Learning with the lights off

Foreword by Thomas G. Smith = ix Acknowledgments = xv About the Companion Website = xvii Introduction = 3 1. A History of Learning with the Lights Off /Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible = 15 2. The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910 /Oliver Gaycken = 67 3. Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films /Miriam Posner = 90 4. Visualizing Industrial Citizenship /Lee Grieveson = 107 5. Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s /Alison Griffiths = 124 6. Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema /Jennifer Peterson = 145 7. Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak /Kirsten Ostherr = 168 8. Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937 /Heide Solbrig = 193 9. Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Series /Craig Kridel = 215 10. "An Indirect Influence upon Industry": Rockefeller Philanthropies the Development of Educational Film in the United States, 1935-1953 /Victoria Cain = 230 11. Cornering The Wheat Farmer(1938) /Gregory A. Waller = 249 12. The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute /Dan Streible = 271 13. Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films /Devin Orgeron = 295 14. Exploitation as Education /Eric Schaefer = 316 15. Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization /Rick Prelinger = 338 16. Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film /Katerina Loukopoulou = 356 17. Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionsists: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism /Charles R. Acland = 377 18. Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations /Anna McCarthy = 397 19. "A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970 /Marsha Orgeron = 424 20. Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films /Skip Elsheimer with Kimberly Pifer = 442 21. Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives /Elena Rossi-Snook = 457 22. A select guide to educational film collections /Elena Rossi-Snook = 478 Contributors = 495 Index = 499

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