The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

April, 1923 National Academy of Visual Instruction ig: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh. An Electrified Travelogue (3 reels) Worcester Film Corporation, Worcester, Mass. From Forest to Fireside (3 reels) This offered Academy members and all others interested in Visual Education an opportunity to view what the producers considered among their best films. FOLLOWING is a list of new members that have been added to the membership roll of the Academy within the past month: ACTIVE D. F. NiCKOLS, Supt. of Schools, 604 Peoria St., Lincoln, Illinois. Seth Hayes, Instructor in Chemistry and Visual Education, East Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio. . , J. Bell Corbin, Elementary School Principal, Bancroft School, Lincoln, Nebraska. Russell W. Ballard, Director of Visual Education, East Chicago, Indiana. Otto Nelson, Director of Motion Pictures, National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Martin V. McGill, Chemistry Teacher, Lorrain High School, 1444 E. Prairie Avenue, Lorrain, Ohio. Mrs. F. C. Busch, Ass't Director Visual Education, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, New York. ASSOCIATE Marsena Ann Galbreath, Student, 405J/^ North Fourth St., Marietta, Ohio. Frank E. Gillett, Teacher Vocational Agriculture, 807 Rollins St., Columbia, Missouri. Mary Van Etten, Teacher^.. Fairfax School, Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. C. W. Stansberry, State P. T. A. Committee on Visual Education, 1828 Page Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio. G. Alba Bartholomew., Clerk of School Board, Middlefield, Ohio. Newer Issues in Motion-Picture Situation {Concluded from page 162) see, the industry has accepted the principle of censorship, but censorship by an unofficial body, with no power of enforcement. Our fourth largest industry objects to being regulated legally by the public. It is just as if our public utilities proclaimed the principle that they did not believe in the state and federal commissions which the public desired to erect for their own protection's sake, and advocated advisory bodies of their own choosing, clothed with no legal authority, to pass upon the acts of the same public utilities. Lack of Organization on the Part of the Public. With all our concern about motion pictures during the last eight years, no great national organization representing the aspirations of a united public has as yet emerged. Even state organizations are the exception. What is being accomplished is largely the work of sporadic local groups who are working single-handed with their home situations. School, churches, community and recreational centers, and various institutions for the care of the handicapped, dependent, and delinquent, need guidance in the selection of motion pictures. At present the industry everywhere resents the encroachment of socialized groups in a field con sidered to be exclusively the domain of commercially conducted screen theatres, and are making it difficult for these groups to obtain satisfactory films. This is a vital controversy — one that has been presented to Mr. Hays from a number of sources. If, as has been reported, Mr. Hays authoritatively lays down the dictum that the men in the industry have to be protected in their investments, and that only strictly educational and strictly religious motion pictures should be shown in schools and churches, respectively, the movement for carefully selected, high-grade programs under socialized auspices — the movement away from commercial recreation, which since the war has made strides in this country — will be given a severe set-back. Such a question is a challenge to the statesmanship of the industry. Let us hope that it seizes its opportunity to demonstrate to the public its sincerity in creating a channel of contact by which the aspirations of the public may be ascertained and realized. The Berkeley Monograph is ready The Educational Screen 5 South Wabash Chicago