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Bureau issues many educational films, some of which — made for the National Parks Branch — are specially produced to familiarize Canadian audiences with the different aspects of Canadian bird and animal life, while others deal with such varied subjects as iceobservation and the campaign against the gipsymoth. Generally speaking, this type of film lacks a definite dramatic value, thus reducing its educational potentialities.
In America, film units have been established in several of Washington's Government Departments, some undertaking their own production whilst others have their pictures produced by outside commercial companies. The Bureau of Mines, for instance, induces large industrial concerns to sponsor its productions, which are taken on by a commercial company under the supervision of officials from the Bureau. The Departments of Agriculture and Labour, also, are interested in production on a small scale, but are not particularly acquainted with film technique. On the other hand, the Department of Commerce, which until now has acted very efficiently as a kind of information-bureau for the film industry as a whole, proposes shortly to begin a special news-reel unit with the aim of publicizing every branch of American industry. No doubt arrangements will be negotiated to release these short sound items through the ordinary cinemas.
There can be little doubt that we are on the verge of an extensive revolution in methods of education which will be brought about by the cinema. The old ideas of teaching and the old systems of elementary