Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lyman Clark, president of Fox, utility tycoon, became interested in cinema through consideration of its use as an educative medium. In 1920 he founded the Society for Visual Education, invested a half-million dollars in producing educational films. When the 25 school super intendents approached Fox last year to see what could be done about manufacturing sound films for school use, Mr. Clark agreed to manufacture films for schools if it could be demonstrated that the. schools were prepared to use them...
...like of which he had never actually seen. He pictured it curved, pointed at one end, fastened to a string at the other. The child modeled a piece of iron according to his vision and thus had the hook which he needed to catch frogs. Similarly he completely visualized his induction motor, his coils and transformers, all his inventions, before he sketched and constructed them. He has unlimited confidence in his visual inventiveness. He no longer bothers to build, seldom bothers to make notes. He simply reclines and cerebrates...
Limited as may be the influence of this particular film it points out a fertile field for movies in the future. With the present technical knowledge it is doubtful whether music for its own sake will ever be really important in the sound picture, but in combination with visual forms it still has far to go. What the movies need now, which the filming of "Oedipus Rex" should illustrate, is the development of an art and technique peculiarly suited to the medium of the screen. Chaplin has worked out one type of movie style, the silhouette is another...
...order, that the praise which must be showered on this production be tempered, it should be stated that it is not the equal of Pudovkin's earlier film. Only in the tremendous climax and several scattered moments does it attain the heights of the symphonic flow of visual imagery which was maintained through out "The End of St. Petersburg...
...conference this morning, on "Visual and Auditory Aids to Education," will be held at 10 o'clock in the University Theatre. The speakers will be B. D. Wood, of Columbia University, who will speak on "Mechanical Education Wanted." T. E. Finegan, whose subject will be "Classroom Films," and J. A. Haeseler '23, who will talk on "Major speaker will be V. C. Arnspiger, of the Sense Aids to Education...