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 #:
000289
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 OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS 233 which in turn would start the wheels of production in the studios of the world turning out technical products for a market of 200,000 schools, housing twenty million students. Training Teachers for Visual Education Elsewhere in this book (Chapter IX) is given a list of institutions that are known to offer courses in visual education for teachers, with college credit. This work is of first importance in the sane administration of a group of aids peculiarly susceptible to flashy and entertaining results. To this list of universities and normal schools, should be added teachers' institutes, conventions and special schools of instruction. The author has accepted a number of invitations at teachers' institutes to put on a demonstration of acceptable methods of using visual aids in the classroom. Through a special arrangement with a manufacturer of approved motion picture projectors he was able to furnish machines, films and slides, and he was his own operator. From this experience he is convinced that this method of teaching teachers in service is the most available, and capable method of producing immediate and practical results. McLean County Teachers Institute Some county superintendents devote from one to three days to an intensive demonstration of visual education methods before their institutes. Here is a sample program of this character :