The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

310 School Department The Educational Screen A real Feature Film for the Non -Theatrical Field JUST RELEASED The Brown Mouse (From the story by HERBERT QUICK) (Published by Bobbs-Merrill Co.) CLEAN, wholesome production of small-town community life, with enough comedy and heart interest of the right kind and quantity to be thoroughly entertaining for any audience. Do not fail to investigate this film. For terms and details write Homestead Films, Inc. A 732 South Wabash Avenue CHICAGO, ILLINOIS water brought from the mountain streams. "Smudging" wards off frost, and the bearing grove is pictured, a beautiful sight with fruit and blossoms on the tree at the same time. Picking is done with the greatest of care, in order not to injure the fruit, and clipping operations are shown in detail. Boxes of the fruit are taken to the packing house to be graded and prepared for shipment. A splendid view of the groves against the mountain background makes a fitting close. From Trees to Tribunes. Here we have an industrial film so well permeated with beauty and excellent photography that commercialism becomes a secondary factor, and in a manner of speaking we are fed our statistics from a silver spoon. We all know that paper is made from wood but here we are shown just what happens from the time the huge tree is felled in the Canadian woods until the printed page is delivered at our back door. Dynamiting the logs down the river, loading the boats and the ride past Quebec through fifty-six locks to the mill, where the shortened lengths are put into giant presses, are only a few of the things that take place in transforming acres of spruce trees into rolls of paper. This part of the film contains many beautiful views of the Northwest, Rock River Falls and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, so carefully and artistically made that they may be classed with those of our best travelogues. After showing in interesting detail the actual transformation of wood into finished paper the remainder of the film is devoted entirely to printing and pubHshing and is complete down to the smallest minutia. While this is a splendid picture for schools, it has no limitations. It would be interesting to any audience. (Free distribution from Picture Service Corporation, 208 South LaSalle St., Chicago, 111.). Tommy Tucker's Tooth (One reel). The subject of dental hygiene is cleverly treated in this film to impress upon children the importance of keeping the teeth in good condition. The reel begins with the picture of a group of children surrounding the "Story Lady," who tells them what happened to Tommy Tucker, who had cultivated the habit of caring for his teeth, and Jimmie Jones, who was careless and neglected his. Tommy, contrasted with Jimmy, is a stro: n^