Moving Picture World (Dec 1920)

590 MOVING PICTURE WORLD The Educational and I Non -theatrical Field December 4, 1920 Conducted by JESSIE ROBB Mrs . Mary A. Wilson , Food Expert , Will Teach Culinary Art in Pathe Review THE teaching of cooking by an expert through the medium of the motion pictures is an announcement that has aroused much interest. Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, world famous chef and food expert, will illustrate a series of her popular recipes in the Pathe Review. Letters and inquiries from all sources have been received by the Pathe Exchange. Had Interesting Career Mrs. Wilson has had an interesting career in her chosen profession. For years she was chef for Queen Victoria. When the United States entered the World War, she closed her successful cooking school in Philadelphia and placed her knowledge at the disposal of the Navy Department. Classes of forty “gobs” each were taught every six weeks, during the entire war period. For the last three years a syndicating bureau, serving fifty daily newspapers, have featured her excellent articles on cooking. Practical Cooking While Mrs. Wilson teaches cooking as an art and science, it is a practical art and science. In her new role of motion picture educator she will teach the American housewife how to prepare wholesome, nourishing, delicious dishes, at very little THE use of the motion picture film as an educational medium is to be tested by the School Board of Washington, D. C. The Board has accepted the loan of the Savoy Theatre from Harry M. Crandall, for that purpose and as soon as the plans are completed, the motion picture school will be opened. The tentative plan for conducting the school is as follows: A class of several hundred children will be taken to the theatre for an hour a day for lessons in history and geography. A teacher, especially trained in lecturing on the films, will be in charge and will explain the picture to be projected, calling the classes’ attention to the salient features. The fact will be impressed upon the classes that these pictures are for study and not for amusement. Valuable Adjunct to School System It is thought that the theatres will prove a valuable adjunct to the school system and no doubt of the success of this type of visual instruction is felt by the Board. Undoubtedly, the proposed experiment will have beneficial results and theatres in other sections of the city will be used in this manner. Projection machines will not be installed in the schools, at present, on account of the enormous cost entailed. A plan calling for this installation was suggested, but the present handicaps: fire marshal’s restrictions, lack of facilities in cost. Pathe will feature her in their Review, beginning with the release of December 19 — officially No. 82. “ Get-T here * Map Is a New Feature of Holmes Travel Pictures Burton Holmes, author of the ParamountHolmes Travel Pictures and the Holmes Travelogues, has inaugurated a system of illustrated maps, in motion, which he has christened “Get-There Maps.” These will be used after the main titles in all the Paramount-Holmes Travel Pictures which relate to far-distant lands and more or less unfamiliar places. The maps will be humorous in character, while maintaining their educational and informative value. A little man of the “Brownie” species will make the journey from New York or San Francisco to the country, district or town forming the subject of the picture, thus showing its geographical location and the usual route of travel. The modes of conveyance will be a fish, bird, aeroplane, etc., but in each case it will be amusing as well as instructive. the school buildings and the inability to get licensed operators, make it impossible. The Crandall residential theatres and the Regent, operated by Sidney B. Lust have been offered for school purposes. This is feasible and economical. If the use of theatres is ultimately decided upon, the Board believes that Congress should appropriate funds to rent the houses and establish them as part of the public school system. This would not interfere with the school activities or the use of the theatres for public exhibitions in a commercial way. Washington’s experiment will evidently be keenly watched by educators, interested in visual instruction, throughout the country. Rothacker to Visualize Coal Origin by Animation The world, as science believes it to have been ten millions years ago, will be shown in the prologue of an educational film now in production at the Rothacker Chicago Studio. The prehistoric sections of the picture will be animated, visualizing the origin of coal. It took Nature hundreds of years to make coal. Back in the Carboniferous Ages, huge trees and rank vegetation, the chief source of coal-beds covered the face of the earth, where coal is now found. Passing through a state of decomposition and carbonization, this vegetation gradually turned into coal. The animation, which is being executed by Wallace A. Carlson, who put the Gumps” on celluloid, shows the enormous dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other archisaurian reptiles, which lived when Nature was filling her treasure chests with the substance which keeps us warm today. P Pyrenees M ountains Picturized by Holmes A beautiful survey of the most celebrated regions of the Pyrenees Mountains, that rise between France and Spain, is embodied in “Pyrenean Perspectives,” the Paramount-Holmes Travel Picture released November 14. The valleys, slopes, rushing streams and lofty fastness have been visualized. The photography is exceptionally clear, the mountains being sharply silhouetted against the sky. The entire reel has been tinted a delicate blue, which is particularly pleasing and it is a scenic well worth seeing. Goldwyn-Ford Shows Cities and Country “In Arizona ” The points of interest and importance in the state of Arizona are shown in this issue of Ford Educational Weekly No. 227. Phoenix, the flourishing capital of the state is first shown. It seems hardly possible that this modern city was erected from the ruins of an Indian village built on the cave-dwellers style. One of the original villages in contrast to the present city is shown. The great show spot is the Roosevelt Dam, which has turned the waste places from desert to fertile fields and orchards. Views of Miami and Globe complete this travel picture. Bird Fife in Reservations Picturized by Pictograph Goldwyn-Bray Photograph No. 7066 entitled “Paradise for Birds” is another of the Finley nature studies and shows how the feathered creatures of the air flock to the bird reservations, provided by the United States Government. Unusual views of bird life are shown in this reel, as William and Irene Finley covered a route that extends from Portland to the Malheur Lake Reservation in the southeastern part of Oregon. Intimate studies of the home life of the much hunted egret, blue heron, cormorant, pelican, willet and other marsh birds are interspersed with beautiful scenic views of the protected areas. Some T kings Worth Knowing That interesting and current events are shown in Selznick News Reel No. 57A and Kinograms No, 83A, both released October 26. That Roy Miller, managing director of Miller’s Theatre, Los Angeles, declared that the ideal running mate for “Earthbound,” the Goldwyn production of Basil Xing’s drama, was “Totem Land,” a Sunset Burrud scenic of Alaska. Washington, D. C., Theatres to Be Used in Experiment in Visual Instruction