The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema: North America and Europe in the 1910s and 1920s

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by  Marina Dahlquist (editor), Joel Frykholm (editor)

The INSTITUTIONALIZATION of
EDUCATIONAL CINEMA

The INSTITUTIONALIZATION of
EDUCATIONAL CINEMA
North America and Europe
in the 1910s and 1920s
Edited by Marina Dahlquist and
Joel Frykholm
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Marina Dahlquist and Joel Frykholm 1
1 Platforms for Learning / Jan Olsson 17
2 The Kinoreformbewegung in Germany: Creating an
Infrastructure for Pedagogical Screenings / Sabine Lenk and
Frank Kessler 36
3 One Family: The Movement of Educational Film in Britain and
Its Empire / Tom Rice 55
4 Far and Close: The Gemeentelijke Schoolbioscoop in
Rotterdam / Floris Paalman 80
5 Partners in Screen Education: Philanthropic
Organizations and the Film Industry / Marina Dahlquist 107
6 The Best Teachers and the Best Preachers: Film,
University Extension, and the Project of Assimilation in
Alberta, 1917–36 / Zoë Druick 123
7 “A Casual Glance Reveals a Perfect Mine of Treasures”:
George Kleine’s Catalogue of Educational Motion
Pictures (1910) / Oliver Gaycken 147
8 George Kleine and the Institutional Film Exchange:
An Experiment in Nontheatrical Film
Distribution, 1921–29 / Joel Frykholm 164
9 Ford Films and Ford Viewers: Examining “Nontheatrical”
Films in the Theaters and Beyond / Katy Peplin 201
10 Institutionalizing Educational Cinema in the United States
during the Early 1920s / Gregory A. Waller 220
Index 251

Acknowledgments
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ix of the essays included in this collection are revised versions of papers pre-
sented at an international symposium at Stockholm University in May 2013 titled
“The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema.” The editors would like to thank
all participants of the symposium—that is, Zoë Druick, Oliver Gaycken, Lee
Grieveson, Frank Kessler, Nico de Klerk, Sabine Lenk, Paul S. Moore, and Greg
Waller—for contributing to the vivid, critical, and constructive discussions during
which the seeds for this volume were planted. We’re equally thankful to the schol-
ars who joined in somewhat later to take the topic in new and exciting directions.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the Department of Media Studies
at Stockholm University, both for financial, practical, and other forms of support
that made the symposium possible and for covering the costs of copy editing an
earlier draft of this manuscript. Many thanks to Erika Stevens, who carried out
the aforementioned copy editing with great skill and diligence and whose percep-
tive comments on the contents were extremely useful. Insightful remarks from the
anonymous readers of a later draft also helped us improve the quality of the volume
considerably. Thanks go as well to Bart van der Gaag for helping out with the im-
ages and for other kinds of technical support throughout the process. Finally, our
sincere appreciation goes to Janice Frisch and her coworkers at Indiana University
Press for all their efforts in making this book a reality.
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