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An educational film is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 or movie whose primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods.

educational films shown in schools are part of long series - for example, films demonstrating scientific principles and experiments tend to be episodic, with each episode devoted to a specific experiment or principle.

Many schoolchildren in Britain
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 in the late 1980s and early 1990s watched hundreds of episodes of British-made educational films (all very similar in style and production) over the course of their primary school careers.






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An educational film is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 or movie whose primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods.

List of educational film producers

  • AIMS Media
  • Avis Films
  • Barr Films
  • Bell System
    Bell System

    The Bell System refers to popular names used to described a group of companies that operated initial telephone services in the US. In 1877, the American Bell Telephone Company, named after Alexander Graham Bell, opened the first telephone exchange in New Haven, CT....
  • Centron Corporation
    Centron Corporation

    Centron Corporation was an industrial and educational film production company. Founded in 1947 in Lawrence, Kansas by Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A....
  • Coronet Films
    Coronet Films

    Coronet Films was a producer and distributor of United States educational films from 1946 to the early 1970's founded by David A. Smart. The company produced instructional short subject aimed at young teenagers and high school students which were produced by dozens until the mid-1950s when production tapered off....
  • Crawley Films
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
  • ETRI Films
  • Highway Safety Foundation
  • Louis Kirk
  • Martin Moyer
  • Media Education Foundation
  • Moody Institute of Science
  • James Myer
    James Myer

    James Myer is an American Documentary film and educational filmmaker. He produced Multiple Personality: Reality and Illusion, a documentary that chronicled the life of Chris Costner-Sizemore....
  • National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
  • Phoenix Films
  • Rarig's
  • Schlessinger Media
  • Sid Davis
    Sid Davis

    Sidney Davis was a United States social guidance film director and producer. Born to a father who was a housepainter and a mother who was a dressmaker, Davis moved to Hollywood, California with his family when he was four....
  • The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company

    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
  • Sandeep Marwah
    Sandeep Marwah

    Sandeep Marwah is a well known stage, film and television personality. Producer and director of the films, renowned film educator and a world record holder of short films....

Cultural significance

Many educational films shown in schools are part of long series - for example, films demonstrating scientific principles and experiments tend to be episodic, with each episode devoted to a specific experiment or principle.

Many schoolchildren in Britain
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 in the late 1980s and early 1990s watched hundreds of episodes of British-made educational films (all very similar in style and production) over the course of their primary school careers. As a result, the delivery-style and distinctive colour-palette ("scientific" looking neutral-blue backgrounds etc.) of these films is instantly recognisable to any child of the appropriate generation. This was used to great effect by the series Look Around You
Look Around You

Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert....
 which parodies these films.

See also

  • Social guidance film
    Social guidance film

    Social guidance films constitute a genre of films attempting to guide children and adults to behave in certain ways. Typically shown in school classrooms in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s, the films covered topics including courtesy, Moral responsibility, human sexuality, drug use, and driver's ed; the genre also includes...


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