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FILM AND EDUCATION
sidered novelties. Today they are scheduled as a matter of course in programs sponsored by schools, public libraries, university extension, YMCA, YWCA, Jewish Community Centers, settlements, farm and rural groups in all parts of the country. The movement received its greatest initial impetus in 1941 when the Carnegie Corporation made a grant to a group of national associations to conduct a series of experimental film forums in selected libraries in this country. The organizations concerned were the American Library Association, the American Association for Adult Education, the American Association for Applied Psychology, and the American Film Center. Representatives of these groups formed a Joint Committee on Film Forums, which employed an executive secretary, set up goals and procedures for the project, and provided films and discussion aids for film forum programs in over forty libraries. While not an unqualified success in every way, the project performed an important pioneer service. It not only stimulated the use of films as educational tools in public libraries, it also brought the term "film forum" into general usage. It evolved one of the first widely used 'manuals on film forum management. It attempted the development of criteria for the selection of films suitable for forum use and created instruments for the evaluation of films and of film forum discussions. It also produced, as has already been noted, new types of film discussion guides.
When the Committee completed work on the Library Film Forum project in 1944, some of the members felt that its usefulness was just beginning, and a new Committee composed of representatives of the American Library Association and the American Association for Adult Education invited two other organizations, the Educational Film Library Association and the National Council of the YMCA to establish a National Committee on Film Forums to further promote the use of films as aids to adult education. Shortly after this, the new Committee joined with the Institute of Adult Education in
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