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EDUCATION FROM THE THEATRICAL SCREEN
distribute 16mm. prints of selected short-subjects to schools throughout the world, except in the United States and Canada. This company is the foreign distribution affiliate of Loew's, Incorporated, which owns and distributes pictures produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
2. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. and Paramount Pictures, Inc. have organized subsidiaries or affiliates for a similar type of activity. Similar programs by these companies will ultimately be in operation.
3. Universal Pictures Company, Inc. has established a wholly owned subsidiary, United World Pictures, Inc., which by an international agreement with the J. Arthur Rank organization in England, contemplates the production and world-wide distribution of films made specifically for the classroom. Arrangements are in process for the production of eighty-six films in the field of geography for the fourth, fifth and sixth, and high school grades. This is in addition to the educational distribution, of selected films from the regular theatrical product of Universal Pictures.
4. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures Corporation, and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., have not yet announced the plans for participation in the educational field, but each of these is studying the situation with a view to possible production or distribution to schools either directly or through commercial contract with 16mm. distributors.
These developments may result in bringing to the educational market many new materials either edited from existing theatrical footage or produced specifically for school use.
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss only those materials that have come to education from the theatrical screen.
There are two serious questions which should be answered with reference to the interest of the entertainment industry in education: (1) What types of films does it consider
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