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198 The Educational Screen IV General and Special Methods (a) general methods, and (b) methods in the various school subjects. V Picture Projection Technique (a) learning to operate projec- tors, and so on. The work will include lectures, read- ings, experiments, demonstrations by visiting commercial experts, classroom discussions, individual and committee projects, and exhibits of various mate- rials. THE following announcement from the editorial page of the Scientific American for June can hardly fail to impress those who are looking for signs of promise in the development of the serious motion picture. "Many Scientific American stories can well be retold in "motion picture form, for the reason that they require animatij for a more ready understanding by m laity. Tov this end we have entered tl motion picture field, as producers Scientific American films, in collaborate with the Coronet Films Corporation 1 Providence, R. I. The films, which wi appear once a month, will be releasJ through the Educational Film Exchang* and will be shown in the better-class th« ters throughout the country. Such su| jects as can be treated to the best advaf tage in motion picture form will be tala from our columns and transplanted J the screen. The complete details will b covered in these columns; the thing itss will be featured on the screen, under tfc Scientific American title." Such motion pictures in the field c science—sponsored by such authority aflj produced as expertly as they undoubted! will be—will mark another step forwaj toward the attainment of educational film worthy of the name. An Experiment—The Child's Matinee (Concluded from puge 186) his healthy interests and all children was, in addition to brain. will be spared the treacherous influ- ences of cheap slapstick and super- thrillers. When we remember that the later life of the adult finds its emotional ex- periences seeded in the emotional life of its childhood, we wonder that the world has accepted the serial as long as it has. For these reasons the seri- ous experiment deserves applause. Its fallacies can be eliminated as we be- come more proficient in methods and means. Certainly, to the writer, it was a revelation to sit with 4,500 children and feel their emotions, sweep with the terrible rapidity of electric cur- rents, through her heart. For heart it To realii in that close, alive .fashion, how futf ously swift is the child's emotional r< action to the silver sheet, and then r( member the general state of the mo\ ing picture situation for the averag child, was, of itself, a somewhat de\ astating heart throb. The blue-la"\ fiends and the censor idiots are all tha the names imply, but they have real ized, in their sad lack of intelligence what the fair-minded common sens person has been somewhat casual i: recognizing,—that the great mediur of visual appeal literally may make o mar the pre-adolescent. It is to b hoped that the efforts of Balaban I Katz are a small beginning of a tre mendous project.