The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

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rive ring would not endure any pictured seSua'
TO me that was |
ton Of Anglo-Saxon psychology .o-i
1,h,c T. will always be in our theater' "he'"e'
.n admission nrice be five cents or TWO "o''"'' |
American audiences want acuon' INC! ',,d
thr;us. thav want desperate courage ana WIN
harosm: but they want 1t all clean 'he! w..
tho good to triumph, the guilty 10 DC p"'''AN'
and wrong to be avenged .ooo am fo-
par,sian manufacturer offered SZooooo io'
tho right to make moving pictures Oh 'he w.
ammergau Passion Play. His oHer was 'e'''oA
He went back to his studio eheaseu >o'r ~
-, verv skil)ful actors, rehearsed them carel"'1,
and reproduced the Passion fias' A'inos' ." o.a,t
as II was originally done. and the cost was aoo"'
.uort,otb of what he offered for the Original
This manufacturer had an eye on ne" he,a
e., tha moving picture While his imitation VIII.
narhons fnd comparatively small market
aopnot hone to reach the class that ~oulo ha'o
purchased guaranteed reprodncuoh o' '"'
Oberammergau play; viz, the churehes
For the churches have not yet come utterly u'-
dor tina SWAY of the moving picture, despite .he
fact that the Congregational and pFesOy'e'.a"
churches Of Redands. California, showed ihoVihs
pictures all last summer in their ou'ooo' paw
lion u., ava d.
Not IA
voting lot of time and money to rehglous su''
ta"ts ",osenh Going Into Egypt" THE Repuise
of uerod" "Jephthahs Daughter, The hehet
~ Iar,cho" and "rhe Wisdom OF Solomon are
tow ~ the subjects of moving.picture pla!
founded on Biblical accounts.
While the moving pictures are batterlng AT 'ne
doors of the churches they have afeaas pa
tally scaled the walls OF the schooFnouses' ""
Of every seven subjects passed BY the Na'ioha
Board of Censorship, one is elassed as peu'
gogica" ~,
In the catalogues of the manufacturers OIL
finds films that show lessons III asi'"''u'
aeronautcs animal life. bacterloiogy' o'oslaph.
biology, botany, entomology, ethnoiogy' hshe''e
y.oslal;, history, industry, kn"ergat't' -.
les mining and metallurgy. microscopy, hi
tarv and naval life, natural history, ornithoog
= pathology piscicuture religion UaVe' al
n zoology ,o
u # looks like the catalogue Of an educauoh
" publishing house. Yet it is only the list OF MI
o that may be and ordered by tine rao'
d Subjects under these lists are shown daily IN .
1900 theaters that exhibit moving pictures IN u
country. They form entertainment, not ihstr
n ton. They have put the stereopticon our
NC business, not the schoo!master
e' For the public schools have no more SURF
no ,dered to the and plausible invader 'hah III
the churches
n.y. Why?
wby not teach children history by show
ug. them scenes from the lives or great II
the pageants from the great moments that are
.dy and laborousy recorded in the books why
is sit and watch George Washington cross the
as ware on the moving picture sheet 'hs'eao
having to puzzle your head over the dry p
sen that records It on unvened page? Why
late learn, about the growth OF mowers pieasan.'
ork watching picture instead Oh ha'iis W p0''s
in dissect the flower and then piece IL toge
hres again under the instruction OF botany
hook Such pictures can be and are const'
,,ts shown. Do they not mean the revotntio
the pedagogy?
NO, Not long ago the New York Board Of Educ
ures appointed a committee to Investigate this
vben Iect, and find out If it were feasible to IL
ma moving picture machines in the various sc
of the city Superintendent Maxwell! was o
unon committee saw him few days after IL
incts hibition.
rmit. He was not very enthusiastic about tn
lures.
men "A method will never be devised that vii
have any human being the lanoF ., iea,ahe, -.
fight I'VE learn only oy TAKING 'housu'' anu
n an. work hard work. You cannot insert ie
~ hs bynodermically. You cannot swallow 1t
lo;d form There is but one way to take
nu,ac. that II the Oldest way known. You will fin
dive all Of these willo'the-wisps have vanishe
hnrst Il will be the newest way. too"
N was Which throws the moving picture RICH
It was where 1t Deiongs-n the tneaos' ~ ean
,vo, n, permanent place In the church. II can D
real place in the school. though It may b
~ the larry to either. OF both,