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THE USE OF THE CINEMA IN PRIMARY TEACHING
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titles. Too often they are used too plentifully. They are certainly necessary, but their number should be limited and they should be brief. If it is easy to compile a long sub-title, it is certainly much more difficult to condense in a short simple phrase the idea it is sought to express in words. A good film can be ruined by badly made sub-titles, and the fact cannot be insisted on overmuch.
The necessity for so many precautions clearly shows that only a good teacher can bring a good teaching film to a satisfactory conclusion. The true author is the producer, and it is he who gives life to the film. He prepares the scenes and effects, directs the camera work, orders the lighting, the movements and the dialogue, gives instructions for the development of the film and supervises the printing. He and he alone takes charge of the mounting which gives the style to the picture.
These conditions for the making of a picture are the ordinary normal ones in use in spectacular cinematography, but in the case of a teaching film, they are at present
only a dream. This is perhaps why the scholastic cinema proceeds so slowly.
The collaboration of teachers in the visual composition of a film to be used in lessons is most important. Every film should be made under a single individual direction, that is, under the direction of a professional teacher.
This man must have equal authority and equal responsibility with the regisseur, or producer.
This implies on his part a profound knowledge of cinema technique, and almost professional ability in the details of " shooting " a picture.
It means too considerable knowledge of the art of mounting and a motion picture sense. These are things only acquired with long practice. The teacher producer will have to go through an apprenticeship in the course of which more than one film will be ruined. But such apprenticeship will in future teach him how to avoid costly mistakes, and put him in a position to decide quickly and surely at the critical moment of shooting a picture.
Dr. LUCIANO de FEO, Editor and Responsible Manager
Rome — ■ [-'Universale » Tipografia Poliglotta.