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September, 1923 317
THE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN
{ Including MOVING PICTURE AGE)
Editorial Section
Vol. II September, 1923 No. 7
The New Department of the N. E. A.
SOMETHING very important happened last July, on Friday the sixth, at Oakland. The National Education Association formally established a Department
of Visual Instruction within itself. The mere announcement of this action will have a great influence on both the immediate and the ultimate future of the visual movement.
Some thousands of earnest educators, to be sure, have been working along these lines for years, but against fearful odds. The wise action of the N. E. A. will give a strong additional impulse and incentive to their work. In the minds of many other thousands, visual education will now cease to be a *'fad" — as they were afraid it might be — because the fiat of the great Association has been set upon it. The visual movement now has its credentials, with the official vise upon them. With such credentials it will travel fast and far.
Slides and Stereopticon
AFTER long delay, which we have done our best to shorten, we are at last in a position to give adequate emphasis in our pages to the Slide — in our firm opinion the most effective single instrument of visual instruction today, and likely to remain so through all the tomorrows. The growing use of film for educational purposes, far from usurping the field, w^ill but emphasize and extend the teaching possibilities of the still picture on the screen. There are few subjects in which the slide is not of great value ; there are many in which the film is all but useless by the very nature of the matter to be presented.
First, the regular monthly department, Lantern and Slide, has been established under the editorship of an expert in still-picture projection who has also long and intimate experience in the educational field. Beside editorial matter in each issue as occasion arises. Dr. Cummings is ready to serve our readers in all possible ways, by information, suggestion and advice on all questions whether highly technical or very elementary in this field. (Address Dr. Cummings personally, in care of the magazine.)
Second, we now have in hand many authoritative articles, and arrangements completed for many more, to be published successively in forthcoming numbers. These are calculated to give our readers the best in theory, opinion and experience to be had upon the stereopticon and slide. (Two articles on the subject appear in this issue.) Further, we invite short articles or mere notes on the use of slides from the many workers whose achieve