The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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November, 1(^23 SOURCE GOVERNMENTAL (National) Dept. of Agriculture Dept. of Commerce Navy Dept. Dept. of War Dept. of Labor Reclamation Service National Parks Service Bureau of Mines Bureau of Public Health (State) Dept. of Public Instruction University Extension Agricultural College College of Mines Board of Health Conservation Dept. (City) Board of Education Museum Chamber of Commerce, etc. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Manufacturers and Mines Mercantile establishments Railway systems Film Sense \r, PURPOSES Record Progress Teach Technology Advertise Advantages General Popular Education Indirect Advertising Public Information Direct Sales Help Films from the above two sources — Governmental and Industrial Commercial — are circulated free or with a small service charge, the borrower paying the transportation both ways. NON-THEATRICAL AGENCIES Religious Pedagogic General "Educational" and Civic Entertainment THEATRICAL AGENCIES Those Strictly for Theatres Those undertaking also General Distribution Aid in Church Work Help in Teaching Community program for entertainment and general popular education Entertainment for Profit News Dissemination Popular Education For films from the agencies constituting the above two sources, borrowers usually pay a rental as well as the transportation charges both ways. The reader will note that here are mentioned four great sources of films for school purposes, with the general purposes for which films are produced or distributed by each group. Under the Governmental group, for example, the Reclamation Service records in films the progress of its great irrigation and drainage projects, the Department of Agriculture teaches in films the methods of doing many things, the National Parks Service advertises in films the advantages of our great national play