Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

16 REEL and SLIDE Department of Slides, Committee on Information, Organized A SERIES of illustrated lectures on "America at War" has been prepared by George F. Zook, Professor of Modern European History in Pennsylvania State College, for the Division of Civic and Educational Publications of the Committee on Public Information. The slides were made from official photographs taken in the main by representatives of the army and navy. With each set of slides a printed copy of the corresponding lecture is supplied, which can be read to the audience while the slides are being exhibited. Such speakers as do not wish to confine themselves to the lectures supplied with the slides will nevertheless find them helpful as a basis of information for their own remarks. The slides and lectures will be found to be especially useful in the work of schools, clubs, and Y. M. C. A.'s, and in the special campaigns in connection with the Great War. These slides are not circulated on a rental basis, but are sold outright at 15 cents each. This price is possible only because the slides are put on a bare cost basis ; it amounts to little more than the usual rental charge. In order to reduce the expense it is suggested that school superintendents, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, club officials, and others co-operate in obtaining the lectures and slides. In this way the cost to any single organization will be very small. Address all orders for lectures and slides and make all money orders payable to Department of Slides, Committee on Public Information, Washington, D. C. Description of the Lectures Lecture I — The Call to Arms: A brief survey of the causes for America's entry into the war, together with a description of the selective draft, the building of the cantonments and the drilling of soldiers. This lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics : The Lusitania, President Wilson Before Congress Calling for War Against Germany, Secretary Lansing, Secretary Baker and General Pershing, The Selective Draft, Mustering In, Examinations and Psychological Tests, Cantonments and Barracks, Infantry Drills — "Setting Up" Drills, Bayonet Drills, On the Hike, Reviews. This lecture is accompanied by 58 slides. Price for the set, $8.70. Lecture II — Trenches and Trench Warfare : A description of the building of trenches and dugouts, the means of communication used in the trenches, and the weapons of trench warfare. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides ori each of the following topics : Digging Trenches, Trench Supports of Timbers and Bags of Sand, Wire Entanglements, Dugouts and Camouflage, Communicating Trenches, Signals and Telephones, Machine Guns — Various Types, Trench Mortars and Hand Grenades, Liquid Fire, Gas and Gas Masks, "Over the Top." This lecture is accompanied by 73 slides. Price for the set, $10.95. Lecture III — Airplanes and How They Are Made : A description of the importance of airplanes in modern warfare, types of airplanes, the uses to which they are put and the manufacture of the various parts. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics: What An Aviator Sees, Battle Plane, Reconnaissance Plane, Bombing Plane, Hydroplane, the Manufacture of the Fuselage and Wings, the Propeller, the Motor — the Liberty Motor, the Landing Gear, the Rudder and Elevator. This lecture is accompanied by 61 slides. Price for the set, $9.15. Lecture IV — Flying for America : A description of the training of aviators and their work at the battle front. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics: Training Aviators — Testing Prospective Aviators, Miniature Ranges and Practice with the Wireless, Becoming Familiar with the Camera, Putting Airplanes Together and Studying the Motor, Dressed for Flight, the Training Planes, Accidents, the Lafayette Escadrille in France, Maneuvers in the Air, Anti-Aircraft Guns, German Airplanes Brought to Earth, Observation Balloons and Zeppelins. This lecture is accompanied by 54 slides. Price for the set, $8.10. Lecture V — The American Navy : A few allusions to the history of the navy, together with a description of the various types of war vessels and the training of the naval commanders and seamen. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics : The Navy in American History, Secretary Daniels, Admiral Sims, etc.. Types of Vessels — Battleships— Dreadnoughts, Cruisers — Armored, Protected, Unprotected and Auxiliary, Destroyers, Submarines, the Making of Armor Plate, Torpedoes, the Naval Academy, Naval Training Stations. This lecture is accompanied by 51 slides. Price for the set, $7.65. Lecture VI — The Navy at Work: An account of the work of our navy in combating submarines and assisting in the transportation of troops to France, together with a brief review of the Marines. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics : Life on Board a Battleship, Destroyers at Work, Rescue of Submarine Victims, Smoke Screens, Recreation on Shore in the British Isles, the Marines. This lecture is accompanied by 36 slides. Price for the set, $5.50. Lecture VII — Building a Bridge of Ships: An account of the building of wooden, steel and concrete ships. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics : Cutting Trees and Carrying Logs to Mill, Lumber Yards and Sawmills, Wooden Shipyards, Laying the Keel and Launching Wooden Ships, Building Steel Vessels — Shipyards — Hog Island as It Was and Is, Laying the Keel, Steel Plates, Riveters at Work, Oxy-acetylene Torches, Launching, Turbines and Propellers, Concrete Ships. This lecture is accompanied by 63 slides. Price for the set, $9.45. Lecture VIII — Transporting the Army to France: An account of the transport service, the reception of our troops in Great Britain and France, and the preparations at the docks and railway centers to receive them. The lecture is illustrated by one or more slides on each of the following topics : Soldiers Boarding Transports, Life on Board the Transports, American Soldiers in England, At the Docks in France, General Pershing at Lafayette's Tomb, American Troops Welcomed by the French, Building Railroads in France, Life of American Soldiers in French Villages. This lecture is accompanied by 63 slides. Price for the set, $9.45. New Bray "Pictograph" Reel Offers Many Unique Features of War Winning Days SEVERAL "Win the War" films are being shown in the Paramount-Bray Pictograph, the first of these subjects, "The Psychology of Song," represents Uncle Sam as saying, "Keep 'Em Singing and You Can't Lick 'Em." It is a rapid-fire exposition of how the government undertakes to turn every soldier and sailor into a vigorous vocalist and thus into the highest type of fighting man. The forces in France now sing when they are relaxing and sing as they go over the top. Singing, it is declared, unifies, cheers, inspires and helps them to win. The greater part of the picture was made at Pelham Bay with song leader Percy Hemus and six or seven thousand white-clad young seamen as the actors. In "A Girl's a Man for A' That," girls are shown running elevators, street cars and trucks, gathering crops, running farm tractors, making aeroplanes and munitions, selling railroad tickets and routing passengers, and scores of things girls seldom did before. In the third picture Uncle Sam says : "I'll Help Every Willing Worker Find a Job." The picture shows the insides and the working of the most curious job-shops ever seen — the four hundred bureaus which the U. S. Employment Service has opened throughout the country. The fourth of these pictures is called "Taking the Terror Out of War," and it shows how one of the ancient terrors of war is eliminated, for it is the story of War Risk Insurance, which every soldier and sailor is asked to take up to the full limit of $10,000, at a nominal cost. Pa the Producing Series of War Pictures for U. S. Committee on Information ( <r~iOLVING the Farm Problem of the Nation," which was ^S released October 13, is the first of a series of one-reel '^—^ pictures which Pathe is making under the supervision of the U. S. Division of Films. The series is under the general title, "Winning the War." The second release, "Feeding the Fighters," shows where the food for the great army in France is coming from and how it is shipped across the Atlantic. The loading of one of the floating refrigerators that carries more than a million pounds of beef is shown for the first time. The third of the series, "Making Man Power," gives an insight into some of the most important operations of labor now being carried on, and makes plain some of the problems the government is called upon to solve.