Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 18-year-old Charlotte Matthiesen told her 16-year-old sweetheart, Donald Carroll, that she was pregnant, they went to a cinema to talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost...
...making is a film on the Harvard Forest, which the staff of the Petersham Forestry School will use to supplement its teaching and in lectures to county agents, state foresters, and owners of timber land. Contemplated are a series of short films on Harvard activities outside Cambridge to show alumni the geographical extent of the University...
Finest example of a garden ungrown is the Harvard Film Service, which has been running under its own power since 1934. Although the H.F.S. can, from the outside sale of films and the rental of projection equipment, eke out its own living, its sources of potential value to the University are being wasted through the indifference of officials. Unlike Dartmouth and Minnesota, both of which provide budgets, Harvard is not yet sold on the usefulness of a department of visual education. Thus, the Service runs on precarious finances, since its income is impossible, to estimate beforehand and the fixed sums...
...functions of the Service are projection of films for classes and the production of instructional films; both suffer shoddy competition from certain departments also interested in movie work. Since the Service has no central control, because it lacks official support, these departments are free to purchase movie equipment. Not only are they unable to buy the best, but they make little use of what they get. Most instructors, too, have no knowledge of how to operate such equipment. Eliminating this duplication of effort would mean that the Service could produce a picture free of charge, exclusive of cost of film...
...been proven by the Graduate School of Education and the defunct Film Foundation that visual education increases the rate of learning by 25 per cent, that of retention by 38 per cent. Progressive schools and colleges are depending more and more upon moving pictures to supplement oral and book teaching. Realizing that the field is still in rompers, the H.F.S. would like to work with the School of Education in doing research. But any research and any end of the waste now rampant because of financial insecurity and duplication of movie equipment are unthinkable without the donation of a reasonable...