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Educational films
BY LOUIS M. BAILEY
AUGUST 1930
Visual aids program
Various aspects of visual education in elementary, high and secondary schools were discussed at a very interesting and successful meeting of the New Jersey Society of Visual Instruction held recently in Newark, it is reported by Lawrence R. Winchell, supervising principal of the New Providence, New Jersey, Public Schools. A report on amateur motion pictures in school activities was presented by John A. Spargo, Assistant Commissioner of Education of New Jersey; the value of teacher training in visual instruction was discussed by Mrs. Jane Plenty of the Newark State Normal School; Miss Mary Deans of Newark told of the use of the history films, Chronicles Of America, in the Newark schools and several other informative reports were delivered.
Two courses on visual instruction, in the more advanced of which, data on amateur motion picture photography in its application to school work will be presented, are offered by Mr. Winchell at the summer session of Rutgers College.
Mr. Winchell's work in the visual field has been both prolific and highly beneficial, he being prominently identified with this movement in New Jersey. Courses on visual instruction, such as Mr. Winchell is presenting at Rutgers, are included in the summer work of several universities in various parts of the country. Through their accomplishments, an ever-broadening application of amateur motion pictures to school programs is being aided.
Welfare showing
Projected at an entertainment given in the auditorium of the Unity Church for the benefit of the Smith College gift fund.
School, medical, civic, industrial, welfare, art and allied
uses
films taken last summer by Miss Teresa Kirby of her European trip met with a most enthusiastic reception, it is reported • by the Springfield
Union, Springfield, Massachusetts, in a recent edition.
The pictures cover the entire tour, starting at the boarding of the S. S. Republic with the farewell to friends in New York and continuing with interesting sights recorded throughout Europe. The films are described as being photographically excellent, containing interesting shots of Rome and fine views of the canals of Venice. Pictures of the guard changing at Buckingham Palace were secured and of Austrian troops goose-stepping, as well as scenes of Oxford, the English countryside and of quaint villages and famous ruins in Scotland. The film closes with scenes of the storm which the Republic encountered on the return trip and of the press cameramen at the dock in New York photographing the sailors who were rescued at sea by the crew of the Republic. The film was taken entirely by Miss Kirby, who also did the titling and editing.
Such personal films, utilized at public showings for entertainment, are successfully employed in charity programs by amateurs everywhere. Their use for such worthy purposes is gratifying to the maker of the films and, in many instances, (Continued on page SCO)
Classday tug-ofwar filmed for Rutgers records