Educational film catalog (1936)

EDUCATIONAL FILM CATALOG "Of course, who doesn't? Some doubts as to whether this book will do it." PCW film service "There may be enough material in this book for a short article. To stretch it to book length required a lot of padding—and it is poor quality padding. Simple ideas are elaborated with pseudo-technical jargon which transforms a plain statement into an obscure page. The chief impression made by the book is one of offensive condescension and frequent error en- veloped in bombast. It is written for the be- ginner." N.Y. Times PERSONNEL group. National retail dry goods assn. Directory of training films. 21p 2d ed mimeo 50c 1939 The assn., 101 W 31st St, New York City "The Personnel Group first released a 'Di- rectory of Training Films' on October 1, 1936. This directory was supplemented from time to time. This, the second edition of the Personnel Group's 'Directory of Training Films' will re- place the original directory and its supplements. It, too, will be supplemented as new develop- ments in the training film field occur." Pub- lisher's note Two supplements to this list are also avail- able and the publishers report that the main list itself is in process of revision PRICE, IRA. Hundred million movie-goers must be right. 178p $2.50 1939 Movie appreciation press, 1104 Prospect Av, Cleveland "An aid to movie appreciation; with a chap- ter on comedy by Charles F. Riesner." Subtitle PRYOR, WILLIAM CLAYTON, and PRYOR, MRS HELEN SLOMAN. Let's go to the mov- ies. 183p il $2.50 1939 Harcourt "Chapters on various steps in the making of good motion pictures of different types: news- reel, feature, story, short subjects, and car- toons. The authors consider the story, direc- tion, actors, photography, costumes, sets and editing." Book rev. digest "The Pryor's books take young people just where they want to go—in the engine of a train, on the bridge of a boat, for a ride on the hook-and-ladder, and furthermore answer satis- factorily questions that have plagued parents for ages—and now youth is off to Hollywood. With profuse and excellent camera illustrations the tour begins in a motion picture theatre with a standard program and from there to the stu- dios where each segment of a picture is ex- plained: the story, direction, photography, sound, costuming, sets, editing—everything worked into the whole pattern. 'Let's Go to the Movies' goes still further and delves into those-ever-recurring motion picture questions— the star system, block-booking, double features and censorship. Both adults and adolescents will find this latest pictorial Pryor journey both edifying and entertaining." Design QUARRIE corporation, Chicago. Reference li- brary. Free and inexpensive educational ma- terials; including sources of visual aids. (Special report, no 17) 134p 5th rev ed pa $5 1940 The library, 35 Wacker drive, Chicago "In selecting the entries to be included in this report, particular attention has been given to the teacher's needs, omission also being made of items that are essentially commercial or too technical for general use. Immediately before going to press, each entry was checked for accuracy and availability through the organiza- tion by which it is distributed." Preface y REID, SEERLEY. Hollywood hokum—the Eng- lish teacher's responsibility. 8p free 1940 Ohio state univ. This reprint from the English Journal of March 1940 may be had for a self-addressed large-sized envelop. It is a discussion of how English teachers can best make use of motion pictures ROBSON, E. W. and ROBSON, M. M. Film answers back. 336p il 12s 6d 1939 Lane "This latest bulky work on films is an essay on a single theme. Its authors set out to prove that it is box-office pressure that wrests from producers films of constantly improving quality and that only Hollywood delivers the goods. Pre-Nazi German films . . . are dismissed as unwholesome, and French films are typified by Clair's primitive 'Italian Straw Hat' and con- demned. A discussion of British films is in- flated to fill fifty pages by shot-by-shot analyses of Korda epics and of Tom Walls and Will Hay comedies; there is one passing reference to Hitchcock and no mention at all of Asquith, Carol Reed, Robert Stevenson, Michael Powell, or any realist film or documentary director. The authors' admiration for the American cinema does not save Joel McCrea and Mack Sennett from misspelling." Manchester guard- ian "This discursive volume on the history and aesthetics of the film is breezily written and contains much serious-minded comment. Like numerous other volumes in its enthusiastic kind, however, it suffers from a certain large- ness of statement about the cultural springs and influences of the cinema. . , The num- erous illustrations are a mixed lot and are oddly captioned." Times (London) lit, sup. SIMON, S. SYLVAN. Let's make movies. 112p il $1.50 1940 French Written for the amateur movie-maker by a Hollywood director. The book gives a number of "tricks of the trade" and inexpensive means of achieving "effects." Contents: Getting the proper equipment; Making your camera tell a story; Two sample scenarios for amateur use; Let's shoot the picture; Some hints on shooting outdoors; Photographing indoors; Flicker facts on acting and directing; Film editing; Nerve and time-savers for the amateur cutter; Trick photography and effects; Making your own titles; How to make trick titles; Making your own talking pictures; Making money with your camera SMETHURST, PHILIP C. Professional quality on amateur reversal film. 104p il 5s 1939 Link house A comprehensive guide to exposing cine film SOCIAL work publicity council. Filming social facts. (How-to-do-it ser.) 19p mimeo 50c 1939 The council, 130 E 22d St, New York City A symposium on the making and use of motion pictures. "Welfare film viewed by a producer," by B. N. Skellie of Willard pictures. "Documentary films for social work interpre- tation," by Arch A. Mercey formerly with the United States film service. "Theater distribu- tion of non-commercial motion pictures," by Elsa Volckmann of the Metropolitan life in- surance company SPENCER, DOUGLAS ARTHUR, and WALEY, H. D. Cinema to-day. (Pageant of progress ser.) 190p il $1.75 [4s 6d] 1940 Oxford "Has a brief introductory chapter on the theory of 'persistence of vision' and on the development of moving pictures from the Zoe- trope to the cinema of to-day before getting on to how movies move and talkies talk. Much of the book is devoted to the equipment used in making and showing films and to the processing of cine-film. Most interesting are the chapters on the architectural, electrical, and acoustical problems met and solved in the building of the modern cinema, the exposition of the various methods of colour-cinematog- raphy, of stereoscopy, and of trick work Chapters on the use and the value of the sub- standard film are helpful; the final chapters— on the aesthetic history of the film, on the film industry and its social importance—seem to be there only for the sake of completeness and are too short to be of real value The short bibliography, on the other hand, which covers all possible aspects of the cinema, is Xlll