The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

School Department 119 As actual equipment we have a stand- ird-size Powers moving picture machine, i portable DeVry moving picture ma- chine, a portable stereopticon projector vith several portable screens, at present tbout 100 reels of moving picture film, ,700 stereopticon slides, with adequate hipping cases and other accessories, in- iluding rewinding and cementing equip- nent, etc. The activities of the Visual Education Section this year have been encouraging and fruitful of good results in satisfied patrons, who demonstrate their opinion of the value and good of showing our projection materials by repeated demands for more film and slides. If indications can be trusted, it will not be very long before the Visual Education Section will have expanded to such an extent that it will be the largest and most important section of our General University Exten- sion. Film Reviews ENTER, the educational serial—the "chapter play." Each series of these productions in eighteen epi- sodes, and each episode two reels in ength. The purpose of the entire project s to dramatize history, to put upon the (Teen some of the big adventures inci- nt to exploration and conquest. The irst series has been entitled "Winners of he West," and the second, "With Stan- ey in Africa." Produced by Universal. We have space for review of the 1st episode of one of them. We doubt if our readers will care for reviews of the other L7 episodes. WITH STANLEY IN AFRICA ipisode I — The Jaws of the Jungle All the background of story needed for real epic of history—the expedition of he young journalist Stanley through the leart of the Dark Continent in search of 3r. Livingstone, supposedly lost in the ungle and given up by the world, which ad ceased to hope that he was still alive; search which culminated in the village l| Ujiji on November 10th, 1871, after wo years of tracking through the depths i Africa; a young man pushing through semi-circle of natives, in front of which tood a white man with a gray beard—a leeting dramatic in its simplicity. Says the young man, removing his hat, Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" "Yes," replies the older man, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. "I thank God I have been permitted to see you." Livingstone answers, "I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you." Yet, in this film series, in order to launch upon the beginning of this histori- cal narrative which in real life was re- plete with situations of true dramatic qualities, we are required to witness a tenement fire which perils the life of the young American scientist who is to ac- company Stanley, the same fire "covered" by a girl feature reporter on the New York News (a girl reporter a rarity in 1869?), her attempt to rescue the young scientist, his final rescue of her, and the somewhat awkward end of the whole ex- citing affair, her determination to follow the expedition and report it for her paper, her experiences with Arab slave traders in Zanzibar, who seize her and inform her that she is to be sent as a slave into the interior, a predicament from which she is rescued in order that she may ap- pear in the further action of the story— and so on, ad infinitum. Judging by this first episode, we are quite disposed to believe that the prom- ise of the advanced publicity matter is fulfilled: "As Jack Cameron, an American sci- entist, who makes the trip with Stanley, George Walsh is kept on his tiptoes every second, saving his own life or that