Visual Education (Jan-Dec 1922)

VISUAL EDUCATION FILMS ON NATURE STUDY AND OTHER SCIENCES FACTS AND FANCIES OF OUR GARDEN FLOWERS — The famous Botanical Gardens at Sydney, Australia, are pictured, and in addition many rare and exotic flowers such as the lotus and the orchid. A picture that should apeal to nature lovers. (p and cl. Fox.) KENTUCKY THOROUGHBREDS — Horseraising in the blue grass country is the subject of this film. Those familiar with racetrack history will enjoy the views of famous thoroughbreds and others will appreciate the beauty of the high steppers. Many breeds of horses are pictured in the footage of this informational reel, (p and cl, Kineto Co. of Amer. ) QUAINT DENIZENS OF THE BRONX ZOO — An unusual combination reel, in the first part of which various members of the eternally publicized monkey family are pictured ; the last part of the picture is a Ditmars study of that indefatigable animal, the beaver, drawing a moral from his excellent example, (p and d, Kineto Co. of Amer.) WALKING TO HEALTH— A humorous but effective study of the efforts of a freshair fiend who compels all his friends at the boarding house, both fat and thin, to join him on his constitutionals. The picture demonstrates that walking is the thing, (p and d, Natl. Non-Theat. Motion Pictures, Inc.) CAPTURING LIONS BY AEROPLANE — A unique manner of trapping this king of beasts, thrillingly recorded by the camera. This is one of the Major Jack Allen animal study series, (p and d, Pathe.) MAGIC GEMS — A study of the symbolism of gems, showing how ancient beliefs in the magic charms of precious stones led to their use for adornment and how these customs depend to a large extent on their color, (p and cl, Prizma. ) SEEING THE UNSEEN — Produced with the co-operation of the American Museum of Natural History, this picture shows how models are constructed of glass and wax, giving enlargements of two inches of the ocean's bottom, showing the radiolarians and many forms of minute water-life, (p and d, Prizma. ) BEES, HOW THEY LIVE AND WORK— This picture relates in detail the life history of the industrious insect, together with methods of removing honey from the comb and apiary and methods of bottling. (p. Bureau of Entomology; (d, U. S. Dept. of Agric.) FOR THE LITERATURE CLASS THE BLUE BIRD — This beautiful dramatization of Maeterlinck's drama, done by Maurice Tourneur, has been listed before, but its charm is so great that it will always be a picture much in demand, (p and d, Famous Players-Lasky. ) 5 reels. "GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK"— A pleasant little story of days gone by, built about the old hall clock, with sub-titles from the famous old song, "Grandfather's Clock," by Henry C. Work, (d, Kineto Co. of Amer.) HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE — This is the first of an animated series entitled "The Magic Pen of Mother Goose," in which the favorite characters of nursery rhyme are brought to life on the screen. Children cannot fail to be delighted with the manner in which the dish ran away with the spoon and with the elegant style in which the cow jumped over the moon, (p and d, Natl. Non-Theat. Motion Pictures, Inc. ) FOR THE CURRENT EVENTS CLASS PATHE REVIEW 141— Included in the list of subjects in this review may be found a pictorial revelation of the real adventure that is called lumbering ; colored views of Mont Blanc ; slow-motion pictures of the Himalayan mountain goats, in which their remarkable leaps of fifteen or more feet are analyzed by the camera ; and the story of patterns in silk goods. The reel ends with a comparison of nature in country and city. (p and d, Pathe.) PATHE REVIEW 145— One may be certain that the contents of these Pathe Reviews will contain material of considerable interest. This reel does not disappoint with its glimpses of a picturesque oasis in the Tunisian desert ; a pictorial exposition of a day nursery in New York ; familiar landmarks of New York City presented in stills made forty years ago and contrasted with moving picture views of the same places ; the undignified yawn slowed up by the camera ; and a brief visual account of the Pueblo Indians, (p and d, Pathe.) PATHE REVIEW 147 — A demonstration of the manner in which a girl employing jiujutsu can rout an attacker ; Max Bohm, the famous artist, at work out-of-doors ; the children of Holland ; the Papaya and the banana tree of Florida, and "The Sapphire Cities of Italy," a color study of Northern Italy, are the interesting things to be found in this reel, (p and cl, Pathe.) OFFICIAL URBAN MOVIE CHAT NO. 4 — This film makes many attempts to please and to give variety, with a trip to the bleak city of Riga, the mining and the transportation of coal, views of the death masks owned by Princeton University, a fight between a large hairy spider and a lizard, and a public appeal for the development of our country's resources along constructive lines. (p, Kineto; d, Hodkinson. ) SELZNICK NEWS NO. 1019 — Many varied and interesting events may be found in this reel, such as : German cruiser rescues ships icebound in Baltic ; San Francisco, getting circus animals ready to leave winter quarters in California ; Emporia, Kans., President Harding's cobbler ; Berlin, Germany, first plane in Germany since war ; Chicago, pupils of Latin School, hold auto show;. London, Lloyd George threatens to quit office ; Mt. Rainier, Wash., Selznick cameraman climbs Mt. Rainier, (p, Selznick; d, Select.) FOX NEWS NO. 44 — Cuxhaven, Germany, ship's crew rescued from ice ; St. Cloud, France, girls compete in races for Sir Ernest Shackleton Trophy ; Washington, D. C, Hubert Work succeeds Will Hays as Postmaster General ; Newark, N. J., new device for sorting mail in a hurry ; Chicago, boys' auto show, toy models ; Boston, pigeons on the Common ; face to face with Japan ; pilgrimages to Fujiyama temple ; the imperial Military Academy; great image of Buddha, 1,300 years old. (p and d, Fox.) 238