Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

6 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION deals with films alone — not with slides, stereographs, press pictures, museum exhibits, or projection machines. And among the films it limits itself, with few exceptions, to classroom or text films in the Film Libraries, arranged to illustrate the course of study.* Semi-dramatic productions, and miscellaneous films combined in "programs" for the school assembly, to be shown to masses of children of varying grades assembled for the purpose — on special occasions or for the "auditorium period" in schools under the platoon system — are both too long and too varied in character for serious classroom study conducted under the rigid requirements of the daily time schedules. The "Assembly Room" Type of Film It was natural that films, at first, drifted out from the theatres into the schools ; and this type of general educational, semi-entertainment film program is still of value on occasion. But such occasions are not the subject matter of this book. The films discussed here are the every day, informational type of films for classroom use, having much the same functions as the illustrations in the textbook, with the added action, size, color, illumination and intensity which the screen image has over the book picture. On the one hand, the * Bulletin 8 (1924) by the author, U. S. Bureau of Education, page 27, suggests the following classifications for films used in educational institutions : ( 1 ) "Text films," meaning those used to definitely illustrate the text in class instruction; (2) "General education," when the material is fairly educational, but not used specifically for a class topic; and (3) "Entertainment," where that is the obvious use and purpose.