Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

II. 8T33D Moving Picture Age A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Interest 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, Manager 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 and Business Manager 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 Womens Clubs, New York City. MISS A. LORETTO CLARK, Visual Education Division, Los Angeles City Schools, Los Angeles, Cal. 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 DECEMBER, 1922 Number 12 CONTENTS Page Editorials 4 Using the School Screen 7 Visualizing Agriculture 9 Correspondence 11 Films in the Church 13 The National Academy of Visual Instruction, Official Department 15 Highlights (Reviews) 16 Approved Films and Their Sources (Department) 20 ADVERTISERS Page Acme Motion Picture Projector Co. 19 American Lux Products Corp.... 21 Bass Camera Company 21 Classified Advertising 22 DeVry Corp 6 DeVry Circulations 22 Eastman Kodak Co 4th Cover Exhibitors' Film Exchange 22 Ford Motion Picture Laboratories 17 Page Geographic Film Co., Inc 20 Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co.. 20 Jawitz Picture Corp 21 Minusa Cine Screen Co 20 Nicholas Power Co 2nd Cover Pathescope Co. of America, Inc. . . 18 Safety Projector Co 3rd Cover United Cinema Co 3rd Cover United Projector & Film Corp. 3rd Cover A Chat with the Editor WITH hesitation I approach the writing of this my last formal message to Moving Picture Age subscribers. There is so much that I would say, so much that ought to be said, so many points that will come to mind after the final issue of this publication is off the press ! There is much due recognition to be given, and many warnings that might be issued — and so little space! * Most important, perhaps, is it to give due praise to those who have co-operated with me by providing competent editorial material. In this connection I accord highest honor to those who have contributed to Moving Picture Age without financial recompense. No one who has not handled an independent magazine in this field can understand the difficulties it encounters in even paying expenses. Certain contributors, however, have sensed that problem and have been so liberal as to lend a hand gratis because they felt that the publication was rendering the field of visual instruction a genuine service. I am especially grateful for those_ who thus helped and found their compensation in the satisfaction of aiding a movement that was right. I am also appreciative of the work done by my paid contributors. But I trust that, in putting over The Educational Screen, Mr. Greene may find his work practically assisted by an increase in the ranks of those who are glad to serve their field with their thoughts only for the good they can do. And certainly the commercial concerns should receive credit for the way in which many of them have supported Moving Picture Age. I have always had, and I have today, a genuine sympathy for the commercial man in this field. I realize only too clearly the obstacles with which he is confronted, and I cannot but admire those men who have continued operations in this line when it has often brought them hardly a bare living. I have stated editorially a fact that is well worth repeating here: Until the commercial dealer in visual aids is given broader support by users of visual equipment this field will not flourish to the extent that its importance warrants. I have also criticized freely the commercial man who is unbusinesslike as to editing of films and other matters of routine. There is a distinct need of improvement in the relations of these two groups, and the keener persons in both groups are going to develop this improvement and profit thereby. As for my personal future contact with the field of visual instruction, this is a matter of question at this writing. My heart is in the work, and it is certain that I could not sever all relations with a field so important in the serious work of the nation. At the same time, I hardly believe I will be identified with the commercial phases of visual instruction, for the field's greatest need is for workers who can speak decisively without having their motives questioned on the score of bias. Mr. Greene has requested that I take charge of a department in The Educational Screen, but it remains to be seen whether or not such a plan can be carried out. Probably I shall remain in service with the company that is now disposing of Moving Picture Age, and maintain an interest in visual instruction as an avocation. I can always be reached at this address — 418 South Market St., Chicago — and will always be more than glad to hear from any of those with whom I have been associated in this work. I believe a genuine boom is in sight for the non-theatrical field, based on certain unquestionably dominating factors, and at about the time things begin to happen I may be on the line of battle. Milton Ford Baldwin. Copyright, 1922, by Class Publications, Inc.