Educational film

Under a teaching film is meant for educational purposes and produced a film. Specializing in the rental of educational films are the image areas and media centers.

History

Origins

The fact that films can support school-based learning, has already been discovered by educators soon after the emergence of this medium. 1907 Hermann Lemke created in Brandenburg Storkow the Cinematograph Reform Association, which issued a first catalog of films for people education and school purposes.

Weimar Republic

1919 established the Berlin Central Institute of Education a " counseling and testing center for educational films " and since 1920, emerged in the larger cities image locations.

National Socialism

Teaching film in Germany was as teaching material officially introduced on June 26, 1933 with a decree of the Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust. The systematic production of educational films began in 1934 with the founding of the Reich Office for teaching a film.

At the same time the image points being further expanded. In 1943 there were in the Reich 37 country -image areas, which included a subsystem of 12,042 cityscape places. In parallel there was the image of the branch network Reich Propaganda Office of the NSDAP, the 1936 32 - Gau, 171 county and 22 357 local branch points in the film possessed. This image areas had well-stocked film bearings and also lent portable projectors for 16mm films with those in classrooms, in the seminar rooms of universities and could be demonstrated at home evenings films.

In 1940 had an estimated 40,000 of the 62,000 schools a canvas. In schools, however, not only educational films, but also propaganda films were shown.

Federal Republic of Germany

In the 1960s, the film won lessons through the introduction of educational television in importance.