Educational Film Magazine (Jan-Jun 1919)

SLIDE NOTES AND COMMENT The workings of the United States Secret Service during the late war were shown in an illustrated lecture by H. Barret Learned in the auditorium of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo., on January 14. Later he projected views of North Carolina and Georgia military camps. An illustrated lecture on "The Work of the United States LifeSaving Stations" was given January 16 in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., by Dr. Frederick S. Crum, assistant statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company. Dr. C. K. Edmunds, president of Canton Christian College, and observer in charge of the magnetic survey of China, conducted by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, showed in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, recently, a series of lantern slides on China, from Mongolia to Yunnan, and from the coast to the western border of Tibet, illustrating the characteristics of land and people. Professor Theodore Reinach, editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, illustrated his recent lecture in Manning Hall, Providence, R. I., on "The Part of France in the Revival of Ancient Greek Art," with 50 lantern slides. Colored lantern slides of Lithuania and the United States were used with the lecture, "America and the Opportunities She Offers," at Lithuania Hall, Newark, N. J., on January 24. This is part of the anti-Bolshevik propaganda of Edward B. Jacobson, executive secretary of the Ironbound Community and Industrial Service of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Edgar Banks gave an illustrated talk on archaeological excavations in the Near East at Milwaukee-Downer, Wisconsin, on February 2. "Memorials of Historic Times" was the subject of a lantern slide lecture by Professor William F. Gray, president of the Philadelphia Art Teachers' Association, in Central High School, Philadelphia, on January 23. Monuments in all parts of the world were pictured on the screen. Rev. K. E. Evans, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, Elizabeth, N. J., recently gave an illustrated lecture at the church on "The Dawn of Democracy, or the Coming of the Common Man." Methods of securing and transmitting military information in the war were described and illustrated in a lecture which F. E. Fegan, of the New York Telephone Company, gave recently before the 22d Assembly District Republican Club of Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwood & Underwood FANEUIL HALL Called the "Cradle of Liberty," because from the deliberations of the patriots who assembled there sprang the divine inspiration of liberty which was to spread its influence as the beacon light of freedom for all the world. This illustration is slide No. 4 in the Underwood "World Visualized" School Series, which, together with many others in the set, contains the germ of Patriotism. The Underwood System of Visual Instruction, comprising Thousands of Lantern Slides, extends the environment of the school-room to the whole world, giving the pupils the personal experience of being in every country and actually coming into personal contact with the various industries and activities of the world — creating an absorbing interest in their studies and supplementing their textbooks in the most practical way. Send for new lists of Special Lantern Slides on Astronomy, Birds, Botany and Floriculture, Entomology, Famous Paintings, Physics, Zoology, Maps, Flags, and many others. Ask us about Educational Motion Picture Films UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD Dept. EF 417 Fifth Avenue, New York Directors and camera men rely on the latitude, speed and dependability of EASTMAN FILM That this confidence is not misplaced is shown by the results on the screen. Identifiable by the words "Eastman" and "Kodak" on the film margin EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. "HOW LIFE BEGINS"— 4 Parts A wonderful screen version, giving a clearer understanding of life itself. Now being used by the United States Government in Camp and Civilian Communities. Of inestimable value in the class room, welfare and social center. This Subject with French, Italian, Spanish and Russian Titles Living embryo of chick 52 hours old. From "How Life Begins." For rental and purchase prices address Exhibitors Booking Agency, 220 W. 42nd St., N. Y. Our experts review every picture that is produced. Let us plan your educational and entertainment programs for the year. Films Translated into all Foreign Languages. All work, including Technical Subjects, Guaranteed. We are in the market for negatives of Educational subjects. 22