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imagination and all of his powers of thought and feeling. By the new method of teaching music, the student is first taught to feel, then to create — to make a thing of art by his own individual ability. The old system made him first study the creations of others and discouraged his own expression. But we have learned that it is really through doing the thing ourselves that we learn and grow. More than any other educational force has the screen art aroused the Creative Impulse in the masses.
The motion picture itself is an expression of that force which is back of the tremendous change going on in life; it is part of the new education that teaches by helping a man to develop and to express that which is within him. It is a visualization of the tremendous desire for self-expression that beats in the pulse of the world today.
The writing of the photodrama is a work which offers big opportunities to the ones who with patient persistence follow it to success. The demand for this product is far, far greater than the supply. Indeed, the demand has become such as to create something of a panic. Producers are facing the big problem of an alarmingly insufficient supply of photoplay material. A startling number of photodramas each year are necessary to supply the market. The circulation of a published novel covers years. A successful stage production may run two or three seasons in a metropolitan theatre, after which it will be played for years perhaps on the "road" and in stock companies. But the photodrama has a much shorter existence; even those big special features which have "runs" are comparatively short lived.
When a picture is first produced a large number of prints are made from the original negative. These copies are shown simultaneously in the many "first run" city theatres throughout the country. Then they go to the smaller theatres. After a few weeks of second, third and fourth run displays they are shelved. Occasionally one of special merit is reproduced — for example, "The Birth of a Nation."
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During this formative period of the screen art, methods have changed so rapidly that these early successes now seem old-fashioned. With the present understanding of a more
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