Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

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24 REEL and SLIDE How to Show Movies for Profit In Any School or Church. 7% is New Book Tells You. Get It With Reel and Slide Magazine (One Year). Both for Only $1. Moving picture machines pay for themselves. Earnings cover film rentals. Also buy school or hymn books, musical instruments, and swell your entertainment fund. Motion Pictures Entertain and Instruct Approximately 7000 educational institutions in the United States are today using the moving picture screen to instruct and entertain. Most of them clear a moderate profit on their semi-weekly exhibitions. Projectors are now simple to operate. There are plenty of good, clean films. PICTURES IN THE INSTITUTION ARE THE SUREST WAY TO OFFSET THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNSCRUPULOUS THEATER MANAGER. This Remarkable Book Tells You in Simple Language — All About the Machines — The different types. What they will do. The story of their development. How to Operate a Picture Projector — Simply described, in plain language: installing a standard machine; what the portable machines are; how to show pictures with them; what they cost. The Moving Picture Program — How churches and schools select their programs; what films they show; length of reels; classes of subjects. Where to Get the Films— Who produces the films! where they can be rented; what they cost; how they are shipped; how the film exchange operates. Increasing Usefulness of Films — Natural color films; educationals; instructive reels; clean photodramas; travelogs; scenic pictures; comedies; biblical and historical productions; natural science. How to Get an Audience — Advertising the weekly exhibition; methods that bring crowds; what to charge; how to sell tickets. Films in Church Work — Swelling attendance and building up a congregation; the Pastor's Lecture Series; the film and the Sermon; church entertainments. An offer made only to readers of Reel and Slide Magazinethe authority on educational moving pictures. A Please say, "As advertised in REEL and SLIDE/' when you write to advertisers.