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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25389, 12 January 1948, Page 6

One of Britain’s chief motion picture companies, which has always consulted practising teachers in the preparation of its educational films, has carried the principle a step further by testing productions in the “rough-cut” stage on regular school classes. The films are introduced when the topic is taken in regular class lessons and the film director, script writers, and technicians, unobserved, watch the reactions of the children and afterwards analyse the pupils’ written exercises. It was found the children grasped principles more firmly from films, but that in some cases it is necessary to sacrifice technical smoothness. For instance, some sequences must be taken more slowly and shots held longer to enable young minds to comprehend the material. It has been found useful to relieve diagram films with occasional “live-action” shots to maintain interest