International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1934)

452 EDUCATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY As we approach the dawn of a new day in industrial life, we realize the worker will have more time for recreation and self-improvement. How will this time be spent ? Perhaps in the near future we shall see adult education, with its different ramifications recognized in a great variety of ways that are not being considered at the present time. If so, the fascinating qualities of the film will make it an invaluable aid to the new education in the days which lie immediately before us. Many agencies in the United States are interested in motion pictures in education ; but, as is reflected in this report, there has been a great deal of conflict and duplication of effort resulting from divergent view-points in the various groups. The lack of uniform standards of equipment and films has also seriously retarded the application of motion pictures in education, even as the lack of mastery of the art of teaching with motion pictures has. A number of signs indicate that there will be more cooperative endeavor in the near future, not the last of which is the fact that representatives of the motion picture industry, various national voluntary organizations, and the Federal Government have cooperated whole-heartedly in the preparation of this report. As United States Commissioner of Education, I wish to express my grateful appreciation for the generous assistance of many persons whose contributions made possible the preparation of this report. To those who attended our preliminary conference on September 25, 1933, we are deeply indebted for their voluntary assistance. Representatives of various universities, city school systems, motion picture producers and distributors, equipment manufacturers, voluntary organizations, and governmental agencies contributed the exhibits. We acknowledge our indebtedness to them, as well as to the hundred or more leaders in the field who read, criticized and supplemented the preliminary draft of this report. To name all to whom we are indebted would be impossible. Parts of the preliminary draft of the report were compiled by : Dr. C. F. Hoban, Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction ; Dr. V. C. Arnspiger, Erpi Picture Consultants ; Mrs. Robbins Gilman, National Congress of Parents and Teachers ; Mr. William Reid, International Union of American Republics. Valuable contributions to the the completed draft of the report were made by : former Governor Carl E. Milliken, Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ; Dr. Edgar Dale, The Pyne Fund ; Dr. Worth Tippy, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America ; Mr. William Kruse, Bell and Howell Company ; Miss Marian Telford, National Safety Council ; Mr. Nelson L. Greene, Editor, The Educational Screen ; Dr. W. M. Gregory, Director of the Educational Museum, Cleveland Public Schools ; Dr. Geo. P. Day and Mr. Arthur H. Brook, Yale University Press ; Mr. W. H. Maddock, Eastman Teaching Films ; Canon William Sheafe Chase, Federal Motion Picture Council ; Mr. Roy W. Winton, Amateur Cinema League ; Dr. John A. Hollinger, Director of the Department of Visualization of the Pittsburgh Public Schools ; Mr. Frederic M. Delano, Motion Picture Research Council, and others. We hope that this report will be of sufficient value to justify the effort of those who have made its preparation possible. If so, we are confident it will mark the beginning of closer cooperation among various agencies both in the United States and abroad in the utilization of motion pictures in education. George F. Zook, United States Commissioner of Education.