The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

School Department 23 An understanding of the life of the Norwegian people no longer depends merely upon verbal description and chance comprehension. From the north, where a Laplander family is seen in their dress of skins and furs, with their sod house as a background, in company with their dogs and reindeer as pets and beasts of burden to the coastal fishing villages and the more southern hay-fields, where the frugal Norwegian by painstaking labor, makes his little field yield for his support, the child enters for a little time into the actual atmosphere of Scandi- navian life. The location of Norwegian cities close to the coa:t is seen to be not a matter of chance but determined by uncompromis- ing geographical conditions. For ex- ample, a slide of Bergen shows the city to be crowded on a narrow piece of low- land along the shore at the head of a fiord-bay, in front of a rocky hinterland. Nor is it without shock that the child may sometimes find points of similarity between the appearance of his own sur- roundings and that of a country which, because he never saw it, he is apt to think of as remote and somehow different. A view of a city street in Christ'iania caused one seventh grader to exclaim involuntarily, "Why, it looks modern!" With a pictorial background, how much more enthusiastically will the child approach the printed page, what increased understanding and insight he will bring to its study, and how clear-cut we may expect his conclusions to be when he finds that the statements in his text tally with the results of his own observation. N. B.—The slides used in this lesson were selected from the Underwood and Underwood set. M. E. G. Film Catalogue (For further information on these or other films write firm named in parentheses. If name is abbreviated, address will be found under "Ex- changes" at end of Film Catalogue, otherwise, under "Producers." All are single reel subjects unless otherwise indicated. Abbreviations used: E F C, Educational Film Corporation; FPL, Famous Players-Lasky; P, Pathe; U S Agric, U S Department of Agricul- ture; U S Mines, U S Bureau of Mines.) SCENICS AND TRAVELOGUES Water Trails Bruce Scenic. (E F C)— Through the tropics of Jamaica, penetrating a jungle by way of its water courses, and coming at length to a cataract said to be unsurpassed in beauty by any in the world. Fortunate we, to be able to take this journey while staying comfortably at home. Mexican Oil Fields Burton Holmes. (F P L) —A trip with this most indefatigable of guides to see the oil regions, to watch oil "struck," tanked, piped, and shipped, in the latest and greatest oil fields in the world. A Tale of the Fur North (E F C)—The first of the Hudson's Bay Travel Series, made in cooperation with the Hudson's Bay Company. A tour of this northern region of old romance and modern industry, taken in company with an Eskimo who tells the story of his life, in- troducing us to the sports of the Northland and to the bringing in of the seal pelts, in which —as in all other hard work—the women do the larger share. Cloud Busting (U S Agric)—Little excuse for the title is to be found in this record of the adventures of an automobile party in the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire. Spanish Holidays Burton Holmes (F P L)— In a country where festivals are matters of importance, two stand out as typical examples. At Seville, in southern Spain, the annual coun- try fair brings out the peasant folk in their provincial dress; and in Madrid, the Royal Birthday Celebration at the royal palace is the occasion when distinguished guests in gorgeous carriages come to pay their respects to the king. Both characteristically Spanish in their love of pageantry and display. Quaint Provincetown on Cape Cod VA reel) (George Kleine)—The odd and quaint need not always be sought in foreign lands, for in this picturesque rendezvous of artists and fisher folk there is a typical old-world atmosphere. In Barcelona Burton Holmes (F P L)— Founded in 255 B. C. by the Phoenicians, under