The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

["HE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN Editorial Section FOR ^ol. I JANUARY, 1922 No. 1 To Our Readers, Personally rHE purpose of The Educational Screen is single and emphatic. This magazine intends to get at the truth about visual education—in all its phases and in its broadest aspects—and serve it up in a form palatable to inking Americans. We shall endeavor to supply for you the best in theory, opinion and expe- ence that the country affords—in the form of articles by contributors qualified ) speak interestingly and authoritatively. Similar data from foreign countries ill be included as far as space permits. We shall wade through the welter of "literature" provoked by the movies— >t only all serious writings on the question in scores of general and educational agazines, but even the motley contents of the "movie" publications—and offer )ii a digest of all that is worth your attention. This will mean an invaluable Terence source for any individual or organization conducting an investigation -whether brief or extensive—on any phase of the great question of "the ctures." We shall present a monthly survey of really significant visual activities ong educational lines which will keep you constantly in touch with everything at points toward progress in this undeveloped and more or less unknown field, will be uncolored evidence, gathered by investigators and not by promoters, hich can be trusted as a basis for further study by those interested in the Ivance of the new movement. We shall develop at the earliest possible moment a technical department hich will give notes, suggestions and brief articles by recognized authorities, lculated to assist materially all schools, churches and other organizations tfitemplating new installation or change in present equipment. We shall become—as rapidly as is consistent with complete reliability— e one impartial and authoritative source of information on the new field; a urce freely accessible to all interested in the progress of the new, nation-wide 5