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The Bureau was an association of the governments, institutions, manufacturers, producers, transportation lines and individuals of the United States and foreign countries, to engage in disseminating geographical, commercial, industrial, vocational welfare and public health information by the graphic method of motography. The requirements were: payment of transportation charges, use of standard motion picture projectors by competent operators, reports of films used and attendance after each performance, immediate return of films used, and no admission fee to be charged. The BCE cooperated with schools and public officials throughout the U.S.
Miscellaneous publications were issued from time to time.
Anita Maris Boggs served as director.
References
- ^ Reed, Alfred Zantzinger; Windes, Eustace Evan; Ganders, Harry Stanley; Waite, Mary G.; National Committee on Research in Secondary Education (U.S.); Shelby, Thomas Hall; United States Bureau of Education Library Division; United States Office of Education; Greenleaf, Walter James (1926). Improvement of Instruction in Rural Schools Through Professional Supervision: Abstracts of Addresses Delivered at the First Conference of Supervisors of the Southeastern States, Held at Nashville, Tenn., December 14 and 15, 1925. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 22. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
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- "Agencies Interested in the Educational Film". Municipal Reference Library Notes. 4. Municipal Reference Library, Branch of the New York Public Library: 339. 26 June 1918. Retrieved 24 December 2024.