Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

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18 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION Similarly, when a manufacturer is producing a film of the manufacture of his product, while much of the machinery and the exterior of his plant could be shown equally well as "stills," he knows that the audience would likely not see at all what he wishes to show if he does not run it in then and there with the complete continuity of the story. Few operators would bother to show the slides separately with different lenses, and the audience would perhaps lose interest and not wait for slides at the end. School children would be under stricter control and could be made to wait for the slides, but the principle must not be overworked where the "stills" are natural to the scene, and take short foot ages. It is certainly true that dwelling on maps, diagrams, exteriors of buildings, blackboard drawings and cross sections in "educational" movies has been overdone, and educators should plan to eliminate such views where all the circumstances justify it. But they should be equally free to include "stills" where the circumstances justify it. Schools Should Purchase Films Heretofore it has been very difficult for school boards to purchase their own film for a permanent film library on account of the high sale prices put on films by producers, the producers' desire being to rent rather than sell prints. This practice is more or less matographic, whether he has in mind teaching merely the form of the tree and the construction of the canal, or their life and growth and use." — Motion Pictures in Education, Ellis and Thornborough.