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UNIVERSITY FILM FOUNDATION 165
for serving schools and other groups in the smaller cities, towns, and rural regions, as shown in Exhibit 6.
Exhibit 6
State Boards of Education and Museums Spending $1,000 or More
Annually for Films, Slides, and Photographs
American Museum of Natural History, Department of Public Education,
New York City $3,000
Amount spent for new material varies considerably but does not exceed $5,000. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No definite allotment. Has collection of 300 films and 30,000 photographs.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1,000
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York 1,400
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, New York 8,150
Kent Scientific Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1927) 1,332
Los Angeles County, California 3,5°°
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey 4,000
$1,500 annually for films; $1,500 for slides; $1,000 for photographs. North Carolina State Board of Education, Raleigh, North Carolina 5,ooo
Total annual budget of $8,ooo with $5,000 for new films.
No data were available on the use of films in university and college courses. It was thought, however, that the 500 accredited higher institutions in the country should be an extensive field for development, particularly since the use of films in collegiate work with larger classes would mean a relatively small increase in expenditure per student.
Many museums today are equipped with projection machines and a number carry on considerable activity with films and slides. The American Museum of Natural History in New York has probably done more in this way than any other museum. This museum has a new building, specially equipped with film vaults, editing and projection rooms, etc. It gives regular exhibitions of films on certain days of the week and has five motor cars for circulating the films and slides to the schools. The advantages that films possess for museums, however, have been little realized, probably because of the lack of films suitable for their purposes. When specially prepared films are available, the museums will doubtless adopt them generally for many purposes and will become the centers for exhibition and distribution.
Though employing practically no films at the present time, libraries offer distinct possibilities for development. It is not too visionary to look forward to the time when sufficient good films exist to justify libraries keeping copies and making them available to students and the public.
Churches represent a great field for films of educational and cultural content. Many of them already have projection machines. A large number give regular exhibitions on Sunday evenings or during