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duct of motion picture entertainment. Finally — and of particular significance at this time — it must be remembered that each of these people, in private employ, means another name on local and national tax rolls, and fewer on relief. The whole involved chain can be briefly summed up as forming a really impressive contribution to national prosperity. We’re proud of it.
A s this is written, many of us in -*■ the motion picture industry are watching our children start off on the adventure of a new school year. Soon we’ll be helping Johnny with his home-work, and remarking to our friends how amazingly methods of teaching have improved since our own school days.
There’s one change of which we of the motion picture industry should take special notice. This is the increasing use made of 16mm. moving pictures as a means of teaching. The next time Junior remarks that his school showed a movie, why not ask him about it? Don’t jump to the conclusion that the film shown was a professional feature, screened merely for entertainment, or that it was simply a 16mm. print of some outmoded professional travelogue, or a dry-as-dust “educational” subject crudely made by some highbrow professor. It may be a professionally-made subject — -but it may also be one made by actual teachers and students to teach, in the most graphic possible way, some necessary and practical lesson.
For instance, last year in a Long Beach junior high-school, a class of average students, with only the general supervision of a teacher, produced a one-reel 16mm. picture demonstrating
the dangerous and the safe ways for children to ride their bicycles in modern city traffic. It was written, acted, photographed and titled by the children, and aimed to make audiences of school-age children more safetyconscious. It was based on the actual experience of one of the students, who rode his bike carelessly — and bad plenty of time to think of safety while he lay in a hospital bed. No professional film could have delivered its message with more sincerity.
In Akron, Ohio, a series of films has been made carrying the message of fire prevention in terms of action understood by children of school age. So successful have these films been that the Akron schools, supported by public-spirited citizens, have established a complete 16mm. studio so that more such films can be made.
In Santa Cruz, a field expert from the University of California has for some years been making his own 16mm. films — on Agfa reversal film, by the way — to show California’s ranchers the latest methods of stockraising.
In almost every modern school there can be found material which could advantageously be made into a 1 6mm. picture. Many of onr readers, we know, enjoy 16mm. movie-making as a hobby. If, as most parents do, they want to bring themselves closer to the school activities and associates of their children, we can think of no better way to do so than to devote a little of their spare time to helping the youngsters and their teachers make such practical school-films. And we can assure them that the youthful enthusiasm they'll get from their young co-workers will give them a new enjoyment of movie-making.
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