The courier-index., 1919-08-22
FILMS IN SCHOOLS
Writer Sees Vast Possibilities TOT
 Moving Pictures
vIsusTixed Geography and History Among Subjects Which Would Claim the Eager Attention of
 Pupils of All Grades.

visualized geography, 1t is believed
 will beat the maps good deal TUT.
 tber than a live bird beats stuffed
 one.
 Likewise, visualized history, 1t is ex-
 pected will beat the narratives Of the
 hooks. which we sometimes say, when
 they are written by graphic writer make the dead past live again. But IL is visualized history that will indeed resurrect the past, so far as moving picture can make a scene that IS past and gone real again. For these terms, yisualized geography and visuallzed history. are used with reference to the possibilities and the development oI the moving picture.
 The president of one of the big nov ing picture companies has been taiK- ing very eloquently about the use or the film in the schools and surely he brings before our imagination thou sand school rooms full, not of languid hut of eager pupils. Educators are thinking about the same thing. and we may be thankful that they are, for more of fact, information and instrue- ton in the film service to this age and Jess of hysterla, emotionaiism, cLeap 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 fiat prirtS in the books. They will see exports moving out ana imports moving in. the work at the 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 like. 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 teries in action, the destroyed cities, the flight of refugees. the command ing figures whether on the field or in the government cabinet-all the scenes of war, of war-swept countries, glimpses of wretehedness and the min- istratians of comfort and mercy. Here after a film record of the more nota- ble historical events will be kept for what will be both the entertainment and the instruction of after genera tions.
 It is going to be big work to get the moving picture installed as e 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 a great development of moving picture facility win have to be made in all the appliances and technique connect ed with the exhibition of the pictures. The moving picture will overflow from the theater into the schools, for 1t 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 he no problem of vision and no over-stiaining of the eyes of ehil- dren-a difficulty not yet overcome save when equipment and operation are the very best