Educational film magazine; (19-)

lest. the birth of the robin as he cracks the egg laterally and Vrisgles out, and the wide hungry mouth of the new-born bird as p swallows one earthworm after another. , Master Robin Hood. Distributed by Charles F. Herm, Inc., 880 West 42nd I itrect, New York City. 2 reels. "NO WOMAN KNOWS" r^THY the producer of this photoplay, which is based upon YY' the well-known story of Edna Ferber entitled "Fanny Herself," should have felt called upon to adopt this rather uaiiingless title nobody knows. At all events, it is no index to [ tie superb spirit of self-sacrifice which permeates the picture from leginning to end. The mother works and grieves herself to death .ith true Spartan sportsmanship, and the daughter—the cele- rait'd Fanny of Miss Ferber's humanlike tales—goes to work for ' big mail order house in Chicago and slaves for the same pur- lOse. And for what? To keep in funds a weak brother who was ent to study the violin in Dresden and married an extravagant iennan wife whose demand for money was insatiate. Despite a few inconsistencies in characterization the economic, oniestic, and moral values of the film remain undimmed. There - an obvious message here for both selfish children and mothers nd sisters who are inclined to overindulge their sons and ^.■rothers. In the end Fanny obtains for herself some of that ! appiness which she and her mother so vainly sought to bestow 'pen the spineless talented expatriate, but only at the cost of luch mental suffering and under the protecting arm of her Childhood playmate, now a strong successful man, whom she had I'hided with the remark, "You shake hands like a girl." . The titles are clever enough to have been written by Miss erl)er herself. One or two minor cuts may suggest themselves to ery cautious viewers, but on the whole the story is too cleanly nd compactly told to warrant much of this. For church, com- hunity, welfare, and industrial programs this picture will serve dmirably. i; Xo IVoman Knows. Produced by Universal. 6 reels. V WW NEW "NATIONAL NON-THEATRICAL" RELEASES piIE Levey Biological Series consists of films imported from France, *■ titles carefully translated and adapted to American school use. ;ach is one reel in length. The following subjects, obtainable in both iegular and narrow ("safety standard") widths, are now ready for dis- fibution: The Larf/e White or Cabbage Butterfly; The Microscope and Some f itn Uses — The Marine Plankton: Aquatic Life, including echlnoder- .lata, Crustacea, and fish; Field Flowers, including ground ivy, chick- eed, fumatory, ground-sel and dead-nettles; The Blue Bottle Fly. The following one-reel Peters' Text Films are also released: The Races of Mankind, including the four main sub-divisions; The apiinese Empire —Its industries, social life, temples and shrines; The 'hilippine Islands, featuring typical industries; Wheat Raising in the 'acific Northwest, and The Whaling Industry, featuring the products, arm a split reel; The Sugar /iif/«j(fri/r—how and where sugar cane is rown, how it is shipped and packed. The American Historical series includes: Aboriginal Inhabitants, liff-dwellers and Indians; Irrigation in the Southwest treats of the ."onomic value of irrigation as facilitated by the great Roosevelt Dam nd the resultant cultivation of Sea Island and Eg.vptian cotton; oology — Mammals features the wild animals of Africa. Movies emphasizing the message of "Safety First" were shown in every uhlie school and in many of the Sunday schools of Chicago during the No .Occident—Xo Fire Week," October 8 to 14, as part of the cam- aign of the safety council of the Association of Commerce. Motion pictures of the growth and cultivation of manila and sisal fibres jnd the manufacturing process of twine and rope were exhibited October I ^t the Grand Opera House, Galveston, Texas, through the courtesy of 1 le Plymouth Cordage Company which had the film produced, with scenes- 1 the Philippines, Mexico, and the manufacturing plant at North Ply- inuth, Massachusetts. INDUSTRIAL Industrial Films of Educational Value Edited by LEON A BLOCK BROOKLYN IN THE MOVIES "VVTITHIN a few weeks patrons of the mo'ion picture theaters of Brooklyn will see the first of the series of short sub- jects illustrating the importance of Brooklyn as an industrial and commercial center. The films will be part of the pictorial news reel presented at the theaters of the Loew, Fox, Schwartz, and Keith circuits, also many of the smaller houses. There will be ten releases, one a week, each depicting one of Brooklyn's principal industries, such as shoe manufacturing, shipping, metal trades, and others, and will also advertise the Brooklyn Manu- facturers' Industrial Exposition, January 9 to 16. The pro- duction of the films will be under the direct control of a committee of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce who will also produce one-reel pictures of the his'ory of Brooklyn and its industrial interests to be shown at the exposition in January. W W MOVIES AT NATIONAL BUSINESS SHOW THHE motion pictures exhibited at the National Business Show, October 17 to 22, in New York City were The Lightning Calculator, a one reel industrial-educational, and Speeding Up the World's Work which shows modern industrial methods in contrast to old, both loaned by the Burroughs Adding Machine Company; and Hustling for the Hundred Club, a lesson in sales- manship, loaned by the Addressograph Company. INDUSTRIAL FILM NOTES OUT Of The Rock is a three-reel picture exhibited by the Raybestos Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to dealers and salesmen, to in- struct them in sources of supply and manufacturing processes. The first reel shows the mining of asbestos, the immense open pit mines of Canada, where the rock is blasted from the face of the quarry. The second reel depicts the fabrication of Raybestos, spinning the silky mineral fibers into asbestos yarn with fine wire reinforcement. The third reel sliows brake lining and a selling demonstration. The film was produced by Rothacker Film Manufacturing Compan}', Chicago. At a recent auction sale of real estate at the Tremont Temple, Bos- ton, motion pictures of the property offered for sale were exhibited to the prosj)ective buyers. Gravity irrigation was shown in motion pictures to the citizens of towns of the lower Rio Grande Valley in Master Minds Of America, which is devoted to a number of the great irrigation projects which have been engineered by the United States Reclamation Service. Scenes in the Rio Grande ^'alley and statistics on the present gravity project are also being given as part of the campaign for the valley. Putting Georgia's Streams to Work is the title of a new picture dis- tributed by Southern Enterprises, Inc., and shows how many streams of the state have been harnessed to provide electrical power in local territory. The Magic Touch, a short drama told in 500 feet of film, shows many uses for the Star Vibrator and is exhibited in windows of drug stores to stimulate sales. A transparent gelatine screen and a portable pro- jector are sent with the picture to the local dealer. The film was pro- duced by the William J. Ganz Co., New York. The congestion of freight in the port of New York, its effect upon the cost of food, and the solution of the harbor problem as proposed in the report of the New York-New Jersey Port and Harbor Develop- ment Commission have been visualized in motion pictures. Across a map of the New York harbor district railroads draw themselves in swiftly moving dotted lines. Then an airplane survey of the congested freight yard terminals follows. Across a map of the harbor various ferry routes appear in miraculous dotted lines, and suddenly one watches from the sky actual freight cars loaded onto lighters ploughing slowly across the river. The film was produced by the Eastern Film Corpora- tion, New York. w w The industries of Cleveland, Ohio, are said to be using films for trade promotion more successfully than any other industrial center in the United States. . [ 17