John Dewey on Film

The Museum of Education has championed research in the visual and audio presentation of John Dewey images. Beginning in 1993 with the acquisition of a video version of the John Dewey Home Movies (contained in the Harold Taylor Professional Papers), the Museum produced its first video collage, The John Dewey Silent Home Movies, with music by silent film theatre organist Dennis James. This production was presented at the 2006 Orphan Film Symposium, with an accompanying article appearing the New York Sun. Due to copyright restrictions, the production is unavailable for web-presentation. The audio presentation appears on the Orphan Film Symposium page and the newspaper account is available on line.

While the Dewey research community has assumed that there were only two examples of Dewey video footage (the 1929 Movietone News materials), a recently-recognized image of John Dewey (and W. H. Kilpatrick and W. C. Bagley) appears in a YouTube offering:
Progressive Education in the 1940s

The Museum of Education hopes to be able to make available, on some future occasion, its photograph and video images from the Harold Taylor Professional Papers.