The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

School Department 233 tates is complete without some concep- on of our National Parks—and this pic- rization of Yosemite is as near like ature as any reproduction on celluloid mid be. ie Heart of Mexico (E F C)—Quite naturally found in and around its capital, Mexico City, situated high on the plateau, and distinguished by the grandeur of its surroundings. Holiday crowds are always to be found in a pleasure- loving Spanish country, and a typical small boy circus proves that children—Spanish or other- wise—are the same the world over, ordeaux to Lourdes Burton Holmes (N N-T)— From the celebrated French port, through the city of Pau, which was the birthplace of King Henry IV and is today a fashionable resort, to Lourdes, famous as a place of miracles, is the route of this travel picture, alma de Majorca Burton Holmes (N N-T)— The capital of Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. The film journey is made from the Spanish city of Barcelona, and after the capital city is visited, the film affords scenes of country life on the island, and shows the people raising olives and making wine. NATURAL SCIENCE The Four Seasons (K)— Distributor, [odkinson —Some of the most artistic nd beautiful photography to be seen nywhere in educational pictures is found this great drama of Nature in her sea- onal changes, to which all her wild folk espond in particular ways. Here we fol- dw some of them—especially the buck- leer, and groundhog and the jackrabbit— hrough the four seasons, and actually ee them as they live. Remarkable views, aken under the able direction of Dr. Raymond L. Ditmar, curator of the New <Tork Zoological Society, make us better cquainted with these wild creatures in heir natural surroundings, from the time vhen in the Spring all life takes on new Iress, through summer when everything s at its height, and autumn, "the mourn- ful season out of doors," to winter when the hibernating animals are deep in their long sleep. Each season is introduced by beautiful scenic views of forest and stream, field and valley, with their changing plant life. Rain, lightning and scurrying cloud mark the change from spring to summer; Autumn brings bare branches against a lurid sky, and Winter's approach is hinted by the "strange covering" which the little swimmers find on their pond. Winter's blizzard is sniffed by the polar bear—and all life is bound by ice and snow. Enthusiasm cannot speak too glow- ingly of the remarkable views of animal life—notable among them the scenes of the buck shedding his proud antlers in the early spring, the young fawns born shortly afterward, and the growing of a new set of antlers on the parent buck which shall make him again the proud warrior of another winter; the beavers preparing their winter home, and felling trees toward the water, and the wood- chuck sound asleep under the snow, ap- parently lifeless until brought to the warmth of a fire. Here is drama, animal life and animal intelligence beautifully presented in pic- ture form. Invaluable as a program pic- ture, or as a classroom subject for Na- ture Study classes. There is material in it for a detailed study of many animal subjects. National Bird Refuges on the Gulf of Mexico (U. S. Dept. Agric.)—Bird lovers may go with the reservation patrol boat from Pass Christian to the low islands off the Louisiana coast, and may see the nesting places of many of the interesting species af birds found in that local- ity, among them the pelican, the laughing gulls, black skimmers, terns and herons. Flocks of these birds are seen in flight. The National Refuges are maintained by the Biological Sur- vey which prohibits disturbing the birds or their eggs.