Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion pictures for instruction
Date:
1926
Publisher:
New York, The Century Co
Volume:
Motion pictures for instruction (1926)
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures in education
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"A selected bibliography": p. 433-435; "Important educational filmlists" : p. 435-438
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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PREFACE ix aims to meet this need. It lists and describes some 1,500 educational films, arranges 120 of these into three different libraries for courses of study, and presents a series of actual film lessons, showing the methods of presentation and follow-up work used by many different educators. Important studies in film pedagogy are discussed, an attempt is made to discriminate between valid and exaggerated claims for this new educational tool, and the latest statistics of the movement are gathered for convenient reference. A bibliography lists the important literature of the subject. Visual Education and Experimental Psychology Visual educationists are not primarily psychologists nor physiologists. They have produced nothing new in the psychology of vision, but have concerned themselves with the organization and use of visual stimuli adapted to education. The research laboratories in experimental psychology and the physiology of the senses are common sources to which all can go for the technical data of vision. Specialists like Wundt, Humboldt, and Miinsterberg have made substantial contributions to our knowledge of vision, and the curious reader is referred to their works for the psychophysiological facts of this important sense. The "87%" Myth Writers in visual education who have been tempted to use figures giving the percentages of our knowledge gained through the different senses have found