Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

26 REEL and SLIDE pmillHliu iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini ii mini iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii mum m miiiiiiiiiimi 11 miiim i iimmiiiiiimiiimmmiiimi| I Instructional Productions ! of the Month | i i i Contents of News Weeklies, Screen Magazines, Industrials | and Scenic Reels, Which Have a Regular Release Date, Will Be Reviewed in This Department. | ^axfDJnixniiiiuiriitLniJKiiiiJiJiiiiiniiiKiiimiiiiiitiMjniiiiii icti 1 1 iiiti Hiirrii jieii 1 1 riin iiimti iiimi mini 1 1 jiu u iiiitiuiiiiu iiiiiiiini i inn 1 1 iisii 11 mti i n liiu iimcii] jiim uif?^ Americanizing Children — Oregon Bird Life Bray Pictograph No. 6118 In New York is manufacturing Americans, Amercanizing the children of its foreign districts. Bray Pictograph No. 6118 shows bow the public libraries of the city are being used to teach the new generation the ideals and history of our nation. In the same Bray Pictograph is a subject on the bird life of the Klamath Islands of Oregon, where many river waders make their home. Taken on the waters of the great Oregon river, the pictures include views of the blue heron's home, the avocet's nest at the water edge, the baby heron's novel nesting, the plover and the dainty phalarope. Bobby Bumps discovers a new emergency equipment for a failing motorboat and also some new ideas for having the best of it when folks go fishing in parties. The Cataracts of the Iguassu — Burton Holmes After eleven days by rail and river in the company of Burton Holmes (Release No. 1218) up the Parana from Buenos Aires, you step ashore and wend your way through the tropical forest to the brink of a glorious gorge on which is perched the Grand Hotel del Iguassu, where you literally tack your signatures on to the register. It is some hotel ; the cook is the only male inhabitant for miles around; from that you judge what kind of a "hotel" it must be. To get a view of the falls you are obliged to hack your way through the tropic jungle. From various viewpoints to be secured you gaze in awe at the three great groups into which the falls of the Iguassu are divided. These extend foi two and a half miles from the giant Argentine amphiteater to the Brazilian Palisades on the north bank of the river. The falls are fifty feet higher than Niagara, more varied, more extended and equally beautiful. Mr. Holmes takes you to many points for observation. He also takes you for a cruise above the falls in the calm, swift channels. He also takes you to an island on the very brink to look into the depths, and with him you scale the bank, being lowered over ledges and taking all kinds of chances to get the best view of this wonder of the world, which as yet has only been seen by a few scores of white men, but which some day will become one of the great tourist objective points of the world. Prehistoric Beasts — Progress of the Telephone — German Helmets — Screen Magazine No. 16 Seven widely diversified but interesting subjects are contained in the new Screen Magazine No. 16, the novelty film offering prepared by the Universal Film Company. Two are views taken in a dried up asphalt pit in California where thousands upon thousands of prehistoric animals of the pleistocene period were engulfed and a race for life between two of nature's slowest moving reptiles, the turtle and the worm, which results in the worm being a total loss. Also, the student of things scientific will find enjoyment in pictures of the first telephone. In this subject the original commercial telephone serving only five persons is contrasted with the magnificent and powerful plants of today which can accommodate 25,000 subscribers. Of an amusing nature is a subject showing the unique uses to which a German helmet can be put. For scenes showing humanity at its densest — physically not mentally, of course — the camera man has shot a few alleged "quiet spots" in New York, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, the Curb Market and Columbus Circle. Abe Martin's sayings and a trip to Big Smoky, Tenn., for a day of trout fishing with one of Tennessee's ablest exponents of the art are also included in the sixteenth Screen Magazine. New York's Great Museum — Tricks for Kiddies — Submarine Chasers — Bray Pictograph No. 6117 Probably no museum in the whole world attracts such throngs of visitors as the great New York Museum of Natural History situated in the very heart of the biggest city in the United States. Scientists, students, educators, beauty lovers and even the idly curious flock through its vast apartments tirelessly. Yet almost none of them realize what vast sums have been spent in the preparation of the exhibits and few understand how or where the exhibits were made. The Paramount-Bray Pictograph No. 6117 takes you inside the scientist's laboratory in the great tower of the museum and shows you how the glass-blower, wax-modeler and artist, armed with microscope and myriads of curious tools, execute their marvels of workmanship under the direction of Prof. Roy Miner, curator of Darwin Hall. How to keep the small boys of your family happily occupied on rainy holidays is another useful lesson taught in release No. 6117 of the Paramount-Bray Pictograph. If you've ever had your best silk hat used as an accessory in a sleight-of-hand show in the attic, or your best mahogany tea-table employed as a ping-pong court, you will do well to take a hint from this little picture on "Indoor Sports." In the spring of the year, when the sky calls you and the road calls you and the very buffeting of the wind makes you laugh aloud with the very joy of living, you feel an extra thrill every time you see a picture of a trout stream, or a mountain climber with knapsack and alpen stock, or a bridle path through the woods, or even a big pillowy cloud scudding along behind a hilltop. And as for a sailboat or a motorboat! Oh, say! Just run in somewhere and see the Paramount-Bray Pictograph No. 6117 and see the way that fellow in his speed launch tackles the rapids of Snake River, Idaho. It makes cold chills skip up your spine every time he gets caught in a whirlpool. The story of Uncle Sam's submarine chasers is also told in issue No. 6117 of the Paramount-Bray Pictograph. The details of the method that broke Von Tirpitz's nerve and won the race between submarine sinkings and the production, are diagrammed and photographed as one of the items in Paramount-Bray Pictograph, which gives a clear exposition of just how the great scale production was accomplished. Scenes of Sergeant York's Home — Transatlantic Bird Men in Kinogram Reel The June 2d issue of Kinograms carries with it eleven features. Foremost are pictures of Sergeant York, the greatest hero of any war in the annals of history. The Tennessean mountaineer and conscientious objector, who not until his captain and the major of his battalion established to his understanding by reading of the Scripture that he was justified in trying to kill the enemy, did he go into battle as a business. Exclusive pictures are shown of his mountain home in Tennessee. The same issue of Kinograms shows the first pictures of the landing of the American aviator in N. C. 4 at Ponta Delgada. Also the last pictures of Hawker a few minutes before he started on his attempt to fly across the Atlantic in an English aeroplane. "Land of the Ukulele" Filmed in Ford Educational No. 151 "The Land of the Ukulele" is the subject of the Ford Educational Weekly No. 151, which takes one on a trip through the Hawaiian Islands, showing the industries of the natives, the customs which have been brought in by the Americans to improve living and edlcational conditions, and the water sports which are characteristic of the islands. Careless Auto Driving Featured in Ford Educational Weekly No. 153 The Ford Educational Weekly No. 153 is a safety-first picture, entitled "The Only Way." In it all the sins of a careless automobile driver are held up before him, and the mishaps and tragedies to which he may fall heir are shown. It also tries to make the world more safe for people in general by a picturization of the thoughtless and careless actions which cause many unnecessary accidents. Under the title of "A Silent Sermon" the Universal Screen Magazine No. 11 shows the effects of stimulation, over-stimulation and of improper food, upon the heart. To obtain views of the heart performing its duties, the Screen Magazine editor went to a New York experimental laboratory where a frog Was cut open before the camera. With the heart of the frog exposed, scientists demonstrated what is medically termed "jumping heart," the effect of intoxicants upon the heart, the "normal heart" and the action of the "nervous heart." The pictures show the wonderful organism of the heart and surrounding vessels and structures. When shown to a body of Columbia University medical professors last week, the pictures of the heart action were highly praised.