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THE purpose of The Educational Screen is single and emphatic. This magazine intends to get at the truth about visual education—in all its phases and in its broadest aspects—and serve it up in a form palatable to thinking Americans.

We shall endeavor to supply for you the best in theory, opinion and experience that the country affords—in the form of articles by contributors qualified to speak interestingly and authoritatively. Similar data from foreign countries will be included as far as space permits.

We shall wade through the welter of “literature” provoked by the movies—not only all serious writings on the question in scores of general and educational magazines, but even the motley contents of the “movie” publications—and offer you a digest of all that is worth your attention. This will mean an invaluable reference source for any individual or organization conducting an investigation —whether Brief or extensive—on any phase of the great question of “the pictures.”

We shall present a monthly survey of really significant visual activities along educational lines which will keep you constantly in touch with everything that points toward progress in this undeveloped and more or less unknown field. It will be uncolored evidence, gathered by investigators and not by promoters, which can be trusted as a basis for further study by those interested in the advance of the new movement.

We shall develop at the earliest possible moment a technical department which will give notes, suggestions and brief articles by recognized authorities, calculated to assist materially all schools, churches and other organizations contemplating new installation or change in present equipment.

We shall become—as rapidly as is consistent with complete reliability—the one impartial and authoritative source of information on the new field; a source freely accessible to all interested in the progress of the new, nation-wide