Catalog of Pathex Motion Pictures for the Home (1927)

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60 P at h ex Mot ion Pictures "Out of the Swim" No. M 17 Two Reels $3.50 A swimming hole, a warm spring day and two boys —what's the answer? This picture, chock full of mirth and action, contains it— and a surprising one, too. "Billiard Stunts" A Grantland Rice Sportlight No. M 20 One Reel $1.75 Even solid ivory can be trained! See Larry Stoutenburgh, vaudeville billiard stunt artist, make the balls do everything but talk. An exhibition of uncanny skill that will amaze you. "Matchless Fires" No. M 21 One Reel $1.75 What a picture for the boy scouts! Bill and Bob run out" of matches while in the woods and proceed to make a fire by scout methods. "Sealing Wax Stunts" No. M 22 One Reel $1.00 How the thrifty housewife, with an eye to the decoration of her home, may apply this simplest of products to the embellishment of vases, lamp shades and other novelties. "Assorted Steps" From Pathe Review No. M 23 One Reel $1.75 The inside story of a dancing diversion, with slow motion scenes that show how a great many terpsichorean feats are performed in the ball-room and on the stage. "The Phantom Ballet" From Pathe Review No. M 26 One Reel $1.75 An unusual specimen of special photography by Alvin V. Knechtel, in which Mile. Eleanore Flaig, is shown in multiple images of herself performing the same figure of the dance. Other scenes show her in combined slow motion and normal action at the same time. "Just Babies" From Pathe News No. M 27 One Reel $1.00 Keeping our future citizens physically fit. The methods used by modern science in tests of heart, lungs and weight, all looking to the increase of the nation's "perfect children."