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Visual Instruction in Public Schools 13
(b) The work of visual instruction carried on by the extension departments of state universities such as the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State College.
(c) The recent activities in visual education on the part of state departments of public instruction of which the efforts of the department of North Carolina are typical.
Evanston is by no means in the rear guard of this movement, for motion picture programs, selected for community evening entertainments and for socalled educational afternoon presentations, shown after school sessions, were irregularly carried on several years before the fall of 1918.
At this time four of our grade school buildings, which were provided with projection apparatus, became the nucleus of an earnest endeavor to promote the establishment of a regular circuit of educational films within our own school system. The experiment developed in the following manner. For several months, two and three-reel programs were shown weekly, within school hours. No attempt was made, during this time, to correlate the pictures with the study of text material, but they were given for the general educative information which they might impart. Some attempt was made to announce the titles of the films a day or two in advance of their appearance on the screen, for it was hoped that the teachers might incorporate the picture topics in their language lessons. Typical among the films shown were these — "Mexico's Floating Gardens," "Night Animals," "Furs and Quills," "Screen Telegrams," Pathe and Ford "Weeklies," and kindred material.
Furthermore, there was not, during these first months, any attempt to adapt certain films to different grade groups of children, but all films were shown, without differentiation, to all the pupils of the schools.
The cost of these regular weekly shows was defrayed by an "entertainment fund" which was supplied by the receipts from monthly "diversional movies" in which current drama and comedy plays were shown.
Sample of "diversional show" announcement.
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To Lincolnwood School to our movie and see "Cinderella's" Fairy Godmother turn the mice and pumpkin into a "coach and four." A new film — All star cast — 260 child actors. Two afternoon shows — 3:00 and 4:30. Admission 10 cents.
At eight o'clock another show. One of the world's classics. New films. Also O. Henry's famous story filmed. Admission 15 Cents.