ABSTRACT
The Cinema Commission of Enquiry set up as far back as 1917 had led to investigations by Professors Spearman and Burt, with favourable results which had been published in 1925 in The Cinema in Education, edited by Sir James Marchant. The enquiry started in Leeds in February 1929. It was to include children from 7 to 18 years of age in all sorts of school and in both rural and urban areas, and to determine the extent to which film could help at different types of school, different grades, and at different ages, the best way to use film for history teaching and the most suitable types of film, and was also to consider such practical matters as projectors. A preliminary draft convention to facilitate free trade in educational films had appeared in the Institute’s Review in June 1930.
