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CINEMA AND EDUCATION 65
schooling at present employed will be replaced by new methods organized on a vast scale and made possible by the sound film. It is probable that within ten years' time the cinema will be the principal means of education for both adults and children, and that the comprehensive ideas which the Soviets have already put in hand for cinematic teaching will have spread to every country. Every subject taught to-day will be available in terms of film on standard-sized stock and will be in permanent use at every school and institute of any standing throughout the world. Interchange of systems between foreign countries will be easily possible, cementing friendly relations, achieving a much higher standard of cultural relationship and establishing a better understanding of national outlooks. If such a thing were possible, it is by the cinema or the younger art of television, that a universal language could be effected.
What form the technique of educational films will take is a matter for argument. Some opinions hold that the dialogue commentary, as employed in the more recent Secrets of Nature series, in conjunction with the visual images of the subject under discussion, is the most explicit. Others, I amongst them, believe that the visual-and-title film, suitably amplified by the actual presence of a teacher, will be the most effective, but then I happen to be one of the few who consider that the subtitle, especially in motion, has a great future before it. But experiment must be forthcoming before the form of the educational film can be fixed. Whatever the method, it is certain that cinematic education will be present in every school, institute and