EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION

OF
EDUCATIONAL FILMS

EDUCATIONAL FLIMS IS A PART OF

EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
Educational

Media:

A media for learning and teaching or

learning software. Media it self means a method of communication.
Educational media is primary aimed at producing the optional
combination of media so as to support learners.

Types

of educational media

Display materials Black Boards, pictures chalk Boards

Printed

materials
magazines etc.
Graphic

materials-

Projected

etc.

Text Book, dictionaries news papers,

Graph, chart, diagram maps.

Aids Still picture, Motion pictures, e.g.. Film

strip or slide projector, overhead projector, educational Films.

EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF

EDUCATIONAL FILMS

Educational Film : Educational film is a film or movie whose

primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used
in class rooms as an alternative to other teaching methods.

Sound less

Different companies and Independent producer from 1930s to

present day
FRPI Films (1930)
Encyclopedia Britanica Films (1940)
Cornet Films (1946)
Avis Films (1950)
Centron began Films (1970)
And so on .

with sound.

EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS

Technique for teaching with

Educational films

The introduction to the film should make it

clarity the purpose for which the flim is being
shown.
Follow up discussion or question and answer
period is a must to obtain a full value from a
film.
If the group is large, it may be advisable to break
it up into small syndicates for this purpose.

PRESENTATION OF A NEW SUBJECT

THROUGH A FLIM IS AS FOLLOWS :

Introduction of the film must be made by the

teacher.
Difficulties in the Vocabulary of the flim also be
explained.
Then comes the actual screening.
Discussion may follow immediately.
Follow up activities written or oral should be
planned much in advance.

Selection of Film

Length : Appropriate to the subject and

availability of time.
Condition: of the flim copy should be clear.
Content : Up-to Date information.
Style : Hummour of the flim should be
appropriate .

ADVANTAGES OF EDUCATIONAL FLIM

Effective audio visual aids for teaching.

It is very much enjoyable to the student.

Bring the world of reality into the class-room.

Establish life learning and establish depth in the

learning.

LIMITATION OF FILMS

High cost

To get well trained teacher for the school is a

difficult job.

Picture has moved fast on the screen.

If immediate follow up work does not, no

effective result will come.

Public look upon the film as a sort of enjoyment

rather than a matter of study.

CONCLUSION

Educational film is one of the effective media of

teaching learning procedure which helps to abstract
thinking of student.

Now a days Huge number of films have prepared for

development of I.C.T. These are vary helpful to teachers
or students about the teaching matters moral values.