Education for Living (Original title)
Date: June 1949 (Release)Country: United Kingdom
Shotlist: DOCUMENTARY. The film shows the new approaches to teaching in primary and secondary schools. Rl.1 Opening shot of a small girl conducting her classmates in singing, marching and percussion. At a nursery school, the children take an afternoon rest. Secondary school children congregate in the school corridors. Etchings show early schools and bad conditions. Newly-built schools, playing fields, football, netball, open-air classes, keep-fit exercises, rugby playing, tutorials, the library, all emphasizing the conditions by which schools should be run. Emergency training schemes are started to recruit more teachers. The Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. James Chuter Eded, speaks on juvenile delinquency (439-496). Junior school activities - dolls, painting, tea parties, modelling, gardening, wild flowers, reading, apparatus work. Crippled children have special transport to school. Canal boat children have their own school. Schooling is provided for children in hospital. Disabled children are taught to play musical instruments. A trained nurse visits schools regularly. Free cod liver oil and milk are provided. Many schools have canteens. The BBC broadcasts regular programmes to schools. Sir Alexander Fleming broadcasts on penicillin (790-796). Other items in the school curriculum include instructional films, dancing, outdoor nature study and discussion groups (932 ft). Rl.2 The commentary points out that at the age of 11, a choice of secondary school must be made. Junior schoolchildren are shown doing intelligence tests. Classes in chemistry, woodwork, dressmaking and typing are shown. Career lectures are given. Shots of public schools. A country house acquired by Surrey County Council is converted into a boarding school. A co-ed school is shown. The question of whether the cane should be used in schools is raised. Shots of secondary school activities - the choir, concerts, dramatics, sculpture, the orchestra, painting, printing, cookery, farming, stable work, social surveys, current affairs, child care, discussion groups, mock elections and dietetics. Final shots of a small girl conducting the school percussion band (1775 ft).
Subjects: England, School life
Series title:
Releases
Date: June 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 16mm Film - Black and WhiteRuntime: 20 mins
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n192 December 1949: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n186 June 1949 Page: 104
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n186 June 1949: no known title]Language: English
Date: June 1949 (Release)Country: United Kingdom
Shotlist: DOCUMENTARY. The film shows the new approaches to teaching in primary and secondary schools. Rl.1 Opening shot of a small girl conducting her classmates in singing, marching and percussion. At a nursery school, the children take an afternoon rest. Secondary school children congregate in the school corridors. Etchings show early schools and bad conditions. Newly-built schools, playing fields, football, netball, open-air classes, keep-fit exercises, rugby playing, tutorials, the library, all emphasizing the conditions by which schools should be run. Emergency training schemes are started to recruit more teachers. The Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. James Chuter Eded, speaks on juvenile delinquency (439-496). Junior school activities - dolls, painting, tea parties, modelling, gardening, wild flowers, reading, apparatus work. Crippled children have special transport to school. Canal boat children have their own school. Schooling is provided for children in hospital. Disabled children are taught to play musical instruments. A trained nurse visits schools regularly. Free cod liver oil and milk are provided. Many schools have canteens. The BBC broadcasts regular programmes to schools. Sir Alexander Fleming broadcasts on penicillin (790-796). Other items in the school curriculum include instructional films, dancing, outdoor nature study and discussion groups (932 ft). Rl.2 The commentary points out that at the age of 11, a choice of secondary school must be made. Junior schoolchildren are shown doing intelligence tests. Classes in chemistry, woodwork, dressmaking and typing are shown. Career lectures are given. Shots of public schools. A country house acquired by Surrey County Council is converted into a boarding school. A co-ed school is shown. The question of whether the cane should be used in schools is raised. Shots of secondary school activities - the choir, concerts, dramatics, sculpture, the orchestra, painting, printing, cookery, farming, stable work, social surveys, current affairs, child care, discussion groups, mock elections and dietetics. Final shots of a small girl conducting the school percussion band (1775 ft).
Subjects: England, School life
Series title:
Releases
Date: June 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 16mm Film - Black and WhiteRuntime: 20 mins
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n192 December 1949 Page: 220Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n192 December 1949: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n186 June 1949 Page: 104
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n186 June 1949: no known title]Language: English