Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Nov 1934, p. 33

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TJwrebar22 194 11im rTTP . a 6.ir p Leaders St rive to Link Movies' With Education (Colribitrd) The North Shore IÈetter .Film'counA-, cil held its monthly meeting Mon-ý day evening at the home of the presi- . dent, Mrs. Robert Halliwell, in Xil- ,mette. The speaker of the evening was ,mi ss .ucille* Oldfield who is onc of a committee worki.ng with W. H. Damaron to foster motion picture appreciatioli in the schools. Miss Oldfield made clear that their pur- pose is to educate children to shop for the proper movies rather than to foster dissension and dissatisfac- tion with the m'ovie industry ini gen- eral. .Must Train for Better Movies County Superintendent Aiken, wlio is inI accord with Mr. I)amaron. dlaims that the public must bc train- ed for better movies and this ýis t;i-* main motive of his and the commit- tee s program. Children canib taught that coîisuming bad pîcture- is the same as l)lying anything of inferior qualitv. Mr. Damaron hiniself spoke to the miovie conference at a meeting of the Federatio.n of me' Clubs at the Hotel Sherman recentlv. He stated that 37 per cent of those wvho patronize the movies are chil(lren. averaging one or more visits to the thea ter a week. He asserted that the reason that thinking minds were so worried about, the children and îuit so much about the aduits wvas because adults see pictures in a dif- ferent light-rather as entertainnient -,%hich quite easily passes from their mînds, but children see these pic- tures and thev become a part of their lives, affect their morals, personality, dreams and dailv life. Link Films, With Education Consequently. these educators are goiflg to try to turn this great movie in1fluenice into ait educational medium l)v introducing a workable prograni ini the lementarV and ligh schools under their jurisdiction. For the children the comrittee is planning 1. Teachi theni to. become intel- ligent consumer,, of motion pictures. 2. 1-«ducate them to a highier standl- ardi. 3. 1)evelop critical thinking. 4. Tleach that moVieS have good aind la( features (that is, ini acting. <îrectiiig. sounld, music. etc.) 5. )evelop ait appreciation .of ,.vhIat' a movie inighit do for them or -with the social ordtr. ~.Teach themi the history of the fiovie industry. Here's Plan of Teaching 'Fhese and other plan,, will be f osý tercd 1w the teachers by means of. 1. Correlating this movie informi at ion -with various elementary sub- jects such as, geography. history. FEnglish, music, art. 2. I llustrating these explanation., in (rama classes. by means of mimick- mng, self-expression and technlical knowledge. 3. Achiévement ini. club work. 4. Teaching unitse (This latter cat.il>e accomplished ini a teaching units of from four to.six weeks.) Miss Oldfield brought and. passed around some of the new text-books which are very jnteresting as well as being, very accurate technically% RETURN FROM EUROPE Mrs. Homer Johnson and lier daughter, Ruth, of 158 Melrose ave- nue, Kenilworth, who have been in Europe for the past thiree months, will land in New York on Decem>er 6. Miss Prudence Jonnsonq who at- tedsCnnctct olege, will spend Two N. S. Students Win DIenison Scholarships Tom Allison, 1028 Forest- avenue, Wilmette, and Miss Louise Wagner, 384 Hawthorne lane, Winnetka, have been awarded scholarships for. the present school year at Denison uni- versity, Grqnville, Ohio. Miss Wag-ý ner is affiliated with Beta Tau chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta and a mnember, of. Delta Omiron, national honorarv music al -sorority, and is prominent in campus musical, activities, Mr. Allison is affiliated with the Mu chap- ter of Sigma Chi and is a member of the staff of the Denisonian, campus weeklv. RETURN TO HOME Mrs. Claude Burnham and her son. 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