Institutionalization of Educational Cinema

Marina Dahlquist is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. She is editor of Exploring Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze and co-editor (with Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, and Valentine Robert) of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form (IUP, 2018).Joel Frykholm is Research Associate at Stockholm University, Department of Media Studies, Section for Cinema Studies. He is author of George Kleine and American Cinema: The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era.Oliver Gaycken is Associate Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Film Studies and Comparative Literature Programs at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of Devices of Curiosity: Early Cinema and Popular Science.Frank Kessler is Professor of Media History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Director of the Research Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He is co-editor (with Sarah Dellmann) of A Million Pictures (IUP, 2018), author of Mise en scène, and co-editor (with Nanna Vergoeff) of Networks of Entertainment (IUP, 2008).Sabine Lenk is Researcher in the Belgian Excellence of Science project "B-Magic. The Magic Lantern and Its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium, (1830-1940)" at Antwerp University and Université libre de Bruxelles. She is author of Vom Tanzsaal zum Filmtheater. Eine Kinogeschichte Düssedorfs.Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. He is co-editor (with Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, and Valentine Robert) of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form (IUP, 2018), author of Hitchcock à la Carte, and co-editor (with Kingsley Bolton) of Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (IUP, 2011).Floris Paalman is Senior Lecturer of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a staff member of the Master's Programs in Film Studies and in the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. He is author of Cinematic Rotterdam: The Times and Tides of a Modern City.Tom Rice is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan (IUP, 2016).Katy Peplin holds a Ph.D. in Screen Arts and Cultures from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on non-fiction film.Gregory A. Waller is Provost Professor and Director of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. He is author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 and editor of Film History.Zoë Druick is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is author of Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board and The Grierson Effect: Tracing Documentary's International Movement.

"A crucial contribution to the study of how educational cinema was created, adopted, and disseminated, as well as how it came to serve a range of different political agendas in the early part of the 20th century."—Leonora Masini, Canadian Journal of Film Studies

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Marina Dahlquist and Joel Frykholm1. Platforms for Learning / Jan Olsson2. The Kinoreformbewegung in Germany: Creating an Infrastructure for Pedagogical Screenings / Sabine Lenk and Frank Kessler3. One Family: The Movement of Educational Film in Britain and its Empire / Tom Rice4. Far and Close: The Gemeentelijke Schoolbioscoop in Rotterdam / Floris Paalman5. Partners in Screen Education: Philanthropic Organizations and the Film Industry / Marina Dahlquist6. The Best Teachers and the Best Preachers: Film, University Extension, and the Project of Assimilation in Alberta, 1917-1936 / Zoë Druick7. "A Casual Glance Reveals a Perfect Mine of Treasures": George Kleine's Catalogue of Educational Motion Pictures (1910) / Oliver Gaycken8. George Kleine and the Institutional Film Exchange: An Experiment in Nontheatrical Film Distribution, 1921–1929 / Joel Frykholm9. Ford Films and Ford Viewers: Examining "Nontheatrical" Films in the Theaters and Beyond / Katy Peplin10. Institutionalizing Educational Cinema in the United States during the Early 1920s / Gregory A. Waller