"These United States": Dan Stiles presents a group of outstanding lecture-films in color on the American scene

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These United States

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PHOTO BY LEONARD


DAN STILES presents —
A Group of Outstanding Lecture-Films in Color on
THE AMERICAN SCENE


AMERICANS AT WORK — AT HOME — AT PLAY — AT SEA


Wooden Shipbuilding on the Maine Coast




North Atlantic Coastline
The sea has always exerted a powerful fascination for all kinds and conditions of people.  Here is a chance to indulge your personal desire to go to sea without any of its discomforts.  Through the medium of color motion pictures and a fast moving story, Dan Stiles takes you up and down an important section of the American coast and shows you all the sights.

The film includes pictures of famous ports and seacoast communities such as New York, Boston, Eastport, Provincetown, and Nantucket.  You see the big

The lecture-films described in this folder are all photographed in colored motion pictures.

modern ships as they come and go, and some of the old windjammers.  The fishing business is fully covered from the sardine industry of the Bay of Fundy to oyster growing in Long Island Sound.  You take a trip on a regular Gloucester fishing boat.  You visit shipyards,—the little ones in Maine where they build wooden ships, and the great yards at Fore River where huge steel ships are built.  You see the Coast Guard and the lighthouse service in action.

Available in two editions, 75 minutes for general use, 45 minutes for schools and service clubs.



About Dan Stiles
Dan Stiles has devoted most of his time since graduation from college to observing and reporting various phases of American life.  His fields of activity have included the teaching of American history, newspaper work, writing, photography and lecturing.  He entered the professional lecture field five years ago.

Dan Stiles grew up in Vermont, a member of a clergman's family; attended public schools in that state and in New Hampshire; was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale university; and did graduate work at Wesleyan university in Connecticut.

Dan Stiles is a professional name adopted by George Haig.



Down the Allagash
Here is a fine outdoors story, filmed in natural color motion pictures, depicting a 200 mile canoe trip through the North Woods of Maine, one of the most interesting wilderness sections of the United States.  The climax of the trip is the descent of the Allagash river, from which the film takes its title.

You see canoeing in white water and dead, magnificent wilderness scenery, the folks who live in the woods the year around, portages from one stream to another, fishing, camping, wildflowers and animals, and all the little odd details which make a trip of this sort something to remember for years.  The film is designed for general audiences and is 75 minutes long.  It may be shortened to 45 minutes for school and service club use.



DAN STILES PROVIDES HIS OWN PROJECTION EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING A TEN BY TWELVE FOOT BEADED SCREEN AND POWERFUL PROJECTOR


New England at Work and Play
Most people think of New England as a land of old houses, smoking factories, and farmers with long white beards chewing straws.  If you would like to know what New England is really like, here's your chance.  Dan Stiles shows you some of the less well known industries of New England and some of the picturesque and interesting ways in which New Englanders entertain themselves.

On the fun side, New England Yankees have two unique organizations.  One is the Veteran Motor Car Club, all of whose members own and operate old automobiles, some of them built 40 years ago.  You see these cars in action at the club's annual field day.  Another unique organization is Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc., whose pleasure and hobby it is to ride old, tumbledown railroads.  You see them on one of their annual excursions.  You see another group of New Englanders taking a cruise on an old two masted sailing schooner, operating the vessel themselves for fun.

On the work side is the marble, slate, and granite quarrying industry which New Englanders have carried on successfully for years.  Another important but little known industry in New England is paper making.  Dan Stiles takes you behind the scenes there, deep into Maine's North woods where the pulpwood for paper is cut and floated down streams to the factories.




The Gentle Art of Fold Boating



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The above illustrations show a long log drive on the Saco river in Maine and shad fishing on the Connecticut river.



What These Programs Are
The programs described in this folder are lecture-films, that is, colored moving pictures with a closely integrated commentary given personally by the lecturer.  The commentary is not a description of individual scenes, but a narrative which stands on its own feet.  Dan Stiles uses only a brief introduction before the film starts.  All projection equipment is furnished, including a 10 by 12 foot screen and a powerful projector.





What People Say About Dan Stiles Programs
Dan Stiles programs have been enjoyed by every kind of audience from Maine to Minnesota and as far South as Maryland.  We have had an increasing number of very pleasant reactions on your lecture, writes the director of a community forum in a New England city of 100,000 people.  Your pictures were among the finest we have had at the forum.

A New York City Woman's club says: A most interesting and delightful afternoon.

We hope you come again, writes the secretary of a mid-Western service club.

A high school principal declares: Your program was greatly enjoyed by students and teachers.  Our auditorium is very large but the projection of the pictures was excellent and your lecture was educational and interesting.



Typical recent engagements include the following:

Merrill Lecture course, Exeter, N. H.
Community forum, Bridgeport, Conn.
Geneva, N. Y., Woman's club
Woman's Club of Jamaica, Long Island
Community forum of Millville, Penn.
Milwaukee Optimist club
Kiwanis Club of Rockford, Ill.
Rotary Club of Racine, Wisconsin
Cambridge, Md., Rotary club
Lasell Junior college, Auburndale, Mass.
Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, Conn.
Carson Long Military Institute
Mount Mary College, Milwaukee
Pittsfield, Mass., High School
Elgin Academy, Elgin, Ill.
Salisbury, Md., High School
High School at Cedar Falls, Iowa
Shelbina, Mo., High School


The Boston Fish Pier, Largest in the World