Shortening Shorthand Instruction - Enlarged shorthand characters being "Flashed" before students of a visual education class on the grounds of the Pasadena, Cal., Junior High School to test the students' memories, after a few seconds of study in a demonstration of a new simplified shorthand method, developed after several years of research. The method is based upon he corresponding letters of Longhand, utilizing only enough of the characters to serve as a memory guide. This visual education is being tried under the direction of the Pasadena Educational Research Association. July 07, 1949. (Photo by ACME).