Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-10-07
MOTION
PICTURE
REFORM
SOME FRENCHY
FEATURES

the tendencies of motion picture
shows. IL not corrected they will
degenerate into phases OF presenta
tion that Will call for radical legis
lation. The evils should be correct
cd before what IS an innocent source
of amusement for the masses OF the
people-clean five and ten cent
theaters-which advertise for the at.
tendance OF family trade and espe-
cally women and children, becomes
generally condemned for its mixtur
of evil with the good. Some space
Is going 20 be given to this matter
for the sake of the educational effect
these shows have upon the growing
generation, and not because there
should be any prohibition OF the bet
ter class of picture shows They
should bo encouraged AS long as they
are clean and wholesome, but where
Aim Il OF the suggestive or rigls
sort II shosild be barred from public
exhibition the same as any other I'm
decent picture. The moving picture
has all the interest and charm or
life. and when II Is evil n It's IN
nuence u Is the evil OF action ana
not OF the imagination only ~ IN q
mere picture that Ia suggestive.
Function OF Motion Pictures.
writer In the October phto-Ers
or Boston, Mass, thinks the inventor
OF the motion picture would have
smashed HIS model and burned his
patents could he have geen somo of
the freaks. horrors and outrnges per
petrated by the fastest development
or that invcntion-the biograph
vitagraph, cinematoscope or wbatev-
er else II may be styled
A great agent Tor good. mems OF |
education unrivaled, source OF /
much innocent and inexpensive pleas. /
mre, the movlng-pcture show has
come 10 mean, as n rule. n wandering
70 the lowest tastes. n mlsreprcsenta
tion OF life as n reallv ls as harm
ful and more accessible than the
dime novel and the telling of lie.
cor family and universally. not only
IN the fake pictures Il produces. but
IN the way In which the true pic'uree
are run.
Hardly n city In tho land but has
Its moylng-plcture shows I'm boaut'.
fully-furnlshed theaters, or I'm 9tores
transformed by means of stucco and
paint glars and n screen, chairs and
n lantern. aud which have become
vertible gold-mines for their own
ers. The places nay big dividends
at flve-cent admission, the expenses
are small and the profits great. while
the opportunities are endless--for
good or bad As a general rlle. they
are taken IN on the bad, side,
From October Photo-Tra.
To be specific, J recently attended
three such shows In an evening, u [
within two squares OF each other. Ia
yeach show the principal attraction
was tragedy In one the famous
James Brothers murdered, robbed
and set Are 10 their hearts contents |
in another an indian took revenge
on whlto man for q wronE, IN n
manner hlghly satisfactory 40 the
audience. and In the third fome ru'-
fans kdnannod child and wore
Killed IN tho end.
These pictures. ~ course, ere pl7vs
--as much PLAYS as anything one
secs on the STAGE. and often very
good PLAYS. 20 fnr as acting goes.
and almost always With beautiful /
natural seulnrs But the constant .
picturlug of crime I'm any form. even /
NJ iho punishment hN ohown M mo .
end q hn~w"'i o01 ''rr''mH /
thmr ornocialv WHOM l7rT' nor-
eentore OF the pairens ot sncn .
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