Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion pictures for instruction
Date:
1926
Publisher:
New York, The Century Co
Volume:
Motion pictures for instruction (1926)
Leaf #:
000272
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures in education
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"A selected bibliography": p. 433-435; "Important educational filmlists" : p. 435-438
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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CHAPTER X THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS Film Presents New Problem to Schools The film presents an inherently new product to the schools. There are no precedents to follow in dealing with it. Educators do not produce their own apparatus, blackboards, lanterns, scientific instruments, not even textbooks. Educators furnish the ideas, but rely upon the industrial firms to work them up and market them. However, in the film situation a peculiar condition exists. The big producers, who alone have the technical equipment and capital necessary for quality film production have shown no inclination to produce purely educational films. They have not been convinced that the school market could absorb the product in sufficient volume to warrant the deflection of their time and resources from the more lucrative theater field. Moreover, the theater managers have a latent fear that the schools and churches will encroach on their territory. The producers have no wish to offend the theater managers, their best customers, and so they are not interested in the school field. But schoolmen and churchmen everywhere have sensed the educational value of the movies, and as they see the remarkable effects of moving pictures on the 220