Abstract
T HE idea of using motion pictures in education as old as motion pic.ture itself. From day of its invention, educational possibilities of motion picture have been recognized. Edison himself, generally called the father of motion picture, believed from beginning that chief contribution of motion picture would be to education. The motion picture, he said, is destined to revolutionize our education system, and . . . in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, use of textbooks. ' That leading educators of early decades of motion picture development shared this belief seen in a statement made by a school superintendent in an address before National Education Association in 1914:
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