Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

NEW RED CROSS FILM SUBJECTS Interesting News Pictorials Available at Nominal Rental—Older Films Rent Free BKTTER films and scenarios worthwhile are among the measures adopted by the American Red Cross in its peace policy campaign in both the old and new worlds. A plan has been worked out bywhich a nom- inal rental will be charged for the new reels now ready for release. Those of older vintage will contiime to be circu- lated free. The new pictures are not propaganda. They are bona fide news pictorials, telling some very interesting stories that, by the very nature of things, could be re- leased only through Red Cross sources. "Amid Archangel Snows," for example, cannot fail to be an unusual drawing card wherever interest is manifested in the experiences of the A. E. F. in Siberia. Our own American boys are shown toboganning with the Russian peasants, driving droshkies across the Arctic snows, jump- ing from the slow-ploughing ships to cakes of floating ice to catch the seals by the tails, and otherwise disporting themselves after the care-free fashion of our splendid Amer- ican Doughboys. RSh^'n\^ "v'll^'n" "'^.^l""!? to school at Archangel. Scene from ■^ the new Red Cross him "Amid Archangel Snows " f "AJoflg the Riviera" displays magnificent views of the world's best knowii and most beautiful playground, with sweeping vistas of the famous military road over which Napoleon led his victorious legions. "Glimpses of the Balkans' is a remark.'ilile scenic pres- entation of the Balkan States, with the island city of Corfu and the garden of the former Kaiser's Winter Palace Jaken from an airplane. Intimate close-ups of King Boris of Rulgaria, are also shown, together with unusual interior scenes of the ancient monasterv of Rilo. "The Land without Mirth" introduces hundreds of little war victims in Flanders whom the American Red Cross is teaching to smile again. 'The Mother Queen of Rumania" centers about the per- sonality of the charming woman who has been more in the public eye than any other European monarch. \^'ith King Ferdinand she is shown making a flying trip through the territory acquired by their country after a valiant struggle. Scenes from our own country are filmed in such novel and educational reels as "The Story of the Orange." giving the precise sequences in the life of the golden fruit of Southern California from the time the trees are set o ti the final shipment of the fruit. ''Making the Desert Blossom" extols the modern mini wrought by irrigation in the Great \^'est. These piiin r J^^ M H o XE of the touching moments in the new Red Cross film Florence Nightingale's Footsteps." were filmed by the United States Reclamation Serv edited bv the American Red Cross Bureau of Pictures. '"Modern Concrete Road Construction" ofl'ers a drami picturization of vital engineering triumphs, showing li science and the genius of man turn the rough, gully-was < trails into beautiful and serviceable highways. '"In Florence jNightingale's Footsteps'" is a fitting tril to the nobility of the devoted English woman whose i tenary is to be observed this year, and is calculated stimulate recruiting for one of the most splendid vocatii open to womankind. H ERE is a typical "shot" from "Glimpses of tlie Balkans." Th new Ked Cross film is full of interesting episodes. "\ ocational Training for Blind Soldiers" gives a rare sight into the advance made bv medical science in helpi the blind to help themselves. Our living heroes wl:o sai ficed one of the most priceless faculties in the war I democracy are shown at the American Red Cross 'I'raini School. Evergreen, near Baltimore, learning such congeii and lucrative occupations as have been found by analy to be best suited to the blind. Their beautiful home a surroundings and their unfailing happiness in their wc combine to make a very appealing and instructive jiictu