Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

20 REEL and SLIDE LECTURE SUDES Our special department catering to this work produces slides of the finest photography and hand coloring, at reasonable prices. We make. such slides from any material (books, prints, photographs, drawings) you may furnish. Lecture Department EXCELSIOR ILLUSTRATING COMPANY 219 6th Ave. N. Y. City Please say, "As Stereopticon Invades New Fields of Teaching By Morton A. Bassett IN church work the illustrated sermon has come, in many churches to be a regular fixture. Illustrated song service also is growing in favor. Evangelism with the stereopticon is extremely successful— missionary talks, lectures and stories are increased marvelously by the use of a stereopticon and slides, in interest and value. Church extension work, civic betterment, particularly the type of extension work which is done by the church, which follows the modern tendency to make itself a community center, must employ visual instruction for some of its entertainments, and a very large proportion of its more serious, constructive work. Under the Smith-Lever law, each county is granted a federal appropriation and each state makes an appropriation for the maintenance and operations of the coimty agriculturist. Usually the extension department of the state tmiversity, or the state agricultural college and United States Department of Agriculture, co-operate with the county agent, which, in ordinary terms, means doing agricultural extension work among the farmers. Slides Used in the Lodge, Too The county agent is a practical agriculturist spreading the gospel of scientific agronomy, stock raising, and every other phase of agricultural improvement. He also urges and suggests plans and conducts rural improvement, good road building, farm forestry and home ground adornment, and in his work, visual instruction is indispensable. Lodges tise lanterns and slides in the visual instruction of their members, in the meaning of their symbols and in illustrating the historic events upon which they are largely founded. Visual instruction to a considerable extent enters into every home. Inexpensive lanterns can be used as the basis on which to construct games and entertainments which are really instructive, beneficial to the youngsters and at the same time, remarkably entertaining and free from the dryness of the "instructive game." Lanterns and slides make a great appeal to amateur photographers, and we are taking the liberty of mentioning this, although it is, not strictly speaking, in line with visual instruction. When his friends call to see the pictures of his summer vacation, instead of asking them to pass around some prints, while he hops nimbly from one to the other, explaining the details of them, he now gets out the box of slides which he has made, screws the attachable plug of his lantern into an ordinary incandescent socket, and shows the pictures^ to all the callers at the same time, life size, and full of interest. The Sources of Supply There are a number of other practical applications of the theory of visual instruction, but these suffice to illustrate its force. From a chronological viewpoint, let us consider the sources of supply. Visual instruction, projectionally, may be divided into three particular cases: First, the projection of still pictures from lantern slides or transparencies; second, the projection of still pictures from postcards, photographs, prints and other opaque objects; third, the projection of motion pictures. {Continued on page 22) advertised in REEL and SLIDE," when you zvrite "Mcintosh Lanterns Are Honest Lanterns" Mcintosh Slides are not just simply pretty pictures. They are selected and made WITH A PURPOSE The new educational catalogs contain lists of slides selected after a careful study of curricula and textbooks, and both per se and in arrangement are thoroly pedagogic. They are ready to apply. The teacher need not spend a long time in study and preparation of the lesson and its illustration. Mcintosh Slides are ready to illustrate it. This is true also of McINTOSH HONEST LANTERNS. Just screw the plug into the socket, switch on the current, focus and change the slides. That's all there is to operating the Automatic Sciopticon. But better than all that — the automatic, instant change, no eyestrain slide changer is an exclusive feature, which makes the old side-to-side slide carrier an obsolete relic. Automatic Sciopticon with 400 w. Mazda lamp ready to connect and show pictures, $44.00. Other lanterns, $32.00. It is remarkably efficient and exceedingly simple. You can have one on approval for five days' trial. Ask us how. Any of the following educational catalogs will be sent on request: SLIDE CATALOGS A — Agriculture and Extension, E — Geography and Industries. H — History, Civics, Biography. S — Science. Religious, Travel, and general slides are listed in a separate catalog. We are projection experts and will gladly advise and assist you in the selection of apparatus McINTOSH SS.T^°" 485 Atlas Block CHICAGO to advertisers.