Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

February, 1922 MOVING PICTURE AGE 27 EAR-EYE-TOUCH The Most Musical, Most Comprehensive and Most Progressive Step in Music-Education Now in National and International Use, Is the EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD MUSIC SYSTEM which balances visual instruction with the co-ordination of EAR and TOUCH. NOW USED BY OVER 2,000 TEACHERS and over 50,000 students of piano, other instruments and voice. The appeal is individual, although critics, educators, parents, and students attest the remarkable advancement accomplished through the use of this system. Courses for teachers, mothers and students. Literature and details sent upon request. EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD MUSIC SYSTEM 4iy2 West 45th St. New York City great drifts, snow craters, squirrel, deer, woodchuck asleep under snow, digging out, nothing but warmth awakens him, breathing scarcely perceptible, wild turkeys, wild water-fowl, hare skips over landscape where he does not match, Bunny Cottontail. Kwang Chow Fu, Canton, China.* Reel, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: Chinese coast, Canton, up the Pearl River, ancient pagodas, ages-old walls, idol worship, sanctuary of the 500 divinities, statue of Marco Polo, Chinese doors, main street in China, weddings, funerals, skyscrapers, waterways, and floating population, one-quarter million live on boats, floating suburb, flower boats for Sing Sing Festival, stories, rickshaws. BIOLOGICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Crayfish and Stickleback. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Crayfish, anatomy, growing new legs after old ones have been severed, swimming, eating crabs and lobsters, eating small fish, feelers, head and thorax, eggs; stickleback, three-inch fish with spines along its back, grows in Northern Europe and North America, nests made by male fish, eggs numbering from 50 to 100, guarded by male, young fish newly hatched. From Scales to Antlers. Reels, 1. Producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Community Motion Picture Service. Remarks: Cut sub-title, "Speed laws be damned." Canoe trip in Quebec up the Atitamek River, fishing, camping, moose country, close-up views of moose along banks, baby moose. Pinfeathers and Pickaninnies. Reels, 1. Producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Community M. P. Service. Remarks: The peacock, baby night-hawk, yellow warbler, the chipping sparrow tree, feeding the young, baby pheasants, band-tailed pigeons, bluejay, southern birds on Gulf Islands, tern family, skinners, scissorsbeak, blue heron, white heron, pelican, black-necked stilt. The Monarch Butterfly. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Larvae get shelter and food from common milkweed; "feelers" at each end; when full grown, larva spins a silk button from which to hang by the tail; after hanging several hours, one white stripe remains and the antennae shrivel; next it works legs loose inside old skin and works it off, emerging pale green chrysalis, wings tightly folded in chrysalis; legs, antennas, and proboscis folded between wings; butterfly breaks out, very weak, wings dry and expand; strength comes through several hours' exercise, a perfect butterfly, male and female. QUARTER SIZE 2^ inch 2% ;; $30 31 1 to 6 inches $25 SOLD BY ALL LEADING SUPPLY HOUSES Send for descriptive booklet. HALF SIZE 5% to 6% inches $50 9 to 11 inches $60 KOLLMORGEN OPTICAL COMPANY 35 Steuben Street Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A. We manufacture "Snaplite Jr." lenses for portable projection machines. General Science Visualized The adaptation of Motion Pictures for School use. A splendid Course of 64 films comprehensively arranged for the pupil, at a cost of $60.00. The Course includes: — The wonderful Bray Pictographs — How we hear —How we breathe — How life begins — Thru life's windows — Origin of coal —Formation of dew — And many others. Supplied with the Course is a handbook covering each Picture in detail ; outl ining each lesson purpose. The editing of this book was done by J. H. Wilson, former Head of Visual Instruction of the Detroit Public schools. Mr. Wilson reviewed every foot of film in the course. The entire Course of 64 Basic and 200 Supplementary Films is on Safety Standard (non-inflammable) stock for use on any Safety Standard projector. "Without the Booth but Within the Law" Among over 1000 subjects available are Oliver Twist; Les Miserables; Vicar of Wakefield; David Copperfield; 18 films in General Physics and hundreds on Geography, History, Agriculture, Mining, Industry, etc. If your School does not own a motion picture machine write for infor„ mation about the Victor Safety Cinema. SHIPPED ON TRIAL SPECIAL EASY TERMS United Projector & Film Corp. General Office: 69-71 W. Mohawk Street, Buffalo, N. Y. ®^SS.®N®>s@ Please say, "As advertised in MOVING PICTURE AGE," when you write to advertisers.