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1001 FILMS
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GEOLOGY
♦Film titles marked with an asterisk (*) have been reviewed and approved by the National Motion Picture League of New York.
A Study in Sand. (300.) An exhibition of most remarkable and incredible cleverness, demonstrating the wonderful figures and designs that can be made with sand through the medium of the gyroscopic pendulum and by vibration. Educational Film Corporation.
Evolution. (525.) The Living Book of Nature. A study of animal life as it existed a million years ago in comparison with their descendants of today. Seething mud and steaming volcano typify the molten earth as it was before it was fit for habitation and introduces the evolution of animal life as it is described in this particularly important educational subject. Educational Film Corporation.
Geology, Part 1; Ice and Snow.* Reel, 1; producer, Pathe; exchange, Beseler. Remarks: Reissue. Water in form of ice and snow, raindrops passing through the higher atmosphere, where the temperature is slightly below 32 degrees — the freezing point — freezes into snow flakes; iceberg floating, ice, in contact with salt, causes extreme cold; this is the principle 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. Winter sports.
Geology, Part 2.* Reel, 1; producer, Pathe; exchange, Beseler. Remarks: Reissue. How mountains grow, the petrified forests of Arizona; near Holbrook, Arizona, in Navajo County, is perhaps the most famous petrified forest; 1,800 acres are covered by these prostrate monarchs of a prehistoric woodland.
In the Hanging Glacier Country. (900.) The Scenics Beautiful. Up Railroad Creek to the foot of Isella Glacier, an ice river of the hanging type. ' In warm weather, great chunks of ice crash over the thousand-foot cliff into Horton Lake. Education Film Corporation.
The Why of a Volcano.* Reel, 1; exchange, Educational Film Corporation of America. Remarks: The origin and decay of a volcano, savage offering 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 through which lava works to surface, molten rock hardening into different form, mound formed, explosions, 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.
Tides and the Moon.* Reel, 1; producer, Bray Studios; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: Cartoon showing how the moon affects the tides; hunting wild ducks, building nests, ducks two days old able to feed themselves, hunting wild ducks.
Waterfalls. 900 feet. Nature and Science Study. University of Wisconsin.