Educational film magazine; (19-)

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The plan would be to circulate films of especial interest to country people and to present them mainly at points too far out in the country to support regular motion picture theaters. Motion picture services operating through the county and township farm bureaus and granges have, it is said, proved suc- cessful in other states. College workers feel that the desirability of such a service is established and that questions of organizing and financing it alone remain to be worked out. mfti Djii EDUCATIONAL MOVIES IN RURAL DISTRICTS 'T'HE State Department of Education of North Carolina is send- ing Mrs. C. E. Thomas and other representatives into the rural districts of that state with a portable motion picture outfit to present educational picture programs at all rural centers. The shows are given mainly in high school auditoriums. Recent ex- hibitions were at Derita, Matthews, Long Creek, Huntersville, Back Creek, Paw Creek, Dixie, Park Road, Sharon, and other places in Hecklenburg county. Roanoke, an historical film deal- ing with the first attempted settlement in North Carolina, was screened for the first time. KENTUCKY FARMERS SEEING HELPFUL FILMS MOTION pictures are to have an important part in carrying in- formation on timely subjects to farmers in the future if the interest shown by Kentuclty farmers in a film being shown over the state by the College of Agriculture is taken as an indication of the approval given this form of agricultural extension work. The film is entitled Out of the Shadows, and is being displayed in the interest of the cattle tuberculosis eradication work being carried on in Kentucky. It is one of several being used by the coUepe extension division to carry on timely information to farmers of the state. The picture is of typical country life whose heroine, a young girl, contracts tuberculosis from a pet cow in the family herd. The pic- ture points out the dangers which are encountered by farmers who fail to have their animals tested and by means of the different events portrayed in the life of the family shows bow farmers sliould go about having their herds placed on the accredited herd plan. LECTURE COURSE ON MOTION PICTURES THE Woman's City Club of Cincinnati is conducting a course in motion i)icture study through a series of lectures by authorities on the subject. The speakers and tlieir topics are as follows: Earle Edward Eubank, brad of the department of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, "The Moving Picture and tlic American Pul)lic;" Mrs. Adele Wooclard, president of the National Motion Picture League, "Censorship and Standards for Judging Motion Pic- tures;" "Children and Motion Pictures," speaker to l)c announced later; Miss U. E. Danfortli, of the .Society for Visual Education, "Motion Pictures in Education," illustrated by films; William A. Brady, president of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, "Processes and Problems of the Industry;" Miss Dora Stecker, "Conducting a Neighborhood Theater." "THE BLUEBIRD" REVIVAL NEARLY three years ago, in the inaugural issue of Educa- tional Film Magazine, January, 1919, there was published a full page review of The Bluebird, with two characteristic illustrations, written by Charles Kenmore Ulrich. A few months later the picture disappeared from public view and only now has it been revived by the Children's Matinee Association, Inc., of 125 West 44th street. New York City. The film was shown at the Town Hall, West 43rd street, New York City, on several October afternoons for the benefit of many teachers and their pupils of the city schools. It also was the feature of the children's com- munity program presented by the Queensboro League of Mothers' Clubs at the Rialto theater, Jamaica, N. Y., on Saturday morning, November 26. A second viewing of the film enhances one's appreciation for tliis work of screen art, the scenario of which was written by Uharles Maigne and the direction by Maurice Tourneur. The spirit of Maeterlinck lives in this charming visualization of the master's thought. Few have been the pictures which so subtly and so delicately unfold on the screen the mystic and the cosmic as does The Bluebird. Author and director wisely refrained from overdoing the sentimental, the sensual, and the sensational, even when opportunity offered, and the production remains as it was —restrained, wholesome, and inspiring throughout, a message of optimism and self-help to young and old. STATE OF NEBRASKA MOVIES 'T'HE state of Nebraska has gone into the movies. Its depart- ment of conservation has set up a complete studio at a cost of $20,000 and has started taking pictures. The aim is to adver- tise Nebraska's resources to its own people and to its neighbors. Films will be distributed free on a regular circuit through the state, in schools and other institutions. Organization of a state- wide staff is in progress. Developments in farming, industry, education, state, finance, state departments and clubs are among subjects embraced iu the state's movie program. W* OP* BRINGING MOVIES TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TJRING the movies to the neigbborliood instead of sending the ■*-* whole neighborhood to the movies," says Mrs. Augusta Slesinger, of the Jewish Big Sisters, in the current issue of Better Times, a mag-^ azine devoted to welfare work in New York City. Mrs. Slesinger putt forward a plan for the use of neighborhood and community liouse* of all types, religious, social or educational, for the display of wholes some motion pictures suitable for family groups and older boys and girls. The plan is built on the natural impulse of the family to take its pleasure together and takes into account the mother who must take her children with her if she is to go to the pictures herself. The. National Committee for Better Films has offered its services in consi nection with organization and selection of pictures. It is proposed to call a meeting at an early date of all churches, .settlements, and sclwols having motion picture equipment to evolve a series of praor tical experiments in the project. 1" f CHICAGO PUBLIC GETS FILM ADVICE FROM POST OFFICE 'T'HE film made by Pathi News in the post office for the purpose of ■^ calling attention to the common errors of the mailing public h«» received a city-wide showing in Chicago theaters at the request of the local postal officials. The pictures illustrate the necessity for the return address on the envelojie, the exercise of care in writing the address, and the proper metliod of preparing parcel post packagOk 10 §