Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

November, 1924 PICTURED LIFE FOR HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY 383 "Educational' Motion Pictures Free Films From the United States Government How the Government Departments distributes films for the information of the public is of interest to all film users. The Department of Agriculture has an extensive list of film subjects. The printed pamphlet (with recent additions given in a mimeographed supplement), is designated miscellaneous Circular 27 and can be had by sending 5 cents for each copy to the Superintendent of Public Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. The films can be borrowed by making application to any county agent or other department field worker, or to the director of extension at a State Agricultural college. Films are furnished free of charge except for transportation, which the borrower is required to pay. The War Department has recently revised its film list, which now covers 90 titles. Eight of these illustrate individual heroic deeds by officers and enlisted men in the World War, and seven titles give a pictorial history of the American Expeditionary Forces. Applications for the War Department list and for use of the films (which are free except for transportation charges), should be addressed to Commanding Generals of Corps Area, U. S. Army, whose headquarters are located at the following places: 1st Corps Area, Boston; 2nd, Baltimore, Md. ; 4th, Atlanta, Ga. ; 5th, Columbus, Ohio ; 6th, Chicago ; 7th, Omaha, Nebr. ; 8th, San Antonio, Texas; 9th, San Francisco. List of Navy Pictures The Navy Department film subject list is short, but affords pictures of great attraction, particularly in sections far removed from the oceans. The 14 subject titles are: Our Navy in the Near East, Our Navy in Action, Rolling Down to Rio, each two reels ; A Midshipman's Cruise, U. S. Navy Railway Batteries, Destroyers in War, Transports in War, Atlantic Fleet in West Indies, Panama Canal from Navy Seaplane, Seaplane Flight from San Diego to San Francisco, The Great Flight, Crossing the Line, Navy Put 'Em Across, Life on the New York, Rio the Beautiful, each one reel. The Navy films are free (transportation charges to be paid by the borrower), on application to any of the 218 Navy recruiting stations which are located in every large center of population throughout the country. A complete list of these stations will be forwarded on request to the Navy Recruiting Bureau, South and Whitehall Streets, New York City. Many Industrial Films The Bureau of Mines, Interior Department, issues more than 100 films on industrial and related subjects. These are loaned free (transportation to be paid by borrower). Write to the Experiment Station, U. S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., for pamphlet on motion picture films, which describes each subject and gives directions as to where groups of subjects may be borrowed in the various States. The bureau has just made a First Aid picture with mining for its background, which is ready for release. Red Cross Film Service No locality exists which cannot be provided with a special Red Cross feature program, or part program, that will interest all the people of the community. Chapters are urged to request suggestions as to the Red Cross films available and specialized programs from their Division Director of Public Information, who will gladly give every assistance in making Red Cross "movie" entertainments effectual in public appeal. The Division Offices have complete information on Red Cross motion pictures, which are distributed from ten exchanges, located in Boston, New York City, Washington, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, St. Paul, Minn. ; Oklahoma City, Berkeley, Calif., and Seattle, Wash., through' the service of the Society for Visual Education. There are available over 100 films, including seven distinctively Junior Red Cross Service feature films, 14 on little journeys through foreign lands, five on international school correspondence, and four miscellaneous Junior films. American Red Cross health and hygiene subjects are depicted in nine films; seven are on special subjects. All these are supplied at a cost of $2.00 a reel per day. Then there are 64 Red Cross films which are distributed free of charge, except for the usually nominal transportation charges. A descriptive pamphlet giving complete information on these Red Cross films may be had from any Division Office, or from the Society for Visual Education. Fish and Game Films The Fish and Game Commission of California has recently completed a film that is both unusually interesting and highly educational. It shows wild life in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon. In order to secure some of the pictures two years were spent in various sections of these states. The camera operators waited hours in well constructed blinds, climbed trees a hundred feet high and even risked their lives photographing a mountain lion at bay. One reel shows the whole life history of the steelhead trout, from the artificial spawning of the female to the hatching of the eggs and catching of the adult fish in a mountain stream. Child life of predatory birds and mammals including the bald eagle, turkey buzzard, skunk and others, is vividly portrayed. Cormorant and pelican rookeries at Clear Lake, California, and sea bird rookeries on the Farallone Islands, give one an intimate glimpse of the home life of these interesting birds. The most spectacular reel depicts the roping of a wild cat, and the treeing of a mountain lion.