Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

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REEL and SLIDE 17 Announce Automatic Stereopticon OF interest to all devotees of the stereopticon comes the announcement of the new Owen Automatic Stereopticon, which is especially designed for store and window advertising, fairs, expositions, conventions and educational purposes. The Owen has many features which are distinctive with this machine. It projects 50 standard slides automatically on the screen and repeats them in the same order as long as the machine is kept running. The appearance of the pictures coming on the screen is the same as that made by a hand-operated stereopticon using a double slide carrier; that is, the machine moves a slide horizontally into position before the light, where it remains for 12 seconds — just long enough to convey the desired impression to the observer. Its place is then taken by the next slide. The entire fifty slides are shown every ten minutes. Dimensions of machine, 19x26x7 inches. The outfit may be carried in a suitcase. By attaching to any electric light socket the machine is ready for operating. The complete machine includes a 1,000 candle power nitrogen tungsten projection lamp, condensing and objective lenses, and motor (either alternating or direct current). The machine is driven by a small motor. Thomas J. Owen, 4009 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, is the inventor and manufacturer. A New Jersey minister is said to have invented celluloid film, upon which the entire motion picture industry has been erected. Educators are leaving the class room for the studio. Arthur E. Curtis, Br A., is one of them. Mr. Curtis, will contribute to Reel and Slide from time to time, on subjects pertaining to the educational screen. ?— Ask Him—? Do you want a film on native life in the South Sea Islands? Do you want to see on the screen how the steel puddlers work? Do you want to study chemistry or engineering by means of moving pictures? If so, ask Arthur E. Curtis. Dozens of college heads and ministers throughout the United States have "asked him." Perhaps no man in the United States is better acquainted with the educational film productions of recent years than Mr. Curtis. He has them all at his finger tips. He is one of the steadily increasing group of experienced educators who have given up their desks for the studio — men who believe in the screen as a powerful aid to instruction, and who see the need for properly directed educationals. As Mr. Curtis will contribute from time to time out of his broad experience, to the columns of Reel and Slide^ his story is of interest here. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He spent some time in newspaper work and taught for several years. He resigned his position as managing editor of an important film journal to engage in the criticism, distribution and production of high-grade educational subjects, and he has become a national authority. He is consulted by more than one educational institution who make a regular practice of using the screen. Eighteen state universities either have in successful operation now or are planning visual instruction departments, including both films and slides as their mediums. Some of the best minds in these institutions are engaged in the work. "Mcintosh Lanterns Are Honest Lanterns" It's Up to You, you schoolmen — you pastors — you community leaders, to be efficient as never before. Your boys and girls are undertaking new ventures^ — ^farming, Red Cross, canning, conservation of all sorts. You can guide and teach and help them more, visually — • thru the eye gate^ — than in any other way — especially if you show your pictures with a Mcintosh honest lantern. This is the Automatic Stereopticon — the last word in projection lanterns. Complete, $40.00. Stereopticons, $31.00 up. 150,000 slides for sale or rent. Catalogs for tfie asking. Mcintosh «*-«°^*-°" 485 Atlas Block Company CHICAGO Please say, "As advertised in REEL and SLIDE;" when you write to advertisers.