Film Year Book 1927 (1927)

every known angle of the business. The contents follow : PART I— THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY The Motion Picture. lerry Ranisaye, author of "A Million And One Nights — The History of the Motion Picture." The Structure of the Motion Picture Industry. VVni. A. Johnson, Editor, "Motion Picture News". Equipment Used for Motion Pictures. P. M. Abbott, Vice President, Society of Motion Picture Kngineers. Financing the Production and Distribution of Motion Pictures. A. H. Giannini, President, Bowery & East River Nat'l Bank, New York City. The Development of the Motion Picture Raw Film Industry. George A. Blair, Eastman Kodak Co. PART II— THE MOTION PICTURE Art and the Motion Picture. Carlyle Ellis, Producer of Social Service Pictures. Music and Motion Pictures. Hugo Riesenfeld. Motion Picture Lighting. Alvin Wykoff, Photography Expert, Famous Players-Lasky Corp. The Motion Picture in Science. S. Phillip Goodhart, M. D., Professor of Clinical Neurology, Columbia University, New Y'ork City. Literature and the Motion Picture. Arthur Edwin Krows, Scenario Writer and Film Editor; author of "Play Production in America". The Business of International News by Motion Pictures. Emanuel Cohen, Editor, Pathe News. PART III— THE MOTION PICTURE IN INDUSTRY What Are Motion Pictures Doing for Industry? Julius Klein, Director, United States Bureau Foreign & Dometic Commerce. Motion Pictures As Trade Getters Frank A. Tichenor, Eastern Film Corp. What Motion Pictures Have Done for "Safety First". A. J. Van Brunt. Reducing Film Fires. Thomas Mcllvaine, Jr., The National Board of Fire Underwriters. Our Foreign Trade in Motion Pictures. C. J. North, Chief, Motion Pictures Section, U. S. Dept. of Commerce. PART IV— THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL VALUE OF MOTION PICTURES Possibility of the Cinema in Education. Ernest L. Crandall, Director of Lectures & Visual Instruction, New York City Board of Education. The Goal of the Motion Picture in Education. Nathaniel Stephenson, Yale University Press. Motion Pictures in the Classroom. Nathaniel L. Greene, Editor, "The Educational Screen." What the Movie Means to the Farmer. Samuel R. McKelvie, "The Nebraska Farmer." Health Pictures and Their Value. Thomas C. Edwards, Acting Executive Ofificer of the National Health Council. What Motion Pictures Can Do for Medical Education. Joseph Franklin Montague, M. D., F. A. C. S., Bellevue Hospital Medical Clinic, New York. Public Library Motion Pictures. Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Norwichtown, Conn. PART V— CENSORSHIP Social Standards and the Motion Picture. Donald Young, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. The Relation of the Motion Picture to Changing Moral Standards. Harmon B. Stephens, University of Tennessee. How the Motion Picture Governs Itself. C. C. Pettijohn, General Council, M. P. P. D. A. Official Censorship Legislation. Ford H. MacGregor, Associate Professor of Political Science ; Chief, Municipal Information Bureau, University of Wisconsin. The Work of the National Board of Review. Wilton A. Barrett, Executive Secretary, Nat'l Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The Wampas Stars, 1922-1926 THE THIRTEEN MOST promising actresses in the vast army of players are selected each year by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers. The custom was started in 1922. The "Baby Stars", as they are called, are named by vote of the entire organization. The selections, year by year, follow : * * * 1922 Marion Aye, Helen Ferguson, Lila Lee, Jacqueline Logan, Louise Lorraine, Bessie Love, Katherine McGuire, Patsy Ruth Miller, Colleen Moore, Mary Philbin, Pauline Starke, Lois Wilson, Claire Windsor. » * » 1923 Eleanor Boardman, Evelyn Brent, Dorothy Devore, Virginia Brown Faire, Betty Francisco, Pauline Garon, Kathleen Key, Laura La Plante, Margaret Leahy, Helen Lynch, Derelys Perdue, Jobyna Ralston, Ethel Shannon. 1924 Clara Bow, Eleanor Fair, Carmelita Geragbty, Gloria Grey, Ruth Hiatt, Julanne Johnston, Hazel Keener, Dorothy Mackail, Blanche IMehafTey, Margaret Morris, Marion Nixon, Lucille Richsen, Albert Vaughn. « « » 1925 Betty Arlen, Violet Avon, Olive Borden, Ann Cornwall, Ena Gregory, Madeline Hurlock, Nat alie Joyce, Joan Meredyth, June Marlowe, Evelyn Pierce, Dorothy Revier, Duane Thompson, Lola Todd. • • ♦ 1926 Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Joyce Compton, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Marceline Day, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, Sally Long, Edna Marion, Sally O'Neill, Vera Reynolds, Fay Wray. 1927 Priscilla Bonner, Rita Carewe, Helene Costello, Barbara Kent, Natalie Kingston, Gwen Lee, Myrna Loy, Gladys McConnell, Sally Phipps, Sally Rand, Ann Rork, Martha Sleeper, Anamae Vaughan. SECTION DEVOTED TO FILMS IN ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA For the first time, a special section has been devoted to motion pictures in the Encyclopedia Britannica. More than 10,000 words are contained in the new 13th edition. There is a technological section, written by Dr. C. E. K. Mees, of the research department of Eastman Kodak; a chapter on the history of the motion picture by Terry Ramsaye, and a section by Gilbert Seldes. Terry Ramsaye, generally acknowledged as the historian of motion pictures, is the author of "A Million and One Nights," a two-volume history, published during the year by Simon & Schuster, New York. 480