Educational film catalog (1936)

EDUCATIONAL FILM CATALOG and Art, Nature, Teacher Training, Special Days, and Entertainment." Harmon founda- tion JACOBS, LEWIS. Rise of the American film; a critical history. 585p il $4.50 1939 Harcourt "The book stresses the inter-relationship and contributions of each of these three major fac- tors which are responsible for the American motion picture's phenomenal rise: the business man, the scientist, the artist." Publisher's note JOHNSTON, WINIFRED. Memo on the mov- ies; war propaganda, 1914-1939. (Cooperative bks, ser 1, no5) 68p pa 50c 1939 Cooperative bks, Norman, Okla. Study of war propaganda conducted thru moving pictures "This purports to be a factual study of the relation of motion pictures to war propaganda in the World War of 1914 and in the one now current. Much in the booklet is actual fact, but more of it seems to follow this line of argument: The leading motion picture com- panies are financed and therefore controlled by Wall Street bankers; these bankers wanted the war in 1914 and deliberately used motion pic- tures to stir up the people to hate Germany and demand America's participation on the side of the Allies. Today, so the argument runs, Wall Street bankers are repeating this process; they have already used the movies to glorify war as the only solution of the international conflict. They are now ready for the final step: to bring forth a bunch of pictures designed to show Germany or bolshevism or both as the great villain whom the American people must defeat on the battlefield in order to save civil- ization. We have no brief either for the Wall Street bankers or the motion picture trust, but this argument seems considerably oversimplified and unconvincing." Christian century KELIHER, ALICE VIRGINIA, ed. Movie work- ers [by the] Picture fact associates. (Pic- ture fact bks, group 1) 56p il high school ed 80c; juvenile ed $1 1939 Harper Contents: Movie history; Workers who make a movie; Going into movie work; Training for work in the movies; Other uses of the movies McKAY, HERBERT. Movie making for the beginner. (Little technical lib, no5) 98p il 50c 1939 Ziff-Davis publishing co, 608 S Dearborn St, Chicago; 381 Fourth Av, New York City Contents: Modern movies; What makes 'em move?; Photography of movies; Modern cam- eras; Using the camera; Movies versus photog- raphy; Amateur motion-picture production; Art of titling; Editing the film; Home processing; Projection MILLER, BRUCE, comp. Sources of free and inexpensive teaching aids. 77p pa $1 1939 The compiler, Box 222, Ontario, Cal. "This list of material has been compiled with the idea of especially helping those teachers who have been forced, through necessity, to teach without sufficient tools or who feel the need of further supplementary teaching aids." Preface This list should prove more useful to teachers wanting visual aids other than the moving pic- ture. For the moving picture it gives only a list of sources. For maps, charts, leaflets, mod- els and exhibits, however, it is a very valuable descriptive and source list MORGAN, WILLARD D. and LESTER, HENRY M, eds. Leica manual. 570p il $4 3d ed 1940 Morgan & Lester, 100 E 42d St. New York City A manual for the amateur and professional covering the field of miniature camera photog- raphy NATIONAL board of review of motion pictures. Selected book-films compiled for Book week, Nov. 10th-16th 1940. 19th ed pa 10c The board, 70 Fifth Av, New York City List of films reviewed from October 1939 to October 1940. Adapted from novels and plays and having book value tie-up ./NATIONAL education association of the United States. Department of elementary school principals. Visual education. 94p il pa 50c 1940 The assn., 1201 Sixteenth St, NW, Washington, D.C. "This is the best and most timely volume in our field to appear this year. It is a compila- tion of the experiences of elementary school principals, supervisors and teachers in the use of visual aids. All articles contained in this concise little bulletin are written with a view to giving practical guidance. The bulletin was designed for the modern curriculum. The au- thors have found authority for using motion pictures, film-slides and other aids in the state- ments of Kilpatrick, Dewey, and other eminent philosophers. Contributors to the volume have been drawn from the membership of the Ele- mentary School Principals' group, but many of them have been affiliated with the visual educa- tion movement. They include Harry Haw, Eugene Herrington, Fred Orth, Ruth Livermon, Marion Evans, John E. Hansen, William G. Hart and others. . . Many leads are furnished in 'Visual Education' for pupil participation in handling equipment, in making and in using visual aids. Source lists of films for primary grades and for teacher training are appended, as are bibliographies and addresses of dealers." Educational screen MAURER, J. A. Present technical status of 16mm. sound-film, free 1939 Berndt-Maurer r ^OOrp., 117 E 24th St, New York City Reprinted from Journal of the society of motion picture Engineers, September, 1939, pages 315-325 "Technical in nature and shows why sound recording directly in 16mm. film produces higher quality results than the method of recording on 35mm. film and reducing to 16mm. for the final print." Educational screen MAURER, J. A. 16mm. sound films by direct recording. 8p free Berndt-Maurer Corp., 117 E 24th St, New York City Reprinted from the Journal of the photo- graphic society of America vol. V, no. 2, May 1939. This is similar to the reprint listed above MICROFILM abstracts. 2v free 1938-1939 Uni- versity microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich. A collection of abstracts of Doctoral dis- sertations which are available in complete form on microfilm. Volume 2 has a cumulative index of titles ^ NATIONAL education 'association of the United States. Research division. Safety education projects. Visual aids in safety education. 32p pa 25c 1940 The assn., 1201 Sixteenth St, NW, Washington, D.C. "A worthwhile bulletin. . . Included . . . are lists of sound and silent safety films, reviews of these films, lists of available sound-slide films, silent film strips, and lantern slides. Sources of safety posters and distributors of safety films and slides are also given. The films included in the list were judged by the committee members and also by groups of children of all grade levels. The students' reactions were carefully checked and the adult reviews were revised accordingly." PCW film service 4 NATIONAL health council. Sources of health films for -lay audiences. 12p pa 10c 1940 The council, 1790 Broadway, New York City "The purpose of this jist is to inform its users from where they may obtain 16mm. prints of motion pictures on given health sub- jects. The list contains only sources with na- tionwide film distribution." Introduction XI