this film will present a digest at some basic research which explains how the use of well selected sixteen millimeter motion picture teaching film has improved instruction theys research studies explain how film experiences may help students learn increased amounts of new information which is remembered longer and which therefore may be applied efficiently to problem solving situations as pupils progress from lower to higher gra without doubt some of the most effective teaching goes on in the primary grades as the teacher begins instruction in reading she know that experience is an understanding as must precede the printed word in its comprehension she recognizes the axiom before the word the idea or reading readiness then reading before the word the idea simply means of the child must first gain understanding is about real things concrete things later the child can associate appropriate understanding with the words or phrases that stand for them the teacher explains this process as we see we learn we read this group is getting ready to read a simple story and johnny's teacher is explaining that before they read they will leave the classroom to visit some of the places and things they will later read about in books in the beginning it is very easy to provide f experiences reading readiness experiences the school neighborhood provides useful and interesting opportunities to see to examine and understand just and they will later meet through words in books understanding their first game by seeing things at first hand watching experiencing these understanding will then be matched to words which stand for them as practice continues  relating ideas to words children soon learn to read which in itself is little more than the process of matching new experience with the property at words back in the classroom the children make a discovery these up and down lines these circles and curves are really words words which stand for the things they solve and now know about the children continue to practice matching understanding's with words and as this happens the remarkable process of reading has begun as reading continues new and more difficult words are introduced this creates a need for more and more firsthand experiencing a need which will continue throughout the entire school experiences of these children this becomes more complicated as the things we read about no longer can be witnessed in the school yard in nearby parks or out in the neighborhood as second graders prepared to read about things would happen far away or are difficult to see in real life the problem of providing readiness for such reading increases it is at this point that the usefulness of the sixteen millimeter sound motion picture teaching film dramatically reveals its self the teaching film can be used to supply many desired experiences which should precede reading in the film reading study conducted by the harriet garman committee dr paul when he and james that water it was discovered that the use of the teaching film can help children learn to be calm better readers but this study measured the way in which the use of eight selected sound motion picture films influenced their reading the reading of second grade children in the study it was revealed that ninety five percent of the children showed improvement in reading it continue to demonstrate that ninety five percent of the children showed vocabulary improvement that seventy percent were able to express more and better ideas during class discussion and that ninety nine percent of the group wanted to continue to learn to read the film experience weighed when these findings were checked against the judg participating teachers they reported the children learn to read faster class discussion improved independent reading increased and vocabulary the key to success in reading was increased in the intermediate grades the need for providing real experiences about things studied continues good teaching methods include the use of pictures the chalkboard models and charts usually before the learners turn to the pages of books for information some of the pupils can recall experiences of their own about pupils larva and insects and they can describe them to their classmates as they rever these but for all the children in the classroom to really understand how things move and roll and develop from one stage to another something else is needed something which can bring living experiences right into the classroom experiences that are as lifelike as reality itself what would happen if sound motion picture films were added as study materials in this classroom reveals the answer to this question in an experiment in the use of films doing the study of natural science science by joe work with over two thousand students he found that film using groups were able to achieve gains gains up to thirty percent above those possible by none feeling used in class groups continuing his study in the area of music he discovered gains of from eighteen to thirty four percent for seventh grade film using groups four weeks later arms by jim edge of the retention of film learn information science film groups of erie already arranged up to eighteen percent music film groups retained up to thirty two percent more information the motion picture film does improve p lewis role inquired seventh graders science vocabulary his study measure the role of a sixteen millimeter stand in motion teaching film in classroom learning situations already judged to be well above average in planning and instructional experience what will happen to science vocabulary growth the role model asked if in classrooms which already use many modern teaching methods the study displays the chalkboard models and specimens we add carefully selected teaching films and still pictures what will be the result of using motion picture films and pictures to explain how fossils actually became entrapped in these specimens how the great sedimentary layers were really laid down how things really happened as we study science romano found his answer greater vocabulary gains were earned by film and picture using groups that grade up to three hundred percent greater vocabulary sixth grade more than twice the vocabulary learned by control groups seventh grade up to two hundred percent greater vocabulary gains than by non film picture groups the efficiency of film materials when used as supplementary experiences in the junior high school science was investigated by rule on the films included visualizations of the formation of the earth's surface the effect of erosion plant life simple animals and the life cycle of frogs real and realize that even the best models in the charts specimens sometimes fall short of helping learners achieve complete understanding that a section of a frog cannot reveal the gradual development from egg to pollywog to adult it cannot explain our frog lives moves swims gets its food or probably get it young to do these things motion is needed animation and start speed photography but what really is the effect of the film use in such situations realigns out the answer among nearly three thousand film and none film using ninth graders and he discovered that students who worked with films as a studied biology and physiology that's learned increasing amounts of information they learned up to twenty percent more information and as important he discovered that recall test revealed that the film using groups retain this information thirty eight percent more completely than did non feeling using groups similar results were recorded by my own henry and others in the basket as the effects of film use were measured among high school students in twenty eight community high schools the result indicated sapir your gains made by film using groups of students in several subject areas in general science in biology in physics and in world geography the use of the sixty millimeter sound and motion picture teaching film can result in greater learning outcomes in the lower grades the film permits children to gain needed first hand difficult to witness experience reading readiness experience which results in understanding understanding which can be associated with words sentences and books to produce reading comprehension reading skill as courses study goals describe a need for understanding people places and cultures that are far away that teaching film reveals more of its many strengths the film can reach out to anywhere in the world to capture real life experiences experiences about foreign people and homes customs and locations music and art the teaching film can bring any of these experiences right into the classroom at the very time they are needed to provide useful concrete understandings to be used during discussion creative writing and reading research evidence accumulated over a twenty year period shows that the teaching film when carefully selected and wisely used under work study conditions can improve instruction by bringing the best of twentieth century communication techniques into any classroom anywhere onto the upper grades and into the high school the teaching film offer is seen and hear and learning ideas which become affective means of enriching learning and preparing youth to better find their places in the society they will enter