Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

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14 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION troit, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Springfield or Newton, Mass., Atlanta, WinstonSalem. The films will be for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades and the junior high school, and will illustrate the following subjects: Geography, Health and Hygiene, Civics, Fine and Practical Arts, and General Sciences. We are not told the number of films that will be produced for this purpose but are informed that the Eastman Kodak Company mil furnish their Kodascope Motion Picture Projector and all 16mm. films necessary for the experiment. The 16 mm. prints however, will be made from standard size (35 mm.) negative. An enterprise of this kind financed by one of the richest business firms in this country ought to produce evidence which will determine the comparative values of standard and off-standard films and projectors in public school work. We will have to wait two years before a report is made on the work accomplished. Grading Is in Teacher's Presentation The fact that films are frequently not designated for a specific grade is not as great a drawback as it might seem at first glance. The film is primarily a series of pictures for illustration. Pictures are not as easily assigned to specific grades as are books ; the gradation should be done by the teacher in handling the picture ; the kind of questions and supplementary facts which she uses will depend on the age and ability of the child. The same picture may be used with a fifth grade child