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The Educational Screen pcriencc is too clearly recognized to re- quire discussion; as to how nearly this secondhand experience approximates the real experience in value is doubtless one of tlu- problems of your experiment. In selecting films to test movies as a medium for conveying a background of experience, it is obvious that the pictures must be adequate dramatically and pho- tographically in their fidelity to environ- ment and life. Pedagogically too, they should be suggestive rather than exhaus- tive, comprehensive without being tire- some. In other words, they must be real pictures or the child will not live in them and they will therefore be valueless to create experiences. S. Can the movies— 1. Cut down the time of teaching? 2. Cut down the cost per capita of teaching? 3. Do they improve the efficiency^ of teaching, or what combina- tion will there be of these fac- tors? 9. The value of motion pictures as I teaching tool must be determined in the elementary and high schools. The best films should be built on real childhood in- terests and around attractive personali- ties, if they are to wake the interest of the child. If they are to present facts, micro- scopic pictures, slow motion photography, animated diagrams which show action which takes place beyond the realm of the eye, are the best types. The first difficulty the investigator who is to evaluate the movies will encounter is, to find a sufficient variety of pictures upon which to base an adequate experi- ment. Film Catalogue The first films in each group—printed in the larger type—have been reviewed by the editor of the School Department personally. This typo- graphic arrangement will be our regular practice hereafter and, ultimately, we shall list in this department only films so viewed. TRAVEL AND SCENIC Algeria, the Ancient (Pr)—This col- ony of France across the Mediterranean in Africa is peopled largely by Mohamme- dans, who are shown at worship in their mosques, or at home in their flat-roofed dwellings among the palm trees. One of the most famous spots in the colony is the oasis of Biskra, in the desert portion away from the sea. Here (the spot made famous in the "Garden of Allah") we see a desert market place with its character- istic caravans of camels bringing dates, and desert brush for firewood, to ex- change for the products of the outside world. Splendid views are given of desert, life. The native Arab desert- dweller is seen making the sun-dried brick much after the manner of our southwestern Pueblo Indians. A number of Arab types are shown, from the small boys on the streets to the wealthy mer- chant who moves with his gorgeously- bedecked caravan to a new stopping place. All the scenes are in Prizma color. The Cape of Good Hope (Pr )—A sel- dom-photographed subject, of a land which appeals to the imagination of all of us—South Africa. Described by Drake as "the fairest cape," it is shadowed by Table Mountain, sometimes clothed in cloud and mist which the natives call its white tablecloth. At the base of the Cape >