Educational film magazine; (19-)

FLASHES ON THE WORLD'S SCREEN 1 Mcial war films made in the front Is by the United States Signal Corps (■e shown at the Broadway Municl- Auditorium. Louisville, Ky., under auspices and for the benefit of the erican Legion. ♦ ■he public schools of Indianapolis e fallen into line with those of er cities and are using classroom a. The Society for Visual Educa- 1 is supplying both projection ma- les and film subjects. * * he Board of Education of Sioux •, Iowa, has appropriated a small liminary sum for the purchase of jectors and the rental of films for in the local schools. Programs showing instructional pictures are K prepared. * * he Salvation Army local of Marsh- I, Wis., showed films of the organ- ton activities in Europe and the [ed States in the City Hall assem- room. recently to raise a fund of 00. * * riic Control of Hog Cholera" and Trip to Hawaiian Islands" were films shown recently at Collins ti Soliooi, Ames, Iowa. * * hree reels picturing the activities he Michigan State prison at Jack- are being exhibited at county fairs lughout that state. * • lemliers of the Catholic clergy, sls- anfi representatives of church or- iiations attended the recent pri- ! stiowing. in Knights of Columbus 1, .>^an Francisco, of "When Dawn le," which was presented by the ling Film Exchange. The picture of the degeneration and regen- :ion of a man, and brings out ngly the work of the church. Col- Moore is featured in the cast. * * iperintendent George A. Bro^vn of State Prison Farm, Vandalia, HI., iving out-door movie shows for the oners at the Farm every Wednes- evening. The pictures are pre- »d by the business men of Browns- town. 111., and a portable Delco Light outfit is employed. * * Health films were on the program of the two days convention of state I'fl" ' "'"'^e'^ at the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, Wash., recently. The new high school at ainton. Iowa, has modern motion picture equrpment, including one of the finest screens in the state. * • The Custer County Farm Bureau, Broken Bow, Neb., has purchased a movie projector and is showing agri- cultural films at precinct meetings, as well as slides. * * The Jasper County Farm Bureau, Rensselaer, Ind., has purchased a por- table projector outfit and is using it to show instructional films throughout the county. * * Among the motion pictures shown at the state fair, Des Moines, Iowa, were "The Happier Way," "Food for Re- flection," "Layers and Liars," and "When the Farm Bureau came to Pleasant View." * * "Some Wild Oats," one of the latest of the anti-venereal disease films ap- proved by health officials, has been shown in theaters generally through- out the middle west. * • Arnold Daly in Edward Everett Hale's "The Man Without a Country" in eight and one-half reels was the fea- ture of a benefit at the King Thea- ter, Forest Park, III., under the au- spices of the Board of Education. The object was to raise a fund to provide sanitary drinking fountains for the public school children of that city. * * At a recent meeting of the Athens County Medical Society, Athens, Ohio, several films depicting syphilis in its various stages, and modem cures and preventatives were screened, accom- panied by a lecture. It is intended to show these pictures with talks by physicians in various counties of the state. EW MOVIE CAMERA PRODUCES RAPID PRINTS i Hundred Feet Can Be Projected on the Screen Six Minutes After Pictures Are Taken process is being developed which the owners, the Positype Corporation of America, claim will make positives direct in camera and develop them in a few minutes. The company low making a product called "Direx," a sensitive paper used xtly in a still camera which gives a positive print when de- Ijped, thus eliminating the negative film. iMScials of the company are perfecting the positive film and confident it will prove of great value for news reels and for id work where duplicate copies are not required. It is claimed t 100 feet of film can, by this process, be projected six min- 5 after it has been taken. During the war the positive process ' used in photographing from the air. Positype officials plan the present to concentrate upon supplying amateur photog- hers, and it will be a year before they will have perfected ir motion picture product. They are making plans for a ae camera and projector to be motor-driven. NEW MACHINE ELIMINATES REWINDING DEVICE which eliminates rewinding was demonstrated to a rep- resentative of this mag-azine recently by the inventor, Charles F. m. It is capable of running about 300 feet of film through a iection machine and repeating the run many times over. The two i of the film are joined to form an endless belt and instead of the winding upon a spool it returns to a roller-bearing drum about five es in diameter. This drum carries the entire reel, which winds on n the outside, and the reel is pulled through the drum by a driving »cket set in the center. From this point the film leaves the alignment he reel and passes out ready to return through the aperture gate and )rojected again. is said that this device is particularly suitable for advertising, atrial and educational films which require continuous showing. Tell the advertiter you read hit ad in Educational Film .Magazine 29 EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO EDUCATIONAL FILMS (Continued frtm pat/e S8) mfn!-''"*'"./? ■'''t'" ""^ undoubted interest of films of foreign travel for Herfri I "' f'"""f ^*"' ^"^^ ""^^^ '"^'=" °"t "f their nato country' Here tlie real appeal is not wrought by the presentation of foreim lands ipso factor, but has its mainspring in the sense of mystery shr3 mg supposed possibUities of adventure. Eliminate thes^ and'the un familiar scene wUl always appeal less than the weU-known "' bor instance, to an average scholar born and brought up in the citv of -iork England, a motion picture of tlie streets of Yorif will have far wlfiWrw'hi^"'""" *''rf ''"P''^""K a town such as Leeds" Bradford «l.ch while comparatively unwamiliar is not far enough away to be veiled in an atmosphere of adventurous mystery. ^ Rbactions to the Time Element Tn 1 .^'.""""J' t'"f >ear possesses more temporal attraction tlian last n suDinndte itself into a passion for history folk-lorp ct..,i,. „ »■ quarian research. But a normal chUd wiU have prX wdl throL"°I'^ tlie parental complex by the time it arrives at puberty. ^ °^ Value of Humor in Instbuction Tnstru tTn."'of courL hloT'ca^nr'"''*^^ "P"" ^"'^^'^1"'="' -"«- right sort in UseU°"riitt"gLs'a ^^/.'""^et'^Z ^T'"" "^^ w^trAttrrat'e^tToVd^f 'S ^" ^'^^^^^^^^^^^^^ these^films toTa;?t%traf an'^LettiffT^ S^^^thl^r^r shoJd'K;^^ jr -' ^^^^ ^ - mi in> KIRKMAN'S MOTION PICTURE ACTIVITIES T"oin°it'me w'''^'"^^"*""^^'^*"""g <5™ °f Kirkman & Son is with an iv^ interesting things with motion pictures, and not entirely Tn charV^of Mr's KaThe"^- T?' ^''"-tional ^division' of this concern' =o5Sr^-f-^- -:"^"^v^n^^:a^M: ^^^^T-X :^a^^-su?^%^SZ,lfZ poor"bovr'anT"iHr' ^«'^»«°" «"*«="- '-oliday entertainments for ^mZ 1 ^ .f i^^ '^' "'"''^ t'"^^ts for wounded soldiers New Jersey rteTn r°e^e"t ^^^f°^l -" philanthropic activities have b^n rLtton .rrlns t """l^^'' ^* ?'''='*"* ^^^ ^^ ^as ready for dis- A cons°der!bt fl'lmTh ^^'k'^k'""' ""V^"^'' ''"''"^t^d '^^rtoons, etc. AconsKierable film library has been collected on narrow width prints GOD AND THE MAN A 6-reel Non-Theatrical Feature From the famous novel by Robert Buchanan Educational Film Magazine says of this photoplay: "An excellent production. The picture bears a definite message. Ihe actmg is finished and convincing." Charlotte Bronte's famous love story JANE EYRE Also another excellent feature ^Lu^% "^'l.°'*^^^,*"^ inspiring pictures suitable for Schools, Churches, Y. M. C. A's and Community Showings. Also booking selected one-reel refined comedies and scenics CENTRAL FILM COMPANY 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City ;—1( means better service for you