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PREFACE
Visual Education and is now the recognized organ of the visual education movement) in its booklet, "1001 Films," lists nearly 3000 motion pictures for nontheatrical use; that the U. S. Government, through various departments, has produced for educational use some 250 film subjects, running into two or three times as many reels; that the Ford Motor Company, International Harvester Company, General Electric and similar firms have produced another thousand reels of an educational nature; that numerous health and welfare organizations have added several hundred more; that non-theatrical motion picture companies like Urban-Kineto, Burton Holmes Laboratories, General Vision, American Motion Pictures Corporation, and the Yale University Press Film Service have created a considerable library of educational films; and that even the theatrical motion picture producers have put at the disposal of the schools and churches, a considerable group of feature films, scenics and science films which have educational value.
Where to Get Classroom Films and How to Use Them
for Teaching
Despite this very considerable production and use, there is an urgent demand by school people today for information on where to get suitable films to accompany their regular classroom work, and how to use these films so as to produce real educational results. The mass of production cited above is not organized into any one volume embracing both the sources and the pedagogy of educational films. The present book