VISUAL AND SOUND FILMS
Policy Awaited
DEPARTMENT ACCUSED OF TARDINESS Comment ou the delay of the Education Department in announcing its policy with regard-to visual and sound films in schools was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Education Board by Mr. C. 11. Nicholls, who said the Department had been talking about, the subject for quite a long time, but nothing seemed to have been done.
Mr. Nicholls moved that the Department be requested to expedite any scheme that provided visual and sound films in the schools.
Seconding the motion, Mr. G. M. Henderson said that such teaching aids were bound to come, but the Department had been a bit tardy. In America and Germany much work had been done, and Germany came to Australia to buy educational films taken on the Great Barrier Reef and. various other places. “Personally,” he said, “I don’t think radio in schools is the entire answer. I believe the motion picture theatres could be used if suitable films could be obtained. Large numbers of films are produced specially for educational purposes and they could be screened in the mornings when the theatres are standing empty. It is essential to have first-class pictures to educate the emotional life of the children and to raise the standard of their fellow men.
The secretary, Mr. W. I. Deavoll: We have just received from the department an amended list giving up-to-date equipment and-their prices.” Mr. Nicholls: I happen to know that the committees would like to know how the scheme is going to function, and how the cost is to be met. The chairman, Mr. W. V. Dyer: We’ve asked plenty of times and have received no satisfaction yet. Mr. J. J. Clark: We have a list of machines and their cost, but they have forgotten the most important part, and that is what help are we to get from the department. I’m not. at all in favour of children attending picture theatres as suggested by Mr. Henderson. It would be a retrograde step./ Mr. Henderson: With specially arranged pictures?
Mr. Clark: No. The motion was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 10
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