Visual Education (Jan-Dec 1922)

VISUAL EDUCATION Motion Pictures in the College Curriculum get a vitally human and emotional quality into these pictures." * * * In the September, 1921, number of VISUAL EDUCATION was published an announcement of a course dealing with the production of moving pictures to be given at Columbia University. Such an announcement, coming from a conservative university of high standing, was very significant in its revelation of a changing attitude to the cinema, so long decried as the bastard of the arts. So successful has this course proved that it is to be repeated in the Spring Term, with a large enrollment in which there are numbered students from China, Japan and India as well as from all parts of the United States. This course, which is both cultural and practical, considers the motion picture as a means of expressing thought and communicating ideas. It furnishes a background for understanding and judging motion pictures used for entertainment, for instruction, and in industry. In addition it gives a working knowledge of the principles which underlie production, of the psychology of visual appeal, and familiarity with the best practice in producing motion pictures, both "on location" and in the studio. The students in this course, which is under the direction of Dr. Rowland Rogers, have had the benefit of hearing people of such attainment in the profession as Rupert Hughes, author, scenarist and director, Rex Ingram, director of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, William Farnum, the actor, and others of equal renown. Moreover, they have actually produced a two-reel picture. The beneficial results of such a course, both to the future of the cinema and to the student as an individual, are most obvious. * * * Those desiring reliable Visualizing visual material for cor the Heavens relation with classroom work in astronomy will be interested in the slides recently prepared by Professor Edwin B. Frost, director of the celebrated Yerkes Observatory, in collaboration with his staff. These slides, which deal with such important astronomical subjects as solar phenomena, the moon, the planets, comets, stars, nebulae and the Milky Way, are assembled in a collection called the One Hundred List, so planned as to be thoroughly representative of present astronomical science. It is now purposed to prepare a brief description covering each title. This information, which may be procured with the slides at slight additional expense, will provide the teacher with the necessary facts concerning each slide. In addition to this special list of One Hundred there are available many other slides, to the number of some twelve hundred, information concerning which may be secured from the University of Chicago Press. * * * There is apparently nothing "Jabber too sacred or venerable to wock" in k^ the motion picture in Movieland .. , ..... „ its greedy acquisition of all that art and literature have to offer. The latest instance of this lack of respect for tradition and prestige is afforded by the Jabberwock, loved by young folks of all ages for his intimate association with Alice of "Through the LookingGlass" fame. On the morning o£ January 29th, this esteemed and dignified animal awoke from his sleeking slumbers to find his slalty self in story and picture on the very front page of the Rotogravure Section of the Chicago Tribune. True, the. title, !'The Hunting of the Moviewock," looked somewhat strange and the perplexing name of the author, "Bee Gee Eee, in a Line o' Type or Two," did not sound in the least like Lewis Carroll, to whom the Jabberwock had always attributed his existence; yet nevertheless, there he was in print in a Sunday newspaper. Slithing with joy at this unexpected but well-deserved publicity, he sat down with his friend the walrus to inspect his grace 98 Vn4