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THE GENESIS OF THE EDUCATIONAL FILM
film-makers of that period made little attempt to disguise the fact that they considered the whole affair as a sucker's game.
Within another five years, however, the making of industrial films had become a serious business in its own right. Competent producers began to specialize in the field and give it the sort of attention and ability needed. The commercial world accepted the motion picture without reservation as a medium of training, endoctrination, and advertising.
The Educational Film Today
In spite of all the work that had been accomplished in that fruitful period between 1895 and 1925, the educational film was by 1940 still generally unappreciated by the lay public. In spite of all that was known about it, and in spite of all the sincere research and production that had been carried on up to that time, it still took the 1941-1945 wartime experiences of our industry and armed services to convince the average citizen that the use of films for educational purposes was more than a frill and a fad; that the "educational film" meant much more than a warmed-over version of an entertainment film; that the applications of the film in education were real, effective, and worth their cost in time and money.
In the first rush of enthusiasm over the wartime training film and its accomplishments, many extravagant statements and claims were made. There were those who thought of the wartime training film as a wholly new instrument, a new development which promised untold gains for postwar education both in and out of school. Such newly won disciples overlooked the fact that the wartime training film was but a colossal application of knowledge and techniques known to many film-makers, training directors, and school and religious educators for years. Overlooked also was the fact that this tremendous war film program was made possible primarily because there existed in this country at the outbreak of war a small body of film technicians and educators already experienced in planning, writing, producing, and using educational motion