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FILMS FOR FILM FORUMS AND ADULT GROUPS
publishing the quarterly Film Forum Review, a periodical devoted to news of film forums in various parts of the country, and to reviews of films suitable for discussion. Discussible motion pictures selected by the Committee are currently identified as "forum films" in the H. W. Wilson Company publication, Educational Film Guide.
One of the most promising evidences of the growing interest in the educational use of films in adult groups is to be found in the formation in 1946 of the Film Council of America whose purpose is "to increase the information and work toward the general welfare of all people by fostering, improving and promoting the production, the distribution and the effective use of audio visual materials." This organization,, which recently received a two year grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York in support of its efforts, has already helped establish more than one hundred community film councils in this country. These local councils sponsor community film forums, workshops on technique of film use in adult groups and promote the evaluation of films for community use.
Active film forum projects are now being conducted in scores of communities throughout the country. In Chicago, a Film Workshop made up of representatives of adult education groups in that city has been active for some time in the development of film-based discussion programs. At the University of Wisconsin, a full time field worker has been added to the staff of the University's Bureau of Visual Education to promote film forum activities throughout the state. In California the Department of Education's Bureau of Visual Instruction is cooperating with the Department of Adult Education in sponsoring nine experimental film forums in the northern and southern parts of the state.
The University of Virginia Extension Division found that the use of educational films in connection with its rural program, designed to "help communities help themselves," constituted a most effective technique in reaching people in back
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