Niesporczaki, lasery i przemiany w stali. Atrakcje polskiego kina oświatowego
Tardigrades, Lasers And Transformations In Steel. Attractions of Polish Educational Cinema

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the function of the spectacle – along with the methods of its production and discussions devoted to it – in educational films created during the period of Polish People’s Republic. The basic research question put forward by the authors concerns the tension between the ideological and aesthetic integrity of the educational and scientific discourse (for which the educational film was a vehicle) and the theatricality and distractive exhibitionism characteristic of the aesthetics of the trick that is often part of these films. So: what place in the realization of the idea of the educational film did the various spectacle generating techniques (such as microscopic photographs or time-lapse photography) occupy and how were these functions understood by the filmmakers? The complex answer to this double question demands: 1) sketching the historiographical perspective of the study of tricks in educational films; 2) establishing the initial institutional and stylistic paradigm in which these films functioned in Polish People’s Republic; 3) analysis of attempts of going beyond the scheme of “didactic effect” undertaken by Włodzimierz Puchalski, Karol Marczak and others; 4) analysis of alternative methods of problematic relations between the spectacle and the “didactic effect” using the example of work by Jerzy Popiel-Popiołek and Roman Woźniakowski.

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