The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-06
ss'MOVIES" HELP
FARM EDUCATORS
System Developed to Teach Up
to Date Methods.
SAFE AND AMUSING ALSO.
Department of Agriculture's Latest
Venture In Agricultural Education
is the Moving Picture-Compact
Apparatus Invented Which Can Be
Used In Any Room.


Used In Any Room.
A system of moving pictures en-
oracing the latest venture of the de-
)artment of agriculture in agricultural
education has just been introduced.
The department has started out several
bright young operators with machines
that illustrate with moving pictures
some of the most up to date processes
modern farming and at the same
line furnish entertainment for all the
members of rural communities
/ The department experimental a good
zeal IN getting an apparatus that was
/ light and compact and at the same
line would answer the purpose. 1t
inally got a moving picture outfit that
would go into an ordinary suit case
and developed a system of illumina-
ion for the films that made use of an
ordinary automobile gas tank, so that
f the demonStrator were in a region
where electricity was not available the
gas tank could be hitched to the appa-
'atus and Il show could be given in
my town where there was an automo-
pile supply place in reach.
Harmless and Fireproof.
Safety was another feature that was
demanded. and the machine was made
rs harmless and fireproof as possible.
Some of the movies are of the kind
or scarcely more than parlor enter
ainment and can be operated in any
tort of small meeting house or school
DOM. They throw Il picture only four
'eet square and, in fact, reduce the
moving picture theater to a family
IiZed basis. This is a valuable feature
II some of the small and remote COM
nunities where but q small audience
md small gathering place are availa-
Die. Any country schoolroom can be
Utilized
No attempt has been made so far to
!eyelop the entertainment into any
hing like lecture All of the pic
ures are designed to be instructive,
nut some of them are intended to be
.musing as well. One of the popular
Inns deals with the development of
he househy as concerned in the han
ling of food and dairy products and
he transmission of disease. The film
lso has it's amusing side, showing the
.crobatic fly enlarged to heroic pro-
portions rocking in rocking chair
With newspaper and spectacles and
juggling barrels and other things on
lis feet.
One of the most serious problems in
Connection with this and other sorts of
ural entertainment is transporting the
audience over the average country
Dads in any but the best weather.
This brings in another feature of the
departments rural work and gives
Dom for slides and pictures on road
building and maintenance, so that it is
Intended ultimately to develop the sys-
EN- with more still life pictures and
Efficient lectures to extend the cam
,aign both of road and agricultural ed
Ication.
Coors Direct From Object.
One valuable asset of the depart
nent that has been developed in this
, inc. but that has never been used in
, popular entertainment, is the making
p If colored lantern slides in natural col
,rs direct from the object This form
If color photography has been used il
he department for some time rs a
: natter Of record, photographs OF
] 'ruits and flowers being made in nat
ral colors and the negatives filed fol
, eference.
. One stumbling block in the way OF
5 Using the color pictures for Lantern
I lides was that they We're too dark ant
hick for ordinary lantern illumination
I,
been able to thin out these negatives
: 20 that they can be projected by or
n iinary stereopticon light. This prom
0 SEES to largely increase the field ant
'educe the expense of high class stere
|, )pticon entertainment.
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