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Types of Visual Aids and Their Uses 29
the like, has been and is one of the very effective methods of arousing interest, teaching and developing proper appreciation. Pageants have entertained and instructed young and old for many centuries. They may be developed to present almost any historical or geographical situation. Pupils become intensely interested in participation.
The limitation of instructional time makes it necessary to give careful consideration to the proper time and place to develop pageantry or dramatic presentation. The event or situation portrayed should be of enough importance to more than warrant the great amount of time and energy required in preparation. Incidentally, the greatest good
Photo Courtesy Salt Lake .City Chamber of Commerce
Pageantry — Scene from Utah History
will come to those pupils who have a part in the enterprise, so provision should be made for as many as possible to participate.
Another limitation of the pageant is that it is quite likely to require weeks or months of preparation; an hour or more for presentation; and then be forgotten. The last is the most serious. One farsighted school superintendent eliminated the temporary nature of a pageant depicting the history of his state by having the entire performance photographed with a motion-picture camera. The preparation of the pageant had cost thousands of dollars in time and money. Within a period of two hours, it had passed and would have been lost except for the vagueness of memory. But the expenditure of approximately a hundred and fifty dollars for cameraman and film, titles, etc., gave the school a permanent record of the pageant, which could be projected as often as might seem desirable for teaching purposes.
Furthermore, the classes which were studying the history of their state were asked to prepare titles for the film. This required much reading and delving into historical records. Groups of pupils went
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