Show rr j t rr yi d Of D o t 1 1 S s i Newest Progress Toward Fulfilling Mr E Edison's ison's Prediction y vi vif y f i That School Children t r l i X l Will Soon r J f 0 L Li i y B Be G f f 1 e Getting r y All Th ell ell- elly f y cx lr r 1 i l Learning From Films I v I i t L y y h A rA t I I f i t k fr t I spa try I I- I I It t r 1 I 4 M Mr r z 1 c t tp ty b J i w i i r tJ p y 1 0 y SN F 1 k ki kr ky i r y y z I 1 i The dramatic daa I landing din of 01 Colomb Columbus as it will U be ba bo shown In the be fast of nl ofa a ri series of films designed to teach the history of America from its d discovery covery It right down to the present time I nOMAS HOMAS A EDISON is only one THOMAS T oneT of man many thoughtful pen andI and the I women who predict that school houses of the tho future will be at least for the great greater r part of ery every day motion picture theaters The boys and girls of to or orthe orthe orthe the day after aner will learn most of their lessons by watching the most absorbing kind of movies instead of by poring over OHr dry textbooks or listening to often tiresome lectures It will be a great change for tor the bet better ter Mr Edison and the others think In teaching the young idea to shoot shoot- shoot and lit lilt the tho mark Through pi pictures tures flashed on the silver I screen children will grasp the principles I of chemistry ph physics and biology far better than they could by reading about them or even by watching endless lab laboratory oratory experiments On the mo movies monies ies magic carpet they will tra travel el to the Jungles and other wild Ild places of the earth and get a compre compre- comprehensive comprehensive comprehensive grasp of natural history and so- so sociOlogy sociology so sociology almost at first hand In the same way the they will have etched upon their young oung brains brams most unforgettably the famous events that maki mat make mati i up the his history tory of this earth I have hate made numerous investigations investigations Lions says Sir Mr Edison along the lines Imes of teaching children by other methods than books I recently made an experiment with witha ltha a lot of motion pictures to teach children chIl- chIl chIldren chil children dren chemistry I got twelve children to write down what they had learned from the tho pictures they had seen It was wa s amazing to met me that hat such a complicated subject as chemistry was nas readily d by them to a largo large extent through pic pie pictures tures It is my ray opinion that in twenty year ears s children will be Le taught through pictures picture s and not through books Already educational motion pictures picture s are being used with great success in inmany i inmany n many schools and colleges and who when m they come corne In Into to general use it is pre pre- predicted pr pre predicted dieted that boys and girls will nese r want to play truant but will find their thou r schoolrooms just as fascinating as the o movie mo theaters We hale have films covering almost every ever y branch of science films reverently and an I accurately portraying the life of tho tb o SaviOur films that r coid the memo memorable memorable A rable events of Old OhI Testament days dais da s Bu But t there has long been a crying need fo for r something om that is of the utmost I tance to American boys and girls girls-a girls complete and authoritative e film history of their 0 own n land At last this need is to be bo supplied The Yale University Press is making a series senes of films called Chronicles of Ames ica under the direction of the Councils Committee on Publications ot of Yale University with pith the tho technical adice ad advice vice rice of eminent emment historians ans at Yale Yalo and other colleges The series begins with Ith the discovery of the continent by Colum Colum- Columbus Columbus bus and eventually will it Is hoped be brought right down to the present day Four of these films have been completed com com- completed completed and h twenty nine enty more are In preparatIOn They represent the last word ord in historical kno knowledge ledge of the tho times and events they portra portray Their every detail has been the subject of the most scholarly scrutiny even scrutiny even to the way the court dressmakers cut Queen Isa- Isa Isabella Isa Isabella's bella bellas bella's robes of state and the kind of wigs George Washington thought looked best on him For instance after finding a suitable actor to play the difficult role of Wash Wash- Wash ington the film producers started ms in mg for a house to represent his family homestead On first thought it seemed that an old Colonial Colomal house with aith Ith tall tal pillars in front could he be found near the center of opera opera- tion's operations operation's pel haps a little way ay up in m New England Ingland But after oneas one was as picked out an architectural expert pert objected that It was lIS a type typo of house built after the Revolution This wouldn't J t do of course in a film that anus alms at such historical accuracy as each ore of this serieL series So they halted the shooting o of the picture until they found the right away hi use down In Virginia Then they packed up and mo moved moed ed the whole hole cast down there pictures In Columbus the very ery first picture in the series much stress is laid on oil the strong character of the discoverer his lIis hopes and end fears and struggles are brought home as they never could be to In history books and children will twill under under- understand understand understand stand as ne never neer er before the sort of sour cour cour- cour courage courage age ago and persistence that brought hun bun success The ship scenes v were ere made in Chicago where here there is a fine replier of Colum Colum- Columbus's buss Colum-bus's buss bus's ship slop the Santa Maria Marla which car car- car carried tied ned him across the ocean This Thu TIll ship was as made mado for the Worlds World's Fair of 1893 1833 and is considered a n perfect example the sailing vessels of the fifteenth cen tury fury tury Nothing could be snore mon mor thrilling than i f t tI I s lip af aft r 1 t r cP i iI 1 I ys M d ri J x t A AA A Wl 44 g S L u 8 aY t a a f LAM I r A Af Ar Af f r f Educators think few children will find their history lessons dull when they consist of such realistic pictures as this of the marriage of Pocahontas the Indian princess to John Rolfe 0 r p fb SC V YAM HAv K t to r o t t S SN N l i i t qc Zoi r C 4 t v x 1 H i H I A faithful film reproduction of the Pilgrims kneeling in the snow and ice to offer prayers of thanksgiving after their landing s 's t ton 1 e on Plymouth Rock t VA 61 Q a ir a true and reverent picture of the landing land land- ing of Columbus Robert E vi 1 A s at atney ney the production manager tells how thrilled with I 1 yd grit the importance of the scene at N r all the actors were Between scenes scenes the they Y A say were forever 4 his his- feW 7 Aj 7 b tory books andt and t J WJ I V i T pictures to be gA ff sure that they f did full jus jus- jus l tice to the at at- at ore of k the g gore great s sk roro- roro event In ys f a rat Ana fit r ally a this film Columbus ax axa Columbus n ter tie handsome stal- stal stalwart tt ttA A sy wart l man is T A shown stand stand- standing ing on the tho w y dock deck of the Santa Maria Queen Isabella saying goodby to Columbus Columbus-a Columbus a scene from precious to the movie history which scholars pronounce accurate in inthe the tho landing every detail even to the curious fold in the royal gown Historical nv cx- cx ports thID think it as accurate a picture of the hero and this gleat event as it IS humanly possible to make Even Een E en the cap capon capon capon on Columbus's head is actually the tho kind that would have been worn by a man manof manof manof of his standing on an ocean voyage from Portugal in the year year car 1492 1439 It s s black LInck velvet on top with Ith the sides of ithe the brim turned up to show a red satin lining and is held in place witha with a rid red satin ribbon He Ho v wears nears ears a tunic of gray blue-gray cloth with red bands at the bottom of tho skirt and full satin sic sleeves eves of light blue This is cowered cov CO ered by a red cloth r robe be vv Ith collar and lining of dark long haired long fur to protect him against wind nind and neather cather on the long dreary voyage o age Red silk tights and light-colored light russet shoes complete tho the costume Just as lIS carefully the film producers selected d tho the banner of Spam Spain which luch ho plants on the shore There were a num num- number number ber her of official banners at the tho time but It nas as decided that Columbus ColumLus probably carried to the New World the Flag of I i the Green Grcen Cross bearing the cross and the letters F r and I standing for Ferdi Ferdinand nand and Isabella The opening episodes in the story of Columbus give gl an excellent opportunIty for sho showing Ing the splendors of the SpanIsh Court In the scene where lovely Cly Queen Isabella offers to sell her jewels Je to help Columbus she is 15 shown in a gorgeous costume copied In in the minutest detail from a painting by Bequer which hangs m in the Gallery of San Telmon in Se Seville The pains taken to give authentic atmosphere to the picture ISery is very ery well veIl illustrated in the copying of this court costume The actress playing Ing the part of Queen I did not like a certain fold m in inthe inthe the silk dress The result of her obJection objection tion was a a conference of artists and his his- his historians konans some of whom horn thought the tiro skirt might just as well ell be allowed ed to hang straight and others that it should re- re resemble re rc resemble picture as is s closely as possible i In the end the actress had to wear the dress US as it was IT ir the painting al- al although al although though thought there was considerable doubt about the artistic effect of that CUrIOUS cross cros fold The costume worn vorn by Queen Isabella Is shown sho in paintings of the time and by contemporaneous chroniclers as made of yellow V dlo velvet with Ith colored parts parti sleeves es having light blue satin elbow and shoulder puffs Over O the yellow vel vet velvet vet was nas as an overdress of thin silk tissue held with a gold cord girdle Isabella's crown was nas of gold and Jewels surmounting a 1 thin transparent veil ell of silk tissue Her IIer velvet Chet slippers matched the yellow gown Over Omer th gown she wore ore a state robe of blue vet vel ut Ht andon and on top of this a n short cape of ermine Bands of ermine were ere used to border her gown and she was as further adorned by Ly a heavy gold collar and with some of the lice most precious court J jewels C cis I T 1 i a large square cross on a thin chain In making anther another of these films The Pilgrims the climatic conditIOns had to be bo duplicated for the landing on i ithe 1 T A 1 fl the bleak and rockbound rt p and or this meant that the actors had to spend spend a large part of the bitter winter out of doors just lust as the Pilgrim fathers fathers did The actual PI Plymouth mouth Rock Pock could not be used of cou course se as it has bee been reo re- re removed moved mod some distance inland and made Into a sort of memorial monument An act Anc exact act duplicated duplicate t f it was constructed and placed on the shores of Flushing Bay Long Island which furnished a good counterpart of the bleak dreariness of the New England Ingland coast in l Jamestown n is one of the most inter inter- interesting interesting esting of the four movie mO history lese les lessons sons thus far completed juice jince the original mal site of the Virginia jeal Beats s no resemblance now to the colony that played so 50 important nr n a part parr in ine of or Ine A S set set- acv with its protecting stockade vs as reconstructed on Long Island In this picture the children will see seethe seethe seethe the lomance of the Indian princess Io 10 Io and John Rolfe Their mar mar- mar mar- marriage marriage is shown in m the picturesque little Jamestown church with the red skinned princess wearing a highly civilized gown Since the tha English m in Jamestown had done e eer er possible to anglicize the Indian girl even to having her r n a member of the Church of England Ingland It seems very cry probable that they tried to tomake tomake tomake make her look as much like an English girl as po possible for the wedding The wedding dress in the e is sucha such a aone aone one as the Inglish Englishwomen omen In the colony would have ha helped Pocahontas to make using materials imported from the homo home country Although she we weirs us the slashed sleeves and wide skirt of the time it is inter inter- interesting interesting esting to note that the historians ha hate hae e allowed ed Pocahontas to keep to hr Indian headdress This was because most of the pictures of her by known elf wolf known artIsts agree that she this mark of her rank ranke even een e en after she had left h hr r tribe I The next to be picture finished Was Vincennes chapter This gives gibes another chap ter in ut the life of Washington Also Aho It Includes the thrilling capture of the fort at Vincennes during daring the Revolution by that other gallant young oung Virginian George Rogers Clark dark who marched through the sunken forest forst at night to surprise the British YIt It is said that Clark dark and Y his men were up to their waists in mud and water all night long and that the quick sands sucked off their high boots Bring ing Bringing the horses through this treacherous C LIt bit of country was a task So the mo moving mo ing picture 8 matched through real sunken bunken forest the slimy limy depths of which luch they had not m in investigated before Andas And as Clark dark to took k horses with him so did they l 4 |