Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

10 MOTION PICTURES FOB INSTRUCTION Library contains an average of only one per week for the school year, the Eighty Reel Library, two per week, and the One Hundred and Twenty Reel Library, three per week. While from the standpoint of small towns these may seem like a large number, it should be remembered that this number provides only about a half dozen reels for a grade during the year. But if this should appear too inadequate a service, reflect that the class should nearly always see each film more than once, and that other grades than the ones set down may see the film to good advantage at the time it is in the building, if it contains material relating to their lessons. Large cities that already have generous budgets for visual instruction, and, therefore, film libraries of hundreds of subjects will find the number of films indicated here quite inadequate for their purpose, but even so, the particular films listed may prove suggestive. The film practices of some of the larger cities are described at some length in Chapter VIII. In fact, free and rental reels will have to be arranged for several days' use, so as to allow for second showings and also to complete the circuit of the other schools in the system, that are at or near the same topic in the curriculum ; the purchase reels can be used whenever and wherever they are wanted — which emphasizes the real advantage of each school system gradually acquiring a film library of its own. Most of the purchase reels in this series are accompanied with teachers' leaflets, giving additional facts concerning the topics in the reels, and suggestions for teaching.