Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

December. 1922 MOVING PICTURE AGE 21 Mr. Leonard Power, president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, writes : I must mention what wonderful results we are getting with the new Trans-Lux Daylight Screen. . . From now on we shall go right on with our pictures with better visualization than ever before, with all the curtains up and windows open. J regard the invention of this screen as one of the big steps forward in visual education. The TRANS-LUX DAYLIGHT SCREEN can be used in daylight without darkening the room, thus avoiding poor ventilation and the expense of satisfactory window coverings. It can equally well be used with artificial lighting conditions when desired. The TRANS-LUX DAYLIGHT SCREEN is non-inflammable, can be cleaned and rolled up without damage. It is made in any size for any purpose. And What Do Its Users Think? For the sake of finer and more economical projection, ask further details of Lfi!ii,j:iJ:M'ii[w*m-r.Tnr SO E. H2«J ST HEW YORK City And Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, nationally known as the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, comments : At the beginning we were somewhat skeptical as to the results. . . . I am writing not only to express my gratitude to you, but to say that without a single exception the lecturers and ministers who have used the screen, both at every hour during the day and again at night, pronounce it the best screen that they have ever used. It is quite beyond any words of praise. original conception of musical masterpiece, "Hark, Hark, the Lark" bv Franz Shubcrt, and painting of the masterpiece entitled "The Song of the Lark" by Jules Breton, in which young girl makes a decision to choose the lover which has the stronger character after he has demonstrated his superiority in several ways, such as the heroic rescue of her bird from a fire, and the opening of his heart to her vision, that love is freedom. The following eliminations are suggested: "My brother sent it" (a lie); entire incident of musician's attempt to kill his rival. Pitter Patter. Cameo Clean Cut Comedies. Reels, 1. Producer, Cameo; exchange, Educational Film Exchanges. Remarks: Comedy situations in the attempt of a young man to be present at his own wedding. Crash! Cameo Clean Cut Comedies. Reels, 1. Producer, Cameo; exchange, Educational Film Exchanges. Remarks: Comedy situations in an experiment with an aeroplane home ending with the moral: "Never live too high." Me and Captain Kid. Re-issue featuring Evelyn Greely and Raymond McKee. Reels, 5. Producer, Apfel Productions for the World Film Co.; exchange, National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures. Remarks: A boy and girl hunt for Captain Kidd's buried treasure on Pirate Island. Years later they find the real treasure is in a box containing proofs of the boy's parentage and rightful inheritance. The following eliminations are i suggested: Subtitles: In part 1, "roast in hell," etc. (girl readying story of pirates). In part 2, "you have compromised my ■daughter," etc. In part 3, "your father left a letter saying he was never married" (falsehood). If I Were Queen. Featuring Ethel Clayton. Reels, 6. Producer, Robertson-Cole; exchange, Film Booking Offices of America. Remarks: An American chum of a Balkan princess is mistaken for the ruler by the prince of a neighboring kingdom. After being imprisoned in his castle she learns to love him. The real princess finally explains. The Man Who Played God. Reels, 6. Producer, Distinctive Productions; exchange, United Artists Corp. From story by Governeur Morris. Featuring George Arliss. Remarks: Deaf man, by the aid of a magnifying glass, reads the secret desires in the hearts of poor unfortunates and takes great pleasure in gratifying these desires. The following eliminations are suggested: Actual scene of bomb-throwing; substitle, "I never see beauty but I want to destroy it," and falsehood indicated by words, "I live at the North Pole." Using the School Screen (Continued from page 19) equipment of the school was used, simply moving it from its place in the permanent booth to that part of the building where it was most convenient to project from a window upon a screen hung in the opposite part of the yard. All other centers were served by a Board of Education truck that was fitted up especially with a machine, screen, and other accessories. These programs were most popular, and gave me more satisfaction than any other use of the film with which I have been associated. The results of this work in Americanization were very encouraging, and plans are already under way to continue it next season. If the vast majority of sense impressions that result in knowledge are first visualized, then it behooves us to make large use of these visual aids in all schemes of education, and particularly in giving the -foreigner right impressions of America and all that America stands for. Frank N. Freeman, Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, University of Chicago. — Much of the discussion setting forth the psychological basis of the advantage of visual presentation very greatly overshoots the mark. When it is asserted, for example, that nine-tenths of our experience comes from vision and that therefore the visual method must greatly predominate, a statement is made that is either without support or without meaning from a psychological point of view. It might be shown by psychological analysis that the advantage of one mode of presentation or another cannot be determined or stated in any such wholesale fashion. The experience of those who have studied various modes of presenting words in teaching spelling has demonstrated this fact. Visual methods have, however, certain undoubted advantages. Many aspects of things can best be learned by seeing them. When the thing cannot be seen, a picture or diagram furnishes a good substitute for actual sight of the object. Features of objects that can be best grasped by sight are the form of the object, and the relation of parts to each other or of one object to another. In other words, spatial relations of an object or of its parts can best be grasped through sight. These spatial relations are particularly important to an understanding of the mechanical FILMS FOR SALE Universities, Schools, Colleges and NonTheatrical Exchanges, "ATTENTION!" We have a large supply of films especially adapted for your peculiar needs. Literary, Historic a and Educational subjects — all lengths. Othersl "list" non-theatrical pictures — we* have them. 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