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190 Sixty Years of 16mm Film evaluation and selection seem to be so busy doing it that they can find little or no time to analyze, evaluate, and report the success of their practices and procedures. As Stephen Corey says in the October 1953 Phi Delta Kappan, "It is not as easy to assume the scientific atti- tude under the pressures of day-by-day operations of a school as it is to be scientific in the laboratory. But when steps are taken to improve the quality of the research the practitioner engages in as he wrestles with his practical problems, his solutions to these problems will be better ones." Film users, distributors, and producers must work coopera- tively to refine and improve the techniques of film evaluation and to evaluate and predict accurately how well a film will work, with what group or groups it will be effective, and what the outcomes of the film utilization will be. There ha.ve been several attempts to evaluate motion pictures in group situations not only for the purpose of evaluating motion pic- tures but also for the purpose of improving the skills of the evaluators, testing evaluating instruments, and recommending improvement. One such vanguard film evaluation project was the National Film Evalua- tion Project initiated by Nelson L. Greene in 1939. Another was the cooperative film evaluation and selection project of the American Council on Education's Committee on Motion Pictures in Education. The project involved 5.500 judgments of teachers using films and 12,000 judgments of students seeing films. The reports were syn- thesized into descriptive appraisals of the content and usefulness of five hundred of the best films. The Council's Selected Educational Motion Pictures ( 1942), even though outdated in terms of the film titles it contains, still remains an example of good film evaluation and description A review of the literature and research in the field of film evaluation and selection, a number of years of first-hand experiences in film evaluation and selection, and a study of discernible trends in film evaluation and selection lead the author to conclude that the dozen principles of film evaluation being used most widely in 1954 and most likely to persist until 1983 include: 1. All the best educational motion pictures obey certain common principles which can be identified and subsequently applied to other educational motion pictures in the analysis of their educational possibilities.