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430 Editorials The Educational Screen
worthwhile films — films which will make money for months in the theatres, and then more money for years in the larger field. Rental prices will change when there are years instead of a few desperate months for realizing on an investment. Non-theatrical producers will increase and multiply — and the wise ones will prosper. And who will be the "wise ones?" Those who know three things — ^the technique of good pictures, the field they are trying to serve, and the folly of the movie methods in the past.
The production of fine pictures for the theatre is, and always will be, a splendid work. TJiere are some producers who can do it now and there will be many more. But there will come still another generation of producers (some of them are at work already), equal in knack and superior in knowledge, for whom the theatrical field will seem too shallow, too narrow, and too small. They will be the great names in motion picture history as it will be written some day not many years hence; and their greatness will be achieved through art instead of bombast.
The New Edition of "1001"
We had hoped to be able to mail with this number of The Educational Screen a copy of the new edition of ''1001 Films," to which every subscriber is entitled. It has proved impossible to do so, in spite of the immense amount of labor which has been expended on the booklet by its seven editors since our hopeful announcement in the October issue.
Please, readers, to keep in mind the fact that we attempted — and have nearly finished — a task greater in difficulty, and correspondingly greater in value, than was ever attempted before in this field. The work is wholly new, it could be based on nothing previously done. All data has been sought from original sources, a large proportion of the films have been viewed by the staflf, every detail has been checked with the utmost care, a new system of classification has been devised to give greater ease in reference, summaries and reviews of the individual films have been written — and all this material will be presented in a typographic form and on a quality of paper-stock never previously oflfered in such a catalogue.
We can only ask your forebearance a little longer and assure you that the better service rendered by the book when it appears will amply compensate for this trying but unavoidable delay. We choose rather to delay than to disappoint. We believe you will second our choice, in a matter which concerns your comfort and advantage through an entire year.
Index to Volumes I and II
The December number of The Educational Screen will include a full index of contents for Volume I (1922— page size 6x8>4 inches) and Volume II (1923— page size 7x9^ inches).
Each Volume is complete in ten issues. For a limited time complete files of each volume can be supplied to libraries or individuals desiring them. •