Moving Picture Age (Nov-Dec 1919)

MOVING PICTURE AGE 19 |IIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIII[tlllll!llllll!l!ll Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ■:, ! Here and There With Reel and Slide [ lliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim The National Catholic War Council recently entered into a contract to rent motion pictures for exhibition by parishes and. organizations co-operating with the council to promote a higher grade of citizenship, the true meaning of democracy, self-advancement and a taste for wholesome motion pictures. * * * The Rev. John Wirt Dunning of the First Presbyterian Church, Kalamazoo, Mich., is using moving pictures in that church to illustrate sermons. Plans have been made by Charles E. Burbank, principal of North High School, Worcester, Mass., to hold moving picture shows in the school hall every Friday afternoon for the students, with a show in the evening for the parents. Scientists are adopting the motion picture for the improvement of observation in various branches of biology. During the war the faculties of medicine in Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Lille visually preserved surgical operations, and these films will be valuable in the dissemination of the knowledge gained. * # * A safety mass meeting was held in the Grand Opera House in Syracuse, X. Y., for the New York Central employees. A moving picture dealing with safety was given, of which Mr. Marcus A. Dow, general safety agent of the New York Central railroad, is the author. * * # Fire prevention pictures were shown at the First Congregational Church, Salem, Ore., recently. Motion pictures and illustrated songs are given every Saturday morning and are free to all the children in Dayton, Ohio. The children sing new songs illustrated with stereopticon views. * * * A motion picture was presented at the First Methodist Church at San Diego, Cal. The church secured the picturization of Wilson Barrett's "The Sign of the Cross." * * * Louis Brandt gave a lecture before the Pittsburgh Real Estate Board, illustrated with motion pictures on "Housing as It Affects Real Estate," showing the construction of buildings from the manufacturing of materials to final completion of the structure. M. E. Morton of Chicago, who is associated with the United States Steel Corporation, presented several scenes in moving pictures to the members of the Jackson Rotary Club at the Jackson, Mich., City Club Room, that showed the process of making steel. * * * The value of moving pictures for evening worship in all churches was emphasized at a recent meeting of the Ministers' Association in Syracuse, N. Y., by a representative of a church film company. It is believed possible that the church films may be brought into general use. The famous Magnolia Gardens, located near Charleston, S. C, are a feature of Mr. Lyman H. Howe's Travel Festival and were shown in Rochester, N. Y. Moving pictures are given every Sunday for the benefit of the incurable little ones in the children's hospital, Los Angeles, Cal., while at the county hospital a performance is given every day except Sunday in some ward. * * * The high school at Champaign, 111., has secured a contract with a Chicago motion picture bureau to furnish the films for seven plays of an educational nature. iji >{; i£ A program of motion pictures giving a complete history of the life of a sailor from the time he enlists until he boards a battleship, a history of the work of the Red Cross relief workers in Rumania, the canteen service of the American Red Cross, and the story of the Red Cross nurse were shown in Utica, N. Y., at the Free Academy and at the Armory. * * * The Bible from Genesis to Revelations is to be visualized in motion pictures. The Historical Film Company of America is the title of the producing company. The Wild Flower Preservation Society, Chicago Chapter, held its semi-annual meeting and reception in Fullerton Hall, Art Institute. Charles L. Hutchinson read a paper on the Arnold Arboretum, illustrated with colored slides. ^ j{c ^ Prof. A. S. Isaacs of the New York University was speaker at the Y. M. H. A. Community Home in Trenton, N. J. His topic, "At School in Many Lands," was illustrated with stereopticon views. * * * Under the auspices of the C, M. & St. P. railroad, Colonel James W. Taylor of the United States Bureau of Explosives delivered an illustrated lecture at the Butte, Mont., High School. * * •* Dr. A. F. Oilman, who visited Oberammergau in 1910, lectured at Amie Chapel at the Wesleyan in Bloomington, 111., on "The Passion Play," which he illustrated by 70 lantern pictures. * * * F. F. Lewis of Janesville gave an illustrated lecture on the Hawaiian Islands, the volcano of Kilauea and the Leper Colony at the Congregational church, Elkhorn, Wis. * * % "Illinois and Her Public Institutions" was the subjetc of the address with stereopticon pictures given at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Springfield, 111., by Col. Frank D. Whipp of the state Public Welfare Department. % ^ * Rev. Hamlin Etheridge delivered his illustrated lecture on Rome, Italy, at North Augusta, Ga. Mr. Etheridge visited Rome and his pictures were of historical and religious interest. * * % Mr. G. W. Sully gave the feature film, "Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them," as arranged for by the Retail Merchants' Association of Bay City, Mich. Pictures showed the value of advertising, window display, retail failures and their causes, selling methods, modern business methods, store organization, delivery system and system in retail business. * * * Rev, Clarence Reed, pastor of the Unitarian church of Oakland, Cal., commenced November 1 a series of illustrated lectures on "The Reconstruction of Europe." * * # At St. John's Church, Belvidere, 111., a stereopticon lecture was given on "Persia, Manners and Customs," by Mr. Paul Boodgah, who wore a Persian costume. * * * The Rev. Albert Biever, S. J., of New Orleans, gave an illustrated lecture on "The Wonders of the World and a World of Wonders" at the Academy Hall, Vicksburg, Miss. % # * The lecture season of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Public Library opened when Dr. Fay Cooper Cole of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, gave an illustrated lecture on "The Philippines, Before and After American Occupation." * * * A lantern slide lecture was given recently at the Peru, 111., High School on "City Planning," slides used showing the plans of large cities. * * * "Love Scenes of the Great Operas" was an illustrated lecture given by the Musical Art Club, Trenton, N. J., by Walter St. Clara Knodle of Philadelphia. * * # During the convention of the Phelps County Sunday School Association, held at Havelock, Nebr., a stereopticon lecture, "The Organized Sunday School Work," was given by Miss Brown. % sjc * The Rev. Dr. Henry R. Rose, the pastor of the Universalist church, Newark, N. J., had a lecture on "Theodore Roosevelt," illustrated with 175 colored slides. * * * • Stereopticon slides illustrating modern miracles of healing upon deformed and crippled children was a feature at the Liberty Park Methodist Church, Spokane, Wash. % % % At the meeting of the Commerce Association of Houghton, Mich., was given a lecture on the Hog Island shipbuilding plant, illustrated with colored. slides, by E. L. Milliken.