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THE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN
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ed receptive memory, and here, the use of the film strip with its pre-determined sequence enables the teacher to present the subject in an orderly fashion. In the higher grammer grades, the evaluation of the visual material used is of the greatest importance. Few teachers will evaluate if so disposed. Again the film-strip solves the problem, because it is evaluated and sequenced. The film strips are adaptable to method, in that they give the teacher an opportunity to impart knowledge, guide effort, train pupils, arouse enthusiasm and they afford an opportunity for individual expression.
Film strips correlate closely with the subject matter, and afford a chance to correct wrong impressions and enable the pupils to overcome individual weaknesses.
Film strips are easily handled and are an aid in school management because they avoid unnecessary confusion with its tendency to disorder. Film strips are always in the teacher's control.
With the "hit and miss" teacher who has difiSculty in sticking to her subject matter, the film-strip has extensive usefulness.
14. Film strips favor concentrated effort a attention.
15. Film strips court perception in that th invite immediate judgment through t
sense of vision.
16. Film strips aid conceptual thinking 1 cause they increase the activity of t mind and produce an imaginative stj which is the first act of forming a cc cept.
17. Film strips symbolize thought, becai they tend to harmonize a mental prof sition, in which form the concept , ways appears.
18. The film strips challenge reasoning 1 cause they demand a rational considei tion. They arouse curiosity, awakeni and exciting the desire to see or to lea something.
19. The descriptive text that accompani the film strips is popular and offers ds from which the teacher may with cc fidence work up the form of expressi' best suited to her immediate needs.
Editor's Note — These statements concerning the si ject of visual instruction in general, and the i of film-slides in particular, have been made as result of tests with this material in the Buffi Public Schools. Our readers will notice that ma of the attributes credited to the film-slide, are equ ly applicable to other visual aids, especially the s!i<
Film Reviews
The Making of Twine (1 reel) International Harvester Co. — A new release picturing the cutting of sisal hemp and the manufacture of binder twine, so essential to the harvesting of the nation's grain.
Binder twine is made of sisal or Manila fibers, or a mixture of these two fibers, but for the sake of simplicity the reel confines itself in the scenes of hemp growing to the fields of Yucatan in Mexico. The processes of stripping, curing, bleaching, drying and baliiig the fibers are typical of similar processes in the handling of Manila hemp.
A Sisal Plantation.
The opening scenes of the reel, sisal plantation, with the cutting
showing and pilii