The Film Daily (1923)

Short Stuff "Sentinels of the Sea" — Fox Educational Type of production 1 reel educational An interesting series of pictures make up this latest Fox Educational to be released in March. The reel contains views of lighthouses and lightships that afford attractive material for an educational number. There are shots various lights along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts with some that are more familiar than others, such as Beacon Light in Boston, Ambrose Light in New York, and many more views of the lifesavers of the sea that are excellently photographed and often attractively tinted. Shots showing the tenders "going to work" via a pulley which transfers them from a small craft to the light are especially interesting and the reel, as a whole, offers good entertainment of this particular order. "Pathe Review No. 18" Type of production 1 reel magazine An interesting and varied collection of subjects make up this issue of Pathe's Review. The national sport of IndoChina, racing with large boats containing seventy rowers each, has not been seen before. A subject entitled "Chip-chip and her babies" shows mother bird feeding her little ones, whose open mouths constantly cry for food. Another section shows the entire process of making lead pencils, while the Pathe color section is devoted to shots of the whirling surf along the coast of Brittany. "Borrowed Trouble"— Carter DeHaven— F. B. O. Type of production 2 reel comedy While the theme of this Carter DeHaven comedy is as old as the movies, "Borrowed Trouble" has been well handled as to players and direction and will probably satisfy a large majority. The DeHavens are a young married couple who after buying a wonderful house haven't enough money to furnish it. The wife, however, writes her parents and describes the furnishings of the house next door as their own. The parents come to visit them and they take advantage of the fact that the electrical inventor who lives next door has gone away for the night leaving his baby and keys with them to pretend that the inventor's house is their own, with some amusing complications. "Ain't Love Awful" — Century-Universal Type of production 2 reel comedy The fact that producers are still making comedies in which edibles are thrown around promiscuously would indicate that this sort of thing is still deemed amusing by a lot of people. In this Century two-reeler, which features Bobb Dunn, everything is thrown from bottles of milk to boquets of flowers. There is also the familiar chase with everybody running after the escaping hero, who has only tried to elope with the old man's only daughter. There is a laugh in the situation where Dunn has his head between the rungs of a long ladder and is running down a road. Two machines come along and catch the ends of the ladder, forcing Dunn to move backward instead of forward. He escapes the cars by dropping down a manhole. All right where they like a slapstick. Capt. F. E. Kleinschmidt's "Adventures in the Far North" — Max Fleischer Type of production 4 reel expedition picture There are several very worth while, interesting and valuable educational pictures on the market in the way of expedition films, or photographic records of trips into unfrequented regions of the earth. The latest is Capt. F. E. Kleinschmidt's pictures of a seven months' expedition of hunting, whaling and photographing in the far north, principally along the coast of Alaska as well as some inland trips. The Kleinschmidt picture is different from the animal hunting pictures, and while probably not containing the thrills of the African hunts, has numerous interesting and more or less exciting sequences included in these four reels of scenics and hunting. The expedition was made in a reconstructed submarine and started from Seattle in the Spring of 1922, headed far enough north to secure many fine views of icebergs, volcanoes, and other natural beauties of the north. The photography is excellent and some of the pictures have been beautifully tinted. Besides a quantity of unusually fine views of the country, the coast and the water, Capt. Kleinschmidt has secured some of the best pictures of water animals that have been seen. Those of birds in hordes thick enough to look like a solid mass, schools of seals, sea lions and walruses are especially interesting. The photographing of whale harpooning and the capturing of young specimens of typical northern animals offer more worth while pictures. By far the most interesting of all, though are the pictures of a huge white polar bear swimming with her young offspring hanging on. Remarkable are the shots showing the efforts to rope in the young bear and the frantic attempts of the mother to battle off the captors and her eventual content when the little bear is allowed to go free. The picture is worthy of exhibition any where and should be heartily received. i "Giants vs. Yanks" — Our Gang — Pathe Type of production 2 reel comedy The latest outburst of Hal Roach's irrepressible gang of youngsters occurs under the interesting title of "Giants vs. Yanks." In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of baseball, and the gang is no exception to the rule. Not so their several parents who at the moment the game is Called, find plenty of work for young hands to do. Considerable time is taken up in evading the different tasks, but finally everything is set and the game proceeds with little Farina as the umpire. Not for long, however, because they are chased off the lot. "Buglenose" Davis has lent his baby sister to a childless couple living nearby and the gang goes to get her. Finding a litter of puppies they are having a great time, when the house is suddenly placed under quarantine. And then the wrecking crew starts. The amusements they evolve are strange and weird, also very destructive, but most of all they are funny. They put white shoe polish on the little black baby and black shoe polish on the white baby, swing from the chandeliers, dress up in grown-up clothes, shoot all the stuffed birds with a real gun, and generally tear the place apart. Luckily the quarantine is found to be unnecessary, and the kids are finally returned to their waiting parents. If you, by any chance, are not using these comedies, you are missing the best short reels of the year. I .• B t 'a a! id st re afclj le id Is Tic A. ie a id ie ie ie st n ;n ig of jn st . e,, :r st en' he itsih i b( l's i i n ' ;t ' ig ' ve to