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on Sunday, either as a special announcement or, if you prefer,
in the course of your sermon. Health Week will include a
Health Exhibition in the Hall, from
to both dates inclusive, from
to p.m.
Expert lecturers will speak each day at and
and there will be interesting and instructive films each
evening at
Reference to the above and to open-air and other meetings
will be found in the editorial and advertising columns of the
local press and on posters. I am to express to you the Council's
thanks for your kind co-operation"
An offer by the organiser to preach special sermons on Health
Week Sunday will be favourably met, and an address could be given
at one or two of the men's or women's Sunday afternoon meetings.
Approach the proprietors of the town's Cinema Theatres and arrange
for a half-hour's health film to be shown throughout the week before
the usual big film is screened. As this costs a few pounds, those who
are arranging their town's first Health Week may prefer to defer such
a proposal until the initial venture has, so to speak, convinced the
Council of its value. The new Era Films, Ltd., 26 and 27 D'Arblav
Street, Wardour Street, have two outstanding films, "The House Fly,
and " Where Flies go in the Winter Time." Edited by Professor
Maxwell Lefroy, of the Imperial College of Science, the bacteriological
work by Mr. K. B. Wiliiamson, M.A. The organiser, or a friend in
general practice, could give the audience the story as the film is wound
off. The films are printed on celluloid and, being so inflammable, are
perhaps barred from some halls. The cost runs from two to three
guineas.
If it is decided to bring the films to the exhibition hall in preference
to the local Cinemas, an operator and machine would be required and
would cost extra. If the throw, i.e., the distance from the machine to
the screen is more than thirty or forty feet, a professional Arc lamp
would be necessary ; otherwise an excellent educational machine with
cold light would do.
Other films and firms occur to the mind. There is a good one
displaying the destruction caused by rats and the methods adopted
(actually screened) of destroying them.