The Holbrook news., 1919-10-24
FILMS IN SCHOOLS
Writer Sees Vast Possibilities for
 Moving Pictures.
VisuaIIzed Geography and History Among Subjects Which Would Claim the Eager Attention of
 Pupils of All Grades.


 Visualized geography, It Is believed, will beat the maps a good deal fur ther than live bird beats a stuffed one.
 Likewise, visualized history. It is ex- pected, will beat the narratives of the books, which we sometimes say, when they are written by graphic writer, make the dead past live again. But 1t is visualized history that will indeed resurrect the past, so far as moving picture can make scene that is past and gone real again. For these terms, visualized geography and visualized history, are used with reference to the possibilities and the development of the moving picture.
 The president of one of the big nov ing picture companies has been talk ing very eloquently about the use of the film in the schools and surely he brings before our imagination a thou sand school rooms full, not of languid but of eager pupils. Educators are thinking about the same thing, and we may be thankful that they are, for more of fact, information and instruc- ton in the film service to this age, and less of hysteria, emotionalism, cheap farce and thrill is desideratum, | asserts Omaha World-Herald
 The classes in geography will see the mountains, the plains, the rivers, animated by such life as is peculiar to them. They will see the natural products of various countries being cultivated or gathered. Before them Will appear companies of the inhabit- ants of each. In front of the eyes will troop the wild animals of which. they see only the flat prints Tn the books. l They will see exports moving out and Imports moving in, the work at the l wharves, the carrying to the seaboard, the laden ships blowing the ocean. It will be like taking them travelling over the earth to learn what 1t looks ike and they will get the vivid impression that Is made on the eye, and their memory will be associated as by personal recollection.
 As for history, millions have been | able to see on the screen the momen- | tous history that has been in the making during the last few years-the | camps and cantonments, the marching | columns, the moving ocean transports, the busy shipyards, the construction and factory work of the war, the bat l teries in action, the destroyed cities, the flight of refugees, the commando Ing figures whether on the field or in the government cabinet-alI the scenes l of war, of war-swept countries, 1 glimpses of wretchedness and the min 1 istrations of comfort and mercy. Here l after a film record of the more nota. bIe historical events will be kept for what will be both the entertainment
 and the instruction of after genera
 tons.
 It Is going to be a big work to get
 the moving picture installed as com mon equipment for educational work in the schools. Schools will have to
 have the films and the machines, and
 they will require men, teachers or not,
 to operate them. This signifies that
 great development of moving. picture
 facility will have to be made in all
 the appliances and technique connect ed with the exhibition of the pictures.
 The moving picture will-overfow from
 the theater into the schools, for IT
 would be impossible for the theaters
 alone to do the work. It will also be
 necessary to improve the production
 of the pictures on the screen so that
 there will be no problem of vision and
 no over-straining of the eyes of chil-
 dren-a difficulty not yet overcome
 save when equipment and operation
 are the very best.