Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

58 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD October 11, 1930 W THE SHORT FEATURE Theatre Has Newsreel Taken Of Fliers; Shows It Same Day The Aztec theatre, San Antonio, scored a news "beat" when it showed a locally produced newsreel of Bellonte and Coste the same day that the French transAtlantic fliers arrived in the city. Newspictures The theatre management had J. H. Britton, cameraman, "shoot" the aviators as they arrived at Winburn field in the afternoon and paraded downtown. The scenes were shown on the Aztec screen the same evening. Other theatres showed the pictures about a week later. ernment educational films are to be shown for classes in geography. The visual education plan, as Miss Mary Walter, who is in charge, explains it, is for the purpose of vitalizing classroom work. Dallas Schools Equipped With Projection Machines Under Visual Education Plan Projection machines are being installed in auditoriums of public schools at Dallas, as an aid to the study of geography and history in the sixth and seventh grades. The project is sponsored by the Visual Education Bureau of the Department of Education. Among the historical subjects to be shown are reproductions of the ride of Paul Revere, the landing of the Pilgrims and the Boston Tea Party. A number of gov "Parlez-Vous" in Spanish Is U Plan; Summerville Series in Two Languages Following its policy of producing foreign language versions of talking pictures, Universal announces that Slim Summerville, star, and Eddie Gribbon and Pauline Garon will appear in the Spanish version of the two-reel comedy "Parlez-Vous." It is the intention of the producers to make the entire Summerville series in Spanish, as well as English. This production of foreign shorts is in addition to the filming of 12 Universal features already set, with others to follow. PATHE SOUND NEWS— NO. 83— Fishermen test United States racing schooner at Gloucester, Mass. —Sporting porters use their heads in novel race in London — Veterans declare war on bandits in Nebraska — Keep turf's biggest money horse fit — Mussolini eyes Fascist gymnasts — -Bike riders pedal 47 miles in Illinois; get cup — Fireworks boom on birthday of Jersey City, N. J. — New York sees stars in wrestling bout. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— NO. 202— Auto speed kings race in France — Meet a wise bird from jhe West — Mrs. Gandhi sees husband's "army" — Luck boys visit Indian powwow in Montana— Choruses meet at Scandinavian fete — Higher education for New York firemen — New German army parades its might for Hindenburg. KINOGRAMS NO. 5646— R-101 takes 48 to death in flames — Hoover greets American Legion in Boston— Coast artillery guns break record for firing speed in California — New Jersey boys' home-made diving bell cost $5, but it works — Ship grounds off Peterhead, England, and dog saves crew of 64 — What not to have in coal mines: explosions — ■ Monkeys put on balloon race at Venice, Cal. — St. Louis Cards win two out of three world series games from Athletics at St. Louis. KINOGRAMS NO. 5645— Mussolini watches 4,000 Facist laborers drill — N. Y. tenement dwellers killed in sleep as building collapses — Moslems hold ancient rites in Calcutta — Gouraud, French general, comes to American Legion convention — Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch parliament — German frau introduces her family — Bobby Jones, four cups up and none to go, is welcomed home — German army has sham war at Thuringen. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO. 79— Jones wins U. S. amateur golf crown — Bishop Cannon returns from honeymoon to face "unministerial conduct" accusation of church elders — Horseshoe pitchers compete for $1,000 trophy in ChicagoBuild $80,000 schooner to wrest sailing laurels from Canadians — 3,351 New Yorkers apply for old age pension — Village fountains flow with wine at Italian grape fete — Yale and Albie Booth defeat Maine in football opener. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO. 80— 13-gun salute greets French general, here for Legion convention — New York rooming house collapses— Mussolini reviews army of Facist laborers — Moslems commemorate sacrifice of Ishmael by Abraham — Airplane vans assist in "moving" day as thousands of New Yorkers take to the suburbs — Holland's parliament opens with the queen in attendance— Barleycorn wins spectacular steeplechase finish at Rye, N. Y. u. "Worm's eye" view of Pathe's new short subject, "Football with Knule K. Rockne." This shot was taken through a heavy plate of glass to show detail of gridiron tactics. The last feature in the series is now being completed at Notre Dame University. Terry Ramsaye is producing the group and Clyde Elliott is directing S. Agricultural Film Shelved After 9 Years Of Service to Farmers "Out of the Shadows," one of the early educational films used by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to combat bovine tuberculosis, has been laid on the shelf after nine years of service. The last remaining copy of more than 40 once in circulation has been taken in — battered and full of torn sprocket holes — to be placed in the archives of the department. It is said that no other film made by the Department of Agriculture has made a record approaching that of "Out of the Shadows." It has been shown in almost every rural community in the United States where dairy cattle are prominent. Copies of the film have been shipped into the field 1,644 times, bookings for a single copy frequently running several weeks. Sixty-one copies of it have been sold for use in foreign countries. The film was directed by F. W. Perkins, formerly chief of the Office of Motion Pictures. Potography was by G. R. Goergen*.