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apparatus and films—which they suggest should usually be of 16 mm. size—are 
available in all schools for use with single forms and classes. Until the projector is 
recognised as a classroom instrument it cannot be expected that educational films 
will be made available in sufficient variety. Moreover, the Committee wish to see 
the taking of films by teachers themselves for their own special purposes become a 
reasonable and usual practice. 
In furtherance of these objects the Committee had hoped that their present Report 
would take the form of a catalogue of sub-standard 16 mm. films already available 
for teachers in this country. They find, however, that such a catalogue under present 
conditions can be little more than a repetition of the catalogue of the Corporation 
which has hitherto played the leading part in the introduction of sub-standard 
apparatus. They understand, however, that the other principal Corporations 
engaged in the cinematographic industry in this country are waiting for a lead from 
the educational authorities and that one at least is now producing educational 
sub-standard films. The work of the Film Selection Sub-Committee of the Educa- 
tional and Cultural Films Commission will be of great assistance in this matter, as 
approved standard films can be easily and cheaply reduced to sub-standard size 
without serious loss of educational advantage. The Committee are, therefore, 
satisfied that the attempt to produce a catalogue at this time would be premature. 
But if they are continued in existence, as they recommend, they hope to return to 
this branch of the subject at a later date. In this connection it is, the Committee 
would suggest, much to be desired that, for the present at any rate, the principal 
sub-standard size recognised by the trade, namely 16 mm., should be adhered to in 
the preparation of new films for exclusively classroom use. 
During the forthcoming winter the Committee think that they can usefully 
arrange for an experiment on an extended scale in the use of selected sub-standard 
silent films under ordinary classroom conditions in urban and rural schools. They 
already have a promise of assistance, if this proposal is carried out, from an important 
County Borough, and they anticipate no difficulty in obtaining the co-operation of a 
County Local Education Authority with small country schools under its control. 
They are satisfied that there is room for an experiment of this kind, since those so far 
conducted have almost invariably been with apparatus and films of standard size 
exhibited to grouped classes in school halls rather than in the ordinary classrooms. 
In the selection of the particular apparatus to be used, the Committee hope to 
benefit by the work of the Projector Sub-Committee of the Educational and Cultural 
Films Commission, and as regards the choice of the films to be tried out, they 
propose that the Committee be re-constituted so as to include a sufficient propor- 
tion of teachers and others with actual educational experience. 
