Catalogue of Pathépictures Selected for Educational, Religious and Social Groups (1925)

10 PATHEPICTURES Features THE feature pictures described on the following pages have been carefully selected from a long list of pictures made for the general theatrical audience, and as carefully classified according to the needs of the nontheatrical exhibitor. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (M., H.S., Ch.) 6 Reels This true story of the life of the Eskimo has marked an epoch in the history of the educational motion picture. "Nanook of the North" is educational, thrillingly interesting, realistic and scientific. "Nanook of the North" was photographed by a scientist and explorer, Robert J. Flaherty, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, three hundred miles beyond Civilization's most northerly outpost. Mr. Flaherty led five William Mackenzie expeditions into North Hudson Bay regions. He discovered and charted the Belcher Islands of Hudson Bay. During the ten years covered by these explorations, Mr. Flaherty lived in intimate association with the small tribe of Eskimos who inhabit the Ungava Peninsula, one of the regions least accessible to white men on the North American Continent. Nanook, the hero of the story, is a real-life hero. He is chief of the "Itivimuits" and famous through all Ungava as a great Hunter. The score or so of native families constituting the tribe are peculiarly isolated and therefore faithful to their racial traditions and mode of life and entirely independent of civilization. No matter what the nature of your programs may be, whether religious, instructional, scientific, social or recreational, "Nanook of the North" has a place among them. THE CALL OF THE WILD (M., H.S., Ch.) 6 Reels For a description of this picturization of Jack London's book we quote a critic on one of our biggest American dailies. "With spare titles and barely more than the cold white North for scenery, the dog seems to tell his own story — how he was stolen, sold up the Klondike as a beast of burden under the lash of many masters, till he found a man who was his friend; and how he rolled over the precipice in a death struggle with the murderer of his friend, and then, his little obligation to mankind fulfilled, listened to the call of his blood brother and sister and went out into the waste to become a wolf. "Buck is the dog, and a good actor. He has no tricks and sheds no glycerine tears. He just plays the story. And if he is more convincing as the friend of man than as his enemy, so much the better. It speaks well for the way they treat a workmanlike actor of a dog in the movies that this one has some difficulty in accepting anybody on two legs as his natural foe. "I wish that Jack London had lived to see his story screened. He was fond of dogs and kind to them." KING OF WILD HORSES (M., H.S., Ch.) 5 Reels A wild stallion, known as "The Black," has defeated all attempts made by men to capture and tame him. A cowboy, who loves and understands horses, sees The Black leading his herd of mares and resolves to tame and own him. Day and night for weeks the man watches for an opportunity and at last he succeeds in rescuing the terrified and bewildered horse from a burning forest. Thereafter, The Black gives the man he knows as master his devotion and loyalty. With his help the cowboy defeats the evil purposes of the ranch foreman and wins the love of the ranch owner's daughter. THE FORTIETH DOOR (M., H.S.) 6 Reels (Feature version of the serial of the same name — see page 50) Jack Ryder, an American scientist, who is in charge of archaeological excavations in Egypt, attends a fancy dress ball where he meets Aimee, a Mohammednn girl living in Cairo. He learns that Aimee is a French girl and that her stepTfather lans to marry her to Hamid Bey, a rich and influential Egyptian. After adventures that nclude Jack's imprisonment by Hamid Bey and the kidnapping of Aimee by Hassan, a desert chieftain who lives by robbing tombs, the American rescues and marries Aimee, and releases her father, long a prisoner in Hassan's desert stronghold. INTO THE NET (M., H.S.) 7 Reels (Feature version of the serial of the same name — see page 50) Written by Richard E. Enright, Commissioner of Police of New York City, this picture shows how the police department of a big city functions. Boy Clayton's sister, Madge, and his fiancee, Natalie Van Cleef, are abducted. They bring the number of heiresses kidnapped within the year up to twenty. Madge is engaged to Bert Moore, detective. Moore and Clayton and all departments of the police