The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1911-05-05

lrzc ring would not endure any pictured sexual
deprnviy To mo that was wonderful reyea.
ton Of Anglosaxon psychology
Thus II will always be In our theatcr. whether
tho admission price be i've cents or two dollars.
American audiences want action: they want
thrills; they want desperate courage and wild
horoism; but they want II all clean. They want
the good to triumph. the guilty to be punished,
and wrong 20 be avenged.
Partisan manufacturer offered 100000 for
the right to make moving pictures Of the Obcr.
Ammerral Passion Play His oner was refused
lie went back TO his studio engaged company
Of very nkllful actors. rehearsed them carefully
and reproduced the Passion Play. almost as well
as II was originally done and the cost was about
twentieth Of what no offered for the original.
This manufacturer had an eye on a new field
for the moving picture. While his imitation WILL
perhaps. ind n comparatively small market. II
cannot hope TO reach the class that would have
purchased guaranteed reproduction OF tho
oberammergau play; viz. the churches.
For the churches have not yet come utterly un.
der the sway OF tho moving picture. despite tho
fact that the Congregational and Presbyterian
churches Of Redlands. California. showed moving
pictures all last summer in their outdoor paw
lion.
Yet the moving picture manufacturers are do
voting n lot Of time and money TO religious sub.
iects. Joseph Going Into Egypt" "The Repulse
OF Herod," "JcphthahH Daughter THE Relief
OF Jericho" and THE Wisdom OF Solomon" arc
a few Of tho subjects Of moyng.plcture plays
founded on Biblical accounts.
While the moving pictures are battering at tho
doors OF the churches they have already par
TALLY scaled the walls OF tho schoolhousea Out
Of every seven subjects passed by the National
Board OF Censorship, one IL classed as "peda
goglcal"
In the catalogues OF the manufacturers ono
finds films that show lessons In agriculture
heronautlcs. animal life. bacterIology biography
biology botany, entomology. ethnology, fisheries
geography. history. industry. kindergarten stud
les, mining and metallurgy. microscopy, milf
tary and naval life. natural history. ORTHODOXY
pathology plsclculture. religion travel and
zoology"
II looks like tho catalogue OF nm educational
publishing house Yet II Is only the list Of films
that may be and are ordered by "the trade"
Subjects under these lists are shown daily In the
1900 theaters that exhibit moving pictures In this
country They form entertainment. not instruc.
ton. They have put the stereopticon out OF
business, not the schoolmaster.
For the public schools have no more surren.
dered to the new and plausible invader than have
the churches
why7
Why not teach children history by showing
them scenes from the lives OF great men.
pageants from the great moments that are duly
and laborlously recorded in the books Why not
sit and watch George Washington cross the Della.
ware ,on the moving picture sheet. instead OF
having TO puzzle your head over the dry print
that records II on unliyened pager Why not
learn about the growth OF flowers pleasantly. by
watching a picture instead OF having TO patiently
dissect the flower and then piece II together
again under the instruction OF botany text
book? Such pictures can be and are constantly
shown. DO they not mean the revolution OF
pedagogy?
Not long ago the New York Board OF Education
appointed n committee TO Investigate this sub
ject, and find out II II were feasible to install
moyirs ,lcture machines in the various schools
OF IN, =. Superintendent Maxwell was on the
committee. ! saw him few days after the ex
hbtiOn.
lie was not very enthusiastic about the pic
lures
"A method will never be devised that will save
any human being the labor Of learning" he said,
I'VE learn only by taking thought and that s
work hard work You cannot insert learning
Fundamentally You cannot swallow II In tab
loid form There is but one way to take II, and
that II the oldest way known, You will find after
all OF these wlllo'thewlsps have vanished that
Il will be the newest way too"
Which throws the moving picture right back
whore II beongs-n the theater. II can have no
permanent place In the church It can have no
real place in the school, though Il may be au1il
larry to either. or both