Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1920)

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24 MOVING PICTURE AGE February, 1920 Films and Where to Get Them {Continued from ['age 20) Fox News No. 14. Reel, i ; exchange, Fox. Remarks: Prince of Wales leaves for home; mine sweepers arrive home, reviewed by Secretary Daniels, "the Suicide Club of the navy;" latest news from England, Armistice day celebrated. King Alphonso of Spain, Admiral Beatty, Field Marshal Haig at Bournemonth, the Shah of Persia at Aldershot. Lady Astor. first woman to be elected for parliament; Uncle Sam calls a rabbit drive, nets 20,000; Attorney General Palmer and family; girls drilling in California. Gaumont Graphics 87. Reel, 1; producer, Gaumont; exchange. State Rights. Remarks: Oakland, Cal., commuting by airplane latest fad; Greenwich, Eng., Arab chief on visit; New York acclaims the Prince a regular fellow; Oakland, Cal., U. S. submarine chaser; Worth, 111., turkey farm; Paris, bicycle race; Sheepshead Bay, training for bicycle race; Buenos Ayres, South Americans take great pride in their navy. Hearst News No. 48. Reel, 1; producer. International; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Paris, French pay tribute to dead heroes, service at American cemetery; Ossining, prison fire; Berlin, horse show; Centralia, I. W. W. suspects held; Mineola, trying out new Forman pleasure plane; New York, Prince of Wales bids farewell to America; Cambridge, Mass., Yale-Harvard football game. Cut Indoor Sports cartoon. Patlie Review No. 29. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Pathecolor, views of France; how science gives eyes to the army and navy, polishing a lens, testing correctness of lens, prism binocular, cat eyes of the navy spy glass; a little call on a lady spider, dinner time, how the front door works, eggs; growing dates in California, picking dates, sterilizing and preparing for market; Novagraph film, juggling. New Screen Magazine No. 42. Reel, 1; exchange. Universal. Remarks: An international bug, the Praying Mantis; some tips on lips, showing the right kind of milk pitcher to use; a minute a day will beautify your neck, bv Lillian Russell; what sulphur gas will do. scientific experiment; proper games for children, "nose and toe game," "Indian wrestling," "squash pyramids"; futurist movies. Out of the Sea. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange. World. Remarks: Key West fishing for sponges, glass bottom buckets used, diving to get sponges, marketing sponges of many types; strange fishes of different types and hues, daintily tinted angel fish, black angel fish, marketing large turtles, imposing fishing tackle, the catch, skate, turpon, whipray, hammer-headed shark, harpooning hammerheaded shark. Fishing at Otsii. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange. World. Remarks: Daily life in Japan village rarely visited by foreigners, children watching fishermen, methods unchanged in 100 years except for oil engine; loading ship with food, launching ship, poled through surf to deep water, moves out to fishing grounds, repairing fish nets, toes are as useful as fingers, untangling and drying nets, fish placed on sale, after successful catch the fishermen pay visit to shrine, special gown worn by members of crek having greatest catch, the honored fisherman. Hearst News No. 49. Reel, 1 ; producer. International; exchange, Universal. Remarks: New York, army and navy game; Los Angeles, raising bunnies for my lady's wardrobe; Berlin, President Ebert and wife; Baltimore, fire in college; Washington, D. C, interesting kiddies of the foreign envoys; Indoor Sports cartoon. International News No. 49. Reel, 1; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Italy, the Duke of Aosta inspecting Italy's new strongholds, Pola, the great Adriatic stronghold, now in Italy's possession; Admiral Riggo. Austrian battleship now in Italy's navy; blasting a cliff in Tennessee, 30 tons of dynamite; yacht races resumed on Baltic at Stockholm, Sweden; an ounce of prevention, patriotism taught in public schools at Seattle, Wash.; a silent tribute to England's war heroes, traffic stops in London; submarine pulled ashore at New London; on both sides the border in Mexico, a Mexican outfit and an American battery; Red Cross stamps. Pathe News No. 96. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Hoboken. N. J.; the Imper-itor returns to Britain; Paris. Marshal Joffre reviews poilus at Pantheon. Foch and Poincare: New York. Jewish demonstration aeainst Ukranian massacres: Cambridge. Mass., Harvard defeats Yale at football; New York. Secretary Daniels reviews 59 mine sweepers; Mineola. L. I., triplane to be used from battleship, a combination air and sea plane; San Diego, Cal.. a grvid spike marks completion of railway. China and the Chinese. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler. Remarks: Shanghai, street scenes, various conveyances, cargo coolies at work, European quarters, race course, racing, on the roofs, funeral, gin-rick shows. Chinese wheelbarrows, open air restaurant, warships, Buddha fete and parade, tea house, Chinese wedding, etc. Islands of the .S'^ Lawrence. Reel, 1 ; producer. Ford; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: Seeing a few of the Thousand Islands, place where brother of Napoleon was exiled; bridges of the East River, Brooklyn bridge, built in 1870, thirteen years in construction, Manhattan bridge, Williamsburg bridge, the world's greatest suspension bridge, Queensborough bridge. Pathe Review No. 30. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Pathi. Remarks: Pathecolor, views from the city of Le Mans, an old English stronghold^ Ditmars film, protective coloring of insect, the Malaysian insect, frog, locust, caterpillar, flying squirrel; Novagraph film, throwing a man in self defense and boxing; making things right, machine gauges, standards made in Washington, D. C, heating, etc.; the African air hounds, red beaked hornbill. gray hen-parrot, African cousins of the American jay. Gowns Venus IVoiild Envy. Reel. 1; producer. Prizma; exchange, World. Remarks: Cockeroft batiks, the processes of making batik, method of dyeing originating with the Javanese several centuries ago, outlined in wax, wax prevents colors from running together, blending colors, final application, wax removed by gasoline, showing how "personality gowns" are designed, dyed and fitted. The Apache Trail. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, World. Remarks: Historic trail followed by the early Spanish explorers who searched for the fabled "Seven Cities of Cibold"; superstition mountains, scenes of Roosevelt dam. Fish Creek canyon, the White Man's buildings, the Grand Canyon of the Apache, mining possibilities, gila monster, flowering cactus, Apache camp, the Apache Indians at home and ruins of the homes of the cliff dwellers. Screen Magazine No. 43. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Down on the farm with Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois; passing of the famous Sherry's on Fifth avenue; the silent signal of ships in distress, scientific experiment; football ultra rapid camera; futurist movies. Hearst News No. 50. Reel, 1; producer. International; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Plymouth, England, Lady Astor campaigning; Boston, traffic cops being drilled and then inspected by 'Governor Coolidge; New York, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, noted Anarchists, arriving at Ellis Island for deportation; Los Angeles, motor race; Cattaro, Dalmatia, Italian prisoners released by the Austrians, embarking for home; San Francisco, girls from Chinatown; Camp Lee, Va., General Pershing on tour of the army camps of the country; Indoor Sports cartoon. ' International News No. 50. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Columbia, S. C, south pays tribute to Pershing; Philadelphia, world's largest crane launched; Saranac Lake, trapping fox; Washington, D. C., people in the public eye; New Orleans, La., French opera house burns; Plymouth, England, Lady Astor, first woman member of the parliament. Bismarck. N. D., gathering firewood during coal famine; Los Angeles, Cal., motorcycle race; Sandy Hook, N. Y., testing big guns that guard New York. Birds of Sands and Sheep of Chelan. Reel, 1; producer, Ed. Film Corp. of America; exchange, Beseler. Remarks: Sheep entering the Okanogan forest after crossing the Chelan lake, inspected, .sheepherders and their duty; humming bird and nest, terns. Dutch Caps and Costumes. Reel, 1; exchange, Ed. Film Corp. of America. Remarks: Colored view of Holland, dykes 30 feet high protect the land, canals, bridges, milk barges, town hall of Middelburg, capital of Zeeland, a pig market, the town of Herve, costumes and caps from different parts of the Netherlands, old ladies' costumes. In Shanghai, China. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Beseler. Remarks: Along the water front, cargo coolies at work, the European quarters, race track, street scenes in and around Shanghai, in the native city, funeral procession, warships. The Refreshing Riviera. Reel, 1 ; producer, Prizma; exchange. World. Remarks: Mentone La Ville, on French-Italian boundary, day before yesterday section of Mentone, fishermen casting nets churches and cathedral of St. Michel, Cap Martin' home of elite, Mentone itself is a garden, flowers are found everywhere, Roquebrune, two of our destroyers at Ville Franche, important naval port, roads of southern France. A Department Store on Wheels. Reel, 1; producer. Bray; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: A study of the push-cart quarters of New York; unnatural history, the kinkojou. Armadillo, copy bara dancing mice. Cut cartoon. Pathe Review No. 31. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Remarks: Pathecolor, climbing the Sunshine trail, California; the voice invisible, sending and receiving wireless, portable radium station; Novagraph film, billiard; Ditmars film, yaks and buffaloes Gaumont Pictorial Life No. 27. Reel, 1 exchange, Gaumont. Remarks: Extracting' radium crushing ore. can be used indefinitely; under sea gardens at Miami, Florida, scenes under water among the coral reefs, the tree coral, finger coral' white coral; insect aviator turns acrobat, a fly juggles a cork, slings dumb-bells; touring over there, St. Sebastian, city of bull fighters and carnivals, Miramor, the palace of Spanish royalty. The Story of Zinc. Reel, 1; producer. Fordexchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: Last metal to come into use, zinc mining, section in Oklahoma and New Jersey, drilling 225 feet for ore, smelting zinc ore the mix house, charging of zinc furnace, 24 hours to distill zinc from ore, drawing zinc, casting into slabs. -AVAILABLE FILM FOR SAFETY STANDARD PROJECTORS Pathescope Branch Office) {The Pathescope Library can be had at any To_ permit a better selection of subjects, "the Pathescope Company has divided its list into classes as follows: 1, travel, hunting, manners and customs; 2, industries, forestry, agriculture; 3, popular science, natural history; 4, topical and war; 5. fairy and trick scenes; 6, comic scenes; 7, vaudeville; 8, comedies; 9, dramas; 10, religious and Biblical scenes; 11, reconstructed history; 12, military sports; 13, detective stories; 14, animated cartoons. Reel No. Title Class A-412— The Panama Canal 3 A-4 1 3 — Camouflage 3 A-414 — The Peril of Prussianism 4 A-41 5 — (a) Magic for Home Use 7 (b) Women in the World of Work 2 A-416 — (a) Evolution of Dancing 1 (b) Human Polar Bears 1 A-417 — (a) The Rudiments of Flying 3 (b) Experiments in Physics 3 A-418— (a) The United States Military Academy. West Point, N. Y 12 (b) Caring for Wounded Sailors on a U. S. Battleship 12 A-419 — (a) Sponge Industry 2 (b) Japanese Ice Box 3 A-420— (a) Army Tractor 3 (b) Drills and Exercises on a U. S. Battleship 12 A-421— (a) Modeling from Life 3 (b) Flour from Potatoes 3 Fill In and Give This to Your Nearest Theater Owner Proprietor Theater, City. I am anxious to have my young people see, and. myself should like to witness, an exhibition of the following moving picture feature: Name of picture ., Producer Exchange If your theater is willing to regularly exhibit films of this class and type, you may count on the regular attendance of members of our institution and their friends. Signed Date Address Fill In and Give This to Your Nearest Theater Owner Proprietor Theater, City. I am anxious to have my young people see, and myself should like to witness, an exhibition of the following moving picture feature: Name of picture Producer Exchange If your theater is willing to regularly exhibit films of this class and type, you nnay count on the regular attendance of members of our institution and their friends. Signed Date Address