Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

APPROVED FILMS and THEIR SOURCES New Releases of Travel, Literary, Industrial, Topical, and Comedy Subjects Films for the Church, School, and Club The following list of approved pictures, reviewed, endorsed, and listed by the National Motion Picture League, with executive headquarters in New York City, is published for the purpose of stimulating a greater demand for pictures not only suitable for adults, but wholesome for children of all ages. By the aid of these weekly lists the general public may select a high-class show, schools and churches may arrange suitable programs, and theatre managers may book the better class of pictures. It is very necessary for the operator to make all cuts suggested below, in order that the films may be wholesome for children and young people. These omissions are suggested in order to save otherwise splendid, wholesome pictures from refection. Pictures not suitable for this list receive no comment. (See addresses of exchanges below') GEOGRAPHICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Old and New England. Reels, 1. Producer, Robert C. Bruce; exchange, Ed. Film Corp. of Amer. Remarks: Similarity between old England and New England; roads in both, narrow winding streets in one and broad "Main Street" of the other; New England mill, fifty years old, looks as ancient as 500-year-old one in England, the old water wheel, scenes along country roads, mill pond, waterfalls, reflections. In Batik Land. Reels, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: Map of Java, by rail from Batavia to Bandoeng, Dutch dame, sado or taxi; building and park scenes downtown; market and curious costumes, chairless land; Batik designs, weaving on loom, painting with hot wax, then drying the cloth; making designs for foreign trade; turbans, polishing tortoise-shell; a native prince. High Water. Reels, 1. Producer, Nat. Asso. of Audubon Societies; exchange, Goldwyn. Remarks: Cascade Mountains, Crater Lake, diamond hitch, along the cliff trail, choosing a camp site, fishing in mountain streams, hurtling waterfall, brilliant blue water in Crater Lake, set in thousand-foot cliffs, government reservation, imposing island. Coveted Shantung. Reels, 1. Producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Community Motion Picture Service. Remarks: Globe Trots Series. Quaint byways, native junks in harbor, carts and wheelbarrows carry merchandise at wharves, coal, „coolie carts strange contrast to auto trucks, 30 men divide wages of 20 cents a day; blast furnace 300 years old, wages of worker $2 a month and board; process has not changed in three centuries, sampans towing logs, making bricks like those in wall which has lasted 2,000 years, drying in sun, in oven six days; Chinese laundry in China, scrubbing clothes at bank of river, Three Devil Springs which feed the moat; Tsingtao, wall assaulted by guns in World War, fort, Japanese build colony in one corner of city, government building, war meant only a change of masters to natives. Le Voyageur. Reels, 2. Producer, Post Nature; exchange. Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: Canoeing to La Grange, exposition in Quebec, Saguenay River, thence by steamer down the St. Lawrence River. The Chinese Republic. Reels, 1. Producer, Peter's Text Films; exchange, Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Map of China, origin of Chinese civilization before Christian era, great wall 1,500 miles long, dense population, life on river boats, Hoang Ho River called Chinese sorrow because of overflow, origin of Chinaware, resources of the country, agricultural products, primitive mill, silk worms, reeling silk; shipping bananas in the south, laborers paid ten cents a day; methods of transportation, wheelbarrow, sedan chair, rickshaw, camels used to transport products across Gobi desert into Mongolia; chief cities; Pekin, Canton, Hankow, Shanghai. Nice and Cannes. Reels, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchange, Famous Players-Lasky. Remarks: The nalmy charm of the French Riviera, suburb of Cimiez, favorite resort of Queen Victoria, waterfront, palatial hotels and terraces, the Casino, Promenade des Anglais, new and old Nice, 2,000 years old, native daughters, beach. Cannes, 19 miles west, Peacock Alley, along the walks, Battle of Flowers, parade, favorite resort of King Edward VII. Cashmere, the Healthiest Spot in India. Reels, 1. Producer, Thomas A. Edison; exchange, New Era Films. Remarks: A Conquest Film. Natives crossing river on rope bridge, ath letes carry a mule across bridge, panorama of vale of Cashmere, distant snow-capped Himilayas, wood-carving, spinning, shelling rice, crowds greeting Maharajah upon his return from his winter resort, landing in boat at palace. CIVIC FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Government. Reels, 2. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: American workingman demonstrates to newly arrived immigrant the different functions of our republican government, such as, police protection, street lights, water supply, foodstuffs inspected, freedom of religion, free education, traffic regulation, free hospitals, fire protection, no child labor, safety devices and insurance for workers, public parks and playgrounds, bathing beaches, drinking fountains, sports, free libraries, night schools, cheap entertainment, paper currency, low taxation, independent ownership, equality, republic is of the people, by the people, and for the people. Growth of Cities and Their Problems. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Unpaved streets that cause wear and breakdown, good roads bring trade and improve business, city built along stream has to maintain bridges, insanitary ditch drains, dirty streets cause disease, flies and mosquitoes breed; organized street cleaning; modern tenements are fire traps, proper building laws require safety from fire, growth of modern fire department; necessity of traffic rules, elevated and subway trains; cities need strong police force; small water systems soon outgrown, city pumping station; cities often outgrow their schools, portable barracks are erected, well-equipped schools make better citizens, crowded streets make poor playgrounds; public parks and playgrounds. HISTORICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction English Settlements in North America. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Animated map showing French settlements in interior of country and English along the coast; settlements at Jamestown, Plymouth and Boston; Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam and Albany, later taken by English; reproductions of old prints of Capt. John Smith; landing of the Pilgrims, Hendrick Hudson, Peter Stuyvesant, Van Rennselaer, Manor House; English expansion checked by Appalachian mountains and French settlements in the north and Great Lakes region, the fight for control. French Explorations in North America. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Ship pictured as sailing around globe; in 1535 French reach St. Lawrence River; map of U. S.; Montreal, formerly Mount Royal; French explored Great Lakes by way of Ottawa River, through Lake Ontario; map of Niagara River; Niagara Falls, portages, gorge at Niagara, Hennepin's drawing of the Falls, upper rapids, building the Griffon, Detroit, Detroit River; Mackinac, St. Joseph, Lake Superior, Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, La Salle and Hennepin on the Mississippi, ruins of French fort near St. Louis, Indians less dangerous in West, Muskingum River, French were traders and missionaries. Exchanges Mentioned in This List How to Obtain Any Film Mentioned The list gives the exchange distributing the film. Write to the address of the main office given below or look up your nearest distributing office of that concern in "1001 Films," Moving Picture Age's non-theatrical-film directory, which every subscriber has, pages 12 to 19, inclusive. Community Motion Picture Service, 46 West 24th St., New York City Educational Film Corp. of America, 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City Famous Players-Lasky Corp., 485 Fifth Avenue, New York City Goldwyn Pictures Corp., 469 Fifth Avenue, New York City National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc., 232 West 38th St., New York City New Era Films, Inc., 804 South Wabash Ave., Chicago Society for Visual Education 806 West Washington Blvd., Chicago State Rights, (Write to Producer) 24