Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

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304 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION What the Ocean Hides — N. C. R. Showing the new industry which furnishes the world with shark skins for shoes, pocketbooks, bookcovers, traveling bags, and novelties of all kinds — matching of the sharks and processes in the preparation of the skin. Your Hat and Mine — Crofut & Knapp, New York City. An interesting industrial firm, showing the manufacture of felt hats, including the shaving of the fur. washing, forming, shrinking, steaming, blocking, etc. Bookmaking, Printing, Etc. Making a Sales Book — .V. C. R. This film shows the processes in making the electrotype and then views of the presses turning out sales slips — the cutting, binding, and use of sales books. Making a Great Newspaper — 3 reels — Rowland Rogers Studios, 71 W. 23rd St., New York City. Your Book — 2 reels — Ginn and Co., Boston, and X. C. R. This film shows books as man has made them since 5000 B.C.; the original books of clay, wood, papyrus, parchment, and paper are shown, and then the much more complex work of making books today — the linotype machine and hand typesetters — making of illustrations — printing— various steps in book binding. King's Printing Office — .V. C. R. An industrial film showing how a royal printery is operated. Electricity Behind the Button — Xational Electric Association, 29 TV. 39th St.. New York City. Interwoven with the story of electricity as a labor saver is the old legend of Thor, the god of thunder, and his magic hammer. Benefactor. The — Edison — 3 reels — G. E. This film shows Edison as a newsboy, in his railroad laboratory, later