The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

School Department 191 cenic record of an automobile trip taken ■y two girls from San Francisco to 'ortland, with rather too much of the utomobile, and too little of the country hrough which it passes. There are brief flimps.es—and good ones—of San Fran- isco and the Bay, the McLeod River, fit. Shasta, salmon leaping, and scenes howing the city of Portland. A storm ccupies considerable footage. The reel is unfortunate in being poorly itled, and displaying only mediocre pho- ography. AWAY DULL CARE (Pr.)— A re- new in beautifully photographed, natural x>lor scenes, of a number of out-door sports, from canoeing, fishing, skating, mrf-bathing and motoring, to tobog- ganing, motor- and sail-boating, aqua- )lanning and riding sea and air in a hydroplane.' It preaches the gospel of play, and is calculated to awaken a hun- ger for the out-of-doOrs. A thoroughly refreshing subject de- serving a place on any entertainment program. Modern Aspects of Japan Burton Holmes (N N-T)—.Contrasting the "Yesterday" with the "Today" in the progressive little empire of the Mikado. The scenic journey starts at Yoko- hama, the port of the capital city, with its modern docks, from which the traveler goes by electric railway eighteen miles to Tokio, the capital itself. One sees many views of its principal streets, all newly widened, the new government buildings and the new department stores, said to rival in completeness those of our largest American cities. A modern bridge has even replaced the famous old Nihonbashi— the "Bridge of Japan." Along the Rio Grande Burton Holmes (N N-T) ) .^-Acquainting us with the picturesque sights of this historic region. Here we may see the descendants of the aboriginal Americans, liv- ing their primitive life full of gay color, among the remains of ancient Spanish occu- pancy. We also visit Albuquerque, the me- tropolis of New Mexico, at the time when.the Mexican population is celebrating the famous fiesta, "Los Matachinas." NATURAL SCIENCE NEPTUNE'S NEIGHBORS (Pr.)—A succession of glimpses of the odd forms of Under-water life of the ocean, photo- graphed by the Prizma "natural color" process. Among other little-known forms, such tropical fish as the Orange Filefish and the Parrotfish are shown. Each ac- tor's part consists of displaying himself and his own peculiar mode of swimming, before the camera. A film, novel in its subject matter and making little pre- tense at scientific analysis, but simply presenting these oddities of the ocean in an entertaining manner. SEEING THE UNSEEN (Pr.)— A somewhat misleading title, suggesting, as it might, a microscopic study. It is rather a study of minute organisms by means of truly remarkable models, made after the museum fashion out of ground glass, wax and other materials. Several scenes showing workers fash- ioning these models in various stages of construction, are followed by a display, of the models themselves, many times the size of the original. For instance, there is the perfect representation of the female malaria mosquito, enlarged 4,000 times its natural size. The models also include some forms of deep sea life. Radiolarians are shown, and a model of two square inches of sea bottom, showing in remarkable detail the myriad forms of life on so small an area. Photographed under the direction of Roy W. Miner, of the American Museum of Natural History. THE ANIMAL WORLD (Ditmar)— A reel devoted to the larger birds, such as the stork, flamingo, peacock, heron, and ostrich. It includes some beautiful flight scenes in close view, showing the way the bird "lifts" himself gracefully from the ground. Several scenes show ostrich chicks, and the plucking of the feathers from the mature birds.