IV. Group Discussion. The Future of Cinematography.
Topic 1. Video: is it a blessing or a curse?
a) Read the text that can serve as a starting point for your discussion.
Video 
Comes Home
Home video successfully arrived in 1972 when Sony devised its ¾ (three-fourths) inch U-Matic аналоговый формат видеозаписи system. Using a cassette that slipped easily into the
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recorder, it was no longer necessary for the user to touch the tape at all. A few months later, 1/2 (half) inch cassette systems were available at reasonable prices приемлемую цену, and the home video soon began.
One of the main uses of home video cassette recorder is "time-shift viewing просмотр записанных на видеомагнитофон телепрограмм". People can record a programme 
which they want to watch, but which is on at an inconvenient time, and watch it later on. If there are two programmes which they want to watch being transmitted at the same time, they can simply record one while watching the other. And most video cassette recorders have a timer device which allows people to record their favourite programmes if they go away for several days.
To begin with прежде всего, the only type of material available on videograms were full-length feature films полнометражные художественные фильмы. Films can go on offer предлагаться вниманию on video within a year of their cinema release.
The range 
ассортимент has now broadened, however, and there are other types of videogram that can be rented взяты на прокат or bought. These are mainly how-to-do-it tapes. For sports fans, there are tapes about diving, tennis, board-sailing виндсёрфинге, squash игра в мяч с ракеткой, cricket 
, badminton 
and many others.
Other tapes include Chinese cooking, learning a foreign language, keep-fit регулярные физические упражнения, self-defence самооборона, yoga 
, passing a driving test, training dogs, exam revision and growing vegetables.
(From: Film and Video. 1986.)
B) Consider the following talking points. Choose one of them, express your opinion and make practical suggestions for the effective use of video.
Talking points:
1. Video and cinema. The effect of the future availability of videoproductions on the cinema.
2. Video and television.
3. Video and book-reading.
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4. The problem of controlling video production, the ways of preventing children from seeing scenes of depravity, filth and horror 
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5. Video as a force for social interaction, education and propaganda.
Topic 2. What films do we need?
A) Make a round-table talk on the state of film-making in this country. Be ready to make suggestions about the possible improvements in film-making.
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b) Choose the necessary adjectives from the ones given below to describe films |hat should satisfy your requirements:
appealing 
, strong, powerful, intelligent, humane, sensational, gripping, poignant, memorable; touching, moving, quiet, slow-Spaced, entertaining, satirical, pleasing, undemanding, rewarding
INSIGHT INTO PROFESSION
TEACHING FILMS: FOR AND AGAINST
Talking Points:
1. Teaching films have been with us for a few decades already but Still teachers do not seem to be on friendly terms with them. What are the reasons for this kind of situation?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of teaching films in foreign-language teaching as compared with other audio-visual 
aids?
3. Are you familiar with film-segments and loop-films included in the complex set of teaching materials for our schools?
I. a) Read the following text:
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