The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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March, 1925 Habit Formation by the Motion Picture 141 the doors of tlie house, the windows and every odier place where a mosquito may pass through. When night falls everyone should go into their houses, because these mosquitoes usually come out in the night. You should not wait until you are stung but try and prevent it. Another pupil wrote regarding a picture on the care of the feet, as follows : The first of the six pictures we saw this term was on the care of the feet. This picture taught me a great deal. I was going to buy a new pair of shoes the next day and I made sure I bought the right kind of a shoe. A boy who had seen the same picture and who probably did not need the lesson so badly himself, nevertheless reports that it had a salutary effect upon his sister, as follows: The first picture was called "The Care of the Feet." My sister had a craving for highheeled and pointed shoes. She thought them very attractive. After seeing this picture she thought differently on this subject. She purchased a new pair of shoes with low heels and round toes and felt very comfortable in them. Still another writes as follows regarding the teeth, after seeing a dental film: The picture on the care of the teeth taught me things in one half hour that it took many people years to learn. After I saw the picture on the teeth, I went to the dentist and had my teeth examined. The dentist found a cavity which I had filled with toothache gum. He told me it was of no use and filled it for me. Since seeing your picture I wash my teeth twice a day. Perhaps of less vital importance, but none the less beneficial is the effect of a picture of group games, as disclosed by the following quotation : The picture about the group games was the most interesting. It was very funny. I laughed through the whole picture. The next recreation period we had we played as many games as we could remember. We found them as enjoyable to play as they were to look at on the screen. Many other similar citations could have been extracted from these letters. Altogether this evidence seems to us not only of notable interest but really most refreshing as a first hand, unsought and truly unconscious testimonial from the children themselves of the power of the motion picture to effect sound habit formation. Making the Highways and Byways Real to Children Eleanor B. Watson Peoria, Illinois TWENTY-FIVE years ago geography, as taught, was chiefly descriptive. We are now in a period of human geograpliy, regional geography, and visualized geojiraphy. It is with the last mentioned that we are chiefly concerned in this department. One of our famous geographers has said, '■r,eography more than many other studies (It pends upon the imagination of children for ajipreciation of its facts. For instance, it demands that they visualize the Rhine River with its castles, Paris with its magnificent streets and palaces, the Ruhr region with its smoke stacks, the cotton belt of the South, the corn belt of the North and the grand scenery in our National parks. "But the imagination cannot create outright. It can only re-assemble items out of what has been experienced, or build up pictures of distant situations and conditions out of such