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Here and There
Among the reports and newspaper articles collected during the last few months by the press review section of the Institute, under the heading of education, we publish the following extracts to show the increasing interest all over the world in the cinema as a method of teaching.
GERMANY
The Council of the Hessische Lichtbildstelle, an. organ of the Bildspielbund, met at Frankfort-on-Main for the special purpose of discussing the cinema as an instrument of teaching. « Het Lichtbeeld » of Amsterdam, in reporting this conference in its December issue, states that in Hesse film-teaching has so developed that two new cinema training centres have been established for teachers, one at Mainz and the other at Darmstadt. The Bildspielbund, which already had a central collection of films and slides, has created branch depots in various parts of the province. The] Government has devoted substantial credits to the introduction of the cinema into schools, while several towns have purchased projecting apparatus.
The Cinema (London, February 4th) reports an interesting lecture on instructional and cultural films given by Mr. A. Brunei on his return from Germany The lecturer said that 11,000 German schools had now adopted films as an aid to teaching.
GREAT BRITAIN
Mr. Brunei in his lecture urged the need of introducing the cinema into British schools, since the superiority of visual over oral instruction in many subjects had now been proved by experiment.
The Daily Telegraph of December 17th deplores the indifference of the British public towards instructional and cultural films. According to this paper, there are thousands of such films lying stored in Wardour Street in which the theatrical
market and the teaching profession appear to take no interest.
To judge by the following reports, this indifference is more apparent than real and perhaps only signifies a waiting attitude during the transition from silent films to « talkies ». The very next day, in fact, the Daily Telegraph published a letter from Mr. E. P. L. Pelly, Manager of the Western Electric, drawing attention to the establishment in Middlesex of a Committee instructed to experiment with « talkies » for teaching. Mr. Pelly says that if these experiments are successful many teaching films will be made in England.
On December 19th the Daily Film Renter reported that in the House of Commons the competent Minister, in reply to a question, stated that school inspectors were studying the question of introducing the cinema into schools and were closely following the experiments now being made.
The Daily Film Renter of February 9th announced that the Western Electric, in order to encourage these experiments, had made an offer to several British schools to lend them for one day a portable sound apparatus and some instructional films, including the « Life of Sir Henry Segrave », « A Visit to a Coal Mine » and « In a Submarine ».
Meanwhile, according to The Cinema of December 17th, wireless apparatus and cinema projectors are about to be installed in the schools of the North Riding and, according to the same paper (February 4th), several Bradford schools are now equipped for cinema projections, films having been adopted as an integral part of the teaching material.