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164 The Audio-Visual Handbook
age levels engage in this advance consideration of questions to be raised when the scheduled film is shown. The picture itself furnishes a common emotional experience for all the pupils and teachers of the entire school. After it has been viewed, projects and school journeys are planned and further discussion is held, with the teacher guiding and adapting whatever discussion serves subject-matter needs. This method helps break down rigid walls between subject-matter fields, for a pupil may have been called upon to think about and discuss a given film from half-a-dozen or more distinct angles, not the least important of which is the acquisition of a good emotional attitude toward the problems of conduct or human relations, raised in every wellmade motion picture. This emotional contribution of the motion picture is an utterly unique gift placed at the service of the school. It is still so new that no very clear evaluation of its possibilities has been attempted, yet this phase is coming in for ever more attention in current visual-instruction meetings.
The human-relations angle is being studied thoroughly by a group of progressive educators, headed by Dr. Alice V. Keliher. A project that is being financed jointly by Rockefeller funds and by the Hays Organization, provides for the cutting of theatrical features into short subjects, posing but not solving problems in human relations. These short films are then discussed freely in class, the utmost freedom of self-expression by the students being encouraged. So fruitful has been this discussion that it has been made a regular radio broadcast, one of the very few unrehearsed programs to go out over the air. The use of these films is at present confined strictly to human relations groups in twenty selected experimental schools, but it is hoped that these restrictions will be modified on these excellent pictures, and on the earlier "Secrets of Success" series, of similar type, edited by Dr. Howard LeSeurd.
The great need for a clearinghouse of information concerning all types of films suitable for school use has been recognized for many years. The Association of School Film Libraries, Inc., 9 Rockefeller Plaza, Radio City, New York, was established three years ago for this purpose. The Association prepares lists of available films, encourages producers to provide needed types of films, and assists distribution centers in the selection of desirable educational subjects for use in their service areas.
One of the most complete assortments of 16 mm. sound motion pictures now available is offered to schools by Teaching Film Custodians, Inc., 25 West 43rd Street, New York City. The films offered were