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FILM AND EDUCATION
vivid picture experiences how one's social welfare can be enriched, by learning about the conventions which tend to make people similar and social interaction easier. In dealing with topics of social conventions, films can present information in a stimulating and interesting manner while presentation by other methods, especially verbal treatment, is "dry" and uninteresting to students.
Dinner Party is an excellent medium by which the topics of table manners can be presented to high school and college groups. Being a "provocative film" makes it especially suitable for classroom use. Three couples who possess varying degrees of self-confidence and skill are shown at a semi-formal dinner party. This presentation is particularly useful as a projective technique, causing the film audience to identify themselves with the characters possessing a corresponding amount of social intelligence and confidence. Interestingly, this film raises many questions but does not answer them. Decisions may be left to class discussions, which students might prepare for by consulting appropriate references for information.
Junior Prom is adaptable for the junior and senior high school levels. This film deals with dating and proper social conduct in general at the high school age level. Not unlike Dinner Party, this film has therapeutic value of audience identification, although not to the degree found in Dinner Party.
How Do You Do, a film for high school classes, is excellent in pointing out that we sometimes miss the fun of life by not being certain of ourselves in social situations, and demonstrates some of the major rules to be observed in one such situation — introducing and meeting people.
The House I Live In is a film dealing with the topic of social prejudice. It is suitable for elementary, high school, young people's church groups, and adult study clubs. This film emphasizes as its aim that "America is a nation made up of a hundred different kinds of people — a hundred different
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