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THE EDUCATIONAL FILM IN CANADA
Sources of Educational Film
In addition to the film programs of the federal and provincial governments, other agencies of distribution to be considered include the National Film Society, the various University Extension Departments, the community film libraries, and the commercial film companies.
The National Film Society
A group of public spirited Canadian educators and laymen established the National Film Society in 1935 to encourage and promote the study, appreciation, and use of educational and cultural motion pictures. During the first five years, important work was done by means of surveys, articles and speeches to promote the use of audio-visual education, and some ten local Film Societies were organized in the larger cities to show outstanding films not usually available in commercial theatres. In 1939, a lending library of films was set up with the help of the Imperial Relations Trust of Great Britain and the Rockefeller Foundation. In addition to being a national clearing centre of information on film, the Society took on the task of procuring and distributing educational film.
The Society's present collection of films include about 3,000 different titles classified by the Dewey Decimal System under some 800 subject headings. In addition to prints purchased from commercial educational producers, this library makes available to the public National Film Board releases and many government-produced films from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other countries. For some of these countries, the Society re-distributes the films on a deposit basis to the educational film libraries across the country.
In building up a comprehensive national collection of
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