Show 16 Recent growth and development II When World War began the use i of ! materials in the instructional program audio-visu- al of the official policy of the i of I i War Department The was mad© a part ripening maturity j i education was stimulated by this emergency for trained audio-visu- al i In the fact of wartime demands for rapid effective train- - personnel j i i ing materials its rightful instantaneously audio- - education began to achieve audio-visu- al i place in the educational process Almost ! ) visual materials training programs were utilised as in both the With the armed integral part of the wartime an armed services and in industry forces working under such a policy and with - al- j i i : j most unlimited resources to support the expanded use of training materials the effect striking Brooker observed? Perhaps the most significant program in the use of these media was in the training program of the armed forces They faced the task of training over twelve million men and women in over fourteen hundred specialized jobs in a wide variety of educational objectives to be served in a wide variety of subject matter To do this the armed aids Among these forces produced many different types of audio-visu- al were over five thousand sound motion pictures and over three thousand filmstrips This was in addition to a wide variety of other forms of visual aids In the long run the period of World War II will mark the crossover from regarding the films as an educational luxury to regarding them as a necessity It is likely also that as World War I gave impetus to the testing movement in education World War II may give was immediate and i : Military Training (Basic Field Government Printing Office 1941) Audio-Vis- United States War Department Manual p 32 FM 21-- 5 Washington DCs Cited by John R Miles and Charles R Spain Aids in the Armed Services (Washington DG: American Council on Education 1947) p 27 ual I |