Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

i2 REEL and SLIDE Pershing, Foch and Haig Would laugh at these humorous slides— set of 51 — $12.00 or 35c each. If, BY ANY CHANCE, you sKauld te CALLED DOWN by a superior officer, it would be a GRAVE BREACH of discipline for you to SALUTE bim tbe next time you meet. He may still BE jMAD -with you and not ^vant to spealc. SAYINGS OF A SILIY SAGE By Arthur "Bugs" Baer The Humorist of the N. Y. Eve. World The cleverest and funniest sayings and epigrams at 50c each or $35.00 for set of 100. yarditifis are ki^her because of ttifi "var. Vho told the sardines there vas a -var? Some of the best vaudeville theatres showed these slides for months. 26 SCREAMING PARODIES ON POPULAR SONGS One better than the other— 35c each — $6.50 complete set of 26. (rune; "OVER THERE.") Gill, we've got your goat, got your goat, got .your goat, Cot It by the throat, by the throat, by the throat. Hear it calling, "Bill, wie geht's! I'm :n the United States." Bill, you poor old slob, let the mob take your job. For your country's mad, they have had such a lad; Tell the Crown Prince not to pine, For you know he's next in line Cho.: After all, after all, You're the guy that is due for a call, And we think, old Willie, that you'd look silly Your back right up against a wall. Now you know^'ou must go Send a word lo your friend down below We can name him and we can blame him, Bur It's you, old top, that we're after, after .jII! Greater N. Y. Slide Co., Inc. 154 W. 45th St. NEW YORK Aak for Illustrated Comic Folder "Everything in Glass and Mica Slides" Questions on Educational Lantern Slides will be answered by mail If stamped envelope Is enclosed. Call for Belgian Sets Grows as Result of Devastations Those who might think that the lantern slide has gone somewhat out of favor because of the inroads made by the motion picture, are greatly mistaken. In the last six months some of the biggest slide orders in the history of the business have been given, notably the huge order parcelled out by the Community Motion Picture Bureau for use in connection with their War Camp motion picture activities. Twenty thousand slides have recently been ordered, with many more to follow. These sets include famous war utterances of American statesmen, cartoons of the most popular artists and educational subjects calculated to entertain our soldiers in this country and in France during the "waits" between reels. The museums of the country are enlarging their slide libraries and there is a great demand for slides recording various phases of the war in Europe aside from purely military matters. There have been many calls for Belgian subjects, cathedrals, villages, cities, art galleries and monuments, many of which have been destroyed by the Germans. Lectures on Belgium are exceedingly popular and in great demand. Nearly all the slide makers with plenty of Belgian subjects are getting out their negatives and doing a good business. In the realm of art, the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts is enlarging its big collection of colored slides of great paintings and statuary and it is planned to make this one of the biggest and finest collections of its kind in the United States. The American Museum of Natural History in New York, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. are making slides of their finest acquisitions, the former having its own slide department in operation with much success. The Victor people write this department as follows: An article in regard to the new Victor slide in your September issue is misleading. This article states that we have just put on the market a new slide which we call a Viopticon. It aslo states that "these slides can be used either in the Victor Viopticon Slide Projector or in any standard machine, providing a special holder is secured." Whoever wrote that article has confused our old Viopticon slide, which we have been manufacturing for some five years and which is of a smaller size and requires a special holder when used in a standard size machine, with our new Victor Featherweight slide, which is standard in size in every respect and does not require any special holder, but can be used anywhere that a regular standard size slide is used. The thing to bear in mind is, briefly, that we make two kinds of slides — one the Viopticon, which is 2% by 234 inches in size. Second, the Victor Featherweight slide, which is standard in size, although mounted in a style similar to the old Viopticon slide. Very truly yours, Victor Antimatograph Co., By, Carl Balcomb. There seems to be a tendency to go back to the black and white slide in many quarters. New York slide makers report that a large percentage of their fall orders call for the straight black and white sets. There is some talk in visual instruction circles concerning the need for more co-operation among the colleges of the various states in the matter of exchanging special subjects. To some extent this has been done, but never on an organized scale — big enough to be really effective. A college with an extra large ^ selection of geological subjects should be willing to make an exchange with a college which has an excellent .collection of physiological sets. Because of specialization in some universities, there are found' superior sets on certain branches of teaching, whereas in other institutions there may be .1 shortage of just that subject. All There Is In Your CopyOn Your Screen Are you getting it? Is the detail of your image sharp and brilliant? The wonderful brilliancy and detail given by EXCELSIOR SLIDES is admired on thousands of screens throughout the country. They are used by particular people who demand the highest photographic quality in a stereopticon view. 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