Teachers can improve classroom procedure by producing and showing their own 8mm films, while building a library of effective teaching aids. These motion pictures are conceived as intrinsic parts of a teaching plan, and are designed to explain a single idea or concept. Single-concept or specific-objective films generate a high degree of student…

The second edition of the Extension Media Center (EMC) bulletin contains concise information about EMC films in areas such as anthropology, arts and sciences, documentaries, drug abuse education, ecology, education, ethnic studies, film education, futures studies, social studies, and women. Films are listed alphabetically by title, with EMC staff…

This book is a selected annotated list of 299 short films that have been tested for their appeal to children 3-12 and for their pedagogical qualities. Each entry contains a description of the film and a brief note suggesting the application of the film in the classroom. The main entry section is introduced with a discussion of how a children's…

This book is a guide to the making of films. It covers preparation (scripting, storyboarding, budgeting, casting, and crew selection), filming (directing, camera operating, and sound recording), and postproduction (editing, sound dubbing, laboratory processing, and trial screening). Distribution of films is discussed in detail. Possible careers in…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted to the International Film and Television Council (IFTC) the task of collecting documentation on world cinematographic organizations, in order to provide developing nations with information useful to the establishment of similar services adopted to their…

Reports on the visit of five American filmmakers to the People's Republic of China in 1979. Includes their observations of film and television facilities and reviews their meetings with actors, writers, directors, producers, archivists, historians, teachers, technicians, and other film workers and students. (JMF)

Surveys the structure of different types of short films. Analyzes the short film as a rhetorical entity and considers production techniques and patterns of distribution. (PD)

Describes a number of nonnarrative films and suggests ways to use them to integrate media into subject areas, to teach production techniques, to critique films and other visual productions, and to develop good visual taste. (DD)

An annotated listing of 13 films dealing with population concepts that have been used at the University of North Carolina and in the Chapel Hill public schools.

This article tells how to produce your own classroom movies. (PD)