Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

April, 1922 MOVING PICTURE AGE 25 Kineto Co. of Amer. Remarks: Eccentricity of wasp and bee, boring holes, newly born wasps, pipe plugged up by big bee, from the eggs legless grubs are hatched, caddis worm, examining worm in glass tube, dragon-fly larva; intellect of wasp, lives on sweets from fruit and flowers, Vespas wasp, builds nest in tree, Fossorial wasps build nests in ground, metal observation nests, bees know their own homes; fruit wasp, lives in figs, engineering skill, lays eggs in fruit. How Birds Build Their Nests.* Reels, 1. Producer, Swedish Biograph; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Birds which build in grass and among rocks, wheater builds under boulders, yellow hammer in bushes, chaffinch in tree branches; woodpecker pecking hole in dead tree for nest, then filling with moss and leaves. BOTANY FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Life of the Humble Bean.* Reels, 1. Producer, John Murray Bock; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: How nature works, life of the humble bean, seed plus sun, air, rain, and soil, growth of sprouts, animated pictures, roots and feeders, stalk growing upward, function of leaves, the stomata or mouths, flow of nourishment back to plant, vivid explanation by moving pictures of the actual growth of plant life. CHEMISTRY FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Kineto Review, No. 204.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Kineto Co. of America. Remarks: Science at Home Series. Chemical experiments with crystals of copper nitrate, wrapping them in tin foil, basis of "Pharoah's Serpents," nitric acid on metallic mercury, calcium phosphide in water emits evil-smelling gas, firing bubbles of it, calcium carbide and phosphide destroying water, oxacetylene blowing up bucket of water, cutting sheet iron, lycopodium sprinkled over a flame causes sheet of fire, an example of retarded motion. CIVICS FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Waste Disposal in Cities. Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Waste flows from house to street sewer, to collecting sewer; Boston sewage is collected in tanks at Moon Island and stored until tide begins to go out, when it is discharged; Brockton not near body of water, sewage flows to pumping station, purification plant, sprayed upon trickling filter, bacteria on rocks purifies sewages by changing into harmless minerals, flowing upon sand beds, clear water the result, comparison between treated and untreated sewage, single cell animals eat bacteria in streams, water fleas feed on these, which in turn are eaten by fish and tadpoles, complete purification. CURRENT-HISTORY FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Permanent Peace: Urban Special. Reels, 1. Producer, Charles Urban; exchange, Kineto Co. of Amer. Remarks: Cut scenes of dead soldiers lying on battlefield. Disarmament Conference, Pan-American Building, quotations from speeches by Foch, Clemenceau, Pres. Harding, >Ex-Pres. WSlson, Gen. Petain; scenes of peace at conference at Versailles, Big Four, Lloyd George, Orlando, Clemeanceau, Wilson; Geneva, head of League' of Nations; Peace Pageant in Paris; Ads. Beatty, Kato, Sims, necessity of retaining some defense one battleship the value and upkeep of which would maintain 100 schools. The Making of a New World.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Historic Film Co. Remarks: American representatives at Disarmament Conference at Wash., Root, Underwood, Hughes, Lodge, Lloyd George, Ad. Beatty, King George, Briand; France compelled at present to keep standing army of 800,000 men, Foch, Diaz; 32% of revenue of Japan going to buiid more battleships; armies of Russia, Turkey, China; Spanish Army in Africa; munition factories. Pathe News, No. 1.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Resume of Year. Inauguration of Pres. Harding, peace brought about between Ireland and England, airships used for bombing warships (cut all reference to prize fight of Carpentier and Dempsey). Allied Commanders visit America, Conference on Limitation of Armaments, signed document. The Spirit of Joan of Arc* Reels, 2. Producer, Mrs. W. H. Hill; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Devasted area in France; map showing textile, coal, iron and steel centers, peasants return to their ruined homes, temporary houses, raising bees, road near Lens, first harvest at Verdun, repairing damaged roads and houses, reconstruction of locks, bridges and factories; City of Arras and its Flemish architecture; tragic difference between coal mines before and after war, temporary huts of miners, Sedan rebuilt, new system of making looms, flax growing on reclaimed land, work begun in factory before building is finished, manufacture of steel rails. GEOGRAPHICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Across the Grand Canyon.* Reels, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchanges, Famous Players-Lasky and National NonTheatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Clouds hanging about tops of crags, abyss of grandeur where clouds boil up like incense, steel cable suspension bridge across Colorado River, Bright Angel trail on pack mules, Granite Gorge, animals put across bridge one at a time, camping in the canyon, Ribbon Falls now accessible to tourist, north rim of canyon, Cal Peck's wife, Ranger's Station, unfamiliar visitas. Over the White Pass.* Reels, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchange National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: From Skagway to the Pass by observation train, snow sheds, trestles, tunnels, Jack London Falls, old Corduroy road, Dead Horse Gulch, site of White Pass City now gone, former home of 30,000 gold diggers, cantilever bridge over canyon, international boundary between Alaska and Canada, descent into the Yukon territory, abandoned city of Bennett, Sergeant Mapley, shores of Lake Bennett. First Families of America.* Reels, 1. Producer, Burton Holmes; exchanges, Famous Players-Lasky and National NonTheatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: Aboriginal settlers in great southwest, Pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, Kiva or mysterious lodge house, making pottery, taught by Spanish padres, shaping clay, polishing the sun-dried and ash-burned vessel with a hard stone; buckskin footwear, baking bread in tireless cookers, maidens of Hopi tribe dressing their hair; blanket weaving of the Navajos, priceless ceremonial blanket, government school for Indians, 10,000 Indiana men fought in iate war. GEOLOGICAL FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction A Study of a Mountain Glacier.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society for Visual Education. Remarks: Cross-section of glacier and its valley, snow accumulates in high mountains, weight causes ice to form, heavy glacier moves slowly down between its mountain walls, crevasses caused by glacier bending over steep slope, stones rattle down from mountain sides and form moraines on the ice, when glacier reaches sea icebergs break off, in time climate may grow warmer and glacier be melted back, stream from melting glacier forms delta at its outlet; panorama of a glacier. A Study of the Work of Rivers.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Society of Visual Education. Remarks: All land was once without valleys, running off of rain starts them, some of most beautiful scenery due to valleys cut deep by young rivers, chalk illustrations of formation of Royal Gorge of the Arkansas, cross-section drawing of ten miles expanse of Grand Canyon of the Colorado, after thousands of years young rivers cut down their banks and broaden their valleys, drawings showing youth, maturity and old age in evolution of river valleys. JUVENILE FILMS Recommended for Children Under 12 Years of Age Honorable Mr. Jap Van Winkle.* Reels, 1. Producer, C. L. Chester; exchange, Pathe. Remarks: Japanese fairy story enacted by Japanese. Because Urashima, the fisherboy, spared the life of a tortoise, he was given the hand of the daughter of the sea-god in marriage. LITERATURE FILMS Recommended for Classroom Instruction Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.* Reels, 1. Producer, Charles Urban; exchange, Kineto Co. of America. Remarks: Great American Author Series. Portrait of Longfellow, birthplace in Portland, Maine, cradle and clock upon the stairs, library, grandfather's house; Bowdoin College; Brunswick, Maine, Craigie House; home in Cambridge, Mass., Mt. Auburn Cemetery; Village Blacksmith, children leave note for blacksmith, "We like you"; Psalm of Life. RELIGIOUS FILMS Recommended for Church Services A Week-End Visit to a Japanese Sunday School.* Reels, 1. Producer and exchange, Community Motion Picture Service. Remarks: Arriving at Nagasaki harbor, coaling the steamer, women do much of the work, Japanese policemen fencing to keep fit, home of Rev. Kozaki, taking Sunday School classes for an outing, along the trail, the Bible lesson, loyalty to the flag, games, leap-frog, flying kites, street fakir or actor, Reinanzako church of which any community might be proud, classes for all ages.