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An Experiment—The Child's Matinee 185 i animal when it came into conflict th man. In the bear's capture, the ungsters applauded when the animal ide headway difficult with his atching and clawing. In a film of New York Zoological Gardens, lere wild Zebras trample a dummy, sympathy of the children was ob- msly with the Zebras. This runs le to the game and fighting instinct the child, having in it a primitive irness for the dumb creature itched against superior intelligence, st what this result evidences in the Ltter of child movies is hard to say. would, after a given age in the emo- nal development of the child, de- ld entirely on the individual case. /; and Bill, a one reeler showing the vate life of a skunk, was greeted h enthusiasm "due probably," it was ited by several teachers, "to the auty, agility and brightness of the imal, its mischievousness and the y child's lack of familiarity with its agreeable potentialities." Whether not the latter assumption can be t'ely taken for granted is a question, it the assertion points to one of the ivest conclusions an experiment of s sort leads to,—namely that spe- lization, in the children's film, is as ;ential as it is needless in the adult's n. But that point later. To enumerate the dislikes of the ildren Mr. Lewis mentioned first "a >rified geography lesson showing the Tamids, the Sphinx and the ancient ins along the Nile." This film, en- led "From Dawn to Dusk in Egypt," is received "with yawns and finally inattention, beautiful though it was and eminently fitted for adult enter- tainment." This conclusion reempha- sizes the statement that what pleases the adult will not please the child. In this particular reel, certainly one of the finest the writer has seen, the titles were of the quality of the main title, "From Dawn to Dusk." They were rich in a connotation of color and mysticism, vague perspectives of ages and the infinity of men and silences. In truth the film was unfitted for children; it sailed several "fathoms" above the heads of a good many adults in an audience of which the writer was a member some weeks later. But, this reel was peculiar in these respects. It might have been as easily fitted for children as adults, yet it would have elicited from its young audience the same succession of yawns, which ob- servation brings us to a second general principle in this fast evolving "sci- ence" of the child movie. There must be maintained a sharp distinction between the visual educa- tion and the visual entertainment of the screen. Most "glorified" geog- raphy lessons belong, not in the the- atre, but in the schoolroom only, un- der the competent guidance of a teacher trained in the new medium of education. Such pictures come as a complement of a carefully projected lesson, finishing rather than initially teaching the lesson. "From Dawn to Dusk in Egypt" happened to be a film that betrayed but the first mentioned point, its fitness for adults, but it will serve to illustrate, indirectly, this sec-