Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1921)

26 MOVING PICTURE AGE February, 1921 Instructional Productions of the Month Contents of NewsWeeklies, Screen Magazines, Industrials and Scenic Reels, Which Have a Regular Release Date, Will Be Reviewed in This Department. Warships to Winter Practice in International UNCLE SAM'S mighty armada of fighting craft assembling for winter maneuvers off Panama is shown in International News No. 2 released by Universal. This news reel contains striking views of the dreadnaughts Arizona and Pennsylvania leaving New York. Studying the moon through the world's biggest telescope is the title of one of the subjects contained in this issue. An International cameraman visited the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and made a very interesting subject showing how the moon looks through a 62-foot telescope. International in this issue presents the first pictures of the stranded steamer Austral Plain off Long Beach, L. I. Scenes show the Coast Guard men from Point Lookout going to the rescue of the ill-fated vessel and views of the stranded ship. Other subjects included in this issue include the following: Channing H. Cox in Coolidge's place. Succeeds vice-president-elect as Bay State Executive. Miss Anne Morgan a fight promoter. Daughter of noted financier backs Leonard-Mitchell title bout to raise funds for France, New York City ; Bachelor admiral adopts seven waifs ; Newton A. McCully of U. S. Navy will be father to Russian youngsters ; "Circus riding keeps artillery boys in trim, Fort Meyer, Va. How the Voice Works in Bray Pictograph PICTOGRAPH 7070, made at the Bray Studios and released by Goldwyn exchanges, opens with another of F. Lyle Goldman's masterpieces in the way of teaching elementary physiology by means of motion technical drawings. This subject, "The Human Voice," gives you a simple lesson in the uses, position, appearance and operation of the vocal chords in the human throat. The second subject, "Hoot Mon !" is a lesson in Natural History by William L. and Irene Finley of the National Association of Audubon Societies. This time the lesson is humorous as well as instructive, as it deals with different kinds of owls and their curious uncanny habits of life. The titles are by Marguerite Cove. The cartoon in this release is by that inimitable Frenchman, M. Gic, whose drawings though executed in a single line without lifting the -pen from the drawing board, are technically perfect. How Messages Travel in Ford Weekly FORTY-FIVE seconds from Broadway to San Francisco is the rate at which stock quotations are flashed across the continent by means of electricity, and thirty minutes from Far Rockaway to London is the record for telegrams. Some difference between the first primitive method by which the message traveled only as quickly as a man's legs could carry him. The history of the transmitting of messages from the time of the Indiana runner, to thirty mintes from America to Europe, is told in the Ford Educational Weekly No. 2, "The Message," which was released through the Federated Film Exchanges of America, Inc., on January 16th. When men first realized that "leg-power" was too slow for many messages they tried signaling by smoke, from which later developed the wig-wag. Then came regular delivery of mail, but this also consumed too much time and something faster had to be devised. "The Message" goes on to tell us pictorially how telegrams are sent, received, sorted, routed, delivered, how operators are trained. It also shows us how these almost unbelievable records are made, such as eleven minutes for a message from New York to San Francisco, and the even faster special stock quotations sent across the continent in forty-five seconds, and the speed of cablegrams, how wireless is sent and received, and how the radiophone and heliograph are operated. Developing Community Centers THOSE interested in Community Center development will find worth while a series of publications put out by the Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation, 130 East 22nd street, New York City. Some of their booklets are : Rec. 153. Motion Pictures for Schools, Churches, and Community Centers. Free. Rec. 149. First Steps in Community Center Development. Price 10 cents. Rec. 150. School Center Gazette, 1919-1920. Price 25 cents. Rec. 148. Community Center Activities. Price 60 cents. A complete list of publications will be furnished to applications to the Foundation. New Distributors for Ford Educational Weekly (Clip and Paste in "1001 Films") BEGINNING with January 1, 1921, the Ford Educational Weekly will be distributed by the exchanges of the Federated Film Exchanges of America, Inc., whose headquarters are at 729 Seventh avenue, New York City. As many of the readers of Moving Picture Age use the Ford Educational Weekly, a list of the exchanges are given. This would be a good list to clip and paste into the book "1101 Films," as it a change made since the book was published. The Federated Film Exchanges will handle all old as well as new releases, supplanting Goldwyn Distributing Corporation in the handling of the Ford films. Write the local exchange nearest you Pearce Films, 146 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. Empire State Film Corp., Albany, N. Y. Empire State Film Corp., 327 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. Federated Film Exchange, 48 Piedmont St., Boston, Mass. Federated Film Exchange, 412 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. Celebrated Players Film Corp., 207 S. Wabash Av., Chicago, 111. Standard Film Service Co., Sloan Building, Cleveland, O. Standard Film Service Co., Film Exchange Bldg., Cincinnati, O. Specialty Film Co., 107 S. St. Paul St., Dallas, Tex. Supreme Photoplay Co., 1446 Welton St., Denver, Colo. Standard Film Service Co., Film Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Greater Productions, Inc., 100 E. Locust St., Des Moines, Iowa. Crescent Film Co., 17th and Main Sts., Kansas City, Mo. Consolidated Film Corp., 738 N. Olive St., Los Angeles, Cal. Specialty Film Co., 1114 W. Market St., Little Rock, Ark. Merit Film Corp., 206 Film Exchange Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Mid-West Distributing Corp., Tov Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. Empire State Film Corp., 729 Seventh Ave., New York, N. Y. Pearce Films, 608 Canal St., New Orleans, La. Federated Film Exchange, 139 Meadow St., New Haven, Conn. Greater Productions, Inc., 1312T/2 Farnum St., Omaha, Neb. Specialty Film Co., 112 S. Hudson St., Oklahoma City, Okla. Quality Film Corp., 414 Ferry St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Masterpiece Film Attractions, 1235 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. Consolidated Film Corp., 90 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Cal. Supreme Photoplay Co., 2022 Third Ave., Seattle, Wash. Supreme Photoplay Co., 58 Exchange PI.. Salt Lake City, Utah. United Film Service Co., 3728 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. Masterpiece Film Attractions, Scranton, Pa. Thirty Philadelphia schools now have machines and rent pictures from exchanges for educational use.