Educational film magazine; (19-)

FLASHES ON THE WORLD'S SCREEN THE city council of Saint-Etienne, Paris, has appropriated a pre- liminari' sum of 30,000 francs to introduce the cinema as a practical means of instruction into all of the public schools of that district. Addi- tional sums will be voted from time to time. • ■ • Mrs. T. G. Winter, president of the General Federation of the Women's Club in a recent address at Boise, Idaho, said: "Club women can do much to demand that better pictures be exhibited. A number of our clubs <tre operating motion picture shows at a prolit and giving the communitv clean photoplays. Club life should be closely inter-related to the life of the community, other wise it cannot be a success." • * The state department of health, Al- bany, N. Y., has purchased a film on mouth hygiene, "Saving the Eyes of Youth" (recently reviewed in this magazine); and "Swat the Fly," a Kineto production showing the anat- omy and life history of the fly. All of these are loaned without charge within the state. • ♦ Following out the plan of the In- diana Indorsers of Photoplays, the Bet- ter Film Committee of Fort Wayne, Ind., has conducted a benefit using the Fox picture "Evangeline." It has awarded prizes to the school children selling the largest number of tickets. « • The Sunday night motion picture service of the First Unifari.an Church, Toledo, Ohio, Rev. D. Horace West- wood, pastor, proved so successful last summer that it will probably become a permanent feature of this church. Some of the films shown to capacity crowds were "The Mill on the Floss," "King Lear," "The Hearts of Men," "The Apple-tree Giii," and Fires of Youth." • * "Diversional after-school shows" in the form of weekly movie programs in the schools of Evanston, 111., are se- lected and supervised by the Society for Visual Education. • * The extension division of the Uni- versity of California is conducting a state-wide campaign for the use of wholesome entertainment and educa- tional films by communities and in- stitutions of that state. Its report declares that "California is the second state in the union in the use of motion pictures among schools and churches." * * Rev. Harry Noble, who resides in the Lafayette section of Jersey City, N. J., entertains 500 or more children regu- larly with wholesome movies. * * The West End Presbyterian Oiurch, New York City, still maintains its Monday afternoon and evening movie shows which it inaugurated several years ago. Recently 1,000 books of tickets were sold, and this revenue is supplernented twice a month by church collections and twice a month by a regular admission charge. Children are admitted free to the afternoon shows after school. * * Open-air movies were shown in Sep- tember in Chelsea Park, New York City, on Monday and Friday nights, by the Neighborhood Committee of the Hudson Guild. * * A. G. Balcom, assistant superinten- dent of schooLs, Newark, N. J., speak- ing on "The Appeal of the Eye in Teaching," at country institutes under the auspices of the New Jersey State Board of Education, urged that teach- ers make a larger use of visual aid. He stated that the human eye of today is the result of our civilization and that it has developed since the time of early man to a greater extent than any other organ of sense, and that teaching would be greatly vitalized if teachers recognized the dominant place that the eye holds as a medium of sense impressions, * * Of the New York City public schools, seventeen are using correlative film courses in United States geography and thirteen are using biology films. Film courses co-ordinating with text book courses in physical geography, civics, physical training and domes- tic science, are being introduced. * * The Milk and Ice Fund for the poor children of Peoria, 111., was boosted ?48.60 when F. H. Kirchner of the Venard Film Corpor.ation, of that city, arranged an outdoor movie show. Two DeVry projectors were set up, giving the audience a continuous show. The program was assorted, consisting of a one-reel travelog "Blazing the Old *49 Trail;" one reel, "Clierryland," a trip through the won- derful cherry farms of Wisconsin; and one reel, "The Milky Way," an in- teresting film showing a modern dairy, including many interesting scenes for the kiddies; and a two reel comedy. This was the first outdoor show held in Peoria and Mr. Kirchner is so enthusi- astic over the results that similar pro- grams are being arranged in different parts of the city. * * The Cliurch Cinema Association has been established in Berlin, Germany, to produce films for devotional pur- poses. Some of these pictures may find their way eventually to the United States. * * No children under sixteen years of age are permittted to attend cinema exhibitions in Belgium unless the films have been approved by a Cen- sorship committee appointed in each town. The government circular giving this order states that "for a long time the pernicious infiuence exercised on the youth of the nation by cinemato- graphic entertainments has been giving rise to anxious thought. The educa- tion authorities, psychologists, judges of juvenile courts, the press, have es- tablished by irrefutable facts that the cinema can be a school of demoraliza- tion and a teacher of crime." The cir- cular is signed by the minister of justice, and the minister of arts and sciences. * * A demonstration of the latest ideas in stcreopticon projection was given at the September meeting of the Newark, N. J., Public School Visual Education Club by the Spencer Lens Company of Buffalo, the Bausch and Lomb Com- pany of Rochester, and the Charles E. Beseler Company of New York City. At the October meeting "Dream Pic- tures," a collection of artistically colored slides of the beauty spots of America, were thrown on the screen in connection with a lecture by Bran- son l)e Cou of East Orange, N. J. A musical program of Victor Phonograph records was synchronized with the still pictures. * * Lois Weber, American woman di- rector, writer and producer of photo- plays, recommends that films be di- vided into two classes: Class 1, for universal release; Class 2, for adults only. This system is in use in Aus- !:i where exhibitors mark films with an "A" or a "U", the "A" for adults only, and the "U" for Imth adults and children. In Australia ihiUlren are not permitted to see films intended for adults. * * Lois Weber has sent copies of her four most recent films, "To Ploasj One Woman," "What's Wortt While," "Too Wise Wives" anc "What Do Men Want," to Miss Marian J. Anderson, principal of th( Pacific Coast School of Lip Read Ing, for the use of Miss Anderson's students. 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