Year book of motion pictures (1925)

LIABILITIES Preferred capital stock (7'7t,), 28.513 shares outstanding $2 851,300.00 Common capital stock — 270,000 shares authorized, $25 par, 264,206 outstanding 6,605,150.00 Current Liabilities — Dividends payable Jan. 1, 1924 $1 15,905.50 Accounts payable 134,560.61 Employees' Accounts ; 11,339.00 Property and admission tax 272,875.00 . . , „ , , 534,680.55 Deferred debit arising from Roosevelt purchase contract 30,476.66 Reserve for contingencies 92,391.87 Surplus — Surplus paid in at organization $777,568.00 Earned surplus: Net income for the six months $734,936 Less divs. to Dec. 31, '23 214,920 ' 520,015.00 Note — Dividends of 25c a share on common to and including March, 1924, and regular quarterly dividend on preferred payable April 1, 1924, were authorized in December. 1923. 1,297,584.13 $11,411,583.27 U. S. GOVERNMENT FILMS Washington, D C. — Following is a list of moY ing picture films made by or for the various Government departments. Those marked with a single asterisk (*) are loaned for exhibition, and those marked with a double asterisk (**) have been produced within the past year: Department of Labor: "Our Children" — two reels.* "Well Born" — two reels.* "When Women Work" — two reels.* Department of Commerce : No films. Department of Justice: No films. War Department: "Defense Day Test.'** 1354 feet. General Pershing speaking on Defense Day.*" 191 feet. World War flyers landing in Washington.** 456 feet. Camp Perry National Rifle Matches." 4,313 feet. First Division Parade. Washington.** 379 feet. Transport St. Mibiel landing 1st Division troops.** 101 feet. Interior Department: "Story of Gasoline" — three reels.* ** "Story of a Storage Battery — two reels* ** "Story of Portland Cement" — one reel.* ** "Heat Treatment of Steel" — two reels.* ** "When a Man's a Miner" — four reels.* ** "Live and Let Live" — three reels.* ** "An American in the Making" — one reel.** "Bucyrus Steam Shovel" — one reel.* "Marble Industry" — one reel.* "Dredging Anthracite Coal" — one reel.* "Zinc Mining, Milling and Smelting" — four reels.* "Dredge Gold Mining" — one reel.* "Indiana Limestone" — two reels.* "Copper Mining, Milling and Smelting" — four reels.* "Safety Lessons in Metal Mining" — six reels.* "Dangerous and Safe Practices in Bituminous Coal Mining" — two reels.* "Mining at the Calumet & Hecla" — two reels.* "Sandstone Industry" — two reels.* "The Cost of Careless Firing" — two reels.* "Conservation of Railway Fuel" — four reels.* "One of the World's Greatest Copper Mines" — three reels.* "Getting the Most Out of Coal" — one reel.* "The Story of Coal" — three reels.* "Manufacture of Steel" — four reels.* "Making of Steel Pipe" — 'four reels.* "Manufacture of Zinc Oxide" — one reel.* "Safety Lessons in a Metallurgical Plant" — two reels.* "Copper Mining" -twelve reels.* "Story of Petroleum" — four reels.* "Triplex Process of Making Steel" — two reels.* "Dedication of Pittsburgh Experiment Station of Bureau of Mines" — two reels.* 636 "Mining Industry Pageant" — one reel.* "Story of Sulphur" — two reels.* "Story of Ingot Iron" — three reels.* "Saving Coal at Home" — one reel.* "Story of Asbestos" — four reels.* "Story of Rock Drilling" — three and four reels.* "Story of Abrasives" — four reels.* "Mexico and Its Oil" — four reels.* "The Modern Goliath" — four reels.* "Ventilation Tests for Underground Tunnels" — two reels.* "Diary of a Murderer" — one reel.* "Story of Natural Gas" — four reels.* "Unhooking the Hookworm" — one reel.* "Oxygen, the Wonder Worker" — four reels.* "Story of an Electric Meter" — three reels.* "Story of a Watch" — three reels.* "Story of an Automobile" — five reels.* "Story of Compressed Air" — three reels.* "Water Power" — two reels.* "Transportation" — two reels.* "Story of a Motor" — four reels.* "Story of Steel" — six reels.* "Story of a Valve-in-Head Motor" — four reels.* "Story of Alloy Steel'' — four reels.* "Story of a Gasoline Motor" — three reels.* "When Wages Stop" — four reels.* "Story of a Motor Truck" — three reels.* "Story of Fireclay Refractories" — four reels.* ** "World's Struggle for Oil" — seven reels.* ** "The American Indian"* ** "Better Schools for Farm Children"* "A Day in the Kindergarten"* "Alaska"* ** Post Office Department: Film depicting the various mail services — five and one-half reels.* ** Treasury Department: "The Science of Life" — twelve reels.* "The House Fly"— 1,000 feet.* "Malaria Control Work" — one reel.* "The Mosquito" — one reel.* "Social Hygiene for Men" — two reels.* "Social Hygiene for Women" — two reels.* "The Gift of Life" — four reels.* "How Life Begins" — three reels.* Two three-reel technical films for physicians.* Navy Department: "A Shakedown Cruise" — two reels.* ** "A Midshipman's Cruise" — one reel.* ** "Boots" — four reels.* ** "Our Navy in the Near East" — two reels* ** "Rolling Down to Rio" — two reels* ** "U. S. N. Railway Battries" — one reel.* ** "Destroyers in War" — one reel.* ** "Transports in War" — one reel.* ** "Atlantic Fleet in the West Indies" — one reel.* ** "Panama Canal from a Navy Seaplane" — one reel. * ** "Seaplanes Fly from San Diego to 'Frisco" — one reel.* ** "The Great Flight" — one reel.* **