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Types of Visual Aids and Their Uses 45
Historical Photographs. One of the most unusual and most useful services of this type has been developed during the past few years in Hollywood. It is merely an adaptation of valuable pictorial materials to educational purposes, for which the producers deserve much credit. In Hollywood, millions of dollars have been spent in research and reconstruction — research to determine the proper setting for historical dramas of all periods and the reconstruction of scenes for the production of those dramas. As the motion pictures are "shot," still photographs are taken by expert cameramen. Some of these "stills" have been used for advertising purposes, but many of them have remained in negative files, unused. The majority of these pictures are as accurate, historically, as it is humanly possible to make them. These should be, therefore, valuable aids to those history teachers who may desire to bring true pictures of the past before the pupils of today; who desire to vitalize instruction by taking the pupil on a pictorial journey to the places and through the times about which he may read in the text and reference books.
A group of enterprising educators along the western coast has undertaken the job of organizing this vast storehouse of accurate and highly educational photographs into sets for instruction in history. The firm, Photographic History Service,* has been organized to handle the details of production and distribution. Sets of pictures by the following titles are available for distribution:
Ancient Egyptian Life
Roman Life
Feudal Life
The Vikings
Elizabethan England
French Revolution
Arabian Desert Life and Culture
Russian Life (up to the Soviet)
The Pilgrims
American Revolution and Origin of Government
Daniel Boone Frontier Life
Westward Movement
Slave Life and Abraham Lincoln
David Copperfield The sets of historical photographs average fifteen pictures each, and are boxed in durable cartons of convenient size and shape for
* Photographic History Service, P.O. Box 2401, Hollywood, California.