Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

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224 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION competent school men and women to edit not only the classroom films they produced, but a series of teachers' leaflets as well which are models of practical pedagogical treatment, and have had a very wide use in the schools. Many of the Pathe Educationals are placed in the Film Libraries Outlined in Chapter II, and a sample Teacher's Leaflet is given in Chapter V. Most of the Nature study films used by the Neighborhood Motion Picture Service (p. 241) are the Pathe Screen Studies. The new series of the Ford Educational Film Library, while not made by a theatrical producer, is nevertheless an example of experienced direction and ample capital applied to true educational motion pictures. These have editors similar to those of the Pathe Screen Studies, and issue teachers' leaflets of a high degree of excellence to accompany each film. The Ford management has wisely decided to sell their prints directly to schools on non-inflammable stock, practically at cost, thus encouraging the movement for permanent film libraries to be owned by the schools themselves. Pathe has a long-time lease arrangement which amounts to much the same thing. The extensive Ford list is given under Purchase Films in Part II. Free Films Drove Out Rental and Purchase Films Free films of a semi-educational nature issued by industrial concerns and welfare organizations, while apparently a godsend to schools and churches at the beginning, operated in the end to discourage the pro