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This is an alphabetical list of major titles produced by Coronet Films, an educational film company from the 1940s through 1990s (when it merged with Phoenix Learning Group, Inc.). The majority of these films were initially available in the 16mm film format.
Owner. Phoenix Learning Group, Inc. Coronet Films (also known as Coronet Instructional Media Inc.) was an American producer and distributor of documentary shorts shown in public schools, mostly in the 16mm format, from the 1940s through the 1980s (when the videocassette recorder replaced the motion picture projector as the key audio-visual aid).
16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about 2⁄3 inch); other common film gauges include 8 mm and 35 mm. It is generally used for non-theatrical (e.g., industrial, educational, television) film-making, or for low-budget motion pictures. It also existed as a popular amateur or ...
Encyclopædia Britannica Films (also named EB Films for short) was the top producer and distributor of educational 16 mm films and later VHS videocassettes for schools and libraries from the 1940s through the 1990s (by which time the internet replaced video as a primary source for educational media). Prior to 1943, the company operated under ...
The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment ( BEKE) was a project of the International Missionary Council in coordination with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and British colonial governments of Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the mid-1930s. [1] The project involved educational films played by mobile cinemas to ...
Centron Corporation. Centron Corporation is a defunct industrial and educational film production company, that specialized in classroom and corporate 16mm films and VHS videocassettes. [1] A slightly smaller company than its contemporaries such as Encyclopædia Britannica Films, Coronet Films and Learning Corporation of America, it was very ...
Churchill Films was acquired by American Educational Products in 1994. [3] The Churchill Films catalog is now part of Discovery Education. [5] In December 2009, The Jungle (1967), a film distributed by Churchill Films in 16mm for the educational film market, was named to the National Film Registry. [6]
Arthur Cantrill, AM (born 1938) and Corinne Cantrill, AM (born 1928) are filmmakers, academics, composers and authors based in Castlemaine, Australia. [1] They have worked in children's educational film, experimental 16mm shorts, multiple projection films, feature length experimental film, kinetic film and performance film, which they labelled 'expanded cinema'.