| The"Strategy of invigorating the country through science, technology and education"has highly improved National Culture and Scien-tech Diathesis. The Rise of Nation, as the general destination of the Chinese, as the historical expectation of whole nation, is going to be the responsibility of every single citizen and social unit, mainly including the educational system and the mass media which are related to science, instruction, culture and art. The science and educational films, which propagate all kinds of knowledge, especially science, through movies and television programs, will also take important parts in it.Since 1956, Chinese science and educational films have entered the world filmdom, the first climax was around the 1960s, and more than 20 of them won international prices till 1978. The science and educational films are taking parts in all kinds of visual products do point out that there must be some reason to hold up the market and costumers, indeed it has its own unique culture and artistic value.The thesis will walk through the history, and make complements on the definition about science and educational film. Several established cases will help on the excavating of the culture inside and the aesthetic value. After it the writer will look ahead to the future development of this area. The thesis is constituted by five sessions.In the first part of the thesis, a summarization of the discussion on the meaning and value of the topic based on the background analysis will be shown. Furthermore, a discussion will start around the research method that scholars adopt now days in this research field. After that the writer will try to talk out about the research progress around the world today.Session Two will discuss about the definition of the science and educational film, and mark the discrimination from the educational visual products. Moreover, the pathway of its development will be represented.The third session is the main body of this dissertation. It gives a minute description upon the culture intension of the science and educational film. It grows into an independent branch of learning and become once culture itself. The instructional films disseminate science and knowledge; the science and educational films inherit national culture.Session Four is also the principle part of the dissertation. The particulars will help to explain scientifically the value of the science and educational film making. For example the specificality of its subject matters, the variety of its form.Last session will reveal writer's personal opinions and propositions upon the pathway through last fifty years and look forward to the further development of the science and educational film production.The writer hopes this essay would helps on the comprehension of science and educational film and making good effects on the development of Chinese science and educational film production. |