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In Home and School
at random, indicate that educators have been giving careful thought to the possibilities moving pictures offer them.
Russia produces almost as many films as the United States, but comparatively few of them are talking pictures. Only a fraction are destined for purely entertainment usage. The U.S.S.R. uses the silent film projected from portable traveling projectors mounted on trucks to bring quick education to its more remote provinces.
Apparently, the greatest immediate barrier of educational films is in the field of distribution. Conditions would be better, undoubtedly, if there were fewer and larger distribution outlets, and if all major outlets had a standard policy. As it is now, some concerns offering films lend them free of charge. Comparatively few rent them in the customary manner of the commercial field. Most of the companies making a business of educational footage demand that the schools buy the prints outright. Unless they are supported by some heavily financed foundation, free films will always be tinged with the suspicion of editorial influence. Some choice will eventually have to be made between sales and rental of educational films. It is hoped that the schools will at an early day work out satisfactory plans for giving boys and girls the privilege of having talking pictures.
Walter Evans, expert in the use of 16 mm. film for classroom use, offers these valuable suggestions to those schools that are using educational films or to those that are eager to use them.
"Two developments in the field of educational films
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