International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

hitherto unknown lakes. (Berliner Borsenzeitung, Berlin). A film taken by F. E. Pankhaus, reproducing life and customs in Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, shows the headway made by European civilization in those countries, {Film Kurier, Berlin). The « Woskok » Co. is turning a synchronized film in Russia, illustrating the geographical and ethnographical conditions of the Yamal peninsula. (Licht-Bild-Buhne , Berlin). Dr. Martin Rikli contributes an article on the cinematographic expeditions made in far-off lands and calls particular attention to a film reproducing life in the city of Medenin in Southern Tunis. (Film Kurier, Berlin). Mr. Arthur Blake is making a tour of the world on behalf of the Fox Film, accompanied by two operators, and is preparing a splendid documentary film of the scenery, habits and customs of the various countries visited. These films will be taken with a Movietone apparatus. (Le Cinema Suisse, Montreux). Dr. A. W. Baessler, of Berlin, has undertaken an expedition in South America for the purpose of taking a film in the Chako /territories, where the natives still live in a state of cannibalism. (Kinematograph , Berlin). The « Ufa » will be publishing in 1930 a film entitled « The Hindu Song ». This film, which is interpreted entirely by Indians, has been taken in the most picturesque regions of India and in the sumptuous palaces of the Maharajas, who have given every kind of facility for the filming of their fabulous treasures. (Arte y Cinematografia, Barcelona). Messrs. Cooper & Schoedsack have returned to Hollywood after having lived for over a year in the heart of Africa. During this time they have gathered the material for a great new production, which will be entitled: « The Four Feathers » and will reproduce the life of the animals and the savage tribes of the so-called Black Continent. (Popular Film, Barcelona). The « Hamburger Filmarchiv » of Hamburg has produced a film entitled « Through war-like Arabia ». This film was taken in the course of a voyage of exploration by Dr. Rathiens, on account of the World Economic Institute of Hamburg. (Bildwart, Berlin). The German central association of Disabled Workers and Widows has had a documentary film taken to illustrate the activities of the Association. (Kassler \'ol\$blatt, Kassel). The Berlin Institute of Cultural Research, directed by Dr. Hans Ciirlis, has taken a documentary film, entitled: « The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea ». (Wiirtemberger Zeitung, Stuttgart) . The « Wufka » has turned a synchronized film on the occasion of the Jubilee fetes for the tenth anniversary of the Tartar Republic. (Licht-BildBiihne , Berlin). The « Wufka » is preparing a new film of a political character entitled « Youth must be healthy to grow up into the future governing class ». (Kino, Kiew) . The Ministry of Public Education is studying the best way of creating a Higher School of Cinematography in Berlin. In this connection it has sent Mr. Widolski, Director of the principal Soviet Cinematographic School at Moscow, to Germany. (Le Courier Cinematographique , Paris) . The Arnold Kahnhnemann Co. of Berlin has produced on account of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture a film entitled: « Rabes in Dogs ». (Berliner Morgenzeitung, Berlin) . Dr. P. Martell, of Berlin, dwells on the importance which scientific film* 602