Educational film magazine; (19-)

interior. TTien follow spectacular model scenes of volcanoes in action, glimpses of real craters, and pictures of volcanic rock formation. The film has been so cleverly put together that it has real entertainment, as well as educational, value. It will make a first-rate item on almost any non-theatrical film program. The Why of a Volcano. Distributed by Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. 1 reel. RECENT "NATIONAL NON-THEATRICAL" RELEASES THE SPIRIT OF JOAN OF ARC. produced by Mrs. William H. Hill, of Boston, and recently shown on Armistice Day at tlie Town Hall, New York City, is being distributed by National Xon-Theatrical Motion I'idures, Inc. It is a two-reel story of France covering; six ])hases of reconstruction—housing, afjriculture, building material, fac- tories, coal niininir, an<l raw niaterial.s. It does not lack in human interest but ilisiloses the dramatic struggle going on in France to re- build and rejuvenate the nation. The M(t(fi)- I'm of ilolher Goose is a series of animated cartoons in which the favoiilc cli.iracters of these old nursery tales come to life on the screen. Hey Diddle IJkhlle is the first of the series. A new eilucational reel is Bee Culture in Sweden, produced by the Swedish Biograph Coirtpany and edited especially for school use. Ex- cerpts from .Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee" appropriately from the titles. The bees are shown waking from their long winter sleep in the s|)ring and starting on their labors. The chief epi.sodes in the short year of the bee, which extends from .\pril to the last days of September, are the formation an<l dcjiartiire of I lie swarm, the foundation of the new city, the birth and nuptial flight of the- young queens, the massacre of the males or drones, and, finally, the return of the sleep of winter. There are close-ups of bees at work in the hive, the queen bee, the drones, and the swarm, the honev festival of the bees. LATEST PATHE REVIEWS pATHFJUlI.on RKVIFW NO. 1S5 hns as its outstanding feature a .slow-motion study of football entitled "Educated Toes," filmed dur- ing an imi)ortnnt college game. The manufacture of dolls is fully pic- tured in "Little Lady-Land." "Luncheon A La Pueblo" is a little visit with Hopi squ.iws in New Mexico. "Puppyland Briefs" is Hy Mayer's contribution in sketches and actual scenes "of young dogs. "Sunday in Alsace," in I'atlieclor. gives a glimpse of the quaint go-to-meeting clothes worn by the citizens of the famous French province. Rathe Revieu- No. JS6 opens with a vivid Pathe.'olor showing the life of street anil shop in fascinating regions "East of Suez." A slow motion study of juvenile racers analyzes the form of "The Coming Speed Kings" and good industrial material is included in a detailed picturization of the manufacture of matches. The reel ends with "Holidays In Holland" a Dutch peasant's idea of a good time. "The Hill Monastery of Portucal" is the initial offering of PatM Review No. i.n t.iking the sight-seer seven miles into the hills for a visit to a Dominican monastery of historic as.sociation and great archi- te<-tural beauty. By way of conliast the Zoo is next visited and "Mr. Elephant's Tooth Brush" reveals a huge pachyderm at his morning toilet. 'Ten Bl.xk.s K,,st" pre.sents a parallel of New York's Avenues revealing odd contrasts. ".Metal Spinners" shows the various processes involved in making cliandelicis. A floral fantasv in I'ath&olor, "The Names of the Kose," coiuludes the reel. AUigator hunters capturing their prev in the slimy heart of the Florida Kverglades forms the thrilling adventure pictured in "A Bare- Handed Alligator Hunt" with which P„tM Review No. 138 begins. This includes a fight with an alligator in full view of the camera. Following lhereafl(tr "I he Holy City Today" furnishes excellent Patheeolor studies in modern .lenisalcm. It is succee.ied bv "Two Men and a I'ickle" an miiusing slow motion study in the facial expressions of two excited Ital- lan.s arguing over a pickle. Picturesque Vouga. in the mountains of lortugal introduces life among "The Little Mounlaimer.s," a race shut off from moilern civilizati<in. "The Devil's Pool," one of Nature's oddi- ties in Bermuda, is the loncluding offering. "THE LIGHT OF A RACE" 'J'HE LiriHT OF ^ RACE is the title of a one-reel educational film depicting the (hvclopnient of arlillcial illumination from the earliest records of man. The film .shows the cave man as he kindles fire with sparks from flint; the primitive man as he pushes a stick in a grove to jirodme a spark: the Indian as he <lrives the fire drill; the ancient hunter ami his method of c(K)king; andhow the first torch slone lamp, candle, kitro.scne lamp, :iri(l giis lamp were diMlopcd. The picture contains in- teresting scenis from BenJ^irnin Franklin and his experiments with kite and I/cyden jar that proved the power of eleelrleity, and the later de- velopment of the arc light and tin' incanilevrcMl lamp. Ilic woiuicrful achievement of Thomas .\. F.diMm. The picture is distributed by the (lenera! Kle<"tric ('*». which super* iM-d the printuition and itj> historical weurncy. "PRODUCTION'S PULSE" WHEN corn has come through all the stages from planting to the perfect ear, shall the farmer sell it, hold it or feed it to his stock? This is the opening thought of a new motion picture issued by the United States Department of Agri- culture under the title Production s Pulse, picturizing the crop reporting service of the bureau of markets and crop estimates. The story. shifts from Hal Harrow, the farmer facing the problem of disposal of his corn crop, to the broader aspects oi the crop reporting system. There are 215,000 voluntary crop re porters scattered over the United States and forty-two stale field agents who study their reports, interview well-informed men ir the state, watch crops from trains, watch the weather reports crop diseases and insects and prepare special reports to be seni in to Washington. The utmost precautions are used to prevent the leakage of crop information. These reports are put in a locked box in the offic« of the secretary of agriculture, together with those from township and county reporters. When computations are made on these re ports, the tops of the sheets and the county names are cut ofl so the computers will not know on what states they are working and placed in a locked box. The parts of the sheets are reas sembled on crop reporting day. The board meets in an innei room and is locked in. Expert computers assist the board, and multigraphers set up the report as the figures are approved. At the exact minute agreed on months in advance, the secretary of agriculture anc the associate chief of the bureau of markets and crop estimate release copies of the report to the newspaper men who are await ing the signal for each to seize a sheet and run to the telephoni to read off the figures to his paper. It is the work of minute; only to flash the crop news all over the country by telegraph. The film shows scenes in a newspaper office receiving the stor] and setting up the type. At the very end "Hal Harrow" open: his R. F. D. mail box to take out his local paper, which tell; him that the "Year's Corn Crop Tops All Others," indicating thi prevailing price he can expect if he sells, or the effect on th( prices of beef cattle and hogs that eat corn. Production's Pulse is in two reels. It is intended for dislri bulion by the department and co-operating institutions. Inter ested organizations, such as farm bureaus and chambers of com merce, may, however, borrow the film upon application to ihi department. w w ROUNDWORM IN SWINE SUBJECT OF NEW FILM THE life and adventures of a worm would not .seem to be promisin] material for a movie .scenario, but a film recently issued by thi I'nited States Department of Agriculture proves that the doing of such a lowly organism as the rimndworm which infests the intestine of swine may be absorbing. Ascaris lumbricoidea is the scientific nami for this parasite which causes great losses every year to swine growers and the title of the picture is Kril Ainirif. The screen story is built anmnd two neighbor farmers one of whon has success with his pigs and the other so much hard luck th:it he i (iiscniiraged almost to the point of giving up the business. The mai with the unthrifty herd goes down the road to see the successful ho| raiser about his troubles and is told that roundworms are the probabl cause of his failure. But he is skeplic:il and remains unconvinced unti ft federal veti-riiiarian is c:dled in lo diagnose the ca.se. The veterinarian brings a high-power microscojie and sets it upon : Ixix in the hog yard where he shows thi- farmer and his neighbor that th soil of the lot is bailly infcsled with the minute eggs of the roumlworil! 'I'he eggs with the .s<|uiniiing young worms jilainly visible within th walls .ire shown in the field of Ihe miiroscope that is reproduced on th film. Then tin- entire litV history of tlir worm i-. shuwii from !'"■ litiv the <"g is swallowed by the unwitting pig until the parasite is matup and one of hundreds in the intestines. 'I'he growing worms are siiii>Mi b the owner right in his own sick pigs where tliere are plenty of specimen in various stages of developmeni from Ihe very small, newly-hatchei forms up to tliose that are full grown and more than a foot, in length.