Thesis for the Ph.D. Degree. Department of Education. The University, Leeds. January, 1952. Dr Woodhouse's research aimed to test the validity of arguments supporting the use of film appreciation in schools. Claims regarding the recognition of film as an art from are briefly examined and a critical survey of the scope of film appreciation as well as procedures and practices encountered by teachers form around 1947 to 1952. the investigations took place at Ellerby Lane County Primary School in Leeds between 1948 and 1950.
This is a home made episcope made by M. T. Woodhouse, these were optical devices for projecting opaque images onto a screen. It consisted of a very bright light which illuminated the object from the side, the image was reflected off mirrors and projected upside down through the lens. The projected objects could be flat like postcards, photographs or three dimensional like coins, leaf specimens. Care had to be taken that the intense light and heat did not damage the object.
Needlework samples in presentation album with descriptions. leather binding with an inscription on front reading: Viscountess Canning from the Girls of the Hanover District Schools March 31, 1855. Suggests that Viscount Canning once owned the book. She was Queen Victoria's Lady of the Bedchamber until mid-1855. Through this contact, the Princess Royal may have obtained the book.
