The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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School Department 325 iom one to the other. It is essential in Much cases for some responsible person Id act as the agent for the entire circuit. Arrangements should be made with the ■epartment by this person. The films will Be sent to him and he will be expected to leturn them in good condition to the de- partment. The circuit plan is subject to many ■variations and much development. The lepartment is glad to cooperate with any Ktate agricultural college or other State |>r Federal institution in arranging such circuits and in preparing programs of ifilms that may be routed in this manner. In addition to this service, however, the [(Department offers an exceptional oppor- tunity to individuals and organizations [authorized and approved by the Depart- ment to purchase prints of Department [films, for their own film libraries. The [advantages of such an arrangement to [educational institutions can hardly be overestimated. At a nominal cost, the copy of the film becomes the property of the institution purchasing it, and with proper care its usefulness should extend over a considerable number of vears. For schools the cost per pupil of having such films available whenever needed, is so small as to be negligible. Trices are quoted as follows: On standard-width slow-burning film stock. 4 cents a foot, or approximately $40 for the standard reel of 1,000 feet. On standard-width inflammable film stock, 3^2 cents a foot, or about $35 for a thousand-foot reel. On narrow-width slow-burning film stock, 4 cents a foot. Purchasers are required to pay for transportation from New York, and in some cases other small additional charges. It is required that the subject matter of the film shall not be changed and that credit to the department shall be retained. When prospective purchasers desire to view department pictures, arrangements will be made for projection in the labora- tory in Washington, or when possible, the films will be shipped for projection elsewhere. Orders should be addressed to the Di- vision of Publications, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Film Reviews (It is the aim of this department to list only films which have been personally reviewed by the department Editor. Reviews reprinted from wholesale sources are seldom of much value to educators. Reviews for teachers should be made by teachers, if reader and reviewer are to under- stand each other's point of view. Every film here presented has been viewed and the review written by the Editor of this department, person- ally.) TRAVEL AND SCENIC A Dream of the Sea (Sunset Burrud)— Titled with lines from Whittier, the reel is an unfolding of beauty—the beauty of flying clouds above the sea, of ships at anchor, of wave-beaten cliffs, of storm billows breaking against strange rock forms, and the silhouette of bare branches against a background of sky and sea. A poem in polychrome coloring, clone with true feeling for the beaut)' and [the pictorial values of the subject. The Lake of the Hang'ng Glaciers (Federated Film Exchanges)—A journey by pack train along a wilderness trail toward the Selkirk Range of British Columbia leads past cliffs of clay and gravel skirting the lower ranges, and across wooded streams broken by pic- turesque rapids. Then follow excep- tional views of the lake itself, and of the sheer wall of the glacier, from which the lake and river are fed. Bergs have broken orT the melting end of the ice,