The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

June, 194} Page 223 ■ Commonwealth Pictures Corpora- tion. 729 Seventh Ave., New York City offers the following two new feature pictures in 16nim sound: Adventures at the Baskervilles —8 reels—a detective yarn based on a Conaii Doyle .story "'Silver Blaze." Arthur Wontner, who has played Holmes on the stage and .screen many times, and Lyn Harding, best known for his representa- tion of the villainous Professor Moriarty, once more pit their wits against each other. The locale of the new Holmes' story is the same as that of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," but the new adventure takes place 20 years after tnat episode. This time Holmes' interest is intrigued by the disappearance of a horse. He uncovers one clue after another that leads him to believe that his old enemy, Professor Moriarty, is at the bottom of the crimes, but before he can pin the accusation on him, two other murders occur, and Dr. Watson nearly loses his life. Code of the Red Man —7 reels- released by Monogram as "King of the Stallions." This film presents a drama of the Wilderness—told against the back- ground of an Indian village on the south- west frontier. Around this has been woven a suspenseful story featuring the magnificent horse, "Thunder." Most of the important roles are enacted by full- blooded Indians, including Chief Thunder- cloud, Princess Bluebird, and hundreds of redskins from the various tribes of the From "Code of the Red Man" West. A fight to the death between Thunder, the equine hero of the story, and Paint, a completely wild horse lead- ing his band of stallions down from the mountains, is one of the highlights of the picture. ■ Aetna Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn., has issued a new sound film on: How to Plan a Victory Vegetable Garden —filmed in cooperation with the National Victory Garden Institute. Designed to assist the nation's spare- time gardeners in getting a maximum return from their gardens, it gives spe- cific suggestions on correct location for a garden, proper size, and the best crops to plant. This film is the first in a series entitled "Pointers for Planters." Other subjects to be covered in the film series include: the proper cultivation and harvesting of the garden; and the storing and preserving of the crop. ■ Brandon Films, Inc., 1600 Broadway, New York City, will release several special representative United Nations film programs effective June 14th, 1943, National United Nations Day. These programs of 16mm soundfilms will be available nationwide from regional com- mercial and educational film libraries on rental in the form of grouped units, each unit containing several films dealing with the people of member nations of the United Nations. The special programs have been selected with a view towards supplying organizations, schools, defense councils, labor and industry with suitable short film programs to be utilized at meetings, seminars, rallies and confer- ences dealing with the United Nations. The Dutch, the Polish Underground, the Czechs and the Soviet Union are PROTECT FILMS UOVrit ^(.Rlfj tTILLS VAP,0RATE ASK rOUR DCALER^OR PHOTOFINISHER «*rORATECO.. INC.* BELL • HOWELL CO 1^0 WeitMtti St. 1801 LanhMnU CklMw NewYorlLN.Y. 7I6N. Ubraa. Hollywood AGAINST CLIMATE , SCRATCH- ES STAINS r ING E R- MARKS-TME WAY THE U. S. GOV- ERNMENT AND THE H O L L V . WOOD PRO- OUCERSDO featured in United Nations Special Pro- gram No. 1 which contains the follow- ing short films: The Nnv Earth, Joris Ivens documentary of Holland; A Drop of Milk, a short story film of Polish resistance; The Czechs March On, and Under Siege, the record of the turning point in the Axis attack on Moscow. Arrangements have been made so that individual organizations may secure these special programs for one day, and for larger regional organizations to lease copies of the films for longer periods of time. czrfmona tkz iZ-^zoducEZi Viaual Aids for Indtistrial Trcdning Photo & Sound, Inc., San Francisco motion picture and slidefilm producers, are assisting personnel departments of many industrial concerns in their em- ploye training program by providing suit- able visual teaching tools. Now in regu- lar use by the shipbuilding industry is Photo & Sound's series of reading slide- films covering every phase of shipfitting practice, ranging from demonstrations of simple tools to the more complex pro- cedures of installing pre-fabricated units in the ship's hull. Users of the slidefilms report that they have made it possible to train large numbers of workers more thoroughly and in less time than by any other method of demonstration. Sets of these films, including from 80 to 90 sub- jects, are in use by more than 100 schools and plants throughout the country, ac- cording to the producer. Blueprint reading is another subject to which slidefilms can contribute. A series on "Training in Blue Print Read- ing" explains blue print layout, projec- tion, standard lines, standard symbols, sections and detail designations. A work- ing manual supplements this series, pro- viding a completely illustrated reference work on the principal factors involved in Blue Print Reading. A one-reel 16mm sound motion picture in color on "Short Whip Vertical Weld- ing" has also been issued to aid trainees in learning the fundamentals of vertical arc welding. Complete facilities for motion picture cartoon animation have just been installed by Photo and Sound consisting of a specially designed camera, illuminated drawing tables and camera stand with built in registering controls, and a special projection unit for plotting animation se- quences. Motion picture producers en- gaged in the production of training films advise that cartoon animation is indis- pensable for graphic portrayal of certain operating techniques in films for training purposes. Keystone Slides On Aeronautics This new series of lantern slides— standard size, 3Vi" by 4"—by Alexander Klemin of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, New York City, has been prepared with a view to complete co- ordination with the high-school pre- flight training courses, such as are now being undertaken in the most advanced and progressive schools of the country. They are divided into the following twelve units, which cover all the topics dealt with in pre-flight training in ac- cordance with the program developed by the Civil Aeronautics .Administration and the U. S. Office of Education: Historical Background, Types of Airplanes, Aero- dynamics, Aircraft Materials and Their Uses, Aircraft Structure, Structural De- tail of the Airplane, Airplane Controls, Airplane Engines, Propellers, Meteor- ology, Navigation and Radio, Aircraft Instruments and Accessories. The slides are the work of an aero- nautics teacher of long experience and excellent reputation, who has kept care- fully in view both the needs of the stu- dent, and the teachers' viewpoint. Ac- companying the series is a brief manual, coordinating fully with the slides and written in simple, but technically accurate style, which can be used by the teacher with full confidence, and can also be placed, if necessary, in the hands of the students.