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Movies for Teaching — Rogers 69
There should be an efficient production organization which includes on its planning staff both teachers and educators. This organization should be capable of expansion and contraction as needs require. No large salaries should be paid. Waste in production should be eliminated;
The sales and production organizations should have the guidance of people who have sold text books, slides, and other visual aids.
There should be courses in visual instruction offered to teachers to promote a better knowledge of the value of visual aids and greater familiarity with motion picture projectors.
The use of the motion picture holds out three promises :
1. To teach efficiently, 2. To save time of both pupil and teacher; 3. To save some cost of teaching.
Most of the thinking in connection with the motion picture for teaching has been along the line of the effectiveness of the movie to impart ideas. There are other factors which are of equal and probably greater importance.
With the growing complexity of modern life, with the introduction of the radio, the telegraph, the telephone, the aeroplane, the automobile, we have invented nothing until the coming of the motion picture which will stimulate to quicker thinking, which will enable us to impart information with a saving of time and without a loss of efficiency.
I attach as exhibit a report of some research which was carried on in the schools of New York; New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Meriden, Connecticut. I make no generalizations from the report. It holds a promise. The gist of the facts is that by the use of motion pictures the time for imparting a given amount of information was cut in some instances 40 per cent and in others 623^2 per cent without a material loss of efficiency.
The following list of questions was asked a selected well-informed group of educators and people interested in visual instruction. Their replies are tabulated. Movies are proving their usefulness.
VALUE AND FUNCTION OF MOTION PICTURE
FILMS FOR TEACHING
Function YES NO QUERY
A. Should motion picture films be correlated with existing studies in curriculum? 22
B. Should they be correlated with textbooks? 19 3
C. Should they be correlated with other visual aids? 21