Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

FLASHES ON THE WORLD S SCREEN News Notes and Comments on Educational and Allied Films from Institutions. Organizations, Producers and Individuals in the United States and Canada and Overseas U.NDER the directiim nf the scientific so- ciety of the Latter Day Saints" Univer- sity, Salt Lake City. Utah, a series nf motion picture productions are being screened at this church school. This is said to be the first time the Mormon Church has taken up the use of movies. "Lorna Doone." the Harma film based • upon R. D. Blackmore"s famous romance, first issued before the war. in 1913, has been reissued by its owners and is being shown in England. No copies of this picture are known to be in the United States. The great Bannerman cotton mills of Man- chester. England, have had a number of im- portant cotton growing and manufacturing films produced, as have other mills in that city. In fact, there is an active demand for good industrial films in England and Scot- land at the present time. The customs, ceremonies, racial character- istics, and daily lives of the people of India are said to be carefully recorded in the two reel travel film called "India." produced by Stratton Wells of Bohemian Films, a British company, in collaboration with Timothy Rail- ton, traveler and explorer. Fletcher Collins, representing the A. M. Byers Company of Pittsburg, showed a film describing the manufacture of wrought iron pipe at the recent meeting of the Indiana Purchasing .\gents' .Association in Indian- apolis. Upon the request of the Minister of Public Instruction of Costa Rica, the Bureau of Commercial Economics is sending a weekly release to that country, to be shown first in the Capitol to government officials, then in the principal educational institutions in San Jose and other cities of that country. Four plants of the vast Sheffield Steel Works, in Sheffield, England, have regular movie theaters for the benefit of their thou- sands of workers. These places are as well appointed as any cinema in Great Britain, with standard projection equipment, slant- ing floors, tip-up seats and all conveniences. Films showing all the processes of steel making, safety pictures, and others are be- ing screened. The Union Stock Yards. Montgomery, Ala- bama, has been filmed. The industry is one of the largest in the South. Governor Kilby of Alabama is reported to have been present when the camera man ground his crank. By authority of the local school board, a motion picture projection machine was in- stalled in the Prevocational Grammar School, Hartford. Conn., during the recent school ex- hibition there. The .\laddin Renew Electric Lamp Cor- poration used a film showing how new lamps were made from old ones at a meeting of shareholders of the company in London, to ?liow the profit possibilities of the new ven- ture. Have You Something to Sell A Story to Tell A Lesson to Teach A Great Goal to Reach On the Movie Screen? A Film that's a Failure to be Reconstructed into A Real Screen Success? I specialize in motion picture screen publicity Let me help you visualize your problems on the screen CAROLINE GENTRY 350 West 55th Street, New York TN competitive test byl[the Board of Education, New- ark, New Jersey, fifteen the eieliteen professional of e eignteen proiessional pro- jectors purchased were Povver's Cameragraphs This test was of a most ex- acting nature and again dem- onstrated the superiority of the Power's Cameragraph where the highest type of professional projection is desired. NICHOLAS POWER COMPANY NINETY GOLD STREET INCORPORATED EDWARD EARLE, Treaident 30 NEW YORK, N. Y. i