Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1920)

26 MOVING PICTURE AGE May, 1920 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ NEW INSTRUCTIONAL Films and Where to Get Them Travel, Literary, Industrial, Topical and Comedy ailllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^^ Films for the Family Group {Received and listed by the National Motion Picture League of New York) The following list of endorsed pictures is published for the purpose of stimulating a greater demand for pictures not only suitable for adults, but zvholesome for children of all ages. By the aid of these zveckly lists the general public may select a high-class shozv, schools and churches may arrange suitable programs and theater managers may book the better class of pictures. It is very necessary for the operator to make all cuts suggested belozv, in order that the films may be wholesome for children and young people. These omissions are suggested in order to save otherwise splendid, zvholesotne pictures from rejection. Pictures not suitable for this list receive no comment. FAMILY FILMS (Recoininendcd for Young People and Adults) Jack Straw. Reels, 5; exchange, Famous PlayersLasky Corp. Remarks: Robert Warwick. Wives and Old Szveethearts. Reel, 1; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Lyons-Moran Comedy. Excuse My Dust. Reels, 5; exchange. Famous riayers-Lasky Corp. Remarks: Wallace Reid. The Fortune Hunter. Reels, 7; exchange, Vita■graph. Remarks: Earle Williams. In first part, cut scene of man at safe and drinking scene; cut all sub-titles containing profanity. A Philistine in Bohemia. Reels, 2; exchange, Vitagraph. Remarks: O. Henry Story. Cut scenes of women smoking and drinking scenes in part two. Haunted Spooks. Reels, 2; producer, Rolim Film Co.; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Harold Lloyd Comedy. The Road to Divorce. Reels, 5; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Mary MacLaren. Neighbor Nelly. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Selznick. Remarks: Madge Evans. An old classic by Robert Brough. Prizma Cartoon Review. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Selznick. Remarks: Animated cartoon. JUVENILE FILMS (Recommended for Children Under 12 Years of Age) Easter Babies. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Ed. Film Corp. Non-theatrical picture. The Most Important Individual. Reel, 1; exchange, Ed. Film Corp. of America. Remarks: Study of a baby and some very pretty birds. When Lillian Was Little Red Riding Hood. Reel, 1; exchange, Beseler Ed. Film Co. Remarks: Nontheatrical picture. INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS The Roof of America. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Republic. Remarks: A trip to the Continental Divide in Northern Montana, shores of Lake Josephine in Montana Rockies, many glaciers, Blackfeet Braves at Fleet Falls, house of Chief Lazy Boy, Blackfeet tribe fording Bank Creek, Lake Sherbourne, unique hotels and chalets, Mt. Wilbur, feathered friends live in shadows of Mt. Hendel, valley between mountains 10,000 ft. high, Piegan Pass, streams from west flow to the Pacific, east to Culf of Mexico, Gunsight Trail to Gunsight Lake, Blackfeet Mt. Hearst News, Vol. 2, No. 8. Reel, 1; producer, International; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Armenia, assured religious freedom for the Near East, "Whirling Dervishes" and the beautiful Mosque Tonebo, where the Dervishes attend worship, glimpses of the Bosphorus, which the Allies intend to use as an international highway; New York, U. S. S. Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship, being refitted for a two years' trip around the world; Redwood City, Calif., baby plane, weighs only 150 pounds, has a wing span of only 22 feet and can be handled easily by one man; St. Moritz, Switzerland, noted health resort, children taking sun bath cure and indulging in open air sports; Belgium, former president of France, King Albert and Marshal Foch meet at Furnes, where the French Republic bestows the Croix de Guerre on the heroic town. Recent pictures of the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, who planted the American flag on the top of the world; San Jose, Calif., Aviator Frank Rose, from the Garden City Field, makes a leap from an automobile to a plane while they are traveling at the rate of 70 miles an hour. The Grand Canyon. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, Republic. Remarks: Terra cotta the predominating color of the canyon, until a few years ago very inaccessible except to Hopi, Supai and Navajo Indians, guides of today; Yavapai Point, short ride from El Tavar, by auto to Grand View, Suicide Rock, Hermit Gorge, Hermit Trail, Santa Maria Spring. Solitude. Reel, 1; exchange, Ed. Film Corp. of America. Remarks: Bruce scenic; a tale of a lonesome land, mountain snowstorm, the silence of the snow, sun struggling in the clouds, sunset, night, moonlight, etc. An Alligator Hunt. Reel, 1; producer, Ford; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: West from Palm Beach to the Everglades, nest of eggs, catching alligator alive. Bray Pictograph No. 427. Reel, 1; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: How to see, animated drawing showing similarity between a camera and the eye. A cold proposition, cutting ice, marking off the blocks to be cut, packing in ice house. Cartoon. Balsing Over the Bounding Blue. Reel, 1 ; producer. Outing Chester Pictures; exchange. State Rights. Remarks: Leaving La Paz, masonry and ruins, ancient gateway and forgotten gods, making boats of reeds, reed sail cloth. Cut sub-title, "wherethell," etc. New Screen Magazine No. 55. Reel, 1; exchange. Universal. Remarks: A boy-made cider mill, Leon Wolcott of Red Bank, N. J., the inventor; Daniel Brenner, Russian born designer of the Lincoln penny and some of his other works; fashions; movie magic in Japan. Cut laughographs. Hearst News, Vol. 2, No. 9. Reel, 1; producer, International; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Watertown, Mass., making big guns for Pershing, a 14-inch shell in making; Boston, Pershing meets Gov. Coolidge, at Camp Devon; railroads returned to private ownership. Director Walter D. Hines. a friendly race between electricity and steam; Major R. W. Schroeder of U. S. air service, Albert Thomas, first chairman of League of Nations; Mexico, Carranza's troops on dress parade, Mexican "gobs;" Ottawa, Canada, opens new Parliament Building; a canyon flight, airplane flight over Rio Grande Gorge; indoor sports cartoon. International News, Vol. 2, No. 9. Reel, 1; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Eaton College, England, Prince of Wales; New York, U. S. S. Moccasin turns turtle at dock; Westlake, La._. spring training for Big Leaguers; Havana, historic Morro Castle attracts visitors; London, baby seeking fifty million dollars; new fighting craft for U. S. navy, launching airplane from ship; Chicago, big fire in business section; New York, real thrills taking movies. Pathe News, No. 18. Reel, 1 ; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Bridgetown, Barbadoes greetings_ to American navy, sailors sightseeing; Dayton, Major R. W. Schroeder reaches high altitude in airflight; Calais, Marshal Foch attends memorial of fallen men; Bryn Mawr, Pa., college girls on drive for raise in teachers' pay; Iron River, Mich., conflict between liquor men and revenue agents; Montesano. Wash., trial of I. W. W. men; Washington, D. C, railroads returned to owners. Commercial Geography. Reels, 2; exchange, Universal. Remarks: Appletdn-Universal Text Film. Manufacturers in U. S. profits greater on manufactured products than on raw materials; Minneapolis, center of flour industry, a mammoth flour mill; early manufactures developed along Atlantic coast, settlements sprung up along waterways and from these railroads and telegraphy sprung up, before steam power, water power, electric power from water power, water power 100 miles distant runs great dynamos in Los Angeles, chemical works located near textile, looms of large satin factory, first necessities, then luxuries, piano making. Condition necessary: (1) Abundance of fuel and raw material, cotton bales in South ready for shipment. (2) Enormous capital. (3) Great inventive talent. U. S. surpases all other nations in mechanical devices. C4') Intrinsic value of products. (5) Tariff protection from foreign competition. Iron and steel made where pig iron is found, manufacturing places for steel, locomotive, automobile, agriculture and farm implements, sewing machines, ship building, ready made clothes, canning, motion picture industry in U. S., South American leather trade, two-thirds of footwear supplied by New England, one-half by Massachusetts. Our ten leading manufactures in 1914: Newspapers, shoes, automobiles, cars for steam railroad, cotton, lumber and timber, foundry products, flour, iron and steel, meat industry. Animal Farms. Reels, 2; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Appleton-Universal Text. Film, for class room use. Arthropede, grasshoppers, cricket, walking stick, the chinch bug, one of the most dreaded pests, plant lice. Coleoptera, (sheet wings) beetles, lady bug, luminous beetle, diving beetle. Lepodoptera, (.scale wings) moth, butterfly, hawk moth, the birth of a butterfly. Hymenoptera, (membrane wings) wasps, bees and ants. Neuroptera, (nerve winged) dragon fly. May flies, cadice flies. Some Speed to Surago. Reel, 1 ; producer, C. L. Chester; exchange. State Rights, Remarks: Outing Chester Scenic. Kawagushi, Mt. Fiju, over the rapids of Fijukawa in flat bottom boats, Kajikazawa. Kilanea. Reel, 1 ; producer, Prizma; exchange, Republic. Remarks: Famous volcano of Hawaii, showing its restless lakes of fire and its boiling, seething mass of red-hot lava, fragments of pure sulphur, cloud of brimstone, 2,000 degrees of heat, lava leaps 75 feet in air, critst of freezing lava, fountain of lava. Paramount Magazine. Reel, 1; exchange. Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Remarks: Fifth Avenue window displays, arranging displays in basement and raising platfoim by elevator. Digging for diamondbacks, raising terrapin for the bill of fare. Reflections of a bachelor girl, cartoon. Bray Pictograph, No. 428. Reel, 1; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: Wireless telephony, an animated diagram showing how sound waves are sent by electricity, sending and receiving apparatus. Flirtations in Zooland, monkey, chameleon and other animals. Lining up our presidents, making the copper plates to use in the engraving of the pictures on paper money. Cartoon. The Flowing Pond. Reel, 1; producer. Ford; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: A river scenic. Mountain streams and little rivers, going through the woods, mountain lakes and falls, brooks, the mad river, out of the forest, fishing, used for power, bathing, sailing, motor boat, skating, ice boat, cutting ice, a power for commercial industry, flows into the sea, ceasing to be a river, mingles with the ocean. An Equal Chance. Reels, 2; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: An educational picture told in story form, showing the work of the public health nurses during the infliienza epidemic, also showing the work among the Indians, Mexicans, colored folk in Louisiana and French in New Orleans. Pathe Review, No. 39. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Pathecolor, Louders, the mecca of France, Barilicue, most famous cathedral in France, grotto of Louders. Making of cement. Novagraph film, ball playing. Ditmar's film, the southern Mason wasp, glimpses of interior of nest. Cut dance at end of reel. New Screen Magazine No. 56. Reel, 1; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Wliale hunting in Japan, Aika ■ wa, headquarters of whale industry, a whaler preparing for big game, harpoon gunner, beaching prize sperm whale weighing 80,000 pounds. John Burroughs on his farm in New West Park, N. J., where he has lived since 1874. The four-dial electric clock on Metropolitan Tower, cost $100,000, regulated by small master clock at Washington. Pathe News, No. 19. Reel, 1; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Athens, Greece, sailors from U. S. S. Pittsburg; Brooklyn, S. S. Moccasin sinks at dock; Windsor, England, Prince of Wales is welcomed at Eaton; Bridgetown, Barbados, girl coal shovelers at 60 cents a day, selling pottery and fruit; in the limelight. Gov. Edwards of New Jersey, Sir Eric Geddes, Sir Robert Borden; Havana, Cuba, horse race; Doom, Holland, new home of ex-kaiser, Weiringen, home of ex-crown prince. Hearst News, Vol. 2, No. 10. Reel, 1; producer, International; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Marfa, Texas, the U. S. cavalry in practice; San Francisco, Japanese girls, future brides, arriving and met by expectant husbands; Aintab, massacre renewed by Turks, Armenians in flight, new pictures of Constantinople; Vienna, starving children sent to Norway; Los Angeles, auto race seen from aeroplane, Jimmy Murphy, winner. Indoor sports cartoon. International News, Vol. 2, No. 10. Reel, 1; exchange. Universal. Remarks: Thionville, France, honors Grand Duchess of Luxemberg; New York, a rnillion-candle light in new search light; San Francisco, Cal., strikers' children lead great demonstration; Vienna, fire destroys famous coffee-house; in the public eye. Champ Clark, Wm. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon League, Gov. Coolidge of Mass.; London, Marshal Foch on visit to England; Berlin, Germany, on guard against new uprising; Colon, Panama, with the U. S. fleet. Old Plymouth. Reel, 1; producer. Ford; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: Forefathers' monument. Pilgrim Hall, home of John Winslow, built 1731, Plymouth Rock, Cole Hill, first street in New England, first church site, site of first meeting house. Church of Pilgrimage, burial ground of Pilgrims, Howland House, Newport, old stone mill, Washington Square, Channing Memorial Church, Colony House, Bellevue Ave., Provincetown, Long Point, where the Pilgrims first landed. Trout. Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange. Republic. Remarks: Showing the life of the trout, state fish and game commission contract pools, eggs gathered for fertilization, at first eggs are very delicate and easily injured, gently stirred so all touch water, injured turn white and are removed, eggs packed in ice and shipped to hatcheries, hatching trout larger than the egg, protected by sack of fat, at 2 weeks the trout take their first railroad journey, their new home, fisherman in a small mountain stream.