# New Tools for Learning

"So much must be learned by so many in so little time. This is the question we must address to every aspect of the problem. School buildings; equipment; teacher's loads; teacher's salaries; the training of teachers and the tools for learning." Promotes educational and training films. Includes industrial, military, and scientific leaders extolling the use of educational and training films in teaching. The point is made that the world is increasingly complex and there is a corresponding need to augment knowledge. "If you want to know what we're really doing, take a look at our schools; for on what we're doing here and in schools throughout the world, rests not only our future fate but perhaps the very fate of civilization itself. " AV Squads, school film libraries; audiovisual equipment in use. Opening is two and a half minute montage of stock shots: Capitol building, urban aerial, traffic, suburban lawns, food, industrial production, reaping grains, farm, locomotives; airplanes; trucks; vaccination; children playing outdoors; iron lung; buses; children in classrooms, children entering schools; close up globe; atom bomb explosion; fighter plane;rocket take off; end of World War I celebration; Armistice declared headline; Pearl Harbor; League of Nations; U.N;.; No Hiring sign \[Depression\]; Hitler; Stalin; radio; television; little boys picking out comic books; they choose Jesse James. World War I montage includes submarine, firing torpedoes; torpedos find their target; ship…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1951
- By: University of Chicago Audio-Visual Center
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0188_New_Tools_for_Learning_07_11_17_00)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/0188_New_Tools_for_Learning_07_11_17_00?play=1)