White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-30
IN THE OWING
PICTURE WORLD
WONDERFUL GROWTH N THIS
BUSINESS IN THE LAST FEN
YEARS AND ITS FAR REACH
ING EFFECT.

How many of the thousands who
daily gaze al the various moving
pictures exhibited all over this
country and Europe. realize what a
change the discovery of Edison has
made in the lives of themselves and
of millions of Others all over the
world. And yet the moving pic
ture has had a verv notable and
~perceptible effect on the back to
the farm movement now o notice
able all over America, TO instance.
but one of its effects on humanity.
I In the very nature OF things,
actors and actresses Of the very
highest grade can only be cen by
a few people. They can only appear
in the principal towns and cities.
and even if they have a run at a
large theater in a city as big as New
York, they have only appeared be-
fore a very small percentage of
the entire population. although their
season lasts for a year or more.
They. personally, can only be in
one place al a time. The moving
picture has enabled them 10 appear
before thousands daily. and in
hundreds of places al one and
their performances create as much
enthusiasm before a cowboy audience
in Wyoming. as greets il when il is
~applauded by the Native Sons on
Market street in San Francisco or
the immigrants who compose the
audience at IN Of the nickelodeons
on the Dowery.
The result of this intense inter
est in the moving picture entertain
ment is the same so far as the au-
dienoe is concerned as though the
performance were on a stage given
by actors. Consequently. il is of the
greatest importance that the plays
selected. and the stories told in the
picture should be of an eleYating. as
well as an entertaining character.
That they appear real TO the au-
dienee. that the suggestions they
carry are of weight and importance
is shown by the fact that in many
juvenile criminal cases the crimes
of the young offenders have been
admitted due TO the effect on their
part TO carry out in real life the
burglaries and r~obberies which they
had seen illustrated on the curtain.
II the bad moving picture makes
for evil the good moving picture
mus make for good.
The moving picture l. to thous-
ands the only connecting link with
the great outside world. L is the
Only glimpse they get OF a life diff
ferent from their own, and 1t is only
the part Of wisdom to show them
that which will make them seek for
the higher and better. rather than
for hat which is sordid and low.
i has become a wonderful
factor in the education Of the people.
particularly the younger generation.
bringing before the inhabitants Of
various countries scenes of foreign
lands they would never have the
privilege OF visiting and conditions
Of life of which they have Y
known. Scenes OF grandeur. mag
niieence and beauty. stories Of
love and romance. deeds of daring
and self-sacrifoe. pictures Of humor-
Gus situations of everyday life
with which they do not come in
contact. as well as those of sorrow.
squalor. want and suffering exist
ing through some form Of injus-
tiee. lead people to think in
channels outside their v selfish
existence and has a broadening
effect in many instances where litera-
ture would not have reached.