The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

440 THE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN the Baktyari, with whom they migrated to the land of Grass — a trip the tribes are forced to take twice a year over a distance of hundreds of miles. The summer grazing grounds and the winter pastures lie on either side of snow-covered mountains, raging whirlpools of icy water and steep precipices. When the seasons change, the pilgrimage of 50,000 The long line of humanity, climbing the mountain barrier toward the grass lands of the plains beyond. people and many times that number of beasts begins. The filming of that migration is the story of Grass — and it is a more gripping, more dramatic story than any fiction, it is so thoroughly real. From the standpoint of instruction there could be no more perfect example of the controlling factor of environment in the life history of a people — a story so elemental as to be comprehended by a child, and yet so powerful as to grip the imagination of the most thoughtful adult. No mere catalogue of the incidents can do justice to the magnitude of the picture. It is an epic of a people, hardly pausing to sleep or eat, moving onward across a rain-swollen river, men, women, children, sheep, cattle, goats, battling in the racing water, the thousands making their way slowly and painfully up the bleak mountain side until finally across the icy top they see before them the far-off meadows with the life saving grass. Beautiful photographicallygripping, living thing — that is Grass — a markable contribution to the folk-literati of the world in motion pictures. 7 reels. Famous Players-Lasky. KlVALINA OF THE I C ELANDS "An Idyll of the Arctic" — to borrow own phrase — the story of the romance of t Eskimo lovers, and the obstacles that lay their path, chief among which was a di of honor owed by Aguvulak, the hero a mighty one of his tribe, to an old spi doctor of the village, which must be paid seals and skins before the marriage will permitted. Here is the motive for some teresting views of the seal hunt, the capturi of the walrus and the Eskimo art of trappii as well as the happenings incident to summer life of the Eskimo village on edge of the Arctic sea, the handling of reindeer herds, the making of the Eskii boat and the building of their houses. There are bits of good drama in the pictu as when Aguvulak battles the oncoming Arc storm on his return with the precious sil fox skin, but its chief claim to distinction the achievement of Earl Rossman in phot raphing for the first time in color, the a\ inspiring display of the Aurora Borealis. 1 brilliant lights, flashes and streaks of i Northern Lights are caught in the film w wonderful effect. The picture is over-titled, and the scei are too seldom allowed to tell their own sto It has elements of decided interest, howev as have most film documents of the i corners of the world, in spite of the fact tl it can hardly be classed as another Nana of the North. 6 reels. Pathe Exchange. 'I