Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

The Last Thrill Lost And now it is desired to show the young artist in his idio, the young artist whose father is a prominent banker, e young artist with bushy hair and Robert Mantell eyes 10 is making a ^L^donna portrait of tlie little girl of the nil house district and who will surely marry the little iden as soon as she has been heartbroken and they have ifted apart, only to meet on a battlefield, where he is a lughty doughboy and she a wonderfully gowned Red Cross rl, with the shells bursting all around them. They have gone over the top together, you know, and e wears white so that the Germans may know just where e American line is, and he wears a sport shirt and carries Id Glory in one hand while he waves a rifle in the other md and carries a trench knife in his teeth. That Censor Again Oh it is a terrible strain on the Japanese girls to have at man wounded! The Red Cross girl bends over his eeding form and—she recognizes him! They start to nbrace, when the Japanese censor intervenes. The artist covers and they live happily ever after in a million dollar lifornia bungalow, where so many other movie mates ve lived before them. I But it was started to be said that if the young artist ould be shown in his studio, gazing soulfully at his Hull (Use model, the background must first be divested of all de statues. The Japanese censor moves all such out into e hall, and I doubt not many a villain stumbles over em—in Japanese picture shows—when he dashes in to t the canvas into shreds with a German souvenir bayonet. And the Geisha girls don't miss the statues at all— ey are so busy hurling Nipponese anathema at the villain. MOMES TO ENTERTAIN HOTEL GUESTS "Amusement directors in the big resort hotels of the ilion," said Charles C. Ritz, of the Ritz-Carlton hotel stem, "have come to the conclusion that through neglect motion picture entertainment they have been missing a kluable business opportunity. The attitude of their guests ^s been reflected in willingness to patronize motion pic- ^res. "Hotel oiScials are recognizing the progress which the rt has made, and also its appeal as entertainment. The smand for hotel shows is tremendous. \^lien negotiations re finally concluded we will show motion pictures in resort otels throughout the country, but only those productions f the better class. Eventually many of these hostelries ill have their own auditoriums for the sole purpose of iTojecting motion pictures. Recognizing that their guests re people of education and discernment, they will present ig-time pictures, and the very latest to be iiad. Arrange- lents made with Realart Pictures Corporation will insure le presentation of these high-grade films in the best of irroundings." By the installation of three complete motor-driven Sim- lex projectors in a large, well-equipped projection room 1 the balcony of the ballroom, the management of Green riers Hotel. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., has met the esire of its guests for modern entertainment. Here every I'ening first-class features are run off in a manner that utdoes many large city theaters. These shows precede ancing, and there is no admission charge for them. 26 KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS RUN MOVIES Twenty-six public schools in Kansas City are giving movie shows successfully six afternoons and evenings a week. The school board has indorsed the work directed by C. H. Mills, community center director. More schools in Kansas City are planning to run pictures following the realization that they pay. "The Bluebird" was shown to 16,000 per- sons. It was run at twenty-one schools to a box office total of Sl,431, making a profit of 8800. Half of the surplus reverted to the community centers to be used in improving schools and communities. The other half went to the school board to be used in buying educational films. ALL EVANSTON SCHOOLS HAVE PROJECTORS According to a local newspaper, all Evanston (Illinois) schools are now equipped with motion picture projection machines. Literature, geography, history, science and other lessons are illustrated to the students in a regular weekly program for each class and a bureau of visual education has been established to select and to present these pictures. This bureau is organizing a central museum of illustrative material for classroom work. ANIMAL FILMS SCREENED AT LIBRARY Three reels of moving pictures ot the bird and animal life of the Northwest, with an explanatory lecture by W. A. Eliot, bird expert, was an outstanding feature of the meet- ing of the Portland Federation of Women's Organizations on a recent Saturday afternoon at Central Library, Portland, Oregon. The pictures were the same that Mr. Eliot showed' to more than 100,000 doughboys and poilus during the war, when he traveled throughout France with the entertainment department of the Y. M. C. A. The purpose of the lectures was to acquaint the club women with the necessity of pre- serving the bird life of Oregon. ITALY BARS HARMFUL FILMS Henceforth all films showTi in Italy are to be censored by the Ministry of the Interior and heavy fines will be imposed on producers who have not obtained government permits before showing films in public. The new rule has been made owing to complaints from priests, professors and many heads of families that films now being shown are highly inmioral and lower the moral standard of children and grown-ups. The new censorship may aff'ect American films which tend to show crime and criminals in a favorable light, and American film producers are warned that it is useless to send such films over there in future. Magistrates and social workers affirm that the increase of crime among youngsters is largely due to the bad influence of "criminal" films. MAETERLINCK ON THE MOTION PICTURE It seems to me that America does not give the motion picture the aril-tic importance it merits. People seem to consider it an inferior type of art form. In my opinion, however, its potentialitiea are unfathomable, for it can teach in terms of beauty and of ideal* in a manner not to be found in any other medium of expression.— Maurice MaeterlincL Albert Edward Wiggam's lecture "Climbing the Family Tree," deal- ing with heredity and Mendelian laws, illustrated with slides, was given recently in New York City in the Miles Projection Room, Candler Building. 11