Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1930)

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MO'WME I»ay%BC.EIC» EDUCATIONAL FILMS Film Progress In School, Medical, Civic, Welfare, Art And Industrial Fields Dental Surgery Films By Louis M. Bailey EMPLOYING films for convention and clinic showings, L. J. Dunn, D. D. S., League member of Brooklyn, New York, has produced records of many interesting dental operations. Dr. Dunn's first film, made three years ago, depicts the steps in the construction of the indirect gold inlay. This film was shown at the National Dental Convention in Detroit, October, 1927, where it was very well received and evoked considerable favorable comment as to the value of such films in presenting dental surgery technique and in recording unusual cases for future personal reference. Concerning the use of Educational Films as a medium for the exchange of filming experiences of doctors and others making educational films. Dr. Dunn says, "There is a big need for exchange of experiences among men engaged along similar lines of filming and a department in Movie Makers covering this should be of valuable assistance to those so engaged." This responsive attitude seems general and it is hoped an increasing number of educators making motion pictures will avail themselves of these columns for this purpose. College Educationals EDUCATIONAL filming activities of Dan Scoates, League member and head of the Agricultural Engineering Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, have thvee general purposes. The most important is for teaching, second, for recording experiments along various lines and, third, for promoting trade association work. A film of experimental work now in production concerns the mechanical harvesting of cotton. Mr. Scoates, as secretary of the Texas Hardware and Implement Association, has made several films to demonstrate how that association benefits its members. A film on window dressing and store arrangement is being planned. Materia Medica DR. HERMAN GOODMAN, a prominent New York skin specialist, has had outstanding success with personally-produced medical films. These pictures describe clearly certain reactionary phases of communicable skin diseases and diseases in general which, before the advent of the moving picture camera, were too nebulous and abstruse to be studied readily. He uses them in hospitals, clinics, medical clubs, conventions and in the College of Pharmacy at Columbia University where he is an instructor. According to Dr. Goodman, medical students are very enthusiastic about this form of pedagogy, inasmuch as various physiological and biological reactions which are impossible to follow with the naked eye and very difficult to explain satisfactorily are greatly clarified by means of cinematography. He makes his films on both 16mm. and standard size and has exhibited them at conventions in Albany, Chicago and Boston. Newspaper Film Lauded COLLEGE use of educational films is reported at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, in the following note from the Washburn College Bulletin: "As an experiment in visual educacation, the Washburn department of journalism is using motion picture films to supplement classroom and laboratory work. Two newspaper films, made by the New York Times and the Springfield (Mass.) Union, have been exhibited and others will be screened later. The films show how a newspaper is made. The department of economics also is experimenting with educational films." William Ford, instructor in journalism at Washburn, is especially unstinted in his praise of R. K. Winans's Springfield Union film. "This is an excellent picture, one of the most dramatic amateur films I have seen," he says. "I screened it before my four classes in journalism, before one class in citizenship, which was at that time studying the relationship of the press to public opinion, and before a Topeka high school class in journalism. The film proved very popular with all groups.'' Welfare Project IN accordance with a worthy plan to present motion picture programs for the sick and invalided in the hospitals of New York State, officials of the Daughters of the American Revolution have recently sought the aid of the League in reviewing possible films. At a recent meeting, held in the League (Continued on page 51) ^UtmaMM^tMmM 19