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on Teaching Films Survey 23 as contrasted with frankly autocratic responsibility in matters of film planning and production. Without disparaging the final re sult, which he thinks good, in fact better than average, Loveland states frankly that he considers the first script written by Jacoby better than the fourth or final script which was actually followed. "Too many cooks." In the case of this film, its originators were strong advocates for dramatizing subject matter by presenting it through the medium of interesting fiction. Other members of the T.F.S. committee were divided on this point. Mayer agreed with the Holt people, Dr. May with the dissenters. Changes actually made in the script were not of a particularly fundamental nature, for on the pivotal question of fictional versus expository form the originators of the film had their way. Thus to some extent Loveland deplores too extensive coopera tion in the planning of the film—cooperation in the sense of re stricting influences which it was necessary either to accept or to refute. Conversely, Loveland wishes that it had been possible for the film editor Hopkins to concern himself more than proved feasible with matters of casting and direction. He feels that the film would have been even better had Hopkins had the time to do this. Thus on neither count does Loveland's interpretation of the Henry Holt experience in cooperative film planning and pro duction give comfort to persons who are disposed to make a fetish of the value of the cooperative action at the expense of centralized responsibility when the arts rather than politics are involved. This film became available for testing purposes in the late spring of 1947. The extent to which its use increased student knowledge and understanding of the subject was carefully meas ured by Dr. May's research staff at Yale in behalf of the Commis sion on Motion Pictures. The results were decidedly favorable to the film as actually made, in so far as it is possible, without an objective measuring unit, to distinguish at all between favorable and unfavorable results. The Commission's sanction of the pro duction of this film in conformity to the script as submitted was conditioned upon the expectation of reshooting the picture with the fictional element left out. Whether or not the apparently