Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-07

Consider for an instant the sum to-
tai Of what you get from the reading
of novel and the comparative result
you obtain from seing dramatlzed
version Of the same upon the screen.
Consider it just a moment. In the
written form you get what seems q
definite idea of the characters and the
plot, but in the screen version your
visualized ideas Of characters, plot
the period of time, are vastly more
clear-cut and broadened. .......
Just so with the photographs" Ono
of the contributing editors gives his
big ideas on preparedness, Naval ana
Military" another on How to Put the
Gyroscope to Work. or Testing tho
Mine,' Better Babies" and score Of
other subjects, psychological, technical.
educational conlical, trickful, all for
the betterment of humanity.
Your personal ideas upon these sub
jects may be unformulated, but pic
tured wildly on the screen precisely as
Roosevelt, a Palmer Reuterdahl,
Munsterberg or a Sperry have thought
them, these new ideas become rare
food for mental rumination.
So it is that they teach; they becor:e
a motion picture university Of thought:i
q university where industry, manners.
charity, politics, Safety First" or any
Of the great humanities of life can be
portrayed. It's instructions are given
in such pleasing form that the audi
ence-the pupils-never for Single
instance realize that they are actually
being taught; they feel as if they were
being amused. But they think, they
think deeply, and Of vital things. Their
thoughts mould their opinions; their
opinions mould their characters; their
characters are the character of the
whole nation. Character rules en-
pires. ar AA--~
No one denies the force and influenced
the motion picture has been capable Of
creating. The launching Of the Picto-
graphs is however the first practical
attempt to utilize this field for definite
constructive purposes in the matter Of
moulding public opinion, and as the
means for the big men Of the country
to express themselves to a greater
number Of people than was ever before
possible, whether by means of maya
1~~ASSs
Greater than it's circulative advantage
is that it affords opportunity for the
expression of opinion vitality, because
usually, so that everyone irrespective
or nationality can understand. More
than ever will this be a universal Ian
guage. Well can it now be said, LET
me write the scenarios Of the Picto-
graphs, and I care not who writes the
laws
But what is it's policy?' is the nat
ural query. No one is better qualified
to say than William w. Hodkinson,
President Of the Paramount Pictures
Corporation. His words are that
there is a definite policy in back OF
this great proposition and it is not our
endeaVor to make sensational appear
that would embarrass any representa-
tive person who submits articles for
publication in this Magazine: It will
be conducted on high ideals and along
defined lines that will make it a great
er force, if possible, than any printed
publication ever issued. Thus it will
be a truly national Forum of the peo-
pie, open to any man who has an idea
TO impress upon the public mind
never to be a partisan organ, always
TO be an educator and moulder of OplnH
ions IN the true sense of the word"
Where newspictures have been rec
ords of events, Photographs" are rec
ords of thought. A Newspicture may
increase knowledge, q Photograph in
cTeases wisdom.