Talking Pictures Bees, Fishes, and Other Biological Specimens to be Filmed--Professors Supply Sound Track

With the installation of talking motion picture apparatus in the new Biological Building, facilities will be provided for the showing of talkies of bees, fishes, chrysanthemums, and other biological subjects. The machine is being put is now and represents the latest development in sound equipment. It differs from the machine at the school of Geography in being an R.C.A. Photophone system.

Speaking of the value of talking pictures as a supplement to lectures, W. H. Weston, Jr., Professor of Cryptogamie Botany and Chairman of the Department of Botany, said that lack of the desired type of films would hinder the frequent use of the machine for some years to come. Ordinary motion pictures will be shown almost exclusively for the present, pending the growth of a demand from colleges throughout the country sufficient to bring about the production of talks, for the study of academic subjects. There are, however, a few such films in existence and it is expected that these will be procured at once.

When the system of education anticipated in the installation of talking picture equipment reaches completion, the result will be the last word in illustrated lectures. Authorities throughout the world will prepare lectures in their various holds to be recorded on the sound track and thus to accompany the pictures wherever they are shown. By this method the best of lectures will be combined with complete and perfectly coordinate illustration.