The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

358 Notes and News The Educational Screen The Roosevelt Memorial Association Film Library announces the release oj fourteen subjects dealing with The Life and Work of Theodore Roosevelt Produced under the direction of Caroline Gentry 28 E . 20th St., New York City Distributors Y. M. C. A. Motion Picture Bureau 120 W.4ist St., New York City; iiii Center St., Chicago, 111. New Book Announced Motion Pictures for the Curriculum is the title of a book by A. P. HoUis, film editor of the DeVry Corporation, formerly director of a college department of visual education, and recently managing editor of The Educational Screen. It is to be published in the fall of 1926 by the Century Company as the most recent contribution to the literature of motion picture in relation to education. Motion Pictures for the Curriculum is the first book which attempts to accomplish the twofold task of supplying the textbook needs of the new courses in teacher-training institutions and providing superintendents, principals, and teachers in service with an up-todate manual of film pedagogy and a useful list of the best educational films. The first part of the book sketches the development of visual education, tells how motion pictures are being used successfully in the classroom, presents in detail several different courses of study, offers a series of actual film lessons showing the methods of presentation and follow-up used by different educators, discusses the pedagogy of instruction by means of motion pictures with a view towards distinguishing the valid claims for visual education from the exaggerated claims, and points out the future possibilities of this new educational instrument. The second part lists and describes over 1500 educational films particularly well-suited to classroom use, classifies these films, and lists the organizations from which ihey can be obtained. The volume concludes with a bibliography of all the im '' portant literature dealing with the subject. A School Play Filmed What one school has done in the success ■ ful filming of a school play is recounted in the Pennsylvania School Journal for May. At the Bloomsburg (Pa.) State Normal School, one of the annual art projects is the • writing, costuming, advertising and producing of a play. This year's production. Cinder \ ella, was also filmed, scenes of the Normal School, the students and school buildings forming the introduction for the play itself. The completed film is 6000 feet long and cost approximately $2,000. The necessary funds for the production were obtained from proceeds of former Art Club plays. The film is being loaned to all educational institutions free of charge. Lantern Slides for Home Economics Glasses What Shall I Wear? is the title of a new set of lantern slides prepared in the U. S. Department of Agriculture by the Division of Textiles and Clothing of the Bureau of Home Economics in co-operation with the Office of Co-operative Extension Work. The pictures illustrate the fundamentals of good costume design and include photographs of garments made under the direction of the Massachusetts Extension Staff. With them goes a set of notes prepared in the Bureau. Application for borrowing the slides should be made to the Office of Co-operative Extension Work, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Amateur Movies Featured The May number of Kodakery, published by the Eastman Kodak Company, devotes its entire issue to various phases of dmateur cinematography. An entire section of the magazine is given over to hints on the taking of ama (Continued on page 382)