The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

February, ig2S Among the Producers 91 separately, and. arc supplied in standard width film on either inflammable or non-inflammable stock. The reels vary in length and are sold by the foot. New prints are made and shipped within two weeks from receipt of order. Prices are exceedingly low. The general contents and approximate length of each reel are as follows: Lesson I. Magnetic and non-magnetic substances, Magnetization 815 feet Lesson IL The Magnet, Laws of Attraction and Repulsion 350 " Lesson IIL The Magnetic Field 405 " Lesson IV. Molecular Theory of Magnetism 535 '' Lesson V. The Magnetic Field (Continued) 655 " Lesson VL The Solenoid and ElectroMagnet 540 " Further information may be had from George Kleine Productions, 114 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Started Work has begun at Universal City on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," a picturization of Victor Hugo's celebrated novel. Wallace Worsley, the special director engaged to handle the making of the Hugo picture, has assembled an unusual cast, and has given the final seal of approval for the gigantic sets now being constructed. Signalizing the beginning of work on the big picture, the entire Universal studio plant celebrated the laying of the corner stone of the big structure, which is to be a full size replica of the famous Notre Dame Cathedral, of Paris. This will be the most ambitious building ever put up for a motion picture. It will reproduce in great detail all the architectural eccentricities of the old world edifice. Scores of ten-foot plaster statues are being turned out in the Universal City work-shops to fit into niches in the Cathedral. The replica of the Cathedral alone will take a small army of carpenters, plasterers and other workmen. This set will be one hundred and fifty feet wide and two hundred and twentyfive feet high. The huge church will be built with the three great doorways, with the two towers, the spires, the Gallery of Kings, and the large plaza in front of it. Other sets being constructed include a reproduction of the famous Court of Miracles, that strange quarter of old Paris where the mendicants, cripples and fakirs congregated in the 15th Century, the Place de la Greve, wher.criminals were tortured and punished, thtPalace of Justice, court room, mansions, and many Parisian streets. In connection with the Cathedral there will be an immense interior vista of the church's aisles and pillars. The cast assembled by Worsley, and the executives of the Universal corporation, is one of the strongest ever put into one picture by Universal. Norman Kerry plays the role of Phoebus, the young hero of the novel. Lon Chaney will play Quasimodo, the weird little hunchback bell ringer of Notre Dame. Tully Marshall as Louis XI, Raymond Hatton as Gringoire, the poet, are other notable members of the cast. Dining Car Movies With Pathe Program Railway passenger service enterprise, according to accounts printed in Illinois and St. Louis newspapers, has proved the utility of free motion picture shows aboard limited trains and in terminal waiting rooms, George J, Carlton, veteran passenger traffic manager of the Chicago & Alton, is on record as "father of the dining car movie show," He was in charge of this original experiment, assisted by other officials of the road. The dining car projector was operated by A. B. Craven, of the DeVry Corporation. It was especially constructed to overcome vibration, regardless of rough tracks or rolling waves. The train was late at Springfield, "but the passengers were not worried. The first railroad movie show had been in operation in the dining car, and the passengers had b»cn enjoying the novelty of a complete screen program— Harold Lloyd in 'Grandma's B03',' Aesops Fables, the animated cartoon — the whole works minus advertisements of coming releases and the tailoring establishments. They didn't care whether they ever got to St. Louis." The arrangements for the show were admirably simple. Between meals the tables in the dining car were removed, the chairs were arranged to form a miniature auditorium, a screen was hooked in place, and the neat, compact machine was mounted on a table at the other end of the car. Then the shades were drawn, the lights turned ofif and the reel put in motion. About two years ago it is remembered that a similar experiment was made aboard a train on a Southern railroad. Reports agreed that the passengers were delighted. But, at the time, it appears that mechanical obstacles stood in the way of repeating the experiment.