Educational film guide (1948)

1948 EDITION ENCHANTED FOREST. Pictorial 1946 71min sd color $850. rent $20 F p-el-Jh-sh-ad The story of a childhood spent living with an old hermit and the animals of the forest. Photographed in a redwood forest. Harry Davenport as the hermit. Musical score by A. H. Malotte who set the Lord's Prayer to music ETERNAL MASK. Brandon 1937 77min sd rent $25 ^ F" sh-c Produced by Progress films, Berne, Switzerland Based on the novel of the same title by Leo Lapaire. A German dialogue film with English sub-tites The mind of the brilliant Dr Dumartin becomes quite hopelessly distorted and traditional methods of treatment all fail. As a last resort a young associate insists that he be permitted to try his methods — and they are successful "(It] is as thrilling and exciting as any popular motion picture that has ever come out of Hollywood. . . It has been written with Buch a high degree of Intelligence, and it is performed with such unerring excellence, that It immediately emerges as a work apart from the ordinary run of cinematic offerings." N.Y. World-Telegram "A very unusual subject, but holding fine entertainment qualities. . . Beautifully done, and stands alone in a new field of thoughtprojection on the screen." Film daily FESTIVAL OF SPRING, rev ed Cathedral 1948 lOmin sd part color rent $5 F p-el-Jh Guide First released in 1945. A cartoon film Adventures of a small boy and an understanding mother; the child's sulky and stubborn attitude changed by a picnic in the woods, where his mother plays upon his imagination by a game of "Let's Pretend." A picture made for little children, but one that everyone will enjoy. This whimsical fantasy furnishes a most interesting background for the journey to the land of make-believe GENERALS WITHOUT BUTTONS. Brandon 1938 80min sd rent $25 F Jh-sh-ad "Based on the French Goncourt prize novel La Guerre des Boutons by Louis Pergaud. Filmed in France with Bnglish subtitles. The natives of two French villages have been carrying on a feud because one village prays for rain for its cabbages and the other for sunshine to ripen its grapes. The children of the villages make up their differences at a friendship feast but the adults still continue their fight." M.P. rev. digest "One of the best pictures of the year, foreign or homegrown." Scholastic "Another brilliant French motion picture , . Knowing direction and splendid acting by a cast of youngsters have resulted in a motion picture which takes one down the corridors of youth so surely and steadily that it must stand somewhere very near the top of all the screen's studies of children. . . A memorable motion picture about children, in which you are taken inside their particular world in a fascinating and vastly entertaining show." N.Y. Herald-Tribune "General patronage." Nat. legion of decency GLORY TRAIL. Nu-Art 1936 68min sd $210, rent $10 F Jh-sh-ad A Crescent production History of the struggle between the early pioneers and the Indians right after the Civil War GOOD EARTH. MMA 1937 142min sd rent |20 * F sh-ad Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Screen version of the Pearl Buck novel starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer. It tells the story of a Chinese peasant who rises to affluence thru the devotion of his wife but finds that true happiness comes not from riches but from the land GOOD EARTH. TFC 39mln sd apply F Jh-sh-c-adu!t Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Presents scenes which show the dependence of China's farmers on the earth; the farm as a family project; its economic effects on the populace "Abridged from the original production. Three sequences are given." Collaborator GRAPES OF WRATH. Films 120min sd apply F sh-c-adult This is the much discussed Steinbeck film based on the book of the same title. It was produced by 20th Century-Fox In 1940 and was rated "exceptional" by the National Board of Review GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST. Films 1941 91min sd apply F Jh-sh-ad Produced by 20th Century-Fox Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero and the Ink Spots in a story of the early development of American radio entertainment GREATER VICTORY. NCCJ 1945 22min sd $40, loan F Jh-sh-ad Guide A dramatic story film, featuring Louis Calhern. Showw that, while we have defeated Nazi-fascist arms, the "greater victory" will be when we have completely defeated their ideas and when our different racial and religious groups can work and live together in harmony GUNGA DIN. RKORadio 129min sd apply F Jh-sh-ad Guide Kipling's story of the British battalions in India, with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Joan Fontaine HEIDI. Films 1937 87min sd apply F p-el-Jh-sh-c-trade-adult Produced by 20th Century-Fox Shirley Temple and Jean Hersholt In Johanna Spyri's immortal story HEIDI. TFC 40mln sd $120 F * p-el-Jh-sh-ad Produced by 20th Century-Fox in 1937 A carefully edited version of Johanna Spyri's story starring Shirley Temple "Even though the screen version deviates somewhat from the original plot, it vividly depicts the character conflicts, the interrelationship of the actions of the characters, the way of life of one who lives by his own labor in the mountains, and manners and customs of the people. The characters are well cast; the condensed version eliminates the scenes in the original photoplay which were introduced to feature Shirley Temple; the photography and musical background are very good." Ed screen "An excellent Job of cutting. Better than the book." Collaborator HELPFUL HENRY. IntHarvester 1940 22min sd loan F Jh-sh-c-adult « "An amusing but philosophical story of a city slicker who is won over by farm life 561