The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-21
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assist the local high schools in MAX
ing the reels and to attend to their
proper circulation.
The cost of this department of the
university which would soon instruct
ia million students, would be almost
nothing. One manager. a coach and
photographer would constitute the de-
'partment That which we spend in
this state in one night for entertain
ment in moving picture halls, silly and
vapid as these often are for lack of
direction, would be sufficient to endow
the department and furnish to our en-
tire population superior set of reels
and practically without cost to them
lat ALL
The moving picture film is one of
the miracles of our age. 1t is giant
babe" only ten years old. And nat
urally we have scarcely had time to
think of its adaptability to university
education extension and social value.
All objects contained in all the
museums and laboratories and those
which are visable on the earth and un-
der the seas; all that are yisable by
aid of the telescope and the microscope
and all that scientists can imagine and
|artists picture could, if we had this
university department at Norman, be
made visable in every common school
house throughout the state Surgical
Operations can be represented to the
Ieye anywhere in the inhabitable world
and at any time after the operations
have been performed. About all that
can be done in laboratories and in in
dustrial arts could be witnessed daily
by all the common people, old and
young, simply for our asking.
One authority states that the mo-
ton picture theatres of the United
States now have a daily attendance of
more than four million persons. This
lis more than five times as many as
were drawn to the theatre in its most
prosperous days before the motion
pictures" were introduced.
A staff writer of the Survey" has
written "On an island two thousand
miles out in the Pacific ocean the ex-
lied lepers of Molokai gather daily be-
fore the wonders of the screen that
shows the wonders of life and freedom.
Seated in the luxurious saloon of an
ocean liner group of travellers study
llife-like pictures of the countries for
which they are bound. In Iceland, ex-
cited Eskimos applaud the heroism of
an American cowboy who rescues a
maiden from the redskins. Half way
round the world, in northern Russia
fearful peasants sorrow over the pic
tured flight of forlorn French lover"
In the catalogues of motion pictures
now prepared and ready for such a
university department as suggested,
under general department titles we find
the following: Applied science, agri-
culture, fine arts, history, literary, re-
lligious, military, sports, travel and
natural science. There exists films
showing the story of the silk worm" !"
the life of Abraham Lincoln, the pro-
cess of making steel and a tour of
Palestine. While the health crusades
against tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
malaria, impure milk the pest of flies
and unhygienic housing conditions are
all equipped with film-stories to aid
them There is scarcely an industry
whose processes have not been record
ed, nor corner of the globe whose
iscenic charms have not been populariz-
ed through this agency. Ba terial ac-
ton, sanitation, first aid TO the in
jured, basket ball games and campus
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