What educational function does Münsterberg give the photoplay in Chapter XI, and how does he think teaching should reach audiences?
1916 argument, unmeasured. He reports a plan for a 'Universal Culture Lyceum' to circulate educational pictures to schools, churches and colleges, but says the far larger educational contribution must come from ordinary picture houses, where teaching must be absorbed by people seeking entertainment, not forced on them. Intellectual uplift is 'the easiest': photoplays can lead young and old to new knowledge; the danger he names is trivialising, not dangerous knowledge. He doubts strictly educational films teach as much as producers hope, for untrained (and young) viewers, unless human interest connects the events. None of this is tested in the chapter.
1916 argument, unmeasured. He reports a plan for a 'Universal Culture Lyceum' to circulate educational pictures to schools, churches and colleges, but says the far larger educational contribution must come from ordinary picture houses, where teaching must be absorbed by people seeking entertainment, not forced on them. Intellectual uplift is 'the easiest': photoplays can lead young and old to new knowledge; the danger he names is trivialising, not dangerous knowledge. He doubts strictly educational films teach as much as producers hope, for untrained (and young) viewers, unless human interest connects the events. None of this is tested in the chapter.
Curator qualifications: Educational function claims (unmeasured).
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