The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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School Department Rieir faith, and the redemption of those kmose lives they touched. The two children carry their parts with excep- tional ease, and the details of back- ground and setting are accurate—it is •aid that the geographical locations de- ;cribed in the story furnish the actual backgrounds for the picture, and that the uthor herself supervised the details of •ostumes and accessories. The village ypcs of Pleasant River furnish the nec- ■ssary touch of comedy, but the charac- erizations are well done, without too tmch of the burlesque—a fault into which he producer could easily have fallen. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Priz- na)—The story of how Beethoven came 0 compose the Moonlight Sonata is told 1 picture form, with Prizma coloring. Evening in the little German village— Bid the cottage of the old cobbler and lis daughter. The little blind girl is >la3'ing; the composer and his friend walking through the woods nearby hear the Sonata in F, and pause to listen. Finally, approaching the cottage, they hear her exclaim, "If only I could hear the master play!" They enter, and Beethoven offers to play it for her. As he brings from the instrument the lovely melodies of the Sonata, she guesses his identity. At the end, he looks out of the window at the landscape quiet beneath the moon, and as she begs him to play more, he seats himself again and improvises, in an effort to portray to the sightless child the beauty of the heavens—the voice of the perfect night. As he plays, she visualizes the scenes which the music calls before her —fairies dancing, the sweep of the wind, the storm, and finally the moon [breaking through clouds. "Master, I have seen." is her tribute to the famous Moonlight Sonata. I With the film can be secured a syn- chronized music "key" for an orchestra (or single piano accompaniment. INDUSTRIAL The Making of a Book A three-reel film of the plant of Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. (Edited by Samuel A. Bloch) In "The Making of a Book," the three reel film describing the work of the pub- lishing plant of Doubleday, Page & Co., we are treated to the interesting experi- ence of watching a book produced from the time the author is struggling with the difficulties of composition, unti 1 it is delivered into the hands of the reader, whose evident enjoyment compensates for the labor involved in the production. We see the linotype machines make the original type from which electrotypes are cast—the giant presses turn out the pages at terrific speed—the cutting, folding and binding machines make the large sheets into book form, on which the covers are then placed. In all, there are eighty mechanical operations required to pro- duce a complete book, and the scale on which they are carried on can be judged from the daily output of the plant—25,000 books. The latest improved methods and the most up-to-date equipment are used. The photographs of many well-known authors, the pictures of the beautiful grounds around the plant—peony gar- dens, a cherry orchard and a cypress- lined pool being among the scenic attrac- tions—help to make the picture interest- ing, but do not entirely succeed in pre- venting it from seeming a bit too long. On the whole, however, this film is cer- tain to give the viewer a new apprecia- tion of and more lively interest in that exceedingly familiar and commonplace idea, "a book." Farm for Sale (Distributed by Home- stead Films)—Produced by the Holden Limestone Company, the reel is designed to show the advantages of using lime- "stone on worn-out soils. No objection-