THE MOTION PICTURE and the FAMILY September 15
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Scanned from the collections of The Library of Congress AUDIO-VISUAL CONSERVATION ^ . * " at The LIBRARY y CONGRESS 3.1 V Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation www.loc.gov/avconservation Motion Picture and Television Reading Room www.loc.gov/rr/mopic Recorded Sound Reference Center www.loc.gov/rr/record \ ; The Motion Picture Comment on Current A Bulletin for All who Films by Teachers, are Interested in Better and Educators, Commun- Motion Pictures 9 SEP 20 1337 ity Leaders The Famil WHY fl- — 1 r 15, 1937 No. ol. 4 SEPTEMBER AUG 2 1 IQRft Make Survey 'The Life Of Emile Zola" Opens J^i^den^s See Paris Aj Award Of Educational To Educational Fanfa*&- — . Film Values For FfTm Essay ONCE more two American stu- THE heat of the New York dents have motion pictures to summer has witnessed per- thank for an opportunity to see haps the most important step Europe without expense to them- towards the utilization of motion selves and under exceptionally pictures in education which has happy auspices. They are Jean occurred since the first crude Coleman, a student at Simmons strip of film was turned out by College, and John Moran, a recent the Edison laboratories in New graduate of Brown University, Jersey many years ago. now teaching at the Marlboro, In a projection room on Broad- Massachusetts, High School, who way within a stone's throw of were back August 30 after their Times Square, seven panels of first European adventure. educators, each headed by a speci- The highlights had been the alist in his field, have previewed trip to and from Havre cn one nearly 2,000 films. Most of them of the largest and most famous were short subjects made for ex- of ocean-going ships, the French hibition in commercial theatres. liner, Normandie, and fifteen days Travelogues, scientific subjects, in Paris as the guests of the musical and architectural films, French government, with inciden- films with biographical and his- tal opportunity to familiarize toric content were among them. themselves with all the interest- Out of the 2,000 films reviewed ing facets of the great Interna- hundreds were discovered which tional Exposition now in progress could be utilized in their present there. form, or with slight re-editing One of many dramatic scenes in "The Life of Emile Zola." The Santa Glaus who pre- adapted to classroom use. Zola reads "J'Accuse" to his friends. sented them with this gift, con- The experiment represents a siderably in advance of Christ- on Page unique cooperation between edu- WITH a fanfare of educational professor of the Philosophy of (Continued 4) cators and the producers of enter- trumpets Warner Bros.' The Education at Columbia Univer- films, since it is the first the fanfare. It was tainment Life of Emile Zola will make its sity, initiates of the pro- opinion time that the vaults appearance in theatres through- prepared because in the Wind Up Six Years Of Page such (Continued on 5) out the country. of educators "Zola" contains In J. An eight-page article in Scho- admirable classroom material. Jr. Matinees N. not only lastic Magazine, written by the The article contains with a synopsis of the film itself, but Films Show Right and editor, Mr. M. R. Robinson, Culmination of six years of less dis- much interesting data about an introduction by no successful children's matinees m than Zola's life, and particularly about Wrong Of Driving tinguished an authority Hackensack, New Jersey, was re- Kilpatrick, (Continued on Page 6) Prof. William Heard ported by Mrs. Fred B. Ross, in the film apprecia- While the police department of long active city, at the Richmond, California, has no in- tion movement in that School Head Approves Popular Mickey Mouse of the summer season. tention of going permanently into beginning it did These events, held Saturday the movie-making business, Earth" Display Is Given Dual Honor experiment with the celluloid "Good mornings at the Fox-Skouras medium as a part of a community Theatre, have had an average at- tendance of from 1,200 to 1,500 traffic safety campaign. Vierling Kersey, Superintend- Two new honors have just been Good (Continued on Page 8) Films played the role of ent of the Los Angeles Public showered on Mickey Mouse, who demonstrating the for Samaritan by schools, shattered a precedent and vies with Shirley Temple of operat- favorite right and wrong ways gave fine cooperation to the mo- popularity as the prime automobile, through a Exhibits Form Basis ing an tion picture industry when for the of the films. picture made very interesting (Continued on page 8) (Continued on Page 6) {Continued on Page 8) Of Permanent Album Plans interesting new use for ex- Films Reviewed Motion Pictures Figure In The An hibits on leading films of histori- In Current Issue For The 1937 Children*s Book Week cal or literary value issued by the producers is reported by the Harvard School of Los An- Broadway Melody, page 7; readers throughout the geles. After being posted in the High, Wide and Handsome, page MOTION pictures are for the juvenile focused upon the ro- library and then circulated to the Armor, page time to be given a fea- country is 5; Knight Without first between English and history classes, the for lild- mance that lies hidden 5; The Life of Emile Zola, pages ture place in the plans C the art de- the covers of books, is the reason exhibits traveled to 2 and 7; The Road Back, page 5; ren's Book Week, to be celebrated they were cut for the new departure. partment, where page ; Stella Dallas, November 14 to 20. Souls at Sea 5 The Adventures up into individual pictures and They Won't For- The fortunate advent of two The fik.is are pages 2 and 7; being filmed mounted in an album for use in are sure to p^ove of of Tom Sawyer, now get, page 2 ; Thin lee, page 7 films which costume study by United Artists with a new connection with Vogues of 1938, page 5; Wee paramount interest to children, (Continued on Page 7) and period art. Willie Winkie, page 2. at a time when the attention of \ THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY September 15. 1937 Calif. Council Novel Scenes LESSONS from the MOVIES Counts Youth In The Studios Presented for the Committee on Social Values in Motion Pictures by Howard M. Le Sourd,Ph.D., Dean By The Observer Firm Friends Graduate School, Chairman. of Boston University NOT all the fun of watching the making of pictures comes long time the Better For a when, in a small circle of brilliant Films Board of the Women's light, a group of actors performs, Council of Sacramento, Califor- through motion STELLA DALLAS EDUCATION the cameras turn and action is an enviable reputa- (Goldwyn-United Artists) nia, has had pictures is a painless process, recorded according to schedule. picture field. is it that some people can- tion in the motion which is one of the important Why In the hidden corners of movie- fully 90 per cent not rise to their opportunities? The fact that reasons for using them in the dom other things besides film are eligi- Tragedy for Stella Dallas came of all the members who schools. Even more significant, acting are transpiring, things attend its meetings answer through her lack of vision. She ble to however, is the fact that they pro- equally important to the final "present" every time the roll is reached for a bauble and miss'ed vide effective motivation. film. Come with us to see them is one of many testimonies life's richest rewards. Was it a called This motivation takes place not and you will at last have had a of its program. limited background that enabled to the vitality only in schools, but also in the real glimpse of the "behind the the establishment her to see no farther than her But it is in theatres. People are inspired to scenes" Hollywood. relationships with the own little community, or was it of cordial think while they are being enter- With the Film Cutter people of the_ city that its an egotism that preferred im- young tained. The purpose of this col- Take, for instance, the work of perhaps unique. mediate flattery to the struggle work is umn is to share the thoughts the cutter, or film editor, as he for high goals? Phone for Information on Films which are stimulated by the prefers to be called. Lloyd Nesler She missed her opportunity, but Mrs. Josephine Haug, serving stream of motion pictures seen is cutting a film hurricane these she would go to the limit of self- for the eighth successive year as every week by 88,000,000 people. days for Mr. Goldwyn's South Sea sacrifice to see that her daughter chairman of this 16-year-old film Each should do his own think- Island picture, The Hurricane. did not miss hers. organization, reported on a recent ing, but there are joy and stimu- Included in the mass of film that has not less in comparing one's ideas visit East that she lation THEY WON'T FORGET pours in upon him from the vari- than 150 telephone calls a week with those of another. Thus do ous stages are thousands of feet {Warner Bros.) at her home from those who seek we broaden our interests and un- of sound track marked with the Prejudice is inherited passed information about the film pro- derstanding, and 'fit ourselves to — roar and whine of furious gales, on from generation to generation grams of Sacramento theatres live happily and successfully with the booming of waves, the crash by the power of social pressure.