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 tliat the films may be wholesome for children and young people. These omissions are suggested in order to save otherwise splendid, wholesome pictures from rejection. Pictures not suitable for this list receive no comment. (See addresses of exchanges below) AMERICANIZATION FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Hats Off: a Story of the Flag.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Boy gives another boy a lesson in etiquette. Boy goes to sleep and dreams that Uncle Sam appears to him, escorting him through America's past — making of first flag, spirit of '76, "Don't give up the ship." Abraham Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg, the charge up San Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt, the flag in France in 1918, what Old Glory stands for in the hearts of true Americans. ART FILMS The Bashful Suitor.* Reels, 2. Producer, Triart Productions; exchange, W. W. Ho'dkinson. Remarks: Based on the painting of the same name by Josef Israels. View of picture as it hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Painter introduces village girl and her bashful suitor in his painting of Springtime. They come to life in a dream of the bashful boy's, to the end that he finally proposes marriage to the idol of his dreams. ASTRONOMICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction The Earth and the Worlds Beyond.* Reels, 1. Producer, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Yerkes observatory, telescope 60 ft. long, diagram showing how earth rotates and revolves about sun, sun 866,000 miles away, spots are explosions on sun throwing up hot gases to height of over 80,000 miles, eclipsed sun and solar corona, moon revolves about earth, first quarter, full moon, third quarter, full moon in earth's shadow, lunar crater Copernicus and Appenine Mtns., smoothest place on moon highly magnified, polar cap of Mars, Jupiter and its largest moons, Saturn and its rings, comet Morehouse, Milky way with meteor trail, great nebula in Orion. How We Study the Stars.* Reels, 1. Producer, Parks; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Worlds in the Making Series. Mars with its two tiny moons, Saturn the Magnificent, a nebula, what constitutes a solar system, a theory of how the earth was formed. } BIOLOGICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Wild-Life Studies.* Reels, 1. Producer, Sanborn Zoological Series; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Siberian tiger, Barbary lion, gorilla, trained orang utan; 3,000-pound giant tortoise, native of Pacific Isles; elephants, African with large ears, Indian with small ears; zebra, a fighter; secretary bird of Africa; giraffe has no voice, skin one inch thick. Piggy Wiggy: a Study in Pigs.* Reels, \l/2. Producer, Swedish Biographical Series; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Family of pigs, washing pigs, pigs swimming; St. Bernard dog and black cat with her kitten, close friends. The Beaver.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Wild-Life Studies in North America Series. Raccoon and young American beaver, habits, food, building a dam; California sea lion, mammal; Alaskan bear receiving a bath; Polar bear, ice-cream party for the bears; drinking cod-liver oil from the bottle. Neptune's Neighbors.* Reels, V/2. Producer, Prizma; exchange, State Rights. Remarks: Colored views of porkfish, orange pilefish, queen triggerfish, blue angelfish of West Indies, trunkfish, puffers or swellfish, pearl roach, goldfish. Animal Camouflage.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Pathe. Wonders of Life in Plant and Animal World Series. Protective mimicry, hermit crab, span worm, walking-stick; praying mantis with nest like that of wasp, takes position as if praying, sees in every direction, sturdy forelegs; aggressive mimicry, locust, ivy caterpillar, toad "digging in," tree-toad, desert lizard; warning coloration, monarch butterfly, walking leaf; protective resemblance. Kineto Review, No. 79.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Kineto Co. of Amer. Remarks: Giants of industry, large ant nest; after nest is destroyed, ants remove eggs to a safe place, reconstructing the house, foraging party, cows or aphides, soldier ants; intimate fly studies, hover fly attracted by nectar of flowers, inoffensive dione fly resembles bee, housefly lays eggs in carrion, eggs magnified, maggots a carrier of disease; magnified view of fly's foot, head, and eye; how things appear to a fly's compound eye. The Reindeer.* Reels, 1. Producer, Swedish Biograph; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Reindeer a domestic animal among Laplanders, furnishes food, clothes, etc.; a corral where they are herded, antlers appear a few weeks after birth, marking ears for identification, auctioning young deer, each herd follows its leader the buck, winter lasts six months, traveling by sleighs and skiis, antlers of reindeer grow from spring until winter, when they they shed; roping a stubborn buck, taking place of horse and ox. Pond and Stream Life.* Natural History Series, No. 6. Reels, 2. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: A rakeful of mud reveals many forms of life; dragon-fly baby digging down into the dirt, empty husk of dragon fly, close-up view of eyes; damsel-fly nymph, colorless when they first emerge, laying eggs in sunken reeds; May-flies, black wings found in July and August; gelatin-covered eggs of the pond snail, snail has but one foot, crawling along razor edge without injury; friendly turtle; leopard frog; crawfish emerges from winter quarters; "swimmerets"; hatching young water beetles; building a crawfish chimney; caddis-fly, larvas building stone house, caddis-worm and house of twig or reed; horse-hair snake; fat leech; ponds are full of "back swimmers," going to the surface for air, hanging head downward; pondbeetle carrying air-bubble below surface; water-tiger; Branchipi or water-fairies swim on their backs. Wasps.* Natural History Series No. 5. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Builds homes in rafters of barns, etc., cocoons, eggs, grub, building nest of mud, cleansing the antennae, building two or three stories to the house, provisioning cell, close-up view of Polistes wasp, grubs remain fast to sides of cell, grubs spin silken caps over cell, change begins, full grown wasp emerges, eating bread and honey, Vespa paper. Kineto Review, No. 77.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, 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. Arrow Film Co Kineto Co. of America, Inc. 220 W. 42d St., New York City 71 W. 23d St., New York City Community Motion Picture Service National Non-Theatrical Motion Pic 46 W. 24th St.. New York City tures, Inc. . ■ 232 W. 38th St.. New York City Educational Film Corp. of America _ .., „ . T 7?Q Spvpnth Avp Now York Citv Pathe exchange, Inc. 7^9 beventh Ave., JNew xorK city 3g w 45th gfc> Ngw York cjty Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Prizma 485 Fifth Ave., New York City n w 23d gt _ New York city „CQG™r"\ Distrjbnti"* £o. Selznick Pictures 469 Fifth Ave., New York City 180 w 46th gt ., New York city Historic Features, Inc. Society for Visual Education 1107 Broadway, New York City 806 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. W. W. Hodkinson Corp. States Rights 527 Fifth Ave.. New York City (Write to producer) 24