Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1921)

22 MOVING PICTURE AGE January, 1921 Instructional Films and Where to Get Them (Continued from page 20) A Traveling Circus. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Putting up tents, feeding the animals, the wild animals doing their stunts, etc. exchange, Select Trip across the Pacific, lifeboat drill, JapanNippon, the Land of the Mikado. Reel, ; producer, Prizma; ese fishing fleet, making toy paper fish, the boys' festival, the Hodzee River and Rapids. What Is Your Body Worth? Reel, 1 ; producer, Bray Studios; exchange, Goldwyn Hunting good physique, one person worth $5,000, a way to develop arms, triceps, back; the clam cracker, how it is caught; Out of the Inkweel, animated cartoon. The Chemistry of Combustion. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights — Kineto Review No. 40. A series of experiments, some of which are very dangerous and must only be attempted with very great care and in a room with plenty of space. Pathe Review No. 78. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Hy Mayer Travelaugh, such is life in 'Greenwich Village; Pathecolor, the ancient belfriers of Ghent; the tale of glass, demonstrated by an expert draughtsman; Ditmars' film, the land of no housing problems, scenes taken at the New York Zoological Garden, of birds and nests, robins, song sparrow, owl, seagull, ducks, wild geese; Pathecolor, the Talking River of Japan. Wild Animal Study No. 2. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. The jerboa, a small four-footed rodent, very agile and graceful in its movements, the species shown are natives of African desert, lives in colonies, in holes dug in the sand, not unlike a small kangaroo in form, the hind legs are six times as long as the front ones, destructive to the crops. The hedgehog is about one foot long and with the exception of his feet, face and stomach is covered with black stripes, tipped with white, after being buried all day in the ground, comes out at sundown in search of food, jaw and teeth of the hedgehog, at the moment of attack the hedgehog rolls into a ball by means of a series of special muscles in its skin; in this form it looks like a big chestnut burr. New Screen Magazine No. 90. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Universal If the eye were a telescope; games that make sturdy youngsters, by Dr. A. D. Angell; beauty hints, are care of neck, arms and elbows; "Toyland Mystery," juvenile comedy cartoon. The Banana. Reel, 1; producer, Ford; exchange, Goldwyn Jamaica, banana industry, grubbing the fields, coolies, power furnished by cattle, cocoanut, a drinking fountain, banana plantation ten to twelve acres, planted like corn 125 to 175 bunches per acre, counting the bunches, 135 bananas to a stem, shipping them, 42,000,000 bunches consumed annually in U. S., on the market, 1 76 varieties. Pathe News No. 91. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe — Cork, Ireland, Terence MacSwiney laid to rest, military guard; 10th Anniversary of Pathe News; pictures of Mt. Etna eruption in 1915; New York City, annual health day in public schools; Cambridge, Mass., first movie of an eclipse, taken at Harvard; Annapolis, General Robert Georges Nivelle, defender of Verdun, visits Academy; the wonderful airman, daredevil stunts in aeroplane. Charles Urban's Movie Chat No. 22. Reel, 1 ; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Scenes of Clifton, England, the River Avon, art gallery, museum, King Edward memorial, Clifton College; famous Zoo with its collection of rare wild animals, the kudu, African antelopes, young hippopotamus, capybaras, largest of rodents found in rivers of South America, European brown bear, Indian sloth bear, lion, ring-tailed lemures and yak; salmon fishing in British Columbia, cannery, machines which automatically scale, clean and cut the salmon steaks, after filling the cans, the packed salmon is parboiled by steam and vent holes in cans soldered; Blackpool, the Coney Island of Great Britain. Manhattan Life. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of x^merica; exchange, State Rights Herald Square, Herald Building, Times Building, Broadway and Fifth avenue on a rainy day, Madison Square in winter, snow banks on Broadway after a blizzard, the Maine Memorial at Columbus Circle, Central Park, the Mall, boys sailing miniature yachts in the basin, the "Children's Fountain" in Morningside Park, Riverside Park, Riverside Drive, views of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and Grant's Tomb from Aeroplane, Columbia University at Morningside Height, College of the City of New York, New York University — its Hall of Fame — bust of Robert Fulton, Van Cortland Parkviews of the gardens, Washington Bridge, High Bridge, old ferry boat turned into fresh air school for city's poor, sickly children, Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, first bridge to span the East River, a farm operated on the roof of a skyscraper. Happy Hours. Reel, 1; producer, Ford; exchange, Goldwyn A series of sport scenes, baseball, shooting the waves, diving, swimming, golf, bowling, skiing, tennis, horse racing, polo, sailing, football, Indian dances, checkers, skating, etc. Paradise Birds.. Reel, 1; producer, Bray; exchange, Goldwyn Photographed by Irene and William L. Finley of the National Association of Audubon Societies for Protection of Wild Birds and Animals. A trip to Melhem Lake, Portland, Deschutes Canyon, government reservation for breeding of wild birds, pelicans, cormorants, blue heron, egret, baby egrets, etc. Bird Life Study, Part 1. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Ostriches of South Africa, the largest of existing birds, Australian emu, next to the ostrich the largest of existing birds, the ostrich of South America, commonly called the American ostrich; Papuan cassowary, one of the great wingless birds, depending on its speed to elude its enemies; great bustard, native of South Europe and Asia, black hornbill, spotted fly-catcher, wren, willow wren, robin, family of starlings, great tit or oxe-eye, blue tomtit, titmouse. Bird Study, Part 2. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Yellow hammer and nest; hedge sparrow; finch, chaffinch feeding its young, linnet, bullfinch, sedge wabler, the male sedge warbler finds the food while the mother tends her young, reed warbler and nest of young, reed warbler feeding a young cockoo, reed bunting, blackbird, the dipper. Sea Planets — Apartments for Rent. Reel, 1 ; producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Educational Films Corp. Views of La Folia on the coast of Southern California, the life of the star fish, has an eye for each arm, very keen sight, is composed of millions of small feelers by which it obtains its food. Apartments for rent, views of old castles in Fougeres in Brittany, native women in picturesque dress. Beggars and Fakirs of India. A Chinese Orphanage. Reel, 1; exchange, Educational Films Corp. Religious fakirs and beggar in India. A Chinese orphanage run by the French Catholic Mission, Chinese girl instructed in the making of lace, weaving mats, laundry work, etc. Pathe Review No. 79. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Pathecolor, quaint costumes of natives of Brittany; making of dolls, putting in the eyes and pasting on the hair, dressing the dolls; the Nature Dance of Ancient Rome; Ditmars' film, queer boarders at the Zoo, ant-eater from tropical America, his nine-inch long tongue working, the sloth, Pathecolor, religious pageant in Japan. New Screen Magazine No. 91. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Universal A saw log joy ride; a gyroscope compass, placing a gyroscope in a compass, master compass, all U. S. battleships have a gyroscope; the proper use of table ware; an introduction to sulphuric acid; comedy cartoon. Charles Urban's Movie Chat No. 23. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Herds of Wild Red Deer near the River Exe in West of England, a deer hunt; a modern bakery, mechanical dough mixer filled with ingredients, set in operation, transfers the dough to a portable trough, machines shape and cut the dough to the required weight of the loaf, which by endless belting is conveyed to the oven; native of the tropics climbing and descending cocoanut palm, dislodging the nut, removing the husk, split and dried in the sun, producing what is known as copra, tens of thousands of tons being used annually by soap makers. Ice and Snow. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Geology; water in the form of ice and snow, raindrops passing through the higher atmosphere, where the temperature is slightly below 32 degrees — the freezing point — freezes into snow flakes, iceberg floating, ice, in contact with salt, causes extreme cold; this is the principle used in freezing mixture. Water mixed with ammonia gas and sulphuric acid, subject to compressed air and ether freezes, in this way artificial ice is produced. Winter sports. SCENIC FILM Quaint Isle of Markon. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Educational Films Corp. of America Views of Island near Holland, sailing vessels, fishermen, dress and homes of people, canals, bride and groom, close-ups of children and babies. Mad Hatters. Reel, 1; producer, Chester-Outing; exchange, Educational Films Corp. of America Scenes of Batan, view of harbor and city, queer hats, cutting grass, plowing, sugar plantation, sheep herding, building stone wall, making road, school children, weaving, gardening and sewing. Falling Water. Reel, 1; exchange, Educational Films Corp. of America Robert C. Bruce scenic. Following the course of a mountain stream in its race to the ocean. Son of the Desert. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Select Traveling through the desert, offering prayers to Allah, etc. Waves of Fuenterabia — Blue Fishing Nets — The Storm. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. — A series of water scenes. Tropical Nights. Reel, 1; exchange, Educational Films Corp of America Robert C. Bruce West Indian scenic, tropical foliage, tree fern, cocoanut palm, sunset, cloud effects, moonlight and water scenes. (Turn to page 27)