Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

November, 1945 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 47 mentators. The ordinary British accent just isn’t understood in American school rooms. Catalogers can greatly help their patrons by discarding the hip-hooray style of picture description for the more prosaic but more useful type of “blowby-blow” depiction. Here are some examples of what we consider reasonably satisfactory catalog descriptions: PERU — Animated map, sea lions, Guano Island, sacking Guano, oil regions, cotton picking, Taita, rice harvesting and threshing, sugar culture. Andes Mountains, Cerro de Pasco, world famous central railway (21 switchbacks, 61 tunnels in 106 miles). Lake Morochoca, mining center, mine interior, gold mining, Inca ruins, native industries, llama. Train journeying through mountains, Araquappa, Mount Isti, Molendo, transporting ship passengers in chair derrick, Callac, Lima, Riman River. 1 Reel. YORKTOWN — The progress of the War of Independence between January and October, 1781; the hardships and suffering of the American troops; the problems confronting General Washington; the international aspect of the campaign of 1781; the aid rendered by the French leaders; the march of the American Army south to Yorktown; the arrival of the French Fleet; the complete outwitting of Clinton and Cornwallis; the battle of Yorktown, and the surrender of Cornwallis. 3 Reels. HOW NATURE PROTECTS ANIMALS — Landscape scene of open country, rabbit biding by crouching, several racoons by side of a pool, giraffe in cluster of trees, tiger stalking in tall grass, lion crouching in the underbrush, zebra in the open, horse and young colt, mountain goats on a crag, mother kangaroo with baby in pouch, spiny anteater curling up for protection, young magpies, magpie nest hidden in branches of tree, young warbles in a well protected home, woodpecker tapping a tree, bark removed to show woodpecker’s nest, female woodpecker feeding young, tree creeper and nest, removing shear water from her nest in burrow, nest of waterhen and cut in of young, protective coloration of young pheasants, protective coloration of young grouse, protective coloration of adult grouse, protective coloration of chameleon, caterpillar resembling a curled leaf, protective device of hawkmoth caterpillar, protective device of lobster moth caterpillar, mimicry of beehawk moth, comparison of beehawk moth and bee, close-up of looper caterpillar, looper caterpillars imitating twigs, landscape. 1 Reel. We consider the following an example of unsatisfactory catalog description : THE NORTHERN LIGHTS— An optical, scoptical, phantasmagoric divul gation of that paragon phenomenon, the aurora borealis. The above may be an exaggeration, but here are some from “real life” selected at random. We omit the picture titles to avoid embarrassment to ourselves or others. Note the vague, general statements : (a) “The inspiring screen story of the American family on the job of salvaging for victory. Presenting the prob PERFECTION —that’s the kind of projection you get with your new DeVRY 16mm. SOUND-ON-FILM PROJECTOR TRUE ARTISTS know that the "sweet singing” tone qualities of a Stradivarius are not produced by the musician’s skill alone... that it is the designing genius, the superb tvorkmanship and the master craftsmanship of Antonio Stradivari that makes this violin the perfect instrument — that endows it with completeness of tone and finish never since excelled. Like that of Antonio Stradivari, DeVRY’s goal is a unit of complete performance — a motion picture SOUND projector ''built from the ground up” to blend high-frequency sound and clearcut imagery into a complete oneness ot what vou see and what you hear. Your NEW DeVRY l6mm. sound-on-film projector is a precision electronic device, built by Illustrated is Stradivarius "Duke of Edinburgh” (1722) the same master craftsmen who courtesy Lyon & Healy build 35 mm. equipment for the world’s finest theatres... the projector that is built for years of day-in, day-out, economical, dependable, trouble-free service... the projector that is so simple to thread, focus and maintain that a 12-year old student can operate it. The NEW DeVRY is a 3-purpose projector that SAFELY projects BOTH sound and silent films; (2) that shows BOTH black-and-white and color film without extra equipment; and (3) whose separately housed 25-watt amplifier and sturdy 12-inch electro-dynamic speaker afford portable Public Address facilities — indoors and out. Make DeVRY your source of 16 mm. classroom films — for sale or rent. Only 5-TIME WINNER of Army-Navy "E” for the production of motion picture sound equipment DeVRY CORPORATION 1111 Armitage Avenue, Chicago 14, Illinois PJease mail me catalog of Auilio-Visual Teaching E«iuipment. Also your new 1945 Film Catalog. •hool_ City