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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA crucial contribution to the study of how educational cinema was created, adopted, and disseminated, as well as how it came to serve a range of different political agendas in the early part of the 20th century.
-- Leonora Masini * Canadian Journal of Film Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction / Marina Dahlquist and Joel Frykholm
1. Platforms for Learning / Jan Olsson
2. The Kinoreformbewegung in Germany: Creating an Infrastructure for Pedagogical Screenings / Sabine Lenk and Frank Kessler
3. One Family: The Movement of Educational Film in Britain and its Empire / Tom Rice
4. Far and Close: The Gemeentelijke Schoolbioscoop in Rotterdam / Floris Paalman
5. Partners in Screen Education: Philanthropic Organizations and the Film Industry / Marina Dahlquist
6. The Best Teachers and the Best Preachers: Film, University Extension, and the Project of Assimilation in Alberta, 1917-1936 / Zoë Druick
7. "A Casual Glance Reveals a Perfect Mine of Treasures": George Kleine's Catalogue of Educational Motion Pictures (1910) / Oliver Gaycken
8. George Kleine and the Institutional Film Exchange: An Experiment in Nontheatrical Film Distribution, 1921–1929 / Joel Frykholm
9. Ford Films and Ford Viewers: Examining "Nontheatrical" Films in the Theaters and Beyond / Katy Peplin
10. Institutionalizing Educational Cinema in the United States during the Early 1920s / Gregory A. Waller
