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January, 1923 EDITORIALS
shaken in the past by certain other publications ostensibly serving the same cause. Such achievement as this should be perpetuated. The Educational Screen firmly intends that it shall be.
It is inevitable that the many who have read and enjoyed Moving Picture Age should feel a pang of regret at the discontinuance of that magazine as a separate and independent publication. There is inherent power in an old familiar name and form that seems utterly lost when these are changed.
We intend, however, that nothing but the externals shall be lost; that the material presented and the service rendered to the interested public shall not only be maintained at the same high level, but even improved and extended. Surely the accumulated experience of two magazines, devoted to the same cause and holding similar principles, should furnish a foundation for a finer structure than could have been reared by either magazine alone.
The Educational Screen, then, extends its most cordial greetings to the readers of the former magazine. We ask from you the same sturdy support you gave to Moving Picture Age. We offer in return our best and utmost efforts to give you the kind of magazine you and our common cause want and deserve. We earnestly invite your strongest cooperation from the start, both by subscription and by suggestion as to policy and procedure — and we want the one as much as the other.
OF the numerous services rendered to the cause of visual instruction by the Moving Picture Age, perhaps none is more notable than the compilation and publication of the booklet, "1001 Films."
It is not only unique, this catalog of non-theatrical films available from all sources; it is probably as accurate and as complete a work of reference in this line as is possible in the present state of the field. The first edition contained about 1,000 films; the recent second edition contains 5,774 films, classified as to subject matter, with number of reels indicated, and definite references to distributors and exchanges handling each particular film.
Because such data necessarily become obsolete very rapidly. Moving Picture Age planned a new edition of the book every year. This plan will be carried out by The Educational Screen. We shall endeavor not only to perpetuate this valuable service, but to make every succeeding edition better than the last, as the field becomes more and more stabilized and hence yields steadily more reliable information.
Another feature of the plan of the originators of the work will be continued by this magazine. "1001 Films" is not for sale at any price. It was designed solely as service to the subscribers and is given without charge with every subscription.
Educational Screen subscribers are now entitled to a copy of "1001 Films," and same is being mailed to each one with this January issue. We assume that all former subscribers to Moving Picture Age have already received their copy. If by chance any subscriber to either magazine has not yet received the book, it will be mailed immediately upon notice from that subscriber.