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Page 324 The Educational Screen What the Eye Sees, the Mind Remembers! Learning is a process of fact retention. Things seen are remembered long after things heard are forgotten. In teaching Geography, Music, History, Current Events, make your task easier and better by entertain- ing while you instruct. Consult Universal! Fifteen years of leadership in non- theatrical service have equipped us with a clear insight into your needs, and with the greatest facilities for fulfilling them. Write to Universal's Non-Theatrical De- partment for further information re- garding short and feature-length pictures, travelogues, cartoons and other educational motion pictures. UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORPORATION Rockefeller Center New York, N. Y. the color of the objects photographed is an essential feature. Sound films are of value for special programs and for historical purposes to bring to the audience the personality of a great person; also to record sound when such sound is essential. Sound films cannot be adapted readily to a given lecture or demonstration because of their inflexibility, although they are proving useful at the lower levels of instruction. Silent lilms will probably be used more frequently in class teaching. A good motion picture must be more than a series of still subjects. Material for the subject matter of suitable biological films is suggested. In the opinion of the committee, the items listed in the report should lead to the pro- duction of successful films and give a basis for crit- ical appraisal of biological motion pictures. The reprint from the September issue of the Bio- logical Journal "The Use of Motion Pictures in the General Course at Yale," by Oscar W. Richards, chairman of the Committee making the above report, repeats and illustrates many of the points brought out in the report. He discusses sound films, size and length of films, titles, animation, detail, whether to rent or to own films, catalogs and sources, and cost. Among the Magazines and Books (Concluded from page 312) location. The studios build film libraries, from which appropriate settings may be ordered. New York State Education (24:36-38, Oct. '36) "Radio, Movies and the Teacher", by Paul C. Reed, Rochester. This is the first of a series of nine articles relating to the contribution made by radio and motion pic- tures to the school program. The directions the writer gives are sufficiently simple for any school just entering the visual field. Book Review Values of Movies and Talkies in Education. Issued by Herman A. DeVry, Inc., and compiled by A. P. Hollis, Educational Director of that cor- poration. This exceedingly "practical" booklet was prompted, one might say also provoked. Ijy the nev- er-ceasing inquiries coming in from all corners of the field to the following general intent: "What research and experiment have been done in this field?" "Has anything been proved?" "What is really known? Are there any 'facts' or is every- thing merely 'claims'?", etc. This neatly made booklet, of 24 readable pages in attractive blue-pa- per-cover, is DeVry's quick and convenient answer to such inquiries. The first few pages cite, with summary details, leading experiments made as far back as 1921-22 to determine the teaching values of silent films. In following years the tests became more frequent, in-