Educational film magazine; (19-)

"POULTRY RAISING FOR PROFIT" Amotion picture on Poultry Raising for Profit is being pre- 'pared by the Society for Visual Education, with the co- operation of agricultural colleges and experienced poultry men, in an effort to save ex-service men and others from the dis- astrous experiences many amateurs have had. The film is de- signed to be instructive in every branch of the business, from the selection of the mother hen to the marketing of eggs and dressed fowl. A larger proportion of beginners fail in the poultry business than is generally known, says Frank L. Piatt, former secretary of the American Association of Poultry Husbandry, recognized as one of the leading poultry experts, because the government statis- tics take no cognizance of the industry on less than five-acre farms. More than 50 per cent of the amateurs begin on smaller plots. In the multiple-reel film now in preparation, types of houses, interior fittings, artificial lighting, double or no yard plan and space required for various kinds of fowl are to be covered in detail. Various ways of starting in the business are pictured, with comparisons of the relative advantages of incubator, one-day chick and hen-bred methods. The screen will instruct beginners about feed for various purposes, such as marketing, laying and growing; analysis of symptoms and treatment of diseases and pests; in management of cockerel and full-grown cock; in capon- izing, culling the flock, and similar everyday problems of the poultry farm. "Tricks of the Trade," drawn from the experiences of special- ists, are to be incorporated in the film lessons; for instance, that level roosts are best, as hens fight for the highest place; that a comfortable, happy hen will lay more eggs than an unhappy "biddy"; that a sitting hen should be petted and talked to so that her chicks will be less wild; that artificial lighting in winter by lengthening the hen's work day, increases egg production; that the female influences the size of the chicks in the hatch and the male the color. "THE HERITAGE OF EVE" A TWO reel picture produced to educate the housekeeper in •^^ the use of modern household appliances is being distributed by the Blue-Bird Appliance Company, St. Louis. The film en- titled The Heritage of Eve is a story of woman's slavery from the early days of civilization to modern times and the invention of the washing machine which freed her from drudgery. The film opens with an impressive scene showing Adam and Eve living in a primitive state soon after they were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Eve is next reincarnated in the Grecian period. In this period the lot of women was indeed a hard one, save for noblemen's wives, whose existence was made easy by slaves. In this period Eve is sold in the slave market and is detailed to the task of feeding wood to the crude furnace which heated the nobleman's house. Eve then appears as Pris- cilla, spinning flax and performing other tasks that fell to the lot of the woman who helped to settle America. Then Eve is seen living in the days of the "forty-niners." She travels across the plains and does a man's work fighting Indians and panning dirt for gold. In the year 1920 we find Eve in an average American living room. She is by no means a wealthy woman, but modern ap- pliances have given her leisure that in previous ages no woman enjoyed, unless she was of the upper strata of life. FROM ORE PIT TO FINISHED STEEL OPEN pit iron mining is the subject of an instructior film distributed by the Community Motion Picture Si vice. It shows open pit mining in the Lake Superi district with scenes of hydraulic drilling, giant steam shov* lifting ten tons of ore at one scoop, freight trains being load at the pit, and transportation of ore to Duluth. Here it is trai ferred mechanically from big ore pockets built to receive it giant freighters of the Great Lakes which carry it to Clevelai where it is sent to the mills. The mechanical process of co veying ore shipments from railroads and steamships is unusual interesting. The last half of the film depicts the arrival of the ore the mill where it goes through various processes, making it fii into ingots, then into slabs, and finally into sheets. Scenes of t rolling mills are instructive and full of interest. It is this ro ing mill process which completes the mill operations and fi ishes the metal so that it can be transferred to the fabricati^ plants to be converted into parts for bridges, ships, and coi mercial use. Each part is cut with the aid of a wooden patte according to specification for some definite use, and the fil shows the riveting of some of these large steel plates and the importance in modern ship building. The finished steel, cut and shaped according to exact calc lation, is shipped from the fabrication plant to all parts of t world to be used for bridges, skyscrapers, churches, ships, ra roads, and for general constructional use. Iron and Steel. Distributed by Community Motion Picture Service, 46 W 24th Street, New Yorlc City. "FROM SPRUCE TO NEWSPRINT" A FREE motion picture exhibition has been given in lo( theaters in many western and southern cities under t auspices of prominent newspapers of those sections, j eight reel educational picture, From Spruce to Newsprint, is t feature of the program and visualizes the vastness of the nev paper industry. The average reader of a newspaper little realizes what complicated process is involved in making the paper used publishers or the tremendous amount of capital invested in 1| enterprise. ■ There are more than 40 newsprint mills in the United Sta' which run regularly and 40 others which occasionally run so newsprint. In Canada there are 19 newsprint mills and spve others are planned or under construction. The investment \ these mills aggregates $30,000,000, exclusive of the woodlanj The larger companies in Canada own enormous areas of W' .1 lands or have obtained cutting rights on large areas of so-cal crown lands. The total production of newsprint by United States mills 1921 will be about 1,500,000 tons, and by Canadian mills ab) 900,000 tons, making a total output of about 2,400,000 4 Over 2,000,000 tons of this production will be used by publisB in the United States. The picture shows the felling of the trees, their transports by sleighs and wagons, the log rafts and jams as they are fla to the mill where the wood is ground to pulp, chemically trei and eventually transformed into paper rolls, ready for ship: to publishers throughout the United States. !1 22