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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 Indiana University Press This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu © 2019 Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Cataloging information is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-253-04519-5 (hb) ISBN 978-0-253-04520-1 (pb) ISBN 978-0-253-04522-5 (web PDF) 1 2 3 4 5 24 23 22 21 20 19 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 S 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. vii The INSTITUTIONALIZATION of EDUCATIONAL CINEMA
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