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From the foregoing percentages we see that :
the boys prefer the cinema to still projections as an auxiliary element in teaching •
that in the division by age, while in the middle period, that is in the years between 1 3 and 1 6 there is a marked preference for still projections, in the other periods, the preference is for the cinema.
that in the large centres the preferences run for cinematographic projections, while the small centres show more favourable percentages for fixed projections ;
that in the matter of occupations, the workmen and the agriculturists show higher percentages in favour of the cinema than the children in other categories, while the sons of persons of private means and employees, that is those belonging to the more sedentary classes give the highest proportions in favour of fixed projections.,
Answers favourable to the cinema or to fixed projections.
In the following tables the answers favourable or contrary to the use of the cinema are given with the usual divisions in the matter of sex, age, centres and parents' occupations.
The difference of opinion between the votes in favour of cinema projections and against derives on the one hand from a recognition of the efficacy of movement which allows the representation of life in its reality and on the another hand from the possibility of reproducing the details and of bringing forward a picture of the minor particulars which can easily escape the spectator in his vision of the complete picture.
The essential point of the divergence of opinions depends, as a numerous group of students believe, in the rapidity of the vision of the film compared with still projections. In other words, it is believed that the cinema can only be considered the ideal way of teaching when it is possible to stop the running of the film at any given moment so as to impart to the scholars the necessary explanations. As a matter of fact, this is being done to-day with the most recent types of educational films.
The results of the teachers' symposium may be referred to advantageously here. They were published in this review in the number, for August 1931. The percentage of teachers favourable to still projections was 13,76% which corresponds pretty well with that given by the students. — 13.59%. The opinions favourable to the use of the cinema were based in this referendum also on the efficacy of movement showing the real phenomena of actual life as well as on the possibility inherent in the cinema, as opposed to the still projection, of analysing the facts being taught by the master. The fixed projection was considered as being more useful for certain subject matters, as art, science and history where it is not necessary to give the students a series of generic cognitions which can, as elements of general culture, be better supplied by the cinema, or where a detailed study is necessary.
The unquestionable and real value of the cinema as an auxiliary teaching method opposed to fixed projections has been amply vouched for by both teachers and students.