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FILM AND EDUCATION
this field. In dealing with the subject of our neighbors to the South, the films, Good Neighbor Family, Lima Family, and the color films, The Amazon Awakens, Tehuantepec, Patzcuaro, and Cuernavaca will be found valuable. Suggested activities following these can be a study of folk games, festival days, sports, and pastoral scenes. Several years ago an interesting project entitled Sports Around the World was worked out by our art department in the New Orleans schools. The departmental grades of a chosen number of schools were assigned a different country. Customs, sports, clothing were studied by means of wide reading and viewing of films and other supplementary aids. Art classes dressed dolls in the sports costumes of the various countries and built suitable backgrounds to fit in the outdoor sports scene. All of this was assembled in one place and classes were brought to this exhibit to study it.
While world understanding is being taught in the art classes, direct application of art principles can be applied. Groups can participate in the construction of dioramas to develop an understanding of perspective and proportion; painting can be either a formal treatment of peasant designs and color, or free expression; pottery making can.be studied; crafts of the various countries such as wood carving, silver work, making of tiles and the dressing of dolls; industries can be looked into. Games and sports we have already mentioned.
As an integrated study of art, social studies, and science, a unit on flowers, animals and fowls of other lands is suggested. Grains and foods may be included in this. Comparison of the homes of children of other land and the influence which these have had on American architecture can be studied. Suggested areas of exploration for all this are kinds of designs: abstract, conventional, naturalistics, and geometric. Group participation can be along the lines of friezes, borders, dioramas, and picture collections.
In the seventh and eighth grades, films which teach ex
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