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Making Films That Teach

1954/18 min 13 sec/53 shots

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This 1954 film commemorates Encyclopaedia Britannica Films’ 25th anniversary by explaining how educational films are researched, scripted, produced, shot, edited, and scored. It demonstrates studio and location filming, historical reenactments, animation, color, time-lapse, slow-motion, microscopic, telescopic, and X-ray photography, emphasizing that each technique should serve classroom learning.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: Making Films That Teach
Date: 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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