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rooms and gardens testify to an earnest 

 endeavor to approximate, in methods and 

 equipment, actual working conditions. 

 Outdoor school life is represented by 

 many views not only of physical culture 

 drills and regular athletic sports, but also 

 of outdoor classes, nursery games, kin- 

 dergarten plays, folk dances, trips to the 

 beaches and the mountains, camp life, 

 and many other school exercises that in 

 most parts of the country must be con- 



est to educators, for they demonstrate 

 the excellent results that have been at- 

 tained in these special schools which have 

 been organized out of what was formerly 

 the seventh and eighth and ninth grades, 

 and the work of which has been planned 

 to bridge the chasm that has always ex- 

 isted between the grammar and the high 

 school. Not the least interesting of the 

 pictures are those which show ho.w the 

 home economics department seeks to 

 train all school girls to become true home 

 makers and how the manual training de- 

 partment is striving to develop some 

 degree of manual dexterity in all school 

 boys and at the same time familiarize 

 them with some of the constructive pro- 

 cesses by which "society keeps itself go- 

 ing." The high school pictures show 

 the culmination of the many lines of 

 work which the pupils have pursued from 

 grade to grade and those special activ- 

 ities by which they are prepared for the 

 duties and responsibilities of life. 



All in all, these reels constitute one of 

 the most important educational films ever 



Taking Motion Pic- 

 tures of the Activi- 

 ties of One of the 

 Los Angeles Schools. 

 Many of These Pic- 

 tures are Taken 

 Outdoors in Order to 

 Secure Better Pho- 

 tography. 



ducted indoors. The pictures of neigh- 

 borhood and continuation schools show 

 how these may be made to serve the com- 

 munities in which they are located in all 

 their diversified affairs, domestic, indus- 

 trial and economic, which in any way 

 contribute to the welfare of their chil- 

 dren. The views of the intermediate 

 school activities will be of especial inter- 



shown. They tell a story of vital inter- 

 est to the people not only of Los Angeles, 

 but of the rest of the country as well. 



Fifteen expert cameramen are engaged 

 in the "taking" of the scenes for "The 

 Diamond from the Sky/' the great Fly- 

 ing "A" serial photoplay. 



