Films Advance School Study

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 159, 8 July 1939, Page 5

Films Advance School Study

<_ lII* AG( > A forum '.hi Vi-ual Teaching Aids conducted by educators from • ges in this a.eu and surrounding States dealt not only - ■. ■ ' ■ with slides. Him slide.-. an I micro slide.-. Greatest empha.-is was placed on a study of sound and silent movies and ii classroom work, us urried out in a .-''lies of clinics staged eu i’r"i'i schools in the Chicago ;re:«. A natural science lesson for a third grade class included showing of a dim on plant root.-, with tlic actual •■' »d ol • th depicted by animat • die wing.-. A high school language lass viewed “I.es Ginaux de France.” . geography him with graded Fiomd; ; ai 1 “M» ci an Ton , ” gndrd spani-h dialogue—-bot h selections giving the students the beneiit ol combined sight and sound in foreign Other high school groups demonstrated the solution of physical J. 1.. Ikn.-'n. chief of i.ie Bureau of Visual Instruction, of the University of \Vis<-on.-in, told how films are made by hi< department in < o-operation with the ! ni'.er-ity photographic- laboratory. Productions thus far include movies on mid ■•are and training, highway mainhorticulture, dahlia care, I'ni’■r«7,y a-rii\ities, co-operative move-1 n• r !>. and <-on-ervation of soil and ; water. Students from Lane Technical ilr.'h S hool in Chicago illustrated how •icv ere lilming well-known stories by minting their own scenery and baekind and using puppets as act »rs. Paul <■. Edwards, head of the Visum Edu-at ion Department of the Board of iLdm-ation of Chicago, reported that la-t. iyear <J:i<-ago schools used IoO.UOU reels ■■f lilms mid that in the past eight, year-|n.-tvp increased the amount of film used 1.500 time-. The film- shown covered | nearly every branch of the curriculum, Hmduding social science, art. music, his*at cnee, mathematics, and languages. Efforts to secure the co-operation of j Hollywood producers in releasing their .-“dm ational shorts in IG-millimetre size ift'r they have lost their box office \alue. were told by Fanning Ilearon, ! ti’c Director of the A-socialion •t School Film Libraries. Hi- organist! ion, which is supported by the Kockc- : feller Foundation, has' recently secured lights to March of Time subjects and to educational ami industrial shorts produced in European countries. Ma;:.’ foreign lilms arc in demand by schools, because Hwy combine language training in midilion to geography, histor-. ■•.nd customs. ** What’s the matter, old fellow.’ Von I look desperate.” I “So I am. Six hours ago I telephoned my wife that 1 could not come home to | supper, aud told her the reason.’’ I “Then there’s nothing to worry ’about.” “But I’ve forgotten the reason 1 gave her. ”