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MOTION PICTURES IN EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
BY
Cline M. Koon,
Senior Specialist in Radio and Visual Education.
FOREWORD
" He was a wise man who said, ' Let who will make my country's laws, so long as I may write her songs, ' and I do not think song ever had a greater influence upon the lives and characters of the people of any country than the picture is destined to have ".
Right Hon. Lord Asquith.
' I 'HE motion picture has become a powerful force in national life and is exerting a *• lasting influence in shaping attitudes and ideals. It has a tremendous scope, and so many problems are involved in its utilization that it seems profoundly important that another international congress be called by the League of Nations, through the International Institute of Educational Cinematography, to consider its potentialities in the world today. If the following report contributes even in a small way to the success of the congress, it will amply repay the time and effort involved in its preparation.
The possibilities of the motion picture in international understanding are limited only by the ingenuity of man. It speaks to the learned and the unlearned. It is a popular entertainer of both the old and the young in all parts of the Orient and the Occident. It carries instruction about other lands and other peoples to millions — instruction that could not be given in any other way. Audiences of millions of people of diverse nationalities are but a cross-current of humanity that is entertained and informed by this magical master teacher — a teacher so young, yet so powerful. Its universal emotional appeal and common language, its geographical spread and commercial interests, its financial power and propaganda possibilities make it one of the strongest and subtlest integrating influences in human history.
The whole field of motion pictures is kaleidoscopic. What one thinks today may be a reality tomorrow and obsolete the day after. But these are kaleidoscopic times. Perhaps that is the reason the film appeals so strongly to educators, sociologists, motion picture producers, manufacturers, exhibitors, and the public-at-large. In the field of formal education our rapidly changing social order has greatly complicated the educational process. The learner must master and coordinate a bewildering number of facts. He must explore almost unbounded realms. The teacher needs the aid of science in this age, which science has done so much to make complex. Potentially, the motion picture is one of the chief contributions of science to education — if not the chief — but it is not being fully utilized .