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In Home and School
Makers and users of educational films will do well to pay due respect to the part played by the "theatre movie" in making possible the store of proved technical facts now available to educational films.
In addition to schools, many churches and clubs are now equipped with either 35 mm. or 16 mm. projectors. Accurate statistics arc not available which reveal the number of projection machines in these two fields. Whatever has been said about the use of the educational film as a whole applies to these subdivisions.
A frequently overlooked phase of the problem is the Cinema Club. In at least a dozen universities a Cinema Club has taken its place with the standard stage dramatic clubs. These clubs are also organized in numbers of high schools. They make a study of motion picture reviews and frequently devote time to actual reviewing. They hold open forums for the members, and opinions pro and con are exchanged. Sometimes papers are read and books dealing with pictures are discussed. Comparison between stories as written and as filmed excites much interest.
These clubs also devote themselves to the experimental production of photoplays, just as the Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania produces various stage dramas.
A typical club will divide its membership among several students so that each may execute one of several necessary duties. In this way the plan of a production unit is followed. The club starts out by possessing a 16 mm. camera. Several members will serve as cameramen; others will divide the work of the director, and
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