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Visual Education
THE VILLAGE OF POWHATAN
A scene from the "Jamestown" film that embodies and vivifies the contents of many textbook chapters on Indian dress, architecture,
amusements and methods of work.
Filming the Story of America
Some Facts of Interest About the Yale History Films
Nathaniel W. Stephenson Professor of History and Economics, College of Charleston, Charleston, S. C.
THE serious business of presenting American history on the screen has recently been undertaken by the Chronicles of America Picture Corporation, which has been organized under the auspices of the Yale University Press.
The genesis of this corporation is interesting. Several years ago, the Yale Press set about producing a history of the United States which should satisfy both the popular and the learned reader. After preat labor by many writers, under the general editorship of Professor Allen Johnson of Yale, there was published in fifty volumes the Chronicles of America.
Almost as soon as these books were made public, it was propose 1 to the Yale Press to permit the issue of a series of photoplays based upon them. However, being keenly aware how recklessly history
has been juggled on the screen, the Yale Press was slow to consent. A year and a half was consumed ir discussion before a working agreement could be reached. Finally, permission was given to prepare a hundred reels dealing with events in American history. This permission, however, was conditioned upon a very systematic oversight by trained historians. It w.ts agreed that a Board of Editors should be appointed by the Council's Committee on Publications of Yale University, and that this board should intimately oversee the whole process of the production of the pictures and should have absolute veto with regard to anything whatsoever that seemed to it improper, whether as history or as mode of presentation.
Personnel of the Undertaking
At the head of the Picture Corporation is Mr. George Parmlv
Day, Treasurer of Yale University and President and Founder of Yale University Press. Mr. Arthur H. Brook, who has been associated with the Press in the publishing of the Chronicles of America since the series was begun, is Vice-President and Treasurer. The Council's Committee on Publications is, as has been said, represented by an Editorial Board consisting of Dr. Max Farrand, Professor of American History at Yale; Dr. Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Sterling Professor of School Administration and head of the Department of Education of Yale ; and Professor Nathaniel W. Stephenson, Professor of History and Economics in the College of Charleston, S. C, who has been an exchange professor at Yale during the absence of Professor Farrand. At the head of the production department is Mr. Robert E. MacAlarney, formerly