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}. Margaret Carter National Film Board of Canada
Editor's Note: The Chicago Film AVorkshop is an organization lo encourage the use of audio-visual coninuiuitalions in adult education. It is sponsored bv the International Relations Center and the Adult Education Council of Chicago. The Planning Committee is made up of representatives from these organizations, as well as the American Library Association, Chicago Public Library, National Council of Y.M.C.A.'s.
At the meeting, which is reported here, two films were used to offer background information for a forum discussion on the subject, "Economic Security or Inflation-Depression?" The films shown on this program were Tlie Business of Fai'ining (National Film Board of ( ;iMa(la) and Slory With Two Endings (Office of War Information). In abbreviated form, a report of the Chicago Film Workshop meeting has been prepared for you in an effort to illustrate the place of the current problem-type film.
"* HE iollowing article consists of excerpts from an actual cussion which was based upon ? two films Business of Farming d Stoi-y With Txvo Endiyigs. mitations of space prohibit the inting of the complete discusn. This cutting includes less m one-fourth of the entire dis>sion. From these excerpts, howiT, the reader can easily sense I breadth and depth of the dis5sion which ensued. The reuks of the panel and of the dience brought out the widest ige of opinion, set forth a rich ay of facts, and opened inincrable a\cnucs for fmther
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study. These are purposes which the sound film adequately fulfills.
The reader will notice that the discussion rose not only from points which the films illustrated, but also that discussion was projected upon points not included in the film. This is as it should be. No single film or group of films can tell completely the ^\hole story of major social or economic problems. The film serves not only to offer information and j^oints of \iew but stimidates thinking and raises (juestions beyond its own actual content.
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