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 #:
00021
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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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The great place which the moving picture has secured in the life of the world has resulted in innumerable discussions of its importance in connection with education. When millions of people are viewing moving pictures every day of the year there must be serious effects of an educational character whether the films which they are seeing are good, bad or indifferent. The wide spread of moving pictures including almost all conceivable subjects, has inevitably resulted in the production of many which have, distinguishable from those whose purpose of observation is purely for amusement and relaxation, definite educational values. For some time the problem of how to make use of moving pictures in connection with a definite curriculum of study has been under consideration by the educational profession. Tentative experiments looking towards their incorporation as a part of the procedure of the school have been made in many school systems. Here and there generous appropriations for the organizing and maintaining of departments of visual education which make large use of the moving picture have been secured. The city school superintendents have shown a very open mind towards the whole problem and in many cases have evidenced their real enthusiasm in efforts looking towards a more serious and xiii