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Film Foundation strives to raise visual literacy.

Publication: EContent
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05
Format: Online - approximately 955 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Nearly a decade ago, Margaret Bodde, co-executive director of the Film Foundation, began having a discussion with Martin Scorsese about how best to teach film to a broader audience than simply those studying film in college. "We started to see that if kids aren't introduced or exposed to from...

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...films the past, they'd have no motivation to protect them for the future," explains Bodde, so the Film Foundation was established with the express purposes of preserving film and educating the public.

Scheduled for a full release in March 2005, the Film Foundation's "The Story of Movies" project, which uses a variety of digital media and Web portals, aims to increase middle school students' visual literacy. "Visual literacy is really the grammar of film," says Bodde. "If you look at any great work of literature you can break it down by the use...

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