The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

22 The Educational Screen awakening after twenty years—his clog gone, his gun crumbling at his touch, and his beloved village full of strangely costumed figures with unfamiliar faces, and children who run from him. Of all the delightful Dutch figures, two remarkable children introduced for the sake of a slightly more complicated plot than Irving's short sketch contained, furnish a splendid bit of child acting. The most serious departure from the original story is that the demise of Dame Van Winkle does not take place during Rip's absence, but she is kept alive to be wedded again—this time to a male tyrant who quite completely subdues her. Rip's return produces a situation which in real life would be somewhat compli- cated, but in the film version seems only to contribute to the ultimate happiness of all concerned. The titles are somewhat modern in their phraseology (adapted from the stage version rather than from Irving's original) but there are spots of genuine humor in the production, and the atmos- phere is so true as to be almost magic. Briefer Mention LITERARY AND HISTORICAL The Courtship of Myles Standish 5 reels. (Car- ter Cinema Producing Company)—A picturiza- tion of the famous Longfellow poem, said to follow accurately the historical facts of Ihe well-known story. The Last Days of Pompeii 6 reels (Kleine)— The scenes of Bulwer Lytton's story repro- duced at Turin and near Vesuvius. "Antiquity reenacted," showing the idle, luxury-loving life of the doomed city, and its final destruction. The North Carolina Pictorial History—Produced by the State Department of Education and the State Historical Society, in an effort to supply an accurate and complete re-enactment of the State's important historical events. Photographed on Roanoke Island. It por- trays three of the earliest incidents of the State's history: the "First English Expedition to America," "First English Colony," and the "Lost Colony." Quo Vadis (Kleine)—Admirable from an his- torical as well as a literary standpoint, since the life of Rome during the days of Nero, th gladiators, and the early Christian martyrs I vividly portrayed. The spirit of SienkiewM novel is carried over with notable success inl the screen version. The Brook (400 feet) (George Kleine)— t1 nyson's little poem" is made the subject of I nature film presenting a series of pictures wbJ interpret the mood of the poet. The Ride of Paul Revere (# reel) (GeoJ Kleine)—Photographed in actual localities I the famous ride and titled with quotations irM Longfellow's poem. NATURAL SCIENCE The Beaver Prepares for Winter (Beseler El cational Film Company)—Shows a number I views of the beaver building his home. Pm pared under the direction of Raymond L. D| mars. The Life History of a Silk Worm (Beseler E| cational Film Co.)—The hatching of the eg! the growth of the worm, its feeding on ml berry leaves, and the spinning of the cocal from which the worm finally emerges a motl Wasps (Society for Visual Education)— TM kinds are shown—first, the solitary mud-daubB who builds her clay house and stocks each cj with paralyzed spiders for the nourishment 1 the baby wasp, then lays the egg and seals tl cell entrance—and second, the Polistes was who have their affairs organized on a coM munity basis. Molluscs (P)—One of a series picturing Id ing specimens from the lowest forms of on celled animals to the most intelligent maramJ In this reel, oysters, octopus, cuttlefish, an snail occupy the stage, figuratively speaking.! TRAVEL AND SCENIC In the Rice Fields of Japan Burton Holi (F P L)—Patient toilers in the "painted cal vas rice fields" of Japan—and, incongruous I the combination may seem, a Japanese wrJ ling tournament, where the great weight att strength of the participants prohibits a dispfl of the agility which we commonly associa with the game. Meadows and Mountains (U S Agric)—A vil to the elk feeding grounds and points of scenJ beauty in West Gallatin Canyon, Gallatin ■ tional Forest, Montana. Marvelous Manhattan Burton Holmes (F PB —Not only in foreign lands does BurB Holmes excel, but he is also singularly fitted* show us the wonders of our own modM metropolis built on the narrow, rocky IslandH Manhattan. Santa Fe—the City Different Burton HolflJ (F p L)—Deserving its title by virtue of it