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For The Educationist
Production
The making of an educational film requires more than just the skill of a good studio director.
The film must conform to certain standards in Teaching, and its subject matter must be what the teacher wants, and the only way to achieve this is by allowing the teacher to co-direct the film.
Neither the teacher nor the director is capable of producing a good educational film without the help of the other and their continuous co-operation is therefore a necessity. Merely to employ a teacher as a technical adviser for each production is only a half-way measure. (British studios are training teachers in production methods — an admirable idea.)
An educational film should be made for the specific purpose of imparting knowledge to a certain age-group or class, and it should impart this knowledge in a manner readily understood and appreciated by them.
The film should also deliver its message at a certain speed — the speed at which the age-groups are capable of assimilating the knowledge conveyed to them by visual aids. Unfortunately, the presentation-speed of many educational films has been overlooked in pandering to the art of presentation, and when this occurs a belated decision must then be made as to the most suitable age-group for the film — a totally wrong procedure.
It is obvious, therefore, that all these films must be planned according to the various needs of different age-groups and classes, and that in this planning the teacher must take his place alongside the studio director. This is not a question of sentiment, and neither is it an argument calculated to give the
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