Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

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THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS 245 problems have sold it to the school systems. A plan to present it in the same way to school systems from coast to coast has recently been consummated so that its range of usefulness may be extended to the whole country. Should the larger school systems, or others having already had sufficient experience to warrant their own initiative, wish to add a wider range of films to illustrate these and other subjects in the school program, it will be easy to select additional films from the lists given in this book. Purchase films have no part in the plans of the Neighborhood Motion Picture Service. Its plans contemplate schools renting, rather than owning films. The author believes that ultimately schools should purchase their libraries of films for continuous use during the year, just as they purchase books for the library, slides, stereographs, stereopticons, motion picture projectors and other useful school apparatus. However, while we are waiting for this ideal condition to occur, the author knows of no practical film service, or combined film and projector service that compares with that offered to schools by the Neighborhood Motion Picture Service. As far as the author knows there has been no communication between the Neighborhood Motion Picture Service, Inc., and Visual Education, Ltd. of London, and yet the film pamphlet of this latter organization which has just come to hand, shows that the same conditions, demanding the same service, obtain in Great Britain. Their plan of service to the schools lies so closely along that of the Neighborhood Motion Pic