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The supervisory and teaching staffs of the schools of the country should be as capable of selecting and using motion pictures as they are competent in selecting and using textbooks. The teaching profession should develop the type of film which will be most helpful in their work. The profession will soon exercise this influence in the making of films if all the interests and obligations which I have specified are discharged in the study, the use, and the adaptability of films to their intended purpose.
There is great need of extensive research in the technique of making films and in their use. When the film is given adequate supervision and the teachers of the nation have centered their attention on it, much valuable information on these questions will become available. Films will then be given much larger use in the schools. When they are generally used in the schools, we shall have films affording richer teaching material, and at much lower prices.
Many of the problems involved in this type of service can be solved in no other way than by the pratical use of motion pictures under adequate supervision of the profession of the country. For instance, what type of film provokes critical ability ? When should a film be used as an introduction to a subject ? When should it be used for review purposes ? How extensive should be the comment of the teacher ? How often should a film be used ? When should the film be stopped for comment by pupil or teacher ? How extensively should subtitles be used ? What feature of a film makes the strongest appeal to the pupil ? Do boys and girls have similar interests in a film ? There is great need of reliable and scientific information on these and scores of other questions relating to the technique of making films, and also in relation to their use. The trained, effective, resourceful teacher is the one who must determine the solution of these problems.
There should be adequate check on the use of films. The film should not become the slave of the teacher. Time should not be wasted in viewing films. The film should be used only when it serves a class-room need. It is not to be used to relieve pupils of work. It is to be used to stimulate interest and work. No film or other agency should ever be taken in the class-room which lessens in any way the influence of the teacher. The most vital influence in the class-room is the teacher. The prestige of the teacher with her pupils should never be diminished. The commanding respect for, and the influence of the teacher must always be supreme if the teacher is to remain a powerful force in the development of character.
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