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The attempts made by the educators, to arrive at more simple didactic methods, introduced in the schools the placards, the large graphic illustrations, the ichnographic maps, and in the last century the magic lantern ; but the cinema has done more, it entertains while it teaches and awakens in the children an exceptional and absolutely new interest for the problems of culture and science.
This is easily explained. Let us take for example, natural history taught with the help of the cinematograph. Text-books on that subject are abstract and obscure, but the wonderful visions obtained with the cinema, have awakened the enthusiasm of the children for the secrets of nature. The cinematograph, can offer to the astonished gaze of the child, the spectacle of the process of the complete metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, within the space of a few minutes; it can show him the life that exists in the smallest leafs; the slow process of growth in a plant, from the moment it springs from the germ to the opening of its blossoms.
The same can be said for animal life.
Of late, many countries have understood the importance of the didactic film and everywhere initiatives to promote its growth have been encouraged.
I will allude briefly to what has been done in that line by some States.
In 1926, an Association was founded in. Belgium, called Les amis du cinema educatif et instructif which created a film-library for instructive purposes.
In France, the Musee pedagogique de Paris, founded under, the auspices of the State, an educational film-library, the films of which are distributed gratis to the institutes that claim them. Furthermore the « Cooperative de V enseignement par la cinematographic » of Paris has a specially organised service of motor lorries equipped with apparatuses, which bring to the remotest village schools, the advantages offered by the didactic film.
In Germany, there are apposite associations united in federations for the use of the cinema in the schools.
In England and the United States the use of the didactic
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