The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Current Film News m UNITED WORLD FILMS, INC., 445 Park Ave., New York 22. N.Y., announces the following 16mni film : Sprints (2 reels) — first of a new training: series, prodncecl by United World ■ ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA FILMS, INC., 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago 6. 111., is embarking on a new program of providing specially edited 8 and 16mm silent films for distribution in the home and adult field. The first group of EB films for the home consists of 17 titles and is now available for distribution. Including films on "Inside Russia," sports, animals and foreign lands, the home and adult series of films will be constantly expanded. ■ FILMS OF THE NATIONS, INC., 55 W. 45th St., Xew York 19, N.Y., is distributing the 16mm sound film Pattern for Pence, officially approved and recommended by the United Nations Film Board. The film explains the functions of the United Nations ; shows with charts, animation and a clear commentary how the organization is set up and what the purpose of each department is ; describes the necessity for each council, who its members are ; explains the veto. ■ CORONET INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS, Coronet Building, Chicago 1, III., offers four new one-reel productions, available in color or black and white: Ready to Type — showing students that readiness is the pre-requisite to typing efficiency : getting ready mentally and physically to control the typewriter. Building Tsrping Skill — telling the story (jf tlie student's eiforts to increase his typing skill ; how, through practice, lie masters relaxation, precise operative control, attention to copy, control of his arms and hands, and confidence in his own performance at top speeds. England: Background of Literature — picturing scenes wliicli inspired lingland's greatest writers. Scotland: Background of Literature — helping students vi.sualize the rugged Scottish country so that they can better apjireciate the literary works inspired by it. ■ THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, 1746 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., announces the publication of 4-page leaflets, titled "The Film for Your Need," to be mailed every few' weeks to I6mm film dealers and libraries and to educational, civic, fraternal and women's groups throughout the United States. The leaflets will describe available films in detail, giving utilization suggestions. The first issue deals with health and welfare films and features the following 16nim black and white sound film: The Feeling of Rejection (2i niin.) — initial |)roduction in a new mental liealth series; the story of an emotionally <listurl)ed young woman, who, with the help of a psychiatrist, gains an understanding of the childhood origin and causes of her difficulties. The film was a prize winner in the recent "Films of the World" Festival in Chicago. ■ TEACHING FILM CUSTODIANS, INC., 25 W. 43rd St., New York 18, has prepared excerpted classroom versions of feature photoplays based upon outstanding novels. .^niong these are Les Miserablcs, The Good Earth, and Anna Karenina. Also available are classroom versions of motion I)ictures based on the novels of Charles Dickens and film versions of children's classics, such as Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island. Informative folders describing these film offerings are available to teachers and school supervisors without charge. Also available from Teaching Film Custodians are prints of four classroomlength films on world history, excerpted from feature motion pictures. The films, edited from The Crusades, The House of Rothschild, Conquest, and Antony and Cleopatra, were prepared by a committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. 'Sprints" Films in cooperation with the Amateur Athletic Union and the United States Olympic Committee. The film covers the fundamentals of the 100-yard dash and the 220-yard dash. ■ SIMMEL-MESERVEY, INC., 321 So. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California, has acquired for distribution the first series of educational films, in color, made in France since the war. Produced in cooperation with the French Government by Eugene and Frederick Croizat ^i^d,t ^i*m Coe/i ^Umed! Famous NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MARIMBA COEDS ORCHESTRA! riicy vf traveled over 25,000 miles in 'Bachto-Boogie' concerts! They're the pride of Prof. Musser, famed marimbist, composer, conductor . . . head of Marimba Dept. at Northwestern School of Music, first to offer majors and master degrees in marimba! Dealers, Librarians, films Bayers: Write FILM STUDIOS OF CHICAGO — H. A. SPANUTH 135 S. La Solle Dept. E Chicogo 3 ^ Sensational Performers, di' reefed by CL4IR OM4R musser; Produced In N. U.'t Lutk'n Hall . . . exe'usivelv tor v</oMAN speaks: FULL-REEL CONCERT 1. 'Overture to the Merriege of Figaro' Mozarf 2. 'Flight of the Bumble Bee' Rimslcl-Korsakov 3. 'Hora Staccata' Dinicu 4. 'The Artists Life Walti' Johann Strauss March, 1948 151