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Types of Audio-Visual Aids to Instruction 165
selected from approximately 15,000 short subjects, originally produced for theatrical use. The selections were made by an Advisory Committee on the Use of Motion Pictures in Education. The chairman of the Committee is Mark A. May, Director of the Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, who is assisted by the following committee members :
Frederick H. Bair, Superintendent of Schools, Bronxville, N. Y.
Isaiah Bowman, President of the John Hopkins University
Karl T. Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edmund E. Day, President of Cornell University
Royal B. Farnum, Exec. Vice-President, Rhode Island School of Design
Willard E. Givens, Executive Secretary of the N.E.A.
Jay B. Nash, Professor of Education, New York University
The films included in the catalog of hundreds of subjects were evaluated and classified by classroom teachers in various sections of the United States. Each film is available on short or long term lease to schools or school systems which will agree to use the pictures for teaching purposes only.
The problem of quantity — whether there is enough film to justify the purchase of a 16 mm. sound projector— has been overcome. One library alone offers a sufficiently large selection of titles to permit the running of a feature and three shorts every week for five years without "repeats." Most of this film is selected originally on the basis of school fitness, since the schools at present constitute the largest group outlet for this type of service. Quality of available material is not uniformly high, but improvement is to be noted, and there is already discernible a trend to drop out the less desirable listings. This improvement in quality may be expected to increase as both supply and demand grow.
A number of schools and systems, including leaders in visual education, such as in Pittsburgh, are using sound films to meet other than teaching situations. In one case, undesirable school surroundings are minimized by motion pictures shown at lunch recess, the school board paying for all rentals. In another case, auditorium noonday movies take the strain off an overcrowded lunchroom. Sometimes such films are free, sometimes subject to a small admission charge to cover rentals. Sometimes they are just clean enter