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FILM AND EDUCATION
tion picture interest has become a part of educators' planning.
From the industry standpoint, the anticipated difficulties never materialized. On the contrary, the use of these pictures in schoolrooms has opened up new areas of interest, and the same privileges of availability, which were so narrowly conserved in the beginning, have now been extended by the producing companies to include the programs of any organization whose objectives are educational in purpose and intent. The industry has, on three occasions, appropriated funds to finance research and experimentation which would advance the educational use of the motion picture. Currently, they have established an industry committee to plan the additional educational services which the industry can provide.
On the part of education, the developments have been similarly significant. In all, about six hundred theatrical subjects have been offered to schools at one time or another. Only about a third of these have proven a well-established usefulness. Schools draw upon the other two-thirds as a unique source from which they can find materials for specialized use. In some instances, this is because such materials cannot be found elsewhere. The more than two hundred subjects that have found their effective way into schools have become largely a regular part of the teaching materials for classroom work in thousands of schools throughout the country. For the most part, these subjects are not in competition with films from other sources because they are the type of subject which are too expensive to be made by the producers of educational films. They include dramatizations of historical scenes; films on how people live in other countries — shot all over the world by ever-present crews of newsreel cameramen; under-sea pictures made with expensive equipment; and dramatizations of literary novels and plays.
The educational market is believed to be unable to finance such costly productions. These theatrical productions earn back their negative cost through theater admissions, and their use
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