The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 3 56 The Educational Screen Enjoy Greater Variety HAL ROACH Feature Releases on 16inin. sound CAPTAIN CAUTION— Victor Mature, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot in Kenneth Roberts* historical saga of the sea. SAPS AT SEA —Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head into a gale of merriment and blow the gloom hatches sky- high in their antics on the briny deep. THERE GOES MY HEART— Fredric March and Virginia Bruce in an absorbing newspaper story. ZENOBIA (An Elephant Never Forgets) —Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke in a bright, original pic- ture. See and hear Zeke recite the Introduction to the Declaration of Independence. TOPPER TAKES A TRIP —Constance Bennett, Roland Young in an unusual comedy full of camera tricks. CAPTAIN FURY— Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen in a thrilling story of Australia's Robin Hood. THE HOUSEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER— Joan Bennett and Adolphe Menjou in a laugh-packed comedy. A CHUMP AT OXFORD— Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at their funniest in a comedy about life at Oxford University. OF MICE AND MEN —Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr. in John Steinbeck's great drama. ONE MILLION B. C. —Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney, Jr. in an unusual prehistoric setting. TURNABOUT —Adolphe Menjou and Carole Landis in Thorne (Topper) Smith's most hilarious novel. Available at your film library. Send for our Free Catalog with complete list of many other educational and recreational 16 mm. sound films. POST PICTURES CORP. Dept. 10 New York 19. N. Y. 723 Seventh Ave. ov et'" pS<^^ we'll be glad to supply you again with new HOLMES SOUND ON-FILM PROJECTORS Right now our Government requires every machine we can produce, but when the time comes, you can look forward to Holmes Projectors embodying the same advanced design and engineering skill that Holmes machines have always had. In the mean- time, orders for parts will receive the best possible attention. PROJECTOR COMPANY 1813 ORCHARD STREET CHICAGO 14 Manufacturers of 16mm and 35mm Sound-on-Film Projectors for over 25 years to Dealers and Users SLIDES General Science 11 rolls OK -„,„ Principles of Physics 7 rolls **'* ™™* Principles of Chemistry 8 rolls F I Li ]II Fundamentals of Biology 8 rolls Write for Folder and Free Sample Strip VISUAL SCIE]VCES, \Siz Suffern, New York pictures released to date have been shown in 500 plants about 900 times a month, to an audience of between five to six hundred thousand. Nineteen releases are on the Navy's schedule for 1943-44. .'\mong those already shown are: Full Speed Ahead, This Is Guadalcanal, The Life and Death of the Hornet, The Navy Flies On, and December 7. School Broadcast Conference November 28-30 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the School Broad- cast Conference is scheduled for November 28, 29, 30 at the Hotel Morrison. Chicago. Mr. William D. Boutwell of the U. S. Office of Edu- cation, will be one of the speakers on the subject "What Radio Should Mean to You," at the opening session Monday morning. School utilization of radio programs will be demonstrated by elementary classes and then discussed by a panel of selected Resource Persons. At a General Session Tuesday morning, M. Medora Roskilly, Vocational and Adult Education School, Racine, Wisconsin, will speak on "The Use of Audio-Visual Aids in a Basic Social Science Course." Following this address will be a simulated Town Meet- ing Broadcast on "Aviation in the Post-War World," by students of Bloom Township High School, and a showing of the Erpi film, The Airplane Changes the World Map. A session on Script and Production Workshop, and a teachers Radio Clinic, under the chairmanship of Major Harold W. Kent, Liaison, War Department and U. S. Office of Education, will ofTer teachers an opportunity to exchange their experiences and discuss various problems. SMPE Semi-Annual Meeting The Society of Motion Picture Engineers devoted one afternoon of their five-day Hollywood session. October 18-22. to reports on production activities of Government agencies. A symposium of papers from the Bureau of .Aeronautics, Navy Department, told of the production of Navy training films by the Training Film Branch, Photographic Division, which is headed by Lt. Orville Goldner. Lt. Commander Patrick Mur- phy, Chief of Visual Training Section, U. S. Coast Guard illustrated his paper on the Coast Guard pro- duction program with a special training film. The de- velopment and work of the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force at Culver City was presented by Major Arthur Birnkrant in a paper titled "Cinema- tography Goes to War." "Walt Disney Studio—a War Plant," by Carl Nater, Production Co-ordinator, .A.rmy and Navy Training Films, Walt Disney Productions, describes the "changeover" in motion picture product at the Disney Studio and the problems encountered. Be- tween 90 and 95% of the facilities of that organization are now devoted to producing training films for the Armed Forces, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the Treasury Department and other governmental agencies.