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FILM AND EDUCATION
pictures; it was this group already tested in industry and education, which provided the nucleus of the vast body of film workers required by the federal government.
One of the important by-products of the war training film program was to give to the educational film, not alone full stature in the public's eye, but something even more important— a refinement of form and technique not envisioned before the war. Prior to 1940 the educational film was pretty generally cut to a dry and academic pattern. It was. a pattern that was years behind the technical and creative standards current in the theatrical motion picture industry. The people who were working in the educational film field had struggled without benefit of the best techniques, equipment, and creative ability, for most of this was centered in the entertainment motion picture field where financial returns were more attractive. The technicians and artists of the theatrical film field had, up to 1940, given no more than occasional lip service to the educational film. Under pressure of time and necessity of winning a war, these two specialized groups joined forces. What had been mutual distrust of each other, was replaced by a healthy mutual respect. The theatrical film worker recognized that the educational film field was an art and a craft in its own right, and one to which he could apply much of the creative genius and high technical standards of the entertainment field; the educational film worker recognized that the experience of the theatrical film field could tell him much about making an improved film that would teach more effectively. It is this combination of knowledge and techniques that promises to give us a better educational film.
Any attempt to bring this historical resume up through the present and show the tremendous scope of the field would be puny and futile. Neither space nor perspective permits the accomplishment of such a task at this point. Succeeding chapters will, but even then to a limited degree, attempt to present
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