CINEMA IN EDUCATION

Casual and everyday use of movies as a normal adjunct of education has not yet arrived, but it is well on the way. Yesterday in Fine Arts 5b, the History of Renaissance Scuipture, the art of the cinema and the technical skill of the University Film Foundation were called into service when a picture of the intricate technical processes of bronze and plaster casting were illustrated via moving pictures on a screen, far better than they could have been described by a lecturer.

The University Film Foundation has proved its scope to be practically without bounds. All sorts of pictures, from those of natives and animals of far-off and, consequently, romantic lands to the activities of normal Harvard undergraduates have been under the focus of the lenses of the Foundation. It is to be hoped that the Film Foundation will continue to receive the support which enables it to accomplish its pioneer task of making the movies more than an afternoon's diversion.