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EDUCATIONAL FILMS— TYPES AND USES 13
made indispensable adjuncts to any visual instruction department, as they enable the amateur to take his own motion pictures of many subjects that are available in his own school or locality.
Only those cameras using the full theatre size (35mm.) film, however, take pictures that can be shown direct in theatres and standard portable projectors found in the majority of schools.
All Films Are of Standard Width
Only films of the standard width (35 mm.) adopted early in the history of the industry, by the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, are recommended for the three film libraries outlined in this book, or listed in the Comprehensive List of Films in Part II. The reason is the obvious one of making available to the schools the best films of all the world. Any other width film adopted would limit the schools to a very small fraction of the world's film production.
In February 1925, at a meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association it was announced that Mr. George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co., had offered to co-operate with the N.E.A. Committee on Visual Education in a production of a series of moving pictures on narrow width film to be produced for classroom work. The Eastman Kodak Company manufactures a camera and motion picture projector both of which take 16 mm. film. The Company secured the co-operation of the Visual Education Committee which selected the following ten cities in which to try out the film for two years : Eochester, De