Hollywood Spectator (Apr-May 1939)

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BY INA ROBERTS /ZcckA and JihnA Illinois Parent and Teacher Projects Mr. J. Kay White, chairman of the Visual Education Committee of the Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers, when requesting that Spectator BookFilm Panels be loaned him, asked that he might be allowed to keep these an extra three weeks in order to display them at twenty additional meetings at which he or one of his committee was scheduled to speak. He has since written that the panels have been enjoyed by more than 2000 persons. In response to my request he gives the projects being developed by his committee: 1. Present the meaning and show the value of such aids as drawings, exhibits, models, motion pictures, etc. 2. Encourage the establishment and projection of state, regional, county and city film and slide libraries. 3. Assist educationoal institutions in sponsoring conferences on visual education and motion pictures. 4. Organize clubs among young people to produce still and motion pictures for public relations programs. 5. Promote the study of motion picture appreciation and discrimination in school and home by suggesting motion picture courses as part of curriculums. 6. Assist recreational groups with visual type of programs. 7. Read, study and support Federal legislation endorsed by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. 8. Recommend the establishment of courses on visual education and motion pictures in col leges as an in-service training for teachers and administrators. 9. Study local school taxes and budgets and cooperate with the Board of Education and Superintendent. 10. Interest parents to organize study groups on vital subjects. Books and Films We are indebted to The Saturday Review of Literature for permission to quote from an editorial in its issue of August 26th entitled Books and Movies. "A correspondent to one of the newspapers recently commented on the fact that a New York motion picture house he attended had on display a row of books. It has always seemed to us that the publishers are missing an opportunity by not tying up their works more closely with current product:ons. . . . More and more the film is turning to historic incident for its episode and more and more there must be desire for information on the events described.” The prevailing tendency toward the historic in films proves also the accuracy of a favorite saying of mine — Truth is stranger than fiction and far more interesting. Were this not so, history would not figure so prominently in films, which, to win the public must, before all else, be interesting. Our Book-Film Panels 5J On November 28th an exhibit of the Spectator Book-Film Panels was on view at a meeting of the Opera and Fine Arts Club of Los Angeles (Mrs. J. F. Anderson, president). The occasion was a social and program affair held in the ballroom of the Royal Palms Hotel. The panels shown aroused much interest. The films featured were Danger Flight. Disputed Passage. Drums Along the Mohawk, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. The Great Victor Herbert. Gulliver's Travels. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Light Fhat Failed. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Rulers of the Sea, Seventeen. Swiss Family Robinson. Tower of London and We Are Not Alone. The Spectator Book Film Panels (28"x22") are loaned free to gatherings of film groups, libraries and schools. Those borrowing the panels are requested to prepay return expressage. The panels consist of film stills and jackets of: 1. The book filmed (if any). 2. Books by the same author. 3. Books connecting with the film through subject. Unless more are especially requested, three panels are loaned at a time. When requesting panels, write to Mrs. Ina Roberts. Books and Films Department, The Hollywood Spectator. 6513 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. The Dark Command <| Now in production is Republic's Dark Command, said to surpass even Man of Conquest. This film will picture the life of William Quantrell and his rebellion. John Wayne, Claire Trevor. Walter Pidgeon. Roy Rogers, Marjorie Main and George Hayes head the cast. More Juvenile Classics •I I am quoting from Mrs. Thomas G. Winter's valuable notes, "Out from the Studios” in giving you the following facts about the filmed version of Maeterlinck's Bluebird, in which Shirley Temple will star. Mrs. Winter writes: “Most fascinating is the set contrived to build illusion for 'The Land of the Future.’ It will have the appearance of being suspended in mid air, its ethereal beauty r W V * V W W V TTTTTTTT PAMPHLETS SLOGANS THAT CIRCUtATE BOOKS LIBRARY RADIO PUBLICITY V/HEN BOOKS AND MOVIES MEET (A guide to book-film cooperation) ... 25c EACH ... Send Orders to: INA ROBERTS 946 South Magnolia Avenue Los Angeles, California > A A* *.+.*.*. ■*. stretching out into unlimited space. Part of the set is in the shape of a swan with great wing sails stretching high into the sky.” The dream sequences of the film are in color. Little Orvie *J Another juvenile classic in production or soon to be, is Little Orvie. made from the story by Booth Tarkington. Cast in this is Johnny Sheffield, the adorable seven-year-old boy who was seen in Tarzan Finds a Son. The plot centers around the neighborhood adventures of a harum-scarum boy who upsets community routine with his never-say-die efforts to acquire a dog in the face of parental opposition. 1.000,000 B. C. 1 ,000,000 B. C., now in production at Hal Roach studios, promises to be a film that is "different.” Part of the picture is being filmed in Fire Valley, Nevada. The location seems especially appropriate since the camp fire ashes of the early Fire Valley folk have been cold for hundreds of centuries. Palentologists have found Fire Valley a happy hunting ground. Remains of Giant Ground Sloths and other extinct mammals, also traces of earlier dinosaurs have been excavated and are on exhibition in museums. A small institution near Overton has many of the Valley’s fossil yield. Some of the vanished monsters revived on the. screen once roamed this same sector, beasts like Tynannosaurus, Triceratops and the Mastodon. I Married Adventure <J From the monster mammals of prehistoric times to the wild animals of today pictured in coming film, I Married Adventure, is a far cry in time. This picture, filmed entirely in Africa, climaxes twenty years of adventure of Osa (Mrs. Martin) Johnson in the dark continent. Forty-two specimens of wild life were trapped by the camera for this film. The book, "I Married Adventure,” by Mrs. Johnson, will be published next month by the J. B. Lippincott Company. The Bookplate AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAY OR ANNIVERSARY PRESENT DESIGNS MADE TO ORDER BY 533 S. St. Andrews, Los Angeles EX. 9105 PAGE FOURTEEN HOLLYWOOD SPECTATOR