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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE.
of the humblest audience is high, as shown by the response to the sentiments shown in the pictures. In brief, the general influence of the moving picture play is remarkably good, and it promises to be even better in the future.
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Sunday School superintendents, attention ! If you really want to teach your children the various stories of the Bible, together with the truths which they illustrate, why not hire a Moving Picture apparatus? Such photoplays as "Herod and the New Born King" will please and instruct the young as will nothing else, and what is more, they will never be forgotten. It is indeed a strange notion that some hyper-bigotted people seem to have, that in every Motion Picture machine there lurks a devil with red horns who taints every film that runs across the lens. A Motion Picture machine is no more out of place in a church than is an organ. We must learn to distinguish between the use and the abuse of a thing.
The world is slow to recognize the possibilities in the Motion Picture. If this were ancient Sparta, they would be utilizing the films to teach boys how to fight; or if in the classical period of Greece, how to paint or to carve, or to draw, or even how to think philosophically. It would be an interesting experiment if a dozen children should be taught by means of Moving Pictures, all the school branches such as geography, history, botany, astronomy and the classics; and, at the end of about one year, to compare these children's education with that of a dozen similar children who had been five years learning all this in the schools.
A correspondent writes to inquire if this magazine accepts stories from the Picture Plays of the so-called "Independents. " Certainly. Why not? We know no difference between an independent play and a dependent play. t If the manufacturers have differences, they do not concern us. We accept and pay for all stories of the Picture Plays that meet with our requirements, and it does not concern us who made the films.
We note with pleasure the increasing high standard of photoplays. The output of last month, as near as we can determine, is a decided advance in quality over those of preceding months.