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 #:
000279
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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THE FUTURE OP EDUCATIONAL FILMS 225 ducers of classroom films. Although these free films were not designed primarily for the classroom, they were nevertheless used for instructional purposes and drove out the rental films. Institutions that had formed the free habit refused to pay living prices for rental films. When they did rent, they usually rented old prints at cut rates from small dealers who made a business of buying up vagrant prints of this character. The result was to discredit the educational value of the movie for the users and wreck those enterprising individuals who had risked their incomes on educational film production. The free film producers and distributors were not to blame. They invested fortunes to secure films worthy of showing in schools, and they frequently produced the most valuable educational reels. The mischief was due to a lack of discrimination among educational users. Semi-educational propaganda films had a legitimate place and use, but they were not designed to displace the true educationals made by educators for educators as specific adjuncts to the course of study in the classroom recitation. Much of the early teaching with motion pictures was done with these quasi-educational films ; and even serious pedagogical experiments * were performed with these dual purpose films. This labor was by no means lost. The accumulated experience of educators in * "See films used in the Freeman Experiments, Freeman's "Visual Education" (Bibliography) ; also an article, "A Psychological Analysis of Moving Pictures as Means of Instruction," by Carter, which is based entirely on films produced by the publicity department of a well-known commercial firm.