Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

REEL and SLIDE 13 Health and Welfare Films Released by Bureau By Francis Holley (Director, Bureau of Commercial Economics, Washington, D. C.) I HE Bureau of Commercial Economics is an association of the governments, institutions, manufacturers, producers, transportation lines and individuals of the United States and foreign countries, to engage in disseminating geographical, commercial, industrial, vocational welfare and public health information by the graphic method of motography, showing how things in common use are made or produced and under what conditions. The bureau display's its reels and slides in universities, colleges, technical and agricultural schools, public libraries, state armories, high schools, community institutes, public institutions, state granges, settlement houses, missions, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, commercial clubs, rotary clubs, educational, scientific and trade conventions, welfare organizations ot corporations, fraternal institutions ; also with powerful projectors, operated from auto trucks, in parks, playgrounds, rural communities and other centers for the general public. They are available, however, only when admittance to the public is free. The bureau maintains a lecture service for large organizations, such as chambers of commerce, universities and similar institutions. In addition to the film and lecture serv Conimuiiity audience ivaiching a night op Commercial ice, the bureau sends out mica slides of announcements. The bureau is international for the reason that to be nationally part of any government would preclude the possibility of MORE LIGHT WITH INCANDESCENT LAMPS IN THE Victor Animatograph Than in Any Other Motion Picture Projector. Designed with, not merely adapted to, the new high power Mazda projector lamps. Guaranteed — a motion picture image of standard illumination, clearness, sharpness and steadiness — entirely free from eyestrain. There are other features that make the Animatograph the superior 'projector — simplicity, economy, light weight, lasting quality. It's all explained and illustrated in a new catalog. Write for information and terms. Victor Animatograph Company 125 Victor Building Davenport, Iowa, U. S. A. en air exhibition given by the Bureau of Economics. carrying on its work in foreign lands or of displaying foreign films locally. It is, however, affiliated with the leading educational institutions of the world, thus facilitating a general movement in universal public instruction. This bureau circulates the films of the United States Government, of the Dominions of the British Empire, Republics of France and Argentina and of the lesser nations, in many parts of the world, but invariably to audiences admitted free. Any organization which desires to use the films of the bureau, through the medium of the co-operating universities, rnay have the privilege under the following stipulations : 1. Payment of transportation charges from and to the distributing center. 2. The films shall be used on standard motion picture projectors, handled by competent operators. 3. A report of films used and attendance shall be mailed after each performance to the distributing center. 4. Films shall be returned immediately after use. No fee whatsoever is charged or accepted for the use of the films of the bureau. How Application Is Made No admission fees to the public are permitted to be charged, nor are collections, during or after the exhibition, permissible. If films from other sources, such as advertising films, films of advertising associations or films which have been rejected by the bureau, except literary and similar films rented from the commercial exchanges, are shown in conjimction with the films of the bureau, the bureau reserves the right to discontinue the service. Owing to the great expense in the production of film, the bureau must be informed as to the projection apparatus employed, as it is obviously necessary to protect film equipment against injury by projecting it upon improvised mechanism.