SILVER SHADOWS

Duration: 20min

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Bell & Howell Company

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: First theatrical use of nickelodeons. Boys riding on skates, showing many falls, and then the elevated trains at the Bowery. Shots taken on the roof of Madison Square Garden. We have early fire engines, Sunday parade on Fifth Avenue, New York. Scenes from the Moss building, New York. "A good film for presenting some samples of early motion pictures; suggests some of the improvements that have been made."

Complete Record: Dewey number: 791.4 Audience level: jh-sh-c-adult Review source: "Recommended for general appreciation classes." A.m. council on education Format/cost: 16-sd-$72; rent $3 Distributors / rental: Calhoun Company; DeVry Films and Laboratories $3; W. D. Engleman Company; University of Michigan $3; Wilfred Naylor; Ohio Department of Education

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946