The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page.60 The Educational Screen SCHOOL MADE MOTION PICTURES Medical Subjects Fifteen films valuable for medical students and doc- tors have been made at the Temple University Medical School, Philadelphia, and Wills Eye Hospital, by Robert Mallory III. Mr. Mallory performed the of- fices of cameraman, director, editor, and titler in each film. Doctors pictured in the films acted as co- directors. All films were taken on 16mm. stock. All but one were on color. Following is a li,st of Mr. Mallory's unusual collec- tion of films: Department of Physiology— Demonstration oj the Heart-Lung Experiment (450') ; A Demonstration oj the Bcll-Madffendie Laii' (250'); An. Experiment on Micturition (250') ; Nen'e-Muscle Preparation (150'). Department of Surgery— Traumatic Surgery (250') ; Major Surgery of Junior Year (350') ; Minor Surgery of Junior Year (650') ; Abdominoperineal Proctosig- moidectomx ( 1200') ; A Subtotal Gastrectomy (1200'). Department of Obstetrics— Deliveries, us Seen by a Junior Student (350') ; Preparation jor Delivery (350') ; (black-and-white) ; Decomposition and Ex- traction of a Breech Presentation (500'). Wills Eye Hospital subjects— Retinal Detachment Operation (350') ; Cataract Operations (350') ; Elliot Trephine Operation (350'). By HARDY R. FINCH Head of the English Department Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Conn. Filming operative procedure—Mr. Mallory at the camera. The films are for loan free to doctors, medical stu- dents, medical or technical clubs, but they are not for the general public use. They must be used in biology or pre-medical work when the instructor wishes. Those interested in obtaining copies of any of these films should write to Robert Mallory HI, Methodist Hos- pital, Broad and Wolf Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Prize Winners Campus Frontiers, a film showing the cooperative plan of Antioch College in action, received honorable mention in the annual amateur movie competition con- ducted by Movie Makers magazine. The film, de- scribed in an earlier issue of this department, was filmed With a question box on the making of school film productions, conducted by DONALD A. ELDRIDGE, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. by Charles Chuck Klein. Retinal Detachment Opera- tion, taken by Robert Mallory III at the Wills Eye Hospital, also received honorable mention. Film Tells University's War Program A new .sound ])icture, entitled The University and the War. has been produced by Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Prepared as a documentary film to show the role the American university—represented in this case by Ohio State—is playing in the war, the movie is now available for general distribution. Thirty copies are now in constant use. The film is 16mm, running 22 minutes. H. W. Decker of the Ohio State alumni ofifice. Administration Huilding, is in charge of bookings. Weaving familiar .scenes of students at work and at play, classrooms, laboratories, football, the campus, into a imified whole, the movie shows how a imiversity has niade a quick transition from peace to war. The picture was planned under the auspices of a special faculty "acceleration committee" headed by Professor Harlan H. Hatcher. Script, production, and editing were done by Professor Frank J. Roos. Jr.. department of fine arts, and Professor William R. Parker, department of English. All photography was by A. Lloyd Reber. Jr., department of photography, and the spoken commentary is by Wib Pettigrew. QUESTION BOX ON SCHOOL FILM PRODUCTION Question: We are planning a film on the part played by our schools in serving the community and the nation in the war. The production is being handled by a committee representing the Public Relations Committee of our teachers' organization, the Audio-Visual Aids Department of our school system, and a representative of each type of school —senior high, junior high, grammar, and vocational trade school. We have the services of a commercial photographer who is an alumnus of our high school. Our committee is in disagreement as to what and how much should be included in the film, and also on the basic treatment. Some feel that at least one scene of every individual school should be in- cluded, giving a sort of panoramic view of the whole system—a little here and a little there. Others of us feel that we should have a definite continuity and that schools should be pictured only if they naturally fall within the continuity. For example, we have some scenes showing teachers handling sugar and oil rationing, which were made before any plan was established. Some people who have seen these pictures think we should include them all in the reel because otherwise some {Continued on page 62)