THE MOVING PICTURE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 8

THE MOVING PICTURE.

MOTION FILMS IN SCHOOLS.

A DEMONSTRATION.

To demonstrate tho usefulness oi Messrs. Pathe Frcres' home kinomalograph as an educative factor, Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., the firm's Now Zealand representatives, exhibited the machino in action before members of the Wellington Education Board and a large number of school teachers at tho Training College last evening. Tho machine itself is easily portable, and is self-contained, generating its own light as tho handlo is turned, the same action projecting the picture. Tho picture measures about 30m. by 20in., and as sharp and flickerless as those projected by tho best of tho larger machines. Last night travel, industrial, scientific, and nature study films wero screened. An admirable screening was that of Sevres china in the making. The wonderful manipulation of the clay on the potter's wheel, and tho firing of the raw product into the finished work of art and utility was vividly portrayed. Contrast this with the efforts, of the teacher, unequipped with tho kinematograph and its allseeing eye, endeavouring to impart to a class an understanding of a process which he probably has not seen, and the knowledge of which ho has possibly gleaned from a text-book and the educational value of the invention must bo admitted as considerable. _ The leading educational bodies in England and on the Continent, including the London County Council, have realised this, and installed machines. Messrs. Pathe. Frcres have appointed a board of' professors and teachers in Paris who. aro supervising and directing the tailing of films, and these films are to bo adopted by the Ministers of Education in France and Germany.