Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

t hli NEW YORK STATE HEALTH DE}»\RTAIE\T FIIAI ACTHTTTES HE most conspicuous new undertaking in 1919 was the purchase and fitting up of the healthmobile is a large motor true.-, quipped with a special body nd furnished with a complete lotion pictiu-e outfit, electr: oierator, motion picture pr xtor and a variety of screens. With this car it is possible to isit small and remote communi- ies and to show health films an iher exhibits, either indepena- ntly or in connection with 1th projects of one kind or nether. Since the car generates ts own current it can be used ndependently of the local ource of electricity and the pro- ector and screen can be easilv unted on the top of the car. ins making outdoor movies pos- jble. If desired a screen may rigged against a tree or build- ng, the motion picture machine t nounted in or on the car and the Hctures thrown from a greater listance, thus permittin a larger screen than can be put on the roof of the ar itself. The car can also be parked outside of a hall, iurch or school and by carrying a lead into the build- sr. the motion picture exhibition may be given indoors. The outfit was first used in connection with exhibits at ount\- fairs and the State Fair, and has since been tried nt in several sections of the State. It is now believed that he car is fully equipped and the crew proficient in handling In the spring the healthmobile will be sent out on the ■oad and will be kept in constant use throughout the season. Experience ha; shown that there are few more effective or nore popular means of public health education than motion jictures. A number of new films have been purchased, in- :Iuding t»vo copies of a t%\-o reel film on child welfare work, two reel fihn on venereal diseases and one reel pictures )n infant feeding, the fly. the mosqnito, the eve. and tuber- mlosis. ".\n Equal Chance."' produced in cooperation with he National Organization for Public Health Nursing, has ilso been added to the film librarv. C lANpARjJiZED Whi-e J-ton rr;,ec:;:= trjci for pa..-k: a:;d rural service aad for aie ic the Indian . *~P-'^ ^^° 4t.' Orient: also yn-l bv the Bureau of Commercial Economics for outdoor movie shows in tais conntry. The New \oTk S:a-e HeaiJi DerartTcents healthmobile is of this t^-t)e but is emploved g. jjjg ^jg dd-istveiy tor pubhc health edncatiot:. STREET CAR JAMS SCREENED AT HEARING Assistant Corporation Counsel Chester Cleveland rose to his feet at a hearing on inadequate street car service in the Chicago rooms of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission. ~\niy, conditions are so bad in Chicago that we can't show you them by the testimony of witnesses." he shouted. '"I have had some moving pictures taken and I want leave to bring them in here and show what the camera has to say." He was granted permission, and at the afternoon hearing the lights were turned out and the movies started to grind. The pictures had been taken at the comer of Halsted and Madison Streets during the rush hours, and at other comers. Each picture showed a packed street car, with men and boys hanging on the steps and on the trucks and holdins on by the screens over the windows. Many scenes showed jammed cars moving away and leading twenty-five or fift>- persons standing on the street In the picture a crippled man who could not get on a crowded car was forced to pass up ele\-en cars before he could enter one. THE POWER OF \TSUAEIZ.\TION—Bv Sm FiLOias G.^lton The free action of a vivid visualizing faculty is of much importance in coimection with the higher processes of gen- ieralized thought A visual image is the most perfect form of mental representation wherever the shape, position and relations of objects in space are concerned. The best Workmen are those who visualize the whole of what they [propose to do before they take a tool in their hands. Strategists, artists of all denominations, physicists who con- irive new experiments, and, in short, all who do not follow routine, have need of it The pleasure its use can afford is immense. I have many correspondents who say that the delight : recalling beautiful scenery and great works of art is :.-.e highest that they know; they carry whole picture gal- . fries in their minds. Our bookish and wordy education :t-nds to repress this valuable gift of nature. .\ faculty that is of importance in all technical cind artistic occupa- tions, that gives accuracy to our perceptions, and justice to our generalizations, is starved by lazy disuse, instead of being cultivated judiciously in such a way as will, on the whole, brine the best return. k 13