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FILM AND EDUCATION
a part of this study, indicates that there are today approximately one hundred forty colleges and universities which maintain film libraries of various types. These types include the regional or state distributing center, the department which serves the campus only, and the unit responsible for the promotion and sale of films produced by the institution.
Despite the early beginnings of university and college film libraries, their growth has been relatively slow until 1937. Sixty-two universities and colleges in the present survey indicated the years in which their film services were established. This information is shown graphically in Figure 1, revealing a very slow development for a period of twenty years. During the last ten years, however, there has been a sharp increase in the number of film libraries established. This general picture of growth is considered fairly accurate even for the total number of such agencies.3 However, in a picture of the development of all existing university and college film libraries, the distinct increase during the last decade would be even more pronounced than shown in Figure 1.
The retarded growth of university and college film libraries prior to 1937 and the more rapid development there after have paralleled the progress made in many other aspects of the audio-visual movement. The technical refinement of the film itself and of projection apparatus, the evaluation of the film as a teaching tool, the acquisition of projection equipment by schools, the production of quality films, and the general attitude of educators toward the use of the film are factors which have influenced the development of university and college film libraries.
Many of the early film libraries built collections of 35millimeter silent motion pictures. With the advent of the 16millimeter film, their collection gradually changed to films
3 A further check on the seventy-eight institutions which did. not furnish exact information concerning the inception of their film libraries indicated that at least sixty of these libraries were established after 1937.
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