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By Pathescope Pictures
countless thousands of mechanical operations, plant developments, animal growths and transformations, chemical combinations, etc., which heretofore have not been clearly demonstrable by either printed description or static illustration.
The Motion Picture, projected in living, fascinating action on the screen, shows every process of change in a way best calculated to be successfully analyzed and indelibly impressed on the youthful mind.
Impartial Test Proves Motion Pictures Best Aid to Visual Instruction
The School District of the City of Erie, Pa. McKinley Public School
The Pathescope Company.
Gentlemen: You will be interested in the results of an experiment conducted in several classes of our school a month ago. We wished to discover the relative values of the Stereopticon and the Pathescope for educational purposes. We also aimed to discover under what conditions a picture machine would bring the best results with a class of children.
Our subjects were four classes in McKinley Grammar School —
Class 1, consisting of 43 pupils whose average age was 12^4 years and who were doing the work of the 6A grade ;
Class 2, 33 pupils, average age 13^4 years, doing 7B grade work ;
Class 3, 26 pupils, average age 13 1/3 years, doing 7A grade work ;
Class 4, 30 pupils, average age 1-1 1/3 years, doing 8A grade work.
The Silk Industry was the topic used with all the classes. For three days before the pictures were presented, the pupils of Class 2 and Class 3 were given careful oral instruction on the subject. Then Class 2 spent four daily half-hour periods with the Pathescope reel. One-third of the reel was presented at a time with careful explana