The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS American Optical Co 60 Ampro Corporation 54 Association Films 100 Eausch & Lomb 57 Beckley-Cardy Co 92 Bell & Howell Inside Back Cover Bowmar Co., Stanley 96 Brandon Films 89 British Information Services 101 Burke & James 96 Children's Productions 91 Colburn Laboratory, Geo. W. 94 Coronet Instructional Films 99 DeVry Corporation 97 Draper Shade Co., Luther O. 83 Eastin Pictures Co 89 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films 53 Film Studios of Chicago ... 96 Films of the Nations 98 Frith Films 93 Holmes Projector Co 88 Institutional Cinema Service. 94 International Film Bureau . 92 International Film Foundation 85 Johnson Hunt Productions . 90 Karel Sound Film Library . . 89 Lewis Film Service 94 Mahnke Productions, Carl F..86 Nesbit, Paul 93 Peak Films Productions ... 94 Photo and Sound Productions 86 Portafilms 89 Post Pictures Corp 100 Radio Corporation of America 61 Radio-Mat Slide Co 93 Religious Film Association . 84 Simmel-Meservey 56 Slidecraft Co 96 Society for Visual Education Back Cover Southern Visual Films 94 Swank Motion Pictures .... 94 United Specialists 100 United World Films 59 Vacuumate Corp 96 Victor Animatograph Corp. Inside Front Cover, 84 Viewlex 90 Visual Sciences 93 Current Film News (Continued from f>age 101) ■ INTERNATIONAL FILM BUREAU, INC., 84 E. Randolph St., Chicago, lias opened a New York office at IS Park Row, New York 7, with G. M. Gate.s in charge, according to an announcement by Wesley Greene. President of IFB. The office will handle sales of International Film Bureau releases in New England, Pennsylvania. New York and New Jersey, and will maintain a specialized rental and preview lihrary. Mr. Gates is a graduate of the School of Business Administration at Harvard University and the producer of a series of color slide films. International Film Bureau is releasing in the Unite^ States a series of kodachrome films for schools, including Vegetable Insects, which was selected for honorable mention at the recent "Films of the World" Festival in Chicago. Other releases of the International Film Bureau are Fur Country, Great Lakes, Eskimo Summer, and a series of French and Spanish language teaching films. ■ BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, 30 Rockefeller Plaza. New York 20, announces that the following 16mm film is now available: Hausa Village (2 reels) — In ancient times, travelers from the Holy City of Mecca crossed the vast Sahara Desert into northern Nigeria, bringing with thein the teachings of Mohammed. Today the Hausa people number 10 million, and all of them are devout Mohammedans. In this film, the life and customs of a typical Hausa village are shown. ■ NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SHIPPING, INC., 1809 G Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C, has completed a motion picture titled: America Sails the Sea (32 min.) — telling the story of the American Merchant Marine and its importance to the nation. Its primary purpose is to show the importance of shipping to American agriculture and industry. The film is complete with dramatic characterizations, narration, and set to thematic music. It will be distributed free. ■ OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Bureau of Public Relations, Administration Building, Columbus, Ohio announces the release of a new film: Footsteps to the Future (27 minutes) — a recruiting film, designed to interest the high school girl in the study of home economics at the university level. ■ AFFILIATED AETNA LIFE COMPANIES, Public Education Department, Hartford 15, Connecticut, offers, without charge, a safety film: Live and Let Live — 16nini sound, color, 10 minutes' running time — a new approach to traffic education, a motion picture which pioneers the use of three-dimensional, scale-model animation to demonstrate ten of the leading causes of highway accidents. Entertainment ■ UNITED WORLD FILMS, INC.. 445 Park Ave., New York 22. announces the release of the following recreational 16mm sound films: Brief Encounter (86 minutes) — Noel Coward's masterpiece, winner of the International Federation of Film Critics' award at Cannes as the "best film of the year irrespective of nationality.'' A chance meeting leads into a thoroughly believable adult love story, told in a straightforward way. (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard.) "Scarlet Street" Scarlet Street (II reels) — story of a man driven to the point of murder when he is betrayed by a worthless woman, with Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett. Mature audiences. Girl on "the Spot (7 reels) — a murder mystery, complete with Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, with Lois Collier, Jess Barker. Family. Because of Him (9 reels) — a musical with Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, and Helen Broderick. The story of a stage-struck waitress. ■ POST PICTURES CORP., 115 W. 45th St., New York 19, in accordance with its recent announcement of the exclusive 16nim distribution rights for 36 new Monogram Pictures, now offers the first six of these 16nim sound features : Daum on the Great Diiide, Isle of Missing Men, Ghosts on the Loose, The Stranger from Pecos, Rhythm Parade, Silent ]]'itness. ■ LIBRARY FILMS, INC., 25 W. 45th St., New York 19, offers a delightful classic in a lOmm sound-on-film version: Cyrano de Bergerac (one reel) — Rostand's romantic story of the swashbuckling Cyrano and his notorious nose, featuring Walter Hampden. ■ COMMONWEALTH PICTURES CORP., 729 Seventh .Ave., New York 19, has acquired exclusive 16mm distribution of the following film: I Married a Witch (8 reels) — the Rene Clair fantasy in the "Topper" tradition presenting a story of witchcraft in modern dress and in a modern setting. (Frederic March. X'eronica Lake, Susan Hayward, Robert Benchley.) 104 Educational Screen