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CUARTEROLO, Andrea. Educación y precine. Series fotográficas en los libros de lectura argentinos de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Hist. educ. anu. [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.2, pp.21-30. ISSN 2313-9277.

The history of educational cinema was marked from its beginnings by an ambiguous and complex relationship with the fixed image. Thus, a large part of the demands and claims regarding the auxiliary use of moving images were based on comparisons and analytical judgments that invariably led to a confrontation between these two types of visual supports. Some studies claim that this was partly due to the fact that many of the teachers andprofessors of the time had a general fear of losing their pedagogical usefulness in the face of a medium that presented itself as self-sufficient. In this work we will analyze the widespread use of precinematographic photographic series in Argentine reading books of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will demonstrate, on the one hand, that the use of this type of precinematographic materials was a way of inserting into the educationalfield some of the benefits and modernity of cinema, at a time when the technological and economic limitations of a large part of Argentine schools did not yet allow an effective use of moving images. On the other hand, we will argue that these materials brought educators closer to cinema by presenting these images as a logical extension of a series of visual supports that had long been in use in schools and whose efficacy and convenience had already been sufficiently proven. In this sense, we will show that this use of photographic series was also a way of profiting from some of the advantages of the new medium, avoiding what educators considered one of its main drawbacks: its incessant movement.

Palavras-chave : Cinema and education; precinema; photographic series; reading books.

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