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CHAPTER XXVII
THE EDUCATIONAL FILM IN GREAT BRITAIN THOMAS HODGE
British Information Services
In 1940 a British Film Institute survey showed that the 30,000 schools in England and Wales had between them only 1,700 motion picture projectors, of which 1,300 were silent. In Scotland, conditions were a little better, for one-tenth of the schools and teaching establishments there had access to a silent motion picture projector. However, such equipment as did exist was very varied and included 35mm, 16mm, 95mm, and 8mm projectors. Much of it was obsolete and a good deal inadequately maintained. In the same year BFI estimated that a total of 2,800 available films were theoretically useful for educational purposes, but panel evaluation by the Scottish Central
EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Hodge has, by intention, severely limited his resume of the educational film's status in Great Britain, preferring to stress the unusually interesting plans underway at this date for wider use of films in the British educational system. The status of the educational film in Great Britain, the role it has played to date in school and out of school, and the problems which face any expansion of the British film program are reported at greater length in The Factual Film (published by Oxford University Press, London and New York, 1947, 260 pages). This excellent report is a survey presented by the Dartington Hall Trustees, prepared by PEP (Political and Economic Planning), an independent research organization. It covers the film situation in England, Wales, and Scotland, as it relates to The Documentary Film, The School Film, The News Film, The Record Film, and The Film and The Public. In it, readers will find a comprehensive discussion of the programs being carried on by such film bodies as the documentary film units, the Ministry of Information's Film Division, British Council's Film Committeee, Scottish Educational Film Association, local Film Societies, Scientific Film Association, Central Film Library, Workers' Film Association, Religious Film Association, and others,
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