EDUCATIONAL PICTURES

The announcement that the Graduate School of Education is to cooperate with the University Film Foundation in distributing educational films throughout the world marks another step in bringing the motion picture into the field of intellectual endeavor. Since the organization of the Foundation two years ago various branches of the university as well as Harvard Clubs throughout the country have gained much both from the films taken of undergraduate life and the more specifically educational pictures that have been developed along different lines.

In the field of secondary education many opportunities exist which have not been utilized as fully as the technical development of the moving picture industry would warrant. Popular historical films may be an attempt to carry education to everyone, but in general sentimental features have been overworked. Secondary schools could do much in cultivating the tastes of youth by making use of some of the more intellectual types of films.

The Educational pictures of the Film Foundation have already been tried with a large measure of success in the Business School as well as in various courses in the college. It may well be that the experiment at the School of Education by its training of future secondary school teachers and administrators in new uses of motion pictures, will in the long run have an even more significant effect on its broad development.