International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1934)

462 EDUCATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY tainous sections of the United States. Another is entitled " The Work of the National Negro Health Movement in Kent County, Maryland ". This film deals largely with the activities of the County Health Officer among negroes in Kent County, Maryland, and is intended to illustrate the work of the county health officer in this particular field. In addition, the Public Health Service has a film which was prepared by one of its officers, dealing with the technical phases of malaria prevention and mosquito control. This film is intended primarily for health officers. There is also a film entitled " The Science of Life " which is suitable for presentation before high schools, civic organizations, and various other groups. It deals in a broad way with the biology of human reproduction. b) Other Health Films. Various State health departements have purchased from the producers films dealing with health subjects. A few of them have made their own films. These films are used by the representatives of the State health departments in presenting talks on health subjects to audiences throughout their several States, or they are lent to local health officers for similar use. A few city and local health officers have films ; but, in the main, when they wish to utilize the motion picture as a form of health instruction, they procure such films from the State health department or from one of the voluntary health agencies, such as the National Tuberculosis Association, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, or the American Social Hygiene Association. It is felt that both silent and talking pictures have important places in public health education, but so far the limitation of available funds for this work has been a serious handicap, applying equally to Federal, State, and local health authorities. Mr. William F. Kruse of the Bell and Howell Company (1801 Larchmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) has compiled an excellent catalogue of medical and health films available to the profession and the lay public, it will serve to illustrate the wide variety of available films in these fields. He has also prepared a booklet on the motion picture as a professional instrument to assist physicians in making their own films. In his book entitled " Taking the Doctor's Pulse ", Montague has discussed the production and use of professional medical films. 3. — THE MOTION PICTURE IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE a) Films of various Eleven agencies in Departments of the seven 0f tne executive Federal Govern departments of the Federal Government in Washington, D. C, are active in the production, distribution or use of motion pictures that are educational in the widest sense. A list of these agencies follows : (1) Department of Agriculture : (a) Office of Motion Pictures. (2) Department of Commerce : (a) Motion Picture Production Section, Bureau of Mines. (b) Motion Picture Section, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. (3) Department of the Interior : (a) Branch of Research and Education, Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations. (b) Division of Reclamation Economics, Bureau of Reclamation. (c) Radio and Visual Education Section, Office of Education. (4) Department of Labor : (a) Division of Publicity, The Women's Bureau. (b) The Children's Bureau. (5) Navy Department : (a) Bureau of Navigation. (6) Treasury Department : (a) Division of Venereal Disease, U. S. Public Health Service. (7) War Department :