Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1921)

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22 MOVING PICTURE AGE February, 1921 Instructional Films and Where to Get Them (Continued from page 20) football, canoe contests, centipede race, sea nymphs, floating and swimming, attainig perfect form, the dance — class instruction, classic dancing. Charles Urban's Movie Chat, No. 8. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Destroying German shells and bombs on light railway trucks; assembling, of a desk telephone consisting of 205 distinct parts; the phenomena of the transformation of a dragon fly, the species shown is agrion puella, full grown nymphs, ready for transformation, blood vessels can be distinctly seen in this magnified view of the tail plates, when about to emerge, the nymph leaves the water and crawls slowly up a reed of plant-stem, the great transformation, showing the details of this process, inspecting the skin from which it emerged. Trainers exercise their horses, preparatory to the opening of the racing season in Macon, Ga.; fishing for trout in the mountain streams of North Carolina; Ty Cobb hunting with his famous dog "Hall;" fishing for Kingfish in the Gulf of Mexico off Pass-a-'Grill, Florida. How Plants Are Born, Live and Die. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. This picture of plant life was taken in such a way that the development which takes place in nature appears here, in scientifically correct reproduction, accelerated 800 times. How Blossom Opens. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Showing the actual birth of flowers and leaves, 11, 000 times more rapidly than in reality, lilac, the action of a late frost on the blossom, the cherry blossom, horse-chestnut chrysanthemums, etc. The Business of Camping. Reel, 1; exchange, Educational Films Corp. Robert C. Bruce American Scenic. Comparing the methods of the old time "hiker" to the modern camper. The old-timer usually camped on the shore of a lake, every day his supper consisted of the same four "Bs" — beans, bacon, bread and buckwheat cakes. The camper nowadays travels with all the "comforts of home," his cooking utensils all packed in neat cases, a "place for everything," carrying nothing that is not compact and useful. If. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Select Fruits in black and color. Malayan Motor Roads. Reel, 1; producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Animated map, the Malay Peninsula, oxcart, the speedless life, mending roads, bridges, native houses, palmy days, forest aisles, native dress, women s costumes, the bullock and the zebu. In the Finistere. Reel, 1; producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Player-Lasky Corp. The Land End of France, the famous sardine fleet, 800 boats, a catch. Breton girls, market, following a funeral on foot, St. Ronans well, a Pardon or pilgrimage, old costumes, native dress, brides, the Pardon of St. John. Travels in China. Reel, 1; producer, Bray; exchange, Gold wyn Hong Kong, the Bund; traveling in a sedan chair, the ghetto, English quarter, botanical gardens, etc. "A Line of Thought," cartoon. Pathe Review, No. 82. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Hy Mayer Capital Travelaugh, "Such Is Life in New York East Side;" kitchen hints, how to make biscuits; the home of Annabel Lee; Pathecolor, scenes of the French Alps, Chamonix, Mount Blanc. Charles Urban's Movie Chat, No. 13. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Scenes of the Scilly Islands, the rocky coast of St. Mary's, the largest of the group, which lies about 30 miles off Lands End, the extreme southern point of Cornwall, in the English Channel, real old world atmosphere of the village, hot-houses and fields of daffodils, narcissus and lilies, quaint lighthouses. Handling gigantic logs in the saw-mills of western Canada, sawing them into various lengths and thicknesses; box-making machines in operation. Pack of English fox hounds, fox terrier eating peanuts, wirehaired fox terriers, pomeranian, Irish setters, greyhounds. Then Company Came — Art Is Everything. Reel, 1; producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Educational Films Corp. Scenes of mother fly and her hundreds of eggs, from the time the eggs are laid in a rubbish heap to the time the offspring have grown to maturity, close-ups of the fly — his wings, eyes, legs, head and tongue, showing the danger to which human beings are subjected by this infectious insect. Scenes of Santiago, the capital of Chile, beautiful buildings and well-cultivated parks, cleanliness everywhere, no advertisements on buildings, the poor quarters, out-of-door market, etc. Plants Which Eat — Plants With Nerve. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. Plants which eat, the sarracenia purpurea, the drosera or sundew, the butterwort; the miniosa, a plant with nerve. New Screen Magazine, No. 95. Reel, 1; exchange, Universal Nature's hot water plant, views of gysers; a two-ring beauty, acrobatics; a future Michael Angelo; slow motion pictures showing swimming; a "Pig in a Pen," cartoon. exchange, Beseler Educathe calliana, squill, sea Bees and honey, showing How Life Begins. Reel, 4; produced by J. A. Long, Ph.D., and George E. Stone, A.B., of the University of California. Not being released. Pictures show the manner in which fertilization is brought about in the vegetable kingdom, illustrated by examples of the geranium and pea, and the part the insects play in carrying the pollen of the male plant to the flower of the female. The manner of impregnation of the female egg in some of the lower orders of animal life, as well as as in some orders of mammals; the frog, white rat and chicken are used to illustrate the process, covering the entire period from conception to birth. The division of the simple slipper-shaped one-cell organism into two cells. Many of the organisms shown are magnified thousands of times, and periods of growth requiring many months are reproduced on the screen in a few seconds. Pathe Review, No. 83. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Scenes of the Green Mountains in the Bay State; how rings are made, making a man's amethyst ring; Novagraph slow motion photography, shooting the waves; the musicians in feathers, training singing birds; the Rip Van Winkle of flowerdom, the cyclamen. Charles Urban's Movie Chat, No. 20. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights Scenes from the famous Carrara marble quarries in the Apennines, Italy; blocks of the finest marble in the world, destined for memorials, sculpture, and building; mock ceremony of King Neptune and his followers, on board ship crossing the line of the Equator; Yarmouth, one of the great fishing ports on the east coast of England, a morning's catch being prepared for the auctioneer and buyers previous to being shipped to London; large herds of cattle in Western Canada; rounding up a drove of horses on a Canadian range and breaking them to the saddle. New Screen Magazine, No. 89. Reel, 1; exchange, Universal When the clouds roll by unusual effects derived from trick photography; our telltale hands, the hands of a well-known writer and musician; a feathered scavenger, the eared vulture; a study in black and white, making mask of negro; the evolution of the dollar sign. The Hosts of the Sea. Reel, 1; tional Film Co. Shrimp fishing, spider, galathea aplysia, synguathi. the life in a bee hive. The Pitcher Plant — Mushroom Culture. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Educational Film Co. — The pitcher plant, native of Asia, Australia and North Borneo, its curious pitcher-like formation serves to catch water and insects, the flower, the development of the pitcher, full grown. Mushroom culture, old stone quarries are good places for mushroom culture, offering the proper amount of moisture, warmth and darkness, building long compact mound of manure, mushroom spawn planted in mound, •mushrooms begin to appear, three weeks in nature in 20 seconds on screen, some fine specimens. Pathe Review, No. 84. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe Pathecolor, pictures from Japan; all hot, red hot, making of sausages; a real old-fashioned farm in New York City, corner Broadway and Riverside Drive; Capitol Travelaughs, Provincetown, tablet commemorating the landing of the Pilgrims, old town crier swinging his bell in the town square, fishing in Provincetown is not a sport but a profession; music in the air, ringing the chimes in old Seville, Spain. Bray Pictograph, No. 7068. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Goldwyn The action of the human heart, anotomical chart in motion, showing the valvular action of the heart and the complete circulatory system in a human body, how the blood is purified by arteries, veins, lungs and heart; coasting the clouds; glimpse of one of the greatest railroads in the world, the Aroya, 15,600 feet high, built by Henry Meiggs, an American. Cut cartoon. New Screen Magazine, No. 97. Reel, 1; exchange, Universal Cylon, India, Buddhist temples, etc. Circus in Toyland, mechanical toys and dolls; a gentleman at play, catching butterflies and mounting them in frames; a day of a dog's life, cartoon. The Royal Family of Swaziland. Reel, 1 ; producer, Prizma; exchange, Select Swaziland in South Africa. A Tale of the Fur North. Reel, 1; exchange, Educational Film Corp. Incidents of the Eskimos' life, with a little romance interwoven, march to trading post, putting up tents, fishing, skin-covered canoes, handling skins of wild animals, packing skins for market, games and dances. Water Babies. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of American exchange, State Rights Elephant taking bath, frog, capybara, the largest rodent found in South American rivers, hippopotamus in its native element, hippo and young in captivity, pigmy hippopotamus, newts, of the salamander family, salamander otter, fresh-water turtles in a tank, sea-turtle waving its powerful flippers, polar bear at play, young seal, sea-lions, sea-elephant, walrus playing the mouth organ, trumpet and horn. Charles Urban's Movie Chat, No. 7. Reel, 1; producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, State Rights On a cargo ship between Dublin and Holyhead; shearing sheep, wool is washed, dried and dyed under the most primitive conditions, warping and spinning on reels in an old waterdriven mill in (Turn to page 27)