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JANUARY, 1920

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• URBAN ■ POPULAR • CLASSICS •

THE TERM THE "LIVING

BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE"

has been rightfully applied to the

KINETO REVIEW

(Edited by CHARLES URBAN)

which, vdth its 30 one reel issues, eJready forms a nucleus of the most valuable instructive pictorial

matter yet published

This film library will be added to at the rate of 100 one reel "volumes" per
zoinuin, until it ultimately includes a standard treatise on every conceivable subject

WHAT THE

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITTANICA

is to the Book World

The KINETO REVIEW

will be to the FILM EDUCATIONAL \XORLD

The "Kineto Review" Library- will be established in even.' centre and district throughout the United

States, its reels to be obtained at any time and as often as desired by the Schools, Churches and

the better class Theati'es. This idea, fostered by Mr. Urban for twenty years, while he has garnered

film material from all sources with which to put the idea into effect, has at last materialized

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA:

The Schools are Equipping for Visual Education

The Churches realize the importance of Clean Wholesome Entertainment

The Theatre Audiences demand Better Pictures

THIS WANT IS FILLED BY

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FASCINATING METHOD V^' "TradeMark- OF EDUCATION

Biological Motion Pictvires

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VISUALIZATION is the slogan in modern school work. Almost every-
thing filmable has been projected on the screen with the exception of
biological phenomena, most of these traceable only through the
microscope.

Our age calls for this visualization of biological ])henomena, for the purpose
of education. Realization of this led to the foundation of ''The Scientific
Film Corporation".

Its aim is to supply the needed materials for visualization in biological teaching
adapted to school work of all grades, from the primary up to the purely scientific
treatment of the subject in university teaching.

"The Scientific Film Corporation" is in a position to guarantee accurate, reliable work
through the well planned co-operation of approved tecbnical skill and expert scientific
supervision. Our laboratories in Harrison, N. Y. (New York suburban district) are
equipped with the most modern installations, many of them personally devised.

Our sensational novelty is the utilization of the living tissue culture in micro-cine-
matography.

Correspondence invited in regard to rates and terms of purchase and rentals.

ECONOMY : Especial attention is called to the fact that by renting our films a wonder-
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far removed from metropolitan centres.

First Release

A Microscopical View of the Blood Circulation

These are a few of the features of this film :

The Vascular system of the chick embryo Differentiation of the blood in centrifugal

^. ^ ,. 1 ■ 1 11-1 apparatus

The Capillary net work m the area pellucida -,. '^^. , . r i ii j i

r ^ Microscopical views oi the blood, showing its

Arterial and Venous circulation ingredients

XI- . 1 1 n„ ,■ „ Close up of Bone marrow, where the blood

Histological reflections r . .

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Arterial Anastomoses Living and beating heart at close up

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JANUARY, 1920

No. 1

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

Index to Articles

DITORIAL 5

Our First Anniversary — and Our Future
Film Opportunities in 1920

lOVIES IN LITTLE ROCK. ARK.. SCHOOLS 7

By R. C. Hall

UTTIN'G HUMAN INTEREST INTO INSTRUCTION.\L
PICTURES 8

By James E. Lough, Ph. D. — Illustrated

UREAL OF EDUC.\TI0N-S FILM PLANS 9

VERY SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE VISUAL LNSTRUCTION
MATERIAL 10

By P. P. Cla.xton, Ph. D. — Illustrated

WO UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS DISCUSS M0\ lES U

By Richard .\. Muttkowski, Ph. D.

PECIAL FIL.M PR0GR.\MS FOR CHILDREN 12

[O^- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS CAPIT.\LIZING
MOTION PICTURES 13

By Charles A. McMahon — Illustrated

IE.\ICAN OFFICIAL HLMS MANAGED BY WOMEN 17

nCHIGAN HEALTH DEPT. FU.M CAMPAIGN 17

STERCHURCH MOVEMENT TURNS TO FILM PRO-
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By Eva Chappel! — Illustrated

'CHILDREN'S. HOUR» MOVIES ATTRACT 13,000 SUNDAY

SCHOOL PUPILS 20

By Rev. E. M. Vihoiies— Illustrated

THE UPLIFT PICTURE IN ENGLAND.

CHURCH PUTS Sl.OOO INTO EQUIPMENT. 21

REVIEWS OF FILMS :.. 22

Edited by Gladys BoUman — Illustrated

FLASHES ON THE WORLD'S SCREEN 24

CATALOG OF FILMS ..- 26

PROJECTION-EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT 28

Edited by James R. Cameron — Illustrated

STUDYING SOUTH AMERICA WITH SLIDES 30

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Index to Advertisements

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Vol. III.

JANUARY, 1920

No. 1

OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY— AND OUR FUTURE

WITH this issue Educational Film Maga-
zine enters upon the second year of its
existence. It existed in the mind of its
founder, the present writer, for several
years prior to Januarj', 1919, and actual work prep-
arator\' to the publication of the first number began
back in August 1918. while the country was still at
war. Halted for two months by tlie pulp and paper
section of the War Industries Board, it was not until
some weeks after the signing of the armistice that
we were permitted to proceed with our plans for pub-
lishing the new magazine.

Once launched, however, the idea for which it stood
and the progressive educational movement i' sup-
ported drew almost immediately as readers and sub-
scribers hundreds of the most enlightened men and
women of the United States and foreign lands. The
plan, purpose, and policy of the magazine as an-
nounced in detail in the initial issue proved a power-
ful magnet for everyone interested in visual educa-
tion; and its attractive power appears to continue un-
diminished, indeed, is augmented with each passing
day.

To paraphrase the familiar words of Scripture,
"the way of the pioneer is hard." Educational
Film Magazine from its incipiency has been blazing
a trail and fighting against stubborn traditions and
blind conventionalism. Like the Mayflower pilgrims
and Kentucky pioneers, like the westerners who first
cut across the virgin plains, we have had to arm our-
selves for both defense and offense. We are still
engaged in our campaign of educating the educators,
educating the ministry, and educating tiie motion pic-
ture industry to the importance, the value, the power,
and the necessity of the serious use of the film.

It may be that our pioneer efforts will not be suffi-
ciently appreciated for some years to come; that is to
say, that we shall not be enabled to place the magazine
on a stable, profitable basis, free from all anxiety as
to its future, until several years have pa^^^il hiinging

tliis branch of the film industry to broader develop-
ment and fruition. It may be that we shall ha-ve to go
tlirough the heart-breaking struggles which all worthy
pioneers, red-blooded and vigorous, have had to go
through. But we shall not falter. We shall "carry
on." The faith of the Crusaders is in our hearts, and
we cannot, we will not, we must not fail.

During tlie twelve months which have passed the
magazine has published some valuable articles from
notable contributors, many of them authorities in their
special fields. Last January Thomas A. Edison was
represented by an exclusive interview, the first he
had given any magazine in nearly two years, in
which he declared that the educational film was "one
of the greatest things in the world" and expressed the
belief that it was only a matter of time when all
schools would use motion pictures as their chief means
of instruction. Don Carlos Ellis, of the United States
Department of Agriculture, wrote some illuminative
articles on movies in farming and farm life. Charles
Roach, of Iowa State College of Agriculture; Carl
Hardin Carson, fonnerly of Pasadena, California.
High School; Dr. David R. Sumatine, of Peabody
High School, Pittsburg; Miss Florence Christianson
and Miss Vera Kelsey, teachers, offered con:'.ructively
valuable suggestions to teachers, principals, and super-
intendents. Messrs. Douglass and Dealey, of Clark
University, carried a remarkable series of papers on
"Micromotion Studies in Education" through several
issues last spring. Dr. Waldo Briggs, of the St. Louis
College of Physicians and Surgeons, contributed
"Teaching Surgical Operations with Films." Dr. G.
Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural
History," had a brief but suggestive paper on the use
of motion pictures in teaching the biological sciences.
During the summer Miss Elizabeth Jane Merrill, of
the Toledo Museum of Art, told of her important work
with children, through movies, in that institution.

Last April we published, for the first time in any

public organ in America, jhe story of Boroid non-
inflainmablc film, the Jtivealdon- of a Polish expert in.
photo-chemistry. Boroid may yet prove tb be the long-
sought solution of the fire hazard m filji^ projection
and handling. Articles on actual experiences of min-
isters of various sects with machines and films, and
helpful hints on the use of movies in churches, Sun-
day schools, missions, settlements, and similar insti-
tutions, have been contributed by Rev. Dr. C. C.
Marshall, Canon Chase, and Rev. Adam Chambers
of New York City; Rev. Dr. Murkland of Newark,
N. J., Rev. Roy L. Smith of Minneapolis, and
many others. George J. Zehrung, the able director of
the motion picture bureau of the Y. M. C. A. indus-
trial department, has offered some interesting and
inspiring articles. Two notable papers appeared
recently, one an interview with Prof. Frank Mc-
Murr}% ,of Teachers' College, Columbia University,
one of the most valuable on visual education we have
published; and the other telling what Newark, N. J.,
has done in this direction in its public schools, by the
assistant supei-intendent, A. G. Balcom. Charles L.
Spain, associate superintendent of Detroit schools, has
told of film developments in fourteen platoon schools
of that city.

Among our articles of a more general nature were
Capt. George E. Stone's thrilling and exclusive story
of his adventures as a camera man at Chateau-Thierry
and Belleau Wood; Dr. W. O. Owen's "Analysis of
Motion in Cinematography;" a condensed biography
of Charles Urban, educational film pioneer, to whom
visual education will always be indebted; articles on
safety and welfare work with motion pictures in the
plants of the United States Steel Corporation and
Ford Motor Company; "Comenius and Pestalozzi,
Fatliers of Visual Education;" and many others of
this character.

The limitations of space will not pennit us to
mention numerous other contributions to the maga-
zine, each of some special significance and value, each
aiding in tlie great work of educating the educators
and progressive thinkers of this and foreign countries
to the usefulness, resourcefulness, infinite power, and
limitless possibilities of the motion picture. .

To all of these contributors, to all of our subscribers
and advertisers, to all who in any way have helped
and are helping us to make the old vision a new real-
ity in thousands of institutions and organizations, we
say thanks, a thousand thanks, for your kind, gener-
ous, and unselfish efforts. We are more grateful than
we can express in words, or even in pictures. All of
us who have labored so diligently to forward this
movement, "one of the greatest things in the world,"
will live to see our reward when the motion picture
screen will have become an essential part of school
and college equipment and visual instruction gener-

ally accepted as an integral part of the curriculum.
When that glad day is here, Mr. Urban's recent proph-
ecy that school, church, and institutional use of
films will be the backbone of the industry will have
come tnie, and the leaders of the industry will have
been astute enough to realize it long before tliat time.

Only now, after twenty years, is the theatrical
brancli of the film industr\- beginning to settle upon
a firm and businesslike foundation and to attract big
brains, big skill, big capital, and big energies. It is
our hope and our belief that the non-theatrical and
educational branch of the motion picture industry
will attract big brains, big skill, big capital, and big
energies almost from the start, and certainly will not
have to wait for years to become stabilized and finan-
cially recognized. Already signs are not. wanting
that some of the biggest intellectual, civic, social, polit-
ical, financial and other important factors and influ-
ences are being won over to the exploitation of possi-
bilities in our field and to the development of domestic
and foreign markets in this field. That these possible
markets are of vast extent, that the annual turnover
in the educational, religious, and industrial branches
will ultimately equal and exceed the gross annual
volume of business done in theaters and theatrical ex-
changes, both domestic and foreign, will be evident to
anyone who goes carefully into the present situation
and its inevitable trend.

For tlie year 1920 Educational Film Magazine
has plans which are ambitious and far-reaching, but
we do not want to run ahead of our market. Our
feet are planted firmly on the earth and our head is
not in the clouds, far above the crowd. We are will-
ing to go a little faster than others who are thinking,
planning, and doing in our field, but not too much
faster, for fear of leaving our exploring party too far
behind, without a guide, and of perhaps being lost
ourselves in the trackless wilderness opening before
us. We shall progress fast enough, nevertheless, with
assurance and yet with caution. When we pause and
tliink of the wonderful things in store for us at the
end of our long hard journey, we may well be content
to "make Iiaste slowly."

There will, of course, be readjustments and rear-
rangements; the amusement phases of the business will
undergo jno found changes, and even new art forms
may arise therefrom, as Dr. Rhees of the University
of Rochester has hinted; but it appears certain, despite
the croakings and cautionings of the unprogressives,
that the serious use of the film is to become predomi-
nant, for the reason, if for no other, that the motion
picture is above all else, consciously or unconsciously,
a teacher of mankind.

FILM OPPORTUNITIES IN 1920

The year just dawning offers to the motion picture
its greatest opportunities for service since the period
of the world war. It lias hecome a kind of historic
mission for the screen to serve democracy and human-
ity in ways in which neither the press nor the pulpit,
neither the stage nor the lyceum can serve such noble
ends. To capitalize the film has become one of the
wise moves of statecraft; the publicist and tlie econ-
omist now know its true value as a potent swayer of
the masses.

\^'hat, then, are these opportunities'? In our judg-
ment they are as vital and as pregnant with possibil-
ities for usefulness to man as any which have spanned
the brief life of the movie screen.

First, work. What the world needs at the present
hour, and will need for perhaps years to come, is pro-
ductive work; work with the hands, the feet, tlie brain.
The motion picture must show men and women how
to get back to the work they were doing before the
war '"busted everydiin'," as Si Hopkins used to say
down at the village store.

Second, common sense. The film must show human
beings that if they will only get back to the normal,
commonplace, even."day thinking they were doing be-
fore \^'ar Lord Wilhelm "busted eveiythin'," diey
can restore their health, their fortunes, their happi-
ness, their lives, all that they hold most dear. It is
a simple matter of sanity and sense.

Third, faith. Not necessarily religion in the sectar-
ian or church meaning, but just ordinary faith in man,
in one's neighbor; faith in law, order and one's coun-
tiy, in justice, honor, loyalty, and love; faith in serv-
ing one's fellows, as an employer or one employed, as
a trustee of capital or one of the creators of capital.

BOY SCOUT REELS IN EVANSTON SCHOOLS

All School Children Over Ten Years Old, and Their Parents, See
Some of the Best Boy Movies^Ever Made

Motion pictures of a tour of boy scouts were shown De-
cember 5 in Crandon School, Evanston, 111. They are to be
repeated in other schools of district 75.

The four reels depict a tour of Akron, 0., boy scout troops
in a circuit trip from their city to the Atlantic coast via Buf-
falo, \iajjara Fails. Syracuse, Mohawk valley, Albany,
Adirondack mountains, Lake Champlain, \^ hite Mountains,
New England states, coast trip from Maine to New York and
return to Akron via Binghamton, New York and the Lin-
coln highway.

They are interesting and valuable to boys above the age
of ten because of two considerations:

First, the value of the geographic information which they
contain, and second, because of the fine example which they
set for boy scout camp life.

The scenes of camp life embrace the following aspects:
Wig-wag signaling, campfire building, "reflecting" open fire,
"friction"' fire, baking potatoes in clay or dirt, making of

MOVIES IN LITTLE ROCK, ARK., SCHOOLS

Geography, History. Civic?, English Classics, ami Recreational Films
in Weekly Use
By H. C. Hall

Stijicriiilriiilent of Public Si-hof>U. Little Ku<'k, Ark.

Moving pictures in schools as entertaining and recrea-
tional features and an occasional educational film may be
found in some schools of most large cities, but they have
not yet passed the novelty stage.

Little Rock public schools claim to be the pioneer to il-
lustrate the weekly subject matter of a study with a weekly
movie on that subject.

Early last spring \\ !>. Webb, supervisor of geography
for the Little Rock schools, was asked to prepare movie pro-
grams to illustrate weekly the geography of the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades. Twenty-two programs were prepared and
submitted to the Community Motion Picture Bureau of New
York, with such men as Dr. Frank McMurry of Columbia
Universitv, the geography expert, on the staff of editors.
This company contracted to prepare and furnish these pro-
grams as submitted.

These programs are being given weekly in the auditoriiun
of the high school to the delight of the pupils and their
parents, and to the satisfaction of the teachers of geography,
the geographv supervisor and the superintendent of schools.
The high school has contracted for a weekly series of recre-
ational films and will, later submit programs to be made to
order to illustrate some of the English classics, history and
other studies.

Daily Film Teaching

The first motion picture show to be presented by any
grammar school in Little Rock was shown at the LI. M. Rose
School. The title of the picture was ""My Own United
States," starring Arnold Daly. The film is based on the
story "The Man Without a Country," by Edward Everett
Hale. It shows American personalities, American tradi-
tions and American loyalty. A motion picture machine
has been installed in the upper corridor of the Rose school.
A contract has been made with the Community Bureau for
a high class show every Friday night under the direction of
H. W. Means, principal of the school. Preparations are be-
ing made to make daily use of the machine by presenting
phases of all subjects, including arithmetic, on the screen.

The projector was purchased by the School Improvement
Association of the school through Mr. Means. No admis-
sion is charged but contributions are received from those in
attendance. It is hoped to darken the corridor of the school
so as to be able to give a free show to the children each Fri-
day afternoon after school. Peabody School has its projec-
tion machine installed and gave its first show December 8.

The West Side Junior High School will follow as soon
as the projector can be put in place. All the machines used
in the schools are standard, with approved asbestos booths
and exhaust fans and are installed in compliance with the
rules of the city ordinances and the fire insurance com-
panies.

bread — "twist," clubhouse of Akron scouts (built by the
troop members), pitching of pup tents, morning devotions,
raising and lowering of national flag, swimming "hole." first
aid methods (applied in resuscitation of partially drowned
boy), and band practice.

Parents were especially invited to attend the presentation
of these pictures, since they are examples of that superior
type of fdm material to which the director of visual educa-
tion of the Evanston public schools is giving precedence.

PUTTING HUMAN INTEREST INTO INSTRUCTIONAL PICTURES

No Dry-A-.-Dust Films for This Teacher. Who Points lo

"'Cabiria,' "Julius Caesar" anil "Intolerance" as Examples of

Dramatic Photoplays With Pedagogic Values

By James E. Lough, Ph. D.

Professor of Experimental Psychology, New York I niversity

WE will never, in my estimation, "put over" the
movie idea in school or college unless we start
out with the premise that dry-as-dust films,
made from dry-as-dust textbooks, have little or
IK) appeal to the average scholar in the average classroom.
As novelties they are passe. As aids to the teacher they
may attempt to make more vivid the text and printed illus-
trations of the books, but it is a very weak effort with
poor attention-value and lacking in the first fundamental
of a psychological basis for imparting knowledge, namely,
interest. We must have interest, suspense, curiosity, the
element of the new and surprising, or the old facts pre-
sented in new and interesting form, in order to make the
film convincing. If it does not convince, in my judgment
it has no pedagogic value.

It seems to me that we should picturize the difficult things
and let the pupil visualize for himself the easy things. In
arithmetic, for example, why show simple addition, sub-
traction, multiplication, and division when it is much more
important and much more useful to the student to show on
the screen complex fractions, decimals, square and cube
root, and logarithms? In geography, why show him New
\ork or Chicago when he is not able to visualize Havana,
his near neighbor, or Mexico City, or Panama?

My idea would be to try out certain studies, so to speak,
and spend a year or more if necessary on a single picture
in order that no one could question its accuracy or the in-
terest and intelligence with which it was done. There are
some films already in existence and available to the schools
which might serve as a starting point for certain studies
or courses. Where inaccuracies or anachronisms are dis-
covered by the teacher, show these pictures and let the
pupils point out the mistakes. There is a negative plan
of teaching as well as a positive. Many films afford this
opportunity to approach the subject from the negative
viewpoint. On the positive side, of course, the good points
of the picture should be equally stressed.

There is a "'Story" in Everything

The important element to bear always in mind, in my
opinion, is the human factor. Whatever we throw on the
screen should be linked up in some wav with our lives,
with our daily experiences as human beings. There is a
"story" in everything, if we will oidy take the trouble to
dig it out. That story must be humanized, so to speak,
whether we are making a movie of a lump of coal, a steam
engine, a sky scraper, a river, a mountain, a chemical or
physical experiment, a historic figure or event, etc. With-
out this human interest or focus of attention a screen picture
is a rather dead thing, somewhat like a caged eagle or lion.
Free, it is majestic and purposeful; restricted, it fails to
win and holtl either child or adult.

Let us lake American history, merely by way of illus-
tration. It would not do, for instance, to make a film to
go with Barnes's "History of the United States," because
in every school where Barnes's book was not used that
picture would be worthless. A film or series of films of
Ainerican history, or of any phase or period of that history,
should be made in such a manner that anv teacher could

use it in an\ classroom with any work on American history.
Moreover, such a picture or pictures should be as well
done as "The Birth of a Nation," to cite one outstanding
picture plav. The film producers may as well understand
that unless the pictures offered to educators are of a su-
perior character and faithful to the subject, educators will
have none of them. The lack of really valuable films.

T.A..MES WHITCOMB RILEY'S "Hoosier Romance." from which this

•* scene was taken, is an exainple nf a picture play which visualizes

]>hases of .\merican literature and life and delivers an educational messap**

judged from our standpoint, has been holding back the
broader development of motion picture education.

There is a motion picture called "The Battle of Gettys-
burg" in which occurs the death of a general. As_ a matter
of fact, no such death occurred and there is no license for
it, historicallv or pictoriallv. The director went out of
his way to convey an absolutely incorrect impression to
every child of school age who sees that picture. On the
other hand. "Secret Service" gives a fairly good represen-
tation of the actual scenes and the spirit of Civil War days.

Using Period Pictures for a Purpose

Suppose an intelligent teacher were asked to prepare a
scenario of a Civil War story which would make an at-
tractive picture play and at the same time afford real
instruction to those who view it. He would have two fam-
ilies, related to each other, both Southern and both owning
negro slaves. There would be a connected story showing
the contrast in the treatment of these slaves by each family.
This would lead up in a natural way to Lincoln's Eman-
cipation Proclamation. "Uncle Tom's Cahin," if well
visualized, would give the child a fairly true and vivid
picture of phases of the pre-war period and might be used
to precede the kind of picture suggested. "Secret Service,"
"Shenandoah." "The Girl I Left Behind Me." "The War-
rens of Virginia," and other photoplays of the period
might be used toward the same end. .

The object of visualization on the screen should be to
lead the student to visualize things, persons, events, causes
and effects for himself or herself. The motion picture
should be utilized to develop the pupil's own power of
visualization. In other words, the film is a means to an
c.id and not the end itself, just as books, blackboards.

heses, tests, examinations are means to the great ultimate
;nd.

Now suppose we want to translate to the movie screen
he spirit of the American Revolution. Would we take
iome isolated, disconnected incidents and episodes, like the
;tories of Mollie Pitcher, Nathan Hale, Israel Putnam,
SVashington at Valley Forge — to nanVe hut a few — in order
o visualize this spirit? Certainly not. History is not
nade up of incidents hut is the stately march forward of
jreat events, of a system of thought which permeates the
ige. For this reason current events as shown in the news
•eels are of value in the schools and even in the theaters.
Po children outside of the large cities these films teach
vhat cilv folks are like, what goes on in the liig cities, and
>uch an outstanding event as the recent visit of the Prince
jf Wales. To children in the cities informational pictures
ell of country folks and country life, things new and
strange to the child of the slums.

Human Interest Must Dominate

To return to our theme, that human interest must domi-
nate the picture, let us take a travel suhject. Ordinarily a
scenic or travel reel depends almost exclusively upon the
environment and carries no appropriate story. Now im-
agine real people in a travel film on New ^ ork City, for
example. Suppose they were involved in a pretty little
romance, or humorous difficulty, or something of the sort,
with scenes showing the Battery, City Hall Park, Times
Square, the Art Museum, Grant's Tomb, and so forth. The
personal element added would improve the interest in such
a picture tremendously. Some of the producers of scenic,
travel, and industrial films have attempted to interweave
incidents, but connected stories have not been the rule.

In geography the comedy element may be introduced, but
introduced psychologicallv so that the entertainment phase
will not run away with the instructional phase of the picture.
In biology and zoology the same plan may be followed.
The Ditmars pictures are interesting but they teach things
that are not worth knowing because they teach the unusual.
It is the typical, commonplace animals we want to know
about and want the children to know about: flies, ants, mos-
quitoes, spiders, the common birds and fish, the familiar
fauna and flora. The theatrical point of view is entertaining
but not educational.

Good titles are important. They should be serious and
of educational design, not flippant and of amusement de-
sign. I would retitle and in many cases re-edit every film
which has been shown in a theater, because in nearly every
instance both pictures and titles have been planned to
entertain, and entertain only. ' In school or college they
mav be entertaining — they should be entertaining, in fact
— but th^Y must be educational as well.

"Cabiria" An Ancient History Clvssic

There are some outstanding photoplays which occur to
me as worthy of special mention. The Italian production
"Cabiria" is one of these. It has remarkable value as a
visualization of ancient history. "Intolerance" is an-
other, although here the emphasis is not on historic inci-
dent but on superstition, prejudice, and religious weak-
nesses. "Julius Caesar" was well done, but "Macbeth"
failed because there were loo many close-ups and it was
not a true psychological picture of the soul of the man.

In "Cabiria," college students will find rather faithful
pictures of life in ancient Carthage, Rome, and Egypt.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION'S FILM PLANS

Immediate establishment of a division of educational
extension to continue and expand the work begun by the
Bureau of Education is recommended by the Commissioner
of Education in his annual report to the Secretary of the
Interior.

I nder the heading "Motion Pictures in Education" the
Commissioner takes up the all-important topic of visual
instruction in the schools and colleges of the United States,
as follows:

The value of stereopticon and stereoscopic slides, moving
picture films, and phonographic records in school instruc-
tion and for extension education through community or-
ganizations, women's clubs, and other societies is well estab-
lished, and there is need and an increasing demand for a
central agency for the production and circulation of such
slides, films, and records. The Bureau of Education, in
co-operation with state and city departments of education
and institutions of higher learning, might render an in-
valuable service in this field at small cost. The eagerness
with which university ertension divisions and other educa-
tional extension agencies have responded to the bureau's
offer of co-operation in the obtaining and distribution of
five or six million feet of films, mostly war and public-
health films, indicate what might be done with an adequate
appropriation for this purpose.

NATIONAL FILM MUSEUM FOR BRITAIN

We have it on the authority of the Parliamentary Secre-
tary to the War Office, in a statement made last week in the
House of Commons, that that department is considering the
desirability of establishing a film museum for the preser-
vation of the many film records taken during the late war,
says a writer in the Bioscope of London.

We have repeatedly urged that the provision of a national
storehouse for films of historical interest should be founded
and therefore welcome the pronouncement upon this sub-
ject to which we have referred.

While it is the nation's duty to see that the priceless
records of our army and navy's operations are preserved
for the benefit of generations yet unborn, the fact must not
be lost sight of that there are many other equally historic
pictures that come within the same category, such as the
Scott Expedition, secured by Herbert Pouting, and the
doings of the German submarine held by Sir William Jury,
to mention but two. No scheme of film preservation will
be satisfactory that does not make provision for the safe
and careful custodv and annotation of every picture that
can be said to contribute to the making of Britain's history.

They will get considerable accuracy and atmosphere from
it, and much history unrecorded in the textbooks. This is
one of the distinctly valuable contributions of the motion
picture to history, that it can and does record the social and
economic life of any given period as no printed book can
and does. It can visualize complex sets of causes and
effects, of persons and events, of great streams of thought
and action which to a contemporary historian are almost
imperceptible.

5VERY SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE VISUAL INSTRUCTION MATERIAL

Teachers Should Make Constant Use of Prints, Slides and

Films — Every Annual School Budget Should Make a Liberal

Estimate So that the Newest and Best V'isual Instruction

Equipment May Be Employed

By P. P. Claxton, Ph. D.*

United States Commiseiuarr ot Kducjition

IN my first jear as a teacher I became fully convinced
of the value of visual instruction, and have ever since
done all I could to find and promote every effective
means for it.
Thirty-seven years ago about the only available means
of getting away from or supplementing written and oral
presentation was through the use of the objects themselves,
and I soon adopted this method in so far as I could, both
by bringing objects into the schoolroom and bv taking
classes outdoors and on long tramps about the town in
which I taught, and to the fields and forests of the country.
Here we studied at first hand forms of land and water, the
forces of nature at work, the forma-
tion, erosion and transportation of the
soils, the kinds and qualities of forest
trees, and the products of the fields
and methods of cultivating and har-
vesting them, manufacturing industries,
transportation, the processes of ex-
change, the building of houses and
street, and all the various activities of
the people.

Before I knew of the Schulereise of
its equivalent, on a small scale at
the German schools I had worked out
least. A year or two later, when I
was superintendent of schools in a
small southern city, I encauraged and
helped some of the more progressive
teachers of these schools to work out
these methods of object teaching, both
in the schoolroom and by excursions
on a much larger scale and more sys-
tematically than I had been able to
do it for myself as a teacher.

But this form of visual instruction,
valuable beyond comparison within its
limits, is from its very nature quite
narrowly limited. This I soon discov-
ered and set about finding some means
of supplementing and of extending it.

The first effort was through pictures cut from magazines,
illustrated papers, railroad folders, and other illustrated
advertising circulars and booklets. The teacher who is will-
ing to give the necessary time and energy to it can soon
have a valuable collection of such pictures, properly
mounted and numbered and cataloged for ready use. A
A teacher working under my directions made a collection
of more than a thousand good and suitable pictures illus-
trating almost every important phase of the geography of
North Carolina.

My next means of extending visual instruction in mv
schools was by the use of the stereoscope. Children were
asked to ])ring stereoscopes from these homes, and stereo-
scopic views were begged and borrowed and bought. These
were used to supplement le.^sons in geography and history,

r)K. p. p. CLAXTON, United States Commis-
sioner of Education, for many years has
taken an active, even an enthusiatic interest in
all forms of visual education and tlieir possible
application to various courses of study in Ameri-
can schools and colleges. It has been a keen
disappointment to the Commissioner that Con-
gress has failed to provide a large appropriation
for visual instruction purposes for the use of
the Bureau of Education.

and the ( liildren were permitted to handle them before the'
formal beginning of school work in the morning. It proved
to be an effective means of breaking up tardiness and secur-
ing prompt attendance.

In the eighties of last centurv the movies were un-
known, and the stereopticon was still almost unknown in
the schoolroom.

The Solar Camera j

About the middle of the decade a simple form of solar
camera was manufactured and advertised for school use.
This is a stereopticon with a reflecting mirror attached, so j
that it can be placed in the window of the schoolroom and
the sun be made to take the place of
I artificial light. I was one of the very
first superintendents to adopt the solar
camera for regular classroom work.
I bought two for use in four schools
and arranged for their use on alternate
weeks in each school. The reason for
buying only two was lack of funds for
buying more. In the clear atmosphere
of the South Appalachian Mountains,
with a high percentage of bright days,
I found them very effective. Slides
to illustrate lessons in geography, his-
tory, literature, and art were pur-
chased. Among these were several very
fine illustrations of Greek sculpture,
which the older boys and girls enjoyed
very much. It is interesting now to re-
member that one of the most learned
and popular ministers of the little
city, in one of his Sunday sermons,
condemned this use of the slides, justi
as a well known evangelist had con-
demned the schools, their superintend-
ent and teachers for presenting the
operetta, "The Little Tycoon."
Wealth of Visual Instruction

Material
This brief recital of these early ef-
forts is sufficient to indicate my interest in visual instruction
and my estimate of its value. If I could have had then the
wealth of material now available in cheap but good prints
of great pictures, in hundreds of thousands of stereopticon
slides and in millions of feet of moving picture films, illus-
trating all possible subjects, I would have been very happy.
Were I a superintendent of schools or a member of a school
board now I should equip every school under my direction
with all kinds oi visual instruction material, and would
expect teachers to make constant use of it. I should make
a liberal estimate for such material in every annual budget
so that the supply might be constantly renewed by the
addition of the newest and best. As Coiiimissioner oi
Education I hope I may be able to do something for th(
promotion of the right use of such material.

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TWO U-NTV ERSITi PROFESSORS DISCUSS THE MuMES

InterefJing View-poinls of a Sociologist and
a Biolosist, ^ith the Latter Argnin: for
Parental and National Control

Bv Rn HARD A. MiTTKOwiKi. Ph. D.

r\^ faculh.- members met after dinner at the univer-
-itii- club. One was a sociologist, the other a biolo-
gist. "Let's go to the moWes," said the latter.
"AXTiat." queried the sociologist, "you. a person
superior intelligence, and attend a movie? Til go. al-
•ugh I have little use for them."

"I go because I like them. Because I ^^ish to study the
nd of modern fancies and tastes, because of the oppor-
lity to obser\e people and their responses to recent news
mts and the problems of life. But as to superior intelli-
icel Fine term that," remarked the biologist. "Of
irse in my case there can be no doubt it means something,
• army psychologists proved it to me, or I to them. And
It settles that. As for you?"
'Til concede a doubt. But I feel superior."
■"A ery well. Let our superior intelligence consider the
(vies. Scientifically, with proper analysis, of course. \ on
srin. What is the mo\"ie?"

The following is a condensed account of the ensuing con-
rsation.

The sociologist replied to the cpiestion. "It's a form of
lertainment for common people, and being that, I am
tie interested in it."

"And that from a sociologist! My dear friend, do you
iisider your branch one of those rotating nuisances that
"est our universities, where teachers teach others to teach
11 others to become teachers of the same things? Such
bjects are of no benefit either to the students or to the
=titution. Your sociology is concerned with people. ^ ou
al with averages, with ordinary folk."
"But progress comes only through the few."
"I know. But movies are not made for the few. They
ipeal to the general populace, and their popularity is at-
■ted bv a dailv attendance of over a million. That is one
ct. And the movie is a fact, too!"

"Then you answer. Why do people go to the movies?"
"For entertaiimienL for recreation, perhaps for informa-
)n. Ever\-thing animate craves for recreation. Living
ings have their forms of play. Men entertain and are
itertained."

"QpstxE Method" of Extertaimng

"Agreed. The mo\"ies entertain. By a capsule method. I
lould say. But as a form of entertaiiunent they are hope-
sslv below par. Their plots, for instance — "
"Minor matters. Leave those for the present. Just now
e are interested in the positive phases. The movies are a
(mposite of three arts, that of the dramatist, or scenario
riter. of the actor, and of photography. In the last they
■e wonderful and at their best. The acting on the whole

fair. The weakest of the three is imdoubteclly the dra-
latist."

"Grant all the positive phases. Grant that movies are a
»rm of art. or a combination of arts. But the negative side
. much more important to us. We don't criticize Tirtues,
at we criticize faults. The movies are criticized. Parents,
lucators. leader; complain of them."

"I know it. Formulate the objections."

'"The themes are often vulsar. off-color, and sensual.

They teach method of crime, of license. They put fool no-
tions into empt\- heads. They are bad for children, and bad
for the eyes of both children and adults."

"The last is a mechanical feature that can be eliminated.
A film unrolled at proper speed will not hurt the eyes.
Good theaters have sj>ecially constructed or tinted screens
which remove the harmful glare. A bad feature is vibra-
tion, an infinitesimal quiver of a machine being magnified
to several inches bv the time it reaches the screen. But the
worst is speeding, so much in vogue with so-called comedies.
The glare and the streakiness of a speeded nlm are ven,-
harmful. Personallv on t^s'o or three occasions I have suf-
fered a sort of screen-blindness, a temporary paralysis of
the retinal nerve endings, so that I saw only in blotches-
Snow-blindness is similar. Tinted glasses relieve the strain.
But this is an intrinsic matter, mechanical phases that can
be easily corrected."

"The question of themes, then."

Mental Traps axd Moral Pitfalls
"And their execution. Here we have romanticist, realist,
and naturalist tastes clashing, just as in Uteratore. The
limitation of the movie is the necessity of action: it is un-
able to transmit abstract ideas. Something that a novel
can indicate in an inoffensive sentence must be translated
into action bv the mo\-ie. Here without doubt lies the
greatest danger of the movie. The stage can and does deal
with topics that are tmpleasant and obnoxious. But the
presentation lacks the pictorial force and blimtness the same
thing acquires in the picture drama. In the latter it may-
nauseate. We can talk of evil things and even tolerate the
suggestiveness of the stage. But the same actions presented
in the film become intolerable, for the eye notes a great
deal more in the mo\"ie than on the stage where attention
is divided between sight and hearing. But agreed, salacious
and sensual topics have no place in any art and as such
should be barred from the movies. But in depicting sordid
and criminal phases of life I do not see that our mo\ies
can achieve anvthing more than our novels and stories, not
to forget, our colored Sundav supplements. The movies
do not reveal methods of crime, of profligacy, any more
than our books and plavs. And, see here, do you permit
children to read anv book, or attend ciny kind of play?"

"Of course not. We have special books for children,
special plavs for them. Thev would not understand others.
Their minds are not ripe."

"Verv well. Then whv discriminate in two forms of art
and not in others? Our discrimination is not prompted by-
evil motives, is it? Books are i»-ritten for adults and for
children, plavs the same. Now why in the world should
children be admitted to ever%- mo\-ie that comes along?
Parents do not permit children to read "Peer Gynt," ''John
Barleycorn,'" "The Sea Wolf."' 'The Crisis," "Quo Vadis"
and so on. But thev permit them to go to the moviezation
of these novels. If the criterion of the movie theme should
be what is fit for the child's mind, then our movies will
not advance beyond the child stage. And in their present
form all but a few films must be considered harmful to
children."

"Children cannot appreciate tne prejudices of their
elders and have little feeling for them. But they are eager
to learn and absorb forbidden activities." suggested the
sociologist.

"They can learn from books and papers, can't they?"
replied the biologist. "Criminality among children is said
to be on the increase, but the fact that increase is con-
comitant with ascendancy of the picture drama does not
prove their casual relation. You know the exploded, but
persistent, belief that birthmarks result from prenatal im-
pressions. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is the fallacy in
each case. Criminality of children is due to parental neg-
ligence and to the lack of moral education."

"Argue as you will, the movies have their weaknesses
and we know them. And hence we have a movie censor-
ship. I think it is their own fault."

"No, not entirely. We have no national censorship. A
few states make their own regulations, and some localities
have their own arbiters of the allowable and non-allowable
in movies. I lived in a state which forbade the picture
'The Birth of a Nation' because 'inciting race prejudice,' but
continued to allow 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' This same state
had remarkable movie laws. For instance, motherhood was
not to be suggested in a picture. As if motherhood were
not a natural God-given function! But obviously, if such
a picture is to be shown to small children then the respec-
tive suggestion has no place in that film. There's the
humbug of it! We decry our movies for handling themes
that show the sordid, seamy sides of life, — because children
might become sophisticated. But, please, why should this
form of art be placed in its entirety on one level for child
and adult? I say, a child has no business to attend the
average movie, no more than it has to read a treatise on
heredity and sex knowledge or reports of vice commissions
and divorce statistics. That's exaggerated, but I wish to
emphasize my position. I blame the parents, not the
movies. The average parent tries to find out something of
a play before he takes his children. Why not so in the
case of the movies? It seems that here parents suddenly
transfer their parental duty to the movie manufacturer, and
then yell 'murder' because the movie is realistic and shows
a drunken scene, or gambling hell. It's another instance
of our old fad of shouldering the other fellow with our
duties."

"And what would you do for it?"

Parental and National Control Urged

"Control is what we need! Control in two places. Pa-
rental and national control. Control of the movie by a
national censorship, control of the attendance of children
by parents. The movie is a legitimate form of entertain-
ment and instruction for all types and ages of people, as
diversified as literature, appealing to various mentalities,
and these facts should be the basis of criticism and control.
Our censorship is applied at the wrong place. It should
not be left to local whims, but applied at the fountain head,
at the source of the movie, at the place where movies are
made. Wlien a picture is completed, ready for its release
then is the time for the censors to view it. I am astonished
that the movie owners themselves have not suggested this.
It would cause less annoyance, less expense, in the long
run. Furlhermore, the censors could readily list the type
of movie unsuitable for children, just as we discriminate in
children's books in the libraries."

"But what of the manufacturers? Will they consent?"
(Continued on page 1 7)

SPECIAL FILM PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN

National Kindergarten Association, National Motion Picture League,

Federation of Women's Clubs, and Hugo Reisenfeld

Active in New York City

There has been a sudden outburst of activity in the mat-
ter of selecting and showing special motion picture pro-
grams for children in New York City. Prior to this time
such juvenile exhibitions have been given on rare occasions in
the metropolis, usually in movie theaters and in cooperation
with their management. Now the National Kindergarten
Association and the National Motion Picture League I for-
merly National Juvenile) have joined forces, and on an-
other occasion the collaboration of Famous Players-Lasky
was secured. The New York City Federation of Women's
Clubs obtained the assistance of Mrs. Katherine F. Carter
and Mrs. Woodallen Chapman in presenting a special edu-
cational program. Hugo Reisenfeld, director of the Rivoli
and Rialto Theaters, New York, opened the 63rd Street
Music Hall Christmas week for a series of children's movie
performances.

The Kindergarten Association's film programs were run
off on five successive Saturday afternoons — November 22
and 25, December 6, 13 and 20— at DeWitt Clinton High
School and at the Hotel Plaza. On November 22 the pro-
gram at the high school consisted of "Alice in Wonderland,"
"School Days" in color, and "Bobbie Bumps Chooses a
Substitute.'" The admission fee was ten cents.

On December 6, at the Plaza, "Cinderella" and "Bobby
and His Fly Swatter" made up the bill, while the following
Saturday "The Prince and the Pauper," with Marguerite
Clark, and another Bobby Bumps cartoon delighted the 550
kiddies present. The final program was similar.

On Monday afternoon, December 15, at the Hotel Ma-
jestic, the club women of the city in association with the
Carter Cinema Company presented a varied and valuable
screen program before a large optience of school children,
teachers, social workers, librarians, and others. The films
shown were: Nature study, "A Day with John Burroughs," a
Prizma natural color reel ; arithmetic and geometry, "Square
and Cube Root," an ambitious but inadequate attempt to
solve mathematical mysteries for grade children; biology.'
"How Life Begins;" child welfare and hygiene, "Our Chil-
dren;" and Americanization, "The Making of an American.'" .
Hugon's helpful one reeler. The Burroughs picture proved
not only of value from a nature study viewpoint, being in
colors, but because of the naturalist's advanced age a bit
of film biography of lasting worth which may well be pre-
served in educational archives. •

Beginning on Christmas Day Mr. Reisenfeld advertised a
continuous program from one to six o'clock, afternoons, of
"children's motion picture holiday matinees." The open-
ing bill consisted of Mary Pickford in "The Poor Little Rich
Girl," which is one of the poorest pictures she has ever
done and not to be compared as a production to the stage
presentation given in New York some years ago; Briggs and
Arbuckle comedies, and "School Days" in color. All seats
were twentv-five cents at the matinees.

NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES

Accordiii!.' to a statement issued by J. F. Seedoff, vice president and
treasurer of the newly-formed Cinema Classics, Inc., it is the inten-
tion of this company to create a nation-wide system of motion picture
exchanges expressly for the purpose of serving educational institu-
tions, churches, organizations and individuals in the non-theatrical
field. The company controls the distribution of the Urban Popular
Classics in New York and New Jersey and expects to extend its con-
trol of these films to the entire country.

SOCIAL WELFARE

H0\^ THE CATHOLIC. CHURCH IS CAPITALIZING THE INIOTION PICTURE

Although Not Used as an Integral Part of Church Services, the Film Is Becom-
ing Increasingly Important in Catholic Pari>hes, Schools, Colleges, Clubs, and
Institutions — Hints on Successful Operation of Community Movie Shows-
Selected Programs and Censorship — Film Productions of N. C. W. C. Motion

Picture Committee

By Charles a. McMahon*

Chairman Mntion Piclure Committee. National Catholic War Council

I\ a recent issue of a leaiiing magazine devoted to the
non-theatrical uses of motion pictures tliere appeared
a statement to the effect that "forward-looking" clergy-
men were increasing the attendance at their churches
by making motion pictures a part of the resular services
and that, as a result of the introduction of the silent cinema
preacher as a substitute for the "legitimate" pulpiteer,
crowded congregations were responding more readily to
the physical, mental and moral stimulus of the church.

The article did not state that the church services referred
to are, of course, those of our Protestant brethren, or that
the adoption of this novel use of the motion picture is in
reality an admission that the "forward-looking" clergymen
referred to are either lacking in power to deliver their ser-
mons in a way such as to hold their congregations or that
the religious messages delivered in their pulpits are devoid
of the substance and power to interest their communicants.
Perhaps the substitution of the motion picture preacher for
the orthodox variety is an indirect confession that there is
something lacking in both the preacher and his message.
The part of the article in question that caught the attention
of the writer, however, was that a carelessly ^\orded refer-
ence, in the same paragraph, to the motion picture cam-
paign of the National Catholic War Council would lead
the mithinking reader to understand that the Catholic Church
was resorting to a similar use of the movies.

It need hardly be stated here that as long as Catholics
continue to he blessed with the light of faith and the privi-
lege of worshipping their Creator by assisting at the holy
Sacrifice of the mass there will be no need of resorting to
the sensational methods which other denominations have
adopted for the purpose of increasing attendance in their
churches. To Protestants lacking the gift of Catholic faith
it is quite inexplainable that our churches should be filled
to overflowing several times on Sundays, and often on
week-days as well. They do not stop to think that this has
been the unchanging practice for centuries. We have, in
the past, seen the leaders of Protestant denominations, in
consternation at the ever-increasing attendance at our Cath-
T)lic Church services, desperately resorting to the introduc-
tion of Sunday concerts, sensational lectures, and in many-
instances spectacular vaudeville in an effort to attract even
a fair representation of their communicants at least once
a Sunday. Now they have introduced motion pictures in
their churches and are making them a part of their regular
religious service. One denomination alone is spending the
vast simi of .S6,000,000 in the manufacture and exploitation
of propaganda films for church and missionary uses. An-
other denomination recentlv contracted in one order for

6,000 projection machines to be used throughout the coun-
try, even in the smallest of its churches and missions. Sev-
eral denominations are already using motion pictures to
illustrate their Simday evening sermons or, where appropri-
ate films are not available, are using travelog pictures, edu-
cational films, and various types of photoplays, hoping
to bring a larger number of people within the influence of
their churches. To the observant Catholic who has watched
the results of similar enterprises in the past, such expendi-
tures look very much like sowing the wind to reap the whirl-
wind.

The Motion Pictl-re .\s a Socl\l Asset

\^Tiile Catholic pastors will never have occasion to in-
troduce the motion picture into their churches as an integral
part of the church services, it should be noted, however, that
the motion picture is being used in ever-increasing measure
in our Catholic parishes, schools, colleges, and institutions.
There is a great difference naturally bet%veen using motion
pictures in the church and using them under the auspices
and influence of the church in parish halls and school audi-
toriums for social and educational purposes. The motion
picture is already being used most effectively in the teach-
ing of catechism and the Bible, and in presenting various
forms of cultural and industrial knowledge. In hundreds
of parish halls. Catholic clubs, and community centers the
motion picture is being regularly utilized as a great instru-
ment for good in promoting a better social relationship and
in weaving communities and neighborhoods into a better
understanding and appreciation of the different group
found therein.

We may as well take cognizance of the fact that the mo-
tion picture industry is one of the five leading industries
of the United States according to the capital invested and
the volvuue of business done each year. This is really a
surprising fact, considering that the motion picture industry
is one of the newest of our enterprises. The motion picture
is here to stav. It is the most popular single factor today in
furnishing amusement and entertainment for the great
masses of our population. It is only in its infancy as far
as its educational uses and influences are concerned.
Through motion pictures, ideas that otherwise would be
either difficult or almost impossible of understanding can
be quickly presented and easily grasped. Very soon the
motion picture will be known as the universal educator,
as there is almost no form of knowledge that cannot be
attractively and interestingly presented by the screen
teacher.

* Courtesy of Xational Catholic War Council B.Hilin.

\ ARYiNc Quality of Photoplays

In the vai-t number of photoplays produced each year,
there are naturally those of every variety, varying from the
good and indifferent types to those that are utterly bad
and vicious in character. There is, however, a large per-
centage of excellent motion pictures regularly produced
which are dramatically excellent and entirely satisfactory
from the viewpoint of their amusement and entertainment
values. Thousands of valuable educational and industrial
films are also being produced every year and deservedly
receive wide circulation. A great number of plays are ab-
solutely immoral. Others are done in a very bad manner
from the standpoint of the drama and motion picture
technique. Some either treat of unwholesome themes or,
if generally satisfactory, contain immoral scenes and vicious
suggestions. Hundreds of films are being manufactured
each year which contain insidious and dangerous propa-

shown later in this article, the way to suppress an immoral
film is to nip it in the budding or production stage. The
most reputable motion picture producers are now activelv
cooperating with Catholic critics and critics of other reli-
gious affiliations in making their plays satisfactory before
they are released for showing. Again pastors frequentlv
complain that their young people ( and now verv frequently
their older parishioners as well I do not attend parish
entertainments but patronize the "movie" shows instead.
This proves that the ''movie" is a real attraction, and a
competitor to be reckoned with when it comes to the ques-
tion of parish entertainment. All these facts are more or
less known to the Catholic pastors and priests of the coun-
tn,-, but, except in comparatively few cases, there has been
no active interest manifested by them, either in taking ad-
vantage of the motion picture's great possibilities for good,
or in taking constructive action in eliminating from film

Cardinal Gibbons. Cardinal O'Connell. and Archbishop Moem.er. Seated .\mid a Group of Bishops, as
Shown in the >>'.C.\^'.C."s Historical Motion Picture

ganda. Some of these the government found, during the
late war crisis, were even unpatriotic and subtlv destructive
of our American ideals. Others, like the so-called "educa-
tional" sex-hygiene films, are diametrically opposed to the
fundamental principles of Catholic moral teaching.

Occasionally we hear of a pastor condemning a notori-
ously flagrant motion pictutre play, and advising his people
not to patronize it. Such public condemnation of a play
serves only to increase attendance bv inciting curiositv in
the minds of the morbid and curious, thereby bringing about
results contrary to those which are desired. As will be

plays certain features which have served to evoke only
their criticism and to create on their part a negative atti-
tude toward the motion picture generally.

Experiences of Priests

As Chairman of the N.C.W.C. Civic Education Commit-
tee through Motion Pictures, the writer has had occasion
within the past few weeks to learn of the experiences and
views of many pastors in connection with the use of motion
pictures in Catholic parishes. Some pastors are tradition-
allv opposed to motion pictutres of any kind whatever.

Dther pastors have tried motion pictures and tor various
easons failed after the first or second attempt to attract
;ufficient people to make their ventures pay either socially
>r financially. As a result expensive motion picture equip-
nent has been frequentlv "scrapped" or comlemned to a
tale of innocuous desuetude. Such pastors, however, must
>e given credit for having tried out a. progressive id^i even
f. because of verv eWdent shortcomings in planning and
nanagement. their ventures into the film world were a dis-
ippointment. And yet. while many priests have reported
ailure or only partial success, scores of pastors and priests
lave written most enthusiastically of their parish motion
)icture entertainments and have told at length of their
uccessful management of parish movies and have enumer-
ited the great benefits that have accompanied their efforts
n providing film entertainment for their people.

AXliy. therefore, have motion pictures failed in certain
)arishes and succeeded in others? As a matter of fact, the
notion picture has not failed ; failure was only a matter of
nefficient equipment, of inefficient operation, or of unwise
election of film material. Let us consider here briefly these
hree essentials of motion picture entertainments (the writer
las in mind motion picture entertainments at which admis-
ion is charged I — the apparatus, the projector and the mo-
ion picture itself. Assuming that satisfactory physical
:onditions obtain in regard to the hall, screen, booth, elec-
ric current, etc.. the first requisite to a motion picture enter-
ainment is a motion picture machine. In this field, there
s as wide a rsmge of makes and values as there is betsveen
he plebeian Ford automobile and the highly efficient land
dghly priced i twelve-cylinder Rolls-Royce. L nfortunately.
n choosing motion picture machines the majority of pastors
eem to choose the cheaper models which, in the matter of
elative efficiency, cannot be compared to the cheaper make
)f car above referred to. XThat is the quality of motion pic-
ure projection as obtained from a small or sub-standard
motion picture machine operated in a parish hall as com-
)ared with a highly efficient batter\- of projectors operated
n an up-to-date theater? Lnsatisfactory. of course.
Vgain. where only one machine is used, there is a break in
he film program every time a reel is changed. This makes
or a crudity of projection which the film fan does not ex-
jerience where there are at least two projection machines.

How To Succeed With Movie Shows

Again, in the matter of instrumental music, which is
;losely related to the idea of projection, we frequently find
lo provision for mtisic at parish motion picture entertain-
nents. Music is almost as necessarv as the projector itself
n puting on a motion picture program. Even when the
nusic is not entirely appropriate to the theme of a film
)lay. it satisfies a ver^^ necessary condition to a successful
notion picture projection. The patrons of motion picture
heaters are as accustomed to enjoying music with their film
entertainment as they are to eating butter w ith their bread,
md the parish that cannot put on a motion picture program
sith the same technique and in the characteristic atmos-
)here of the regular motion picture theatre will not attract
he experienced "mo\"ie bug," or the inexperienced either,
;or that matter, for any considerable length of time.

An equally important consideration is the operator of
he motion picture machine. The finest film programs ar-
•anged for parish entertainment often fail t'j"get across"
)ecause of an inexperienced operator of the projection ap-

paratus. W hereas motion picture machines are usually
quite simple as to operation, nevertheless it re<quires training
and experience to meet the inevitable emergencies that at-
tend motion picture projection — emergencies that require
operating skill and <juick action in the solution of both lit-
tle and big difficulties that are continuallv arising. \^ hile
it is often possible for pastors or their assistants to qualify
as capable operators, the amateur operator has no business
in a booth, provided admission is charged and the people
are given to understand that a first-class entertainment is
to be expected. .\s a matter of fact, in most localities mo-
tion picture operators must be licensed and some city
ordinances even specify that the operator must be a union
man. This training is required not only to guarantee good
projection and to prevent damage to films through misuse
but also to safeguard against fire or accident. All the ma-
chine manufacturers and film companies will assist in the
training of operators and in giving such follow-up service in
regard to the machines themselves as to make this feature of
the work as efficient as possible. Only expert operators
should be employed wherever feature programs are pre-
sented and admission is charged.

Types of Motion Picture Plats

As regards the third essential to parish motion picture
entertainments, namely, films suitable for showing to Cath-
olic audiences, a great deal could be written which lack
of space does not here permit. There are a few live, up-
to-date photoplays produced by a company catering to
Catholic parish demands only, that can be recommended.
The N. C. W. C. Motion Picture Committee is in a position
to give definite information concerning this company and
its plavs. Many of the larger motion picture companies
are establishing non-theatrical departments to serve the non-
theatrical agencies desiring film service. These companies
maintain nation-wide distributing organizations, so located
as to be available to everv citv. village, community and
hamlet in the country. One of the companies with which
the National Catholic War Council is associated in its
motion picture program for civic education is such a com-
panv. and the CounciFs Motion Picture Committee is
working out an arrangement with this concern and other
companies wherebv the best motion picture plays can be
distributed regularlv to any parish or Catholic organization
desiring them.

This Committee is making up a list of feature programs
for the information and use of pastors. The usual pro-
gram consists of a five-reel drama, a one-reel comedy or
cartoon and a news reel, weekly magazine, travelog or a
scenic picture of one reel. The price for these programs
varies according to the relative order of the release and
also according to the size of the city, town or community,
in which the pictures are shown.

Until recentlv there was considerable objection from
many local motion picture exchanges to giving co-opera-
tion to parishes and community agencies desiring to rent
feature films. The introduction of motion picture plays
in parish halls was considered as an encroachment upon
the legitimate theatrical field, and as such was originally
opposed as unwelcome competition. This situation has
changed, however, and now wide-awake exhibitors will give
their first releases to any parish or organization that is
able to pav the same rental price that the regular theatrical
houses are required to pay. It should be understood that
as the age of a picture increases its rental price decreases.

Complete programs vary in price from twenty dollars to
fifty dollars a day and upwards. The types of production
include dramas of many varieties. — costume, detective,
fairy, historical, melodrama, society, western, romance, and
others. Comedy pictures likewise cover a wide range, the
best known being the straight slapstick, farce, cartoon and
burlesque comedies. Aside from these types of motion
pictures, there are the serial photoplays, travel pictures,
scenics, industrials, news weekly, magazine features, and
several others.

j
Movie Censorship by Catholic Societies

Pictures must be carefully selected according to their
uses, whether for entertainment, education, propaganda or
other uses. A picture that is satisfactory for the family
group would generally prove unsuitable for children, and
vice versa. The moral effect and influence of the plays
must be carefully judged. Some plays when viewed from
the Catholic angle must be instantly condemned in toto;
others, generally satisfactory, must be subjected to excision

effective must be carefully executed; it must be national in
scope; and it must carry with it authority and recommen-
dations for definite action, and it must be continuous,
otherwise it is futile, resulting only in exploiting the very
conditions which it is intended to remedy. This Committee
is now co-operating with the New York Commissioner of
Licenses in the viewing of new films, and several leading
motion picture companies have signified their desire and
intention of making this Committee its viewing agency, for
the purpose of making plays in the production stage sat-
isfactory to Catholic criticism, and also of making this
Committee a bureau for information relative to film service
in which Catholic agencies may be interested. The future
holds great possibilities for constructive results in this re-
spect.

Clean, Up-to-Date Photoplays Wanted.

A word in regard to films treating of religious subjects.
There are few good films of this make available. Priests
have found out by experience that this type of film is

TiiRiiE Women War W okklrs As Suow.n in the .N.C.W C.s Historical Motion 1'ictire

of certain objectionable scenes in order to make them
satisfactory. This frequently can be done without injuring
the dramatic value of the play, but is almost always ob-
jected to by the authors. Thus, in the viewing of plays,
there are many important considerations to be kept in mind.
The foregoing will give just a suggestion of what these
are.

In the matter of motion picture criticism, the N. C. W. C.
Motion Picture Committee is already exercising an advisory
censorship against immoral and unwholesome photoplays.
This Committee, together with other representatives of the
N. C. W. C. is working on a plan of co-operative censor-
ship action which will shortly be presented to the organized
Catholic societies of the United States. Censorship to be

usually not well patronized, partly because of the heav\
character of the production, and partly because of the poor
quality of camera work and sub-standard technique gen-
erally. The average film "fans" want up-to-date photo-
plays, and have only one desire in attending them, namely,
the desire to be entertained. Thus, except in the cases of
the school or in some distinctly patriotic program such as
the citizenship program of the N. C. W. C, (and even here
the element of entertainment predominates, and the in-
struction is short and only incidental) wholesome amuse-
ment is what the people demand; they do not want "high-
brow" entertainment. The tired working man or woman
desires pleasant relaxation and is going where it can be
obtained. If the pastor is wise enough to provide that sort
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MEXCIAN OFFICIAL FILMS MANAGED BY WOIMEN

The Misses Ehlers Selected by President Carranza Throupb Motion

Picture Scholarship and Given Three Year;' Training in the

United States

T^ young Mexican women have been placed in
control of the censorship and ilevelopment of
motion-picture films in Mexico. They are Miss
Adriana S. Ehlers, chief censor, and Miss Dolores
L. Ehlers. in charge of the work of producing Mexican films
to he distributed in the United States. Europe and Latin-
American countries. The purpose of this widespread dis-
tribution of Mexican films is announced to be to clear away
many of the misunderstandings that are said to exist regard-
ing Mexico.

In addition the young women are to have charge of
the making of educational films to be exhibited free of cost
to natives of Mexico to teach Mexicans modern methods of
living. The two young women will act under the dirert-on
of the Department of the Interior.

Films showing the life and industries of Mexico are being
prepared imder the direction of Miss Dolores L. Ehlers, who
has a staff taking pictures in different parts of the republic.
These are to be distributed bv cooperation of the Bureau of
Commercial Economics in virtually every coumry in die

Western hemisphere. Censorship is to be rigorous.

Edlcatioxal Films for Mexico's Ii.liter.4te

•All undesirable films, such as gruesome murders and im-
moral pictures now widely shown and patronized by the
poorer people, are to be barred from the public by 5Iiss
Adriana S. Ehlers. The smuggling of films across ihe
American border is to be stopped. As 8.5 per cent of. the
population of Mexico is illiterate, films have been adopted as
the only means of educating people who cannot read or
write.

The Misses Ehlers were selected bv President Carranza
through means of a motion-picture scholarship and ?^ent
three years ago to the United States to study the possibilities
of the motion-picture business from a national standpoint.
They first took a course in the mechanics of motion-picture
work at Boston, later studied the work of large film com-
panies in New York and subsequently were permitted to
work in the photographic section of the War Department, at
Washuiston.

MICHIGAN HEALTH DEPT. FILM CAMPAIGN

An illustrated movie lecture on "How Life Begins" that
is being circulated through the state of Michigan by the de-
partment of health, in an effort to combat disease, was given
in Dowagiac December 18 and 19 under the auspices of the
board of education.

The state department of public health is making an in-
tensive campaign of education against various self diseases.
It includes lecturing on sex hygiene in the schools. More
than half of the high schools of the state have been in-
structed by the educational mo^de.

The film is not a sex hygiene film, but a nature study
motion picture in four reels, attractive and interesting, dem-
onstrating the processes of life in animals and plants.

With the film came Mr. Plews and Miss Delavan, repre-
sentatives of the health department, who talked to the
boys and girls in the schools and directed the showing of
the film which was screened in the auditorium of the Dow-
agiac high school.

A new projector, a portable moving-picture machine
which has the approval of the state fire marshal, has been
purchased by the health department in its campaign to edu-
cate the younger people.

The first motion pictures ever made of the moon are one
of the interesting features of Universal's Ne\v Screen Maga-
zine No. -14. The pictures were made with the Hooker tele-
scope, the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world.
which was recently completed at the Mount Wilson Observ-
atory of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. The mir-
ror of this telescope is 100 inches in diameter, and required
five years to complete. It brings the moon in closer range
than ever seen before by the hmnan eye.

"HEALTHMOBILE" MOVIES

At the Public Health Conference recently held at Sara-
toga Springs. N. Y., under the auspices of the State De-
partment of Health, there was exhibited for the first time a
■'healthmobile," built for the educational work of the de-
partment. According to an official statement, "this is an
automobile built especially for the purpose and equipped
with a stereopticon, a moving picture machine run by power
developed in the 'healthmobile.' and a number of interesting
exhibits demonstrating the value of maintaining health
and preventing infection. It is planned to send the 'health-
mobile' with a lecturer into communities remote from the
railroads, so that people in the rural and sparsely settled
parts of the State may have the same means of public health
education as is available to city dwellers."

T\^ O UM\ ERSITY PROFESSORS DISCUSS MOVIES

(Continued from page 12)

"If they had any sense they would. A number of the
owners howl about the freedom of the art and a threatened
infringement. But you will notice that the ones who talk
loudest of 'art's freedom' really mean licentious art, art
given to the portrayal of the salacious, indecent and impure.
Just let them continue to produce evil types of films under
the plea of the 'freedom of art.' Some day they will find
a censorship slapped onto them with breath-taking snap and
fervor, with restrictions triply more stringent than those
they might voluntarily impose on themselves. The movie
is a moral influence. And every nation ha\'ing the right to
protect its morals, the movie must be controlled. The
movie is a fact. And control of the movie must be another
fact. Tha sooner the better."

INTERCHURCH MOVEMENT TURNS TO FILM PRODUCING

In Co-operation With Educational Films Corporation, Sends

Two Fully Equipped Motion Picture Expeditions to Asia and

Africa — 100,000 Feet of New and Different Pictures for

Theaters, Churches, Schools and Other Exhibitors

By Eva Chappell

MOTION pictures will be utilized on a grand scale
as an adjunct to the work of the churches for
the first time next spring, when the Interchurch
World Movement, the new co-operative organi-
zation formed by most of the Protestant denominations
of the United States and Canada, will make films one of
its chief weapons in putting the needs of the world before
the people of the nation.

A few weeks ago there sailed from San Francisco an ex-
pedition composed of the Rev. A. V. Casselman, E. Lloyd
Sheldon, and Harry Keepers, which is to say a clergvman, a
student of sociology who has also many scenarios to his
credit, and an expert camera man, sent out for the purpose

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of capturing the Far East for the screen. Just before this
sailing. Willard Price, editor of World Outlook, in company
with Horace D. Ashton, another world traveler and pho-
tographer, left New York, bound for North Africa and the
Near East.

These two expeditions sent out by the Interchurch World
Movement, working with the Educational Films Corpora-
tion, represent the first attempt of the Church to obtain in
a professional way films which will show the work of
missions in foreign fields, and also pictures of a far wider
stretch of interest. The first group of films, those deal-
ing with mission work, will be shown through church
agencies; the second group will be released under the
title "World Outlook on the Screen," and will be shown
in the motion picture theaters. The plan is to bring back,
at the very least, 100,000 feet of films.

"World Outlook on the Screen"

"World Outlook on the Screen" is an exact statement of
the purpose of these pictures. The idea is to put on the
screen bits of the countries visited, not merely scenically
and superficially as the swift traveling tourist sees, but
life as it is tliere behind walls and within courtvards; and,
too, pictures showing the onward march of progress, and
the old customs which point the need of progress.

There will be little of the stuff of guidebooks — the
ancient gate — ^interesting merely for its antiquity. All

will be vital, significant of life today. Corners seldom
visited will be sought out. The beaten trails will be left
behind, and journevs will be made by horse and camel to
remote parts not to be reached by train or motor. Pic-
tures of the widest possible human appeal will be made:
this is true of those made of the mission work, as those of
iTiore general themes. For the work of the ciiurch in for-
eign lands has a far swing not always remembered by
those who sit at home and think of men in black frock-
coats going forth to bring light to "the 'eathen in his blind-
ness."

The missionary, as these pictures will show, is, of neces-
sity, a versatile man; the camera is as likely to catch him
extracting the teeth of a wriggling native, or climbing the
rigging of an elephant, or killing a boa constrictor, or
being stalked by a lion, as engaged in the performance of
his more strictly ministerial duties. If it were not so his
task would be far more simple, and. by the same token,
far less interesting.

The Far Eastern Expedition

The Far Eastern expedition, which sailed on the Persia
December 21, will spend eight months in journeying
through India, Burma, China. Japan and Korea. It is
under the general direction of the Rev. A. V. Casselman,
who knows his India well from former missionary service.
Many doors which could not be entered except through
missionary influence will be open to them. The technical
direction is in charge of E. Lloyd Sheldon, known as a
writer for magazines, as well as the writer and producer
of many screen plays. In this enterprise Mr. Sheldon saw
an opportunii\ for something new in pictures. During his
student days at Harvard he took honors in sociolog)-, and
he will bring a specialized interest to bear on the finding
of social and industrial life hidden away in the East. The
camera man of the party is Harry Keepers, who in his
years of service has jogged so much about the world that
he has won the sobriquet "Globe Trotter." ■

Egypt, Algeria, Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Palestine, and
parts of Italy are to be visited by Mr. Price and Mr. Ash-
ton. The work which is being done is another expression
of that done by World Outlook, the magazine of which
Mr. Price is editor, and which is now owned by the Inter-
church World Movement. Mr. Ashton is also well equipped
by profession, training, and experience to find the best of
scenic and scientific sociological interest. He is a fellow
of the American Geographical Society and a member of
the New York Academy of Sciences. During the Russian-
Japanese war he worked and photographetl in Japan, Korea,
and Manchuria. Later he explored and photographed in
South America.

The .New Life of Desert Tribes

Though the greater part of the definite planning of the
work will be done on the ground, much was done before the
expeditions sailed. It is certain that there will be pic-
tures revealing in a way never before accomplished the
influx of modern progress, with strange old customs used
in contrast. There will be pictures showing the new life
of women in these countries where there is a robust new
life, even though the word feminism and its native equiv-
alents have not penetrated; the life as it has been affected
by the war — not merely the general condition, but, too,
life as it has been affected bv ideas brought back bv the
soldiers: for example, the Arab who went lo war and who
brings back to his desert the new civilization and the new
savagery that he learned there. There will be one inter-
esting set of films showing the life of the Kabyles — those
Berber tribes of Algeria and the oases of the Sahara, blond

TT.ARRV K^^ ;-<:>. c.\jtrt I. iaematographer. in Egy;>i. with the Vita-
graph Globe Trotters. I91J-191.1. A close-up of the camera man
appears in the oval insert.

as the Ejiglish amid their dark-skinned neighbors, whose
antiquity of type is proved by the old monuments of
Egypt, where their ancestors are portraved. There will
be pictures of Bedouins, those figures of unconquerable
romance. And there will be pictures showing the contrast
of the Arab in his native school and in the missionary
school.

The Far East will be as fruitful a field. Among the
manners and customs pictures will be those showing the
curious restrictions of caste; house-boat life in China can-
not fail to result in interesting films, nor can the athletics
of the Orient. Among the industrial pictures to be brought
back from India will be those showing Sam Higginbottom's
agricultural experiments and their far-reaching effects.
And, everywhere, the grotesque and the humorous will be
sought that these pictures may have that saving salt.

Wide Appeal of These "Different"' Films

It would be hard to overestimate the appeal and the
effect of these pictures, or the vast numbers they will
reach. Already approximately 2500 churches, according
to H. H. Casselman. head of the Motion Picture Division
of the Interchurch Movement and a brother of the leader
of one expedition, are equipped with motion picture ap-
paratus.

It is certain that because of their educational value the
films will be in demand for the use of schools, and, too.
in civic societies, because of their industrial and economic

bearing. And all this in addition to those released through
the regular theatrical channels with their access to mil-
lions nightly.

Certainly these pictures gathered by clergymen and men
of science and literature — students all of the great human
drama and of the minds and the hearts and the manners of
men, helped out by camera men who know a good picture
when they see it and snap it regardless of the peg on which
it is to hang — will be eagerly awaited. They can hardly
fail to be different, and better, and with a wider appeal, a
more significant insight into foreign lands than any that
have yet been brought back for the delight and instruction
of those who must sit at home, and may travel the trails
of the world only through the magic of cinema art.

NEW EDUCATIONAL-TRAVEL SERIES

David P. Howells of New York announces a new series of
educational-travel pictures, called "Photolife," which his
company is producing. One of the company's cameramen,
Jeff D. Dickson, is reported to have been making extensive
pictures of the city and countrv life of France, including a
splendid picture of Paris which is now being titled. Dick-
son was formerly attached to the photographic section of the
United States Signal Corps in France and is said to have
taken some unusual pictures of the Chateau-Thierry and
Meuse-Argonne actions. He is at present in Morocco and
will, according to reports, spend the winter in touring the
countries along the northern coast of Africa.

"It is our intention to make a complete library of scien-
tific, sociological, industrial and scenic pictures which will
be produced with a view of their being used in schools as
well as being releases in the moving-picture theatres," says
Mr. Howells.

FILM EXPEDITION TO SAMOA

To take motion pictures of geographic and botanical in-
terest, for exhibition in schools and educational institutions,
the Non-Fiction Film Production Department of Famous
Plavers-Laskv Corporation lately sent to Samoa, in the
South Pacific, an expedition in search of new and interest-
ing film material. The expedition, in which are some
Boston scientists, sailed from Marblehead. Mass.. in the 125-
foot power yacht Ajax, and will probably be four months in
reaching its destination in the South Seas — a voyage of
15.000 miles.

CLEAN FILMS FOR ATLANTA CHILDREN

A movement for clean pictures for children has been
inaugurated in Atlanta by the Parent-Teachers' Association.
At a recent meeting Mrs. J. E. Andrews, state president, ad-
dressed the members and urged constructive cooperation as
a means of securing whatever the parents and teachers de-
sired in this line. Suggestion was made that a free demon-
station of government educational pictures be given under
the auspices of the chamber of commerce, to which members
of the association be invited.

It is believed that this movement will result in obtaining
the kind of pictures desired by mothers and will also intro-
duce motion pictures into the Atlanta schools. /

RELIGIOUS

'CHILDREN'S HOUR" MOVIES ATTRACT 13,000 SUNDAY SCHOOL PUPILS

•Does It Pay?" Asks This Pastor. "Not in Dollars and Cents, For It Is Not

the Money I Am After. My People Supply the Ca>h. Because I Am Making

Better Boys and Girls out of Their Kids"

By Rev. E. M. Rhoaues

Paalor, First Baptist Church, (rraftoD, W. \'a.

FOR several years I have been using motion pictures
in my church work, and I have found them a very
great aid in reaching the masses. My employment
of films has been chiefly with the children, although
a number of times I have used them in work with the older
people of my congregation.

I feel that my regular weekly "Children's Hour,"' held
each Friday afternoon, has been one of the best ends to
which I have thus far put the use of the movie. At thirty-
two sessions of this children's hour in the year 1919 I had
a total attendance of more than 12,800 children, from an
actual count of tickets received at the door.

Admission is by ticket only. These are given out each
Sunday, two tickets to each member of our Bible school.
We have to use tickets because our room would not hold
all the kids who would like to jam in.

Below are some of the admission tickets, printed in black
on white, yellow, pink, grav, green and other colored card
board, the size of a regulation theater ticket:

ADMIT ONE BOY OR GIRL

To The

BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOUR

Conducted by E. M. Rhoades at the Baptist Church, Friday
October 31, 1919, at 4 P. M. Doors open at 3:45. Music,
Magic, Stories and Moving Pictures

"The Neighborhood Pest"

No Admission Without Ticket

Other tickets announced "A Spanish War Story." "How a
Boy Was Freed," "A Philippino Warrior," and "The Sim-
beam Prince." One ticket was headed "Girls' Stunt Day,"
another "Boys' Thanksgiving Stunt," and the December 19
ticket was unusually large, with a cut of Santa Claus at the
top using a telephone and saying "Hello Children!"

Here are some of the "Children's Hour Yells" — the kid-
dies must have this safety valve for their stored-up energies:

Rah, Re Ri, Ro!

Do you know what I know?

You can know

If you go where I go.

Where do I go?

To the Baptist Children's Hour

Who are, who are.
Who are we?
Children's Hour boosters.
Can't you see?

Listen friends!

And you will hear

How we youngsters all can cheer.

Hiishsh-li-h-h!

I reach more children each week than any other two
pastors in the state of West Virginia. How do we do it?
We use a DeVry "C 90" motion picture projector, a slere-
opticon, a pipe organ, and any other good things that
our hands can lay hold on. The little DeVry machine is
a box of mystery. The children watch it as hungry animals
do a piece of meat. Eager for this tempting morsel to be
offered to them, they fairly devour it when they see it on
the screen.

We open liy singing "America." Then a prayer is read

from a slide specially prepared. A gospel song is suug
from a slide. Then we have our yells, and you should hear
those Y-E-L-L-S! Next a lively gospel song and a movie
story. Then an object lesson as a sermon, which takes not
more than ten minutes. Then a reel of movies, followed
by "Onward, Christian Soldiers," and we have finished.

Does it pay?

Not in dollars and cents, for it is not the money I am
after. My people supply the cash, because I am making
better boys and girls out of their kids.

Yt/HERE llie Rev. Mr. Rhoades is making better boys and girls largely
through the use of the movie. This is the average crowd which
tvatts outside the church door every Friday afternoon a half hour before
:he doors open for "Children's Hour." In 1919 nearly 13.000 boys and
?irls handed in tickets to see the pictures, hear stories and sermons, and
let out yells and sing songs.

Anyone wlio doubts this is invited to visit us some Fri-
day afternoon and see for himself or herself; One such
visit will. I think, convince the hardest-hearted sceptic.

SERMONETTES IN FILMS
Here's another new idea for pictures conceived by H. A.
Spanuth, president of the Commonwealth Pictures Company,
Chicago. Mr. Spanuth was the first to introduce vaudeville
to the screen in his Original Vod-A-Vil Movies.

His latest inspiration in film is to be known as "Ser-
monettes." It is not the intention to preach in these
sermonettes. They are entirely non-sectarian. The sermon-
ettes will transfer to the screen the stories of the Bible and
the messages they are intended to bring to mankind. Each
sermonette is in two parts — ^the first a picturization of the
text and story taken from the Bible, and the second the
modern stor\ showing the adaptation of the message to
cvervdav life.

\S'ilh church and school and printing press, the screen has taken its
place as one of the major educational agencies. It lies within the
power of the leaders of the industry to make it more and more the
university of the average citizen. — Serrelary of War Newton D. Baker.

THE UPLIFT PICTURE IN ENGLAND

British Film Producer Thinks Churches
Should Suhsidize Productions *

WITHIX easy walk of my house are two churches,
recently turned, with scarcely any external altera-
tions, into picture palaces,- one Catholic and the
other Methodist, and one never passes either of
them without a twinge. No one who sees the masses crowd-
ing into the picture-shows night after night can doubt the
hold which the cinema has on the general public. The
question arises whether it may not be worth while for w ide-
awake religious workers to be on more intimate and friendly
terms with the cinema managers, particularly in country
places?

In connection with a recent May Meeting in London, a
film was exhibited outlining the well-known child-story, "A
Peep Behind the Scenes," and the same film-people are now
contemplating the production of another of Mrs. Walton's
stories, "Christie's Old Organ." Which fact was sufficient
for me to open up the whole subject, the other day, with
one of the leading film-producers.

Theater Men See Possibilities

"Religious people complain of the bad effects of a certain
class of film on juvenile audiences!" I said.

'"The subject receives as much attention in the cinema
trade press as in the police-courts," was the reply. "We
are as alert to this phase of the subject as the daily press or
the pulpit itself." '

The picture-house manager is. of course, out to cater for
all classes, and while he knows that pistol-firing and blood-
and-thunder stories appeal to youths in the front seats, he is
not quite sure how far better-class subjects would be wel-
comed by his patrons.

'"Yes; the average manager is always sure that films of a
sensational character will be a far bigger attraction than
those dealing with serious problems or educational subjects,
simply because they usually contain plots of far less intense
situations."

"I suppose, from your point of view, what we should call
a religious film does not mean business?"

Increase in Uplift Films

"There certainly has been lately an increase of films of a
more uplifting tendency — subjects dealing with mothers'
and children's welfare and the broader questions of hygiene
and the pernicious influence of the drug-habit. Some of
these subjects, however, have been of such a nature as to
necessitate the exclusion of children from their exhibition."

"Can you tell me how such films as Zola's 'Drink' and
Malet's 'Wages of Sin' have been received by the cinema-
going public?"

"They have certainly drawn a large number of people,
but their reception is naturally very mixed. The less intelli-
gent portions of audiences fail to see the moral these sub-
jects are intended to convey. It must also be borne in mind
that the average picture-goer visits the cinema to be amused
and not to be lectiued."

It is more or less an open secret that the cinema is almost
Aholly dependent on American films, though English pro-
ductions are now multiplying.

"I suppose the British home market is too limited?"

"There are 20,000 cinemas in the United States and

• Interview in Christian World. London.

Aarely 5,000 in this country. It follows that the exhibitor
is asked to pay a higher price for British films. The British
producer cannot hope to make anything like the profit on
any production equal to the American. It will be probably
many years before British films will predominate."

Thinks Churches Should Subsidize Fruis

"I exjiect it is extremely difficult to film really religious
subjects without a too-dramatic setting, which would offend
the taste and susceptibilities of conventionally religious
people?"

"I do not agree. Films of this nature have been approved
by some of the most eminent Church leaders throughout the
world, and they have been more or less successful from a
spiritual point of view. There is now so much eminent and
varied talent at the disposal of producers that they could
guarantee religious subjects being depicted in a perfectly
appropriate and reverent manner."

"\ou do not know any people who are prepared to offer
films to churches for directly evangelistic purposes?"

"No; I am inclined to think that unless the churches are
prepared to subsidize productions of this kind they will be
very few and far between."

CHURCH PUTS 81,000 INTO EQUIPMENT

Rev. Mr. Wright, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Believes Leading Churches

of Iowa Could Control Amusement Situation if

Properly Equipped

Rev. \^'. J. Wright, pastor of the Central Church of Christ,
Fort Dodge, Iowa, has completed the installation of a new
motion picture machine in the church. He expresses the
belief that moving pictures in churches can be used by
])astors to compete with local theaters on Sundays.

The cinema equipment at the church was installed at a
cost of nearly §1,000. The machine itself is the most mod-
ern procurable. It regulates itself automatically after be-
ing started and is so constructed that the danger of fire
is entirely eliminated. Mr. Wright says the room in which
the machine stands is built from material knowTi as sheet
rock. The entire apparatus meets the requirements of state
laws relative to motion picture theaters.

The church will now use motion pictures in connection
with Bible school class work. In addition religious, patri-
otic, scenic and industrial films will be shown. Illustrated
gospel songs also will be flashed on the screen as an aid
to congregational singing, and diagrammed sermons will be
shown.

In the near future Mr. \^>ight intends to offer his church-
goers high class drama and comedy. He believes that if
the leading churches in the state adopt a similar plan they
will eventuallv revolutionize the whole production of mo-
tion picture films. J^Tien the majority of churches com-
mence to loom up as prospective film buyers the producers
on a commercial basis will be compelled to cater to the de-
mands of the pastors in the quality of films manufactured,
he savs. Mr. Wright predicts that the leading churches of
Iowa with a modern movie exhibiting and distributing
system could practically control the amusement centers.

REVIEWS OF FILMS

Edited by GLADYS BOLLMAN

' THE^BROKEN MELODY"

A PICTURE rich in interest to the ambitious young
person and those interested in him or her, is The
Broken Melody. It presents the conflict between
art and life which so often comes to the young
student or artist just beginning his career. Should one's
work be sacrificed to the "human" side of life, should love
and youth have their hey-day — or is any sacrifice necessary
— can a compromise be made? After one has seen The
Broken Melody the problems remain in the mind, only
revealed, not solved, by the picture. The story has suffi-
cient vitality and truth to live off the screen, as well as
oh it.

Stuart, a young artist, is persuaded to leave Hedda, his
fiancee, to study in Paris. The influences which guide his
decision are three: the inspiration of a wealthv young
woman who plays at being a patron of the arts and who
offers him his chance, as she has done to so many other
artists; the advice of a broken old man, once a famous
musician, who shows him a faded letter, saying, "I loved
a girl as lovely and gifted as Hedda. We were selfish in
our happiness and this is all I have to show for our
wasted talents": and, lastly, Hedda's great sacrivce by
which she induces him to go by making him believe that
she must work out her success alone.

After much suffering and some disillusion for both,
Stuart returns and they agree to take up the future together.

There is a quality of inevitableness about the story which
makes it singularly forceful. The real problem involved,
its solution, largely through chance or through mistakes,
the excellent characterization, the simplicity of treatment —
all are convincing. It is a bit out of real life. It raises
any number of those questions so interesting to discuss and
so vital to the questioner, who must solve them in his own
life. Was Hedda's sacrifice a mistaken one because she
accomplished it by a lie? Was Stuart wrong to accept
help instead of working out his own salvation? Was the
old man wrong in regretting his past happiness? For club
and student groups, the picture is ideal.

The treatment is sincere, free from the usual display
and exploitation of a personality or a setting, and honest
in setting forth the characteristics of the hero and heroine
and their surroundings — artistic ambition and "singing
suppers," days of play and work, the freedom and the
innocence of Greenwich Village as it is in places, not as
it is thought to be.

The Broken Melody seems to have been divested of
many of the conventions of the photoplay and more pic-
tures of the same type will be heartily welcomed by dis-
criminating audiences.

The Broken Melody. Produced by Selznick. Distributed by Select
Pictures Corporation. 5 reels.

9 9'

"THE GO-GETTER"

The Go-Getter is the story of a young man who came
back from a commendable career in the service and re-
fused to become subject again to the slavery of tbe daily
round on a farm. He saw, however, that there were quite
as many possibilities on the farm, under certain conditions,

as anywhere else. He borrows money, purchases up-to-date
farm and household electrical equipment, and in a year
has not onl\ made these appliances pay for themselves,
but has netted several hundred dollars profit.

\^1iile this reel was made for advertising purposes, it
contains much of educational value for rural and other
communities. It would awaken rural communities to the
need for eliminating their waste of man-power, to the
advantage of being self-sufficient upon their own land, and
to the increased possibilities for education and self-culture
afforded by more leisure. The picture also gives a picture
of farm life not so discouraging to the city dweller as one
would suppose. If city-dwellers are ever to go back to
the farm, it must be because they want to. and this reel
provides an effective argument.

The Go-Getter. Produced by the Western Electric Comnany. 3 reeb.

XE of the effective scenes from "The Broken Me'ody," a photo-
play with a message. Eugene O'Brien plays the artist.

MAKING TELEPHONES IN TOKYO

A good example of the travelog which reallv teaches is
another Western Electric reel, made to show the Tokyo
branch of the American Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany, which is thirty years old. Among the interesting
features of the picture are the views of commercial cus-
toms. We are given examples of the peculiar speed and
accuracy of Japanese workers. A Japanese carpenter is
seen at his work, which seems strange to an Occidental,
for he pulls his plane instead of pushing it, and saws with
an up stroke instead of a down stroke. Coolies are iden-
tified by numbers on their uniforms. Hundreds of tons of
domestic freight are transported by man power, as illus-
trated by the curious method of poling boats in which a
man furnishes the necessary force by walking from the
front to the back of the boat.

We are shown the beautiful inland farm country and the
mountain sides which furnish the telegraph poles. We
see at the factory the packing and assembling of the tele-
phones, and the closing hour, with its curious mingling of
American and Japanese customs — time clocks and rick-
shaws. American clad men and kimono clad women. Views

of streets and parks give other contrasts of Eastern beauty
and Western progress.

Such a reel is especially good for use in industrial plants
or vocational schools, to show trade relations, working
and economic conditions in other lands, and foreign cus-
toms of all sorts. The employee or pupil who sees this
jiicture gains a wider conception of the meaning of com-
merce.

Making Telephones in Tokyo. Produced by Western Electric Co. 1 reel.

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MASSACHUSETTS MAKES HEALUil A FILM

Produced by the state of Massachusetts and the Worces-
ter Film Corporation, The Priceless Gift of Health is an
excellent bit of propaganda work. The dim shows two
boys who start life with even chances. One boy, by care-
ful feeding, careful examinations, healthful and interesting
work and play, grew up adequately prepared for life. The
other, by being "let alone," develops adenoids and conse-
ijuently never has a fair chance at work or play. He looks
forward to a future of "just jobs," handicapped by a phy-
sical condition which without years of treatment he can
never overcome.

Simple Rules of Health are then given, and the director
is to be congratulated upon his lively illustrations of these
rules. Fresh air, good food and water, exercise and sleep,
and above all a cheerful frame of mind, become some-
thing more than dry-as-dust maxims when pointed out by
this series of amusing incidents acted attractively by
children.

The film should have a wide use.

The Priceless Gift of Health. Produced by State of Massachusetts and
Worcester Film Corporation. 1 reel.

THE ADMIRABLE CHRICHTON ON THE SCREEN

A class of pictures which are not suited, say schools and
churches, to their needs, but which are nevertheless dis-
tinctly valuable from an educational point of view, as
raising the taste of the general public, is illustrated by
.Male aiid Female, Cecil B. DeMille's version of Barrie's
The Admit able Crichton. To be sure, a considerable por-
tion of the film is given to an interpolated episode to be
described as "gorgeous, spectacular, thrilling," etc., but
nevertheless the foundation is there.

A picture version of any classic, however poor, has two
points which lift it far above others. (The critic holds no
brief for certain perverted "adaptations." ) Its theme, un-
like that of the average picture play, cannot fail to set
people thinking. A second advantage is that it awakens
interest to some extent. in the authors. That this is a real
fact is proved by the experiment of the New York Public
Librarv in co-operating with neighborhood plavhouses. To
refer the readers of classics and seers of motion picture
versions of them, to both forr^"^. is the aim.

"THE GREAT WORK"

At the West End Cinema, London, there was CKliibiled
recently an interesting new film entitled, "The Great Work, '
illustrating the activities of the Village Centers Council for
the curative treatment and training of disabled ex-service
men. Produced by Adrian Gil Spear, ot the Community
Motion Picture Bureau, the picture summarizes the admira-
ble work which is being done by the Council at Enham
Place, near Andover. Scenes of life at Enham Place are

presented in the form of a little story, tracing the career of
Gunner John Clark, an actual Enham i(?-.ident. from the
moment of his enlistment, through the war. to a time when
he leaves the village center, fully trained to support him-
self and his familv. This method of framing the village
center scenes considerably increases the human interest of
the prodiution and. consequently, its value as propaganda-

OPTICAL DISEASE BASIS OF PHOTOPLAY

Burton, the trusted cashier of a bank, disaj)pears in broad
daylight with £5,000, which he has collected from another
bank. His daughter's fiance, Gardiner, a novelist, deter-
mines to clear Burton from the suspicion which attaclies to
him, and while engaged in his investigations, is robbed of
£800, by a mysterious visitor, who seems capable of seeing
in the dark. In an upper room in his house he discovers
Burton, bound hand and foot. The police are informed of
this, and arrive to investigate. Gardiner suspects a neigh-
bour, Tersen, who is supposed to be blind. A trap is laid,
with the result that Tersen is proved to be the culprit. He
suffers from an optical disease, which causes blindness dur-
ing the day. but which enables him to see at night.

The author of this interesting photoplay The Bat has based
his plot on a scientific foundation and employed it with re-
markable ingenuity, investing the story with an atmosphere
of mystery which is well maintained to the end, but is not
too dense for the average astute spectator. Hemeralopia, is
an optical disease which impairs the vision under a strong
light but enables the sufferer to see with moderate comfort
in the dusk. With pardonable license the author has im-
agined a man totally blind by day. but with the acute
vision of a cat during the night, and this affliction is made
the most of for his own advantage. By day, Tersen is a
genial millionaire exciting sympathy and respect by his
total blindness. By night he replenishes his exchetjuer by
preying upon his neighbors. The means by which the
honest old bank cashier is despoiled of his money is ingenu-
ous in its simplicitv. and the manner in which Gardiner is
robbed of his £800 and thereby is put on the track of the
criminal provides a sensation which is worked up to a
most exciting climax.

Tilt- Bat. I'roduced by G."iumont. Pari.s. 4 reels.

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FLASHES ON THE WORLDS SCREEN

News Notes and Comment on Educational ami Allied Films

from Institutions, Organizations, Producers and Individuals

in the United States and Canada and ( Iverseas

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IHE End of the Road," the anti-
venereal disease photoplay, described
in detail in this magazine, was

screened recently at the First United

Brethren Church, St. Clair street and Park

avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Many church

members were present and heard the ad-
dress by Dr. William F. King, director of

the Indiana bureau of the United States

Public Health Service.

William Van Daren Kelley, inventor of
the Prizma natural color camera and mo-
lion pictures in natural colors, has been
presented witlt^a gold medal, in apprecia-
tion of his genius, Jay the Society of Motion
Picture Engineers. The presentation was
made at the October meeting of the society
held in Pittsburgh.

Booth Tarkington, creator of Penrod,
Baxter and other youthful characters in
fiction, has contracted to write twelve two-
reel comedies for Goldwyn Pictures Cor-
poration. The stories will be known as the
Edgar comedies.

1"
The noted prison reformer and social
worker, Thomas Mott Osborne, former
warden of Sing Sing Prison, who organized
the Mutual Welfare Association there, has
written a story of prison life sho%ving the
alleged brutal treatment of inmates, which
has been done into film by Edward A. Mac-
Manus, who produced "The Lost Battal-
ion."

"The Way Back," the five-reel feature
produced by the National Elks War Relief
Commission, was shown at the Elks' head-
quarters. West 43rd street, New York, re-
cently. The picture was made in co-opera-
tion with the Federal Board for Vocational
Education. It is a contribution to the gov-
ernment program for the vocational train-
ing of disabled soldiers, sailors and
marines. The film, it is understood, will
be exhibited in the 1,300 Elks' lodges of
the country before being released to the
theaters.

"Adventure Scenics" is the title of the
31-reeI series of outdoor "shots' to be dis-
~ij "' - ■ J u,. Rrjiprtson-Cole. Some of the
old man wrong in regreumg ...j ^.jj. — r.

and student groups, the picture is ideal.

The Brohen Melody seems to have been divested of
many of the conventions of the photoplay and more pic-
tures of the same type will be heartily welcomed by dis-
criminating audiences.

The Broken Melody. Produced by Selznick. Distributed by Select
Pictures Corporation. 5 reels.

C. H. Gram, state labor commissioner
of Oregon, is showing accident prevention
films in the lumber and logging camps of
that slate. The pictures were shuwn by
the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company. Eugene;
the Benson Timber Company, Clatskanie,
and other concerns. The films have scenic
beauty as well as propaganda value. Of-
ficers of the National Safely Council ac-
companied Mr. Gram on his tour of the
state.

The Alliance Film Company, with a cap-
ital of S5,000 000. is said to be the largest
producing organization yet formed in Great
Britain. At Harrow Weald Park, near
Hendon, it is to erect extensive studios on
a plot covering 54 acres. The First Na-
tional E.xhibitors' Circuit is said to have
bought the output for distribution in the
United States. On the consulting literary
committee are Sir Arthur Pinero, Edvv;ard
Knoblock, R. C. Carton, and others.

"King of the Rails" was one of the pic-
tures shown lately at the Y. M. C. A.,
Moline, 111. It explains in an interesting
manner many features of railroad work.
Kn educational film is shown on each
week's program.

According to Captain W. J. Wall, presi-
dent of the California Police Association,
the association plans to join the Better
Films Movement and work for the improve-
ment of photoplays in which crime is pic-
tured. The association wants film producers
to depict characters, incidents and scenes
with closer fidelity to life and to cease giv-
ing the public false impressions of crime,
criminals, and the police.

Motion pictures were taken of the bank-
ers in attendance at the recent twenty-ninth
annual convention of the Illinois Bankers'
Association in La Salle. 111. The films were
made by the Brenner Film Company, Chi.
cago. Nearly 600 attended the meeting.

To support the arg"'".J"t in favor of

the bill for the appointment of a Public

Defender, to act aslcounsel for needy de-

_f£JldaiV^in^,;u;y;nal'cases, which the Gen-

aryland is considering,

Baltimore has had a

ciced dealing with this

f.Vmerican forest regi-
rt of the government
'wer'; how California
£ camp employes; how
^t heavy Pacific coast
Mng on the National
tbited on the movie
,nt convention of the
ongress in Portland,

im Manufacturing Com-
;d an airplane i!i part-
W W . cm its Chicago studio.

„,»,„ ^^ ^^ ,,,„.. ^^^ '" 'ske aerial views

"THE GO-GETTER" strial plants. Many of

rp, /^ /--,.• .1 1 r 1. '° small towns or city

The Go-Getter is the story of a young man_ who came ,1,^,^ j^ ^^ ,3,j ^^,^,^^J^

back from a commendable career in the service and re- ch to obtain panoramic

fused to become subject again to the slavery of tbe daily such plants. , ,. ,

, r TT 1 1 1 ' . •' ns and pictures of birds

round on a tarm. He saw, however, that there were quite ilanned by the Rothacker

"The Country Club Romance." a five-reel
feature of the Bureau Valley Country Club
and its members. Princeton, 111., was pro-
duced in that picturesque little city re-
cently at a cost of SIO.OOO. O. B. Harrauff
wrote the scenario, which combines comedy
drama with scenes of the club, homes and
business structures of the town, and other
exterior and interior views. Many socially
prominent residents were the movie players.
The film was shown at the Apollo Theater
and the proceeds were given to the Soldiers'
Memorial Communitv House.

Largely through the efforts of Rev. .Am-
brose M. Dwyer, of St. James' Catholic
Church, Binghamton, N. Y., St. James'
Lyceum has been well equipped with a
fireproof booth and motion picture pro-
jector to provide for illustrated lectures and
screen entertainments. Lectures on the
Passion Play of Oberammergau by Prof.
Timothy Drake were the first scheduled.
They Avere delivered on Monday afternoon
after school and children of all creeds were
invited to attend.

The trustees of the First Universalist
Church, Pasadena, Cal., having voted down
the idea of running a community laundry
in the basement of the church, the pastor.
Rev. Carl F. Henry, now proposes that in
place of the usual Sunday night services
there be a peoples forum and motion pic-
tures. He hopes that community educa-
tion may appeal to the trustees more than
"the cleanliness-next-to-Godliness" plan.

Motion pictures showing the work done
at the Buffalo, N. Y., tuberculosis sani-
tarium illustrated a lecture by Dr. C. L.
Hyde, superintendent of that institution,
before the campaign commitee of the Red
Cross and its supporters in Cleveland. Ohio,
recentlv.

"The Story of Coal," in four reels, was
a feature of the chemical show at the
Coliseum. Chicago. Z. F. Leopold, of the
federal Bureau of Mines, discussed the pic-
lures. A film illustrating gas warfare and
the use of the gas mask was also shown.

Windsor Hall. Bradford. England, after
being in the hands of the military authori-
ties for four years, has had a cinemato-
graph installed by the city fathers to be
used exclusively for educational purposes.
Children from the elementary and second-
ary schools of the city will visit the hall on
a rotation system during school hours to
study various subjects by way of the motion
picture screen.

Otto J. Nass

Distributor of educational and relig-
iousfilms for theStateof Rhode Island
and Eastern Massachusetts. 5 years'
experience Good subjects solicited
79 Fountain St., Providence, R. I.

as many possibilities on the farm, under certain conditions,

Films for Educational and
Religious Institutions

The New Atlas Catalog Now Ready
Bulletins ot New Subjects Bi-Monlhly

ATLAS EDUCATIONAL FILM CO.,

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— the Teacher's New Task

The hope of America lies in the prompt Americanization of the youth
of the land. Can it be done — with the children of foreign-born parents running
into the millions? Yes — It can, and it must!

Visual Education and the motion pictures of
the Ford Educational Weekly (with its many
American films) seem providentially fitted to
help in this critical juncture. Motion Pictures
speak in all languages. Every mind in the
world touches all other minds in the "movies."
Translation is not needed. And a motion
picture is so easy to show! Insert a film — press
a button, and life is pulsating before the eyes
of a school.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence on
the wall helps. But the thing itself in a
motion picture— not "words" or wall pictures
— gets a story across to the mind of a pupil —
no matter where born, or how old or how
young, in one-tenth of the time, and with
a thousandfold dent on his memory.

That "Americanization" means loyalty to
home as well as to Country is a theme of the
Ford Educational Weekly. The "Weekly"
will put into the mind and heart of the pupil
the home life of the quality for which
America stands.

These films cover history, industry, science,
home life and art. They are distributed by the
Goldwyn Distributing Corporation trom
22 leading cities. This reduces expressage to a
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EDUCATIONAL FILM MAGAZINE publishes each month classified lists of all motion picture films belonging to
the various groups of which this jpublication treats. The aim is to give accurate and dependable information under
each classification. This magazine maintains for the free use of subscribers an Information Bureau which will
endeavor to furnish data regarding any motion picture film in the fields covered. All inquiries should be
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NATIONAL MOTION PICTURE LEAGUE

381 Fourth Avenue, New York City
The following list of endorsed pictures is
published for the purpose of stimulating a
greater demand for pictures not only suitable
for adults, but wholesome for children of all
ages. By the aid of * these weekly lists the
general public may select a high-class show,
schools and churches may arrange suitable pro-
grams, and theater managers may book the
better class of pictures. It is very necessary
for the operator to make all cuts suggested
below, in order that the films may be whole-
some for children and young people. These
omissions are suggested in order to save other-
wise splendid, wholesome pictures from rejec-
tion. Pictures not suitable for this list receive
no public comment.

JUVENILE FILMS
Recommended for Children under 12 years
of age

SINBAD THE SAILOR.

Reels, 2; Producer. Universal-Jewel; Exchange,
Universal; Remarks: — In part 2, cut views of
nude children.

MISS GIXGERSNAP.

Reels, 2; Exchange, Path6; Remarks: — Baby
Marie Osborne. In part one, cut scene of roll-
ing vase down stairs. In part two, cut "We'll
get our share of the money," etc.
PROGRAM No. 1

Recommended by the National Kindergarten
Association.

BOBBY BUMPS GETS A SUBSTITUTE
Reel, K ; Exchange, Famous Players- La sky;
Remarks : — Comedy.

ALICE IN^ WONDERLAND.

Reels, 3; Producer, Young and Wheeler: Ex-
change. Eskay-Harris; Remarks: — Fairy Story.
In reel 1, cut scene where Alice steals the
tarts.

PROGRAM No. 2
Selected by the National Kindergarten
Association

BOBBY BUMPS HELPS A BOOK AGENT.
Reel, Vz; Exchange, Famous Players-Laskj' ;
Remarks: — Cartoon Comedy. Cut scene where
Bobby kicks the book out of agent's hand.
Cut sub-title, "Sit there until I tell you to
get up."

ALICE, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Reels, 3; Producer. Young and Wheeler; Ex-
change. Eskay Harris; Remarks: — Fairy Story
by Lewis Carroll.

PROGRAM No. 3

Selected by the National Kindergarten

Association

CINDERELLA.

Reels. 4; Exchange, Famous Players-Lasky :
Remarks: — In part 1, cut all witch scenes and
scenes of snakes, toads, etc. In part 2. cut
sub-title, "Troubled consciences" and scene
showing visions of witches. In part 3, cut
clock scenes, and all visions.

BOBBY BUMPS' FLY SWATTER.

Reel, Yi; Exchange, Famou Players-Lasky; Re-
marks: — Cut sub-title, *'The accident causes
Fido," etc., also sub-title "Pa is as mad as
the — " and scene showing devil.

INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS

THE AXGLERS.

Reel. 1 ; Producer, Ford; Exchange, Goldwyn;
Remarks; — Trout fishing on the Ausable River
in the Adirondacks.

VIEWS OF BOSTON.

Reel, 1; Producer, Selig; Exchange, Bese'er;
Remarks: — Reissue; Old State House, Fanueil
Hall, Christ Church, from which hung the sig-
nal lantern for Paul Revere's f.imous ride,
Howard Hall, built in 1682, the Navy Yard,
Public Gardens and Common, Bunker Hill, the
wharves and Commonwealth Avenue.

BELGIUM, THE BROKEN COUNTRY.

Reel, 1; Producer, Red Cross; Exchange, Edu-
cational Remarks: — Yepres and what remains
of it, the Yser River, land flooded by the Bel-
gians as a defense, the last hou^e fired on by
the Germans. Edith Cavell building, place
where she was held prisoner, ceme'Lery where
she was burned, new^ Nurses' Home started
under Edith Cavell's supervision, nurses who
worked with her, refu-^ees. re iitives eagerly
look for long lost children. Cardinal Mercier,
his home and church.

MOSCOW, THE HEART OF RUSSIA.

Reel. 1; Producer, Path^; Exchange, Beseler;
Remarks: — Reissue. Views of Moscow, the
fire department, open market, a wolf hunt.

MONTREAL. QUEBEC AND HALIFAX.
Reel, 1; Producer. Path6; Exchange. Beseler;
Remarks: — Montreal, chief commercial center
Canada. St. James Cathedral. N»/!^on's Monu-
ment. Cathedral of Notre Dame, historic Rame-
zay House. Grandmere Falls, one of the beauty
spots of Montreal. Quebec, the "Gibraltar of
America," the most strongly fortified city on
the Western continent. Dufferin Terrace, a
promenade 1.400 feet long above the level of
the river, public buildings, the market and
Montmorency Falls. Halifax, capital of Nova
Scotia, Provincial Parliament building, City
Hall, Governor' mansion and ancient Citadel.

THE WHY OF A VOLCANO.

Reel, 1: Exchange, Ed. Film Corp; Remarks:—
The origin and decay of a volcano.' savage of-
fering sacrifices to volcano, the research of
scientists have bared secrets of the volcano,
ages ago action of earth's surface in cooling,
wrinkling, it forms cracks and fissures thru
which lava works to surface, molten rock hard-
ening into different form, mound formed, ex-
plosions, output of lava could cover New York
21 cubic miles, (cartoon) ash is pulverized
lava. Setting and boiling volcano in Hawaii,
falling ashes, river of mud, etc.

RED CROSS FILMS.

The American Red Cross has for circulation
a number of pictures listed below. These may
be obtained by application to the thirteen divi-
sion publicity directors, located in the follow-
ing cities: ' New York City, Chicago, New
Orleans, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Den-
ver, San Francisco, Washington. Atlanta, St.
Louis, Philadelphia. Boston and Washington
for the Islands. These publicity directors will
inform inquiries regarding arrangements and
terms for use of pictures. These pictures are
released commercially by the exchange offices
of the Educational Film Corporation of
America.

No. 10— REPATRIATES AT EVIAN. I

Reel.

No. 11— FIELD SERVICE ON THE WEST-
ERN FRONT. 1 Reel.

No. 12— IN THE RUINS OF RHEIMS.
French official war picture. 1 Reel.

No. 13— FRANCE IN ARMS. French official
war picture. 5 Reels.

No. 14A— PERSHING'S MEN IN FRANCE.
Last stages of training and drilling in the
use of liquid fire. 1 Reel.

No. 15— THE SPIRIT OF THE RED CROSS.
Romance of Red Cross work under fire.
2 Reels.

No. 16— THE MAKING OF A NURSE.
Taken in New York Hospital. I Reel.

No. 100— FOURTH OF JULY IN PARIS.
America's veterans marching in Paris. 1
Reel.

No. 101— SOOTHING THE HEART OF
ITALY. 1 Reel.

No. 102— THE REFUGEES OF EVIAN.
Germans returning war prisoners to devas-
tated homes. 1 Reel.

No. 104— FOR ALL HUMANITY. Photo-
drama of services of Red Cross to soldiers
and their families. 3 Reels.

No. 105— SERBIA VICTORIOUS. Soldier's
relief scenes and decorations of workers.
1 1 Reel.

No. 106— FIRST AID ON THE PIAVE.
Heroic deed of Lieut. Edward M. McKev,
Red Cross. 1 Reel.

No. 107— THE KIDDIES OF NO MAN'S
LAND. Care of orphaned French and Bel-
gium children. . 1 Reel.

No. 10?— REBUILDING BROKEN LIVES.
Providing artificial limbs for injured soldiers.
1 Reel.

No. 109— MARSEILLES. Scenic picture and
docks for' Red Cross supplies. I Reel.

No. 110— A HELPING HAND TO SICILY.
Children of Sicily and Palermo cared for.
I Reel.

No. Ill— RUSSI.A— A WORLD PROBLEM.
Trip of the first American Red Cross Com-
mission. 1 Reel.

No. 112— NEW FACES FOR OLD. Making
over faces of mutilated soldiers. 1 Reel.

No. 113— YOUR BOY, Paris panorama from
Red Cross hospital. 1 Reel.

No. 114— OUR RED CROSS IN ITALY.
Rapid orcranizatinn for assistance. 1 Reel.

No. 115— HOMEWARD BOUND. Details ot
the return. 1 Reel.

No. 116— THE PEACE CELEBRATION IN
PARIS. 1 Reel.

No. 117— BELGIUM'S DAY OF DAYS.
Dav of th'> rf'turn of the Kinc and On'^en.

No. IIP— DOT-GHBOYS AND BOLSHEVIKl
IN ARCHANGEL. Soldiers and the arrival
of Red Cross supplies. 1 Reel.

No. 119— WHAT ITALY FOUGHT FOR.
1 Reel.

No. 12n— THE GREATEST GIFT. Storv ol
Red Cross' propaganda. 1 Reel.

I Rpel.

No 121— ADVANCING WITH THE EAGLE
IN ITALY.. Landing of the first American
troops and the welcome of the Italian*, l
Reel.

HOW CATHOLIC CHURCH IS CAPITAL-
IZING THE MOTION PICTURE
(Contiuued from page 16)

of entertainment the average made or female
"fan" will patronize the parish "movie"
house ; also, if the pastor is alert he can
introduce, free of charge, features which the
regular *'movie" house cannot conveniently
arrange for, such as community singing, in-
strumental music, embryo vocal artists and
other attractive features introducing young
and talented people from the parish or city,
and thereby creating a better social spirit
and building up a larger degree of local
interest in the parish entertainments.

N. C. W. C. Selected Programs
The N. C. W. C. Committee on Motion

Pictures has planned a series of motion pic-
ture entertainments which are aimed to
accomplish certain definite results along the
lines of patriotism, better citizenship, and
vocational advisement, and at the same time
to initiate Catholic parish and neighbor-
hood groups in the value and attractiveness
of motion pictures as a social asset. The
information in regard to this program has
already appeared in print, and will be sent
in pamphlet form to any interested person
applying to the Council's headquarters at
Washington. D. C. In this campaign for
citizenship the motion picture is the medium
by which the people are attracted to the
entertainments, thereby offering an oppor-
tunity to present incidentally short talks on
civics, history, and vocational advisement.

In inaugurating these courses in parishes
throughout the countr>'. it is hoped that the
motion picture will come into wide appre-
ciation and use as a socializing and enter-
taining factor in our Catholic parishes.

The N. C. W. C. Committee has been or-
ganized not only to handle the motion picture
campaign for better citizenship, but also to
act as an advisor)' and directive bureau to
pastors and Catholic organizations desiring
information of any kind in regard to motion
picture machines and motion picture acces-
sories as well as advice and help in the
matter of the selection of film plays desired
either for parish entertainment where admis-
sion is charged or for school and community
entertainments at which there will be no
admission fee.

"AMElucA^ Catholics in ^ar and
Reconstruction"

The N. C. W. C. Committee has already
endered an important seriice to the Catho-
ics of the United States by producing a
ix-reel motion picture review, entitled.
'American Catholics in War and Reconstruc-
ion." This picture epitomizes the patriotic
lervices of the Hierarchy, the clergy, and the
Catholic men, women and children of the
Jnited States as officially directed by the
^. C, W. C.'s two main operating coramit-
ees, namely, the Committee on Special War
\ctivities and the Knights of Columbus
I^ommittee on War Activities.

Several hundred feet picture the desolation
laused by the war in Europe and the response
:or assistance from America. His Eminence,
Cardinal Gibbons, pledges to the President
;he support of 20.000,000 Catholics in this
:ounlr\- and the subsequent redemption of
that pledge by the Catholic Hierarchy, priest-
hood and laity.

"Overseas and Home Again with the
K. OF C."

The Knights of Columbus reel is titled
"Overseas and Home Again with the K. of
C," and presents an excellent idea of the
valuable ^vork performed by this great fra-
ternal organization. Pioneers in welfare work
for our fighting men on the Mexican border,
the K. of C. at the outset of the war as-
sumed a foremost place in the welfare work
in Incle Sam's camps at home and abroad,
their services bringing immeasurable benefits
to our service men, substantial assistance to
the government, and great credit to the en-
tire organization. In preparing this part of
the .\. C. W. C. film, the Motion Picture
Committee of the Coimcil has received the
closest co-operation from Mr. John B. Ken-
nedv of New York City, publicity director of
the K. of C.

In addition to picturizing the welfare ac-
tivities of the Catholic War Council in con-
nection with the war, there are also shown
the work of the Knights of Columbus Com-
mittee on War .\ctivities; the Committee on
Special War .Activities, which planned and
managed the other welfare work of Catholics
in the United States during wartime; the
work of Catholic women's and men's organi-
zations; the co-operation of the parochial
schools; and the student army training corps
at Catholic schools and colleges. Beginning
with the pronouncement on social reconstruc-
tion by the administrative bishops of the
Council after the armistice, the picture takes
up the after-the-war activities. The work of
obtaining employment for discharged sol-
diers, of assisting their families, the estab-
lishment of community houses, of vocational
schools, of hospital clinics, of clubs for
working men and women, and other welfare
movements are accurately depicted.

The film shows the presentation of the
Distinguished Service Medal by President
Wilson to Rev. John J. Burke, C. S. F.. Chair-
man of the National Catholic War Council
Committee on Special War Activities and
James A. Flaherty, Supreme Grand Knight
of the Knights of Columbus, in recognition
of their valuable and patriotic war services.

An .\mmated Report of Value to the
Nation

In visualizing the important activities of
the Committee on Special War Activities,
the N. C. W. C. film presents to the Catholics
of the United States an animated report in
which they can take just pride and satisfac-
tion. The X. C. W. C.'s broad field of im-
portant reconstruction work is all most strik-
ingly and understandingly presented. The
average Catholic will be astonished at the
var'npT- o' this field and the picturization

of the eflfectiveness with which great social
service tasks have been performed. The
picture shows how the Council's watchwords
of "Faith" in our holy religion, and "Ser-
vice" to God, country, and our fellow-Ameri-
cans have inspired the work of the Bishops,
priests and lay workers of the N. C. W. C.

Through the courtesy of His Eminence,
Cardinal Gibbons, Chairman of the recent
Bishop's Convention in Washington, exclu-
sive motion pictures were taken of that
epoch-making meeting, showing the members
of the Hierarchy in session and in pleasant
groups on the grounds of the Catholic Uni-
versity of America in Washington. The
picture shows how this signally important
meeting of the Bishops recognized the im-
portance of the work of the N. C. W. C. by
officially perpetuating its activities under the
name of the National Catholic Welfare Coun-
cil. The N. C. W. C. picture contains a
remarkable message to the twenty million
Catholics of the United States and an earnest
appeal for their continued co-operation in
perpetuating the welfare and other work of
the Council. It also carries an appeal foi
continued service in upholding the rights of
our holy religion, in supporting the high
ideals of our nation, and in extending the
Kingdom of Christ on earth. This picture
has been wonderfully perfected since its first
showing at McMahon Hall during the meet-
ing of the bishops and it is now ready to be
taken by the Motion Picture Committee to
all the important diocesan centers of the
United States. This film will undoubtedly
prove most effective in obtaining the active
interest, not only of the priests and religious
organizations of the countn-. but of the great
lay apostolate as well in the serious task of
reconstruction now confronting the state and
all societv in our nation.

'"PHIS eye is near-sigKted (i. e. too long) ; but a
suitable lens enables it to focus on the retina.
One of the many ANIMATED DIAGRAMS in
the masterpiece of popular science

Through Life's Windows

The Tale of a Ray of Light

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P. D. Hugon

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Part III.

COMPARE number of transcontinental railroads in North
America. What part of Argentina has no railroads? Why?
Memorize latitude of Buenos Aires. Use railroad map F 43,
again and again. South America is yet an undeveloped country
inviting capital.

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study of Buenos Aires — the great size of the city, its imposing public
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visualize, the word cattle carries with it hides, meat, horns, tallow,
beef extract, etc. Fa BS and Fa BR further establish the railroad
facilities of Argentina. Recall different means of transportation in
Brazil. South America is yet a new continent awaiting development.
Emphasize immigration. Fa BX.

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Present with due emphasis the size of the Parana river, and also
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Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay constitute a vast region
of great latent wealth.

TEAcmNG Points of Cerl-^in Slides — Illustrations
Fa Y15 Significance of windmill. Are windmills common in your
locality? Why?
Fences and barn. Where is the scene? Why do you not

expect a cattle ranch here?
Oranges. Compare place with Florida as to latitude and
climate. Why are oranges cheap? Supply and demand.
Perishability. Transportation facilities.

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Of what does it consist? In case of a country, how would one get
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its mission and at best has given but meager returns for a ver>'
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In case of the South American countries Paraguay, Uruguay and
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Pictures have not been used educationally if, by their use, pupils
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This list of slides, with brief titles, is given for reference. It is
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that list in turn contains 52 titles not given here. This special collec-
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South America by the method here illustrated.

Peru
Fi ArZ2 — Mt. Misti from Arcquipa.
Fi ArZ — H a r v a r d Observatory.

Near Arequipa.
Fi CcB — Passenger Landing: Pier.

Callao.
Fi CiZ — Rio Blanco Smelter. Near

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Fi Hu2 — Farming District. Huan-

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Fi HuA — Street and Market Place.

Huancayo.
Fi Hu3 — Plowing with Oxen. Huan-

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Fi Hu4— Wheat Field and R. R.

Train. Huancayo Valley.
Fi Hu5 — Swing Bridge. Huancayo

Valley. ^
Fi In2 — Walls of Inca Fortress.

Cuzco.
Fi In5— Chief Temple. Machu Pic-

chu.
Fi In6 — Citadel of Ollantaytambo.
Fi In65 — Street in Inca City. Ol-
lantaytambo.
Fi LC3 — Plaza Bolognesi. Lima.
Fi LX — Woman Vegetable Vendor.

Lima.
Fi LX2— Bull Ring. Lima.
Fi LeV — Doing Coffee. La Mer-
ced.
Fi Sv25 — Planting Sugar Cane.

Peru.
Ft MoA — Mining Town. Moro-

cocha.
Fi PcV — Ginning Cotton. Palpa.
Fi Pv6 — Thatched Houses in Apuri-

mac River Valley.
Fi SX — Landing Passengers from

Steamer* Salaverry.

Fi TrC — Unpaved Sandy Street.

Truj illo*.
Fi Or2— Tunnels. Oroya R. R.
Fi Or4^Switchback. Oroya R. R.
Fi Or6 — Lake and Mountain View.

Oroya R. R.
Fi OrS — Mountain Scenery. Near

Morococha.
Fi X5 — Blow-pipe Indian. Amazon

Valley.
Fi Z2 — Working Guano. Punta Lo

bos.

Uruguay

Fi MAI
Fi MA2

deo.
Fi X2 — Countryman in Bombacbas

Panorama of Montevideo.
■New Harbor. Monte vi-

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Fk CuY — Loading Hides onto Gov

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Fk CA — Panorama of Caracas.
Fk CE — Bolivar Statue. Caracas.
Fk X77— Men in Club House

Caracas.
Fk X75 — Typical Patio.
FkX7 — A Building of a Hacienda

Near Caracas.
Fk X4 — Man Plowing with One

handled Plow.
Fk LcA — Shipping in Open Road

stead. La Guavra.
FkXl6 — Pack Train Bringing Ca

cao to La Guavra.
Fk XI 5— Trail through Coast Range

Mountains. Near La Guayra.

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their relation to the system of teaching as a whole.

This year the trend of feeling on the part of superin-
tendents, principals, and teachers is that the matter of
visual education nuist be temporarily set aside until
the pressing problem of teachers" salaries is solved to
a more or less satisfactory degree, and until stronger
evidence is presented by motion picture producers to
justify educators and school board members in as-
suming that genuine educational fihiis have arrived
and will continue to arrive in both quality and quan-
tity. Up to this time there has been no thoroughly
systematized, coherent, compact, and co-ordinated
motion picture course or courses of study which an
educator could project on his classroom screen and say
to his school board. "This is an adequate visualization
of our course in elementary- geography, or American
history, or physics, or chemistry." He could not say
this, because such film studies in this form are non-
existent.

The chief reason, of course, for the non-existence of
true educational film courses has been the lack of a
sufficient market. For some years there has been more
or less demand for motion pictures of this specialized
scientific character, but this demand lias not been per-
sistent, widespread, or profitable enough to warrant
either a theatrical or a non-theatrical producer in en-
gaging in an enterprise calling for an investment of
millions and the very best technical and professional
brains in the world. Of this we may be certain, that
where there is a commercial market and a demand

which offers a reasonable return upon the investment
and the current overhead expense, that market will be
supplied and that demand will be met — and more

than met.

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\'isual instruction in the public and private schools,
colleges, and universities of the Ignited States — and by
this we mean instruction largely linough the motion
picture — comes nearer each day to realization. The
tendency among progressive educators is to shake off
the shackles of conservatism and tradition, adopt
boldly the most approved visual method — which of
course is the film — and by force of example convert
the mass of orthodox teachers to the progressive faith
of the visualizers. This is the tendency both within
and without the ranks of the Department of Superin-
tendence and other departments of the huge organiza-
tion of three-fourths of a million members known as
the National Education Association. This is the policy
at present in process of fruition, and although it is a
slow process it is a sure one and will bear much fruit.

Collectively and officially, tlie association and its
various departmentals arc apparently indifferent to
the motion picture. Individually, however, thousands
of its members are vitally interested, even enthusiastic,
over the possibilities of visual education by way of
the film. Sooner or later, these progressive leaders
will either have won over the organization officially to
strong support of the screen as a valuable supplement
to oral and written methods or will have themselves
won the leadership of the association or of its im-
portant sections and thus silenced the conservative,
"good-enough-for-us," "let-well-enough-alone" ele-
ment which now appears to dominate.

In the meantime, until the mass of educators have
become educated to the limitless pedagogical possibil-
ities and potentialities of the motion picture, their
more enlightened and far-seeing coUeags will have
stolen a march upon them and will have experimented,
made preparations, and laid foundations in anticipa-

tion of that great day when both teaching and learning
will have become a joy instead of a drudge, will have
become one of life's intellectual pleasures instead of
routine dullness and deadliness.

AMERICANIZATION MOVIES

February is a fortuitous month in which to inaugu-
rate a campaign of Americanization among our for-
eign bom. Two of our greatest Americans came into
the world in the month of February: Abraham Lincoln
on the twelftli and George Washington on the twenty-
second. A happy coincidence it was that these two
giants of patriotism were bom within the same lunar
period, one decades after the other, but both imbued
with the spirit which has made America what it is —
moral and economic leader of the nations, standard of
democracy for all the world to follow.

Secretary Lane sounded the keynote of the govern-
ment's campaign against radicalism, syndicalism, and
sovietism and for one hundred per cent Americanism
when he told the recent gathering of representative
motion picture men and women that the government
looked to the films to spread broadcast the simple but
convincing tmths about our country, just as the govern-
ment looked to and secured from the film industry
during the war cooperation from the screen which was
without price. Unanimously these motion picture
workers pledged their enthusiastic and unstinted sup-
port to the Americanization movement sponsored by
the federal government.

In the pamphlet entitled "Americanization," issued
by the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C, it is
gratifying to note reports of the increasing use of the
movie in this vital work among our aliens who, as
Herbert Kaufman says, "live in America but America
does not live in them." In a recent issue we find that
at Bayonne, N. J., there have been "visual lessons in
history, geography, and industry, with an average
attendance of 200 to 300." In Cleveland, Ohio,
movies are used regularly at all or nearly all of the
community centers, and many of the local industrial
plants consider the film an indispensable instrument
in Americanization work.

In the report of the committee of experts appointed
bv the National Americanization Conference held in
Washington last May, appears in Part IV., under
"Aims, methods, and materials in intermediate and
advanced classes," a recommendation on teaching
"Americanism dirough readings, lectures, and motion
pictures."

\mericanization agencies in Detroit, Michigan, have
shown 25 sets of slides in 73 motion picture theaters,
and the schools of that city which are equipped with
motion picture and slide projection machines have
cooperated. The Americanization committee of the

Daughters of the American Revolution has brought
to the attention of local chapters throughout the coun-
tiy tlie fact that Americanization film programs may
be obtained and recommends the increasing use of
movies as of "great educational value."

The University of Indiana announces that "the
visual instmction bureau of the extension division will
supply local communities with lantern slides, motion
picture films, and exhibit material useful for Ameri-
canization work."

In this issue of Educational Film Magazine are
articles and advertisements which bear directly upon
the Americanization campaign so far as the utilization
of motion pictures is concerned. The photoplays in
which die mighty figure of Lincoln towers are of
especial value in this connection. Pictures in which
appear the characters of Washington, Jefferson,
Franklin, Paine, Putnam, Hale, Jackson, Grant,
Roosevelt, and odier one hundred per cent, red-
blooded Americans are of inestimable value also.
Industrial films which will sell American industries
and American industrial democracy to our alien
workers and, too, to our unassimilated hyphens are
likewise valuable, particularly as an off'set to soviet
propaganda with its wild Utopias of workman-owner-
ship, workman-management, and a workman-classless
republic which only a dreamer like Lenin sees as a
reality at the present day. Let us appeal to the work-
man's pocket as well as his red exploiters, for we can
prove to him that practically all of our successful and
wealthy men in America came up from the ranks of
labor, from shop, mine and farm, and that the greatest
thing about the U. S. A. is the free opportunity it
offers to any man or woman to rise if rising ability
resides widiin die individual.

The strength of the anti-American movement, or
rather pro-Russian movement, lies in its pocket ap-
peal. It is distinctly proletarian, which of course
means materialistic and opportunistic. When the
masses have been shown on the screen, as shown they
must be, that on this basis the American brand of
democracy offers a thousandfold more than the
Russian brand of one-for-all and all-for-the-soviets,
bolshevism will be beaten, Americanism will be tri-
umphant, and democracy throughout the world will
be safe for a thousand years.

EDUCATIONAL FILM LIBRARIES

Charles Lh-ban. whose name has become a house-
hold word in Europe and America by reason of his
promotion of kineniacolor and his twenty-year devel-
opment of informational and instructional motion
pictures, offers in tliis number a comprehensive and

"THE LA>D OF OPPORTl MTY"

Fir^t Ameriranizalion Film Made at Secretar> Lane's Suggestion
Feature? Two Incidents of Lincoln"? Life

The first Americanization photoplay made according to the
recent suggestion of Secretary of the Interior Franklin K.
Lane is "The Land of Opportunity," which the producer.
Lewis J. SelznicL says was produced in less than a month in
order that it might be ready for public showing on Lincoln's
Birthday. February 12. .Vmericanizalion propaganda, how-
ever, is not the outstanding quality of the picture. It tells
a story of two incidents in the life of Abraham Lincoln, when
he was a young man and when he was at the height of his
political career. It is said to have romantic interest and an
appeal to loyal Americans. The film is in two reels.

.\n -■\jnerican radical serves as a foil to the character of
Lincoln in this picture. The radical is brought to a belief in
.\merican principles and ideals by the story of Lincoln'?
struggles and triumphs as narrated by an old man who knew
the Great Elmancipator. The action of the photoplay takes
place in a modern clubroom where the old fellow, who is a
waiter, tells his touching story. The rise of the Illinois rail-
splitter is shown in cut-backs in a series of scenes declared
to be effective.

The featured plaver is Ralph Ince. who portrays Lincoln.
Twelve years ago he impersonated Honest Abe in a two-
reeler which \itagraph produced, called "The Standard

A BRAliAM L.l.NCULN in the tnai scene ot ""Ihc L^itia ul u^, -rtun-

"^ty," the two reel .\mertcanizatioQ picture produced by Lewis J.

Selznick at the suggestion of Secretary of the Interior Lane. Ralph

Ince is said to have given one of his best Lincoln interpretations in this

film.

Bearer." Other Lincoln roles played by Mr. Ince were in
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic." "Lincoln's Gettysburg
.\ddress, " "The Seventh Son," "Lincoln the Lover," "Song-
bird of the North'' and "The Man Who Knew Lincoln." In
recent years Mr. Ince has been directing the production of
picture plays.

constructive plan for local educational film libraries
in every community- in the Lnited States. The idea,
in its general outlines, is to pool the interests of all
individuals and groups in a community by subscrib-
ing certain amounts to a film library- fund and this
fund would enable the community to own its reels,
which may be dray\"n out for screening at any time by
any of the subscribers.

The plan strikes us as a sensible and soimd one,
with many practical features yvhich will appeal to
schools, churches, clubs, industrial plants, and other
local institutions and organizations. \^ e see no weak-
nesses in Mr. Urban's proposal pro\-ided the custo-
dian of the film library- is a person thoroughly con-
versant with the technical details of operating and
managing a film exchange, such as the cleaning, re-
pairing, cutting, assembling, packing and shipping of
reels, the booking, routing, storing, and all other
essentials of a ysell-regulated and efficiently-managed
business of this kind. The question then arises, yvhere
is this technical expert to be found in each community
and will the owners of the film library be able to pay
such expert a sufBcient compensation for his exclusive
senices? This is one of the points which is important
if the local educational film library- is to function
successfully- and become a permanent institution in
the community.

Mr. Urban does not pretend that his plan in its
present form is more than a suggestion, but it is cer-
tainlv constructive and affords an excellent basis upon
which to work out the details. Further suggestions
from our readers are invited.

INDIAN MOVIE PROGRAM IN NEW YORK

National Kindergarten Association Carrying Out Unique
Screen Ideas at the Hotel Plaza

The National Kindergarten .-Vssociation, of which Major
Bradley Martin is president, continues to caiT>- out its. motion
picture ideas for children's programs in a imique manner.
Invaluable assistance in the preparation and arrangement
of these special juvenile programs has been given by Miss
Bessie Locke, corresponding secretary of the society.

For the morning matinee on January 17, from 10:30 to
noon, the sissociation arranged to entertain the children and
at the same time to make them acquainted with the habits
and customs of the original inhabitants of the Lnited States.
It was, therefore, an Indian movie program with three red-
skins in native songs and folklore.

All films shown at these matinees are carefully reviewed

bv a competent committee and objectionable features are

eliminated. The pictures listed on this program were

screened in natural colors:

Blackfoot Indians
Oskenonton and Chinquilla.
Son and daughter of Chief Lone Star.
Motion Picture — The Last of the Seminoles. Life and customs

of the Indians of the Florida Everglades.
Motion Picture — The Apache Trail. Apache Indians at Home.

Ruins of Cliff Dwellers.
Songs and stories of the Red Man — Oskenonton and Chinquilla.

Cheyenne and Mohawk Indians

On January 24 the program was "Children of Many
Lands''; the following Saturday 'The Great Outdoors" was
the theme; and on February 14 "China, the Young Republic"
was the novel treat in store for the little ones.

The onlv drawback to this excellent work of the associa-
tion is the fact that tickets of admission are one dollar each,
that the movies are shown at an exclusive hotel, and that the
entire affair has an atmosphere of exclusiveness and plutoc-
racy. This is all very fine for the poor little rich children,
but how about the thousands of poor little poor children?
Dollar movies are not for them.

Motion Picture — Skyland.
Indian Folk-lore —

AN EDUCATIONAL FILM LIBRARY FOR EACH COMMUNITY

Production and Distribution Problems May Be Solved by This
Comprehensive Plan, Whereby Non-Theatrical Motion Picture
Users in Each City or County May Possess Their Own Reels and
Draw on Them As Needed — Readers Asked to Offer Further
Suggestions

By Charles Urban

IN most communities throughout the United States there
are numerous literary societies, reading clubs, educa-
tional societies and ladies' clubs, whose members are
interested in the betterment of the intellectual and social
conditions of their fellow citizens. Many of these societies
utilize the motion picture to supplement their discourse on
a particular subject.

Professional, private and public schools, universities, col-
leges, church societies, rotary clubs, Y. M. C. A.'s. Y. W. C.
A.'s, Red Cross, and many industrial firms recognizing the
great value of this medium of instruction use the movies
extensively in their work and for the entertainment of their
pupils, members and employes.
Distribution Lacking

The dearth of the proper char-
acter of picture desired for this pur-
pose is due mainly to the inadequate
existing system for the economic
distribution of the educational film
and the consequent discouragement
to the film publisher to continue the
issues of a regular supply of edu-
cational films.

Film publishing is a commercial
business, like the shoe, clothing, or
any other manufacturing business,
the products of which factories
must be paid for at an adequate
price, plus a fair return on the
investment.

The publisher of dramatic and
humorous films has an outlet for his
product to the motion picture the-
ater, through the film -distribution
organizations and their exchanges
throughout the country, at a good
profit. Theaters pay good prices
for "thrillers," "hair raisers" and
"side splitters." The distributor
receives ample compensation for his
services of booking and the physical
handling of the film.

Private societies or educators cannot use the majority of
pictures made for the theater nor can they afford to pay an
equivalent price to that paid by the theater for the hire of
the class of picture the educator requires. Consequently, the
majority of the distributors are not interested in the educa-
tional picture, further discouraging the film maker from
interesting himself in other than theatrical pictures, which
net him a good profit.

Experts Must Be Paid

The educational picture, to be really instructive, must be
made by the naturalist, scientist, engineer and professional
who thoroughly understand their subject and who require
payment for their services.

Cameramen, travelers, film editors, and the multiude of
employes engaged in the various technical phases of the

pHARLES URBAN again comes to the fore with
^ this admirable plan for the establishment of a
National Educational Film Eibrary through the forma-
tion of community film libraries locally owned. Mr.
Urban asks the readers of this magazine to comment on
his suggestions and oifer improvements if possible.

educational film publishing business must be paid for their
services the same as those employed in any other manu-
facturing business.

The educational film publisher cannot continue the re-
sponsibilities of engaging this large high-salaried expert
staff, besides the upkeep of expensive laboratories and plant,
unless he finds an outlet for his product at a fair price.

Owing to the fast-growing demand for educational films,
the maker of ordinary films attempts to create a supply, but
because of inadequate and disinterested distribution of such
product, the film maker very soon slackens his efforts and
reverts back to the more lucrative dramatic and slap-stick
comedy pictures.

The majority of so-called "educa-
tional" pictures available were made
under just such conditions, photo-
graphed and titled by persons who
had but very little knowledge of
their subject, with the result that the
picture, while possibly entertaining,
had no actual instructive value.

This lack of proper distribution
to the non-theatrical users induced
the film publisher to compile and
edit the travel, industrial, or scenic
reels he happened to secure, to suit
the mixed theater optience, with a
possible chance of having his films
distributed by the existing ex-
changes, believing that some portion
of the non-theatrical users would
ultimately be served. Even so,
these makeshift films do not fill the
requirement of the educator.
Educators Must Pay Fair Prices
The educator must expect to pay
a reasonable price for the use of
an instructive picture, just as he
expects t6 pay for his groceries,
wearing apparel, or any other com-
modity. Only this will induce the
film exchanges to handle the distri-
bution of the educational picture and the film maker to issue
a high-class instructive picture.

The distributor, to properly handle this additional busi-
ness, should establish an educational department with each
exchange, engaging the services of a person who is courteous,
who primes himself with information as to the issues re-
leased by the various educational film publishers, and who
takes sufficient interest in the work to procure the particular
film or information wanted by the educator.

The great drawback with the present system lies in the
fact that even the few "educational" films circulated by the
exchanges are but seldom available when wanted. A subject
may be booked in a town for a day and shown to a com-
paratively limited optience. It is shipped to a town scores
of miles away where it is booked for exhibition the next

ly. That particular film might have been shown repeatedly
ith benefit to tens of thousands of people but the film has
ractically disappeared so far as showing it again in that
articular town or district.

The educator who has a habit of borrowing films "for
jthing," or next to nothing, because of his plea that they
:e to be "used for educational and charitable purposes"
mnot expect to secure other than worn-out, brittle, and
iratched films which are unfit to show t<i children and are
ingerous to use.

This practice does not advance education. Nothing but
le very best films obtainable should be good enough for
le instruction of the future generation.

The entire order of things, as it exists today, is in a
laotic state. A gigantic effort must be made to bring about
le desired distribution and a recognition of the right char-
3ter of film to be used by the educator.

40,000 Non-Theatrical Users

There are more than 40,000 non-theatrical users of pic-
ires, equipped with projectors, all of whom want the right
ind of film subjects, but who cannot procure an adequate
ipply or a regular service.

I predicted years ago, and again voice my firm convic-
on, that "the mainstay of the film business will be the
iucational picture."

I have continued for twenty years to pound home the
reat value of the motion picture as an educator.

The thousands of pictures I have published in Europe
nd America demonstrating this fact have been recognized
■)T their instructive character.

Other film publishers have added equally commendable
ictures, which are now available in hundreds of reels.

Why does not the distributor wake up to the great im-
ortance of catering to this new business?

His various exchanges can be operated at comparatively
mall additional cost, in proportion to the extensive hire
usiness he could develop owing to the great demand which
Iready exists and is growing daily.

Should the distributor longer neglect his opportunity, I
elieve the solution of this problem lies with the non-
heatrical user and can be solved thus:

Subscription Plan for Establishing and Operating
Educational Film Libraries

a. Create a fund by subscription in each town or com-
wnity for the purpose of establishing an Educational Film
.ibrary.

b. The subscribers can be drawn from the societies,
chools, industrial firms or persons now utilizing motion
lictures, as well as many other converts who believe in the
ise of this wonderful medium for visual education.

c. The subscribers to appoint a local committee to pass
m the purchase of the films which are to form the perma-
lent library, to which further reels are added as subjects
if the various educational film publishers are submitted and
ound desirable to acquire.

d. All films are thus available at any time for use of the
ubscribers or others (including local theaters) upon pay-
nent of a reasonable booking fee.

e. To appoint a custodian of said library which can read-
ly be housed in suitable quarters.

f. Each subscriber to have the right of booking and using
he films and being debited against the amount of his sub-
scription an agreed fee, say S2.50 per day per reel. If he
las subscribed SI 00.00 he has practically paid that amount
n advance for film hire which entitles him to the use of
10 reels, after which he continues to pay the fee, which

maintains the library and assists towards the purchase of
new subjects.

g. He thus has at his command just the class of subject he
requires for his work, which he can use as often as he desires.
Everyone has the same privilege so that the subscribers can
practically control the class of picture they believe beneficial
to the community. The real benefits OF visual educa-
tion WILL THEN BECOME APPARENT.

I firmly believe that public spirited people in each city,
town or community have sulTicient vision to see the great
benefits to be derived by such a film library and will con-
tribute liberally towards the founding of one. I warrant
that in a very short time the National Film Library ivill rival
or supersede the popularity and usefulness of the present
Public Library and Reading Room.

A Valuable Americanization Aid

I also believe that the Educational Committees of the
United States Senate and House of Representatives are con-
vinced of the value of the motion picture as a great factor
to be utilized by the government in aiding its Americani-
zation movement for the intellectual and social betterment
of a large portion of its people. The National Educational
Film Library, operating from every center and radiating to
the remotest town and village in every state of the union,
would prove invaluable.

But the government moves slowly and is not so apt to try
the experiment, although it has had a fair example of what
the motion picture did for the nation during the war.

The independent exchange man and states-rights buyer,
with his knowledge of local conditions, may find it advan-
tageous to initiate the movement in his district for the
founding of a permanent educational film library.

The films could be had by outright purchase from the
publishers at about $100.00 per reel. Shown at an average
of only 100 days at $2.50 per day during a period of a
year or two would produce ample funds to make the library
self-sustaining. Ten thousand dollars would be ample to
cover the cost of 100 to 125 reels with which to establish
the library.

Rerrember, the real educational picture has permanent
vaii;^ — it is just as interesting and instructive in two, five,
or ten years and will bear repeated viewing.

"Why Pay Rent?" — Own Your Films

It is like buying a home on the installment plan. "Why
pay rent?" when that rent can be applied towards the
purchase price of the home. Just so with the film library.
The fees you usually pay for the hire of films are thereby
conserved and help to pay for the outright purchase of the
films which you own and can use as you see fit. Only, you
pay your fees in advance in the form of subscriptions
towards a fund to acquire the library.

This is merely a suggestion. Perhaps you have a better.
Let's hear it.

UNCLE SAM --INSURANCE AGENT

"Uncle Sam — Insurance Agent" is a film offered without charge by
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the Treasury Department, Wash-
ington, D. C, as part of a general campaign to keep active the forty
billion dollars in government insurance novir held by soldiers, sailors,
and marines. It has been found that there is such lack of information
as to the opportunity, advantages, and provisions of permanent gov-
ernment insurance for senice men, that the film has been prepared
to supply this information. The instruction has been cleverly sand-
wiched in between interesting exterior and interior views of the bureau.

During the war 17.000 employes carried on the enormous tasks of
the bureau, utilizing for offices such unsuitable buildings as a garage,
the National Museum, a paper box factory, an old hospital, and a
patent medicine factory. These working conditions are shown in con-
trast to the beautiful new home of the bureau costing S3,000,000 and
located just across Lafayette Park from the White House.

AMERICANIZING THE BRITISHER

East Enders, West Enders, Somerset, Welsch and North County

Folk are being Thoroughly Educated Through the

Invasion of American Photoplays

By \\ eslev W. Stout

More influential than fiction, theater and popular song
combined is the movie. I speak advisedly in saying that
95 per cent, of all films shown in England are American.
British film producers said so themselves the other day in
begging Parliament to "do something about it." The import
^tax on films already would seem to be prohibitive, but it
works out only in higher fees at the booking office, as the
box office is known here. Not content with nearly monop-
olizing the producing end, one American company now
has invaded the exhibiting field and plans to build a large
theater in every considerable English city. It happens
that the housing situation is desperate and Parliament has
been appealed to to pass a law prohibiting the building
of any theater until the need foi homes is satisfied, thus,
incidentally, giving the British film exhibitor several years
of grace.

American Pictures Predominate
For good or ill the cinema is the chief diversion and.
apart from the grim necessities of life, almost the chiel
interest of the great body of English people. About half
the population goes at least once a week. Twenty millions
of people every week watch films almost entirely American.
Recall how Dickens and the other Victorians captured
and directed the imagination of Americans in British molds
a generation ago and one senses something of the effect
of this far more graphic and popular art on the English
today. These millions of men, women and children breathe
a purely American atmosphere nightly. They have be-
come as familiar with American landscapes as their own.
They are in constant contact with American morals, ideals,
sentiments, and institutions, American types and characters,
law 9nd crime, American social and political ethics. They
have a much closer view of American society, American
commerce, finance, and luxury than they are likelv to get
of their own.

Dynamite in Films
Even where the story is drawn from a European source
it has passed through the hands of a Los Angeles director
and becomes the product of an American mind, shaped pri-
marily to suit the tastes and satisfy the prejudices of an
American public. We sometimes forget that kings and all
the mediaeval pomp and pageantry of royalty survive in
England and that, emasculated in power as the monarchy
is, yet it remains very dear to the hearts of Britons. Amer-
ican films and literature are charged with dvnamite for
thrones, not the less dangerous because unpremeditated.

American sailors do not boast idly when they declare
they have only to beckon to an English girl to take her
away from her countrymen. English girls of the middle
and lower classes gather their ideals of masculine gallantry
largely from American films. The bumptious, assertive,
slangy Doug Fairbanks, hero of the celluloids, is to them
what the pale and elegant Lord Vere de Vere of Mrs. South-
worth's once was to American serving girls. It is a role
an Englishman does not play well.

And the sub-titles, substitutes in a photoplay for dra-
matic dialogs, are written not in the English but in the
American language so that American slang and patter, like
American fiction and song, pervades the land.

"Our children are learning to talk American." wrhen
a despairing Briton. "One wonders how long it will be
before they will think American."

MOTION PICTURE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE

Grandmother Would Mar\el at the Visual Instruction Methods of
the Up-to-date Classroom

Time was when "readin" and writing and "rithmetic"
"toed the mark" in a stuffy, old-fashioned school room and
were taught by plain, ungarnished i. nhods. Grandmother
recited her spelling lesson in a meaningless, sing-songy
voice. Geography was a matter of memorizing capitals and
history was a daily battle with dates. Then came the time
when education was made to resemble a sugar-coated pill,
with instructors striving to put a lure in learning. School
entertainments were given and stories were read and acted
about the foreign countries or historical topics of which
the pupils studied. But the "pill" still remained, in spite
of its sugar-coated attraction, and it may be the mission of
the photoplay to remove the lingering bitterness from the
taste for learning and to present the dose of knowledge in
pure "sugar" form, minus the medicinal quality, declares
the New Orleans Tinies-Picavune.

In the establishment of a children's theater "ideas of the
beautiful could be developed" both by well chosen pictures
and by. descriptive classic music. The more such features
are presented to children the less inclined they will be to
follow prize-fighting and similar pastimes.

Through the medium of the screen, foreign countries no
longer remain simply spots on the map. Hand in hand
with the cameraman our boys and girls visit their European
brothers and are introduced to the "cannibal kid" and the
heathen savage to whom they give their pennies at Sunday
school. Historical events of the day become actual realities
because the educational film visualizes the most important
news of the daily papers. Famous names are no longer
mere words, the photographed faces of the owners of those
names smile familiarly down into the audience. Railroad
fare to the Rockies or the seashore centers is the price of
a theater ticket these days, while trips may be taken
through industrial plants via the screen and audiences may
see steps in the manufacture of well known products.

Not only are theaters demanding educational films, but
teachers are taking up the cry. In an ever-increasing num-
ber of cities is the school entertainment giving way to the
weeklv screen performance, and though grandmother, study-
ing so monotonously years ago, would have marveled at
the class-room of today, she would stare with wide, aston-
ished eyes if she were told what school life for the future
pupil promises to be — "one long motion picture show."

50.000 FILM EXPOSURES A SECOND

Fifty thousand exjiosures a second is the new record made
in film photography by two French scientists, Abraham and
Block. They used for this purpose electric sparks remitted
by special apparatus and have been able to take the most
accurate moving pictures showing the record of trajectory
of a revolver bullet. The cone of gas leaving the revolver
barrell before the bullet was clearly observable and the
track of the bullet could be followed with minute accuracy.

Professor Malpusse, discussing the new invention, charac-
terized it as of most importance, not only in applied science,
but in the study of medicine.

"We will be able to take accurate photographs of every
form of living movement in the human organization and it
is possible that much that hitherto has been puzzling will
be made clear," he said. "The whole framework of ex-
perimental dynamics may have to be revised in the light of
this new invention."

THE MOVIE A SCHOOL

The movie does more than amuse and entertain. It in-
structs. It tells stories in more interesting fashion than
any writer, for it pictures them to the eye. It teaches
geography, history in the making, and brings the four
corners of the world to one's own neighborhood. All
these things often pass before our eyes in one evening, as
the films flicker, says the Hamilton, Ohio, !\eus.

We see the mountain peaks without bending beneath the
burden of climbing the mountain side. We see far off
rivers, lakes, forests, flowers, wild animals of the jungles,
curious birds of distant lands, the eskimo in his Arctic ice-
liut and the little clothed dweller of the tropics. At the
movie we sail over vast oceans of water, launch blithesomely
upon dizzy aerial jaunts, and think nothing of combing the
floors of the seas. We see w-ars fought thousands of miles
awa\. and we see wonderful feats of engineering skill. At
the movies!

And our wife and daughter, too, are instructed. The
movie is to them a school in which they are instructed in
things pertaining to fashion, new and charming methods ol
making even a time-worn home look altogether different
and more inviting.

Of course the movie doesn't set itself forth as a teacher.
It would fail in its purpose if it did that. Rather does
it cloak its lessons beneath the templing tinsel of enter-
tainment, and that is just why its lessons sink so deeply into
the film-entranced brain. We — most of us — go awav from
the motion picture show knowing a bit more about the
world, and the living things of the world.

This is knowledge, and to acquire knowledge- the human
brain must study, consciously or unconsciously, in workshop,
schoolroom, kitchen, field, or elswhere.

REALTY FILM TO FIGHT RADICALISM

The last chapter in the history of real estate amassed by
the late Russell Sage was written recently in the Vesey
Street auction room, ^e^v York City, when it was sold by
Joseph P. Day for a total of 82,619,250 in a rapid-fire sale
in a packed auditorium. After the sale Mr. Day said:

"As a comiterblast to the destructive campaign of the
Soviets and radicals who would ruin our government this
sale should be of widespread benefit, because it dem-
onstrates that such great estates as this may, in a day, revert
to the people. That this idea may be conveyed to the great-
est number in a way they will most easily understand, the
Fox Film Company took pictures of the crowd of bidders
and. I understand, also obtained pictures of a number of
the properties sold and of the institutions to be benefitted
by the distribution of the Sage millions. This is fine edu-
cational work in the cause of Americanism, to counteract
the wave of unrest and radical philosophy that recently has
threatened this land."

IS- s-

DEW FALL UN PICTOGRAPH

In the Bray pictograph B. 7023, lately released, what are thought to
be the first microscopic motion pictures of dew fall are shown. Dew
drops as beautiful as the royal gems of ancient India have been
caught by the cinematographer. A garden blosson at dawn becomes
a fair)"s diadem. One sees what happened to the gay little lady
caterpillar who stayed out over night and woke up to find herself
covered with sparkling diamonds.

Sevct.:centh avenue.

"THIS photograph of the handsome Cieveiand School (Junior High — Alternatingi. at 378 to o92 Bergen street, tcrner _

Newark. New Jersey, was crowded out of the article. "Newark. New Jersey. Public Schools Equipped for Visual Instruction. m our
November, 1919, number. The school has up-to-date Power's protection equipment and some interesting film i.rni>ram« .ire heme carried out
here.

WORK OF THE NATIONAL MOTION PICTURE LEAGUE

^ In Response to Its Nation-Wide Educational Campaign for Better Pictures, Parents
Are Demanding, Producers Are Making, and Exhibitors Are Screening Photoplays
and Other Films of a Higher Standard

By Adele F. Woodard

President. National Motion Picture League

THE best censorship is not censorship at all. It is>
selection. A competent group of persons viewing
all films and selecting the best ones, giving them
wide publicity, follows a constructive policy which
gives support to honest effort on the part of producers.
All who have given careful study to motion pictures feel
that they have the greatest possible benefits to offer particu-
larly to children, but that at the same time, as the industry
is now organized, they present dangers to the moral and
physical well-being of children that are thoroughly in evi-
dence. To preserve for the boys and girls of this country
the permanently good, pleasing and entertaining pictures
and to safeguard them from the vicious and immoral, is
the purpose of the National Juvenile Motion Picture
League.

A Constructive Ethical Policy

The constructive policy of the league is helping to give
to the motion picture industry a permanency which it has
hitherto lacked. As a result of its propaganda in every
part of the United States and in Canada toward establish-
ing a national demand for high class motion pictures, audi-
ences ere demanding better things and are gratified to find
exhibitors and producers responding to this demand. The
key to the situation is that audiences in response to this
educational campaign are avoiding the sensational melo-
drama and are supporting the wholesomely clever pictures.
No longer can we be hoodwinked into the belief that the
American public desires the gross and immoral. The con-
stant vigilance of the league and some producers who desire
to produce good things is encouraging the general public
to express itself openly as to the type of film it desires
instead of complacently accepting whatever may be pro-
jected before it.

The weekly bulletins of this league assist the general
public in this desire to select their evening's amusement.
The pictures listed in these bulletins are reviewed by the
Reviewing Board of the league two or three weeks in ad-
vance of the release of the pictures to the general public,
so that a request from a member may reach his exhibitor
in time for him to book the picture for his theater through
the ordinary channels of distribution without disturbing
the general system.

The board of directors of the league is selected from
men and women who are already known to the American
public for previous splendid and efficient service in child
welfare. The proceedings of the league are under their
direct supervision.

Membership in the league entitles one to the weekly
issues of the current bulletin of endorsed pictures which
are viewed and selected by a committee of carefully chosen
teachers, principals of schools, Sunday school leaders, child
welfare workers, and other child psychologists, who give
evidence, by their faithful and enthusiastic support, of their
belief in the power of the screen in the lives of young
people.

This reviewing board sees practically every motion pic-
ture that is produced and never endorses a picture without
seeing it in its entirety.

The lists of films endorsed by the National Juvenile
Motion Picture League reach over 35,000 persons. Five
hundred copies of its bulletins are distributed by the board
of education in New York City to the principals of all its
schools. One hundred and twenty copies are also sent from
their offices to community centers.

The children's matinees and family programs exhibited
under the supervision of the league in theaters, schools,
churches and elsewhere, give actual bookings to these
endorsed pictures.

Children's Matinees and Family Programs

Under the auspices of the league, children's matinees and
family programs are organized and sustained, in order to
increase the demand for pictures suitable for children and
young people, that parents and teachers may be able to
select motion picture performances which are not only
harmless to young people, but where they may be instructed
and benefited through entertainment. Pictures which sup-
plement the work of the schools are interspersed with
pictures of wholesome, clever comedy and character
building stories. Schools, libraries and other welfare
organizations give their support to these programs by
advertising them extensively, through their respective
channels.

Children's matinees are given as special performances
for children under twelve years of age. Fairy stories and
wonder tales, with instructional pictures which supplement
the school work, and a bit of animal or doll comedy, make
a well-balanced program.

Family programs are given during the time of the regular
show, after school. Teachers bring their classes directly
from school. A section of the theater is reserved for un-
chaperoned children who are cared for by the committee.
In the evening parents bring their older boys and girls,
young people attend, being assured that no embarrassing
situations or objectionable themes will be presented, and
the movie becomes a real family institution.

Family programs are assisting greatly in this propaganda
for wholesome films. Under the supervision of local com-
mittees, the local exhibitors are encouraged to set aside
a day or more each week to the projection of films selected
wholly from the lists of this league, in order to provide
a wholesome place of amusement for young people. The
advertisement for these programs which the league secures
helps make the entertainments a financial success for mana-
gers of theaters. Parents assist in seeing that their young
people attend these clever, interesting programs and thus
help in their support, financially.

Organization of Community Forces

An educational campaign must be carried on previous te
the opening of the first matinee. Teachers and school prin-
cipals usually feel the need and importance of a movement
of this kind and a visit to the superintendent of schools
will usually secure a promise of definite co-operation,
by way of distribution of literature, etc.
(To be Concluded in March Issue)

INDUSTRIAL FILM AS AN AMERICANIZER A

The Ford Educational Weekly in Particular Ha» Visualized
for the Foreign Born the Wonders of American Industries

Bv Jerome Lachenbruch

WHEN we were youngsters in the grade schools we little thought
of the invisible links riveting us to an ideal Americanism.
How many of us recall incidents during those few minutes
during wliich we sang a hymn, heard verses from the Bible read by
the principal, sang a rousing school song, and finally ended with a
salute to the flag, which was draped across the platform of the as-
sembly room, and the pledge recited in clioriis.

In my school we added a recitation or two by llie pupils and some-
times a short talk by the principal on some historical theme, which
usually had its moral lesson tucked away in the deftly worded phrases.
This always succeeded in making us march out of the assembly room
with a soldiers carriage and the "rra-going-lo-dolikewise"' resolve
in our hearts.

The Problem of the Foreicn liouN

Perhaps the task of the school principal of twenty years ago was
easier than the present task. Then there were fewer foreign born
children to imbue with American ideals, and, besides, these few were
in closer contact with native born boys and girls than alien children
of to-day. Now" these young aliens form distinct groups in many
of our schools. With this increase in our foreign born population, the
parents of the children also have had to be reached.

We have our settlements, with their clubs for boys and girls, their
mothers' meetings, big sister organizations, and social entertainments.
Directly under the control of the city board of health we have
district nurses, who teach ignorant mothers bow to care for their
children and so reduce the number of deaths among poor children.
To these parents the message of .Vmericas desire to help, to preserve,
and to develop the most humble of her immigrants, comes with the
force of a sharp and happy contrast to their experiences in foreign
lands. •

But they are often handicapped through ignorance of our language
and their isolation. If they live in cities, they know little of the
vastness and the beauty of the country in which they live, nor of the
ways in which the products of our fields and factories are brought
to the little store around the corner. To overcome this isolation,
this clannishness and withdrawal from the exercise of American
customs, the Americanization movement was begun. .\nd to this the
all-seeing and all-seen motion picture has subscribed its power and
its widespread distribution.

American Industrials Fascinate Foreigners

Those who were in a position to see with what keen interest the
American photoplay was welcomed by the civilian populations of
foreign countries during the war realized that our allies are eager to
get better acquainted with us. Our industrial and scenic films aroused
greater interest abroad than feature pictures. Our allies realized
that to know .America they must know her industrial methods, how
she does the things that make her the aggressive and prosperous
nation she is.

The same interest that Europeans manifested in our industrial films
is now being aroused at home in the far-reaching Americanization
programs being carried on by the motion picture. Perhaps the
work of Henry Ford deserves a special word of recognition. For tin-
past few years he has been making a series of pictures detailing the
operation of America's leading industries. The camera man of tin-
Ford Educational Weekly has visited various plants, one by one, and
walked through them while his clicking camera recorded the operation^
of every department. In the past we have seen the romance of tlu-
steel industry: we have been able to follow the making of a daily
newspaper; the manufacture of paper has been photographed in all
its phases. The Ford Weekly has recorded the making of soap on
a vast scale, the meat packing industry, and some of the delicate
operations of a modern glove factory. These pictures have been dis-
tributed to thousands of cities, towns, and hamlets through tbe
Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. All these industrial motion pic-
tures give a vivid and intense view of everyday life. The picture of
this type arouses the enthusiasm and the wonder of the beholder: it
gives him a sense of pride in the privilege of being part of all this
creative activity.

"Hooping Up"

You go out into forest of oak trees and pick out just the tree
from which you want your barrel made, in the Ford Weekly, "Hoop-
ing Up." Then you watch as the tree is felled, sawed into sections and
split for barrel staves. The staves are arranged in iron hoops, through
the steaming and drying rooms, the putting on of the iron bands, the
making of hoops, and the painting of the barrel.

-■Vs the children in the schools develop their love of country through
participation in symbolic exercises, so tbe stranger to our shores grows
closer to America in thought and deed the more he becomes indenti-
fied with the daily work we are doing. The motion picture which
gives a large, fresh view of America; which discloses in a big. free
way the grandeur and the power of .\merica; which stimulates the
desire to align oneself with her fortunes — that is an aid to the
Americanization movement which we can scarcely appraise at its
real worth.

- the Rranite quarries of
.^ti-UL .M.iun'..iiu. luar .\llaiit.i. l..!,i;,i.i. til EillR-alional Weekly
No. 173. Second photograph — scene from ".Making Barrels," Ford
Weekly No. 177. Third photograph — scene from "Paper Making." Ford
Weekly No. 176. Bottom photograph — scene from "When Black Is
Read," the printing of a newspaper, Ford Weekly No. 152.

70^

A TRIP TO THE MOON VIA THE SKYROCKB

By Jerome Lachenbruch

SCIENTISTS and dreamers have longed
for the moon 8ince the beginning of
the worhl. Our earth-bound poets
have been content to go on dreaming and
weaving beautiful fancies of this unknown
country. But the scientists have been
tougher minded. Through the centuries
they have gazed liard; and with long gaz-
ing, they have begun to see the surface of
that pale, far world assume various forms.
And as the years passed they invented long,
strange glasses of unworldly power, the
better to see into their neighbor's cold
home.

With tlie perfection of the telescone. they
were enabled to learn that the moon is a

THE first accomplished trip to the
probably be in the movies. These
show the rocket drawn by Max Fleisc!
for a picture to be sent out shortly
from the Bray Pictograph Stu-
dios. In the interior of this
movie rocket are ( alon
the , left side • dynamo,
radium p o w e r tank,
chairs, motorcycles on
which to explore the
moon, food com
partment, berths,
lockers, gyro-
scope: (along
the right sidel
more berths,
heater, desk,
water tank.

planet like the earth, but
mountains, extinct voleanog
of canals. Other groups ot
covered, by a process of c#
what is known about the c»
earth's ethereal surrounding!
on them of the chemical eleit
sun, that the moon is a cool
bly supporting some form ^

With the information gathf
efforts were centered on fii
reach the moon and to exp]
connection a step in sevei
has just been taken, accon
nouncement by Professor Go
College of the possibility o
moon by means of a skyrocl
;)eriment preliminary to the
he has made a model skyrod

hopes to test the charai
mosphere at various hei
earth's surface — heights that
been unattainable because of the
our means of locomotion through th
To spread the good news of the sc
ayman, we have been in the habit of U!
papers and the magazines. But since the
motion picture there is another way of clarifying
the physics, and the mathematics of the project. H
the motion picture limited to photography from li\in;
lase of the new art has been closely circumscribe<l.
development of the animated technical drawing the most inti
subject lends itself to elucidation. Max Fleischer, of the
Studios, has made a series of animateil ilrawings which reveal iht
the task involved in reaching the moon and of overcoming them \
huge skyrocket. He has devised a machine which not only makes the
but apparently feasible.

Here are some of the facts concerning the trip which have proved ir

obstacles to scientists of the past. The distance from the earth to the moon is .

240,000 miles. The intervening space is filled with ether whose actual com|io>itio i

but whose temperature we know declines steadily. In the spacial inter>tice hctwc

moon the thermometer would be found to register l-.'iS degrees below zero. But eve

the feasibility of making a car sufficiently <old proof to withstand the onshuight of sue!

have still to solve the question of overcoming the force of gravity.

Illustrations by courtesy of Tlie Independent,

This is How the Earth Looks When You Are on the Moon I

Radium is known to possess more energy than
any force yet discovered by man. It is said to give
off but half its power in twenty years, .^nd it has
an a<lvantage over other known motive forces har-
nessed by man. because of its compactness. .\ little
tube of the precious substance is worth $170,000;
(Conliniied <m page 18)

Mr"

> t >

OCRAPH Shows

las been learned that the pull of
y lessens as we leave the earth s
e. In fact. 213,000 miles from the
it drops to zero. But at this point
uU of the moon begins to assert
In other wor.ls. at the 213,000

mark, a moon-.»eeking machine

feel no pull from either the earth
• moon.

there i> another ilifficulty to over-
-perhap? the mo-l baffling of all —
I the exploration of the moon be-

a fact. What motive power is
enough to drive the machine
t the earth's gravity? This obstacle
soon be conquered through the
^sing of a new mineral power to
Bchanical discoveries of the present
f.

The .\krows above Show the "'Spheres of Gr.wita-
TioNAL Influence" Round the Earth and Moon.
X^'hen the Rocket Reaches the Lunar .Atmosphere
Its Power \Ii st Be Reversed to Overcome Gravita-
tion Toward the .Moon

One of the Craters of the Moov

(e Away F Rr^i H

SCREEN SERMON IN NEW YORK CHURCHES
By J. A. Chapman

For the first time in the history of the screen, it is believed,
motion pictures were used on Sunday, January 25, in
regular church services. The innovation took place at the
Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square, South, New
York City. Although films have been used in a variety of
ways in churches, this is thought to be the first recorded time
in which the screen has regularly supplemented the pulpit.

The screen sermon was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Leslie
Willis Sprague, former pastor of a Brooklyn church and
now head of the religious and industrial sections of the
Community Motion Picture Bureau of New York. Accord-
ing to Dr. .Sprague, the time is not far off when the picture
will be used regularly by the pastor during worship as well
as in other capacities.

"The motion picture will not supplant the preacher.
Rather, it will aid him by supplanting word pictures by real
pictures. Thus, with a topic vividly fixed in the minds of
the congregation by the picture, the pastor may better draw
his conclusion and morals," says Dr. Sprague.

There is no need for specially made films for church ser-
mons, according to this clergyman. He contends that any
picture with a potential moral is admirably adaptable. It
is not a case of making a practically new kind of film, but
rather one of showing the pastor how he may use the power
of the ordinary motion picture.

The first sermon film was one of the Judge Willis Brown
series, entitled "Thief or Angel." It depicted an instance
where a noble motive led to systematized thievery, and from
this situation Dr. Sprague developed a sermon on "Good
Motives and Evil Deeds."

$20,000,000 FUND FOR RELIGIOUS FILMS
By Rev. Dr. William Sheafe Chase

Brooklyn, N. Y.

The church is the only power which can redeem the motion
picture. So long as the commercial motive is the predomi-
nating motive in the manufacture and exhibition of motion
pictures they will fall far short of attaining their highest
possibilities, either as an educational and recreational in-
flvence or their greater popularity.

There are two things that the united churches of the
land should do; they should create a fund of $20,000,000
for the manufacture of religious films and pictures teaching
Christian morality and patriotism. They should establish
{^ee film libraries in various parts of the country for the
use of the churches and schools.

The second thing that the united churches should do is
to create a substitute for the saloon by purifying motion
pictures. They should ask congress to enact the Randall
federal motion picture bill into law and thus secure a
federal control of the morality of all motion pictures which
are in interstate commerce. This bill has been twice favor-
ably reported in congress and is favored bv the American
Federation of Catholic Societies.

The National Federation of Women's Clubs are working
to establish state censorships similar to those in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Kansas and Maryland. But such a remedy
would create confusion and not secure the best results.

FOUR WAYS IN WHICH CHURCHES USE MOVIES
By Rev. Dr. Leslie Wilus Sprague

New Y'ork Citj

There are at least four distinct ways in which motion '
pictures are being used by churches — for recreation, for
popular attraction, for religious and moral instruction, and
as an aid to worship and the strengthening of spiritual emo-
tion. The possibilities of the first and second of these are
sufficiently obvious; each is altogether legitimate, although
susceptible of over-emphasis and abuse.

The possibilities of films as a part of the church's program
for instructing its children are only beginning to receive
adequate notice. The dramatization of Biblical and other
stories has long been a common method of teaching in
Sunday schools. In general, however, attempts to film such
dramatization have been utterly unsuccessful, and often very
inartistic. Scenario writers, producers and actors have not
known how to handle the material. Attempts are now
being made on a much more adequate scale to make film
stories that will not outrage their written originals.

Many churches are ready to use motion pictures as a
means of redeeming their Sunday evening services, but
have not hitherto been able to secure sufficient. material of
the sort that could be assimilated to a programme of wor-
ship at a cost that was not prohibitive for continuous service.
Oi.e reel attractions will never make a religious service
successful, no matter how new or excellent. More than one
leel is too much unless the film can be made a definite part
of the programme of worship. There is need of one, two
and three-reel pictures that are suitable, either for their
instructional or for their emotional quality, for Sunday
night use.

The Community Motion Picture Bureau and the Interna-
tional Church Film Corporation are setting themselves the
task of supplying this deficiency. Feature pictures of this
quality can be shown serially in a church with good results.
But no attempt to introduce pictures in the churches in any
large way will succeed unless it takes account of the primary
requirements of a religious service.

A federal commission, composed of highly paid officials
corresponding to the Supreme Court or to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, would at once raise a national stand-
ard toward which all future motion pictures must aim.
Congress will quickly enact this law when the united
churches ask for it.

TRIP TO THE MOON VIA THE SKY-ROCKET ROUTE

{Continued from page 1 7)

but inasmiicli as this would be more than sufBcient to furnish the
414.000 horsepower necessar>' to overcome the power of gravity
within the 200,000 mile limit, there is hope that some philanthropists
with a genuine interest in science might subscribe to the expensive
experiment.

Through Mr. Fleischer and the Goldwyn-Bray Studios this possible
experiment has been placed on the screen in the form of an ani-
mated drawing. The skyrocket itself is shown resting on rollers on
the roof of a skyscraper. Then the interior of the skyrocket is pre-
sented. Here we find the radium power tank, the engines which
operate on the principle of a series of powerful recoils, an oxygen
tank, a water tank, the condensed food chest, electric heater, gyro-
scope, and other necessary apparatus. Suddenly a flash of flame
shoots from the tail of the rocket and the machines fly moonward.
It is then seen shooting through the ether at the rate of nearly sixty

{Continued on page 20)

TRAVEL-SCENIC

FILMING THE GREAT LAVA FLOW FROM MAUNA LOA

A River of Fire Forty Feet Wide, at 10,000 Feet Elevation and

Fifteen Miles Inland, Plunges Into the Sea as a Giant Geyser of

Steam, Accompanied by Huge Tidal Wave

By Robert K. Bonine

Honolulu, Hawuii

111 A\ K just recently returned from an extensive cine-
negative making trip to the Kona side of the great
\olcano of Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii, where
a recent outbreak of molten hot lava at 10,000 feet
ilevation and fifteen miles back from the ocean ran as a
aountain stream through the country to the sea. Where
bis lava entered the ocean there was formed one of the
reatest geysers of steam and convulsion one ever could
magine. accompanied by a tidal wave that swept the shores
or miles.

Fortunately no lives were lost, and although it captured
ome people at Hoopolua, a few miles away, the nearest
anding. it simply washed them out to sea; but as every
ne can swim in this country, it simply floated them around
or awhile and all nianased to set ashore.

The volcano of Mauna Loa is said to be the largest indi-
vidual mountain in the world, and on the side of this great
volcano is located the ever-active crater of Kilauea, the
great mecca for tourists. This outbreak which recently
occurred was about seventy miles from there, in the district
of Kona, and some sixteen miles up over the mouontain
from the sea. From there the lava flow took a zigzag trail
down the steep mountain side, performing all kind of antics
en route until it reached the sea.

Greatest Geyser Ever Seen

Just what it did when it reached the Pacific was anything
than what the name implies. Such a mighty geyser was
never before seen; and such lightning and peals of thunder
that came from this awful series of convulsions, accomo-
panied by flying pieces of lava which would explode and
fly in all directions; and great lots of fish (perhaps half-

1 — Fountain of red hot lava at the source of the recent outbreak on the
volcano of Mauna Loa, district of Kona, island of Hawaii, 2 — At the edge
of the. lava flow from the side of Mauna Loa, running as a river of fire
for fifteen miles from the point of breakout to the sea; photograph shows
author of this article at the movie camera and Chinese boy helper. 3 —
Where the red hot lava flow plunged into the sea, belching upward the

greatest geyser of steam ever seen by man, 4 — On a movie trip through
the vast extinct volcano of Haleakala. island of Mani, Hawaii, The floor
of this crater is larger than Manhattan Island, 5 — At the brink of the
famous crater of Kilauea, island of Hawaii; the author at the camera,
6 — .Another view by the great Haleakala crater, island of Mani. The
author and his party resting on the summit of one of the inside cones on
the crater floor.

stewed) would skip around over the top of the water twist-
ing from side to side as though trying to jump off the
surface.

I had the services of the only available sampan, a fishing
boat of power launch design, and had them remove the sea-
plugs from the fish compartments to allow them to fill with
sea water to their limit, so as to ballast down to steadiness.
From this boat, as we approached this great geyser, I made
a series of short film strips showing this geyser in its vari-
oous moods, until we approached within about 300 feet and
passed around to the dark side to get strong lighting effects.
When these effects are thrown upon the screen it is a
"thriller" better than any cine-melodrama.

Description of the Lava Flow

The following description of the motion pictures which
I took is from the Pacific Advertiser of Honolulu, which
had a reporter present at the screening in my studio:

Motion pictures of the Alika lava flow taken by R. K. Bonine for
the Hawaii Tourist Bureau at the request of James Henderson of
Hilo, member of the bureau for the Island of Hawaii, were shown
last night at Bonine's studio to a small gathering of invited guests.

Nothing like them exists in the records of the camera. Movies have
been taken of Kilauea in action, showing the tossing lakes of fire and
the festooned fountains of incandescent melt, the blowing cones and
the streaming currents, but never before has a river of lava 40 feet
wide, cascading down a steep slope to the sea, been recorded on
the photographer's negative. Nor is there any other animated por-
trayal in existence of lava plunging into the boiling sea.

Most of the onlookers last night were persons who had visited the
flow one or more times and were thoroughly familiar with its be-
havior and varying aspects, both by day and night. No more critical
group could have been gathered, for the matter of fact, black and
white record of the film was matched against their highly colored
memories of a sight they never forget, but when Bonine asked them
for suggestions, their only complaint was that there had not been
enough.

A River of Incandescence

The introductory- views showed the flow as seen from the point
where it crossed the government road at Alika in Kau. What re-
mains most strongly in the minds of those who gazed upon that
indescribable spectacle is the memory of volume and ceaseless, silent
energy. It seemed impossible that any furnace of which the mind
can conceive could keep pouring out such a river of incandescence,
undiminished and forever glowing hot. .\nd there was something
awesome in the majestic silence with which this stupendous cascade
of fire, bearing on its troubled bosom great rafts of floating rock,
black on top and red hot below, tumbled steeply down a precipitous
stairway with less noise than a brawling brook.

This sense of speed, volume, energy, the camera caught in surpris-
ing fashion, and the river itself being silent, there was no loss in
auditory memories. Where the picture suffered, of course, was in
color. Red photographs black, and one had the curious sensation
of gazing at a river which in fact flowed blood red by day and orange
yellow by night, rushing across the screen in a band of deep black.

Nor was the human motif lacking. A series of incidents depicted
the rescue of cattle from a kipulia (oasis) in which they had been
imprisoned by the descending stream. Recognizable among the
figures were those of D, F. McCorriston and A. G. Horn of Davies &
Co., this city, and Thornton Hardy of Hilo. Close-ups showed the
cowboys, George Kawaha, deputy .sheriff at Waiohinu. and two
Chinese awa growers of Kau, whose houses, bordering on the edge
of the flow, narrowly escaped destruction.

A TRIP TO THE MOON VIA THE SKY-ROCKET ROUTE

{Continued from page 18)

miles a minute: and, because of its speed, overcoming the resisting
forces of gravity and the circumjacent atmosphere.

On the second day the region of intense cold is reached, but no
discomfort is felt within the machine. On the morning of the third
day the 213.000 mile mark is passed. Now the gravity about the
moon begins to draw the car towards it, and the skyrocket is fall-
ing at a terrific rate of speed. "Reverse speed" is the command, and
the helmsman slackens the pace of the rocket. More and more
reverse power is applied until the moon begins to loom up as a mass
of extinct volcanic craters. A hasty glance through the rear peep-
hole reveals the earth up in the sky amid a galaxy of stars. The
continents appear in dim outline, but still quite distinguishable as
they lie nn the smooth, pale bosom of the oceans.

Robert K. Bonine Began Movie Career
with Gaumont in Paris in 1897

(Told in his own words)

I became interested first in motion pictures in Paris, while making
illustrative negative plates in Europe for several publishing houses.
I had occasion to have dealings with Gaumont & Company; this was
in 1897, Burton Holmes having then purchased his first camera
from them, a Demeny. He was at work down in Italy at the time.
On the completion of my work, which took me also through Italy
the following winter, I looked into the workings of the cinemato-
graph at the Lumieres' plant at Lyons, and spent some time there
arranging for photo-material to be sent to me to various sections of
Europe.

On my return to the United States the^ following year and after
completing my plate work, I went to the Edison factory at Orange,
N. J., and after a short inspection and much experience in making
a variety of subjects there, and taking charge of the photographic
work, I was sent on an expedition through Alaska with a big outfit
in company with Thomas Crahin, formerly from Alaska, who had
just returned from Paris, to make an extensive exhibit of the Alas-
kan gold mining country for the Paris Exposition of 1900.

On our return home I took a trip through the Vellowstone National
Park and made film of the great geysers in eruption. I had with me
the largest cine-camera ever attempted by anyone, in addition to one
of standard size. The large camera made film four inches wide;
picture practically 2x3 inches or rather about 1^x3 inches, allow-
ing one-half inch on each side for sprocket control and ten holes on
each side for the gears.

The experience with this outfit and the conditions existing in that
country at the time, our method of getting about, and the developing,
printing, and preparing the final positive for exhibition, and the
projecting machine were all very interesting and well worthy a series
of articles, as it has never been told. Some time ago. the World
reproiluced an exposure from one of the negatives and said they
would later publish an interesting article on this camera by Edison;
but this camera was never used again, except by myself, and once a
trial strip was made of Buffalo Bill's show at Trenton, when arrange-
ments were being made to reproduce the entire exhibition for theater
purposes in the smaller towns not visited by the real entertainment.

While the negatives were beautiful, the mechanism of that day
and the great contraction of the fittn after passing through the pow-
erful astringents in development shrunk the film down to where it
would never come near the original sprockets. The film made with
the small, standard camera proved a success, particularly the one
entitled "White Horse Rapids," showing a scow passing through, and
many others of mining interest of that date, but we had with us very
little film of this standard size, and most of it in fifty and one
hundred foot lengths.

Quite a lot of this larger size was made by John Carbutt, of Phila-
delphia and some by Eastman. The great trip up through the mines
and the "Mother Dome" with a little mule that weighed about 700
pounds, and a boy, for which outfit we paid $22.50 per day "and
keep" would make an amusing story.

On my return I took control of the factory end of the business,
beside making many side trips for negative; all cameras and photo-
graphic work passed under my control. After about two years, dur-
ing which time I was at work with a patent attorney in preparation
of a defense in suit against the Biograph Coijipany a difference came
about, and I left the Edison Company and engaged with the Ameri-
can Biograph and Mutoscope Company at 591 Broadway.

After a short stay there I was sent to Japan. China, and the Philip-
pines, having packed and operated the large Biograph camera through
the closing scenes of the Boxer troubles. "Forbidden City," and many
interesting places all through that wonderful country.

I then left on a trip for Dayton, Ohio, where I made a lot of work
for the National Cash Register Company and then returning to
Orange, took charge of the Edison Film Department. After making
a trip covering two years to the Panama Canal country, with two
editors of the Denver Rocky Mountain Ne7vs, I left the Edison Com-
pany to make a trip around the world.

On coming to Honolulu I became delighted with the place and the
people, and have remained, having a very complete outfit and having
made a lot of Hawaiian subjects, much of which has been shown
about New York and throughout the East, by Holmes. Newman and
others. Holmes has been here with mc a number of times, as has
also Elmendorf, Newman and other lecturers.

I have at present a fine lot of scenic, industrial, and character
scenes of the islands, all new. as since I disposed of some 10,000
feet to Newman. I have made new film and of more interesting type,
as we do not dwell on a subject as we did — simply make "snap
shots" or "thumbnail sketches" of a subject. A bit later I shall
have the greatest collection of lantern slides and short-film subjects
one ever saw of a little country; my experience along all lines of
photography having been very extensive before the cinema ever came
along.

But the rocket is rushing upon the moon. It strikes, it skips along
the rockv surface; the power is turned off. and the rocket comes to
rest. Out of the armored car steps the navigator. He gazes about.
sees the dear earth above him in the sky. and wonders if he will
ever return. Perhaps. But then, when embarking on this glorious
enterprise, a thing so little as a human life never entered into
his mind.

REVIEWS OF FILMS

Edited by GLADYS BOLLMAy

"THE COPPERHEAD"

LIONEL BARR'i'MORE'S superb' acting and the great
Jtory of -Milt Shanks who thrpugh a long period of
>ears died even,- day a living death for his country
make The Copperhead a classic that may perhaps
rank with The Man Without a Country.

The stor>'. already known to many, i? of the courageous, idealistic
man who was chosen by Lincoln to sene his country in the hardest
way — as the Secret Service man who stayed at home, who was court-
martialed for aiding the Confederate cause, dishonored, and scorned.
His son. a splendid boy. full of his father's glowing devotion to
country, does not understand, of course, and makes his last request
one that his father should not dishonor him by seeing him in his
coffin. His wife, even in the moment when she leams that their son

fILT '.. ^.:: l...r.el Barrymore ' lakir.g the oath of the secret

semce in the cause of the Union. The character »f Lincoln
is played by William F. Schroell. A scene from "The Cop.ierhead."

is dead, shrinks from his comfort, and dies believing him a traitor —
"unclean" she calls him- His friends are his friends no longer —
only one of them wHl even speak to him.

Even after the war is over, after his wife and son are dead, after
his conviction by court-martial for supplying the enemy has been par-
doned, still he must be silent, on the request of Lincoln. It is only in
1904 when Reunion Day for veterans of North and South is taking
place, and when he realizes that his record as it is known to the
world is separating his granddaughter from the man she loves, that
he tells the truth. In his last moments come the tributes to his
heroism. But they are nothing to
the thought that he has kept the
faith, that he has served the flag,
and he is comforted by the letter of
gratitude from Lincoln on behalf
of the nation, which he has treas-
ured for years.

After he dies, shot by the poor
wretch for whom he had at last
secured a pardon, someone asks
"How small he looks. Is it always
so?" "No." answers the great man
of the town who has publicly de-
spised him for years, and now rea-
lizes the mistake. "But once in a
while a gentleman dies, and his
soul is so great that you miss it."

Shanks is played by Barry-
more vi-ith a finish that reduces
nearly every pre\nous photo-
play to an amateur perform-
ance. The figure of Lincoln
• William F. Schroell i is
hardly adequate. Doris Rankin
as the v*-ife of Shanks ex-
well the type of

w oman who straightforwardly lives up to her highest belief
in the right, r^ardless of himian feelings.

Dramatic, of course, is the play by .\ugustus Thomas. It
rings true throughout. It aboimds in a wealth of incident
that crowds it fcir beyond the usual content of a motion
picture. It bears marks of being "made over" from a stage
production, but until real genius is permitted or persuaded
to write for the screen first hand, we must be thankful to get
a good thing revamped instead of nothing plus a pretty girl
who can't act. which is the usual formula.

The Copperhead is a picture in which the educator and the
student of histon.- will be keenly interested. It is written and .
played from an artistic standpoint rather than from a propa-
ganda one. and therefore makes a vivid, personal, lasting ap-
peal. The truth is brought home that histon,- is made up of
thoughts and emotions of individuals, of incidents which,
while they may be of secondan,- importance to a country- at
large, are the uhole of one man's life. One's conception of
history, of patriotism, of loyalty must be deej>er and truer
after seeing The Copperhead. For school use. and for patri-
otic gatherings, the picture should prove invaluctble. The
reviewer suggests that such use the scenes of the preparations
on the gallows be omitted.

The Copperhead. Produced and distributed by Kamotis Plajers-Lasky.
6351 feet. Playing time. 1 hour 35 minutes.

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"THE GREATEST QUESTION"

From the days of the winged scarab to those in which our
grandfathers erected red sandstone memorials bearing a
grotesque cherub, efforts have been made to represent the
soul pictorially. Today, as always, the interest in things
psychic is reflected in picture form, and today this picture
form includes the motion picture.

The histon,- of motion picture ventures into the field of
the imseen is interesting. In the nature of things, the cam-
era cannot hope to equal the delicacv of Hamlet's father's
ghost which refrained from imfolding the particulars of his
horrendous tale. No I The camera has unfolded them wi th-
ou' the le=i=t scruple. A famous medieval tale describes a
drawing of a demon which kept the demon bound in the

'T'HE greatest test of i
Shanks had to undergo

presses

; Mih

ween zt was com-

r'led by his oath of loyalty to his country to stand

before his wife and son dishonored and disgraced.

Mrs. Shanks is played by Doris Rankin.

FORTY Tears after the great convict has been
hushed and be feds no longer bound by his
oath to h.nco'.T.. Milt Shanks tells his secret to
his granddaughter to spare her pain and bring her
love and happiness.

room with it, though not always visible. Henry Van Dyke
has a story of a haunted .painting — "The White Blot." But
the supernatural beings of motion pictures are neither at-
tendant spirits nor even misty figures. They are much in
evidence, "large as life and twice as natural."

Early motion pictures, particularly religious themes, pre-
sent entertaining examples — cheesecloth-clad angels, sus-
pended in mid-air by apparatus which left them very little
breath, as evidenced by their expression of alarm and dis-
comfort: "souls" rising jerkily from the death bed, the
diaphrams of both their material and spiritual bodies func-
tioning the while with noticeable vigor. The once popular
pictures of Hindoo swamis furnish innumerable examples of
thinly-clad ladies stepping from crystals or menacing Budd-
has appearing unexpectedly in mid-air like the Cheshire cat s
grin. Skeletons were popular as forerunners of disaster, re-
pentance, or remorse. Drowned ghosts were prime favorites,
and represented with a careful versimilitude which would
have satisfied even a Belasco. And legion are the Peter Ib-
betsons of the screen. At the present time several compan-
ies are announcing films dealing with spiritualism — one a
comedy, one a society scandal carried across the border, and
many stories dealing widi hypnotism and double personality.
But unless there has been a sudden transformation of the
industry, we must not expect too much from them. As a
whole it must be confessed that the ghostly personages of
the screen fail to convince or to charm.

We hoped for something different from D. W. Griffith's
last picture, widely advertised as the answer to "The Great-
est Question" — if a man die, shall he live again? Many still
doubt that psychical research is to be numbered with the
sciences, despite the testimony and records of eminent sci-
entists. Many of the orthodox also resent the claims of the
spiritualists in the domain of religion (in spite of the fact
that the Christian religion is based on the resurrection of its
founder). We did not expect a motion picture drama to
change their convictions. Be we did expect a great artistic
triumph, a great answer to the question of the ages.
Griffith on the Immortality of the Soul.

But the familiar box of Griffith brutality tricks must be dis-
played in its entirety. And the dignity and beauty of what
one would suppose was the main theme is lost behind the
facile acrobatics of the unspeakable vile pair of villains
to whom the center of the stage is given.

The story is as follows: The Hilton family, of whom Nellie Jervis.
a waif, is a member, by reason of their kindness, is in desperate
straits. They are a country' farm family, and are now unable to
get along, because of the heroic death in war of the oldest son and
mainstay of the family. A paralytic father, a young son too immature
to take much responsibility, a brave mother, are the only ones left.
Nellie determines to help the situation by going as a servant to a
nearby family. Assailed on one side by the bestial passion of the
husband, and on the other by the murderous envy and wanton cruelty
of the wife, Nellie finds her servitude nothing less than torture. She
suffers gladly for her benefactors, but even her devotion does not
provide enough money. At the darkest hour, when the farm is about
to be sold, and when Nellie's persecution has reached a climax, the
dead son appears to the father and mother and promises relief. The
next day oil is found on the farm, Nellie is rescued at the last moment
by the Hilton boy, and we leave the family, now richly clad and per-
fectly groomed, marvelling at the luxuries of a private suite in an
expensive hotel and planning a marriage between the two young
people.

Of course the handling of the picture, in spite of its trite-
ness, is unmistakably Griffith's. The brutality tricks are
played by a master hand. The master, too, it is who dares
to use the contrast of a sheeted grave-yard ghost — in reality
a clever tramp — and the curiously natural appearance of the
dead son beside his memorial tablet. The first return of
the son to the mother, when the door is swept open by the
storm, and the sense of his presence is so strong that she

seems to hold him in her arms, is handled with consummate
skill and tact. The characters of mother and son are ex-
cellently conceived and interpreted — the work of Eugenie
Besserer, both in this film and in Scarlet Days, Giffith's pre-
ceding picture, is strikingly good. The naive love between
the boy and the girl is portrayed as delicately as by a Greuse.

It is unfortunate that the main bulk of the story should
be occupied by the story of the two villians who are bound
together by their guilt in a murder, a theme which is not
interesting, and which has no use in the development of the
plot. It is difficult to judge the better parts of the story,
so overlapped are they by this mud.

One must conclude that the motion picture has not yet
produced a masterpiece which will rank with "Annabel Lee"
or the story of the Witch of Endor.

The Greatest Question, Produced by D. W. Griffith. Distributed by First
National. 6 reels.

'THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN"

It is strange that the simplest solution of any of the
world's many troubles today is so overlooked — education,
education, and more education. Perhaps its very simplicity
makes it unpopular with theorists. However that mav be,
there is an excellent illustration of the truth in a film
issued by the State of Connecticut, Department of American-
ization, The Making of an American.

An enterprising young Italian who comes to America is forced to
take a position as a day laborer — which is far below his ability and
standard of living — solely because he cannot speak English. Even a
laborer, however, must know the language of the country where he
is employed, as Pete soon found to his cost. An unattended freight
elevator, a sign in English that he could not read, a struggle of an
instant, and then the hospital. It was a sadder and wiser man who
came out a few weeks later. When he passed the post office, and saw
a sign in several languages calling upon foreigners to leani English,
and to attend night school, lie was prepared for the message that was
destined to change the entire course of his life. Night school for
Pete was the result. Any one familiar with such work will experience
anew the keen realization of what it means to the newcomer — the
crowded roomful of eager listeners, trying so hard, following so
patiently and docilely, the enthusiastic teacher's efforts — in short, the
making of Pete. He now is able to secure a suitable position and
rises rapidly.

The lesson for the newcomer who sees the picture is driven
home by the final incident in which Pete, as foreman, is
obliged to refuse a position to another newcomer on account
of his inability to speak English. Pete, however, gives him
the helpful advice — "Go to night school and learn English."

The theme is handled most successfully. It is. of course,
purely a work-a-day film made simply to carry a message
to the newcomer. But it must also appeal to anyone inter-
ested in the welfare of Americans new and old and suggests,
though not in words, a practical way of securing that wel-
fare — support the cause of EDUCATION.

The Making of An Ameriean. Produced and distributed by Worcester
Film Corporation. I reel.

THE NEW PEDAGOGICAL EXHIBIT

One of the greatest possibilities of the motion picture lies
in its efficacy as a record — a record that holds first place
in accuracy and vividness. It was recently pointed out in
ton, assistant conductor of the Philharmonic Society, that
"tempo, the one quality in interpretation that cannot be
indicated with precision by the composer." as interpreted by
a conductor actually beating time for an orchestra which
is playing, may be recorded by the motion picture. It is
easy to see the value of being able to reproduce and study
any famous conductor's interpretation of a given com-
position.

In a similar way, pedagogs may compare each other's
methods by studying motion picture records, which repro-
duce the pupils' reactions with an accuracy and impartiality

SPECIAL AMERICANIZATION PROGRAMS

WAGON TRACKS, S reels; an Indian and settlers drama of the Santa Fe
ail; of historical value. LOUISIANA, 5 reels; a romance of Southern life
ith correct atmosphere and background. HAY FOOT, STRAW FOOT, 5
:els; a rural recruiting drama presenting the loyalty and patriotism of two
;nerations. FIRES OF FAITH. 6 reels; a war drama emphasizing the
eals and work of the Salvation Army. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 5 reels;
arrict Beecher Stowe's classic of pre-Civil War life in the South. THE
OPE CHEST, 5 reels; a department store drama. LITTLE MISS
OOVER, 5 reels: a drama of food conservation. THE ROMANCE OP
APPY VALLEY, 6 reels, a simple and thrilling story of life in rural Ohio.
:AGGIE PEPPER, 5 reels; a thoroughly American romantic melodrama.
HE LINCOLN CYCLE, 10 episodes, 2 reels each, of the life of Abraham
iccoln ; historically accurate and full of inspiration.
Famous Playcrs-Lasby.

EVANGELINE, 5 reels; a remarkably beautiful presentation of Longfel-
w's poem dealing with Arcadia and the early American colonies. THE
ONE ST.AR RANGER, 6 reels; a drama of early Texan frontier life.
LUEEYED MARY, 5 reels; an attractive American home story. EVERY
;OTHER'S SON, 5 reels; domestic drama of the war.

Fox.

DADDY LONG LEGS, 8 reels; a comedy drama illustrating the social
tanges possible to an American orphan.

First National Exhibitors' Circuit.

THE LION'S DEN, 5 reels; a rural church drama illustrating social
ork for boys. THE L^PLIFTERS, 5 reels; a comedy drama dealing witti
olshevism. OUR MRS. McCHESNEY, 5 reels: Edna Ferber's story of the
laractcr and struggle of a woman commercial traveler. THE SPENDER,
reels; a drama of generosity versus stinginess.

Metro.

DESERT GOLD. Hodkinson service, 7 reels; a romantic drama ol
irly border life in Arizona and Mexico. LITTLE SISTER TO EVERY-
ODY, S reels; a story of labor. PATRIOTISM, ParaltaHodkinson Service,
reels; a patriotic melodrama.

Palhe.

Exhibitors' Mutual: A HOOSIER ROMANCE, 5 reels; a drama drawn
om James Whitcomb Riley's poem of Indiana life.

Select: BOLSHEVISM ON TRIAL, 5 reels; a socialistic drama reveal-
ing the fallacy of radicalism.

Triangle: TONY AMERICA, 5 reels; an Italian-American romance.

Unizcrsal: THE SUNDOWN TRAIL, 6 reels; a drama of historical
Western country and life. THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS. 8 reels; a labor
and "red" problem drama. THE OPEN ROAD. 6 reels; a Western drama
of an Italian-American. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, 6 reels; an
historic patriotic drama of the seas.

yitagraph: THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TELL, 5 reels; patriotic
war drama. THE YANKEE PRINCESS, 5 reels; an American domestic
romance.

lyorld: THE AMERICAN WAY, 5 reels; an American romantic drama
of society and business. HOME WANTED, 5 reels; an orphan child
drama presenting love of children.

Tyrad: THE RED VIPER, 5 reels; presenting "red" propaganda
among returning soldiers.

For rounding out programs drawn from the above list, we suggest selec-
tions from any of the following:

Golduyn: Ford Educational, 1 reel each.

Exhibitors' Mutual: Outdoor (travel, scenic), 1 reel each.

Educational Film Corporation : Scenics, 1 and 2 reels.

Prizma, Inc. : Colored. 1 reel.

Universal: Scenic and travel, 1 reel.

Also selections from Fox and Bray cartoons and from any of the cur-
rent weeklies.

For balancing these programs we also suggest careful selections of com-
edies from the following groups;

Exhibitors' Mutual: Strand, comedies, 1 reel each.
Chtistie comedies, 1 reel.

Universal comedies, 1 and 2 reels, including "Lyons and Moran."
Famous PlayersLasky : Paramount comedies — Flagg, Sennett and Ar-
buckle, 2 reels.

Coldwyn: Capitol, Parsons comedies, 2 reels.

o verbal account can hope to equal. Such a record is
resented in The Modern Education of the Blind, produced
y M. H. Whitelaw for the New York Institute for the Edu-
ation of the Blind. The most striking tribute to the suc-
Bss of the methods of this institution is the happy confi-
ence and fearlessness of the pupils. How this most de-
irable end is attained, the pupils show.

The Institute, founded in 1831, is noW' in the heart of
[ew York, but nevertheless plenty of outdoor sport and exer-
ise is provided for the pupils, play designed to develop the
snses of sound, touch, and direction, and the confidence
hich will enable them to navigate crowded city streets
lone.

Geography is studied with the finger tips, from relief maps
nd models of animals, buildings etc. Mathematics becomes

fascinating game when played on a board. In the use
f Braille books and typewriters pupils attain astonishing
peed and by it are familiarized with most of the regular
;hool curriculum.

In the study of the arts and crafts, the blind prepare for
[jonomic usefulness. Rugs, baskets, knitted articles,
'ooden articles, and even garments sewed on the sewing
lachine are made by the pupils. Their dexterity and their
njoyment of their work are remarkable. The girls are
Iso taught to cook and to handle fire without fear.

The reel closes with gymnastic feats by both boys and girls,
nd the greatest pleasure of the blind — music. Teaching
nd piano tuning provide an occupation for many, and, as
n avocation, this art seems to be the most congenial form of
xpression.

The Modern Education of the Blind. Produced and distributed by M. H.
iThitelaw. 1 reel.

"MIDDIES AND BLOUSES"

This two-reel picture, also produced and distributed by

Lutographed Films and screened at the same showing with

)ur Children, is a simple little story of a broken-down

forking girl who was taken in charge by the welfare workers

(Continued on page 31)

SLIDE NOTES AND COMMENT

Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Sprague, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Troy, N. Y., gave a series of four stereopticon lectures recently on
Sunday evenings in his church. The titles of the lectures were
"What Shall We Do in Mexico?" "Need the United States Fear
Japan?" "Shall We Keep the Philippines?" and "Through African
Jungles." Slides helped to attract more than 8,000 persons to the
Sunday evening services from January to June, 1919. Members of
the congregation enjoy singing songs and reading Scripture as the
words are thrown on the screen.

Harry J. March, city planning engineer of Buffalo, used 80 slides
covering this subject and civic centers when addressing the chamber
of commerce in Niagara Falls, N. Y., recently. Conditions in Buffalo
50 years ago were shown in contrast with present conditions in the
business district of that city. Proposed civic centers in Buffalo were
also pictured.

Lantern slide lectures delivered recently in New York State cities
were: "Reconstruction of Crippled Soldiers," Dr. Howard R. Hayden,
Albany Social Science Society, High School, Albany; "Italy's Part
in the Great War."' Miss Lila Van Kirk, Central School, Troy;
"Health Centers," Dr. Palmer Bowdish, Central School, Troy (the
last two under the auspices of the Women's Civic League of Troy,
N. Y.) ; "Making Democracy Safe for the World," Calvary AL E.
Church, Albany; "India." Rev. Henry F. Hamlin, North Reformed
Church, Albany; "Wild Flowers," Dr. A. D. House, Albany; "How
to Keep Children Well," Dr. Clarke of State Department of Health,
Elizabeth Street School. Oneida; "Coal Tar Products," John S.
Crandall, and "Sewerage Disposal," George T. Hammond, Technology
Qub, Syracuse; "Jerusalem," Dr. Ismar J. Peritz, College of Agri-
culture. Syracuse University: "Beautiful Ireland," Rev. Richard J,
Casey, St. Joseph's Hall, Yonkers.

Recent stereopticon lectures in New Jersey were as follows:
"American Democracy," Rev. Dr. George Farrar, M. E. Church,
Newark; "Eye-o-graphic Bible Lecture," Ethan \. Baker, First Con-
gregational Jube Memorial Church, Newark; "The Salvation Army
at the Front," Men's Qub, Fewsmith Memorial Presbyterian Church,
Newark; "The History of the Bible," Reformed Church, Newark;
"My Adventures in the W^est," Rev. Robert M. Marquis, First Presby-
terian Church, Paterson; "Sunkist California," Charles A. Mc.\!pine,
Men's Club, Jersey City; "Scenes in the Holy Land in the Time of
Our Lord," Second Reformed Church. Hackensack; "The Doughboy
and the Doughgirl in France." Major Wallace "Winchell, Salvation
Army Corps, Hoboken; "In His Steps." Charles L. Snow, First
Presbyterian Church. Hoboken; "Japan," Prof. J. Leonard, Second
Reformed Church, Hoboken; "Torch Bearers." Rev. Dr. Ingram,
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Trenton; "The Call of the Near
East," Rev. Charles F. Fields, Grace Baptist Church. Trenton;
"From Egypt to Palestine." Rev. G. Z. Stup, St. Mark's Lutheran
Church, Trenton; "South America," Miss Anne Mcllvaine, Christian
Endeavor League, Presbyterian Church, Pennington.

EXPERIENCE EXCHANGE

Sj^^MJ-^

TlIS department of the EDUCATIONAL FILM MAGAZINE aims to give readers the benefit of the motion pii lure
experiences of others readers. It is intended to be constructive, suggestive, and practicallv helpful. All schools,
colleges, churches, Sunday schools, clubs, lodges, farmers" institutes, asylums, prisons, hospitals, settlement houses,
community centers, industrial plants, and other institutions and organizations are invited to send in accounts of their
■experiences with visual education. The readers of the magazine are eagerlv looking forward to this mutual interchange
of ideas. Address Experience Exchange Editor, EDUCATIONAL FILM MAZAGINE, .33 West 42nd Street, New York.

GEOGRAPHY FILMS IN OREGON
SCHOOL

Motion pictures for Umatilla schools have
come to slay, and their value in vitalizing
the subject matter and adding greater im-
portance to all school work cannot be over-
estimated, according to many educators. The
Umatilla school was one of the first schools
of the county to introduce this feature in
the program. New films along educational
lines are shown during the school hours and
in connection with the regular work.

The children of the school look forward
each week to the assembly periods for they
know that there is a treat in store for them —
motion pictures — real movies to illustrate the
geography lesson and something to write
about in the once-dreaded language lesson.
Lately the pupils were shown the films on
the "Royal Gorge" in Colorado and the "City
of New Orleans." Father Pound, the janitor
in charge of the school, made an interest-
ing talk on the former film and related sev-
eral incidents that transpired during his
youth while a resident of that section.
»
RECREATIONAL FILMS IN HIGH
SCHOOL

The Cleveland Heights, Ohio. High School
have had 24 shows with selected motion pic-
tures the past year and have averaged 674
in attendance. Fred Burroughs reports that
they have installed a second machine and
■expect to remodel their auditorium this sum-
mer. The young people and their parents
«eem to like such pictures as "The Little
Princess," "MTiss," "How Could You,
Jean?" "Headin' South," "Nan of Music
Mountain," "The Firefly of France," "Prun-
ella," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Pals First" and
"His Mother's Son." They are showing in-
dustrial and educational pictures at noon
and use the lists of the National Board of
Review.

Pictures have been shown every Saturday
night to audiences that have filled the build-
ing. Saturday afternoon pictures are shown
to the scholars in the grade schools. No
admission is charged at the door. Expenses
are met by silver offerings. The program
has thus far been very successful and has
the heartiest support of the townspeople.

SPECIAL THEATRE PROGRAMS IN
SALT LAKE

The programs for boys and girls in the
Paramount Empress Theater, Salt Lake
City, under the auspices of the Home and
School League, for six weeks were as fol-
lows: "Greased Lightning;" a Briggs com-
edy, "When a Fellow Needs a Friend ;"
"Amarilly of .Clothes-Line Alley" and
Bobby Bumps cartoon: "Spirit of '17" and
Bobby Bumps cartoon ; "Under the Top"
with Paramount Magazine and animated
cartoon; and "The Roaring Road" with
Paramount Magazine and animated car-
toon. The chaperones and ushers were
drawn from the teachers of the Lowell,
McKinley, Whittier and Grant schools. The
charge, including boxes, was 10c for any
seat in the house.

AVERAGE ATTENDANCE NEARLY 700
By Carlos B. Ellis

Priaci ■] High School of Commerca,
Springfield, Maseschueella

This is the fourth year that we have been
securing motion picture films. It has not
been our purpose to show films that have
been strictly educational in character. On
the contrary, we have tried to make our
work educational by showing a better type
of film than our pupils or the public would
see in the motion picture houses in the city,
in the hope that we might succeed in creat-
ing, on the part of the public, a desire for
films of a better class.

We show these films to high school pupils
at the close of our school day on Friday
without any charge, and in the evening, we
show the same films to the general public
for a nominal admission fee. The success
of our experiment is best measured, perhaps,
by the paid attendance, which has been as
follows:

1915-1916 Average per evening 441
1916-1917 " " " 369

1917-1918 " " " 524

1918-1919 ' 671

At least 25 per cent of our paid attendance
is made up of boys and girls who are under
the high school age, many of whom would
be on the streets in the evening if they wero
not in our assembly hall.

HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB RUNS
MOVIES

The Home and School Club, of Campbell.
California, has purchased a motion picture
outfit largely from the proceeds of a "dem-
onstration movie show" given on Friday eve-
ning, November 7, last at the local school
auditorium. K representative of the extension
division of the Llniversity of California, at
Berkeley, selected the films shown from the
viewpoint of educational and uplifting enter-
tainment. Children were admitted for ten
cents; adults for twenty-five cents. .Appro-
priate music was provided by a three-piece
orchestra.

The club outfit will be frequently used for
community entertainment and educational
purposes. The mothers and teachers of the
town have thus taken matters into their ov*-n
hands, to counteract, as they hope, the harm-
ful influence of the commercial movies.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SHOWS THURSDAY
NIGHTS

John W. Brooks, superintendent of the
West Genesee Street M. E. Church Sunday
.School. Syracuse. New York, writes to this
magazine that the Sunday School is con-
ducting a motion picture show every Thurs-
day night. They would be glad to bear from
producers of films suitable for Sunday School
programs. By this they do not mean re-
ligious pictures but entertaining pictures —
pictures, Mr. Brooks insists, "which are
absolutely clean and free from suggestion."

MONDAY MOVIES IN N. Y. CHURCH

"We have always found the offering re-
ceived for our Monday evening movie sufS-
cient to defray the expenses," said Rev. Dr.
A. Edwin Keigwin, pastor of the West End
Presbyterian Church, New York City, where
a program for children is given in the after-
noon, to which no charge is made. "For the
two hours and a half of wholesome amuse-
ment six reels of up-to-date moving pictures,
community singing, and organ music are
provided for by the weekly offering.

"These Monday night entertainments are
a direct outgrowth of our work for the men
in the service. During the eight months when
we entertained over 15.000 soldiers and
sailors we had such a wonderful experience
that we are transferring the energy we started
then to benefit the community. We have a
first class program of moving pictures which
lasts from 8 to 10:30. The reels we select
from the Community Motion Picture Bureau
and they are the very best we can secure.

"I noticed this summer during my vaca-
tion in New Hampshire that the attendance
at the movie theatres was falling off. Now
is the time for the church to take over this
amusement or entertainment, which, having
passed the thrill stage, may be developed
educationally and spiritually. The silly
comedies have lost their drawing power;
people want first-class novels, travel pictures,
news of the day — something capable of pro-
ducing a spiritual reaction."

"MOVIE HOUR FOR MEN" IN CHURCH

The Rev. Karl Palmer Miller, who has
recently come to New York as pastor of the
Mariner's Church of the New York Port So-
ciety, is very much in favor of the movie.
While chaplain in one of our Southern camps i
Mr. Miller had an opportunity of watching
the movie, and he firmly believes in its use':
in the churches. His idea would be to have
a short address, followed by an hour of pic-V
tures. He believes that, specially at the^
Mariner's Church, which is in 11th Avenue,-,
near 23rd Street, this hour of good pictures %
would keep men from other haunts.

Mr. Miller is opposed to admission fees, .
but approves taking up a collection.

"1 can see no sense in opening up a charge
movie in the Church," he said. "I believe \
that the motion picture is doing in a very
large way what novels and magazines, have
done for young men of other generations; it
feeds their appetite for adventure."

SCHOOL HAS USED FILMS FOR YEARS

Fred Grafelman, principal of the Consoli^
dated School, .iMberta, Minnesota, states that
his school has had a fine standard motion
picture projection machine for many years
and the pupils have benefited largely from
"this wonderful field of education, visual
instruction." He desires to be placed in
touch with all of the best sources of supply
and information regarding instructional films.

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PROJECTION-EQUIPMENT |

EdiU'd by JAMES R. CAMERON
CHrRCH AND SCHOOL MOVIE PROJECTORS

THK importance of the mnlion picture as a
means of education is being recogniz-
,^^^^^_^ ed more and more each day. Just

"^^^^^^ consider for a moment the prominent part

f ^ played by motion pictures in winning the late

[jM^ *. ^ war; first to arouse patriotism, then to show

SR? why we entered the fight, what we were

t j^. fighting for. to encourage enlistments, pacify

%I^U- labor unrest, increase production, and put the

^P government loans over the top. They wei^e

i^^^ W used extensively in the training camps in this

^^^\/ ^W country' and abroad and even in' the fighting

^^jj^^*^ area to educate and amuse the boys and to

stimulate morale. It was one of the greatest
lessons of the war and the government was
James R. Camekon quick to realize that the most direct way to
the brain was through the eye. It may be in-
teresting to some of our readers to know that approximately .il per
cent of a'l recreation; passive and active, furnished our soldiers and
sailors was in the form of niolion pictures.

The great advantage of visual instruction has been clearly demon-
strated : educational institutions, churches, hospitals, welfare societies.
and industrial 'concerns throughout the country' are now installing
motion pictures projectors. Film production for educational pur-
poses is being considered by many state governments, the federal
government, church and numerous other organizations. Some films
have alreadv been completed and are on the market. The time is
not far distant when the motion picture projector will be as much
a fixture of the classroom as the blackboard. The sales manager of
one of our largest manufacturers of projection machines states that
68 per cent of all orders received during the months o£ November
and December came from churches, educational and industrial
organizations.

The writer has received many inquiries regarding the class of
machine most suitable for church and school work. In replying to
such inquiries it is important that local conditions be carefully con-
sidered as a machine that would be highly satisfactory in one place
would not produce maximum results if used Under different conditions.
One of the most frequent queries is relative to the advisability of
using portable machines. It is the writer's opinion that where it is
possible to make a permanent installatiim a professional model pro
jector will unquestionably give the best results. Practically all such
machines on the market to-day can be bought equipped with either a
Mazda lamp outfit or an arc lamp. Where the distance from the
machine to the screen does not exceed 6.S feet the Mazda lamp out-
fit can be used successfully. Where the throw is more than 65 feet
a carf)on arc lamp will be necessary to produce satisfactory results:
this would probably require extra wiring as ordinary house wiring
would not be large enough to carry the amperage necessary to main-
lain an arc.

The machine should be installed in a fireproof booth, size to con-
form with local regulations. The booth should contain everything
necessary for perfect projection and nothing more. .No unnecessary
paraphernalia should be allowed to remain inside. By painting tli-
ijiside walls of the booth black or some dark color reflection will be
reduced and prevent a continual glare in the operator's eyes. The
booth should be equipped with a small light foi the benefit of the
operator, so shaded that none of its rays finds its way through th?
portholes to the screen. This same rule should be applied to all
other lights in the hall or room. .Safety precautions must of course
comply with regulations as prescribed by local authorities.

Wierc it is possible to confine the use of the projector to one
room or where space will not permit the installation of a larg-
machine, portable machines are now being used to a large extent with
pleasing results. The advantages of these machines are of course
their light weaight and compactness, also the fact that no special wir-
ing is necessary, it being possible to operate them by connection with
any ordinary lamp socket. As a -100 watt lamp is generally the
source of light in these machines, however, their use is limited to
rooms where the throw will not exceed 35 feet. Up to that distance
the machine will project a clearlv defined picture. .\s the light sourc
is increased a proportionately long.T throw can be obtained, but by
'inrr- >-■••■ the light source the fire hazard is also increased.

\N.SWERS TO INQUIRIES

1 linii ih.ii on iiullin,s mv n.achinc .snitch my minsformer kccpj on
buzziiiK anil I have to rc.novf my wall fuses to slop this noi.se. Please ex-
plain why I get this buzzine sound, as I have worked with transformers be-
fore but ihey a'ways stopped buzzing when I pulled my machine switch.

S. B.. Bellevue, Ohio.
(Cnnlimipii on papp 28)

^nnoiinceijieut

In connection with its efForts to facilitate
general education bv ad\ocating and installing
printing outfits in public schools the

EDUCATION DEP.ART.MENT

American Type Founders
Company

has decided to enlarge its scope of activities to
include the sale of motion picture projecting
machines and supplies, and to furnish infor-
mation regarding films for educational pur-
poses. After a thorough imestigation, and after
consulting leading educators, we are convinced
that the portable motion picture projector is
the kind best adapted to general educational
work, and we are pleased to announce that we
ha\ e made arrangements to sell

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Information regarding these machines ma\ be
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An ircprovetnent in mo-
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The "Rotary' is so origin
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enlightening. For example,
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In the "Rotary" presser
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(Continued from page 26)

Ifou r»'obabIy have the transformer connected between your wall cut-out
and the machine switch, so that a no-load current is passed through the
primary coil of the transformer as long as you have a closed circuit on the
LINE side of transformer. If you will cennect the transformer between
your machine switch and the arc lamp (primary side to lamp side of machine
switch, secondary side direct to arc lamp) you will find that there will
be no buzzing noise when you open the machine switch.

Evcr>' time I strike the arc of one of my machines I blow my fuse. I
have tested the lamp house but find it free from grounds. The mica
insulation in arc lamp is O- K. Perhaps you can help me.

Operator, Tarrytown. N. Y.

You must have a short circuit, but if this were in your arc lamp the
fuses would go when you closed the machine switch, before you had time
to strike the arc. The trouble probably lies in your rheostat or secondary
coil of transformer, whichever you are using.

PROJECTION-EQUIPMENT INQUIRIES ANSWERED

The editor of this department will be pleased to answer any inquiries
from the magazine's subscribers, appertaining to projection and equipment
matters. Those questions requiring a prompt response will be answered by
mail, and these replies, together with the replies to other inquirers, will be
published monthly in this department, so that the information will become
available to all readers.

Send along the story of your projection and equipment troubles, then,
and let me see if I can solve them for you.

EXCLUSIVE FEATURES OF THE "ROTARY* PROJECTOR

The writer has had the privilege of making an exhaustive examination of the
latest portable projection machine, the "Rotary." It is built along the lines
of the suitcase models and is really portable, weighing only 25 pounds and
measuring but 20)-*xl7J^x8 over all.

A distinct departure has been made in the intermittent driving factor, a
"rotary pressure" taking the plare '^i the n-'n^va movement. It is this
"rotary pressure" that gives
the film the intermittent
motion and it accomplishes
this in the most satisfactory
manner. The strain on the
sprocket holes of the film
is eliminated by exerting
the pressure over the whole
width of the film without
engaging in the film per*
forations.

With the exception of
the "rotary pressure" the
machine is built similar to
other portable machines of
the suitcase type. It is
equipped with a 400 watt
Mazda lamp with reflector.
The motor is universal and
runs on either alternating
or direct current.

After we had examined
the construction of the ma-
chine, Mr. De Garrie was
kind enough to project a
picture for our benefit and
it was the result obtained
on the screen that im-
pressed us most. That great
bugbear of most portable
machines, "flicker," was al-
most entirely absent. This
rotary portable machine
projected a picture that
would compare favorably
with any picture project-
ed by its larger prototype,
the professional projector;
and, when all is said and done,
count.

THE HEART OF THE ROTARY"

is the results shown on the screen that

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The Methodist Centenary's splendid collection of slides, dealing
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alph A. Ward, China secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of
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BOTANY.
Part V* No. 3016. Appro. LcnRth. 900 F«t.
The Pitcher Plant. , . • *

The Pitcher Plant is a native of Asia. Aus-
tralia and North Borneo. Its curious pitcher
like formation serves to catch water and
insects.— The flower.— The development of the
pitcher. The midrib of the leaf is prolonged
.into a tendril. — Like all good pitchers, the
tendril throws a curve or hook at the end.
—The pitcher's first appearance. — Its develop-
ment later in the game.— A full grown pitcher
hanging from the tip of the leaf. — A family
of fine pitchers. — A different species of pitcher
that is not so tall, but of stockier build.—
These pitchers take water— The curves of the
pitcher are too much for the insects. — The
pitcher's victim at the end of the day.
Mushroom Culture.

The mushroom is the fruit of the plant which
is formed by little while filaments in the
manure pile and known as "mushroom spawn.
— The old stone quarries are good places for
its culture, offering the proper amount of
moisture, warmth and darkness. — The work
men build long compact mounds of manure
— The mushroom spawn is then planted in the
mounds. — After two months, the filaments
having permeated every part of the manure.
to force the fruit the workmen put a thin
cover of earth over the mound. — Some months
after the mushrooms begin to appear.— How
the mushrooms appear. Three weeks in na-
ture in 20 seconds on the screen. — The mush-
room must be gathered before its full growth.
as it is impossible to keep it. Alter gatherine.
the holes in hte mound are carefuUv filled
that the ever-active spawn may produce morr
fruit. — Some fine specimens.
GEOLOGY
Part I. No. 3010. Appro. Length. 800 Feet.
The Ice and Snozv.

Water, in various forms, covers a large por-
tion of the earth's surface. About ^ of the
earth is occupied by water in its liquid form.
A great amount of water also appears in the
form of ice and snow. — Rain drops, passing
through the higher atmosphere, where the
temperature is slightly below 32 degree^ — the
freezing point — freezes into snow flakes.
— Snow flakes are formed of snow crystals,
although varying in shape, they all resemble
a six-pointed star. — Water, in the form of
drops, freezes into j^now — still, or slowing
moving water freezes into ice.— Water freezes
into icc at a temperature of 32 degrees. Dur-
ing the process the water expands, note how-
it breaks the bottle. When once frozen the
ice contracts. — Water, through the process of
freezing, lessens in density and the ice floats.
— This accounts for the fact that icebergs,
those enormous pieces of ice, float on the sea.
— Two pieces of ice will ioin when closely
pressed together — this is called renewed frost.
— A piece of wire, weighted at both ends, will
cut its way through a block of ice without
leaving any sign of a break. — Salt, in dissolv
ing. absorbs heat. Ice, in contact with fait,
causfs extreme cold — this is the priavlple used
in freezing mixtures. Water, mixed with
ammonia gas and sulphuric acid, subject to
compressed air and ether, freezes — in this way
artificial ice is produced. — Although snow
and ice are the cause of much pain and suf-
fering — they, in turn, are the source of great
sport.
Part H. No. 30n. Appro. Length. 800 Feet.
Mow Mountains Grow.

The earth is a globe, approximatt-ly 24,000
miles in circumference, the interior tempera-
ture of which is so terrific that we cannot
realize it.— A thin crust of earth separates us
from the fiery furnace. To get an idea of
the thickness of this outer crust, let us suppose
that the earth is three feet in diameter. The
crust then is as thick as this chalk circle.
— Bodies subjected to heat expand and in
cooling they contract. Gravcsend's experi-
ment proves this. — The earth is subjected to
this natural law. It cools by radiation and
gradually contracts. Contracting, it grows
smaller and the material involved not growing
less, it buckles into wrinkles. — On the sea
bottom, under the weight of the water and
other materials accumulated on them, these
wrinkles sink and form pockets which will
make a chair of mountains in some far dis-
tant future. — Each contraction of the surface
of the globe causes the layers of material to
jected in the natural cause of nature to the
rise (rradually until they finally emerge from
f>,/. ,Ur.«i,, .,^i x^nf 5ea. — The new chain is sub-

action of the elements which gives the moun-
tains the peaked appearance familiar to us.
The Petrified Forests of Arizona.

Scientists believe that the petrification of l^e
trees, which, by the way. did not grow where
they now lay.' was due to dissolved silica
absorbed by the wood from the hot alkaline
waters which floated the trees from their for-
mer upright position to their present and
final resting place. — Near Holbrook. Arizona
in Xavajn County, is perhaps the most fa-
mous petrified forest. 1,800 acres are covered
by these prostrate monarchs of a prehistoric
woodland. — Here we see a piece of petrifieH
tree which, before the Miocene period of
geolog>- — or approximately 2.000.000 years
ago — housed in its leafy branches what species
of strange birds! — flere we can see the actual
grain and fibre of the wood perpetually pre-
served in stone rivalling onyx and marble for
its delicacy of color. — Note here in this frag-
ment of a trunk how the silica has filled the
wood cells where formerly the life-giving sap
stirred at the call of the spring sun. — Some
of the trees measure 70 feet long and have a
diameter of five feet. Speciments of amethyst
and topaz are frequently found in the heads
of the fallen monarchs and sometimes an en-
tire trunk is composed of translucent agate.

PUBLICITY FILM CO. PRODUCTIONS

For detailed information write Publicity
Film Company. Bismarck, N. D., or to the
name<: and addresses given at the end of each
description.

THE Y. O. R,.\NrHES. 2 Reels.

.\ sure enouirh western stock ranch in con-
trast _to the staged photoplay. A film full of
pep and interest and a valuable record ol
irenuine western conditions alonp the Grand
Old Missouri. ("C. Burnstad Ranches. Burn-
stad. N. D.).

XFir.HBORS OF THE V. O R.ANCH. 2
Reels.

.\n educative and stirrinc picture of genu-
ine Sioux Indian life and customs of today
on the Standing Rock Reservation in North
and South Dakota. This was filmed when
the Government authorities were not look-
ing, but two white men witnessed these
doings. (C. P. Burnstad Ranches. Burn-
stad. X. D.).

THE EOUITY CO-OPER.ATIVE PACKING
PLANT .^T FARGO. N. D. ] Reel.

.\ very complete picturization of the meat-
packing industry in North Dakota — a part
of the much heralded farmers' utility own-
ership movement. CEquitv Co".Operative
Packing Plant, Fargo, N. D.).

WHY SOW WILD OATS? 300 Feet.

Demonstrating the principle involved in ^

unique wild oat separator. (Hogland Mfg.
Co.. Fargo. N. D.).

lAKGO— THE GATE CITY. 1 Reel.

The teeming life, amusement facilities, and
beautiful surroundings of this typical west-
ern city will be a revelation to any east-
erner. (Fargo Commercial Club, Fargo,
N. D.).

A LITTLE .lOlRNEY TO THE HOME OP
LYNN J. FRAZIER, -FAK.MER GOVER-
NOR OF NORTH DAKOTA." 700 Feet.
Depicting surroundings of the official head
of the Non-Parti.san League in North Da-
kota — a bona fide farmer. (Publicity Film
Co., Bismarck, N. D.). ,

THE NORTH DAKOTA STATE FAIR.

1 Reel.
Fcaturmg exhibits of the highest grade
American live stock, inclutling "Baron Fair-
fax," the famous $80,000 Hereford sire, ana
other bulls of national fame.

INDUSTRIAL FILMS

HOOPING UP.

Reel, 1; Producer, Ford; E.vchange, Goldwvn.
Remarks: — Showing how barrels are made, fell-
ing trees, sawing logs, making staves, dry-
ing them for seven months, sawing ends, steam-
ing barrels, testing steel hoops, glueing, paint-
ing .ind finishing, nine months in making of a
barrel,

ROCK OF AGES

Ret-l. 1; I*roducer, Ford; Exchange, Goldwyn;
Remarks : — Scenes taken near Atlanta, Ga.
Stone Mountain all granite, cutting up a moun-
tain, polishing granite, putting granite blocks to
their various uses, a boulevard paved with
granite, a public library, monuments, etc..

THE STORY OF ZINC.

Reel, 1 ; Producer, Ford ; Exchange, Goldwyn.
Remarks: — Last metal to come into use, zinc
mining, sections in Oklahoma and New Jersey,
drilling 225 feet for ore, smelting zinc ore,
the mix house, charging of zinc furnace, 24
hours to distill zinc from ore, drawing zinc,
casting into slabs.

WHERE THEY GO RUBBERING.

Reel, 1 ; Producer. C. L. Chester; Exchange,
State Rights, Remarks: — Outing-Chester Pic-
ture. Tumature, British Guiana, native hut,
tiger creek, Mazaruni. the rubber tree, cutting
tree in herring-boone fashion to get the juice,
cup attached to tree by a piece of clay, pre-
paring the rubber, etc.

JAPAN, THE INDUSTRIOUS.

Reel, 1 ; Exchange, Beseler. Remarks: — Mak-
ing baskets, rope maker, at the saw-mill, shoe
maker, the feet are used as skillfully as the
hands, expert makes a pair of shoes in ten
minutes, manufacturing umbrellas, moving
restaurant, a pipe cleaner, street gobbler,
painting vases.

GOWNS VENUS WOULD ENVY.

Reel, 1 ; Producer. Prizma ; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks: — Cockeroft batiks, the processes
of making batik, method of dyeing originating
with the Javanese several centuries ago, out-
lined in wax. wax prevents colors from run-
ning together, blending colors, final applica-
tion, wax removed by gasoline, showing how
"personality gowns" are designed, dyed and
fitted.

ORANGE GROWING.

Reel, 1 ; Producer, Lubin ; Exchange, Beseler.
Remarks: — Reissue. The growth and market-
ing of oranges, ox teams carry the fruit from
orchard to wrapping and boxing house.

SILKS AND SATINS.

Reels, 2; Exchange, Universal. Remarks: — ■
Bureau of Commercial Economics. Child
writes essay on silks. Hatching of eggs of
silk worm, picking and chopping mulberry
leaves, feeding grubs, rice straw to hold co-
coons, complete cocoons, moth emerges, loose
ends gathered and wound on reel, winding
raw silks in skeins, dyeing the warp, beam-
ing, twisting warp threads together, filling
weaving, looms, inspection.

THE COLOSSUS OF ROADS.

Reels, 2; Exchange. Universal. Remarks: —
Making Firestone Cord Tires, testing tensile
strength of fabric, calendering and impreg-
nating the meshes with rubber and running
plies onto cores, chafer strip and wire-braiding
machine, straight-side beads, tubing machine,
safeguards on various machines, cloth separ-
ators. Part two : Separating plies from core,
removing air bubbles, pits for curing, remov-
ing molds from heaters, wrapping machines,
final inspection.

OUT OF THE SEA.

Reel, 1; Producer, Prizma; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks: — Key West fishing for sponges,,
glass bottom buckets used, diving to get
sponges, marketing sponges of many types;
strange fishes of different types and hues-

RAY J. FINK PRODUCTIONS

LOGGING AND TR.\NSPORT IN ITALIAN"
ALPS.

Reel 1. Felling of timber, transporting down
stream, thrilling ride on a log raft, beautiful
scenery. Produced by Urban. Reissue, Ray
J. Fink, 4263 Franklin St., Philadelphia. Pa.

CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA.

Reel. 1. A human interest story with dra-
matic and historic incidents. Produced oi»
Lake Champlain. Shows Ethan Allen and his
Green Mountain Boys. Edison reprint. Fv.
change. Ray J. Fink, 4263 Franklin St., Phila-
delphia, Pa.

REVIEWS OF FILMS
(Continued from page 23)
tion. carried off to iheir summer camp in
the CalskUls. New York Slate, and there
made over by the healthful outdoor life,
exercise, good food, and fun. The last-
named quality, in truth, appears to domi-
■ale the major portion of the second reel
which is given over to the many joys ex-
tracted from nature by these city girls af-
forded the opportunities of camp life by
the feminine half of the '"Y". The pic-
ture was taken last summer at Summit
Lake Camp, near West Point, open for
Forking girls of New \ork City, and at
the Rainbow Camp, near Bear Mountain,
for girls of school age.

The film is a fitting corollary to me
'Come and See" campaign of the Y. W. C.
K. Although their summer camp wellare
ifork may be limited in scope so {::r as
iplifting influence.

The picture has some effective photo-
jeaching the mass of women workers is
»ncemed. the work is thorough in those
ases which come under its wholesome and
[raphic compositions, the silhouette of
lancing girlish figures against a huge bon
Ire in the center of the circle testifying to
he striking art of the director.

REMEW NOTES AND COMMENT

The miscellaneous matter at the begin-
ing of a theater program seen recently
eemed to point to the fact that although
s yet good educational pictures are com-
aratively few and inaccessible, it is pos-
ibie. "if Tou don't have what you want, to
rant what you have."

\ Goldwyn-Bray scenic, not glaringly
ducational. produced views of Ausable
hasm. suitable for geological study, and

detailed though brief demonstration of
dmon-fishing in the Columbia River.

Glimpses of New York at night llnter-
ational Weekly i afforded splendid ma-
^rial for art or architecture — the massed
ghts of the downtown towers, and a
iperb view of the Woolworth Btulding
sing like a genie"s palace.

Scenes of interest to students of eco-
amics and sociology occurred in a Kino-
ram and other weeklies; Federal troops
Tiving to break a port strike: an English
'phanage which is famous for its drUl,
isplaying an intensive training: portable
erry-go-rounds for the slums; baby shows;
rls at work making paper roses.
Why not ask your class to report each
eek on "What I learned about this sub-
ct from the movies I saw at the theater?"
-Vnother educational suggestion came
om "The Eternal Triangle" (Universal*,
oesn't sound hopeful, does it? "The
ternal Triangle" is a story acted entirely
r dogs. It is a triangle, to be sure,
lexander Airedale, an unscrupulous loafer,
most wins away the affections of Mrs.
'oofen. the loving wife of a shepherd
lUie. In the course of Mr. Woofen's
ndication of his honor, we meet every
>g in town — "both mongrel, puppy, whelp,
id hound, and curs of low degree," in-
ading the Ki-yi-zer dog. Dachshund von
ohenzollem.

Pertinext Scccestioxs to Teachers
If your class doesn't know how to wxite
jries. ^why not show them snch a story
cture? From such a story as this they
>uld learn the possibilities of material in
eir everyday surroundings. .Ask them to
ten this story on paper, and see if you
■n't get some real action, real description.

Then reverse the process. Have them write
them from the point of view, "Is this in-
teresting enough to make a moving pic-
ture?"

The results will surprise you. It will
teach them straightforward vigor of wTiting
and clear away many of their difficulties
based on their erroneous idea of a "compo-
sition." The motion picture helps to place
the "on paper" part of a story in its proper
light — that simply of a medium for trans-
ferring bits of life seen by the author to the
brain of the reader.

EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS! ~
The ordinary program of motion pic-
tures seen in a theater almost invariably
affords suggestions to the educator. Teach-
ers preparing pupils for college might find
it a useful experiment to request their
classes to take notes on an educational or
news picture, and thus teach them that
most useful and valuable art! From the
notes the teacher will then find many sug-
gestions for research work, which wilL in
turn, lead also to an increased interest in
how to use reference books.

Fifteen minutes in a theater afforded
the following suggestions, suitable for
grammar school pupils:

Police parade in St. Louis reviewed by
all living governors and mayors of state.
A lesson in community civics.

Junk melted into iron for street car
rails in Pittsburgh. Caption: "Dante
would have felt at home here." Iron in-
dustry. Who was Dante and why would
he have been familiar with this scene?

Marines ascend Sugar Loaf Mountain in
Rio. by cable car. — A lesson in geography
and physical geography.

.■\erial patrol over Mexican border.
Britain follows the hunt again. Memorize
a hunting song, perhaps Scott's:
"W aken. lords and ladies gay.
On the mountain dawns the day:
-Vll the jolly chase is here —
With hawk and horse and hunting spear."
Or. if the idea of hunting is not wel-
come, a song of fairy-hunting, like Wil-
liam --Ulingham's. which is even jollier:
"Lp the airy- mountain.
Down the rushy glen.
We daren't go a-hunting

For fear of little men ;
Wee folk, goo'l folk.

Trooping all together:
Green jacket, red cap.
-And white owl's feather."
Why not connect the often wearisome
"memory selections" with something the
child has seen ?

Cattle shows at San Francisco and Los
Angeles. — Grazing industry. What do you
know about the meat packers?

Wild teal stopping at Oakland in the
course of their migration are protected
and fed by the city. — Preservation of our
birds. Prevention of cruelty to animals.
Exhibit of cats, dogs, birds and mice.
House cat rears kittens in woods and when
they are grown brings them back to the
house. — Lesson in natural history: animal's
care for its young: other members of cat
family, characteristics, etc.

-Almost every subject as reported on bv
the child can be made the basis of a brief
lesson, and the child wiU be convinced
that what he is learning in school can be
immediately made use of elsewhere; in
fact is /lecessary for his full enjoyment
and understanding of what he sees and
hears.

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Index to Articles

•ORIAL 5

"Safety First!"

AL INSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES AT N. E. A. CONVEN-
riON 7

lES TO GET TEACHERS MORE PAY 9

IS IN COLLEGE RESEARCH WORK 9

VER LIBRARY SHOWS JUVENILE FILMS 9

;iNG MOVIES PAY FOR NEW BUILDING 9

UNDERWRITERS' RESPONSIBILITY TO THE PUBLIC 10

Bj Dana Pierce — Illustrated ,

PICTURE'S THE THING 12

By Charles R. Stone — Illustrated

MUNITY MOVIES IN SAN DIEGO CHURCH 14

By H. V. Mather — Illustrated

C\TIONAL MOVIES IN MINNESOTA CHURCH 15

By Rev. Dr. E. C. Horn — Illustrated

WORLD'S SUPREME TRAGEDY REVERENTLY TOLD 16

By M. Elisabeth Edland — Illustrated

CROSS EFFICIENCY EXPERTS USE SLOW MOVIES 18

Illustrated

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CE RULES OUT FILM AT MURDER TRIAL 19

FEDERAL AID FOR ORAL HYGIENE FILM 19

REVIEWS OF FILMS 20

Edited by Gladys B oilman — Illustrated

THE LAW SAYS: "SAFEGUARD LIFE AND PROPERTY"—
AMERICAS SLOGAN IS "SAFETY FIRST " 24

By James R. Cameron — Illustrated

BAPTLSTS TO RAISE $100,000,000 BY MEANS OF SLIDES 26

By W. Howard Ramsey

WORK OF NATIONAL M. P. LEAGUE 28

By Adele F. Woodward — Conclusioyi

FLASHES ON THE WORLD'S SCREEN 29

CATALOG OF FILMS 30

INDUSTRIAL ITEMS 31

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"SAFETY FIRST!'-

HE first issue of this magtizine. dated Janu-
an'. 1919. contained an editorial announce-
ment entitled ""Plan. Purpose, and Policy."
""Each article will be published
serve our readers in some useful way," we wrote,
»r to promote the acceptance and practical daily
iployment of what Mr. Edison calls 'one of the
eatest things in the world.' " Under the sub-title
rhe Policy" we said furdier:

The editorial policv of this magazine will be in

complete harmony with the plan and the purpose .

not small-minded. It will not be "trade-paperish." It
will not provoke and promote controversy. It will
give the news and tell the truth. It will lead all great
movements tending toiiard the accomplishment of our
purpose. It icill be constructive, not destructive. It
will have ideals, and adhere to those ideals. It will
have principles, and never swerve from those prin-
ciples. And the pages of the Edlcation'.a.l Film
Mag.\zine will always be open to those who have an
idea to suggest, a plan to propose, a truth to impart, a
tvrong to right. Its message and its mission are plain,
and are fraught with profound significance to mankind.

Thorouglily in accord with this policy, and pur-
ant to an investigation of conditions prevailing in
e non-theatrical field of motion pictures, we have
solved to take a firm stand for safety in the exhibi-
»n and handling of motion picture film — a stand
th which we have always been in sympathy but to
lich we did not give expression because of factors
t now concerned. We are taking this stand because
! no longer wish to shirk the moral responsibility of
feguarding thousands of human lives nor longer to

placed in the position of tacitly or impliedly en-
uraging violation of the country's laws.
Moral responsibility and civic duty- — here are two
ligations enough for any loyal American citizen
d any member of the motion picture industry to live
I to and respect not only in passive obedience but

actively seeing that the laws are enforced without
ar or favor. Nearly all manufacturers, distributors,
,d exhibitors connected with this industry are good
yal Americans and law-abiding citizens: they
oved that beyond a doubt during the late war. But

there are- a few, a very few, among them who are
eitlier indifferent to the law, or evasive of it, or
deliberate in their violation of it. It is these few
who constitute a menace to the vast majority in the
industry, a menace even to themselves if they were
only broad-gauged and far-visioned enough to realize
the fact. For should disaster come the blow will fall
alike upon the just and the unjust, and those who
helped to pull do^vn the house will be buried in the
ruins alongside of those who helped to build it up.
The time has come for plain speaking and fearless
action. With the sale of each projection machine
using nitro-cellulose film and operated in utter dis-
regard of the wise rules adopted years ago by fire
insurance underwriters and state and municipal fire
audiorities all over the United States, a new hazard
is added to the many already existing, thereby in-
creasing the possibility if not the probability of
another Iroquois theater disaster. We have no desire
or intention of creating a state of terror or of unduly
alarming users or prospective users of inflammable
film in unprotected projectors, which are safe enough
in themselves but which encourage the handling of
such film under unsafe and dangerous conditions.
We desire not to alami but to warn, not to prophesy
ill but to try and prevent ill from befalling the entire
non-theatrical field of motion pictures.

\\ hat is the life of your child worth?

Is it worth the price of a fireproof booth, or the cost
of an expert operator; of a reel of film, or a thou-
sand reels, or a million reels? \oii would not sell
or give away or lose your precious little one for all
the wealth of the world. Hundreds of thousands of
other parents feel the same way about their children.

Educational films are wonderful things, but their
use nmst be made safe — relatively safe — under all
conditions. A vampire may be beautiful to look
upon, but in her heart is a black menace to all weak
men.

In this issue two experts — one the very able and
highly respected director of the Underwriters' Labo-

ratories, the other our own projection and equipment
editor — discuss the technical and engineering phases
of this question of the fire hazard and law evasion
and violation in the handling and showing of motion
pictures. We shall not here enter into an elucidation
of our view of tliese phases; that is better leit to the
specialists. We are here concerned mainly ^vith the
ethical, civic, and economic phases of this matter
which no self-respecting publication in the field can
ignore, or side-step, or dally with any longer. The
publisher who tries to ride two horses is likely to fall
between them and be crushed. One sturdy steed is
sufficient for us, and his name is Truth. He has a
venerable Latin name also. Pro Bono Publico, but he
responds to the other without whip or spur.

And now to ride Truth a little way out into the
open country where we itiay drink in the fresh free
air of the hills and forests and look unblinkingly
upon the sun blazing away in a cloudless sky of blue.

Three salient facts in the situation stand out in
sharp relief: The large standard professional pro-
jectors, safeguarded with fireproof booths, licensed
operators, and other provisions for safety, are within
the law. Portable or semi-portable projectors,
ecjuipped to run standard inflammable film, which
are used without fireproof booths, expert operators,
and other protective and preventive devices approved
by the underwriters and fire authorities, are not within
the law and, as such, tlie sellers and the buyers of
such machines are liable to prosecution. Each sepa-
rate use of such machine, with nifro-cellulose film,
is a distinct violation of the law or of the under-
writers' rules. (It so happens that there is very little
slow burning film in the standard 3.5 millimeter
width; herice. the evasion and violation of law is
intentional and inexcusable.) The third fact is that
acetate-cellulose film of 28 millimeter width, known
as safety standard and adopted as such two years ago
by the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, is a de
facto safety film, slow to ignite, slow to burn, as com-
paratively safe as your evening newspaper.

These three outstanding facts should be held clearly
before one in attempting to reach a solution of the
problem of fire hazard in the use of motion picture
film. The evaders and violators of the law are not
the film people but the machine manufacturers on the
one side and the purchasers of machines on the other,
who ignorantly or wilfully handle highly inflammable
reels of film, which are nothing but fuses 1,000 feet
long, in utter disregard of the lives of those iimocents
who are gathered around the machine or open cans
of nitro-cellulose. A case came recently to the
writer's attention, wherein an operator was smoking
a cigar directly over some open cans of inflammable
film, and seated in chairs nearby were two or three

hundred little children waiting for the show to stai
If a spark had fallen from that cigar on a bit of thi
film, the show would have started — but it would m
have been the kind of show they came to see.

This is not a plea for anybody's film or anybody,
machine. It is a plea for safety, for decency, f*
moral and civic righteousness. We are not here an
now concerned with the technical, mechanical, <
physical working out of the problems. These wi
be worked out in time to the satisfaction of all i
terests. Large professional projectors will contini
to use regular theater film, with proper safeguan
and under relatively safe conditions. Safety stan^
ard machines using the narrower or 28 millimeti
width slow-burning film will grow in numbers ar
importance, no doubt, as their film libraries grov
and from present indications, it looks as though the:
safety film libraries will outstrip in time other no
theatrical film libraries. There is, of course, a fund
mentally sound reason for this — the safety factor -
the dominant one in the hujnan mind. "Safei
First!" was the cry that resounded throughout the lar
a few years ago, and back came the echo "Safe
First!" That cry in reality was back of our entrant
into the world war; it was the one thing that forc(
Germany and the Allies, too, into the armistice; it
the moving spirit in Russia today.

Makers of portable and semi-portable projectic
machines designed to use standard theater film mu
soon see the light and adopt one of two alternative
Sell their machines only on a written and sign(
agreement that the purchaser must use fireproi
booth, expert operator, fireproof receptacle for reel
and other safeguards provided by law; or change tl
gauge of their machines to take the safety standai
and encourage the development of production and di
tribution in that field. Two standard width portab
projector manufacturers are reported about to jo3
the two now active in the safety standard field.

It nmst be remembered that the market is wic
open, that every manufacturer, distributor, exhibito^
exporter and importer is free to make, sell, use, ar:
exploit the 28 millimeter safety standard princip
in any way he sees fit. There is no patent, r
monopoly. On the contrary, those now in this fiel
are doing everything in their power to encouraj
odiers to join them and make a big thing of it f<
all concerned. Its weakness hitherto has been tl
insufficiency of subjects in its film library. Th
defect is being remedied; and the reports are, wil
apparently sound foundation, that important financi:
interests are beginning to take hold of the safel
standard idea and make a commercial market of
on a large scale.

{Continued on page 7, secoml rohtmn)

VISUAL INSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES AT THE N. E. A. CONVENTION

One Afternoon Devoted to the Reading of Papers and Discussions-
Informal Conferences Lead to Appointment of National Committee of
Educators to Form a National Visual Education Association — Films
Show-n at Hotel Cleveland, Advertising Club, and Commercial BXhibits

ByDolph Eastman

"IHE semi-centennial meeting of the Department of
Superintendence of the National Education Associa-
. tion, whose first gathering took place five years after
:lose of the Civil War. in 1870. was a success worthy
he occasion. Should the same ratio of progress be
i during the fifty years to follow, the educational sys-
of the Lnited States will lead the entire world in
lods. in thoroughness, and in practical results,
le registered attendance, exclusive of local participation,
)nvention headquarters in the Hotel Cleveland, Cleve-
, Ohio, during the week beginning Mondav, Febru-
23, was about 4,500. Vi ith the addition of the names
lleveland superintendents, principals and teachers and
bose who failed to register, the total attendance was
over 5.000. The lack of hotel and rooming accommo-
)ns in the city undoubtedly prevented many more from
ing to the meeting and drove others away several days
re they would otherwise have left. The commercial
bitors were disappointed at the comparatively ^mall
ber of visitors in their hall, due no doubt to the fact
the building was several blocks away from the leading
Is save one, and in a rather inaccessible part of the city.

Intense Interest in Visual Education
)r the first time in the history of the National Education
elation there is a Department of \ isual Education for-
y established as an official section of the Department of
?rintendence. The officers during the past year, who
! re-elected, are: President, L. N. Hines, state superin-
Ent of public instruction, Indianapolis; vice-president.
. Beveridge, superintendent of schools. Omaha; secre-
C. F. Pye. secretary Iowa State Teachers" Association,
Moines. The official program of the visual education
Jtment on Wednesday afternoon, February 2.5, in the
•oom of the Hotel Hollenden, was as follows:

i.L Education In Communtty Center Work
Zharles Roach. Assistant Professor in charge Instruction Service.
Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa.

KETENESS In EDUCATION

fohn H. Francis, Superintendent of Schools, Columbus, Ohio.
Economic Side of Visual Eduovtion
r. Paul Goode, University of Chicago. Chicago 111.
I'D Table Discussion On Visual Eot cation

^ed by Frank A. Cause. Superintendent of Schools, Bav C^ilv.
Mich.

le reading of papers was limited to twenty minutes and
oral discussion to five minutes for each speaker. Mr.
:h was able to read only a portion of his valuable
ribution on "Visual Education in Communitv Center
k," which this magazine will publish in full in a forth-
ing issue. Superintendent Francis spoke without notes

in a direct, forceful manner brought out the salient,
landing features concerning the use of visual instruc-

material in the schools. Both Prof. Goode and Mr.
5e added many helpful ideas and suggestions in their
;rs, as did the several speakers who followed,
ne incident occurred toward the close of the round
B discussion, which smacked of commercialism, was in
ous bad taste, and should not have been permitted bv
iident Hines. who was in the chair. It was an attempt
ave the Department of Visual Education of the N. E. A.
in record as officially approxing the standard theater

film. 35 millimeters in width, as the only film to be used
in the schools of the United States. The presiding officer
allowed the resolution to come to a viva voce vote without
recording the ayes and nays, but the feeble response of
affirmatives and the thundering chorus of negatives showed
unmistakably that the sentiment of the assemblage was that
the N. E. A. had better leave the question of the use of
standard theater film or safety standard non-theatrical film
to the individual school or college, to decide as the local
authorities see fit. It was the first public demonstration
of flie difference of opinion on this subject, with an over-
whelming sentiment in favor of an open, independent mind
and a disposition to consider both sides.

The Informal Conferences
Due to the initiative of W. H. Dudley, of the University
of Wisconsin; W. D. Henderson, of the University of Mich-
igan: and J. \X . Shepherd, of the University of Texas, con-
stituting the visual instruction committee of the \atienal
Lniversity Extension Association, there was an informal
conference Monday afternoon, February 23, on the ninth
floor of the Hotel Cleveland, and on Wednesday evening
at the Hotel Hollenden following an informal dinner in the
cafeteria of the hotel.

The discussions at these two conferences, presided over
by .Mr. Dudley, had to do with ways and means of using
films, slides, stereographs, maps, charts and other visual
instruction material in the schools and colleges but were
primarily concerned with motion pictures. Some interest-
ing developments were noted at these meetings, but the
only decisive action taken was the adoption of a motion
that Mr. Dudley appoint a national committee of nine
educators having no connection with commercial interests,
who are to call a general conference within two months, if
possible, of all individuals and groups who would like to
get together and form a National Visual Education .Asso-

{Continued from page 6)

.\fter all. it is not a matter of whether it is Tom's
machine. Dick's screen or Harn's film. The issue
is larger and higher than that. It is a matter of
ethical principle and obedience to law and order,- of
moral responsibilit}- and civic dut)- towards the public
and our individual selves. We said in the beginning,
and we say now, that we shall do everything within
our power to develop the educational use of motion
pictures. The thing is too big, the industry is too
big, to permit commercial interests, or selfish motives,
or mere comfort, convenience, and "cheapness" to
endanger the entire non-theatrical field when it is so
easy to play safe. By advocating the principle of
■'Safety First,'" compliance with law, and safeguard-
ing of human life — especially tlie precious life of
Young America — we are taking steps to make the
future of educational films secure, no matter what
developments may come.

ciation. To this conference will be invited in an advisory
capacity all commercial interests who can help educators
and others to solve the problems in this field, and it is hoped
that out of this general conference will arise a strong na-
tional organization in which non-theatrical motion picture
exhibitors and commercial manufacturers and distributors
of equipment and films can cooperate and bring about a
great national market in the non-theatrical field.

The dominant note at these informal conference> was that
no flavor of commercialism must taint the work of the
organization committee or of the organization itself after
being formally established. The same tendency towards
influencing or controlling the action of the N. E. A. which
cropped out at the afternoon meeting was observed during
the evening, namely, the commercializing of an eff"ort which
can only succeed if maintained on a high educational and
ethical level. The committee to be selected will no doubt
avoid this pitfall and will see to it that the confergnce
leading to the formation of the association will adopt pro-
cedure which will make it impossible for commercial in-
terests to have anything more than an advisory hand in the
proposed organization. In other words, the feeling on the
part of the educators, the editors, and other non-commercial
interests present at these gatherings was that the initiative
and the demand must come from the schools, churches, and
other uncommercial institutions and that they must dictate
the policies and the methods of the organization. The
suggestion put forth that the active members of the associa-
tion, the school men and women, should not pay dues and
that the commercial people should "foot the bills" was
properly frowned upon and cast aside. The feeling was
that there should be no sense of obligation whatsoever to
the manufacturers and distributors, who will be welcome
to offer advice and to cooperate with the exhibitors.

Report of .Action of an Informal Conference on Educational

Use of Visiai. Aids Held at the Hotel Hollenden. Cleveland,

Ohio, Wednesday, February 25, 1920.

Dr. W. H. Dudley, University of Wisconsin, in the chair. Moved
by Mr. Wilson of Detroit, and passed:

That a committee of nine educators, in no way concerned
in or connected with commercial visual instruction organizations.
be appointed to invite all persons interested in the educational
use of visual aids, including representatives of commercial and
industrial organiations, to a conference to be held within two
months if possible, for the purpose of perfecting a permanent
organization.

Discussion at the conference indicated that the desire was ihat
the organization committee of nine .should draft tentative plans
for the organization and conduct of the permanent association, such
plans to be used as the basis of discussion at the conference. This
was embodied in no motion.

The opinion of the conference seemed to he that control of the
permanent organization should be vested in the educators but that
support should be accepted from and close cooperative relations
established with commercial and industrial interests.

Ninety five dollars was subscribed by those present for meeting
the expenses of the organization committee of nine.

\. J. Klein,
Secretary of Informal Conference.

34,000,000 Feet of Government Film

Arthur J. Klein, secretary of the National University
Extension Association, at the Monday afternoon confer-
ence gave some interesting figures on the distribution of
the government's war films from Washington. He said
that there were now 42 distributing centers in state uni-
versities and other institutions and that this number would
probably increase. About 9,000,000 feet of positive film
have been distributed through these centers, of which more
than 600,000 feet were sent out since September 1, 1919.
Mr. Klein estimated that about 25,000,000 feet additional

of government film remain to be distributed for public (
hibition throughout the country. The work of distributi
is handled by the extension association in cooperation w
the Bureau of Education in Washington.

Although most of this film deals with the late war, si
Mr. Klein, a considerable proportion of it can be used
conjunction with history studies. In the series entiti
"Training of a Soldier," there are 36 reels which ;
valuable for instructional purposes. These are among i
most thoroughgoing pedagogical motion pictures so i
produced, such pictures as "Military Map Reading," "T
Three Inch Shrapnel" and similar ones being models
simplicity and clearness.

Mr. Dudley, who was associated last year with the 1
vision of Educational Extension, Bureau of Eiducation, stat
that the bureau estimated that about 3,000 American scho(
were equipped with motion picture projection machines
all types. The questionnaire mailed by the bureau 1;
year to 38,000 schools and colleges revealed that 1,1
were then equipped and 384 others were planning to eqtj
for the use of films. More than 2,100 schools had lot
arrangements with theaters, churches, halls, clubs, and oth
institutions for showing special educational film progran
The figure mentioned, 3,000, appears to be conservatii
inasmuch as the questionnaire did not reach all education
institutions by any means and only about 30 per cent
those' questioned replied.

Major L. G. Mitchell, of the United States Armv. Medic
Corps, told the Wednesday evening gathering of his thr
reel film on oral and dental hygiene, "Come Clean," whi
has been shown to the members of the Senate and Hou
military committees in Washington. The picture was ma
largely at the Army Medical Museum in that city, and
said to be a valuable contribution to the visual side
medical education.

Films Screened at Convention
Considering the vital importance of motion pictures
any scheme of visual education, and the voluminous di
cussion of the subject,, there was comparatively little acti
ity at the convention in the way of actually screening su
jects of an educational nature. A few films were shov
in the main assembly room of the Hotel Cleveland, such
"Feet and Shoes," with a lecture bv Miss Eleanor Bertin
of the Y. W. C. A. War Work Council; "Come Clean." tl
Major Mitchell picture; and one or two others of th
character at the meetings of the American School Hygiei
Association. Several reels on school gardening were shoM
at the meetings of the School Garden Association in tl
rooms of the Cleveland Advertising Club, Hotel Statler, <
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.

.\l the Thursday afternoon conference of the Communi:
Centers Association, February 26,'Frank L. Crone, former
director of education in the Philippine Islands and no
director of the school service section, Community Motio
Picture Bureau, spoke on the topic "Obtaining Motion Pi
tures for a Community Center."

On Friday Mr. Klein, of the University Extensic
Association, was one of three speakers on the subject "Wh;
the University Extension Association Offers School Centers
emphasizing the community value of motion pictures an
telling of the mass of government film available in the 4
distributing centers of the association. Conunissioner Cla:
ton was heard with great interest on "Wliat the United Stati
Bureau Offers Local Community Center Movements." Du
ing the three days of papers and discussions on the acti'
ilies of school community centers it was brought out thi

notion pictures were playing and could be made to play
in extremely vital part in Americanization, cultural, recre-
ational, and other objects of community work.

"How Life Begins," the four-reel botannical and bio-
logical film produced by Captain George E. Stone, was
shown at the Y. M. C. A. on Wednesday afternoon during
the conference on sex education in the high school called
by the federal bureau of health.

There was some brief discussion of the utilization of the
screen at the February 27 meeting of the Safety Education
Section of the N. E. A. On Thursday afternoon at the
National Geographic Society conference there was a round
table discussion on ways and means of providing visual
instruction in schoolrooms, based upon the use of the so-
ciety's collection of geographic still pictures. Eight two-
minute talks were given under the general topic "Geography
in Action."

The Commercial Exhibits

The Society for Visual Education, Inc., was the only
concern represented at convention headquarters in the Hotel
Cleveland, having two rooms on the ninth floor and dis-
tributing there and in other places to interested visitors
the first number of their official monthly publication "Visual
Education," which is reviewed elsewhere in this issue.
Other commercial exhibitors in the visual instruction field
were represented by booths in the Bolivar-Ninth Building,
the entire second floor of which was given over for the week
to the N. E. A. exhibits. A list of these exhibitors follows:

Acme Motion Picture Projector Co., American Projecting
Co., Argus Enterprises, Inc., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.,
Community Motion Picture Bureau, DeVry Corporation,
Edoscope Mfg. Co., Enterprise Optical Mfg. Co., Ford Edu-
cational Weekly, International Harvester Co., Mcintosh
Stereopticon Co., Moving Picture Age, National Geographic
Society, A. J. Nystrom & Co., Pathescope Co., Underwood &
Underwood, Inc., United Projector & Film Co., Universal
Film Mfg. Co., Victor Animatograph Co., Keystone View
Co., Nicholas Power Co.

Motion pictures and lantern slides were shown almost
continuously in many of these booths during the five active
days of the convention. Several thousand copies of the
February issue of Educational Film MACAzmE, entitled
"N. E. A. Convention and Americanization Number," were
distributed during the week to interested visitors.

MOVIES TO GET TEACHERS MORE P.\Y

The following typewritten slip, headed "More Pay for
Teachers," was given out for signature at the N. E. A. regis-
tration desk and many signed the pledge of cooperation in
the movement to obtain a living wage for those who are
building the next generation of American citizens:

W'UKHKAS the Fox Film Corporation is ready and willing to
undertake a national motion picture campaign to aid the movement
to give school teachers, '^^^llege professors and other educators a
living wage, and

WHEREA.S the success of this campaign depends upon the as-
surance of the whole-souled support of all teachers, superintendents
and other educators throughout the country, and

WHEREAS a committee is about to be formed to work out with
ibe Fox Film Corporation of New York City, through its motion
picture weekly department. Fox News, the details in handling said
campaign.

RESOLVED that I do hereby personally pledge myself to give
the said committee my active and enthusiastic support whenever
called upon, and further promise to act as local agent of the campaign
in my district, or community, and to make it my special business
to urge all teachers and other educators within my province to
support the theaters displaying this film and to aid to the utmost
extent of their power in furthering its circulation.

FILMS IN COLLEGE RESEARCH WORK

Motion picture films have a great future in educational
institutions for purposes of research and general instruction
according to Arthur G. Eldredge of the photographic de-
partment of the University of Illinois. Educators are just
beginning to realize the possibilities that may be found in
presenting the lecture and demonstration work in moving
piclure form. Movies can be made of all sorts of demon-
stration and shown to thousands of students simultaneously
while only a few can witness an actual demonstration in
some departments.

The real advantage of the movie over the original demon-
stration is that the films can be run more slowly; thus
bringing out details that were not observed in the actual
demonstration. A graphic illustration of this fact is por-
trayed in a movie film of athletic contests. When the films
are run slowly upon the screen each movement of the
event is brought out by the camera in a distinct manner that
the eye cannot observe during the swift movements of the
athletes.

Movie films are being used continuously by the various
departments of the university in research and demonstra-
tion work. The pictures are taken by Mr. Eldredge of the
photographic department and developed in the university
studio on the fourth floor of the physics building.

DENVER LIBRARY SHOWS JUVENILE FILMS

The public library of Denver, Colorado, has purchased
a motion picture projection machine to be used at the main
and branch libraries in conjunction with the children's
departments. The machine is fully equipped to show films
of any length and is intended to arouse interest of children
in books that it is considered well for them to read. The
firm from which the machine was purchased maintains and
lends a library of film-dramatized books and fairv tales.

""By showing the film version of the popular children's
classics the matter of the book is presentetl to the child
in a way that arouses his interest and leads him to read
the book, later," said Chalmers Hadley librarian.

"We have a regular schedule of piwure shows at the
children's departments of all the libraries, and in two
weeks we are able to show a film in all parts of the city."'

The machine will also be used in conjunction with the
art lectures given by Reginald Poland, art director. Mr.
Poland has been able to obtain pictures showing the
masterpieces in the field of painting and sculpture.

Educational films of industries, agricultural metho<ls,
and animal and botanical life will be interspersed with
the film dramas.

MAKING MOVIES PAY FOR NEW BUILDING

The Boston Suffolk Law School will have a big new building and
under a plan devised by Dean Gleason H. Archer is going to make
moving pictures pay for it and create an endowment besides. The
school auditorium in the new building will be fitted out to seat L500
persons and will be equipped as a high class moving picture theater.
The proceeds of the show will go toward paying off the indebtedness
nf ihe building. Dean Archer states that he has figured out thai
within seven years the building will have paid for itself with a
surplus besides.

W If

The Bray Pictures Corporation, b> their uni(|ue nielhod ol making
animated technical drawings, illustrate with great clearness how
the moon exerts a pulling force upon the waters of the earth, causing
tides. Here are shown the revolution of the earth, the high and low
tides, with spring tides — neap tides. The pictures taken show a
harbor on the east coast of the United .States, where the tide is
several feet high.

THE UNDER\^ RITERS RESPONSIBILITY TO THE PUBLIC

The Moral Responsibility for Evading a
Distinct Duty Cannot and Should Not Be
Shouldered bv Fire Insurance Interest?

B'^ Dana Pierck

Vtcr-Presiilenl, I ml

liters' laboratories. New York Citv

FKOM the very beginning of the motion piiture
industry the fire insurance underwriters took the
position that nitro-cellulose film, being a highly
inilanimahle article, should have all possible safe-
guards thrown around it both when in use in projection
machines and when not in use. Years ago the L nderwriters"
Laboratories in New York and other cities subjected the
nitro-cellulose film to the most rigid tests and decided that
as it was a dangerous substance and was likelv to be used
by the millions of feet and in the midst of crowds of many
thousands of people, every precaution must be taken to
protect life and property where cellulose film was con-
cerned. The fact that its principal use was in close contact
with sources of heat and light made it infinitely more
perilous to life and propertv than would have been the
case had its use been confined to instances where heat and
light contact was not involved.

The condition which obtained during the formative years
of the film industry has not changed but has become in-
tensified as the business expanded and took in non-theatrical
markets in addition to the ever-growing theatrical field. The
wider use of inflammable film, instead of having a tendency
to cause the fire underwriters to become less rigid in their
requirements and let down the bars to some extent, has,
on the contrarv, led to the feeling that the rules laid down
long ago were wise and sound and that it would be ex-
tremelv unwise and unsound to modifv them in any par-
ticular. The underwriters are satisfied that the comparative
freedom from film fires of a serious nature in theaters, ex-
changes, and other places where approved booths, licensed
expert operators, fireproof vaults, proper containers and
other safeguards are emploved is due to the general ob- ,
servance of these legal requirements. Without such safe-

guards the record of the industry would in all probability
have been such as to have caused its condemnation by the
public long before it had reached its present value and
importance.

The growing importance of the educational, religious,
industrial and non-theatrical use of motion pictures makes
it doublv imperative that the Underwriters, the State Fire
Marshals, and the local fire departments of our cities and
towns should be on the lookout to protect the lives and
property involved in such use of nitro-cellulose film. For
years the proper safeguards have been thrown around its
daily use in places of amusement. Why should not the
same safeguards be demanded in schools, churches, hos-
pitals, asvlums, prisons, manufacturing plants, and other
institutions as are demanded in theatres? Certainly the
lives of these thousands are as precious to the community
as of the other thousands who flock to the theaters. We
cannot have one law for places of amusement and a less
rigid law for the other places. The logic of the case is
irrefutable.

Moral Responsibility of Motion Picture Industry
It is squarely up to the motion picture interests to safe-
guard and conserve human life and to obey the laws. The
moral responsibliitv for evading this distinct dutv and for
violating the law cannot and should not be shouldered bv
fire insurance interests. If any state or municipal official
charged with the observance of the fire laws chooses to
violate his oath of office and turn his face the other wav
while the lives of hundreds of children are at stake, that
is his affair and a matter for the courts and his own con-
science to deal with. The pressure on the underwriters
from the film industry has been very great, and the com-
plaints have been numerous. But there is no tendency, as

'p HE life of the Pres'dent of the Utiitcd States was imperilled by the operation of these two standard professional projection machines, without
■"• fireproof booth or other fire protection, on the steamship George Washington which bore Mr. Wilson to and from the Peace Conference in Paris.
The danger lay not in the machines themselves but in the exposure and handling of hishly inflammable nitro-cellulose film outside of the machines. No
room or auditorium is safe, on land or sea. unless the use of such film is properly safeguarded.

as I can see. to weaken in our determination to safe-
rd the public and at the same time tlie many millions
loUars worth of property placed in jeopardy when such
sguards are disregarded.

Lcelate-cellulose or slow burning film costs a little more
a and is not as efficient nor as durable as nitro-cellulose
1. but is not the life of vour child worth the difference
price and quality? "But." you say. "we cannot obtain
Qts on slow burning stock in standard width, at least.

in anv desirable subjects or appreciable quantity.'"
haps not. because the underwriters will not approve

use of either inflammable or non-inflammable film in
[idard width unless fireproof booths, expert operators.
I the other safety provisions laid down are observed,
rtable projectors using both kinds of film which do not
; up to the letter of the law cannot be approved by the
lerwriters because, even though the user would promise
writing to emplov only slow burning film and would be
•ject to fines or imprisonment for violation, the tempta-
n to substitute inflammable film for the other would be
I great for the average owner of a projector to resist,
e onlv way to avoid this risk is to make it impossible
take it.

50 far as the large standard professional projectors are
icerned, the question as to the use of dangerous film was
■ the most part settled years ago. Each of the states has
ingent laws on this subject and these laws are carefully
served. If thev were not observed, the operators and
! owners would find themselves behind prison bars, or the
eration of such machines would be prohibited.
This brings us to the question of portable and semi-
rtable motion picture projection machines. The growing
; of these tvpes of projectors for non-theatrical purposes
s led to a laxitv in the observance and enforcement of the
«rs. This condition is to be deplored, for I fear that if
; bars are let down we shall wake up some morning and
id that a horrible calamity has occurred with the loss

many little lives.

Fire Haz.\rds Mainly Outside of Machines
The danger is not so much in the machine itself — many

the portable machines are safe enough within themselves
■but in the handling of nitro-cellulose film outside of the
achine. I have made this statement hundreds of times
It persons both within and without the film industry do
>t seem to get the point. Furthermore, all devices which
e designed to make the handling of hazardous film less
izardous within the machine and outside of it. which do
)t comply with the laws, are merely evasive and do not
eet with the approval of the underwriters, no matter
hat state and local authorities may think of them. We
«1 that our adamant attitude in this matter is justified
f the ever-present menace to life and property, and if a
isaster does occur the responsibility will be on their heads
ad not on ours. It will not require more than one holo-
iust of the kind to bring about a tightening of the lines
nd strengthening of the fire laws everywhere. But it is

great pity to think that we must face such a possibility,
le perhaps many lives may have to be paid as the price
f carelessness, to call it by no harsher name.

At the present time a very promising development for
le non-theatrical motion picture industry, in so far as the
se of portable projectors is concerned, is the safety stand-
rd which was adopted in 1918 by the Society of Motion
'icture Engineers. As the number of small machines used
acreases and as the pictures on the narrow slow-burning
ilms become still more widely distributed the wisdom of
he Society's decision will become more apparent. The

movement itself must naturally become accelerated by the
insistent demand of educators, churchmen, industrial man-
agers and others for motion picture facilities which are at
"lice efficient, practicable, and above all safe. The im-
]'ortaiit '"Safety First" campaign which was inaugurated
in the United States a few years ago was started by the
industrial interests of the country — hard-headed, practical
business men and publicists who realized that the safelv
factor was of the very greatest importance in all lines of
industry. Today there is not a manufacturing plant of any
consequence which does not provide for safeguarding the
lives and limbs and even the health of its workers, and
the "Safety First" movement has penetrated even into log-
ging camps and the most out-of-the-way places.
Safety Idea Shoh.d Be Encouraged

Portable projection machines using the regular theater
film, without booths, competent operators, and the other
fire preventive and protective provisions of the law, are
unquestionably a menace to life and propertv. Safety
standard projectors and the slow burning film which thev
employ are officially approved by the underwriters and bv
fire officials evervwhere because nitro-cellulose film such
as the theaters use cannot be used on such machines; be-
cause the handling of safety standard film by amateurs and
inexpert operators is not dangerous. The future of the
non-theatrical field of motion pictures, if it is to depend
upon portable or semi-portable projection machines largely,
lies apparently in the broad development of the safety idea
in machines and film libraries.

GOLDWYN-BRAY FAR EAST EXPEDITION

E. Alexander Powell, famous as a traveler, war corre-
spondent and author, has started on a tour in the interest
of the Goldwyn-Bray Pictograph and other releases of the
organization. Mr. Powell and his cameraman, E. L. Haw-
kinson. will visit Japan, the Island of Formosa. China, India
and other places in the Far East. Manv of the localities
on Mr. Powell's itinerary have not been visited bv a photog-
raphic expedition.

• This trip is in accord with the policy of the recently
allied Goldwyn-Bray companies to send the most ex-
perienced men available to far-away comers of the world
where interesting and instructive films may be secured.
Thev will make an important addition to the service sup-
plied theaters and also will be a valuable contribution to
the librarv of films being compiled for schools and other
educational institutions. It is expected that the e.xpedition
will be of six months" duration, during which approxi-
matelv eightv 1.000-foot reels of film will be exposed.

S- 9"
CHURCH AND THEATER COMPETITION

Rev. Charles \^entworth of the First Methodist Church.
St. Joseph, Mo., recently announced something out of the
ordinarv for his Sunday night service. The theme was
■'How Can the Church Compete With the Movies?" Mr.
Wentworth was the first minister on the Pacific Coast to
install a motion picture machine in his church. He has
had more experience than the average minister in movies,
and many came to hear what he had to say. During the
week seven members of the congregation were delegated
to visit that number of picture theaters and they reported
on the subject. ""Vi'hat Did You Observe in the Program
That Might Elevate the Educational or Religious Standards
of the City ?" Each gave a three-minute report. It would
be interesting to read the opinions of these seven lay
critics.

THE PICTURE'S THE THING

Wherewith to Catch the Conscience of the King- —
in Thi- In-tance the Child and His Mind, Too

By Charles R. Stonk

SiiperinlrnHrnt of Piihlif Schrols. Munball, J'a.

WHAl (In we mean \<\ visual instruction'.'' In its
largest sense we might include for discussion such
aids to instrurtion as charts, maps, experiments,
and models. All of these aid the mind through
the eye to a more perfect understanding of the subject
taught. Charts by their simplicity and coloring; experi-
ments bv their appeal to the curiosity; models by their
mechanism which presents something that can be taken
a))art, moved or observe/l. with a third dimension appeal.

But the main thought these days centers around the pic-
ture — slereoplicdii. stereoscopic, or moving — the picture's
the thing.

I ERK IS a Rruup oi children waiting uutsiUc uf a movie theater,
eager for the doors to open. Nothing makes a deeper or more
lasting impression upon their plastic minds than motion pictures. Will
Ihcy ever forget them ?

The modern form of the stereoscope was devised by 0. W.
Holmes. For about ten years following 1850 the stereo-
scope took the country by storm. By 1870 it had been
discarded. It has now been revived and is considered a
vital factor in teaching.

Stereographs Kivai, Nature

The stereoscopic photograph is of course different from
the ordinary photograph. It is taken by a special camera
with two lenses more than three inches apart. To illustrate:
Hold a sheet of paper or a book before your nose. Look
at the two sides, one with each eye. Neither eye gets the
same picture. This is the case with the special camera.
Kxamine closely the two stereoscopic prints and observe
corresponding positions of an tibject in the near foreground
with a distant object on the skyline in the two photographs.
The blending of the two bv the lenses gives us the depth.
We gel a perfect space idea, life size. We have not been
able to put this third dimension or depth on .the screen as
yel, but we may reach it. Dr. Krank McMurry says: "The
stereoscopic picture is undoubtedly the best substitute for
the real object. It gives abundance of detail that rivals
nature itself."

This article has been prcp.ireJ from a summary o{ a talk given by Mr.
Stone at a meeting of the Principals' Round Table of Allegheny County.
Pennsylvania, at the Y. M. C. A. in Pittsburg on January 10. 1920.

We use more than 1,000 of these stereographs in ou
schools. We could not get along without them. Childre
thus get the real geography.

Commissioner P. P. Claxton was one of the hrst expoi
ents of the use of the stereograph. In a recent magazin
article he champions the value of such aids in these w^trds
"Were I a superintendent of schools or member of a schoc
board now, I should equip every school under my directio
with all kinds of visual instruction material, and woul
expect teachers to make constant use of it."

"Teach Geography THKor(;H Pictlres"

Miss Jessie Burrall. chief of the school service ot th
National Geographic Society, says that geography has bee
one of the most neglected school studies. "Teach geograph
through pictures," she says. Miss Burrall explained thi
one reason for this neglect was the inadequate medium c
the printed page for the teaching of geography. That, sh
said, is why the National Geographic Society has adopte
a slogan of "Teach geographv through pictures." a sloga
that is being widely accepted.

"The reason geography is hard to teach will be clear i
vou will but recall your own school days." Miss Bu
rail continued. "Wliat mental picture did you get from th
definition, 'A lake is a bod\ of water in a depression of th
earth's surface'?

"Whatever the mental picture was, it was depressing, an
also vague. Put into a child's hand a picture of Lak
Como, of Lake Geneva, of Lake Michigan, and he will thril

GRAMM.^R school children in an art gallery, looking at paintings
and having them explained by their teacher. Child psycholo-
gists find that both still and moving pictures are indispensable in
modern educational practice.

at the spectacle. Show him pictures of islands, of cape
of mountains, and he will get the idea at a flash.

"Then again the peoples of foreign lands, the crops the
raise, the houses they live in, the clothes they wear — a
become real to the child. There you lay the foundatio
for an intelligent interest in the massed production an
distribution of these elemental things, which is econoiiucs
and (if the habits of these peoples, which is sociology, an

u arri\e at the precise problem? which intelligent consid-
Uion i)f the League of Nations entails.
"Let me beg of you. take the definition out of geography
d put the picture in."

\ ALIE OF InSTRLCTIONAL SlIDES
The ~tere(ipti(on offers a means of geting all pupils to see
r ^-anie picture at the same time, to hold the slide long
Bugh for study and explanation bv pupils. It has this
vantage over the movie. \^ eeklv I am giving special
usiraled talks to my pupils below the seventh grades on
! next month's work in geographv, giving them material

supjdement their text, matter to recall as they proceed
th their study. It used to be our practice to use the
de exercise tor review work. The main objection to
It is that when new countries are immediately taken up
i pictures have no longer any place in the class discus-
ins. I do not mean to say that I do all the talking. The
pils trv to find out the points after leading questions.
In tlie junior high school the pupils have a weekly stere-
ticon Exercise in each geography class in both seventh
i eighth grades. Here the pupils do all the talking, after
study of the slide, text book, and slide description,
nong the most helpful and interesting classes in our entire
agram are to be placed these days of visual instruction.
e stereoscope is used often for class exercise, but more
iquently for individual study before and after school.

Class Movie Difficulties
The movie presents some difficulties for class use. A
lied operator is necessary for the standard machines.
me difficulty is experienced in getting suitable films, when
u need them. Often the films are not suited to class
irk. Lack of editing for class use is the main criticism.
The I niversal Film Manufacturing Company is promis-
r a fine series of films to illustrate the text books of D.
)pleton Company. The most satisfactory form of film
iting known to me at present is done by the Community
)tion Picture Bureau of N. Y. City. Here things are done

the liking of a school man. Of course Ihere are tTie
'ety standard projectors with their claims. We had a
)rt demonstration at the round table meeting by the
lited Projector and Film Company to show what the
aller machine had to offer. This is steadily gaining
adway in our section of the country. Its advantages are
iW'-burning film, a machine that is nearly fool-proof, and
[air-sized film library which is being carefully edited at
• present time.

Magazines were distributed at the meeting calling atten-
n to the care which is now being taken to make the
de and movie real aids to the schoolroom. One of the
igazines thankfully received was the EdlC-VTIONAL Film
IG.AZINE. From its columns I have gained much valuable
;gestion and help.

A portion of a set of slides from the International Har-
iter Company was shown to demonstrate what a wonder-
I teaching agency is offered in agriculture at little cost

the real educator. I would urge every schoolman to
: in touch with this great company.
The unconverted should write to the Communitv Motion
rture Bureau at 46 West 24th Street, New York City,
r "The Motion Picture in Americanization'' bv William
;An<lrew. It is the best pamphlet I have read in manv
lay.

Educators will find much help in the pamphlet issued
the New ^ ork Department of Education, Albany,
'caching of Fifth Grade Geography"' is the title. Send
r it before the edition is exhausted.

"Will [he\ Ever Foroet It?"

The subject of visual instruction is one of my hobbies
lit which I am proud. We are working it hard in the
Munhall schools. My teachers are in sympathy with the
movement and are assisting to give the boys and girls
Something that they will remember longer than most text-
book facts.

.About every six weeks I have a general assembly of the
entire school in the large auditorium of the Carnegie
Library one block from the school. There we sing and see
the best of movies selected by such organizations as the
Community Bureau. My 1 .000 youngsters get something
worth while bv going to these gatherings. Last year we ,'
showed "Alice in Wonderland" after each grade, from the
first through the high school, had spent two weeks with
the story. Will they ever forget it'?

•VISLAL EDUCATION"

■"\ isual Education." edited by Nelson L. Greene, formerly instructor
in French at Amherst College and official lecturer with films and
slides to the French army during the late war, is the official puhlica-
tion of the Society for Visual Education, Incorporated, of 327 Soiiili
LaSalle street. Chicago, Illinois. This is a commercial enterprise
organized by educators in all parts of the United States whose object
is to provide schools and colleges with visual instruction material of
a pedagogical character, chiefly motion picture films. The journal
is a monthly and is designed to promote the movement for visual
education in general and the affairs of the society in particular.

On the covers of the number, dated January 1920, are printed the
names of the officers, directors, general advisory board, and commit-
tees of the society. There is an interesting "Foreword"' by the edi-
tor, followed bv significant articles from Otis W. Caldwell. William
F. Russell. W.' Arthur Justice. Wallace W. Atwood. Forest R.
Moulton. and C. H. Ward. The journal is to be issued monthly
except during July and .\ugust. The following brief extract from
the "Foreword" is so thoroughly expressive of what Educational
Film Mac.\zine has stood for from the beginning that itis reprinted
here with gratitude to the editor of "Visual Education:'"

We believe tljat the future awaiting tlie present efforts toward visuat
education will be more brilliant than the dreams of its most ardent devotees.
Undoubtedly, much of the prophecy now being uttered so freely on all sides
will prove to have been either false or gravely misdirected. But the future
will come — as the future always does — and it will bring to American educa-
tion great beneBt or untold harm according as it is moulded by the sound
judgments of educational experts or by the bungling hands of enthusiastic
tvros.

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CAMERA TO SCREEN-30 MINUTES

In the report of a meeting at the Royal College of Science.
London, a demonstration in flashlight photography was given by
K. Hickman. .\ "snap" of the audience was taken and a photogri'ili
of the chairman. The plates were then given a rapid development,
with a lightning wash; fixation in a fi-xing solution which was ef-
fective in 30 seconds, an invention of the lecturer: a further washing
for 2 minutes, in which time the hypo was removed by dilute per-
manganate: a bath for 2 minutes in formalin solution, after which
the plate was rinsed, dried in a stream of hot air from a machine
of the lecturer's design, and finally printed on a lantern plate. Within
half an hour of the exposure, a lantern-slide photograph of the
chairman was projected onto the screen.

Mr. Hickman also dealt with the screen-plate method of color
photography which, he said, by its simplicity and the beauty of its
productions, had ousted all other methods for amateur work. Many
examples were screened of slides taken by the Paget process, in-
cluding flowers and scenic studies and portraits.

FOl R KINDS OF FILM SERMCE FOR L. S. NAVY

The Sixth Division of the I. S. Na\y, the morale division, has
completed arrangements to supply the latest motion picture films to
be used for the sailors throughout the service. This will make it
possible for the very latest releases to be shown aboard ship and
at shore stations at the same time they have their initial showings
at the theaters. The ser\ice will be paid for out of the funds of
the welfare office. The shows, as at present, will be without charge
lo the men.

This service will be of four kinds: "Daily" for individual ships
and stations; "Fleet" for large units; "Long Term" for a period of
eighteen months and "Distant" for ships and stations in isolated
places. The new arrangement will take the place of the former
■\". M. C. \., Knights of Columbus and Jewish Welfare Board service.

COMMUNITY MOVIES IN SAN DIEGO CHURCH

Travelof:^. S^■enil•^. XTeeklie?. Comedies.

Dramatic and Historic Features Found

of Great Value

By H. V. Mather

Director ut Religious KHucatioD, First Methuilist Churrh, San Die^o, Cat.

education at the First Methodist
Church, San DieRO. California. He is in
charce of the community service programs
which arc offered without charge to the
public each Tuesday evening, as a jiart of
the educational and recreational work of
the church. These programs, largely mo-
tion pictures, attract many from churches
of all sects, the attendance sometimes
numbering 1,200 persons.

THE ptogiej^si ve,
forw arding-looking
church of today is
rapidly coming to
realize that its Christian
dutv lies not only in open-
ing its doors to religious
worship four times each
Sunday and once in the
middle of the week, but
is also conscious of the
existence of a great op-
portunity to be of service
to the conimunitv at large
by raising moral, recrea-
tional, and physical, as
uell as spiritual stand-
ards.

The progress of recent
years has brought with
it a demand for a re-
ligion that is real, a re-
ligion that is alive, a
religion that appeals to
red-blooded young man-
hood and young woman-
hood, a religion that
teaches and demon-
strates that Christianitv
and somber demeanor.

does not demand long faces
but permits and encourages joy in both service and worship,
and provides healthful, wholesome recreation and amuse-
ment.

In the motion picture the church with a vision has an
unequalled opportunity to provide for its members and
constituency a ])rogram which is both educational and
recreational, and which at the same time maintains the
dignity of the church and the reverence in which it is held.
True, the tnotion picture contains many elements of evil
which, when made use of without supervision, and for
commercial purposes, do not tend in any degree to fit in
with the plan of the Christian church. But the motion
picture, like all other agencies or institutions, has unlimited
possibilities for good as well as for evil. It is an institution
which has come to stay; the church can use it for its own
upbuilding, and for the betterment, recreationally and edu-
cationally, of the community. Hence, an opportunity to
do real community service is ofi'ered to the church tiirough
the motion picture.

The time has come whi-n the producers are turning a
listening ear to the demand for better pictures. This is,
in a large measure, due to the influence of the church. The
demand will, to a great extent, govern the supply. Because

of this fact, the church has it within its power to raise
tiie standard of the inotion picture to a higher level.

It is not the province of the church to compete with
the motion picture theaters: it is for the church to offer
programs which are above reproach, and through this
means not only provide entertainment and instruction for
the community, but also create in the community a demand
for better pictures — pictures which do not blight the morals
of those who witness them — in the theaters. j

Community Sermce Progr.\ms

The First Methodist Church of San Diego, California,
has been conducting a program of community service for
a number of months, and has found motion pictures to be
of great value. On Tuesday evening of each week a pro-
gram is offered free of charge to all in the community
who desire to attend. Large numbers of persons who have
not attended this particular church, and many who are
not affiliated with any church, are always in the audiences,
which verv often tax the capacity of the large auditorium.
The programs which are offered include motion pictures,
popular lectures, educational addresses, stereopticon lec-
tures, recitals, musical programs, and other similar features.
Cooperation with the State L niversitv has brought some
good programs, in which lecturers, still and motion pictures
have been used to advantage. The motion picture exchanges
have shown an increasing desire to provide subjects which
meet the needs of the church and from which objectionajile
scenes have been removed. On some occasions results have
not been very satisfactory. A great variety of subjects have
been used, including travelogs, scenics, weeklies, comedies,
dramas and history features.

In commencing its work, this church determined to secure
the very best in the way of equipment, and feels amply
repaid for the investment made. Instead of producing
mediocer results, which would have beeti detrimental to
the success of the project, its motion pictures are on a par
with those shown in any picture theater in the city. This
fact has had much to do with the success of the program,
and will undoubtedly have the same effect in other localities.

Rev. Dr. Lincoln A. Ferris, tHe energetic and wide-visionetl
pastor of the church, believes that motion pictures can be
used to advantage by any church as a portion of its com-
munity service program, provided they are used with judg-
ment and under proper supervision.

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MORMON CHLRCH TAKES LP MOVIES

I'nder the direction of the scientific society of the latter Day
.Saints" t niversitv. Salt Lake City. I tah, a series of motion picture pro-
ductions are lieing screened at this church school. This is said to
he the first time the Mormon (.'hurch has taken up the use of movies.

EDUCATIONAL MOVIES IN MINNESOTA CHURCH

Special Friday Matinee? for School
Children and Mother- Are a Feature

Bv Rev. Dr. E. C. Horn

pMior. Mrthodiat Charrh. KcKood Fall'

HE government of the I niteil State* and many in-
dustrial corporations have adopted moving pictures
as the quickest and best means of imparting instruc-
tion to employes. Government specialists, according
to reports, have ascertained that a course of instruction
requiring ten weeks in the old way can now be given in
fifteen minutes by the use of pictures showing the actual
processes involved.

Contracts have been made for educational moving pic-
tures to be screened at the Methodist Church auditorium.
Redwood Falls, Minn., every
Friday evening beginning at
7:45 o'clock, the presentation
to consist of from five to eight
reels of the very best moving
pictures of an educational nature
procurable. The strictest cen-
sorship will constantly be main-
tained so that objectionable
features will be reduced to the
verv minimum if not entirely
eliminated. Lp to date several
thousand feet of film have been
returned to the film exchanges
unused because these particular
pictures did not measure up to
the high standard that has been
set.

About S800 have been expend-
ed in the purchase of moving
picture projector, booth, screen,
and blinds for the windows, in-
stallation, and no expense will
be spared in securing the best
and highest class films to be pro-
cured. Two contracts for film
service have been placed in New-
York City, one in Chicago, one
in St. Louis, and five in Minne-
apolis.

For the benefit of the school
children and parents who cannot
attend at night, the entire film
service will be presented every
Friday afternoon at 4:15, the

teachers as far as possible coming with the pupils and
sitting with them. As the films are purely educational and
not sectarian, this service will prove to be worth thousands
of dollars annually to the public schools from an educa-
tional standpoint, proving that a church auditorium may
be made to minister to the upbuilding of a city on week
days as well as on Sundays.

Admission is free to all though a collection is taken to
meet the expense of the film service, the use of the audi-
toriiun. fuel and light being given by the church without
charge.

p EV. DR. E. C. HORN, who has been pastor of the Meth-
-^ odist Church, Redwood Falls. Minn., since 1917, gives the
following biographical data about himself: .\Iumnus Ohio North-
em L'niversity and DePauw University; doctorate in divinity,
Nebraska Wesleyan L'niversity: instractor for two years in U, S.
Grant University and two years in DePauw University; special
••.\round the World" press correspondent; inspected missions in
Japan, China. Philippines, Malaysia. India. Africa. Turkey and
Europe under special appointment of the Missionary Society of
World.' and "Mazes and Marvels of Wind Cave" ijow in sixth
edition; for three years vice president of the International
Sunday School .Association; pastor Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church. Minneapolis; president State Epworth League since 1914.

Films Contracted For
The following are among the films that have been con-
tracted for and are suggested as samples of what those
attending will see:

Cold Pack Canning: Fight the Fly: Making Mother's Work
Easier: Tractor Farming; Making Shoes: Royal Gorge of Colorado:
The Great Volcano in Hawaii; Story of a Box of Candy; San Fran-
ci?c<i: A S<iiiare Deal for His Wife: Fountain Pen Making; A Wild
Goose Chase: Cleveland. Ohio: Yellowstone Park; Mining Coal;
American Wonderlands: Canning Lessons: a Brush with the Enemy,
• •r Care of the Teeth: A Day in Dogdom: Mt. Wilson: Making Rope:

The Presidents of the United States;
Visit to Luther Burbank: Roosevelt
Dam; Fighting Fire: Los Angeles,
California: Electricity: A True Fish
Storv-; Making a Newspaper; Safety
First: World at Work (10 reels,
serial ' : Tour of the World • 10 reels,
serial I : Fergus Falls Cyclone: .Amer-
ica at Play: Glacier National Park;
Official War Review Tyler Cyclone;
Northern Minnesota Forest Fire;
Pathe News Weekly: and others, in-
cluding The Crisis.

Among the classics to be
screened will be "Scrooge," by
Dickens; "Treasure Island,"
Stevenson: "The Adventures of
LTvsses," by Homer, also "The
Fail of Troy." In the realm of
history will be seen: "The Land-
ing of the Pilgrims": "The Mid-
night Ride of Paul Revere":
"The Boston Tea Party." Espe-
cially for the children the fol-
lowing are listed: "Little Shep-
herd and Golden Locks" and
■The Three Bears"; "Nature's
Children, Lions. Alligators, and
.Monkeys": "The Pied Piper of
Hamelin"; "The House that Jack
Built"; and scenics permitting
those attending to visit almost
everywhere. The destruction
wrought by the cyclone at Tyler
and Fergus Falls and the North-
ern Minnesota forest fire will be

The most important news items the world over are pho-
tographed each week and filmed. gi\-ing all an opportunity
to see what has required space on the first pages of the
great dailies of two hemispheres.

Rev, C, R, Montague, of Tulare. California, has installed a new Simplex
projector in his church. The Fresno. Cal., Republican, commenting upon
this fact, says "he has the system for bringing his congregation to church
an<! away from the theaters.'*

Kev. Howard A. Talbot, pastor of the Presbjterian Church, De Pere,
W-.-.. recently installed a Mazda Simplex projector in his church. He is
.isirg it for leeture work and various church gatherings.

THE WORLDS SUPREME TRAGEDY REVERENTLY TOLD

"Krotn (lie Manger to the C>o?s." in Six

ReeU. Piitiires the Birth. Life. Death and

Resurrection of Christ in a Form Ailapted to

I'rotestant Churches

By M. Elisabeth Eijlanu

WHK\ >i>ii enter it I the Temple of Christ i yuu liear a
sound a sound of some mighty poem chanted. Listen
Inn? enough, and you will learn that it is made up of
ihe healing of human hearts, of the nameless music of
mens souls— that is. if you have ears. If you have
eyes, you will presently see the church itself — a looming
mystery of many shapes and shadows, leaphig sheer from the
door to dome. The work of no ordinary huilder. The pillars of
it go up like the brawny trunks of heroes: the sweet human flesh
of men and women is moulded about its bulwarks, strong, impreg-
nable: the faces of little children laugh out from every corner-
stone: the terrible spans and arches of it are the joined hands
of comrades: and up in the heights and spaces there are inscribed
llie numberless musings of the dreamers of the world.

•ft is yet building— building and built upon. Sometimes the
work goes forward in deep darkness: sometimes in blinding light:
now^ beneath the burden of unutterable anguish: now to the tune
of great laughter and heroic shoutings like the cry of thunder.
Sometimes, in the silence of the nighttime, one may hear the tiny
hammerings of the comrades at work up in the dome — the com-
rades that have climbed ahead."

So Manson says, in Charles Rann Kennedy's play, "The Ser-
vant in the House." as he tells two other characters of the
building of God's Churcli on earth. Manson's description sounds
like a fairy story to many of us: we do not hear the beating of the
human hearts and the music of men"s souls that have gone into
the building of that Church: we cannot see the spans and arches
iliat are made of the joined hands of comrades. Jesus Christ and
the many builders of his Church are hazy to us. and we have a
feeling ihal if the mist, which in our minds envelops them, were
cleared away, we would understand better what Christ's life and
his work means to the world.

Six Reverent Reels
With ihis ihought in mind, one of our large moving picture
companies has made .1 film depicting the life of Christ: and
ihey have given to us a piclurizalinn. handled delicately and rev-

' HK Baby in the Manager. The most important events in Christ's
Life have been touched upon in the film.

erently. from the lime of his birth in a manger in Bethlehem to
his crucifixion on the cross on Ml. Calvary. The scenes relating
111 llie birth of Chri.st are especially beautiful. We see the shep-
herds on a hillside flooded with moonlight "keeping watch by
night over their flock." We see Mary and Joseph and the little
baby Jesus in Egypt, sleeping on the desert sands and guarded by
the Sphinx. Later in the picture follow the scenes of the grown
Jesus, preaching on the shores of Galilee with the crowds throng-
ing about him. These situations are handled artistically throughout.
The Garden of Gethsemane. the betrayal of Judas, the trial before
Pilate, and the crucifixion pass vividly before us. At the present time
the picture ends with the crucifixion, but the producers are planning to
release in the near future one more reel picturing the resurrection.

Insofar as possible.

•THe Flight into Egypt. Marj- and Joseph are really in F.k> pt
tions used for the story.

the pyramids show. .\n illustration of the loca-

the

liicaiion of the scenes is
llie same as that in which
the incidents portrayed
actually occurred. Cos-
tuming and the customs
of the people agree with
ihe best authorities we
have on those subjects.
The players are consistent
with the characters they
portray and the con-
trast in characters adds
much to the interest in the
picture. The faces of
Mary. Judas, the blind
man. Pilate, the scourgers,
and of Jesus himself make
a deep impression upon
ihe spectator and remain
with ihem.

The film. From the Man-
ser Id tin- Cross ( released
by Vitagraph. Inc.), is five
reels long, and if run at
ihe correct speed will re-
quire one hour and a
quarter for showing. The
leaders ( guide words in-
serted in the film to give
clues to the action* are the
Bible story itself, except in

£SUS HealiiiR the Blind Man outside Jerichn. 'I'liis iiu-mrc iHu-itratL-s llie careful character purtrayal
faroiiphout the lilni. .Nr>tur the expression on the blind itian's face.

few instances where the Bihle passage was too long and had to
condensed for use as a leader.

World's Supreme Tr.xgedy

Mm h responsihilily rests upon the pastor or siiperinlendent .show-

g this picture: it must he presented carefulK. This is no ordinan,-

jvinp pirinre. it is the worlds supreme lrage(l\. the story in pic-
res, of the life of our Saviour. Jesus Christ. It is perhaps unnecessary-
say that no other fihn should lie

n the same evening From the

an^er to ihi- 6>os.s is presented.

iless educational scenic pictures
the Holy Land can he secured.

le same company which releases

e film of the story of Christ's life

IS a few educational scenics of

llesline and Egypt.

Plan to have the music synchro-

ze with the picture as far as

issihle. Diirini; the first Iwo reels

e organist or pianist can plan our

;11 known h\mns, filling them in
the right moment — HarL the Her-

d Ansseh Sing: While Shepherds

'atched Their Flochs: We Three

ings of Orient Are: () Little Toiin
Bethlehem. During the showing
the period of Jesus" life relating
his minislr>. these hymns may be

ayed: Fairest l.nrd Jesus: I Think

'hen I Rend That Street Slorv of

Id: Break Thniis the Bread of Life;

\sui Calls Us: Love Divine. All

tves Excelling; My Jesus I Love

hee. During the scene of the tri-

nphal entry into Jerusalem. Crown

im uith Many Crnuns will be fit-

ng. For the last reel, dealing with

le last days of Christ's life, these

ITDins are suggested: When I Survey

le Wondrous Cross; There is a

Teen Hill Far ,'ttvny ; The Church's

'tie Foundation : and al the close of

le picture, using full organ. Christ

ie Lord /.« Risen Today. In place

f these hymns selected portions of

landel'- Messiah may be used.

L'sE Hv.M.Ns A^u Bible Readings
If planned carefully, parts of the
Bible story may l)e read while the
corresponding scenes pass before the
spectator. As most of the scenes
run rather short, however, the reader
would need to have the film run for
him several times in order that he
might cul and condense the Bible
stories so lliat they will be correctly
limed in reading with the running
of the scenes. As this plan is a little
difficult, the committee responsible
(or the showing of the film may pre-
fer to have the appropriate stories
read between reels: that is, the stor-
ies relating lo ihe scenes pictured in
a reel are read from the Bible before
thai reel is run. The reading of the
stories is not necessary, as the lead-
ers are sufficient explanation, but.
if ihey are read, the picture will be
more impressive.

From the Mant-er to the Cross
must have much influence upon
those who see it. Christ and the
message of his life are made real.
We know that Christianity is built
upon the rock, and though the rains
descend, and the floods come, and
ihe winds blow, il cannot fall:
for il is founded upon ihe rock,
s work must go on and on. We under-
stand and appreciate better the sacrifices of his followers who have
given themselves that his work might go on and on. In seeing tins
picture, although this may seem a paradox, we '"hear the tiny ham-
merings of the comrades at work up in the dome^-.the, comrades
that have climbed ahead": and lo us comes the realization that
we. too, must have a part in the building of that temple.

idiTsland better win

'pliK Last Supper. The customs of the people have been adhered to
■^ when eating, and have taken off their sandals.

The .\postles recline on couches

From ihf C/iurrh Srhaal. Copyrighl 1911. hy Irthur F. Slei'ens. Illtttlraled l>y Coiirl.^y aj I Ko^rra/./i. In

RED CROSS EFFICIENCY EXPERTS USE SLOW MOVIES

By Running The Film Rapidly and Slowly Instructors Were Able
to Reduce a Task to ils Fewest Possible IVuniber of Movements

TirE motion picture is stepping out of its accustomed
role of entertainer and educator, and is qualifying
as a labor expert.

Red Cross instructors who have been investigating
the possible vocations open to blind soldiers find the cinema
invaluable in devising courses of instruction designed to
make the blind man as efticient a worker as his fellow with
vision. The Red Cross Institute for the Blind at E\ergreen,
near Baltimore. Maryland, conducted an exhaustive indus-
trial survev for a vear to determine the occupations for
which a blind man could be fitted. Motion pictures, pro-
viding' the hasps for time, motion, and fatigue studies, were

gl.IXn -.iMi.is .mil -.iiliiV, Ic.iriiiiJK t,i typewrile at llu K.-i Cro^^
Instuulf, hvtr^'reen. Maryland. Slow motion ptctnres were used
by experts to calculate tlie fewest possible number of motions needed
for efficiency in variovis trades.

taken of actual work that it was believed might appeal to
blind men and the instruction is based on these.

By a careful study of the pictures projected on the screen,
and by running the films rapidly and slowlv. experts were
able to reduce a task to ils few'est possible number of mo-
tions and to calculate accurately what a worker's output
might be. allowing for fatigue. When it seemed that a
trade had been reduced to its simplest terms, the course of
study was regarded as ready for application to the student.
MoMKs Help Overcome H.andic.^ps

The average observer is amazed at the efficiencv which
blind soldiers attain in occupations for which they are pre-
pared through this and other methods. Auto repairing, in-
surance salesmanship, typewriting, bookbinding, carpentry,
farming, poultry raising, and a dozen other means of earn-
ing a livelihood are taught at the institute, and a nimiber
of graduates are engaging successfully in their chosen
pursuits.

Despite the widespread conviction to the contrary, the
deprivation of his eyesight does not bring to a man com-
pensating senses and abilities that he formerlv lacked. What
blindness does for him is to cause him to develop senses and
abilities that other-vise would be latent, just as a man who
has lost his right hand learns easily to write with his left.
The blind man. deprived of his sight, endeavors to perceive
wholly through his other senses.

A visitor to the Evergreen Institute was strolling about
the grounds with a blind friend. "What lovely roses there
are to our right," said the blind man. The visitor, who had
not noticed the flowers, looked around. To be sure there
was a garden of beautiful roses in full bloom. The blipd
man had recognized their presence, their location, and their
nature through his sense of smell.

Two hundred Americans were blinded in the World War
and more than half of them already have passed through
the institute. It is located on the outskirts of Baltimore
in beautiful grounds the use of which was given to the gov-
ernment by Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett and later turned over
to the American Red Cross.

JUNIOR RED CROSS MOVIES

Have you seen the Junior Red Cross films? There are
two Junior films now, and they are about as much alike
as salted peanuts and watermelon. One is called "America,
Junior." The story is about Mary Clark and how she
made her neighbor, little Donald Murray's father, change
his mind about a good manv things. Mary was a good
swimmer so everything came out right in the end.

The other film was taken last summer at the Junior
Red Cross camp in the mountains of Czecho-Slovakia.
After you have seen this film you will never wonder
whether boys are really boys in that new country in the
center of Europe. There are cold-water fights and there
are wild Indian scalping parties, and you should see the
rough-and-tumble when our old friend codliver oil comes
on the scene. Only the pushing is toward the oil, not away ■
'from it, and if vou had the same reason — a gnawing hunger
for fats — vou would be pushing in the same direction.

Ask the school committee of your Red Cross chapter
to arrange for the showing of these Junior films.

9 9
"THE WOMAN WHO WORKS"

Carlvle Ellis of Autographed Films, with James Goebel I
in charge of photography, has begun a three-reel produc-
tion entitled "The Woman Who Works," for the Industrial
Committee of the Y. W. C. A. Hours, wages, safety, and
sanitation each make a one-reel subject. The story is a
review of the progress made in the betterment of conditions-
for women in industry and of things still due them. Woman
as a vital factor in industry, its reaction on her, and her
effect on industry and the community are vividly drama-
tized in a series of episodes.

9 9

M.\PPING THE EARTH FROM AIRPLANES

At the present rale 200 years will be needed lo finish mapping
the earth. Great areas remain unexplored and little is known of
millions of square miles of land. By using the airplane for niap-
inaking this work may be done in the next twenty years. Instead
of climbing mountains and laboriously measuring the land foot by
foot, we shall do the work while flying a hundred miles an hour.
A special camera is placed in the bottom of the car and photographs
are taken automatically, so many to the second or minute. These
photographs are then fitted together in what is known as a mosaic
map which shows every house of towns or cities and ever> road and
tree of the country. No such maps have ever been made before.

JUDGE RULES OUT FILM AT MURDER TRL\L

Motion Pictures Admissible as Evidence under Certain ConditioM>.
but Not in This Case

The trial of Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, accused of the murder
of Charles Brown at Marysville, Cal., which has been at-
tracting much attention on the Pacific Coast, has come into
even greater prominence through the efforts to introduce
moving pictures as evidence. These pictures were made by
the defense at the actual scene of the shooting with the
assistance of eve-witnesses.

Judge Ernest \^ eyand permittetl the pictures to be shown
in court, but had the jury excluded at the time, as well
as during the entire half-day given over to arguments for
and against their introduction as evidence. He later ren-
dered a ruling against the admission of the film, expressing
the opinion that such evidence might tend undulv to sway
the jur\ bv its dramatic effect, as well as set a dangerous
precedent.

The defense contended that the film showed the oc-
currence in the exact manner in which it happened and
that in no other way could it properlv be described. It
set forth that twelve men in the jurv box form twelve
separate mental pictures from spoken testimony, some of
which must be inaccurate, while the testimonv of an eve-
witness in moving picture form would give one clear im-
pression.

Jldge VI'eyand's Opinion

In giving his decision to refuse the admission of the
films as evidence. Judge Weyand spoke at considerable
length and went into the matter in detail, stating that he
realized that the proposition was a novel and very important
one. He quoted authorities on the use of photographs and
expressed an opinion that if "juries are naturallv prone
to accept them as absolutely correct," as is asserted in
"Moore on Facts." this would be even more so in regard
to moving pictures.

He also directed attention to the fact that an actor alwavs
places special stress upon his attempted reproduction of
the alleged acts of the person he represents, and suggested
that since the actor in the film in question who represented
the murdered man had never seen the original, his natural
tendencies would be to overact the picture in favor of the
side whose version was taken as a guide.

He expressed an opinion that moving pictures had their
place in courts as evidence and went into detail outlining
the possible use of these. In part he said :

When They May Be Used

"It is highly proper to use a moving picture in aid of
any disputed issue in court in an attempt to have clear
and truthful mental picture of the incident under investi-
gation in order to have it clearly and firmly impressed
on the minds of the court and jury. Any court that would
refuse to allow the moving picture as evidence in such a
case would, in my judgment, be committing a. reversible
error.

"I may give some instances where I think it would be
proper: Suppose the method of operation of some mechan-
ical contrivance should be the subject of dispute, and it
would be impracticable to show the actual operation of
the contrivance to the court and jury; in my judgment,
moving pictures that would fully show such operation
should be received. Assume that the operator of a moving
picture machine were taking a picture on the street showing
the movements of men or machines and other movable
objects, and an altercation or accident should happen within

the scope of the machine, and thereafter the incident be-
come the subject of legal inquiry: it would be gross error
to refuse the introduction of the moving picture, if proven
to have been honestly taken.

PiCTlRE.S THE BeST EVIDENCE

"I am informed that during a recent strike a moving
picture machine was stationed in a secreted position and
was made to photograph the actual movements of the
strikers. Were this strike or the question as to who may
hiive participated therein or the actions of the several
participants to become the subject of judicial inquiry, a
picture of the persons, their acts and movements so taken
would be the verv best evidence in such investigation.

"A picture showing the actual progress of a fire or a
flood, or showing the action of a windstorm, should be
received when it can illustrate any disputed issue or fact.
In all these instances it will be noted that the direct fact
in issue is shown in the picture."

Judge Weyand stated that if the question at issue in
the trial in progress was, "Could the homicide have so hap-
pened.' the use of moving pictures would have been per-
niirsible. but that this was not the real matter in dispute.

FEDERAL AID FOR ORAL HYGIENE FILM

There is now before congress an amendment to the Legis-
lative Appropriation Bill to provide for printing and cir-
culating in the states the dental film prepared by the army
during the war. The amendment carries an appropriation
of S15,000. Part of this sum will be used by the Bureau
of Education, if the item is approved by congress, to print
copies from the negative of "Come Clean," a three-reel
feature owned bv the government and the remainder for
paving the expenses of Major Mitchell who was responsible
for and directed the preparation of the film. Major
Mitchell will be engaged bv the bureau and sent to the
various states to cooperate with the state institutions in
promoting better health through care of the teeth.

The film, although prepared for army use, shows by
means of pictures and diagrams the proper care of chil-
dren's teeth. It is woven about a story of keen interest.
An exciting fist fight is one of the most interesting features
of the picture.

The School Hygiene Association and the Society on Oral
Hvgiene have approved the film and requested congress
to appropriate the money for its use in the states.

9' 9'

60,000 Feet of American Educalional-InJustrial Film
for China

That natives of twenty-eight Chinese cities may "see America
first," a number of American industries, including the Ford_ Motor
Company, the Western Electric Company and the Hoover Vacuum
Sweeper Company, have united in preparing 60.000 feet of edu-
cational film. This is now on its way to Shanghai. There are two
copies of each reel, and they will be used for Chinese lecture
courses, directed by Prof. C. H. Robertson. V. M. C. A. educa-
tional director in the Orient. The cities in which the pictures will
be screened are among the largest in China, running in popuplaton
from 225,000 to more than 1,000,000. The course in each place
will continue several days.

Twenty subjects are treated. Five large American cities will be
shown: New York (2 reels). Boston, Philadelphia, Washington
and San Francisco. The wonders of these nature spots will be
revealed: Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon of
Colorado. Yosmite Valley, Mount Wilson and the Roosevelt Dam.
these typical industries will be treated: Orange growing, lumtier.
?iiBar, wheat, milk. Ford plant (two reels), shoes (two reels), coal
rrining (two reels), newspaper making (two reels).

Before any of the films are shown the Y. M. C. A. will insert
Chinese titles and Professor Robertson will prepare his lectures to
be delivered in conjunction with the exhibits.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company has in prepa-
ration a film. "Speeding the Spoken Word." which will be dis-
r--hured in Hawaii by the Y. M. C. .A.

REVIEWS OF FILMS

Editp,l'.hy^ GLADYS BOLLMAN

WHEN A NATlOiN NEEDS FRIENDS

A TACTFUL, genuine, and forceful appeal to ])atri-
(ilism of the highest type is made in Thr Land of
Opportunity. A radical young man. w.ho contin-
ually preaches his doctrines at his club and else-
where and who refuses to be convinced by any of his wealthy
friends, is finally converted to reason by the relation of an
incident in Loncoln"s career. The incident chosen is that
in which Lincoln walked twenty miles and broke a campaign
engagement to defend the innocent son of a woman who
had once been kind to him.

Back in the days when he was a young woodsman, often
hungry and sometimes discouraged, she had encouraged him
— with a hot meal, and with such sage advice as "Look
hard; and use your hands and head while you are looking.'
Lincoln never forgot her and what she did for him. He
defended the boy successfully and after the trial was over
told him. "If you are guilty you will curse me a million
times for what I have done for you this day." But the
boy was innocent, and has in some measure repaid the
debt by a long, upright, contented life. It is he who tells the
story to the radical, and it matters not that he is a steward in
the radical's club — he is an honest, self-respecting, and
thoughtful American. He argues soundly against Bol-
shevism and when he makes his final plea — "Nations some-
times need friends who believe in them, as Lincoln believed
in me'" — it carries weight.

This picture is of the greatest value. It reveals the
humble circumstances from which Lincoln rose in this land
of opportuintv. It shows him as a young woodsman, as a
speaker, as a lawyer. It also emphasizes the truth that al-
though men mav do different work in life, thev are not
therefore necessarily unequal. It defends the honest and
philanthropic man who has made wealth — "Any man who
has earned his mone\ through hard plugging and gives it
away is worth a carload of Bolshevists." It brings out the
point that many radicals are natural rebels against all
forms of law and order, and that it is they who create tur-
moil and trouble for the nation. It makes a striking plea
for the nation's friends to come to her aid in a time when
everything looks dark and there is none to defend her good
name.

The scenes are all extremely well staged and played.
Ralph Ince gives a fine characterization of the sturdy, am-
liilious Lincoln of 18.S3. The picture cannot be too highly
|)raise<l, and we are glad to know that there are others
of the same kind to follow. This series of fifty-two pictures
is being made by the National Association of the Motion
Picture Industry in cooperation with former Secretary Lane
of the Interior and at the request of Congress. Secretary
Lane said, in speaking of this series,

"We are not unappreciative of the service — the immense service--
thai was Hone by the induplry during the war: we think that the
ihing that you did thi-n did mucli In strengthen yiiur standing as a
permanent factor in the development of the conception of the motion
picture as an educational force in the United Stales. That undoubt-
edly is true.

"There was your opportunity. You took advantage of it, and you
made the people of the country feel that the motion picture was as
real as the newspaper or as ihe pulpit — as real, probably, as the
pulpit used to be when religion had more definite hold upon the
people.

"Now your opportunity is to continue to emphasize that spirit and
that attitude. Instead of simply giving a certain degree of amuse-

Ralph Ince as Lincolis in "The U\!nd of Opportunitv"

ment to the people, you want also to convey to them ideas that are
stimulating — that man has a finer nature as well as a grosser nature.
"Democracy is just this: It is a lifting of the inhibitions that are
upon men, so as to give them an opportunity to show themselves.
That ideal cannot be realized immediately. ... It does not mean
that it is going to make a man out of a corn-stalk ... it does not
mean that there is any miracle by which you transmute dross into pure
gold: it means that if there is the pure gold in you it will have a
chance under, freedom to show itself. .\nd that is the significance of
as .\mericans. ... I have no doubt that you will put into the
mind of the .Xmerican bo> and girl and man and woman . . . the
thought that this is the land of hope."

The Land of Opportunity. Produced by Selziiick. Distributed br
Ki-piiblic. 2 Reels.

'JUBILO"

■"Second thoughts on first sights" often reveal new charm
in a picture. .\ film which easily bears two sittings is Jubilo,
issued under the Goldwyn standard. The cover of the Jan-
urary 1920 number of this magazine bore a picture of the

quaint, good-natured, lovable tramp who i* the hero. The
story is a simple and oft-repeated one — the making of a man.
In this case the raw material is a tramp, and he comes to
his better self through being confronted bv a nice question
of loyalt\ . The luck\ turn of fate which helps out the di<-
inherited and well-tailored son of fortune in most picture?
is not vouchsafed to Jubilo — he learned to know right from
wrong by nothing less than an administration of old-fash-
ioned corporal punishment. But the result is far more
convincing than usual.

A comfortable background of country life is used, and is
most excellently worked out. The characters are distinc-
tive and interesting. The story, from the first moment to
the last, is told with a rare skill which at once stimulates
and satisfies one's curiosity.

Surely all those who see motion pictures do not live in the
drawing-rooms and boutloirs of palatial mansions, unac-
quainted with their own back-steps. Is it not curious that
the motion picture so consistently ignores the kitchen, the
sewing-room, and the back porch, which mav all be very
pleasant and are surely yery necessary parts of the house?
Jubilo takes us into the real life of a good, honest, middle-
class home, and shows that great emotions, idealism, fine-
ness of motive, and fulfilment are no less the characteristics
of these millions of ''average" homes than of those furnished
h\ interior decorators.

Just as the early Elizabethans demanded in their new
drama a superabundance of emotion, tragedy and confu-
sion, (typified by the wide variety of murders in the Span-
ish Tragedy, lor instance I. these early days of the motion
picture show a similar tendency to extravagance of setting
and incident. But we are being educated to an interest in
each other — the common people — and some dav we will
have an Ibsen of the screen who shows us life as most of
us live it. Then lecturers will explain to their college
classes that pictures like Jubilo pointed the way to a wel-
come age of genuineness and realism.

Jubilo. Produced ami Distriimted by Goldwyn. 5 reels.

•AN EQUAL CHANCE"

A valuable public health film which was photographed
in Dutchess County, New York, in co-operation with the
New York State Department of Health is entitled "An
Exjual Chance." This film, which is in two reels, presents
the public health nurse and her work, and was directed
by Carlyle Ellis, of Autographed Films, from a scenario
by Gilbert Tucker and James Rorty.

The story of the film deals with conditions in Shirley-
ville Township, where during the influenza epidemic of 1918
the inhabitants find themselves with only one doctor and
no public health nurse. The overworked physician applies
to the nursing association in a neighboring city, and a
nurse is sent to help out the situation. The nurse points
out the necessity for giving all the families in the district
an equal chance in the emergency. As a result of her
efforts the children in the country schools are taught health
habits, and are given regular examinations by a doctor.
Through the efforts of one of the nurse's admirers in the
district the Healthmobile. showing motion pictures cover-
ing various branches of the subject, comes to Shirleyville,
exhibiting the work of the public health nurse in open
air schools for tuberculosis children, also work among the
Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians on the Wind River reserva-
tion in Wyoming, and among the negroes in Louisiana.

Besides the demonstrations of bedside care, home instruc-
tion, and country school nursing which are woven into the
body of the story, the "film within a film" makes it possible

to include accurate representations of other branches of
public health nursing, such as maternity care, infant wel-
fare and tuberculosis.

.■in Equal Cttance. Produced by .\utographcd Films. Distributed by The
Nat. Organization for PnMic Health N'ursing, 156 Fifth a\i-tiiif \>w York.

•THK IMMORTAL HLCKLKBERR\ LINN'
Huck Finn li\es anew. We all know his adventures and
evploits, so they need not be chronicled again. But we have

TXH^r-IL icc^e^ Iroiu ' .-vii ^^aa. *^Q<iilve. a Uim uCitriuiiitj ^.v.-
■"■torially the valuable work of the public health nurse. The
New York State Department of Health cooperated in the making
of this picture.

not all seen the round-faced, round-eyed boy who not only
plays Huck Finn but seems to just naturally be Huck Finn.
Huck and Tom Sawyer; the immortal pair of swindlers who
staged the great tragedy of the Cameleopard: "nigger Jim,"
Miss Watson, and Aunt Polly — all are as much themselves
as could be desired. The story, with the exception of an un-
fortunately sentimental interpolation, or rather misplaced
emphasis, at the end. runs along properly — we only wish
there Were more of it and that there were some way of cap-
turing all of the book for the screen. But of course there
isn't.

A serious detriment to the film is the footage given to the
drunkenness and brutality of Huck's father. For an opti-

ence of children this must and for anv optience this should
he greatly reduced. The producers should re-edit this part
of the film without delay. Otherwise, the sympathetic im-
agination of the adaptation has created a picture which will
appeal for years to come. Huckleberry Finn is one of the
exceptions which reconcile one to the screen's adaptation of
a story instead of its use of material built especially for it.

Huckleberry Finn. Produced by .Mark Twain (."onipan.v. Distri'.iuted by
Famous I'la.vcrs. 7 reels.

[Ill [Ml

THE GLAD, GLAD, GLAD GIRL

"This is really not a story" begins the first caption, and
however much it is to be regretted the reviewer must agree
uilh the statement. Pollynnna on the screen was a disap-
[lointnient. Kven if one preferred to the original the ribald
parodies and sallies thereupon, still one expected that
"The Glad Book" would at least carry as much conviction
on the screen as on paper.

Only praise can be given the acting of Mary Pickford
and her able cast. In retrospect the personalities of Aunt
Pollv. Jimmv Bean, and the friendly maid stand out as
remarkable bits of work. Mrs. Porter should be grateful
to Miss Pickford for the charm with which she invests this
indomitable heroine.

But one carries away a consciousness of having spent a
rather lugubrious hour after seeing the production. We
wish that the pleasant and positive incidents of the book

A ll:-.\^l'- iHuniciit Iroin the British Actors' production of "Lady
■^ Clare," based upon the Tennysonian ballad of the same name.

(if such there be), like Pollvanna's success in cheering
the hypochondriac Mrs. Strong, or in winning permission
for Jimmv Bean to sleep in the cellar, had been chronicled,
rather than the long succession of mishaps and sorrows
which befall this angel child. "Gladness" rather than
meekness and long-suffering is what one looks for.

The screening of Pollyanna makes clearer than ever the
mistake of adapting novels to screen use. In the case of
a classic, where the director dares lake no liberties with
the original, where the structure of the story is firm and
clear, where the movement is so rhythmic and steady that
it cannot be tampered with, success is more nearly possible.
But if we are dealing with the usual level of mediocrity,
let us at least have it at first hand.

To catch a mood, give an impression, as in the interpre-
tation of a brief poem, is possible and sometimes most
successful. But to attempt to express the elaborate indi-
viduality, color, and movement of a novel by a means
which necessarily leaves out so much of it, is apparently
a mistake.

The motion picture might be said to bear somewhat the

same relation to the novel as marble to tapsstry. It must

be simpler, sav more by connotation and less bv detail,

choose different figures and different poses, discover rather

than weave. Who would try to reproduce one form in the
other? For the sake of familiarizing the masses with the
classics, the effort is worth making in certain cases. But
why not start fresh in most cases, and give the screen
a fair chance?

Fo!'\anua. Produced and Distributed by United .\rtists. 6 reels.

"Back to Nature," a one-reeler shown recently in Lon-
don, records the adventures of a man who. for a wager,
goes to the woods in a state of nature and finds for him-
self, without the aid of food, clothing, shelter or tools,
save such as he can get by his own unaided efforts, for a
period of six weeks. He is shown building himself a hut,
snaring birds and animals for food and clothing, and the
final scene shows him returning to civilization in the strange
garb that he has managed to make for himself,

In Other Mens Shoes, an Edgar Lewis production dis-
tributed by Pathe, are scenes depicting a great new play
school in full swing, the result of a poor child's remark
on returning to his tenement street, "There ain't no place
to play there, but we gotta go back there just the same,"
There is also a man who dares defy a blackmailer, a thing
far above the moral reach of must screen characters thus far.

This picture unfortunately reflects the conception of
ministers expressed by Pollyanna in her screen incarna-
tion, "They are easy to cook for because they don't eat
much,'' The clergyman needn't have been so bloodless, and
a few changes in the story would have made it ideal for
church use. Although a great opportunity is lost, the
choice of subject matter proves that church relationships
afford a splendid field for drama, and more pictures using
this material would be acceptable.

Other Men's Shoes. Produced by Edgar Lewis. Distributed by Pathe.
7 reels.

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MAKING NATURAL COLOR FILMS

Prizma explains itself to the public in a reel with the
above title. By means of a rotating gelatin disk, various
parts of which cover the lens during exposures, red-orange
records and green-blue records are made. In printing the
positive these records are combined, giving the colored
picture as a result.

Two complex views are given to prove the unlikelihood
of the use of stencils or hand coloring. An artistic shot
in sea tones of a hydroplane skimming over the water, an
impression of the rainbow over Niagara, and a brilliant
coast view similar to the old stereoscopic effects are par-
ticularly striking and reveal a wide range of color and
mood. The gem of the collection, however, is a bubble
in which the camera has caught every play of color.

Making Natural Color Fihnj. Produced by Prizma. Distributed by Re-
public. 1 reel.

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"NINES-AND-A-HALF"

.\ good example of an industrial picture is N ines-and-a-
Half, a Ford weekly distributed by Goldwyn, It makes
patent the elaborate complexity of supplying daily needs
in the twentieth century. The subject chosen is the mak-
ing of silk stockings, and when one learns that it takes
22,000 yards of raw silk and the work of 6,319 needles
to make one pair of silk stockings, "it is to think," Stock-
ings are carefully inspected and all defective ones are
ravelled out again. The operation of complex machinery
tnd the ironing process show the most modern methods "
in industry, A trip to the stocking factory would interest
particularly school children who are studying manufac-
'uring,

Xines-and-a-Half. Produced by Ford Motor Company. Distributed by
Cloldwyn. 1 reel.

THE HISTORY OF A> AMERICAN FAMILY

An interestinH photodrama. not strictly educational, but

imewhat above the average in its conception, and of value

; a studv of American social conditions, is The Third Gen-

ation. so named, says L. C. Ha\-nes, the producer, "'to sug-

!st that it is not really until the third- generation that the

al American is established and the ideals and solid strength

hich he mav have drawn from his alien ancestors are

laken down and adapted to his environment in this

luntry."

Mahlon Hamilton portrays Alden \ an Dusen, of the third genera-
»n, and the characterization cleverly embodies the whole of the his-
ry of the \ an Dusen family. Brought up in every' luxury and in a
Uef that social duties are of paramount importance, he becomes the
lancial victim of tvto unscrupulous partners who play upon his
iakness and neglect. The business is on the verge of bankruptcy,
ne partner proposes a crooked trick to save the day, to which our
JO replies "I choose death rather than dishonor my grandfather's
jne." and walks ofif to the rivers brink, tiiinking that his wife and
ild will share in the profits of the heavy insurance which he caxried
[d that he has done all that can be expected of him.
But Fate, not wishing the struggle to end so easily, sends a thug
lio attacks him just as he is on the water's edge. In the ensuing
apple the thug is drowned. A change of clothes, and "Jim,", once
;den Van Dusen, seeks the west, where he almost goes under. But
e '"real .\merican"' and the fighting spirit of the pioneer who w^as
5 ancestor come to his aid. Vhen he learns of his partners' trickery
turns East again, to fight to a finish, .\fter the tangle is unravelled.
I goes back to the west with his wife and child, to make a success
r himself in a simple, genuine way.

The theme is a good one. The lavish negligence, easy dis-
)uragement. and triviality of a generation brought up with-
it a knowledge of responsibility; the acute sense of honor,
le love for home, the courage and integritv of the pioneer —
lese qualities in conflict produce a struggle not uncoimnon
I the indixidual and to the nation. The man who makes the
ght response to the tempting arguments of the sophisticated
-■■\\ ill your sense of honor get you anwhere after you're
roke'r" and "Don't be a fool — self-preservation is the first
iw of nature" — is of the right caliber, even though he does
ot act tmtil the crisis comes. It seems hardlv necessarv
lat he should literally follow the saying "From shirt-sleeves
) shirt-sleeves by the third generation,'' but no doubt he
jund exactly his environment in the course of time, which
i all that matters.
As the motion picture tmiverse is arranged, it seems to
e quite the usual thing to eat one's cake and have it too.
t is refreshing to see for once a picture which has dared to
ollow. instead, the order of life as most of us know it.
f the motion picture as a whole could be made to grasp this
erhaps tmpleasant but undoubtedly true maxim, it might
elp us to solve otir .Americanization problem before the
lird generation.

The Third Generation. Produced by Brentwood Fitm Corporation. Dis-
ibutec bv Robertson Cole Companr. 5 reels.

A >E\r ENGLAND IDYL

"Still sits the school-house bv the road,
\ ragged beggar simning — "
^XTiittier s poem School Days is dramatized in color imder
lie title Memories. .Admirably suited for almost any non-
heatrical (as well as theatrical) use is the storv of the little
irl who regrets that her succcess in the spelling match
aeant disappointment for her little sweetheart. In New
-ngland meadows and cotmtry roads and in a typical road-
ide school-house the action takes place, captioned whenever
>ossible in the words of the poem. "Recess,'' with the jovs
if games and lunch, the spelling match, the afternoon walk
lome are portrayed vividly and charmingly. The little
Irama of childhood is enacted well, and the part of the
•Id school-master in whom all this awakens "memories"
s excellentiv taken.

A series of .American poems would be welcomed bv
>choiils, churches, and welfare organizations. Will not
?ome producer give them to us?

M.".ories. Produced by Prizma. DUtriSuied by Republic. 2 reels.

"LADY CLARE"

^'«.'labIe for its distinction and beauty as a production, this cttarming
romance of Georgian England is a picture-version, considerably ex-
tended and elaborated by Dale Laurence, of Tennyson's well-known
ballad, says a reviewer in the London Bioscope.

In developing a full-grown drama from what is in the original
merely an episode .Mr. Laurence has worked with the scientific care
of an anatomist reconstructing an organized body from the evidence
of a single bone. Not merely has he supplied credible full-lengih
portraits of characters whom Tennyson merely sketched, but he has
also reasoned the story" backwards from the vaguest data to a point
some twenty years before the action of the poem begins. In accom-
plishing this feat of literary craftsmanship. Mr. Laurence had been
concerned to preserve the style and spirit as well as the facts of
Tennyson. And the scenario has been pictured by Wilfred Noy. with
a similar reverence for a great tradition.

Since the modem film drama has little in common with the idylls
is an imusual kind of picture, related but remotely with the average
of Tennyson either in form or in feeling, it follows that "Lady Clare"
screen play of quintessentihsed plot and concentrated passion. Its
very pace has been modulated to the stately, well-measured Tenny-
sonian rhtyhm, and. although this minuet movement is grateful to
the eye that is wearied by the furious jazz-time of the .\merican high-
speed drama, it risks a charge of dullness by the ordinary picture-goer.
Without suggesting that Mr. Laurence should have sought to instil
"punch'' into Tennyson, we think he might have compromised so far
as to have sharpened somewhat the edge of his dramatic situations
which are, at times, over-soberly developed. In view", moreover, of
the fact that one of the film's chief charms lies in its perfection as a
period-picture, he could still further have increased its interest by
the introduction of further historical characters of the events.

Lady Clare is undeniably one of the most beautiful and most fin-
ished pictures yet created by a British producer. The detail work in
the staging of the interiors is extraordinarily perfect. The whole
production has the rich tone of rare old mahogany, the soft, deep
polish of fine silver. In such episodes as the country" wedding of "The
Merry" Bachelor." the Earl of Robhurst, you seem to be transported
back to the very heart of Georgian England.

\nRELESS TELEPHONY EXPLAINED ON SCREEN

A marvelous invention developed in the stress of the world war
is the mechanism by which the human voic« talks across the ocean,
linking continent with continent How" is it possible for the voice
to travel 3,000 miles when the shrillest call that man can make is
limited to a mile or two? Expanding the range by which the human
voice may go by wireless is even a greater manel than sending a
telegram without the use of wires. F. Lyle Goldman, of the Bray
Pictures Corporation, has directed an unusually clear exposition of
how" this manel is accomplished. The picture, edited by the Western
Electric Company, is scientifically correct.

It shows how" sound waves travelling in the air are similar to
ripples of water when a stone is thrown in. A device for transmitting
electric waves, which readily travel a great distance, is clearly
pictured. Then the remarkable invention by which the electric waves
are made to carry the sound waves is shown with telling effect.
Even a child can comprehend this clear and thrilling story.

THE HUNTING \^ ASP IN PICTOGRAPH 7025

The days of the relentless freebooter have not passed. The Picto-
graph camera man has caught a modem Captain Kidd red-handed.
while kidnapping and poisoning a helpless victim. He shows a
rogue's gallery portrait of this celebrated criminaL known to law
as the hunting wasp. This unusual insect is shown committing his
infamous deeds. You see pictured a complete kit of his tools —
fearsome jaws, the grappling hooks on the bottom of his feet, and
the poison dagger. Can you imagine that this ruthless freebooter
is a lady wasp? Yet, such is the case.

She first digs a hole in a safe spot for burying the loot. When
the cave is dug, off she goes to start the "dirty work." One thrust
of the poison dagger, and the victim is no more The helpless body
is lugged into the murderer's den, where it is used for feeding the
wasp babies. XiTien the larder is filled this winged hunter "gum-
shoes' outside to conceal the crime, and when the job is complete
she goes hone-gathering as frivolous as any debutante at an after-
noon tea.

\w^' PROJECTION-EQUIPMENT ' '^¥>

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Edited by JAMES R. CAMERON. Projection Enaineer

THE LAW SAYS: "SAFEGUARD LIFE AND PROPERTY ■---
AMERICA'S SLOGAN IS "SAFETY FIRST I •

IN New York Stale and, in fact, every
state of the Union certain very
stringent rules and regulations have
been drawn up and must be complied
with before it is possible to obtain a
permit for the purpose of showing mo-
tion pictures. We advise all those in

iuho>p knowledge of projection matter is limited to the
threading up of the machine and the switching on of the
current i who is using a projecting machine set up on thC'
top of some table — minus the booth, minus the variou^
safety devices called for by the authorities, with probabin
hundreds of youngsters crowded around the machine — we?
come to the conclusion that either too much precaution is'

any way interested in the showing of taken in the case of the theaters or not enough in the church

James R. Camtron

motion pictures to get a copy of the law
and read it carefully over.

The code distinctly states that no
motion picture machine shall be used
unless same has been approved by the
Board of Fire Underwriters. This
board demands that all motion picture
machine manufacturers shall make the machines as fire-
proof as possible; the machine must be so constructed that
only a short length of film can be exposed while the ma-
chine is in operation. The machine must be equipped with
an automatic fire shutter, so arranged that the shutter will
immediately drop in case of trouble and thus cut off the
heat of the arc lamp from the film.

Read the Law; It Is Clear

The law then goes on to state that even this machine
equipped as it is with all these fire prevention devices
shall not be used unless the said machine is installed in
a fireproof booth. They are as particular regarding the
booth as thev are with the machine; the booth must be
constructed of asbestos, concrete, brick, or some other ap-
proved fireproof material. Certain minimum dimensions
are given as the size of the booth and it must have a door
that is automatically self-closing. The projector and ob-
servation ports in the booth must be equipped with metal
or asbestos shutters, so arranged that they will automatically
close in case of fire in the booth. There must be a flue or
vent running from the booth to the open air to carry off
the smoke in case of fire. The booth must also contain fire
bucket, pails of sand, and fire extinguishers.

Now that we have a fireproof projecting machine in-
stalled in a fireproof booth, the authorities go one better
and state that with all these precautions there is still a great
danger of fire unless a duly qualified licensed man is placed
in charge of the handling of film and the operating of the
projection machine. They demand that theater managers
shall take all these necessary i)recautions against fire on
account of the highly infiammable nature of the film. Both
the theater manager and the professional operator lay them-
selves open to severe penalties should they not live up fb
the letter of the law. These rules are not laid down to
throw obstacles in the way of those desirous of showing
motion pictures; they were drawn up after due and careful
consideration for the public safety.

Lack of Caution Outside of Theaters
When we stop to consider that a film is run today in a
theater where all these very necessary precautions are taken,
and the following day the same film is sent to some class-
room or church, there to he run by some amateur operator

and classroom. We come out here and state that it is the
latter. There are hundreds of churches, schools, and edu-
cational bodies throughout the country which are using
inflammable film without taking the necessary precaution
against the ever-present fire risk.

When inflammable film is used it matters not what makel]
of projector vou are using, you must install the machine
in a fireproof booth that has been approved by the proper
authorities, and an experienced man should be placed in
charge. The law is very clear and definite on this point.
America's Slogan Is Safety First!

If conditions are such that it is impossible to install a
fireproof booth, then use nothing but the narrow-width,
slow-burning film I acetate of cellulose) adopted bv the
Society of Motion Picture Engineers as the "safety stand-
ard. This film will not give quite as good screen results
as the inflammable film, and the choice of subjects at pres-
ent is limited — a condition, however, which we understand
is improving steadily. But you will be living up to Amer-
ica's slogan of today. ^'SAFETY FIRST!"

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NEW MOVIE SCREENS DEMONSTRATED

\ I iiiuave motion picture screen constructed l)y Dr. J. Louis Pedi.
"I tlic University of Montpelier. France, was exliibited in use tO'
invited spectators recently at the Rivoli Theater. Nevs' York City.
The surface of the screen, according to its designer, is curved so that
any point on it is the same distance from the lens of the projectioni
machine as any other point, whereas the points on the surface of the
usual flat screen are not equidistant from the projection machine.
The result, as observers remarked, is that the figures in a movingi
picture are not distorted on the concave screen as they sometimes are^
on a flat surface. The eye strain, of which persons occupying side
and front seats, have complained, seemed praclicallv eliminated withi
the new screen.

One of the observers was Professor John J. Fuiia nl llir Department
ol Physics of New York University, who, when asked lo comment on
the exhibition, said:

"The curvature principle is the only scientific principle iip,»n which
a screen should be built, because of the fact thai llie image given by
ihe projection machine is not flat, but has a curvature similar to that
(►f the curved screen, w'ith tile new screen there is correct focus at
the corners, which is not the case ivith the flat screen, and there is
eliniinatiiMi of curvature distortion. These two improvements are
especially noticeable from points of the theater close up and off' to
the side. Distortion fatigues the eye. and its elimination pr.\. m-
fatigue."

The London Daily News states that British in\entors haie nude a
screen similar to the German invention which will reproduce pictures
in daylight or in a brightly lighted room as clearly and distinctb
as those now shown in a darkened theater. This invention, known
as the "Q. K. D. daylight cinematograph screen," has been placed on
the market by the Moving Picture Exhibition of British Industries
(Ltd.). who have already given a public demonstration, staled to
have been completely successful. According to Mr. Verily, one of
ihe patentees, the picture is projected from behind onto the .screen,
which is made of a very translucent material. He believes that the
invenlion will prove invaluable for educational purposes, as it en-
ables pictures to be shown in a school or lecture room in Iiroad
daylight.

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In connection with its efforts to facilitate
general education bv ad\ ocat'ing and installing
printing outfits in public schools the

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

American Type Founders
Company

has decided to enlarge its scope of activities to
include the sale of motion picture projecting
machines and supplies, and to furnish infor-
mation regarding films tor educational pur-
poses. After a thorough in\estigation, and after
consulting leading educators, we are con\ inced
that the portable motion picture projector is
the kind best adapted to general educational
work, and we are pleased to announce that «e
ha\e made arrangements to sell

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Information regarding these machines may be
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Rapidly
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Standard
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Church and
School
Projectors

Motion pictures are be-
coming a part of the
curriculum in churches and
schools throughout the
country.

The Graphoscope Jr

is rapidly becoming the standard
machine for churches and schools.

It is free from complicated parts,
making it extremely easy to operate.
It is compact and weighs but 100 lbs.,
making it portable, yet sturdy and
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of unsurpassed steadiness and bril-
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LANTERN SLIDES

BAPTISTS TO RAISE $100,000,000 BY MEANS OF SLIDES

52 Lectures and Nearly 15,000 Slides Available

from 16 Depositories in Different Parts of the

Countr)' — Unique Features of This Visual Work

Undertaken by 10,666 Baptist Churches

By W. Howard Ramsey

THE educative value of the stereoplicon in religious and social
visual appeal with its vividness of impression and universality
work is being increasingly realized by the churches. The
of appeal to both the educated and the ignorant is making the
pictured story that the slides tell one of the greatest helps that
missionaries and preachers at home and abroad have yet discovered.

For example, the Northern Baptist Convention, which is to launch
a campiign from April 25 to May 2 to raise $100,000,000 for the
New World Movement of Northern Baptists, has a librar>- of up-
wards of 10,000 slides already on hand and is adding between 3,000
and 4,000 more as fast as the orders for lliem can be filled.

These slides are made up into lecture sets which are kept iu
circulation throughout the 10,666 Baptist churches from sixteen dif-
ferent depositories located at strategic points in the leading cities
from Boston. Massachusetts, to Portland, Oregon. The distributioii
ie in charge of Harry S. Myers of the Northern Baptist Board of
Promotion.

There are 52 lectures in the series so that, if any church desired,
it might have a new lecture with a full complement of slides every
week in the year whh no duplication. Some are particularly adapted
to the reeds" of Sunday schools, but the majority are suited to any
audience.

The text which accompanies the slides is prepared in looseleaf
form so that the lecture may be revised, new slides added or old
ones removed without involvinj: llie preparation of a complete new

manuscript. Moreover, in the latest lectures sent out the leaves in
addition to bearing the slide number and the number of the negative
also have pasted to them, above the reading matter, a photographic
print so that the lecturer, who may have received the text the same
day that he is to deliver the talk, can study the pictures in the book
and will have the same view before him that his hearers see pro-
jected upon the screen.

Slides Cover Missionary Activities
The lectures cover a wide range of material, principally relating
to home and foreign mission fields and most of them include one
slide with the words of an appropriate hymn. In connection with
the New World Movement of Northern Baptists thirty copies each
have been prepared of two lectures, one covering the five year
program of the denomination at home and the other the foreign
mission work that is proposed. These will be delivered hundreds
of times in all parts of the country where there are Northern Bap-
tist churches with a view to educating the general membership in
regard to the past accomplishments and the future needs of the
church.

But it is not in America alone that the Baptists are making use
of the stereopticon in their religious endeavor. In China, India,
the Philippines, Africa, and other mission fields they have projecting
machines at various mission stations and slides teaching the dangers
of tuberculosis, the way to care for babies, the value of sanitation,
and other practical things of which the natives are in almost abject
ignorance.

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One of the greatest values of the stereoplicon is that it speaks a
language that ever> tribe can instantly understand. The language
of the eye is universal. This is a factor of no small importance
when, as in Burma, where there have been Baptist missionaries for
over a centurv, there are no less than forty distinct races with as
many tongues and more dialects in an area smaller than the stat-
of Texas and a population about equal to that of New York state.
Paintixcs by the Old 'Masters

Id evangelistic work the missionaries find that their story of Christ
and the message that He brought can be much more readUy under-
stood if it is illustrated and they have therefore made extensive use
of the stereoplicon in connection with their sermons. Reproductions
of the paintings by the old masters have given them a wonderful
collection of sides covering practically the entire field of old and
new testament history.

In order to keep its library of foreign and home missionary slides
up-to-date, every mission is equipped with at least one camera and
the missionaries are encouraged to submit negatives which might
prove useful in making new slides. In this way the mission boards
are assured of having early photographic evidence of progress in
any field and of a running pictorial history of the development of
each mission station and school.

A part of the cost of handling the slides is covered by a nominal
rental charge for each lecture. The carriage on the slides is paid
by the church, both to and from the nearest depository, and slides
broken or lost are charged up at cost to the church which has lost
or broken them.

PHEASANTS, ARISTOCRATS OF BIRDLAKD

Pheasants are North .\merican birds. In pioneer days they were
so plentiful that an expert shot could bag his dinner with little
difficulty. Since they have become so scarce, they are scientifically
reared on many game farms throughout the L nited States. One ni
the most interesting is that of the New Jersey Fish and Game Com-
mission at Fork River, N. J. Here the Pictograph camera man show-
hundreds of nests in the main hatcherv. The pheasant mother is a
frivolous gadabout. Though she lays her eggs, she has no interest
in hatching the young, so domestic hens that are devoted foster
mothers hatch out the young pheasants.

The baby pheasants are fed on a specially prepared diet and are
kept to themselves. As they grow older, they become more demi'
cratic, and when the "eats" call is sounded, they "go over the top"
for a good meal. Many difiFerent varieties of pheasants are shown.
-Mme i.f them unusual.

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thai re-creates Nature on the
screen in all her splendid
colors.

Entertaining, instructive, and
altogether delightful!

.\ow showing in leading
theatres.

.Ask the manager of your
favorite theatre.

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NIGHT CINEMATOGR.APHY WITH ORDINARY LIGHTS

A remarkable new photographic emulsion, by means of which
night and interior cinematography is slated to be possible without
the aid of special illuminants, was described in London recently by
Arrigo Bocchi, the motion picture producer. So highly sensitive-
's this new film, says .Mr. Bocchi, that moving pictures can be taken
. V the light of ordinarv street or restaurant lamps. The film is
prepared in six different grades, according to the quality of the light-
ing available, and is stated to give perfect results under condition-
which would normally involve a time exposure.

A series of snapshots taken with an ordinary camera on plates
coated with this new emulsion was produced by .Mr. Bocchi, who hai
also made successful tests with cinematograph film. The still
.pictures included remarkable snaps taken on the stage atid in the
auditorium of an Italian theater: the bursting of a rocket during
1 firework display: restaurant interiors: and a view of Monte Carlo
by twilight.

-Mr. Bocchi controls the sole rights of this new process, the inven-
tion of an Italian. He proposes to employ il extensively in forth-
coming productions. .Meanwhile a short example of its possibilities
was shown in "Polar Star."

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WORK OF THE NATIONAL ^MOTION PICTURE LEAGUE

In Response to Its Nation-Wide Educational Campaign for Better Pictures, Parents

Are Demanding, Producers Are Making, and Exhibitor, Are Screening Photoplays

and OUier Films of a Higher Standard

By Adele F. Woodard

PresidtDt. National Motion i'i<-tur«r League

Conclusion

LlliKAKItS are willing lo posl notices
of matinees and churches will fur-
nish chaperones and other workers.
Speakers present the plans and purposes of
the series of performances to parent's associ-
ations, women's cluhs, churches and other
welfare organizations. .\ genuine interest in
turning the tide of juvenile attendance upon
the movies into channels of good is secured,
hefore any matinees are given.

A committee of capable persons is formed
to organize and supervise the matinees,
which are given on Saturday morning or
afternoon for little children, and on some
day during the school week after school is
dismissed, for the older children.

The exliibitor is visited by a committee,
who present the plan to him and secure his
signature to the league's agreement. His
interest is secured on the ground that aside
from the prestige which the selection of his
theater gives, and the publicity which is
procured for him, he is able to make a
proht financially. A keen sighted exhibitor
always sees far more advantat,tt m the two
first named benefits than in the financial
profit. The exhibitor furnishes the operator,
music, ushers, etc., and pays for the rental
of films, which the committee assist him in
selecting from the bulletins of the league.
He may select from these lists any films,
new or old. which can be arranged into a
well-balanced program, but may not play any
picture not on the lists oX this league.
Failure to comply with this request must be
followed by a withdrawal of the support of
the committee.

■ Channels of publicity must be furnished
by the committee, the most effective one
being the distribution of circulars announc-
ing the performances through the schools.
Circulars have been approved by the board
of education of New York City which are
distributed in the schools by the teachers,
to the children living in the vicinity of the
theater where a performance is to be gi\en.
This practically assures the exhibitor of his
audience. It also gives the committee the
power to extend or uilhdraw an assured
audience.

FiN.iNCED BY Its Membership

The league receives no financial support
from any department of the motion picture
industry and has no connection with any of
the several censorship boards. It is financed
entirely by its membership.

You should join the National Juvenile
Motion Picture League because you owe it
to yourself, your children, and other people's
children to see to it that the entertainment
furnished to boys and girls is pure, whole-
some, and attractive.

Each new member adds his or her name
to the list of persons presented to the pro-
ducers of ^notion pictures requesting clever,
wholesome pictures for children, young
people and adults. Individuals and clubs
are urged to join. In this time of recon-
struction and rebuilding, unprecedented
elTort must be expended upon our children

and young people who have necessarily been
cheated of much of their heritage on ac-
count of the preoccupation which the four
years of war have made in the activities of
parents. This neglect which our children
are beginning to feel must be made up to
them. Motion pictures can be an agency
for good in the lives of our children. Let
us select the-e pictures judiciously and then
encourage our children and young people to
support them by their attendance

The league has lately announced the follow-
ing plan of establishing local branches
throughout the United States, thereby making
the organization truly national and vastly
broadening its scope, influence, and power:

In ordtr to assist local comnuiimies in securing
a better class of pictures, local branches are es-
tablished.- These branches create and coordinate
a demand for wholesome pictures locally and
arrange definite bookings for them. The league
thus secures a countrywide demand for the pic-
tures receiving its endorsement. It seeks to
encourage so strong a patronage as to make them
more profitable to their producers, than pictures
rejected by the league. A capable committee in
all the pritcipal cities and towns giving definite
support to this plan can furnish the impetus and
permanency to the production of wholesome pic-
tures, which the industry needs.

Plan . The plan of local branches is three-fold.
(A) A Children's Matinee and Family Pro-
gram committee provides suitable entertainment
for children, young people and adults, thus se-
curing actual bookings for endorsed pictures,
entertaining the family wholesomely and dem-
onstrating that wholesome pictures are financially
profitable.

(B") A Membership Committee secures mem-
bers for the league. All memners receive the
weekly bulletins of endorsed motion pictiares.
Increased membership means increased publicity
for endorsed films.

(C) A Reviewing Committee reports to the
executive offices on all pictures seen in local
theaters, which are considered suitable for the
lists of the league. The reviewing board in New
York City sees practically all pictures before
they are released, yet the league desires reports
from local committees in order that the standards
may be kept truly representative of the entire
country. *

All localities are urged to establish a branch
of the league. If there is no motion picture
theater, the entertainments may be given in a
church or school or other public building. The
league supplies its local branches with detailed
instructions for establishing and conducting enter-
tainments. It also furnishes weekly bulletins
of newly endorsed films, a cumulative list of'avail-
able films endorsed during the last six years, and
other helps for conducting the work in a sys-
tematic way. Membership dues for local branches
are ten dollars a year.

The only way this enormous motion picture in-
dustry can be affected is to erect alongside it an
organization as powerful and as persistent as the
industry itself. Individual committees working
alone can make little impression. It is only by
combined effort that strength and efficiency can
be secured.

The democratic way to secure the welfare of a
community is to institute an educational cam-
paign, presenting not only the need for improve-
ment but a definite, workablfe plan of operation.
The plan of the league is being tried in all parts
of the Itniteil States — why not try it in your
community?

If possible, make your committee truly repre-
sentative, by inviting into its tnembershin a
member of the Kiwanis Club, the Rotary Club,
the Women's Club, and the Parent Teacher Asso-
ciations, also, prominent ministers, and the library
and school officials. Send to the headquarters of
the league the names and addresses of the follow-
ing officers of the branch; Branch Chairman.
Chairman of Membership Committee, Chairman of
Matinee Committee, and Chairman of Reviewing
Committee.

Join your efforts to those of this national organ-
ization and help secure for all. the benefits y..n
wish to secure for your own community.

' TWO ALASKAN FILM PIONEERS

Even up in the Far North, in Rex Beach's
.■Vlaskan countr\% the motion picture is de

livering its message from the silver screen
Richard Suratt. of Wrangell. Alaska, stepped
into the office of this magazine a few weeks
ago and laid down a dollar for a year's sub-
scription. He said that he was interested in
scenics. travel pictures, and industrials, hav-
ing made thousands of feet himself up in
his own country. He promised to send the
editor a full stor\ later. In the few movie
theaters of Alaska, he said, most of the pic-
tures shown are of the blood-and-thunder
variety, but the taste of the rough frontiers-
men is veering around lo educationals. in-
dustrials, scenic, travel, and current events
films.

.\nolher film pioneer in that region is Wil-
liam \^oodworlh whose exchange is on a
boat in Ketchikan Harbor, .\laska, not far
from the Arctic Circle. His shows are sent
around various circuits by means of dog
trains when the nights are cold and long.
During the short summer the reels are
shipped by boats which ply up and down
the inland rivers of .\laskan Yukon Terrhory
or along the shores of Behring Sea. This
fall Mr. Woodworth hopes to have projection
machines installed in fish canneries and other
industrial plants so that shows can be held
regularly in these places. These canneries
will be organized into circuits and reel ship-
ments booked for a whole circuit.

CAMERON'S BOOK ON PROJECTION

Bv George O. Ross

Many persons who have had no experience in
the operation of projection machines nor closely
witnessed their operation are under the im-.
pression that all that is necessary is to thread
the film in the machine and turn on the current.
This is far from being the case, because a cer-
tain amount of knowledge is necessary to install
and operate a projector properly. For that rea-
son several books on the subject have been pub-
lished. While most of the books are quite
thorough, they are, as a rule, too highly technical
to be used by any but experienced operators.
It is the writer's opinion that a long felt want
has been filled by James R. Cameron who has
published and is now offering for sale to the pub-
lic an Elementary Text Book on Motion Picture
Projection, part of which is in question-and-
answer form.

The textbook is written in Mr. Cameron's
characteristic style; it deals with the subject from
A to Z and is written and illustrated in such a
manner that the subject is readily understood by
the amateur as well as the professional. The
book is published by the Theatre Supply Com-
pany of New York City, who also publish Mr.
Cameron's Pocket Reference Book for PrO'
jectionists and Managers. Both of these booKs
should be in the hands of those who are inter-
ested in motion pictures.

When this country entered the war \[r.
Cameron was placed in charge of reconstruction
work at the American Red Cross Institute; he
also took charge of the school of projection of the
Community Motion Picture Bureau and the Y.
M. C. A. Through these schools came men from
all walks of life, most of them knowing nothing:
whatever of electricity, mechanics, or optics. In
order to facilitate matters and rush these students
through quickly and with a thorough knowledge,
he prepared a series of instruction papers deal-
ing with the subject of projection. The results
obtained through the use of these papers was so
astounding that he was persuaded to publish them
in textbook form. The value of the book was
recognized from the first and after comparative
■ tests was adopted by the American Red Cross,
Community Motion Picture Bureau. Y. M. C. A.
Knights nf Columbus, and most of the army and
navy hospitals and government training stations
throughout this country and abroad. The sale of
the books to these organizations exceeded 10,-
OOi) copies during the first twelve months.

The Inter Ocean Film Corporation have pur-
chased the foreign rights to the book _and are
having it translated into French. Italian, and
Spanish.

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News Notes and Comment on Educational and Allied Films
from In^lilIltioD^, Organizati.n-.I'roducersaiid Individuals
. in the United State? ami ' . nada and ( (verseas

'fTj^BIOL.\." founded on Cardinal X^ise-
J_ man's celebrated story, was screened
recently in London. Father Bernard
^aiighan and the London County Council
ducation committee have given the picture
heir approval. Life in ancient Rome is said_
be vividlv portraved in the fi!ni.

The chamber of commerce of Richmond,
'irginia, is giving a seiies of industrial
Qovie shows at the Lincoln auditorium in
hat city. Sugar refining, the manufacture
if matches, carpets, pottery and other use-
ul articles are being exhibited.

The department of immigration of the
itate of North Dakota is having films made
ly the Publicity Film Company, of Bis-
aarck. N. D., of various scenes and indus-
rial activities in the state to be shown to
rospective settlers throughout the middle
rest. Features of the wheat and livestock
ndustry and farming life will be pictured
a detail.

In the rifle range of the Tower of Lon-
Jon. where German spies are said to have
been shot during the late war. troops in
jarracks during the recent strike troubles
»ere amused with film comedies. The
■creen was placed upon the wall before
(fhich the condemned men stood.

The Club women of L)i - Moines, Iowa, are
catnpaigning for better films in that city.
Some of the pictures shown in small theaters,
they say, are "crime breeders" and "a dis-
grace to the city." One m>mber of the active
committee charges "seven tenths of juvenile
crime can be traced direciU- to the movies."
The Lucas, Willard. and Hubbell public
schools and Highland Park Christian Church
are showing better film programs.

The Fox News, serai-weekly, contains pic-
tures of instructional value. No. 1 gives in-
struction to mothers on the Qare of babies
and is edited by Dr. Josephine Baker, of the
Bureau of Child Hygiene, New York City.
No. 2 shows how a professional clown teaches
hygiene and proper living to public school
children and their mothers. No. 3 portrays
the use of school children in small towns
near Chicago in saving the potato crop which
was threatened with loss because of lack of
labor.

Motion pictures are being used in France
to train athletes for the Ohinpic Games this
year. Correct methods of putting the shot,
throwing the javelin and other exercises are
screened. The pictures are first projected
at normal speed, then slowed down so that
every movement of the body can be studied
bv the combatants.

-V Swedish engineer named Burglund is
reported to have solved the problem of the
speaking film by means of photography. The
synchronization of picture and voice by his
process is said to be perfect.

At a teachers' meeting held in the Midland
Institute. Birmingham. England, Dr. P. C.
Innes. the chief educational officer of the
city, spoke of the value of the cinema as an
aid in the instruction of backward children.
He said that film teaching would train the
reasoning power of adolescents and bring
about a mental development which otherwise
might remain subnormal.

"A Mouthful of X^'isdom," the one reeler
treating of pyorrhea and its prevention
and relief through the use of pyorricide,
which was made by Baumer Films, Inc.,
was shown recently to the members of the
Y. M. C. A. industrial committee at its
meeting at Silver Bay, N. Y. The film is
considered one of the best on oral and
dental hygiene so far produced.

"Shift the Gear. Freck," "The Demand
of Dugan" and "Gum Drops and Overalls"
are the titles of the latest releases of Judge
Brown's juvenile reform films. It will be
recalled that Judge Willis Brown presided
over tlie Juvenile Court of Salt Lake Qty,
and his experiences form the basis for these

For a Proper i nderstanding of Lifers
Responsibilities

children and young people need the knowledge which is scien-
tifically and inspiringly presented in the biological
motion picture

HOW LIFE BEGINS -4 Parts

Living embryo of chick .S2 hours old. From "How Life Begins."

It shows how plants and animals come into existence and
gives a reverent understanding of life processes.
Used by l". S. Government. Sute Boards of Health, Universities,
High Schools. Velfare Organizations, and private homes

For rental and purchase price address

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IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE

to film at normal speed actual rays of light passing
through actual lenses — not in cartoons, but in
straight motion picture photographs. But we did it.
And those few feet of film alone cost more than the
average "educational." That's why nobody has
copied those wonderful scenes, any more than they
can copy Professor Woll's masterly dissections of
real eyes, as shown in

THROUGH UFE'S WINDOWS

P. D. Hugon's Masterpiece on
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FROM THE TIBER TO THt PIAVE.

Reel, 1; Producer, Burton Holmes; Exchange,
Paramount; Remarks: — Modern Rome, Hadri-
an's Tomb, bridge 136 A. D.. the Vatican,
Egyption Obelisk, the Colonnades, the Gani-
culum Hill, statue of Victor Emanuel II., first
King of United Italy. Arch of Constantine,
the Colosseum and Roman Forum, modern
ruins, Nervesa after the war, shore of the Piavc
River, looking otwards the Austrian lines.

ACROSS THE BROAD rACIFIC.
Reel, 1; Producer, Essanay; Exchange, Beseler;
Remarks: — Reissue. Across the Pacific on the
Japanese ship Tengo Maru, Japanese games,
arriving in Yokohama, Japanese warship, wo-
men workers loading ship with coal, street
scenes in Yokohama, market men, fire depart-
ment, etc.

PICTURESQUE JAPAN.

Reel, 1; Producer, Pathe; Exchange, Beseler;
Remarks: — Reissue. The Ainus, the hairy
race of Japan, spend a great deal of time on
the water, the chief's hut, the chief's wife and
daughter weaving a mat, Matsushiraa Islands,
dredging oysters, sunset, moonrise.

LIFE IN JAPAN.

Reel, 1; Producer. Pathe; Exchange, Beseler;
Remarks: — Reissue. A religious pageant to
Kyoto, once the capital of Japan; modes of
travel in Japan.

ENCHANTING JAPAN.

Reel, 1; Producer, Pathe; Exchange, Beseler;
Remarks. — Reissue. Gishia girls, dances, iris
gardens, gold fish, silver fish and carp. 3-year-
old rooster with tail 15 feet long, visteria tree
in poor man's garden, children dancing, pic-
turesque bridge more ornamental than useful,
afternoon tea under the visteria, fields of iris.

SCENES IN TOKIO, JAPAN.

Reel. 1; Exchange. Beseler; Remarks: — Re-
issue. The fish market, vegetable market, festi-
vals of the "God of Kitchen,'' semi-circular
bridge, New Year's celebration in Japan, page-
ant, the street of theatres, about January 1st
the dwarf peach tree begins to bloom, crowds
attending sermon to the God of Mercy.

TOAD TRAITS.

Reel, 1; Exchange, Beseler; Remarks: — The
toad tadpoles change into little bits of toads
while only a few days old, the spadefoot toad.
just a plain hoptoad, the natterjack is a toad
known in Europe and Asia, African water
toad, the American gray tree toad.

MEMORIES.

Reel, 1; Producer, Prizma; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks :^ — ^An adaptation of John Green-
leaf Whittier'- poem, "School Days."

MARIMBA LAND.
Reel, 1; Producer, Prizma; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks: — A study of the manners and
customs of the descendants of the Aztecs in
Guatemala.

A DAY WITH JOHN BURROUGHS.

Reel, I; Producer. Prizma; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks: — John Burroughs barn-door
study with children, chipmunk, blue birds' nest,
an orderly kingdom of ants, flower and weeds
for insects, magnifying the flower, the grass-
hopper as clown of the insects, and making
her toilet, wood frog, drinking at nature's foun-
tain, the spring.

THE REFRESHING RIVIERA

Reel, 1; Producer, Prizma; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks: — Mentone La Ville on French-
Italian boundary day before yesterday sec-
tion of Mentone, fishermen casting nets,
churches and cathedral of St. Michel, Cap
Martin, home of elite, Mentone itself is a
garden, flowers are found everywhere, Roque-
brune, two of our destroyers at Ville Franche,
important naval port, roads of Southern
France.

THE APACHE TRAIL.

Reel, 1; Producer, Prizma; Exchange, Repub-
lic. Remarks: — Historic trail followed by the
early Spanish explorers who searched for the
fabaled "Seven Cities of Cibold." Supersti-
tion Mountains, scenes of Roosevelt Dam, Fish
Creek Canyon, the White Man's buildings, the
Grand Canyon of the Apache, Mining possi-
bilities, gila monster, flowering cactus, Apache
camp, the Apache Indians at home and ruins
01 homes of the cliff dwellers.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

Reel, 1; Producer, Red Cross; Exchange, Edu-
cational. Remarks: — Stamboul, Gatala Bridge,
highway leading to the Orient, the modern
section of the city, under the Crescent, feeding
refugees, little Turks, queer characters. Serag-
lio, old palace firemen, street cleaners, the
Sultan goes to the Mosque in state, birds-eye
views of city with over 200 Mosques, religious
fakirs.

FLASHES ON THK WORLDS SCREENS
"How Life Begins" recently made the rounds
of the schoo'.s in Grand Rapids. Mich. It
was screened at Central High School, Union
High School, and Walker School. Students
from Turner, Stocking and Pine schools at-
tended the showings.

Princess Mona Darkfeather is the heroine
of a new series of fifteen Indian photo-
plays, each one reel in length. The C. B.
Prirp Company are to distribute them.

Unc hundred foot sections from various
reels gathered by the Community Motion Pic-
ture Bureau, on conditions in European coun-
tries, formed an interesting exhibit at the
(Chamber of Commerce, Rochester, N. Y.,
under the direction of the Central Racial
Advisory Council.

Village schools in Notts. .Nottingham, Eng-
land, have been licensed by the local justices
10 give cinematograph shows. These are in
charge of a Mr. Sanderson,
f

Motion pictures of medical and surgical
lechnique were exhibited in Jewell Hall,
Y. M. C. A. Iniilding. Hartford, Conn, re-
cently by the Clinical Film Company of New
York.

Films of the transatlantic flight of the
NC-4 are being shown on the. U. S. S.
Isabel, a converted yacht, in connection
with the recruiting cruise of that historic
naval flying boat, the first to cross the
Atlantic ocean by air. All of the large
seaport towns on the Atlantic coast are
being visited.

AMERICA'S HERITAGE.

Reels, 2 ; Exchange, Universal. Remarks: —
A Boy Scout picture. Part 1 : The boy of to-
day is the man o fto-morrow, the "Boy Scout
Oath." a "Motor Truck Hike," pitching tents,
raising "Old Glory," saluting the flag, drilling,
wig- wagging, making fire by friction, making
"trails." Part 2: On a hike, bathing, back
just in time to get the flag down before the
sun sets, Sunday morning service, scenes from
Niagara Falls. Lake Champlain. Crazy landing.
Old Orchard Beach, first aid in drowning,
breaking camp, etc.

CHINA AND THE CHINESE.

Reel. 1; Exchange, Beseler. Remarks: —
Shanghai, street scenes, various conveyances,
cargo collies at work, European Quarters, race
course, racing, on the roofs, funeral, gin-rick
shows, Chinese wheelbarrows, open air res-
taurant, war ships, Buddha fete and parade, tea
house, Chinese wedding, etc.

CHINESE SCENES.

Reel, 1; Exchange. Beseler. Remarks: — Eating
with chopsticks, small feet of woman, showing
bandaging, prisoner loses his queue, family con-
veyances, irrigation of rice field, plowing,
grinding millet, Foochow Road, wedding pro-
cession, hair dress of Manchu woman, funeral
procession.

SCENES IN KOREA.

Reel. 1 ; Exchange. Beseler; main business
street, ancient conveyances of all kinds used in
bringing food to city; a Korean artisan at work,
doing the family washing, Korean dances,
Korean types, grinding corn, a tramping gob-
bler, the old Imperial Palace, Lotus Palace,
etc.

COME WATCH WITH ME, THE PASSING
NIGHT.

Reel, 1; Producer. Post; Exchange, Para-
mount; Remarks:^Post Nature Picture, sum-
mer twilight, clouds in the night, moon rising,
etc.

SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

Reel, 1; Exchange, Famous Players-Laslcy.
Remarks: — Post Nature Picture. A scenic
showing effects of sunshine and shadow on
water, mountains, etc.

A NIGHT IN JUNE.

Reel, 1; Producer, Post; Exchange, Paramount;
Remarks: — Views of summer skie, scenics, etc

During the recent newspaper strike in Paris
news films actually took the place of the
daily newspapers, thus refuting the recent
statement in a New York Globe editorial that
such a thing would never be and confirming
Thomas A. Edison in his prediction that such
a thing some day would be universal.

The fine "Nelson" film was shown recently
in Clitheroe. Scotland, to 1.800 scholars in
llie elementary schools as their history les-
son. On the advice of the educational
authorities, the teachers took their pupils to
one of the local cinemas during school hours,
afterwards talking about the picture in the
classrooms.

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Miss Eugenia Remelin, chairman of the
motion picture committee of the Woman's
Cily Club, Cincinnati, is conducting a sur-
vey to ascertain whether the pictures shown
in local theaters are of any educational
value for children. Members of the public
recreation department of the club are
assisting her.

At the annual convention of the Mary-
land Sunday -School Association, held at
Holand Park, Md., in October, motion pic-
tures of Sunday school work in foreign
lands were shown to the superintendents
as the commander of the A. E. F. in
France and Germany are also pictured.

The high school of Jiihiistown, Pa., has
added a motion picture projector to its equip-
ment. -\ benefit show was given there re-
cently to demonstrate the machine and raise
money for its purchase. The machine is
portable and will be used in the grade
schools as well.

The forest fire films o^vned by the State
Conservation Commission of New York
were shown at the tri-state conference on
forest resources held at Indianapolis in
October by the conservation commission of
Indiana. Illinois and Ohio.

Otto J. Nass

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ious films for the State of Rhode Island
and Eastern Massachusetts. 5 years"
experience Good subjects solicited.
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"Careless America," the feature picture
produced by Lniversal for the Firestone Tire
& Rubber Co., Akron. Ohio was shown at
the Capitol Theater, New York City, in Jan-
uary at the "safety first rally" organized by
Harry Levey, manager of L ruversal's indus-
trial department; Secretary of State Hugo,
Superintendent of Schools Ettinger, Police
Commissioner Enright, a committee of 100
headed by John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. the au-
tomobile interests led by H. S. Firestone,
and Director Bowes of the theater. The
object of the rally was to inaugurate an
educational campaign to reduce the loss of
life due to motor car accidents. Secretary
of AVar Baker spoke to 6.000 Manhattan
school children present in the big playhouse,
and when the speech was over the New York
police band played "The Star Spangled
Banner"' to the accompaniment of these
thousands of voices.

Of a similar character is the film being
used by E. Austin Baughman. commissioner
of motor vehicles of Maryland, showing the
dangers of speeding and impressing constant
care upon the public. Some of the evils
emphasized in the picture are obscured tags,
delayed purchase of tags, speeding, delayed
registration, tags improperly fastened, and
children playing carelessly in the streets.
C W. Galloway of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, and John S. Bridges, president of
the Maryland .\utomobile Club, financed the
production.

LAND CLE.\RLNG FILM SCREENED
.\ motion picture of „ thousand feet, show-
ing tractors working wiih all different kinds
of plows, stump puller-, heaving out big
jiuraps four and five 1 '^t through, and dyna-
mite blowing out drainage ditches 200 feet
long at one shot, was ?hown at the Elite
Theater. .•Vthens. Georgia, in connection with
the regular program.

This film was made during the land clear-
ing demonstration held recently by the .Ag-
ricultural College in South Georgia and it
*hows the best methods of clearing land of
stumps and preparing it with tractors for
ma.ximum crop production The scenes are
laid at Cordele and Camilla and show the
crowd of 5000 people who attended these two
demonstrations. During the eighteen demon-
strations which were held in as many counties
36.000 people were taught how to use dyna-
mite in blasting of stumps and digging drain-
age ditches, how to operate a stump puller
successfully, and how to use and care for a
tractor so that it will be ready at all times
for service.

The picture demonstrates by actual work
how each operation is carried out. Thus in
stump pulling there is the hitching to the
stump and the ties with cable so as to get
the best results with the stump pullers. The
d>"namite man bores an auger hole in the
stump and affixes a cap to the charge in just
the right manner that wiU throw the big
stump high into the air and split it into
kindlinff wood. Dvnamite is again placed

through a cypress bog down in three feet of
water and under the roots of trees. The
electric charge is given to the first stick of
dynamite and the whole 200 feet of ditch is
blown into the air at one mighty blast.

-THE STORY «)F A TIRE"

What is said to be a most interesting in-
dustrial and educational film of the rubber
industry has just been completed by The
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, of .\tron,
Ohio, in three reels. Starting with a view of
crude rubber as it arrives after its long voy-
age from the company's own plantation in
Sumatra, having traveled 10.000 miles by
every form of transportation from sinewy
natives to modem railroads. The Story of a
Tire" takes the viewer step by step through
intricate manufacturing processes until the
tire is ready for use.

"The Story of a Tire" visualizes the de-
scriptions given in the booklet of the same
name, which was published by the com-
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which more than 8.000 schools, libraries,
and colleges are using for educational and
reference purposes. The picture was made
by the company's own corps of experts and
cameramen under the direction of Ralph M.
Lembeck.

Films of the United States Department of
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of the Virginia-Carolina Peanut Growers'
-\ssociation in Suffolk. Virginia, recently at
the Fotosho theater

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