Bi-Weekly Showings At S''hai American School Special educational films for school children—or for children of all ages, from "six to sixty," as one of the sponsors put it yesterday—will be given during the summer months at the Shanghai American School, meeting a long-fely need in Shanghai and a need which would probably be even more apparent this year. This Social service is the result of an arrangement between a privately formed committee of local parents and the distributors of Eastman Kodak educational films.
Two performances were held yesterday, at 4.30 p.m. and 6 p.m., large crowds, including a number of parents and other friends, attending both performances; in future, matinees will be held twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays, The various educational bodies and principals of the different schools here, including the two Cathedral schools, the French schools and the American school itself, have all voiced their appreciation and support of the plan, the "North-China Daily News" was informed yesterday. The films' are all of the educational type, special care having been taken in their manufacture to ensure the presentation of a maximum amount of knowledge in as pleasant and easily assimilable a fashion as possible the equipment at the school includes a modern sound-reproducing apparatus and amplifier, As far as can be determined, this is the frst time such a plan for educational films on a regular basis has actually been put into operation in Shanghai, although it is extremely popular and successful in Canada and
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