Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

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Visual Education A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE BUSINESS OF AMERICAN EDUCATION Harley L. Clarke, Acting President Forest R. Moulton, Secretary L. M. Belfield, Managing Editor B. C. Brumm, Business Manager William Chandler Bagley, Contributing Editor Subscription Foreign Countries Single Copies Back Numbers . $1.00 a Year $1.50 15 Cents 25 Cents VOLUME 4 MARCH 1923 NUMBER 3 The Study of the Pictured Drama in the High School — Editorial 74 William Chandler Bagley President Harding on Educational Films.. 75 A Visualized Lesson on the Common House Fly 76 II. E. Kleinschmidt Child Health Organizations Merge 78 Motion Pictures in Business: How the Screen Helps the Illinois Central Railroad to Reduce "Loss and Damage" 79 The "Movietorium" — A Railroad Theater Car 81 Word Posters 82 Ruth M. Whitfield Visualized Astronomy — Part II 83 Edwin B. Frost ■ Putting the Blackboard to Work 87 Dorothy Dease Making a Propaganda Motion Picture.. 89 Mary N. Winslow "Why We Use Movies" 91 A digest of the experience of film-users in various fields of work and service 'And the World Laughs With You" 93 Projection Queries and Answers 95 F. R. Moulton The Films in Review 96 Java Flead — Peg o' My Heart — Monte Cristo — Omar the Tentmaker Keeping Abreast of the Screen 98 Brief comments on current films for the information of parents and teachers The Film Field 100 Classified selection of films suggested for school and general non-theatrical use, with addresses of distributors Copyright 1923, by the SOCIETY FOR VISUAL EDUCATION, Inc., Chicago FORECAST FOR APRIL What We Have Gained from School Films A Chicago district superintendent analyzes the "whys" of the failure that met his school's first attempts to use the film educationally, and shows how careful scrutiny of material and methods, followed by a drastic reform of the modus operandi, converted that discouragingfailure into gratifying; success. Safety Movies The place of the motion picture in the safety educational program, with a comparison of different types of films and different plans for using them. Officials of various companies which are utilizing the movie to put new "punch" into their safety work tell of their experience with this medium of industrial instruction. "We Call This Work Visual Education" All who rejoiced in Miss ConnoUy's delightful article in the February magazine— "Making Education Tangible" — will eagerly await her second contribution, an account of how visual education began and spread in this country, with illuminating anecdotes out of her own experience at one of the centers. Visual Education in a National Park A trip to Glacier National Park outlined in helpful detail and viewed as a visual educator, ready to teach any visiting pupil hourly lessons in all the fascinating lore of the Great Outdoors. Illustrations are from Uncle Sam's own picture collection. Motion Pictures in Business How, as part of its Americanization program, a great public utility system put films to work in fitting scattered groups of alien laborers, representing fifteen different nationalities, to pass the citizenship tests. Published monthly by the Society for Visual Education, Inc. 806 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago 220 West 42nd Street, New York