Evening journal., 1914-08-13
SOCIETY To furnish
MOVIES TO churches
The Information Educational
League Plan Includes
Schools of Country
BIBLE STORIES
TO BE FEATURE
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-one Of the
biggest religious and educational
movements in the history of this
country is now comfortably housed
at No. Is East Forty-arst street In
one Of New York's newest office
buildings. AT its head is the Duke OF
Manchester, and seconding him is DR..
William Carter, former pastor of the
Madison avenue Reformed Church
end a lecturer of note.
The organization, of which the
Duke is the head is known as the
international Education League and
nc IS International Vice. President of
the lnter-Church Social Service
Of which DR.. Carter is president. The
two organizations have become allied
through common purpose which is
TO put motion pictures in the schools,
churches and other religious and
educational institutions throughout
the United States.
The service which these two or
CARNATIONS will give will have been
started by the first Of October and
viii cover as wide a field as possible
from the first. Later. as The field Is
enlarged, there will be additions to
the service and policy and the serv-
ing OF 10000 churches and schools is
anticipated as one of the possibilities
Of the next five years.
The Inter-Church Social Service
Bureau has already bought a large
number Of religious and educational
films and will continue 10 get the
rest in that line, while the contracts
are already drawn for many clean
dramas and comedies which will be
shown in the weekly programme Of
pictures showing subjects which will
embrace religion, travel, sociology,
education, including especially stories
taken from the Bible.
For the first few months, the In
tcr-Church Social Services Bureau will
not make any OF its own 1lms, but
next year will see considerable
studio activity on the part Of the or
ganization
The service is to be supplied to
churches at very low cost for 5000
feet Of film divided into five subjects.
This service will include the install
lation of a screen and a moving pic
ture projecting machine In the
service which viii cost more. the
Bureau not only will supply these
things. but will send an expert
operator to the church 70 install the
machine and teach a local member
Of the church how TO run 1T.
The present plans of the Bureau for
making films is about this way. Three
companies of actors are to be formed.
One will be sent to Palestine to enact
Bible stories amid the original scenes
which surround the doings of men
and women who are told about in
Holy Writ. Another company will gc
to Egypt for the same purpose; and
a third company will be sent on a tour
of the mission fields OF the world 10
enact stories written around the mis-
sion work of all denominations. These
latter are expected to give those who
support the missions a better idea of
what is going on there
AS the work is enlarged local com
panies will be chosen to present
domestic and present day drama and
comedy which will be used as a part
Of the Bureaus programme each
week
DR.. Carter is president OF the
Bureau, the Duke of Manchester is
the International Vice President and
DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst is vice
president.
The advisory board contains the
names of many men in high ecclesi-
astic and educational circles In the
United States.