International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1932)

— 800 of the new technique that gives to the survey a sense of satisfaction with what has been accomplished and an optimistic outlook for the future. Interspersed through the report are Dr. McClusky's interesting comments on the findings. For instance : " In our normal thinking process, one never has an isolated idea, the counterpart of the still picture. The ' stream of thought ' is continually on the move. It may be that the motion picture secures its educative power from the fact that it is a counterpart of thought ". Similar interesting comments have come from the folk engaged in production. It is enlightening that Dr. W. R. Whitney, one of the leading technical authorities of R C A Photophone, Inc., who has concentrated his experimentation with pedagogical films on such subjects as " The Action of Forces in Space ", " Constitution and Transformation of the Elements ", " Arrangement of Atoms and Molecules in Crystals " and " Oil Films on Water ", should say : " // is probably easier for Jackie Coogan to learn to break a window perfectly and for Charlie Chaplin to fix it one hundred percent, than for a scientist to appear excited over telling an old story to a cold gadget in a whitehot room. The fact that the film shows the defect so perfectly heightens my respect for the motion picture art '. . In concluding, Dr McClusky points out in a series of terse paragraphs what he con siders the responsibilities of educators and schools toward a further development of visual education in teaching and what responsibility he conceives the motion picture industry, as the creator of motion picture texts, must assume toward the completion of a task better begun than most educators realize. I may add one paragraph which has significance principally because of Dr. McClusky's association with visual instruction since 1 922 when he became the secretary of the important research committee of the general study above mentioned and because of his continued activity as one of the leaders in the field of secondary education in this country : " Modern education has become very complex. It is the fashion to criticize its methods and practices. Terrific pressure is being brought to bear on educators to train children in all phases of modern life. Present methods will not suffice for that accomplishment. Only through the greater efficiency of visual aids can the curriculum be expanded to accomplish the desired goal. The vital need will be integration of the varied subject matter presented and that will increasingly become the function of the teacher ". Those who have had access to the report say of it that it is a handbook of information of such value that it should be possessed by anyone engaged directly or indirectly with visual instruction. A UNIVERSITY FOR TEACHING BY THE FILM TO BE OPENED IN LONDON An important move in the field of educational cinematography has been made by Sir James Marchant in collaboration with Sir Oswald Stoll, and consists in opening in London a university where instruction will be given solely by the film. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott has prepared the plans for the university, which will have a central hall and several minor halls for conferences, fitted with cinema projectors. A planetary Zeiss telescope will be installed in the dome of the building. The films to be shown will be extended over entire courses, or will deal with special experiments carried out by experts in the various branches of human knowledge such as history, science, geography, travel, literature, the technics of industry, "languages and technical instruction. The meetings will take place both in the