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Moving Picture Age .-4* Ass**.'. S> . f+ta Scanned from the collections of The Library of Congress AUDIO-VISUAL CONSERVATION #•* to. Jfc. at The LIBRARY qf CONGRESS - ! : Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation www. loc.gov/avconservation .«?•&> o .v>. 1 8S8*SK$$ - -S.it = swmm i "vv &** \^F ft .c.n •> v v - ;el and slide EDUCATIONAL MAGAZINE INDUSTRIAL -*-^0>-o VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1919 SSftawM'an ,7Kb. n o^0>-0> -<o-^cr>i i\nv \, What it means when your pictures are Cpammounl T fmeans that everybody knows of Famous Players-Lasky Corpora- I that you have booked the best. tion, and a highly developed point of view on the precise classification Not only are Paramount best by within which your problem falls. every ordinary test of quality and popularity, but they have been so This sympathetic apprehension of well advertised, nationally, that all your needs includes the point of America knows they are best. price. There is not an Educational, Social, It should be noted that all the Civic, Industrial or Religious organ- Paramount Pictures available are ization anywhere which uses the obtainable only directly from us. screen for any purpose whatsoever Whether you are a client or not we that cannot obtain Paramount Pic- shall be pleased to place your name tures ideally suited to its purpose. on the mailing list of the Paramount The most casual investigation of the Screen Educator, a monthly maga- resources behind Paramount will zine which will keep you well posted reveal the multitudinous equipment on what pictures are available. Non-Theatrical Distributing Department MM1 FAMOUS PLAYERS -LASKY CORPORATION *S=yR»!^7*, ADOLPH ZUKOR Prei JESSE LXASKYIfe. Pres. CECIL BDEMIUEfl/recrorCenfra/ \ 485 Fifth Avenue New York City r IN THIS NUMBER Tragedy of Acadie Finds Place on the Screen Gaining Public Confidence by Way of the Screen By E. J. Clary By Edwin L. Barker, Secy. Ad-Photoscope Co. Portable Projector Booths in Church and School Breakers Ahead in Present Pedagogic Methods By A. D. V. Storey, Secy. Amer. Educational M. P. Association By B. A. Aughinbaugh, Principal Mingo, Ohio, High School Farm Machinery in Motion Pictures The Art of Coloring the Advertising Slide By John P. Brand By Jonas Howard OTHER ARTICLES, PICTURES, FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS Superior Industrial Facilities— The Studios originated and developed the animated cartoon and the animated technical drawing. They control the basic patents on these and other devices essential to appropriate rendering of many industrial subjects. They are the largest, oldest and most experienced producers of educational and industrial motion pictures. The Studios specialize on representing all forms of the unseen, invisible, intangible and indescribable for purposes of explanation. Competent counsel on sales training or factory instruction problems is supplied by The Studios without charge for such services. THE BRAY PICTURES CORPORATION 23 EAST 26th STREET 208 S. I,A SALLE ST. NEW YORK CITY CHICAGO, IT.L. — MOVING PICTURE AGE UNISCOPE Is the Sensible Machine to Use for INSTITUTIONAL WORK :.: .... .:i. .:: . .iii:.:.iM. ^liM.iiiM.iiiii^Liii .;iii!..!iii: .uii:i. ,,n; . ; ,i;;..,ii!; ,i: :i ii::.;!iii,:iiii;.,:ii:i.;iiii..nH;..[ii!h:iii; l .jii;:jH; Complete in every detail, Uniscope stands squarely on its merits. Easy to operate, this machine brings to its owner a feeling of security a certainty that the show will be run on schedule time without mis- haps and with perfect satisfaction to the optience. uniscope is ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF The more you know about Uni- scope, the better you like it. ||||||||||||!IIII!!IIII!!III]|||||||||||]|!IIIIIIIIIIIM ADDRESS UNISCOPE 500 So. Peoria St. Chicago, Illinois Please say, "As advertised in MOVING PICTURE AGE," when you write to advertisers. — MOVING PICTURE AGE CONTRIBUTING EDITORS EDUCATIONAL CHARLES ROACH, INDUSTRIAL Visual Instruction Service, FREDERICK STARR, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, A. B. JEWETT, Professor of Anthropology, Ames, la. Director of the Photographic Department, University of Chicago. Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mick. CHARLES F. HERM American Museum of Natural History. WILLIAM H. DUDLEY, JACK W. SPEARE, Chief of the Bureau of Visual Instruction, B. A. AUGHINBAUGH, Principal of the Mingo School District, Todd Protectograph Company, University of Wisconsin. Mingo, O. Rochester, N. Y. CONTENTS PAGE PAGE Editorials 8-9 "Dombey and Son" Lends Itself Admirably to Film- Film Story of "Evangeline" 10 ing—By John S. Bird, A. B 18 CLASS 19 Tragedy of Acadie Finds Place on the Screen 11 ROOM CINEMATOGRAPHY SLIDES 20 Portable Booth for Projector in Church and School—By A. D. V. Storey 12 ?—ASK US—? , 20 THE OTHER FELLOW'S IDEA 21 Uses of Farm Machinery Shown on Screen—By John P. Brand 13 INSTRUCTIONAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE Screen to Be Made Educational Ally in School of MONTH 24 Music 15 Growth of the Slide Making Industry—By Thomas Taking Public Into Confidence by Use of Screen B. Bedding 25 By Edwin L. Barker 16 AD SLIDES—GOOD AND BAD 26 Camera Records 100 Years of Minnesota History PROJECTION 27 By A. A. Richardson 16 NEW INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS AND WHERE Motion Pictures Not Moving Pictures at All 17 TO GET THEM 28 Interesting Announcements to Be Found in the Advertising Pages EQUIPMENT page FILM PRODUCERS AND PAGE DISTRIBUTORS Uniscope Co 1 Films-of-Business 39 United Projector and Film Co.. 3 PAGE Porto Rico Motion Picture Pro- Enterprise Optical Mfg. Co 4 United Projector and Film Co.. 3 ductions, Inc 40 Victor Animatograph Co 6-37 Enterprise Optical Mfg. Co 4 Fitzpatrick & McElroy 41 DeVry Corporation 24-25 Minusa Cine Screen Co 27 Community Motion Picture Bu- The National Motion-Ad Co 42 United Theatre Equipment Cor- reau 5 Bray Pictures Corporation poration 29 Screen Entertainment Distribu- (Inside front cover) Bass Camera Co 30 tors, Inc 7 Bray Pictures Corporation Nicholas Power Co 31 United Theatre Equipment Cor- (Inside back cover) Rutledge & Co 32 poration 29 Chicago Case Mfg. Co 32 Camel Film Co 33-36 SLIDES Argus Lamp and Appliance Co.. 35 Exhibitors' Supply Co 37 Animated Ad. Service 36 Unique Slide Co 27 Pathescope Co. of America 38 Adcraft Film Service 36 Standard Slide Corporation 34 Charles F. Campbell 40 Detroit Metropolitan Co 36 Excelsior Illustrating Co 40 Universal Motor Co 40 Industro-Scientific Film Co 36 W. L. Isaacs Co 40 Walter L. Isaacs Co 40 National Film Publicity Corpo- Consolidated Projector Co 44 •. Riley Optical Instrument ration . 36 Co.... 40 Burke & James 43 Federal Film Co 36 Precision Machine Co Louis Henri Bell 36 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISE- (Outside back cover) Worcester Film Corporation.... 38 MENTS ... 37 Subscribers please notice that change of address must REACH US by the 18th of the month preceding date of issue. Moving Picture Age (Reel and Slide Magazine) is published the first day of each month by Class Publica- tions, Inc., at 418 S. Market street, Chicago, 111. Phone Wabash 912. Subscription price: 15 cents per copy, $1.00 per year, postpaid, in the United States and possessions; Canada, $2.50. EDWARD F. HAMM, President WILLIAM EASTMAN, Vice-President WILLIAM C. TYLER, Secretary and Treasurer Eastern LYNE S. METCALFE Office: General Manager Room 308, 51 East 42nd St., New York VICTOR W. SEBASTIAN Phone Vanderbilt 5462 Eastern Representative HOMER E. ROBERTSON, Business Mar JOHN P. BRAND, Managing Editor (Copyright, 1919, by Class Publications, Inc.) UNITED PROJECTOR AND FILM COMPANY (spresefi Dramatization of the lives o 1 »/ DAVID & JONATHAN Lyman I.Henry A Vivid and Thrilling Story Told in an Intensely Gripping Photodrama" TRADE MARK General Offices, Buffalo, N. T. SOLE DISTRIBUTORS Inspirjnc Deeds^ A Romantic Courtship The Chosen Prince Samuel, the last of the judges ruling over Israel, had worse. Jonathan persuades Saul after one of his paroxysms anointed Saul, the herdsman, to become the first king. to send for David to expel the evil spirits by his music. When Saul first assembled the Israelites for battle they David in Saul's court quickly gains favor and excites were armed with sharpened goads and sickles and only- jealousy. In this scene, and in many others of widely Saul and Jonathan had swords and armor. Saul led to different situations, the Twenty-third Psalm is developed, victory and soon became so vain that he refused to follow and the theme of Browning's poem, Saul, is visualized. Samuel's advice. The people rejoicing over David's victories arouses Samuel had commanded Saul to destroy the Amalekites Saul's jealousy, and Doeg plots with Saul to send him and to take no spoil, but he brought back herds, flocks, against the Philistines so that he will be slain. plunder, and even Agag, King of the Amalekites. While The picture rapidly sketches in thrilling scenes, Saul was waiting at Gilgal, Samuel appeared and upbraided the home life of Saul's daughters, David's courtship him for his disobedience. The old prophet, in an excess and marriage, his advancement, Saul's jealous rage, of indignation, seized a sword and hewed Agag to pieces Doeg's plotting, David's escape, Jonathan's fidelity, and left Saul with the warning that his kingdom would and Saul's pursuit of David through the valleys and be taken from him and given to another. At this point mountains for ten years. The Judean hills, clothed begins the photodrama. with cedar and spreading oak as in David's time, are reproduced in the beauty that inspired the Samuel receives a revelation to go to Bethlehem and psalmist to lift his eyes to the hills whence came his there find one fit to become great in Israel. He takes help. with him a heifer for sacrifice and appears before Jesse in At the end of ten years David has an opportunity to Bethlehem.
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