International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1932)

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613 The results of the scholastic inquiry organized by the 1. 1. E. C. among a large number of students with every kind of mentality, of every age and social class lead to one definite conclusion. That is, — disregarding trifling differences in the percentages — the perfect agreement in the reasons set forth by both teachers and students for the employment of the film. The agreement is a proof of honesty and understanding. Both teachers and scholars have ascertained the limits of usefulness of the cinema for teaching purposes, and have noted its possibilities both present and future, its defects and advantages. A deduction may be allowed. The cinema has ceased to be considered as a simple means of amusement and a more or less useful pastime in the public entertainment halls > and has entered as a fully qualified means of education into the severe sites of learning ' there to assist the master and bring him its valuable collaboration, to show once again that teaching can not rely only on the vord, but must avail itself of all the means devised by modern progress in or^der to conquer and flourish. G. d. F.