The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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Editorial 167 Organization of the Non-Theatrical Field •" | A HE schools, churches and other non-theatrical agencies interested in | motion pictures must organize. The producers and distributors are organized with Will Hays as president. There has just been held an jnthusiastic meeting of theatre owners of the country. In practically every fate the theatrical exhibitors are organized. But what about the non-theatrical ield? The question is particularly apropos because of the boycotts now being attempted by the theatre owners and managers against the non-theatrical field ti a large number of states. There seems but one answer to the query, namely he non-theatrical field must organize, not so much to wage war as to secure ights and recognition. This movement happily is already under way. Oklahoma schools and :hurches were organized in the fall of 1920 under the name, The Oklahoma isual Education Association, working thru the.office of The Department of Visual Education of the University of Oklahoma as a clearing house. On April >th, 1922, the Utah Non-theatrical field was organized under the name of the Jtah Visual Instruction Association. Plans are on foot in a number of other tates to complete similar organizations. The movement is crossing state lines. In the spring of 1922 the Uni- ersities of Oklahoma and Arkansas adopted a tentative cooperative agreement y which the schools and churches of these states were to secure the benefit if wholesale arrangements with film concerns made by these universities. At the Lexington meeting of the National Academy of Visual Instruction tentative understanding was reached between the' representatives of Okla- oma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and within the last few days call has been issued to thirteen universities of the middle west for a conference overing matters of cooperation and matters pertaining to the distribution of oth educational and entertainment films to the non-theatrical field. The National Academy of Visual Instruction instructed its executive com- mittee at the Lexington meeting in April to deal directly with the home offices f the large producers in an attempt to get a satisfactory arrangement for the iistribution of films to the non-theatrical field. Will Hays has signified an titerest in the problem and a willingness to give it immediate attention. Why not an organization of schools and churches in every state, with the National Academy of Visual Instruction the clearing house of these state rganizations ? J. W. Shepherd.