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FILM AND EDUCATION
quate to probe our historic past, to examine the cultural patterns of peoples who live thousands of miles away, or to bring into the classroom tangible evidences of natural environment which are remote or which occupy long periods of time to be accomplished. She admits that her inherent capacities as a teacher soon reach a point beyond which she must seek the advice of others, or must seek mechanical means of re-creating environments if she is to be realistic in the way she conducts her inquiry with her learners into such subject areas as geography, social studies, chemistry and physics, nature study, home economics, and the other remaining 19 curriculum areas.
For years the classroom teacher has been satisfied that there is little she can do about the limitations to the realistic study of history. She concedes inability to turn time back so that children could, at firsthand, "live" the experiences of generations long since dead. The teacher today has accepted the limitation of distance. The four walls of the classroom and poor school transportation facilities make firsthand excursions impossible among the peoples and cultural climates of foreign countries. Today the teachers of chemistry and physics and of nature study have likewise accepted a limitation — the inability of human observation to see everything that occurs in the natural environment.
But, during the last ten years all this should have been changed. Fortunately, we have developed technological means of documenting portions of our environment which heretofore were inaccessible to firsthand experiencing. Today, through the means of the motion-picture camera and the environmental sound recorder, the traditional limitations of learning experiences have been overcome. It is now possible to document all phases of our natural man-made environment in 16mm sound form — to edit this evidence carefully, to organize it into pedagogically acceptable sequences, and finally to present it to the learner who seeks information in any of the several phases of today's curriculum. Very fortunately, teachers everywhere have
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