The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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October, 1923 Picture Service on Wheels films are always good, not too technical, and they have a rather large library. The Western Electric also have some very good films. Our State Board of Health have several and are producing more. They are invariably E^ood and of great value. Then there are hundreds of reels in the industrial field that ire generally acceptable if the producers don't blow their own horns too much, and nost of them don't. The Homestead Films, Inc., have some exceptionally good films of the feature type. We have used most of theirs and hope to use :hem all. So far they have made but one :omedy, "Farming in One Lesson." From :he way our people reacted to this picture, kve hope for more soon. Space would hardly permit the names of dl the good films we have used, but subdividing them as Features (and these are ilso educational), Educationals, Scenics, and Zomedies, some of the best are as follows: Feature Spring Valley The Homestead Farm Bureau Comes to Pleasant View The Benefactor Joe McGuire The Yoke of Age Scenic A Prehistoric Bandolier Summer Fun in Western National Forests Trails That Lure A Trip to the Grand Canyon Tumbling Waters Wonderland of Canyons and Peaks Educational Making Mother's Work Easier Your Mouth Revelations Cherryland Conquest of the Forest Food for Reflection A Matter of Form Out of the Shadows Texas Trails to the Table A Woolen Yarn Land of Cotton Apples and the County Agent The Kid Comes Through Comedies Farming in One Lesson Dog Doctor Kids and Kidlets Tin Cans Papa by Proxy Too Much Elephant Occasionally we buy films instead of renting them. We require a subject for a month —usually running it 23 or 24 times. We can buy some films for but little more than the rentals would amount to, sometimes for less and we still have the film. In this way we have acquired the nucleus for a small library and it is all stock that could be quickly converted into cash if desired. A few minutes with a pencil develop some interesting figures. Since starting the project, we have run 2,110 reels, approximately 2,110,000 ft., or 400 miles. This means 33,760,000 individual pictures. During the past season we have given 148 entertainments to a total audience of 24,467. Now, as to the value of the project and its cost : Our County agents have been holding meetings, more or less well advertised, for years and yet in most towns there were many people that were not familiar with the Bureau and its work. We found that in no other way could we get together so large z per cent of the population as witli the movies. Old and young, rural and urban, they come. Whether they want it or not, know it or not, they absorb much educational matter. When they get a kernel they like, they remember who gave it to them. This is helpful at town-meeting time, when our appropriation is to be voted on. Another valuable point is this: In most