Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1921)

18 MOVING PICTURE AGE May, 1921 EDUCATIONAL and RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS will find in this new series just the material so long desired. 2 IN 1 ENTERTAINMENT EDUCATION Each reel contains from five to ten subjects. Issued bi-monthly. Agriculture — Industry — Travel — Science — History, etc. Copies for outright sale — no territorial restrictions. ATLAS OAK PARK EDUCATIONAL FILM CO (A suburb of Chicago) ILLINOIS SOMETHING NEW AND DIFFERENT NOW READY— HIGHLY APPRECIATED ILLUSTRATED Sacred song's on Film Sacred films productions 112T Casl t^SVrert CHICAGO I I A Popular Church Photoplay All our prints of the Six Reel Missionary Photodrama "Problems of Pin-Hole Parish" By Rev. Charles E. Bradt, D.D., were completely booked a month in advance for April. The growing demand for this striking picture with its powerful missionary message — a result of over 30 years' intensive study and practical experience among the churches of this country and in foreign lands — has necessitated the recent securing of additional prints. The picture makes an ideal program for summer evening services. Write now for a booking and particulars! The World Missionary Drama League, Producers, Dept. B, 1813 Stevens Bldg., 17 N. State St., Chicago, 111. -Let Me Make Your Religious or Educational Motion Pictures or Make Them Yourself At My Modern Studios With My Guidance and Co-operation Optional. Every Necessary Equipment for Interior and Unsurpassed Exterior Locations. W. Lindsay Gordon, 1931 Broadway, N. Y. City Established 1903 Director and Producer of Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures Exclusive Release of the official 5-Reel Film. "How The Belgians Fought." Write for date and terms. topic until this industry in Argentina has been studied through pictures and then return to Brazil. (Only in a very general way is a political division to be the unit of study. Let the unit be rather a region, distinctive because of its physical features, its resources or its peculiar life, or an industry, or some other topic.) But now or later point out the cattle region on the map and discuss it. Have in mind three topics in this connection : the type of country adapted to cattle raising; physical features of Brazil ; transportation facilities. You do not need pictures for everything. Pupils should have picked up some ideas on the topic before reaching this point. To a fifth grade pupil some words have already begun to have content. In the end words are the medium for expressing ideas. But see to it that the pupil actually has a clear, vivid mental picture. The teacher, of course, must have such a picture herself. Visualizing requires a constructive attitude of mind. Do Not Rely on Slides Alone Study the Amazon water system, chiefly from map but have pupils find in books and elsewhere as many pictures as possible in addition to those of the slides. Have these pictures analyzed, read, interpreted, not looked at vaguely. Study the rubber industry. The pupil should be able to construct a full and orderly report on the industry. Where in Brazil rubber is found, by whom work is done, trees, sap, smoking into balls, transportation by Indians to small stream, by succession of different type of boats to the sea, Manaos as the center of rubber-gathering industry. Do not permit yourself to bring out all such facts by separate questions. Get pupils to use the mind constructively and recite on a topic following a suggested order. They will do it readily enough if accustomed to by practice. In using Fc Y6 be sure pupils do not call the men negroes. Note distinguishing characteristics in detail. Discourage superficial glances at pictures. This picture shows a means of transportation. Begin to "build in" this general topic. Several other means are shown in the Brazil pictures. Most pictures illustrate more than one topic, for example, Fc Y8 shows a product, Brazil nuts, and a means of transportation. The value of an observation depends largely upon its being properly classified. Pictures need not always be presented again. It may be enough to have them recalled. There are three significant pictures of Manaos. Study width of the Amazon here, the meaning of the floating pier, navigation on the Amazon, the excellent theater shown in Fc McE. Arouse a spirit of inquiry and provide sufficient reading matter. The single picture of cotton at Ceara, Fc Y5, may introduce the fact that certain crops of Brazil such as cotton, grains and fruits are like those of the United States. Do not lose sight of the great size of Brazil. Enough by way of illustration. When you have covered Brazil so far as a course for elementary pupils goes, check up results, group facts, test results, be sure pupils have read the textbook carefully. Brazil will take at least three or four days. You will not have completed the study yet, but this country, half of South America, will come up again and again through comparison before South America is finished. The basis of study will be at least partly established. Much depends upon the teacher. The class period is for teaching. Do not assign one day a page of the textbook as a lesson and merely ask questions. In this way the entire South America is covered in outline. The remainder of the bulletin is omitted as the purpose of this is merely to suggest the method applied to this teaching. Please say, "As advertised in MOVING PICTURE AGE," when you write to advertisers.