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THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS 249
film in its legitimate uses, so cogently and eloquently that the whole passage deserves quotation :
To a greater extent than any still representation, the cinema is able to present objects as they actually exist, move and have their being; bring distant peoples into the classroom and show them actually going about their ordinary pursuits as they really did in the distant land when the picture was being taken; or, better still, it in effect transports the spectator to the distant land and enables him to mingle and live with its inhabitants, to view the country from the observation platform of a railroad train as it winds its way through the chasms and valleys and mountains, or to stand beneath the waterfall many hundreds of miles away and almost feel the spray upon his brow.
Motion pictures overcome time and space. By means of them rapid processes can be slowed down and analyzed; slow processes can be accelerated; inanimate objects become animate; dead facts made to live and pulsate. Attention can be held and concentrated and the memory more deeply impressed by the moving image projected on a brightly illuminated screen in a darkened room than by ordinary teaching methods.
Scientific experiments and demonstrations performed with this ideal equipment and under the best possible conditions, and operations performed in the clinic can, by means of motion pictures, be repeated indefinitely anywhere and at small expense. Microscopic life can be enlarged many times on the screen, so that what can ordinarily be seen with great difficulty through the microscope by only one at a time can easily be viewed on the screen by the entire class. Motion pictures expand the experiences of the pupils by bringing to them the whole wide world. Schoolroom instruction can by this newer medium be made more pleasant, less expensive in the long run and immeasurably more efficient.