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Copyiig-hted 192J. by Ted Taylor
DEVOTED TO THE NEWS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
TED TAYLOR, PUBLISHER
Entered as second class matter, August 11, 1918, at the postofftce at Los Angeles, Cal., under act of March S, 1879.
Ruth Wing Editor
Doris Mortlock Assistant Editor
Eugene H. Klum Art Editor
S. W. Lawson Business IVlanager
Fred W. Fox Advertising Manager
Ora Brook ...Circulation Manager
^= Price 10 cents per copy, $2.00 per year in Los Angeles County. Outside Zone, $2.50 per year. Canada, $3.00; Foreign, $3.50
= Edited and printed on Saturday afternoon of each week at 4513 Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California.
PKone 595-179
Vol. V.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1922
No. 27
"TF JESUS CHRIST were on earth today, He \ would not only sanction the movies . . . He would act for the clicking camera and probably write scenarios."
The national chaplain of the American Legion, the Rev. Earl Blackman, said that the other day in Wichita, Kansas, addressing the exhibitors in convention there . . .
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Dr. John Rayhill of the Central Congregational church of Topeka, Kansas, shows a motion picture in the Central Congregational church there each Sunday night, and bases his sermon on it. . . .
The former occupant of this pulpit resigned to accept a position in the movies. He is Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, now editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald Motion Picture bureau. . . .
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Out at Burbank the Sacred Films, Inc., is studiously filming the Old Testament.
In New York the other day clergymen sat down side by side with exhibitors and heard plans to exhibit in theaters, every week for a year, pictures of the Holy Land. . . .
Over at Oberammergau producers are seeking the screen rights to the Passion play. . . .
Last Sunday Milton Sills occupied the pulpit of a Wilshire church and gave his theories of religion. . : .
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THE foregoing items have appeared, as news, in vai-ious periodicals this week.
They form their own editorial. They mean one thing :
Trusting comradeship is grozving befzvceii pulpit and screen. The age of mutual mistrust is over. A nezv era opens for both.
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These Frizes
CECIL DE MILLE will give $1000 for an original idea for a photoplay.
Well, a good original idea is worth a thousand dollars. Only in the trade we pronounce it "million."
William Fox offered in New York $1000 for a better title than "A Little Child Shall Lead Them."
If Messrs. Fox and DeMille would address offers to freelance screen writers instead of making one leap from the salaried staff" slaves to the general public, they might be agreeably surprised by uncovering new screen talent, and at the same time be saved the trouble of examining hundreds of thousands of submitted suggestions.
It's a happy thought. But on mature consideration, probably DeMille's offer is 90 percent a circulation stunt for the Los Angeles Times, and Fox's offer is 99 percent an exploitation stunt for the Lyric theater.
In making this issue of Camera! a Writers' Issue, ive aim to tell the ivorld zvhat zve think of screen zuriiers, and to let the screen zvriters understand that zve're for them, strong. Many a pair of horn-rimmed glasses adorns a set of hard-zvorking brains, and many a calloused hand is so from pounding ideas into typezvriter keys.
The Writers — may their screen credit increase!