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TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL FILMS
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that of national defence. If this be true, should not the professional educator be as particular as to the quality of the tools he uses for visual education as the professional soldier is as to the range and trajectory of his lethal weapons?
In this connection we would suggest some concerted movement of educational agencies against the legal restrictions as to fire hazard that hamper users of standard film. These restrictions are based, and quite properly, on the fact that most 35mm. film is nitrate stock. But, since safety film has now been developed till it compares quite favorably with nitrate, why not outlaw all nitrate film for projection purposes, and thus free 35mm. film from the handicap under which it now labours, as compared with sub-standard film? In conclusion :
We are confident that the time is ripe for an era of great expansion in the use of the motion picture as an educational tool. We feel that the most important factor tending
to delay such expansion is the appalling dearth of truly educational films, films intelligendy designed for specific educational purposes. Such films, we believe, will never be produced successfully under the influence of the commercial studio, or even under the auspices of producers of so-called « industrial » pictures. We are inclined to believe that the truly educational film eventually must come almost exclusively from agencies devoted wholly to the public interested, from various governmental sources, including the State Universities, and from other important institutions of learning. We feel that it is to the Universities that we must look now for the development of the pedagogical film. The pioneer work that has been done in our country along this line by Yale University, Harvard University and recently by the University of Chicago, may be cited as exemplifying the type of production that promises most toward furthering the motion picture as a tool for teaching.
Dr. LUCIANO de FEO, EdiSor and Responsible Manager Societa Editrice di « Novissima » Roma Via Romanello da Forli, 9