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The present work is the result of a pedagogic experiment on uses and production of movie pictures in History classes, undergone between 2007 and 2008, with fundamental grade's 9 th level students of two private schools in Sao Paulo.During this period, cinematographic production was used in two ways: as an object for analysis and as a narrative resource.In the first one, education of the glance was the goal; film works' constitutive elements were explored -screen plot, personages, soundtrack, scenarios, editing, camera views, symbols present at scenes etc. -, treated both individually and relationally, and studying their role on building a cohesive narrative.In the second one, students made a fictional film, having Getulio Vargas' government period as a frame and using their knowledge on filmmaking elements in all stages of production: selection of thematic frame, elaboration of a speech and its transformation into a possible screenplay -building the plot, personages and scene elements -, filming, selection of soundtrack, editing, credits.The chosen technique was image sequencing by computer, for it enhances creation possibilities beyond people's acting on a screen, as well as it favors the use of media in school.Given the rigidity on establishing a curriculum for History teaching, in which students are set apart from their social action, it was observed that this work has enabled them to have a more open-minded History reading, expanding their repertoire in terms of the learning process and the school, for in their films, even when apparently there was a reiteration of a memory of information reproduction, we noted the presence of alluded and even allegoric messages, that is, criticism was enhanced by means of the specificity of cinema language.The result was not to relativize History teaching, but to perform an exercise which, from present-day reality and from representations that students had or had gained inside and outside the school, lead to a gain in the value of knowledge

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  Open Access•Sergio Mota•Tempo Social•2004

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