Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

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228 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION though satisfactory work could be done in the school laboratory. Studio lights and reflectors will be needed for interior photography. Nature, geographical, geological and other outdoor studies will likewise need the trained educator plus the expert camera man and the advice of experienced directors. It may well be that the modern university will develop the technical camera expert and essential studio equipment, as at the University of Nebraska, or as has the Department of Moving Pictures of the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. Views, however, of campus activities or of only casual educational significance can be taken by amateurs with the school movie camera. Low-priced movie cameras adapted for both professional and amateur use are now on the market. The best, strictly professional movie camera costs $5,000.00, but $150.00 will purchase a movie camera that will do the type of work here referred to. Only cameras taking full width Standard films (35 mm.) should be used. Schools Should Combine and Use the Big Producers Historical plays like the Yale Chronicles and plays illustrative of standard literature should probably be given over to big producers, with faculty guidance on historical, dramatic, literary and ethical values. The path of least resistance to follow just now would be for schools desiring fine technical work on purely educational films to pool their resources and offer the technical producer a volume market which would justify his capital investment. State teachers' associa