The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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314 The Educational Screen v.t The Moving Picture Age. Each is essential in a magazine that seeks to cover the field. We shall constantly multiply our contacts with scholarly investigators who are doing the research so greatly needed on the quel tiiui. and with teachers, ministers, club leaders, and others who are active* busy with visual aids in practice. This will mean a steady increase in tfl quantity and quality of the matter presented. \ notable feature—made possible by this merger—will be the monthly departments of each of the two national organizations concerned with the promotion of the cause of visual instruction, namely, The National Aca« emy of Visual Instruction and The Visual Instruction Association of Amer- ica. We are also to have the privilege of presenting during the year son» of the significant results obtained by The Committee of Research on VisJ; Instruction under the Commonwealth Fund, which is just completing elab- orate investigations of the highest importance. This assures our readers first-hand contact with all that is being done at the present time by the only three national bodies so far active in the visual field. Additional departments are planned to take care of various phases o the subject which have not yet received adequate attention in any publica- tion. The slide, for example, needs far fuller exploitation as an instrumen of supreme worth in visual instruction, and one which is not yet yielding a fraction of its potential value in American education. The stereograpl has been still more restricted in its use and neglected in writings on th< subject. The values of the map, model, chart, diagram—even of the black* board—should be emphasized, not merely assumed. We should develoj more systematic treatment of these great visual aids which have beei handicapped by the simple fact that they have long since passed the stagu of novelty. The use of the screen in churches and in various centers of community activity deserves special attention in the magazine each month. Industria and agricultural films are an important element in our national education as they are being used daily from end to end of the country in factorie and commercial offices, in rural districts and farming communities. Th« enormous business in export and import of films by various countries i having a mighty influence on international relations which has as ye been guessed at, not studied. All these demand detailed consideration from month to month. Obviously, adequate treatment of all the above cannot be put in 4J pages. Our readers may expect, therefore, to see an increase in th number of pages in The Educational Screen as constantly and rapidly a| healthy growth permits. This growth, in the last analysis, can come onll from our readers, and from those readers only who subscribe. i