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18 The Educational-Screen regret that the motion picture was not available in the classroom dur- ing your own school-days," etc. Then let the cinema have the stage. Brief explanations and sug- gestive interpretations can be deftly given as the film runs—slowing up the machine or stopping it entirely at appropriate points—a procedure which will increase not only the value but the interest of such a per- formance. When the last meter of film has been run, there will be few fathers and mothers who will not be pleased —few who will not be convinced of our high purpose and of the erlec- tiveness of such aid toward achiev- ing it. They will feel assured that, if the cinema can be la pire des choses it can also be like the dishes served by a certain famous slave— la meil- leure des choses. In the words of Auguste Bessou the cinema can "push back horizons, level barriers, reveal the diversity of the universe, bring near and render almost tangi- ble things and beings utterly re- mote, bring back dead epochs, dis- close to the profane eye the secrets of nature, show truths more beauti- ful than the most beautiful legends." An appeal for the needed financial assistance will find willing listeners in the community after such demon- stration. Once the minimum equipment is assured—projector, screen and source of light—send for the peda- gogical museum's catalog of circu- lating films. A glance over the li shows the following material: In "Geography" there are 275 films, enough for several years of constant class use even if no films were repeated. "Natural History" is the general title under which are grouped 174 films as fol- lows: Geology (23), Anat- omy and Physiology (18) Zoology (104), Botany (15), Agriculture (14). "Hygiene" comprises 33 films. The 41 films comprised under "Industries — Ma- chines" constitute veritable visits to the factories, stu- dious travels among things and their transformations. , "Physics" includes 12 films, exceptional in quality if small in number. "Hunting" is the classifi- cation of 26 films which will open the eyes of our little public. Better than Buffon, these films afford a sense of forms and move- ments, a knowledge of the habits of animals, which only explorers are in a posi- tion to learn at first hand. Finally the series of "Sports" (21 films) fur- nishes studies of action and