Year book of motion pictures (1925)

When a second seems an age. P. J. Risdon il Sci Am 130:166 Mr '24. Charles G. Willoughby on motion-pictures for the amateur. Photo-Era 53:89-91 Ag '24. Dollars and sense in amateur kinematography. H. C. McKay. Photo-Era 53:17-19 Jl '24. Drawing animated cartoons for the movies, il Pop Mech 42 :61 1-14 O '24. Pulsated light gives depth to movies il Pop Mech 42:468-9 S '24. 25.000 pictures a second. Liv Age 322:144 Tl 19 '24. Moving picture plays Charles the Bold has another bad defeat. il Lit Digest 81 :28-9 My 31 '24. Girl who has won fame and fortune writing scenarios. M. 15. Mullett. Am. M 97:18 -19 My '24. Succeeding with scenarios. T. C. Coonlcigh. Drama 13:362, 14:30, 117 Ag D '23. When the movies arc good. T : Farrar. il Ladies' H J 41:49 Ja; 43 F; 8"5 Mr; 45 Ap ; 46 My; 41 Je '24. See also America; Hunchback of Notre Dame; Niebelungen ; Thief of Bagdad. Amateur scenario writer. J : Farrar. il Ladies' H J 41 :72 Jl '24. Writing for the movies. J: Farrar. Ladies' H J 41 :34 S '24. Bibliography Motion pictures based on literature. Library J 49:412 My 1 "24. Recent motion pictures based on literature. Library J 48:1013; 49:79 D 1 '23, Ja 15 '24. Motion pictures based on literature " Library J 49:739-40 S 1 '24. t Moving pictures Aanalyzing motion by movie. Lit. Dig. 81 81 4 My 3 '24. Attitude of high school students toward motion pictures. Survey 51:338 D 15 '23. Do the movies heln or harm us? G:' Humphrey. Collier's 73:5 My 24 '24. Elementary school children and the movies J. W. Groves, School and Soc 18:659-60 D 1 Ghost of art in the movies. R Block New Repub 38:310-12 My 14 '24. Greater movie. L." Hamburger. Drama 14:138 9 Ja "24. Home-made movies libel us abroad. Cur Opinion 77:74-5 Jl '24. Huge responsibility.' D. Fairbanks il Ladies' H J 41 :36 My '24. Movies 100 years from now. D. W Griffith Collier's 73-7 My 3 '24. Rambling through movie-land. Lit Digest 81 • 50-6 My 17 '24 Why big pictures. D. Fairbanks. il Ladies' H J 41:7 Mr '24. See also Animals in moving pictures; Moving picture censorship. Drama, the theater, and the films; dialogue I ,~, 9"302 S 24 ^ Same. Harper 149:425-35 o 24. Historical films School and Soc 20:26-7 Jl 5 '24. Music .Music, the soul behind the movies, il Pop Mech 42:412-14 S '24. Higher order of music for the movies, il Lit Digest 82:26-7 Jl 19 '24. Movies and America's musical tastes. H. Ries enfeld. Outlook 137:471-2 Jl 23 '24. Picture drama, a new field for composers. H. Riesenfeld. Musician 29:11 Jl '24. Puppets Rubber actors lend realism to movies, il Pop Mech 41 :697-8 My '24. Setting and scenery Art on the screen; or. The film of Tutankhamen. D. S. Corlett. il Art and Archaeol 16 :231-40 D '23. Engineering the magic carpet's flight il Pop Mech 41 :546-9 Ap -24. Glass work, the latest movie trick, il Lit Digest 80:22 F 2 '24. Skill of movie engineers, rivals reality. il Pop Mech 42:201-8 Ag '24. Moving pictures Do vour children plav, or go to the movies? J. J. Walsh and J: A. Foote. il Ladies' H J 41 :40 F '24. Limousine justice E. H. deZouche. Woman Cit n s 8:17 Ja 26 '24. Morals of the movies. C : A. McMahon. Cath World 119:37-46 Ap '24. Solving the movie picture problem. Mrs. C: E. Merriam. Nat Educ Assn J 13:167-8 My •24. Moving pictures for children Child and the commercial moving picture O. M. Jones. Nat Educ Assn 1923:538-9. Should" children go to the movies? H: L: K. Shaw. Delin 105 : 16 Jl '24. Children and the movies. J. S. Joy. il Am City 31 :245-7 S '24. Moving pictures in education Motion pictures and public health. Am J Pub Health 14:237-41 Mr '24. Motion picture as a factor in public education. E. A. Lee. El School J 24:184-90 N *23. Report of committee to cooperate with the motion picture producers. C: H. Judd. Nat Educ Assn 1923 :243-50. Report on visual education L. N. Hines. Nat Educ Assn 1923:531-4. Score-card for educational films. School R 32 : 91-2 F '24. Visual education in community center work. S. M. Dorsey. Nat Educ Assn 1923:534-7. American history on the screen. C. Hamilton, il World's Work 48:525-32 S '24. Use of films in education. School and Soc 20: 272-3 Ag 30 *24. _ Moving pictures in prison Films in Dartmoor prison. S. Aumonier. Forum 71 :731-8 Je '24. Moving pictures in science Tnsect movies, il Lit Digest 79 :20-l D 22 '23. X-rav movies show machinery in operation, il Pop Mech 41 :92 Ja '24. SOME STATISTICS FROM C. C. PETTIJOHN Addressing the Illinois Chamber of Commerce i n ( »arIcS, C-,PS«Wi». General Counsel pf the I dm Boards of Trade, furnished the following statistics: Thtf mc\[l" Pictu,re industry is not the fourth or the fifth or the sixth largest business in America, but it is one of the first twenty . The average weekly attendance at film houses m this country is 50,000,000. In Great Britain. 80 per cent of the firms shown a.c rtmerican. Ine principal American distribut ors have branches in all the chief cities of the cont merit. *U,""-I,,ic'u,'es m?de >" this country are shown on the Continent, in theaters leased by American distributors and exploited by American methods . Ine best obtainable statistics show that there is mJSv < Sir mo,,io,V I,ic,ure "^"css approximately two bilhon dollars. Total number of persons permanently employed in all of its branches, three hundred thousand. Average number of feature pictures produced yearly, seven hundred. Average weekly attendance at picture theaters, fifty million. Admissions paid annually total about five hundred millions. Salaries and wages paid the employees of studios and distributing exchanges, seventy-five mil lions annually. Theaters running from six to seven days each week, nine thousand. Theaters running from four to five days per week, fifteen hundred. Theaters running one to three days per week, four thousand five hundred. Producers and exhibitors spend five millions a year in newspaper and magazine advertising and seven million annually for photos, cuts, lithographs, printing, engraving and other accessories. (Continued on Page 603) 593