instructional films
Educational movie content
Instructional films are movies designed to teach skills, procedures, or concepts rather than entertain.
They range from workplace safety training to educational documentaries shown in classrooms.
The format peaked in mid-20th-century schools, where students watched films on everything from hygiene to civil defense: We watched an instructional film about the food pyramid.
Now largely replaced by online videos.
- science demonstrationsEducational experiments performed publicly
- e-learningInternet-delivered instruction
- classroomEducational instruction space
- film stripTransparent image sequence
- projector screenSurface for displaying images
corporate training · workplace safety · animation · workshops · sex ed · after school special · vocational education · camera angles · scriptwriting · library archives · historical reenactments · professional development · environmental awareness · sound design · online courses · safety training · driver's ed · narration
- military mediawar movies, combat footage, military documentaries, Stars and Stripes, recruitment videos
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Standard-length theatrical movies
popcorn movies · art films · blockbusters · action movies · comedies
instructional filmsart films
Experimental or unconventional cinema
experimental cinema · avant-garde cinema · art house films · tone poems · video art
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