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on the film to journals here and abroad, will conduct what is probably the first course of its kind in America, a series of 12 lectures, accompanied by film excerpts and accessories, as well as invited guest-speakers. The series will begin with a consideration of the aspirations among men and the earlier arts which ultimately led to the cinema ; the movie's pre-natal days ; its early history ; the concentration of control in finance capital, Hollywood, Hays ; the international arena ; the film as merchandise, seller of other merchandise, vendor of the national idea, instrument of colonial control. The lectures will compare first statements with first principles ; the evolution of the film as an art will be followed ; the social energies as they effect the film in each nation will be scrutinized ; the pivotal films will be studied ; the character and progress of the compound cinema (soundsight, verbal, future forms) will be presented. Special lectures will be devoted to the animated film (not the cartoon alone), its derivations, its national uses, its possibilities. The relation, historical and aesthetic, of music and film will be treated. Comedy will come under the head of a special lecture on film humor. In every instance it will be the intention to extract the irreducible principle that will serve to clarify the true critical foundations of the cinema. The various fallacies and inflations of first statements into principles will be analyzed. An effort will be made to define the terminology of motion picture literature. Certain particular relations will be advanced : Kreuger and cinema, the Italian film and " the march on Rome," labor and cinema, the Russian film — czarist, Soviet, emigre. Much data will be entirely of original research, and certainly the complete interrelationship will be for the first time offered to a serious student-body. The course begins in October and is on the roster of the New School for Social Research, New York.
FILM REVIEW
Das keimende Leben, (Ewald Film, Berlin). A documentary film on the pre-natal development of man.
Special problems from the early development of man and childbirth have been the object of a good many of popular as well as scientific films, but the German silent film "Das keimende Leben" (Germinating Life) represents the first German attempt to produce a film which gives a complete survey on development from the very growth of the seed — and egg-cells up to child-birth. The film though being popular and made for the purpose of teaching the masses, is absolutely true and correct from the standpoint of theoretical biology as well as of practised medicine.
It starts — as has been stated before — from the development of the generative cells, showing alternately microphotographs, microfilm and trick designs. The division of the cells and of the fertilised egg is beautifully explained, as well as the growth of the multiplying cells. This part dealing with the very early stages of development is exclusively done by trick-designs due to the fact that one has not yet been able to watch these stages in the course of human development. Here again there was an occasion to be convinced of the highly instructive value of well done trick designs, and I can tell from my own experience that what a
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