Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

APR -7 1922 C1B524954 Moving Picture Age A 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. EDWARD P. ROWE, Advertising Representative 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. Contributions are paid for only when specific arrangements to that effect are made with the Editor. MILTON FORD BALDWIN, Editor Contributing Editors J. V. ANKENEY, Associate Professor of Visual Education, College of Agriculture, Experiment Station, University of Missouri, Columbia. A. G. BALCOM, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Newark, N. J. MRS. WOODALLEN CHAPMAN, Chairman, Motion Picture Committee, General Federation of Women's Clubs, New York City. WILLIAM H. DUDLEY, Chief of Bureau of Visual Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison. JAMES N. EMERY, Supervising Principal, Potter District, Pawtucket, R. I. SAMUEL GUARD, Director of Information, American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago. AUSTIN C. LESCARBOURA, Managing Editor, the Scientific American, New York City. F. DEAN McCLUSKY, Instructor in Education, University of Illinois, Urbana. CHARLES ROACH, Visual Instruction Service, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames. ROWLAND ROGERS, Chairman, Curriculum Committee, Visual Instruction Association of New York. ROY L. SMITH, Simpson Methodist Church, Minneapolis, Minn. Volume V APRIL, 1922 Number 4 CONTENTS Page Editorials 4 Entertainment in the Church Rev. Dow B. Beene 1 Book Reviews % Fact and Fable in Visual Education. . . .Prof. Frank N. Freeman 9 Vitalized Sermons Rev. Guy Livingstone Brown 10 Scented with Spruce F. G. IV ells 1 1 Small-Town Problems James N. Emery 12 Recreation That Re-Creates Mrs. Charles E. Merriam 13 Concerning the Community David L. Oberg 14 Rural Exhibitions in Montana Murray E. Stebbins 15 The National Academy of Visual Instruction (Department)... 16 Highlights (Department) 17 Mechanics of Visualization ( Department ). Austin C. Lcsearboura 18 Better Films (Department) Mrs. Woodallen Chapman 22 Gossip-Gathering on Film Boulevard (Department) 23 Approved Films and Their Sources (Department) 24 ADVERTISERS Page Acme Motion Picture Projector Co 31 Associated Mfrs. of Safety Standard Films and Projectors.... 37 Baird Co., C. R 35 Bass Camera Co 37 Classified Advertising 38 DeVry Corp. Eastman Kodak Co 34 Fine-Art Film Co 36 Geographic Film Co., Inc 31 Graphoscope Manufacturing Co.. 36 Jawitz Pictures Corp 26 Kinema Film Service 29 Kineto Co. of America, Inc. .3d Cover Kollmorgen Optical Co 26 Minusa Cine Screen Co 26 National Projector & Film Corp. of America 27 Page New Era Films, Inc 37 Nicholas Power Co., Inc 32 Paragon Film Bureau 28 Pathescope Co. of America, Inc.. 2d Cover Raven Screen Corp 30 Reliable Educational Film Co... 30 Safety Projector Co Universal Projector & Machine Co Victor Animatograph Co., Inc... Victor Safety Film Corp 33 Walker Motion Picture Service, Inc 28 Wanda Film Syndicate, Inc.... 28 Withington-Hunting, Inc. ..4th Cover World Pictures 36 29 28 36 A Chat with the Editor YOU will be glad to know that the second edition of "1001 Films" is to be forthcoming within a very few weeks now. The publication of this volume has been delayed from month to month for the reason that the continual stream of new film lists gave me the alternative of omitting this late material or of delaying the issuance of the book until assured that practically all available films had been listed. The book is to be square bound, and will probably contain in the neighborhood of two hundred pages. I would roughly estimate that the number of films to be listed is between four and five thousand. The material is to be classified with the same extreme care received by any authentic listing, and if space and cost permit I plan to cross-index the material so thoroughly that a film belonging to two or three categories will be mentioned under each classification, and referred to the classification that has strongest claim to it. Every subscriber will receive a copy of the new edition without charge as soon as off the press. I want to suggest to the reader who habitually ignores the Editorial Pages that he owes it to himself to see what ideas are reflected there. That particularly personal phase of Moving Picttjbe Age should be perhaps the strongest department of the publication, for it is the one department in which appear the reactions effected by constant sensing of activities throughout the entire field of visual instruction. You will find that I am not inclined to shout automatically, "All's well!" and pass on into the night like a watchman of old; you will discover that I am ready to discuss your problems, and equally prompt to praise or flay, according as the facts dictate; and you will doubtless see that you and I are unanimous on some subjects and at odds on others. But one important aid to me is the communications I receive concerning Moving Picture Age editorials. Whether you consider my various reactions able or insipid, biased or impartial, merely rhetorical or actually hard-hitting, you will relieve your own mind and strengthen my service if you give me your opinion of the editorials — or of the entire magazine — straight from the shoulder. If you would write to me just as frankly and as thoroughly as you would talk to me, Moving Picture Age would serve its subscribers 50 per cent more practically ! "Entertainment in the Church" discusses the unusual situation of a town that, having no theatre, used a church for recreational purposes; and another able discussion of church exhibitions is found in Rev. Brown's contribution, "Vitalized Sermons." I also want every county agent to read of the excellent work being done by Mr. Stebbins with his projection equipment, for his article proves that the right spirit plus the right equipment opens up boundless possibilities to the county agent. Professor Freeman's caution regarding the pedagogical status of visual instruction is valuable; and it need not dismay the educator, for the enthusiast who disregards facts comes to grief in any line. The Editor. Copyright, 1922, by Class Publications, Inc.