FOX GIFT TO EDUCATION

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 7

FOX GIFT TO EDUCATION

Leaders of thought ami (he principals of the most prominent scholastic institutions throughout the world are most emphatic in their statements that the cinema presents, or, rather, opens up, a new line of action relative to the imparting of instruction to tho scholars of all stages in our schools. Groat prominence has been given this new idea in other parts of the world. To-day in England, on the Continent, and in the American and Canadian Universities, the motion picture forms a most important pail of the method of instruction adopted. Special subjects are pictured and shown to the scholars, each screening being preceded and followed by a lecturctte nnd discussion upon the subject under review. Of such great national importance has the screen became that many of tho large producing organisations are debating the question of the advisability of opening special departments in order to cater for the educational bodies exclusively Mr William Fox, president of the Fox Film Corporation, is a pioneer in this direction, and has already established in his vast organisation an important unit known as "The Educational Division." Associated with Mr Fox in this project are a number of brilliant literary men, who will prepare the scenarios for the Educational Division, in conjunction with the school and university representatives. At the present time a number of short fcaturettes have been completed, included amongst them being such subjects as "Bits of Europe," a short resume of the principal history portions of the great Continent; "The Story of Ice," and "Camphor," exclusive scenes of this industry in its natural settings. Formosa.