Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

^V' *&.& .t Moving Picture Age .4 Monthly Publication Devoted to the Interests of Visual Instruction Publication Office: 418 South Market Street, Chicago, Illinois EDWARD F. HAMM, President; WILLIAM EASTMAN, Vice-President; WILLIAM C. TYLER, Sec.-Treas.; WALTER B. PATTERSON, Bus. Mgr. VICTOR W. SEBASTIAN, East. Adv. Repr. Room 308, 51 East 4Zd St., New York City Subscription price, $1.00 per year, in advance, in the United States and possessions; for all other countries $1.50 per year, in advance. Remit by check, draft, or postal or money order; other remittances at owner's risk. Single copies, $0.15. No subscriptions accepted for less than twelve months. Subscribers will note that all changes of address must reach us by the tenth day of the month preceding date of issue. Manuscripts, photographs, and sketches will receive courteous attention and reasonable care, but MOVING PICTURE AGE assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. MILTON FORD BALDWIN, Editor Contributing Editors WILLIAM H. DUDLEY, Chief of Bureau of Visual Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison. CHARLES ROACH, Visual Instruction Service, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames. ROY L. SMITH, Simpson Methodist Church, Minneapolis, Minn. J. V. ANKENEY, Associate Professor in charge of Visual Education, College of Agriculture, Experiment Station, University of Missouri, Columbia. FREDERICK STARR, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago. JAMES N. EMERY, Supervising Principal, Potter District, Pawtucket, R. I. A. G. BALCOM, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Newark, N. J. ROWLAND ROGERS, Chairman, Curriculum Committee, Visual Instruction Association of New York. F. DEAN McCLUSKY, Instructor in Education, University of Illinois, Urbana. MRS. WOODALLEN CHAPMAN. Chairman. Motion Picture Committee, General Federation of Women's Clubs, New York City. SAMUEL GUARD, Director of Information, American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago. Volume V JANUARY, 1922 Number 1 CONTENTS Page Editorials 8 Japan via the Slide Route ' 11 Community Films 12 The Land of the Christ 13 On the Pacific 14 Enhancing Farm-Bureau Results 15 Leaders in Visualisation — Rev. Johnston Myers 16 When Union Meant Truer Service 17 Well, Why Not? 18 Good Breeding 19 Official Department of the National Academy of Visual Instruction 20 Highlights (Reviews) 22 Approved Films and Their Sources 24 Gossip-Gathering on Film Boulevard 27 ADVERTISERS FILM DISTRIBUTORS Aladdin Cinema Sales Co., Inc.. 2 Associated Mfrs. of Safety Standard Films & Projectors, Inc.... 31 Austin Film Library, Inc 23 Carter Cinema Producing Corp... 31 Classic Feature Film Co 26 Exhibitors Fim Exchange 7 Ford Motion Picture Laboratories 36 Geographic Film Co., Inc 30 Jawitz Pictures Corp 23 Kinema Film Servcie 23 Kineto Co. of America 10 Lea-Bel Film Co 30 MacCullough Studios, Jack 25 New Era Films, Inc 28 Reliable Educational Film Co.... 23 World Educational Film Co 26 EQUIPMENT Page Page American Lux Products Corp.... 4 Bass Camera Co 28 DeVry Corp 35 Eastman Kodak Co 34 Goerz American Optical Co., C. P. 28 Minusa Cine Screen Co 30 National Projector & Film Corp. of America 5 Perfection Reel & Film Box Co... 26 Power Co., Nicholas 33 Raven Screen Corp 33 Safety Projector Co 29 Schoenbaum, M. H 29 Simplex Title Shop 28 Victor Animatograph Co., Inc... 6, 32 Walker Motion Picture Service, Inc 25 SLIDES Bond Slide Co., Geo. W. MISCELLANEOUS 26 Classified Advertising 32 A Chat with the Editor ANOTHER year is upon us, and it evokes from us only one resolution: Not that we shall conduct this magazine along new lines, for we have been led to believe that we have chosen a constructive path, but that we shall strain every effort to do more along the same lines. First steps already have been taken toward this strengthening of our service to the subscriber. We expect to announce shortly an arrangement for the practical assistance of exhibitors who have experienced mechanical difficulties, or who desire to be on speaking acquaintance mechanically with their projectors and other equipment. Considerable effort is to be expended in securing information of practical value to the many subscribers interested in the operation of community motion pictures. Other affiliations are contemplated in furtherance of the Better Film Movement, an activity that is vital to non-theatrical exhibitors, who will rent much of the theatrical material following its theatrical run. Film work in the farm bureau — an unusually important phase of the field — is to be given the attention and the sponsorship that it merits. A glance at the constantly growing list of our Contributing Editors will indicate our practical application of the principle that the institution that does not progress must go backward. The religious worker does not want for interesting material in this issue. The final instalment of "The Land of the Christ," an enlightening discussion on church films by Rev. Huse, and other briefer articles dealing with motion pictures in religious service, await his perusal. It was necessary to omit the January instalment of Prof. Ankeney's series on visual instruction, but this will be continued in the February number. Mr. Emery, whose long period of experience with visual aids enables him to contribute worthwhile material at frequent intervals, offers an analysis of a geography course conducted with the assistance of slides in the schools of Pawtucket. The National Academy of Visual Instruction article, by Mr. Gregory, a member of the Academy board of directors, demands the attention of every educator who seeks the truth regarding the educational film. The contribution by Mr. Yerrington, telling of his experiences as a county agent using motion pictures, is a most concise discussion of a subject much on the mind of every wideawake county agent. In the February issue we expect to run a contribution by a person perhaps more qualified than any other to discuss the practical value of motion pictures in farmbureau service. Mrs. Wilson's contribution on community films, in the November issue, excited so much comment that in this second article she endeavors to answer some of the questions that could not, by reason of their number, be answered by correspondence. We wish to state here that the subject of community motion pictures is to be given an increasing amount of attention in later issues. The Editor. Copyright. 1921. by Class Publications. Inc.