Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

APPROVED FILMS and THEIR SOURCES New Releases of Travel, Literary, Industrial, Topical, and Comedy Subjects 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) GEOGRAPHICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Kineto Review, No. 17.* Reel, 1. Producer, Kineto Co. of America; exchange, National Exchanges. Remarks: Living Book of Knowledge series. Seeing Scotland. Wemyss Bay, world's longest extension bridge, Glenn Mamie, views from train. Falls of Mora, climbing Ben Nevis, bagpipers, steamer trip through lowlands of Rob Roy country, castle, highland locks, villages, Donelly castle, street minstrels, Oban pleasure boats, gala day for Jackies. Saba the Astonishing.* Reel, 1. Producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Community Motion Picture Service. Remarks: 3,000 feet above the Carribees in West Indies, tip of a crater, lake with no harbor, rocky cove, town called "Bottom" at top of mountain, winding stone stairs, ladies carried on shoulders of servants, empty jail, natives of Dutch origin, lime-juice king, lime trees, extracting oil from rind, grinding limes to pulp and pressing out the juice, "Madonna and Child" in niche of mountain, sugar factory in almost every backyard, build staunchest boats in West Indies, launching a newly-made boat. Toledo and Segovia.* Reel, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; Exchange, Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: Map, scenes in city of Toledo, Spain, Moorish gate, walls, Spanish Rome, bridge of Alcantara, River Tagus, The Alcazar, street scenes, squares and churches, by rail to Segovia, shawls worn by men, place where Queen Isabella was crowned, street scenes, views of Roman aqueduct built without mortar. Cruise to Vera Cruz.* Reel, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: Cut scenes and titles of drinking at the three-mile limit. Departure from New York, Harbor of Havana, Cuba, Parque Centrale and Opera House, Prado, streets and ferries, types. Fort of San Yuan de Ulne, old prisons cleaned out in 1914 by Yankees, one of Carranza's refugees, Custom House, Hotel Terminal, city founded by Cortez in 1519, Plaza of the Constitution, bull ring. Bora-Bodar and the Bromo— Java.* Reel, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: Animated map, fantastically foreign Java, oxcarts, size of New York State, 33,000,000 inhabitants, Gov. House, Bora-Bodar pyramid, Shrine of Buddha, restored by Dutch, view from top, carvings and ornate sculpture, Batik decorations, Lake Bagendit, fishing, music, dancing, rich crust of a volcanic ridge, geysers, Tosani, sandy sea, crater, active BromO through a telephone lens, paradise of lowland Java. Flaming Ice.* Reel, 1. Producer, Robertson-Cole; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc. Remarks: Adventure-scenic. Glacier before it was buried in winter's snows, glacial stream at base of glacier. Diagram of glacier, moraine, ice hundreds of feet below moraine, countless rills and pools on surface of glacier, crevasses, ice-pinnacles, forces of darkness and cold meet forces of light and heat, coldness and stillness in crevasses, scenes in sunless caverns. The Four Seasons.* Reel, 1. Producer, Raymond L. Ditmars; exchange, Kineto Co. of America. Remarks: Urban Popular Classic. SPRING. Frogs, pussy-willows, cricket, frogs' eggs, pollywogs, skunk cabbage, snakes, woodchuck, apple blossoms, birds, peacock, robins, baby birds, song-sparrow nest, chick emerging from shell, emu babies, baby squirrels, bear cubs, puppies, bat family, prairie-dog family, fawns, protecting buck shedding antlers, new horns sprouting, azalea blossoms, rhododendron. SUMMER. Daisies, dandelion seeds blowing, halfgrown squirrels, growing antlers of buck, bees' cells like soap bubbles under pressure, caterpillars, frog, mole, bats, lightning, cumulus clouds, summer storm, rain, hail, path of lightning-bolt, trout, beaver dam, tadpoles, polar bear. AUTUMN. Goldenrod, bumble bees, slowly falling leaves, chorus of insects, caterpillar seeks shelter in beehive, chiseling of beaver, tree felled, food and wood gathered, moored near beaver's nest, cocoon, purple asters, bees working fast, carpet of leaves, rattler with babies, autumn storm, deer's antlers grown long and hard, porcupine puts on coat of wool under quills, woodchuck retires, rabbit turns white. WINTER. Ducks and otter discover strange substance in water (ice), first snow, woodchuck's hole, cirrus clouds, storm clouds, winter storm, polar bear, bison, snow crystals, heavy snowfall, drifting winds, breath of the blizzard, Exchanges Mentioned in This List How to Obtain Any Film Mentioned The list gives the exchange distributing the film. Write to the address of the main office given below or look up your nearest distributing office of that concern in "1001 Films," Moving Picture Age's non-theatrical film directory, which every subscriber has, pages 12 to 19, inclusive. Community Motion Picture Service, National Non-Theatrical Motion 46 West 24th Street, New York City Pictures, Inc., 232 West 38th Street, New York City Famous Players-Lasky Corp., 485 Fifth Avenue, New York City Kineto Co. of America 71 W. 23d St., New York City Pathe Exchange, Inc., 35 W. 45th St.. 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