The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

September, 1934 Page 191 cation may try it on a limited basis, through the State Department of Public Health, and determine it- value by use in the regular classroom. International Review of Educational Cinematog- raphy i May. June and July. '34) Almost half of the contents of the May issui this impressive publication is devoted t<> a report oi the International Congress of Teaching and Edu- cation held iii Rome last April. listing the official delegates in attendance. Resolutions were adopted by the Congress pertaining to the following topics: Methodology of Instructional Films, Scientific Cinematography, The Cinema and Technical and Professional Life, The Cinema and Agricultural Life, Hygiene and Social Safeguards, Popular Edu- cation, Social Providence and Saving, The State and Cinematography, Technique, The Cinema and the 1 ,ife of the Peoples. The June issue contains a great variety oi excel- lent articles, such ;i>: "The Cinema in Intellectual and Social Life," by E. De Luca; "Women and the Cinema," by F. E. Diehl; "The Production of Teaching Films," by !•'.. Rust: "The Use of the Cinema in Primary Teaching," by J. Brerault. The July number reprints Mr. Cline M. Koon's report on "Motion Pictures in Education in the United States." and presents similar reports on the British Film Institute, The I.. U. C. !•'-. National Institute of Italy, and the State Pedagogic Museum of France. School Arts (May '341 "How Creative Projects Develop," by Elsie Reed Boylston. A direct account is given in pleasing style of a constructive activity in a second grade. A Pueblo Indian story by Grace Moon was illustrated, and a clear print proves its excellence. Many points will he appreciated by teachers desiring to make projects realistic and meaningful. The same issue includes "Marionettes," by Muerl McDermott. It is a detailed narrative of how a seventh grade represented Rumplestilskin with puppets of their own designing and craftsmanship. Book Review Tin- Moving Pictotuj Monthly -1934 Annual, edited by R. K. Rele, B. A.. I lions. 1 1.1.. I 1 .. Printed and published by Jaishanker K. Dwivedi, Bombay, India. 167 pp. This well presented and informative Annual af- fords an illuminating glimpse into the Indian cinema world with it- news of studios and stars, and articles by leading men in the Indian motion picture field. Its pages are not limited, however, to its own Country's film activities, including such splendid foreign contri- butions as "National Expression in the Cinema." by Photo Art Monthly A magazine appealing particularly fo Educators and those interested in Visual Instruction through the photographic depiction of scientific and beautiful subjects. It covers its subjects authoritatively by offering only the best writers in their specialized branches. $2.00 per year 20c a copy $2.50 Foreign 25c in Canada $2.60 per year in Canada Photo Art Publisher 482-498 MONADNOCK BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Norman Wilson, Kditor of the Edinburgh Cinema Quarterly, and "Cinema -The New Art." by I'.. I'.raun. Editor of Film .lit. published in England. Pages of lovely illustrations, many colored, and notes complete tlii- fascinating issue. Although the Moving Picture Monthly is a theatri- cal motion picture publication, it is the editor's plan to include discussion of the educational film in every issue of 1935 on a page devoted to "Screen and Edu- cation." Xor is the amateur cinematographic field to be neglected, as the Annual announces that a section will deal with this subject in future issue-. Photographs Tell Stories Learn how to make your camera become a skilled story teller. It's all in understanding its capacities and limitations. There is joy in making good photographs . . . Read how others do it. Subscribe to that beau- tiful, monthly magazine. Camera Craft It's devoted to photography. $2.50 a year. Send 25 cents for a late copy. CAMERA CRAFT PUBLISHING COMPANY 703 Market Street, San Francisco, California