The full title of the program was "The American Geographical Society Presents Color
Filmstrips on the Geography of the World". It was edited by AGS staff member Eileen
M. Teclaff, with the technical preparations and distributions made by the Herbert E.
Budek Company, Inc., of Hackensack, New Jersey. Colloquially referred to as
"Geografilms", the program began in 1953 for the use of teaching geography in high
school and college. The slides and text were supplied by professional geographers,
such as Saul B. Cohen, John C. Weaver, and Maynard Owen Williams, the former chief
foreign editor for National Geographic. The slides
were then turned into filmstrips by the Budek Company. Each filmstrip contained
about 40 pictures, and also included a map slide and teacher's manual. Over 40
filmstrips were produced before the program was discontinued in the spring of
1956.
