Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

'C1B529187 M 10 i922 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 owners 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. W. M. GREGORY, Curator, Educational Museum, Cleveland. 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. J. J. WEBER, Associate Professor of Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Volume V JUNE, 1922 Number 6 CONTENTS Page Editorials 4 Visualized Geography Courses Miss Katherine Terry 7 Telling the World Raymond S. Peck 9 Unity before Creeds A. G. Balcom 10 Bringing Them Out G. F. Baumeister 10 The Innate Urge for the Wholesome Mrs. Curtis Hilly er 11 Reconstructed Reels A. P. Mollis 12 Summer Outdoor Exhibitions Rev. Roy L. Smith 13 Motion-Picture Therapy Henry W. Salus 14 Mechanics of Visualization (Department) .Austin C. Lescarboura 15 Highlights (Department) 17 Official Department, the National Academy of Visual Instruction 18 Better Films (Department) Mrs. Woodallen Chapman 20 Approved Films and Their Sources (Department) 22 Gossip-Gathering on Film Boulevard (Department) 24 ADVERTISERS Motion Picture Page Projector Acme Co 23 Associated Mfrs. of Safety Standard Films and Projectors, Inc. 22 Bass Camera Co 24 DeVry Corp '6 Eastman Kodak Co 3rd Cover Exhibitors Film Exchange 26 Fine Art Film Co 24 Pag* Geographic Film Co., Inc 24 fawitz Pictures Corp 22 Kinema Film Service 22 Kineto Co. of America, Inc 2nd Cover Minusa Cine Screen Co 22 Nicholas Power Co 21 Pathescope Co. of America, Inc.. 25 Withington-Hunting, Inc. ..4th Cover A Chat with the Editor PASTORS using films will do well to read with particular care the July and August issues of this magazine. The request for lists of films appropriate for use in the church has been productive of many listings, although there are a number of pastors from whom I am still expecting to receive material. The July issue will contain a summary of the significant remarks that accompanied the lists, and also will include an extensive group of the films on which the stamp of approval has been placed. In the August number the remainder of this long list will appear — although if several of you find time to prepare lists for me within the next few weeks, I shall take pleasure in printing the late material in the September number. This listing has particular significance with reference to your bookings for the summer and fall, as it includes only specifically approved films. The school man also will find in the forthcoming issues material that is as practical as it is unique. One interesting project is that the Review Department will henceforth contain brief comments from members of the National Academy of Visual Instruction who are constantlyscreening films for their own institutions. This plan enables readers of the magazine to benefit by the film opinions of these educators, and to know what they consider acceptable. To date plenty of discussions have appeared concerning the ineffectiveness of the film called educational, but no one has paused long enough to state whether or not there are any truly pedagogical films in existence, and, if so, what they are. No progress can possibly be made until we have set tentative standards by concentrating attention upon the films that come nearest to educational aims ; and this definite material has now begun to flow in through the medium of the questionnaire I have placed in the hands of hundreds of visual educators throughout the land. Indications are that this material can be compiled for use in the August or September issue ; and I am willing to promise that the visual educator will find this digest the soundest, most definite, and most comprehensive summary of opinion on the educational film that has ever been compiled. Readers especially interested in research in visual instruction will welcome the contribution by J. J. Weber, Associate Professor of Education, University of Kansas, in the July issue. The topic treated, "Proposed Standards for Educational Films," is directly in line with the questionnaire material now being compiled for later issues of Moving Picture Age. Mr. Weber is recognized as a leader in the conduct of pedagogically sound investigations of visual aids, and I am glad to state that in this contribution he is putting forth concrete suggestions with which every visual educator may work. Moving Picture Age is glad to announce the selection of two new Contributing Editors : J. J. Weber, mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and W. M. Gregory, Curator of the Educational Museum, Cleveland. Both men are recognized as distinct influences in visual education, and both will furnish contributions of thought and experience of unusual worth. The Editor. Copyright, 1922, by Class Publications, Inc.