The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

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Intxotnittox^ ular play or "Best Seller." The words, "properly picturized," emphasized above, are significant. The motion-picture manufacturer stands to the author in the position of publisher — he needs you — you need him. There are good and bad publishers — you, whose name is an asset, would not deal with a publisher of questionable methods — ergo — when seeking out a market for your work, deal with none but the highest class and best and oldest established motionpicture concerns. MOVING PICTURES AND A SANE SCHOOL CURRICULUM By J. Berg Esenwein, A.M., Ph.D. Editor of Lippincott's Magazine; Author of "Writing the Photoplay." Five years ago, I printed a plea for a complete moving-picture equipm.ent in every large school house. Today the necessity is even more obvious. The men and women out in the doing, and not merely the theorizing, world know that our schools are crowding the pupils unduly and that some drastic change is needed if our children are to be properly educated and yet not have their nervous systems shattered by the strain. Old John Bunyan solved the problem centuries ago when he placed Eye Gate side by side with Ear Gate as avenues to the mind — we must teach less by books and use the moving picture for educational purposes more and more. True, educational films are not wanting, at least to some extent. But the next great step forward will be