Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1931)

MOVIE MAKERS 401 tion, attended by some 2,000 primary teachers in Cleveland. The universal adoption of visual education loreseen for this country has already taken place in Europe in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark, it was pointed out by Dr. Beryl Parker, assistant professor of education at New York University. ■ To show films for Parent Teacher Association meetings is one of the purposes for which the 16mm. equipment of the Central Junior High School, New Britain, Conn., is utilized, according to League member W. C. French, principal. Also, films of various aspects of model classrooms have been produced by Mr. French and shown at teachers' conventions. ■ Major emphasis has been placed on the teaching of visual instruction methods at Teachers' College, Greeley, Colorado, according to W. H. Wrinkle, principal, who views the failure of the average school to take advantage of the wealth of available teaching films as unfortunate and is attempting to remedy this by instructing teachers in training as to the proper use of 16mm. and other visual aid equipment. ■ 16mm. film has been found best as the result of an elaborate experiment involving about 700 students to determine the value of different methods in teaching agriculture, according to League member F. W. Albertson, associate professor of agriculture, Kansas State College, Fort Hays, who conducted the tests at the University of Missouri and wrote his thesis for a master's degree on this subject. ■ "There is greater interest in the school library and more books are being read than ever before," says Principal Floyd G. Hoek, commenting on the results of classroom visual instruction by means of 16mm. films at Bryant School, Helena, Montana. Since the introduction of films, Mr. Hoek has also found that absence has decreased from three hundred half days monthly to about one hundred and twenty five half days, most of these remaining absences being due to long periods of illness. Not only have the students a greater desire io attend school, they are more interested in their classroom work and are doing it much better. Mr. Hoek plans to acquire a 16mm, camera so that films of student activities may be made. While at present the radio and phonograph are used to supply musical accompaniment for certain types of films, he believes the talking film to be of greatest value in educational work and looks forward to the installation of 16mm. talkie equipment. Church ■ Showing preparation and care of the altar, a 16mm. film on this work as carried out by a model unit for efficiency and reverence, The Altar Guild Of St. Martin's Church, has been produced by League member Marshall Cannell, Providence, R. I., and it is planned by the Protestant Episcopal Church to use the film throughout the country this fall to stimulate similar guilds in the performance of their service as right hands of the clergy. The film first shows two serving members entering the working sacristry where they put on aprons and veils. They then go into the church and kneel in prayer. Succeeding scenes show the way in which they arrange the flowers, vest the altar and then the chalice which is placed on the sacristy credence. An acolyte is seen carrying the cruets and bread box into the church, lighting the candles and later extinguishing them. The film follows through to where the serving members clean the candles, remove the flowers, place a protector over the Fair Linen and, later, in the sacristry, wash the purificators and silver, the entire service being clearly portrayed with great reverence and deftness. The film was first shown at the spring meeting of the Diocesan Altar Guild Of Rhode Island before a group of two hundred. Rev. A. L. Washburn of the consulting committee of this guild recently showed it in Boston at a meeting of the Diocesan Guild Of Massachusetts and it is planned by October first to have ready an accompanying lecture and enough prints of the film to permit national use. C D p p p I I KA C m Subjects listed are availr l\ t C r I U IVI J ■ afrie on ioan jree except for -postage. Films on 16mm. stock unless 35mm. is specified. Requests for these films should be. addressed to the Amateur Cinema League, Inc., 105 West 40th St., New York, N. Y. Mention specifically the films desired but do not send postage. Requests will be immediately communicated to the distributors where they will be filled in the order received. Dates cannot be promised in advance. Requests must be for a specific film or films. Films cannot be sent outside the United States unless so stated. Any amateur may apply for these films as their availability is not dependent on Amateur Cinema League membership. H Parade Of Comic Balloons, one reel, offered through the Goodyear Co., is a novel subject in which monster balloons in the form of giants, animals, comic strip favorites and others soar through the streets over a parade of girls and regimental bands. 10,000 toy balloons are released after the parade to float above New York's skyscrapers. ■ Sailors Of The Skies, one reel, offered through the Navy Recruiting Bureau, depicts training at air stations, planes in formation, bombers in action, planes landing on an aircraft carrier, catapult launchings of planes from a battleship, smoke screens and scenes of the Los Angeles. This film, sound or silent, is available for large group projection. BROOKS PRODUCTS for MOVIE MAKERS SCHNEIDER CINE LENSES % to 4" focus. Not the highest speed but unsurpassed definition. $37.50 and upwards. 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