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A COURSE on visual education was organized by the British Film Institute at Bangor during August 19–26. Among a wide range of topics discussed, very useful contributions were made by Mr. Geoffrey Bell of the Shell Film Unit who discussed "The Scientific Film" and Mr. Neilson Baxter, of the same Unit, who dealt with "The Documentary Film". Both argued that the scientific, realist approach to a subject so characteristic of the documentary group of film-makers is in essence also the proper characteristic of an educational classroom film, as well as being useful for enlarging the child's general knowledge of his environment. Other speakers were Mr. G. P. Meredith, lecturer in visual education at the University College of the South-West, Dr. Winifred Cullis, who made a plea for an increase in the number of films for teaching physiology, and Lieut. M. G. Bowden of the U.S. Army, who gave the conference an account of the extent to which visual aids were used in America. The conference was attended by Polish, Dutch and Canadian representatives, as well as by English teachers and film-makers.
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British Film Institute Summer School. Nature 154, 299 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154299a0
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