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Motion Picture Industry 105 Now since education comes through arousing the inter- est of the child and since the power of the movie to arouse interest is patent to all, it has occurred to many people to draft the movie into the service of the school room. And the trial has been made repeatedly. Every trial has shown some measure of success, but always some critical drawback has arisen to block progress. The flickering light on the screen is hard on the eyes. The projection machine is very expensive. It uses a large current, which may be dangerous, especially as it is likely to set fire to the film. That put it under ban by the insurance interests, and as expensive hous- ing or shelter required. This restricts its use to the audi- torium, and this in turn, takes it out of the reach of class work. The films are very expensive, and for the most part have been made with the one aim of entertainment, or of advertisement, so may not be satisfactory or even usable for purposes for instruction. In short, the whole matter up to the present moment seems like an exhibition of misfit effort, showing in a high degree a lack of intelligent co-oper- ation on the part of the interests directly involved. And yet the perfection of emotion is there; the interest- compelling power of the thing is undeniably there; the possi- bility of large service in school education thrusts itself before the mind's eye and will not down. It remains to bring the mechanical elements of projec- tion to such a point of perfection that the machinery can be forgotten. This is practically an accomplished fact. An analysis of the shortcomings of present day motion picture projection has been made, solutions of the difficulties have been found, and the result is a new projector, shortly to appear on the market, in which the weaknesses of present machines are eliminated. With such projection the eye no longer suffers from flicker, distortion, spasmodic move- ment, etc. One is no longer conscious of the mechanical agency behind the picture. This is but a part of the activity of the Society for Visual Education, which has been recently formed. Edu- cational experts in many lines have associated for the pur- pose of solving the problem in the adaptation of the cinema to purposes of instruction in the schools. All sorts of tests