Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

38 REEL and SLIDE "Boy Life" Subject of Series to Be Released The new screen review which the Boys' Life Productions are offering through the Juvenile Photoplay Distributors, Inc., seems destined for a place of prominence among film releases of its kind, judging from the first issue. As its name would imply, it is given up more or less to things pertaining to youth at work and at play. It contains entertainment for the adult as well as for the child, and has every appearance of being able to fill a gap in the average program of which we are not conscious until it is filled ; and that is the picturing of the side of life in which the average boy and girl is especially interested, and which also awakens pleasant reminiscences in the minds of adults. The first issue contains a picture of President Wilson, who is also president of the Boy Scouts of America, and a glimpse into the life of Theodore Roosevelt, late vice-president of the organization. Scenes in which boys from the city are being initiated into the secrets of forestry, boys at play in nature's pools on the rugged coast of California, sea scouts, learning some of the things that help to make good sailors, and pictures of bo3's who have won prizes for expert knowledge of some certain branch of industry or sport, or who have distinguished themselves in some other unusual way, are shown. Tommy Kehoe, the seventeen-year-old British boy, who enlisted with the British troops as a bugler and later found his way into the trenches, where he served for a period of three or four years, appears in this issue. One of the subjects that will please the youngsters is a "Raid on Tin Can Hill," in which a group of boys take part in a sham battle and gas attack. They are equipped with improvised gas masks and throw tin can grenades. "On Nature's Trail" will be a feature of the review which will strive to live up to its name. Williamsons Plan Educationals Williamson Brothers of New York, producers of the undersea pictures, including "The Submarine Eye," which attracted so much attention a couple of years ago, will shortly produce films showing the construction of a coral island and other marine phenomena. The Williamsons are the inventors of the undersea bell in which the moving picture operator is able to make scenes of the bottom of the sea. The widespread interest in educational pictures and the interest displayed in the Williamson methods by the country's leading scientists is responsible for the move outlined above. Marine verdure will form one of the interesting subjects in the series, according to the company. One impression on the mind through the eye is worth a thousand through the ear. Films of Business 220 West 42nd Street, NEW YORK Kinogram Has Instructional The Kinogram, produced by the Kinogram Publishing Companjr, 71 West Twenty-third Street, New York, and released on the W'orld Film Corporation program, is now being widely distributed throughout the United States and may be seen in the leading theaters. It is the newest entry into the screen magazine field and contains, for the most part, subjects with instructional value. It is a combination between the news weekly and the feature picture, the subjects having timeliness but not necessarily news value. Costly Slides in the long run, are inexpensive slides. A good image on the screen only conies from a cheap slide — by accident. Have your slides made and colored by one who has visited the places you are lecturing on. Atmosphere is everything in a lantern slide. 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