American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1924)

January, 1924 AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER Eleven *snii!;;i!!i::Li:;:!:i!:;;n;'!ti!inN:;ii;;iii!i!-.;:i;i;;':: ■■ ■,i!:,1!i:i!i,ii[i:r :n^; L:::::";j;nii:'::^j;:.i:'. .:;; : :ii!iii!iiiiJi:fiii;[:[:i:ii!!:::! i[:: :;uitiii!-:;::i::ii!:!: ■ ■ ■: :;u!:,:,:: ': ■|:ij:: v :::i;;i.:::i::;. ii!:i ;:;.!;;;:: i...'!!!!:!'' ::;::!:::. : "iii!ii;'::iiii m ; ;;i:': '"::! ii'imn!;: : . / ;;;;::: iiinciii1: ::;m: i!.ii!ii.ii,i;;iii-^ "BUT WHAT ABOUT EDUCATION? Have we given the most important thing of life the thought it should have? Can we consider the methods of learning today up to date Are we utilizing the inventions given us for? educational purposes? Do we not owe it to our children and our children's children to make this the best and brightest world possible? "You read that a child is beaten to save its soul. Unbelievable, you'll say. How could anyone be so foolish, etc.? Thousands of people are foolish because they don't know any better. They haven't been taught. "Nab Two in Bank Holdup," reads a glaring headline. Would that headline have appeared if those bandits as boys had been taught respectability that it PAYS to be square? "That's absurd, you'll probably think. They had an opportunity to learn, to live decent but didn't take advantage of it. That is true. Maybe they did. But you can bet your bottom dollar that the difference between wrong and right didn't stick with them because IT WASN'T IMPRESSED on them. "What you see with the eye STAYS. It is registered on your brain. You THINK about it. That's most important. Printed matter does not stick because we see it too often and in too many shapes, forms and sizes. "One thing that makes this publication popular is the fact that it is. ILLUSTRATED DAILY NEWS news in pictures. Motion pictures became popular because a novel could be consumed in LESS than an hour. "Children will find learning a pleasure when subjects are taught by cinematic methods. They will WANT to learn. Studying will be made less difficult for them and they will KNOW MORE in less time. "Instead of getting out of college in the middle twenties, girls and boys will be ready to combat life's problems at eighteen and twenty. Theories will become facts for them. They will be better prepared. "If subjects were taught by motion pictures, accompanied by textbooks with printed illustrations of the high points of the lessons of the film printed alongside of the text explaining, children would be graduating from high school at eleven and twelve and KNOW MORE than we did at eighteen or twenty. "A young medical student explains to this writer that there are many difficult operations performed which cannot be plainly understood in books. He suggests that if close-ups of such operations were photographed, using the slow motion process, it would be easy to understand. "The young man mentioned is working his way through college. H<» hasn't much time for studying. THINK what teaching by motion pictures means to him. There are THOUSANDS in his circumstances. It is to be hoped that more newspapers which actually serve the general public will follow the example of the Illustrated Daily News and its motion picture editor, not the least of whose abilities is his foresight. Millions of children looking at motion pictures every school day will mean better trained children, and, in the due course of time, a more highly educated nation. And the blessings of the nation will redound manifold to the motion picture industry in particular — a prosperous industry will then enter into true prosperity, prosperity that results not only from that which entertains but from a medium that TRAINS. ' ' '. i.;ii!!iii!ii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;!!,;;!!:-! ih^::,,!!-..;:!:!::;;. " :: M-Jiri ■■ . uiiiiiiiiii iiiiiinig