An increasingly popular form of mass media persuasion is the "docudrama," a hybrid of the informative documentary and the dramatic film. The docudrama format presents viewers with a purposive viewpoint or value-laden interpretation of reality and contains some degree of historical accuracy and factual authenticity. The docudrama also…

Using great literature to clarify and to improve students' writing is like using the unknown-literature to explain the only slightly less unknown--the writing of compositions. An alternative is to study films to foster an awareness of technique, for films contain many of the same rhetorical and structural devices as literature. It is possible to…

A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF THE EFFECTS UPON LEARNING ACHIEVED FROM (1) EXISTING COMMERCIAL FILMSTRIPS, COMBINING VISUALS WITH PRINTED CAPTIONS AND (2) SIMILAR FILMSTRIPS, COVERING THE SAME CONTENT BUT PRESENTED IN SMALL, PREVIOUSLY TESTED SEGMENTS WITH ACTIVE RESPONSE REQUIRED OF THE STUDENT. ALSO, ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO (1) STUDY THE EFFECTS OF…

THE PRODUCTION OF TWO EDUCATIONAL FILMS, ONE BY MEANS OF CONVENTIONAL PROCEDURES AND ONE BY MEANS OF PROGRAMING PROCEDURES CHARACTERISTIC OF SELF INSTRUCTION, AND THE TESTING OF THESE TWO FILMS IN USE-SITUATIONS WERE THE PURPOSES OF THE STUDY. FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE EXPERIMENT. THEY WERE DISTRIBUTED AMONG FIVE…

THIS STUDY PLOTS THE QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF THE GROWTH OF AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRINCIPALLY OVER THE PERIOD, 1930-60. ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT ARE CONSIDERED ONE CATEGORY OF THE GROWTH OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICAN EDUCATION. THE TYPES OF EQUIPMENT SELECTED FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GROWTH PATTERNS WERE…

THE RESEARCH IS PUBLISHED IN TWO DOCUMENTS--BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABSTRACTS--WITH THE BIBLIOGRAPHY SECTION INCLUDING ACADEMIC RESEARCH, EXPLORATORY WORK, EXPERIMENTS, TRIALS WITH NEW METHODS, AND UNCONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS, WHILE THE ABSTRACTS INCLUDE ONLY AUTHORITATIVE RESEARCH DIRECTLY RELATED TO LEARNING. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY GIVES A REFERENCE NUMBER,…

A one semester teaching practicum for graduate students inaugurated at the Cornell University Psychology Department has provided for the development of sophisticated educational materials to supplement teacher presentations. To date, the most ambitious project has been to develop some of the vast material on human behavior in the national…

This evaluation of instructional materials is based on data collected from statistical summaries, predictive instruments, teacher and student reactions, in-depth studies, evaluation seminars, and observations. The materials covered are divided into two categories: (1) 16mm films and (2) building-level materials, including such items as filmstrips,…

This monograph compares the advantages, limitations, and liabilities of videotape recording, 16mm, and 8 systems with special consideration to their deployment in the tropical conditions that prevail in Bangladesh. The first part of the text is a comparison of the three systems. Both video and film systems are discussed in terms of their technical…

By 1966, requests made to the Pennsylvania regional film library far exceeded the center's capacity to deliver. Hiring additional media specialists and technicians and computerizing the request procedure served only to multiply the number of requests. A federally-assisted statewide program provided for a central agency to convert older media…

The communication of messages from teacher to student often includes visual representation of the material under study. The place of mass media in the classroom becomes increasingly important as materials are developed and made available. Films and filmstrips of all types can be utilized in many ways, some of which have been the subjects of…

The significance of Bergman's "Seventh Seal" lies not in the speeches nor in the actions of the central characters but rather in the film's form, its totality created by the emotive elements of imagery and sound together with the intellectual elements of actions and words. The scene-units are related to a central motif (the opening of…

The purposes of the project described were to demonstrate the use of innovative stimulus shift techniques in articulation and language training, and to experiment with use of motion picture photography in the education and instruction of clinicians and therapists working with speech handicapped children. A 37-minute sound color film was produced…

Four 5-minute films on articulation were produced and evaluated for a study on the effectiveness of film in providing preservice clinical experience for speech clinicians. Subjects were divided into experimental groups composed of students in an introductory speech course (Group One), beginning speech majors (Group Two), experienced speech…

Part one of this document contends that most film teachers are overly concerned with the technological aspects of filmmaking and not concerned enough with film as art form. It urges that students be encouraged to use film to express their personal artistic visions, just as they use other art forms in the university curriculum. Part two describes a…