Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-22
MOVIES HAVE
EDUCATIONAL
POSSIBILITIES
Experts, Looking Ahead, See UtiI-
ity for Many Branches Of
Learning.
COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY TO AID
Already Teachers Have Called the
Films to Their Aid in Some
Instances.

WASHINGTON. Feb. III Educa-
tors are looking ahead. For Instance;
Time Nlnteen- nineteen.
place--Classroom in any grammar
school,
Caste--A professor and his pupils.
The Instructor enters and begins
lectnring to his class. Upon screen
behind him moving pictures appear.
They show a laboratory table upon
which is retort and test tubes con
tanning coiorless tquid
human hand, apparently floating
in the air appears. It's fingers grasp
a phial from a shelf beside the table
A few drops from the bottle are
poured into a test tube. The color
less liquid slowly changes TO brill
liant hue The phantom hand Sc
lects another bottle and again pours
a chemical into the tube. The mix
ture again assumes a different color
The phantom hand pours the mix
ture into the retort and places be-
heath ii lighted Bunsen burner. a
milky cloud spreads through the con-
tents.
The Instructor Is teaching chem
istry without the aid Of chemicals
by the movies
Possible Within a Few Years.
All this VIII be possible within a
few yearS say the experts OF the Bu-
reau of Education. IT is impossible
now only because photography in ma
tural tints Is as yet In ita infancy.
Nor will chemistry be the only sub
Ject which can be taught with sue
cess by the aid of motion pictures.
Alfred II. Saunders. Of New York
believes that the field is practically
unlimited And with the aid of MIR.
Saunders the Bureau of Education
has collected considerable amount
OF data upon this subject
During the Boer war Charles Ur-
ban. OF London, dispatched to South
Africa a STAFF of photographers. and
from the films they made the educa-
tional side of the movies received an
impetus which has never tagged.
When the moving picture art was
in it's infancy so-called educational
Aims began 10 appear. program OF;
this character would perhaps incluGe
geography in a reel showing the lab
It's and customs of FIJI islanders, or
athletics. by depicting the physical
culture exercises OF the inmates of
London orphan asylum for boys.
Surgeons Used Films.
Films may now be obtained upon
the subject Of surgery These show
actual operations upon actual pa
tients. DIR. Royen. of Paris, heads the
Est with operations on tumors, dis
eases OF the nervous system and gem
erai surgery,
Ancient and modern architecture
may now be taught from reels show
ing scenes In Italy Sicily. and other
architectural centers Of the world.
Natural science covers an immense
field. and taking few subjects at
random, includes among the Aims on
this subject the life history of the
moth. wild birds in their natural sur
roundings, the growth and blossom
ing of fipwers. etc.
Aerunautics, agriculture, applied
sciences, agriculture, athletics. ball
looming, chemistry, physics, dances
doth civilized and harharic). for
etry, fisheries, hydraulics. hydrogra-
estry. Fisheries microscopes, music
and score OF other studies may all
be found typined In useful and prac-
tical moving pictures.
Chief Obstacle at Present.
Az the present time the chief oh
stacie IN introducing these Aims into
schools seems to be that they were
manufactured primarily for CONNER
cial purposes, bear inserts OF adver-
Using matter, and very often carry,
interlaced through the scenes. a love
story.
Strictly educational films of high
technical order must be especially
prepared
Another obstacle is the State laws
which restrict the operation OF pro-
3ecting machines In New York, II is
pointed out. an operator must he
licensed. There is often some difficul-
~. too. In providing the operating
house" as required by the Board OF
Underwriters
As far as schools and colleges are
concerned. however, il is deemed 20
he entirely practicable for them to
manufacture their own hlms at prob
ably one-tenth tho cost II the reel
were put up for them especially by
some manufacturer