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 #:
000276
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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222 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION are mostly the partly worn-out prints of the theaters, frequently obtained in irregular fashion by film brokers and doled out to schools at whatever rental rates they could be prevailed upon to pay. Film showing in schools cannot compete with the theaters in general entertainment values; for entertainment is the peculiar field of the theater and it has mastered that field with a wealth of effects impossible to amateurs. Films for instruction, however, come within the peculiar field of the schools and they should combine with professionally trained producers to bring the educational film to its highest technical and pedagogical possibilities. The Risks of Educational Film Production The attempts made by educators or those interested in the educational film to produce classroom films for serious study purposes have practically all ended in financial loss, or at best in profits too modest to bear any comparison with theatrical producers. One has only to recite the list of the brave adventurers in the educational production field, to realize the truth of the above statement : American Motion Pictures Corporation. Beseler Educational Film Co. Bray Productions, Inc. Community Motion Pictures. J. E. Holley. Lincoln & Parker Film Corporation. National Non-theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc. George E. Stone. Charles Urban (Kineto).