The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

246 Editorials The Educational Screen the School Department. All kinds of films, planned or adapted for serious educational use, will be reviewed here — primarily from the standpoint of educative worth and content — by the department editor personally. Miss Goodenough combines years of expert teaching with long experience in the field of educational film production. (2) Dramatic, artistic, and technical values of theatrical films will be the chief subjectmatter of reviews in The Theatrical Field. The department editor, Miss Orndorff, a teacher of English and Drama, is particularly qualified by long study of and intimate contacts with the field of motion pictures to give critical estimates that can be trusted. (3) Films for church use will constitute an entirely separate department. Its editor must have not only trained critical judgement and detailed knowledge of screen production, but above all a delicate and trustworthy sense of fitness in religious matters that can be possessed only by an active pastor who is at the same time a scholarly man. Rare as is the combination of all these qualifications, we have found them all in Dr. Chester C. Marshall whose "White List", long published by the Methodist Committee on Conservation and Advance, has come to be trusted implicitly by thousands of ministers and social workers. Dr. Marshall will review steadily the great film output and give our readers his selections of suitable films every month. (4) Finally — and this touches one of the gravest problems of the situation today — a classification of theatrical films for child, youth and adult, is vitally needed. We are very glad to announce that Mrs. Charles E. Merriam, National Chairman of the Committee on Better Films of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, wall present to our readers each month the selections of her Committee. These lists will show films suitable for children of 10 years of age and over (thus they are properly "family" films), and for those of High School age, 14 years and up. In addition Mrs. Merriam will make editorial comment from time to time regarding film selection, movie attendance, reasons for rejection of certain films by the Committee ,etc. We believe the above represents a complete service of film review, never before offered by any magazine. However, we earnestly invite our readers to send in their comment, suggestion and criticism as always. It is the cooperation of our readers which has brought the Educa tional Screen to its present point, and the same cooperation will carry it further. Announcements HE June issue of The Educational Screen is the last for the school year. The next issue, September, Volume II, Number 7, will appear on the first of the month, which will be our regular appearance date thereafter. T SCORES of teachers, principals and superintendents have already been appointed as subscription representatives for the Educational Screen, with their own localities as exclusive territory. Our printed "Proposal to Special Representatives" offers very unusual terms. Send for it. You may accept or ignore, as you choose, without the slightest obligation. ^ T HE third edition of the unique booklet, "10.01 Films," is in preparation this summer. It will be ready at the opening of the school year in September. It will be far superior to previous editions in quality of stock, appearance, size, and in the completeness and accuracy of information given on the films selected. In its 125 pages will be listed over 1,500 films. In addition to specific indications for each film as to title, length, producer, distributor, inflammable or non-inflammable, standard or small size, etc., there will be added a concise statement by our reviewing staff of the contents and quality of the film. Church films will be treated in a separate section, edited personally by Dr. Chester C. Marshall whose selections have stood for years as the trusted reference guide for thousands of churches. The book will contain complete lists producers, distributors and exchanges, with their exact addresses. The volume closes with an elaborate index — ^classified and cross-referenced— a feature which completes "1001 Films" as the most valuable reference source ever prepared for users of non-theatrical films. "1001 Films" is not sold. It is given only to our subscribers and to our advertisers for free presentation to their own customers in the nontheatrical field. W E increased our pages from 48 to 72 in this June issue in order to get in everything that should be there. Fifty per cent increase was not enough. For all omissions, therefore, we apologize — and confidently expect to be forgiven.