“ MAKING FILMS THAT TEACH “ 1954 ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA 16mm FILMS 25th ANNIVERSARY XD30064z

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white and color 1954 Encyclopedia Britannica film outlines the production process of creating educational films in a celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary (TRT 18:34). Safety leader: Central Washington University Media Library Services (0:06). Title card: Encyclopedia Britannica Films (0:24). Opening titles (0:31). A hand holding a pen composes a memo on a clipboard. Subject: “Making Films that Teach” (0:48). Our host is revealed in a 16mm film editing suite lined with film canisters and reels on rewinds (1:02). Closeup of the man smoking a pipe and facing the racks of film reels (1:26). A framed portrait shows a date range of 1836-1847: “The McGuffey Readers. An effective use of pictures in education” (1:27). Our host speaks, as if to the portrait (1:35). Back at the desk, writing on the clipboard (1:51). An actor portraying William Holmes M