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SILENT RENTAL FILMS
16 m/ni No. Subjecl
E921 Some Famous Beginnings — 1 reel. (Bill Williams and his Dad investigate first inventions in Mechanical Power, Transportation, Communication and Light. Views of water-wheels; Watt's steam engine; Fulton's "Clermont"; early telegraph and telephone; first incandescent light bulb.) 16 m/m. Rental $1.00 per day
E922 The Urban Pattern — 2 reels. (Bill Williams and his Dad study the development of a modern city. The character of the five zones of specialized util' ity are illustrated by views of typical streets, struc tures and personalities. Shows the effects of natural barriers upon city growth, and variations caused by ethnic islands and transportation. Illustrates the change in housing occurring in the modern city.) 16 m/m. Rental $2.00 per day
E923 Social Science — 1 reel. (Bill Williams and his Dad look into social science. Illustrates the method of social science as applied to the study of the retarded and maladjusted child. Most of scenes photographed in Institute of Juvenile Research, Chicago.) 16 m/m. Rental $1.00 per day
(Also see film R570 in the Religious Series.)
THE LURE OF INDIA SERIES
16 ni/ni No. Subject
J966 Indian Life — 1 reel. (The daily Hfe of the people of India, such as washing clothes by beating them on rocks, the barber, and various kinds of vehicles as the ox cart and camel cart.)
J967 Village Life in India — 1 reel. (Showing the way eighty per cent of the people live their daily round of duties such as drawing water, grinding grain, etc., and the farm work with primitive methods of plowing, reaping, etc.)
J968 Boy Scouts of India — 1 reel. (In camp, practising for badge tests, knot tying, inter-troop competitions, displays, and first aid work.)
J969 The Pilgrim Path — 1 reel. (A hiking trip to Jumnotri, source of the Jumna River, one of the great pilgrimage quests in the mighty Himalayas at 11,000 feet elevation.)
J970 The Vale of Kashmir — 1 reel. (Life in that wonderful mile-high valley, encircled by mountains two miles high and more still higher.)
J974 Rajputana, The Hero Land of India — 1 reel. (Some scenes of the Hfe in the desert states of Bilkaneer, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmir — the last named in the center of the Great Indian Desert, 100 miles from the nearest railway.)
J975 The Good Samaritan — 1 reel. (As visualized and acted by a group of Indian school boys, with
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