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. 2l-Educa-
tors are looking ahead, For instance:
Time--N intecn- nineteen.
Place-Classroom in any grammar
school.
Caste--A professor and his pupils
The instructor enters and begins
lecturing to his class. Upon screen
behind him moving pictures appear
They show a laboratory table upon
which IL a retort and test tubes con-
tanning colorless liquid
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 bril-
liant hue The phantom hand Sc
lects another bottle and again pours
a chemical into the tube The mix
ture again assumes different color.
The phantom hand pours the mix
ture into the retort and places be-
meath II lighted Bunsen burner. a
milky cloud spreads through the con-
tents.
The Instructor Is teaching chem
iHtry without the aid OF chemicals
by the movies
Possible Within a Few Years.
All this will be possible within
few years say the experts Of the Blu
reau of Education. 1t Is impossible
now only because photography In ma
tural tints IN az yet In It's infancy.
Nor will chemistry he the only sub
Ject which can be taught with sue
cess by the aid OF motion pictures.
Alfred n Saunders, OF New York,
believes that the field is practically
unlimited. And with the aid of Mr.
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 stan OF photographers, and
from the Aims they made the educa-
tional side OF the movies received an
impetus which has never tagged.
When the moving picture art was
in Its infancy o-called educational
Aims began TO appear A program OF
this character would perhaps include
geography In reel showing the hab
It's and customs of FIJI islanders. or
athletics, by depicting the physical
culture exercises OF the inmates OF a
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
TENTS Or. Royen. OF Paris. heads the
list with operations on tumors. dis
eases Of the nervous system and gem
crai 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 a few subjects at
random, includes among the films on
this subject the life history OF the
moth. Wild birds In their natural sur
roundings, the growth and blossom
ing of flowers, etc.
Aeronautics. agriculture, applied
Eciences, agriculture, athletics, bal
looming. chemistry. physics dances
1both civilized and barbaric). for
stry. Fisheries, hydraulics, hydrogra-
estry. fisheries. microscopes, music
and "A score of other studies may ali
be foundstypihed In useful and prac-
tical moving pictures
Chief Obstacle at Present.
At the present time the chief OBJ
stacle in introducing these films into
schools seems to be that they were
manufactured primarily for CONNER
ciai purposes, bear inserts of adver-
Using matter, and very often carry.
interlaced through the scenes, a love
story
Strictly educational films OF a high
technical order mast be especially
prepared.
Another obstacle is the State laws
which restrict the operation of pro-
lecting machines. In New York. 1t is
pointed out, an operator must be
licensed. There is often some difiicul-
~ TOO. IN providing the operating
house" as required by the Board of
Underwriters.
AS far as schools and colleges are
IL. g. A a
he entirely practicable for them to
manufacture their own Aims at prob
ably one tenth the cost II the reel
were put up for them especially by
some manufacturer.