. Office	Kanto Haiden Bldg.
   23 Mar- 7 Apr	Pub. Emp. Sec. Office	Tomin Bunka Hall
   23 Mar- 7 Apr	Port of London	CHQ Motor Pool
   23 Mar- 7 Apr	Woman's Org. in U.S.	Shichikencho Boy Scouts
   23 Mar- 7 Apr	Towns and Cities	Kyodo News Agency
   24 Mar-29 Mar	4-H Club	P.T.A., Magome 2nd Pri. Sch.
   24 Mar- 8 Apr	Pub. Emp. Sec. Office	Education Div., CIE
   25 Mar-20 Apr	1 panel, American painting	Toppan Print. Co., Amer. Cult. Exp.
   25 Mar-15 Apr	Houses, U.S.A.	Osaka Mainichi Newspaper Co.
   〃	Housing for Lwo Income	to be shown at American
   〃	Families	Cultural Exhibition
   29 Mar-15 May	Modern Interior Design	Sendai Fair, 1 April to 15 April
   31 Mar-14 Apr	Uninflammable City	CIE Library
   31 Mar-14 Apr	Uninflammable City	Central Post Office

9. The following two hundred and sixty-two (262) photographs were released to Photo Officer, Press and Publication Branch, for publication or use by Japanese agencies, Two (2) pictures of Transportation to the Railroad Text Book Publishing Company; five (5) of Education to the Kodomo Shimbun; one (1) of Recreations, Music, to the Japan-American Weekly; seventeen (17) of Farm and Farm People and twelve (12) of Forest to the Farm Village Industry and Agriculture Cooperation Association; three (3) of T.V.A. to the Denki Gijutsu Magazine; one (1) of Large City (New York) to the Japan English-Language Education Institute; three (3) of Livestock to the Livestock Magazine; sixteen (16) of Alaska, twenty-one (21) of Puerto Rico, forty-two (42) of Hawaii and one hundred and six (106) of various British pictures to the Hiroshima Printing Company; three (3) of Repatriation and five (5) of Goals for Women to the Sendai Education Photo News; five (5) of T.V.A. and one (1) of Guntersville Dam to the Iwanami Book Company; five (5) of Livestock to the Livestock Magazine; five (5) of Crop and six (6) of Farm and Farm People to the Ie-no-hikari (Light of the Home) Magazine; two (2) 4-H Club to the Farmers Club Magazine and one (1) of Grope to the Japan Travel Bureau.

Activities

1. The Exhibits Officer spoke on Visual Media Presentation at a conference of Regional Civil Information Officers held in Yokohama on 22 March 1949.
2. A test demonstration of the newly created kami-shibai on Traffic Safety was given on 28 March when 25 school children from Chiba Prefecture visited Radio Tokyo Building.
3. Exhibits Officer spoke on Visual Presentation Responsibilities at a general meeting of public Relations and Information Service Association at the Japan Trade Association Hall on 31 March 1949.

Guidance

1. Reviewed scenario and drawing for twenty-four (24) lantern slides entitled Sun Flag Streaming in the Air, designed to promote yen savings and cooperative production effort. Advised script was excellent but title was reminiscent of ultra-nationalistic themes. Title was changed to Happy sailing.
2. Suggested Women's Week poster on Revised Powers Given Women be redesigned to enable ◆◆tion to opaque projectoralide use.
3. Reviewed script and drawings for Women's and Minors Bureau kami-shibai entitled Some of Womanhood.
4. Reviewed a kami-shibai entitled Otake-san and the Trade Union which protests discharge of union members on the basis of sex. Recommended change be made in the unrealistic ending.
5. Suggested strengthening of caption in poster urging womans' participation in unions, and suggested simplification of design. The poster was submitted by the Womens' Affairs officer, Kanto Military Government Team. Draw design for cover of pamphlet symbolizing collective bargaining in place of the one submitted.
6. Reviewed layout for four (4) posters and a certificate submitted by National Personnel Agency. Suggested design for the certificate be chosen from related subjects.

FRANCES BAKER
Exhibits Officer