Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1921)

20 MOVING PICTURE AGE January, 1921 Instructional Films and Where to Get Them New Releases of Travel, Literary, Industrial, Topical and Comedy Subjects =E Films for the Church, School and Club The following list of approved pictures, reviewed, endorsed and listed by the National Motion Picture League with executive^ headquarters in New York City, is published for the _ purpose of stimulating a greater demand for pictures not only suitable for adults, but -wholesome for children of all ages. By the aid of these weekly lists the general public may select a high-class show, schools and churches may arrange suitable programs and theatre managers may book the better class of pictures. It is very necessary for the operator to make all cuts suggested below, in order that the films may be wholesome for children and young people. These omissions are suggested_ in order to save otherwise splendid, wholesome pictures from rejection. Pictures not suitable for this list receive no comment. (See addresses of exchanges below.) FAMILY FILMS Recommended for young people and adults Get Rich Quick Edgar. Reels, 2; exchange, Goldwyn Booth Tarkington comedy. In part 1, cut scene of shell game. In part 2, cut subtitle, "Go teach your grandmother to suck eggs." It's a Great Life. Reels, 6; exchange, Goldwynn Story by Mary Roberts Rinehart. In part 2, cut scenes of fight with cannibals. In part 3, cut subtitle, "blamed ass." In part 6, cut subtitle containing the word "damned." Something to Think About. Reels, 7; producer, C. B. De Mille; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky Gloria Swanson and Elliot Dexter. Cut all scenes and sub-titles suggestive of expectant motherhood, cut scene of actual drowning, cut all scenes and sub-titles suggestive of suicide. The Daughter Pays. Reels, 6; exchange, Selznick Elaine Hammerstein. In part 6, cut. sub-titles "He will never believe our being here was an accident" and "Though it was a trick to compromise me." The Huntsman. Reels, 2; exchange, Fox Clyde Cook comedy. Cut scenes of bathing girls. From the Manger to the Cross. Reels, 5; exchange, Vitagraph First two reels are an excellent picturization of the Christmas story. What's Your Hurry. Reels, 5; exchange, Famous PlayersLasky Corp. An automobile story in the Christmas season, featuring Wallace Reid. The Traveling Salesman. Reels, 5; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky Corp., Non-Theatrical Dept. Cut drinking scenes and sub-titles containing profanity in parts one and two. JUVENILE FILMS Keep this list for next year's Christmas program The Two Columbines. Reels, 2; exchange, Famous PlayersLasky Corp., Non-Theatrical Dept. A Christmas story. The Christmas Carol. Reel, 1; exchange, Famous PlayersLasky Corp., Non-Theatrical Dept. The Christmas Carol. Reels, 2; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Dicken's story picturized. Ida's Christmas. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Poor little girl made happy through honesty and unselfishness. Herod and the New Born King. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. — Biblical story. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Good for very small children. The Birth of Our Saviour. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Biblical story. The Night Before Christmas. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. The Knight Before Christmas. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Little boy wants to pay a dollar for a baby brother. The Little Girl Who Didn't Believe in Santa Claus. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Mr. Santa Claus. Reels, 2; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Old Doc Yak's Christmas. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Cartoon. Old Doc Yak and Santa Claus. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Cartoon. INFORMATIONAL FILMS The Game of Golf. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Kineto Review No. 30. Explaining the meaning of certain golf expressions: "Driver," "Brassie," "Fairway," "Cleek" or "Iron," "Mashie," "Niblick," "Lie," "Putter," "Holes," "Teeing-ground," "Tee," "Green," "Cup," "Nut," "Golf Widow," "Bunkers," "Traps," "Hazard," "Dead," "Foursome," "Caddie," "Bogey," "Par," "Stymie," "Gallery," "Valley Hole," "One up." Don't try to learn golf in one day. Acquaint yourself with the language first. Charles Urban's Movie Chats No. 16. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Scenes of Jersey, largest of Channel Islands, France, light houses, quaint habitations and miniature castles, shipwrecked vessel; visit to map publisher, plates re-engraved in order to show the new national boundaries, transfers made from original plant to copper, zinc or stone, section of wall maps carefully mounted on linen sacking, making of small and large globes; ball balancing itself atop a spouting jet of water; by collecting tears and placing some on a glass plate under the microscope, you can watch the formation of salt crystals by evaporation; Canadian pony farm. Pathe Review No. 77. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Pathe color, showing old, well-built roads of France; scenes of a typical Japanese newspaper plant; Ditmars' film, ducks, wild geese and swans swimming in icy water; Hy Mayer Capital Travellaughs. Number, Please. Reel, 1; producer, Ford; exchange, Goldwyn Pictures about the telephone, putting up telephone poles, trench digging, laying cable, protecting cable, front and rear view of switchboard, key shelf, testing subscriber's line to locate trouble, toll line, repairing, instructing students who have qualified in examination for operators, toll directory, etc. Cultivation of Rubber. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathescope Co. of America Malay, rubber trees, protecting with sulphur, trees tapped at age of four years, gutta percha flows out of notches into buckets, latex is filtered through a sieve, heated in learthen vessels until it congeals, kneading gutta percha, pressing rubber into sheets, corrugation indicate plation, weighing and packing crude rubber, loading on ship. Down in Dixie. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights— Kineto Review No. 36. Scenes of the Cumberland Gap, Cumberland folk are referred to as "16th Century Americans," attending "Sunday Meetings," oxen used to haul the timber from the forest to the river, moss-hung forest, old hermit, swamps are being reclaimed for rice culture by dredging, quaint streets of a southern city, old Mississippi steamboat, transshipping bananas for the North, old molasses mill, boiling down the syrup. (Turn to page 22). Exchanges Mentioned in This List When you write for a film please say, "As listed in MOVING PICTURE AGE" Beseler Educational Film Co., 71 West 23d Street, New York City. Educational Films Corp., 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Famous Players-Lasky Corp. 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Fox Film Corp., 10th Ave. and 55th St., New York City. Gaumont Company, 101 West 42d Street, New York City. Goldwyn Dist. Corp., 469 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Kineto Co. of America, Inc., 71 W. 2.3d Street, New York City. New Era Film Company, 207 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. Pathe. Inc., 1600 Broadway New York City. Pathescope Co. of America, Inc. Aeolian Bldg., New York City. Robertson-Cole Dist. Corp., 1600 Broadway New York City. Select Pictures Corp.. 126 West 46th Street, New York City. Selznick Pictures Corp., 728 Seventh Avenue, New York City. States Rights Exchange, (Write to producer.) Universal Film Exchange, Inc., 1600 Broadway, New York City. Vitagraph Exchange, 469 Fifth Avenue, New York City.