found: Work cat.: Newren, E.F. The trigger film, 1974:abstr. (Trigger films are an audience involvement media designed to achieve attitude and behavior modification. They are brief (under four minutes), high impact vignettes which portray specific problem situations, focusing upon the agent's motivations, and structured so as to trigger an emotional response by the viewer and to act as a catalyst for self-examination of the issues which lie at the heart of the matter at hand; they have been used in such varying fields as gerontology, drug abuse education, driver training, mental retardation, jurisprudence, human relations, dental education, and library science)
found: Tiffany, J.D. Using trigger films : a guide for discussion leaders, 1972.
found: Komarnicki, J. Development of a trigger film for nutrition education of the elderly, 1977.
found: Kendall, F.L. The potential of trigger films as educational tools in the promotion of mental well-being, 1982.
found: Fisch, A.L. Trigger films : development and use, 1979.
found: López, D. Films by genre, ©1993:p. 102 (Trigger Film. Trigger films are open-ended dramatic shorts meant to start a discussion by stimulating the viewers into finding a possible answer to some vital issue or problem of difficult solution. The concept of the trigger film was initiated in the 1960s at the University of Michigan)
found: Konigsberg, I. The complete film dictionary, 1997(Trigger film. A short film made for the sole purpose of stimulating discussion about some controversial or important issue such as drug-taking or foreign affairs. Generally composed of some inconclusive dramatic situation, the film provokes the audience into working out solutions)
found: Beaver, F.E. Dictionary of film terms, c2006(Trigger film. A recently developed concept for a short film that has been designed to generate discussion on an issue-oriented topic. The trigger film's method is that of creating a dramatic dilemma (usually staged) that is centered on a timely issue such as teenage drug use, and then ending the film before the dramatic situation is resolved. This open-ended approach is intended to trigger discussion among audience members about the nature of the dilemma and its possible resolution. The trigger-film concept originated in the 1960s at the University of Michigan in a series of films designed for discussion of problems related to highway safety. Numerous other educational filmmakers have since adopted the trigger-film approach)
found: Wikipedia, Jan. 2, 2015(A trigger film is a type of short social guidance educational film intended for student audiences. It is often presented in elementary and middle school classrooms and carry themes that are often about subjective topics such as morality, ethics, and safety. The movies often carry a loose, disconnected, plot that intentionally lacks a conclusion or even a moral. Trigger films are usually very short and only have a few scenes. They are usually not accompanied by narration or any prologue (except, perhaps, to introduce the situation), instead the audience only observes the characters' behaviors and actions. The intention of a trigger film is to "trigger" a discussion about the short scenes presented in the movie and how the characters reacted to the situation, and how each viewer would handle that situation differently. The teacher often serves as a mediator, perhaps offering his or her own insights, but most of the discussion is left to the students. Note that unlike "non-trigger" educational films about similar topics, there is no narration of what the student is doing, nor does it conclude that the student was caught and subsequently disciplined nor does it disclose if the student got a good or bad grade on the test. The film instead tries to trigger the audience to come to its own conclusions of whether it was right or wrong to copy off someone's test and whether, if the viewer was in the place of the protagonist, they would have done the same thing. Trigger films are not only used in grade school, but also in colleges and universities; especially those curricula that greatly involve ethics, such as medical fields, law enforcement, business, and public relations)
