Moving Picture Age (1920) . SCIENCE INDUSTRY SOCIOLOGY CLASS ROOM aNfflATOCRAPHY. Geography on the Screen By Jerome Lachenbruch ONE by one, the various subjects of the usual school curricu-lum are being brought to the screen. Each is so extensive,however, that onh a ver\ small phase of a particular courseof instruction can be compressed into a fifteen-minute edu-cational motion picture. The vast possibilities of geography offerno end of subjects for picturization. First, the bare physical con-trasts between different sections of the earths surface; then theproducts grown in different countries
Moving Picture Age (1920) . SCIENCE INDUSTRY SOCIOLOGY CLASS ROOM aNfflATOCRAPHY. Geography on the Screen By Jerome Lachenbruch ONE by one, the various subjects of the usual school curricu-lum are being brought to the screen. Each is so extensive,however, that onh a ver\ small phase of a particular courseof instruction can be compressed into a fifteen-minute edu-cational motion picture. The vast possibilities of geography offerno end of subjects for picturization. First, the bare physical con-trasts between different sections of the earths surface; then theproducts grown in different countries, and in different sections ofthe same country, showing the effect of climate on vegetation. Butnot only is the vegetation affected by climatic variations, but alsothe growth and, in fact, the very nature of the peoples that inhabitthe various portions of the globe. The relationship between vegetation and natural irrigation formsa subject for several other pictures. These examples may be mul-tiplied almost endlessly before the field is exhausted of its possi-bilities. Perhaps
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