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'HE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN Editorial Section L. I October, 1922 No. 8 l —MJLLY 80 per cent of schools now having motion picture projectors H use them more or less—usually more—for entertainment rather |j- than for instruction. A large majority of other schools which have decided to install "visual uipment" plan as their first purchase a motion picture projector—not a ^ereopticon. Conclusion—the chief purpose sought and served by a motion picture lojector in schools today is entertainment rather than instruction. (The above statements hold for the many thousand schools already levered by the Questionnaire being circulated by this magazine. Approxi- mately the same facts are probably true for the country as a whole.) This conclusion is interesting—to some it may be startling—but we link it is just about as it should be. Some schools seem to have an uneasy mscience about the matter and are moved to call it "instructional enter- jinment." Since practically everything the eye sees is or can be instruc- ional the expression is rather a truism. Such a feeble attempt at justi- cation is both unimpressive and needless. Other schools declare frankly fiat their projectors are used for clean, wholesome entertainment; that it 1 hopeless to get enough real educational film to keep them going, and Lt even this film, when obtainable, is so little co-ordinated with school fork that one risks making a pedagogical hodge-podge of the whole course If study. We find this quite satisfactory and complete justification for a lotion picture projector in schools. A movie machine should be installed promptly in every school pri- marily for entertainment purposes. Enough suitable film is available for ;uch a purpose. The conventional arguments fully justify the move: entertainment has a legitimate part in school life as in any other life; and ,chool movies can serve in many localities as an offset to or wholesome Substitute for the theatrical exhibition, for parents as well as for the ):hildren. The great argument, however, is plainly this-finances The "shows," vith any kind of common-sense management, w.ll pay for themselves, 247