Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

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LANTERN SLIDES BAPTISTS TO RAISE $100,000,000 BY MEANS OF SLIDES 52 Lectures and Nearly 15,000 Slides Available from 16 Depositories in Different Parts of the Countr)'—Unique Features of This Visual Work Undertaken by 10,666 Baptist Churches By W. Howard Ramsey THE educative value of the stereoplicon in religious and social visual appeal with its vividness of impression and universality work is being increasingly realized by the churches. The of appeal to both the educated and the ignorant is making the pictured story that the slides tell one of the greatest helps that missionaries and preachers at home and abroad have yet discovered. For example, the Northern Baptist Convention, which is to launch a campiign from April 25 to May 2 to raise $100,000,000 for the New World Movement of Northern Baptists, has a librar>- of up- wards of 10,000 slides already on hand and is adding between 3,000 and 4,000 more as fast as the orders for lliem can be filled. These slides are made up into lecture sets which are kept iu circulation throughout the 10,666 Baptist churches from sixteen dif- ferent depositories located at strategic points in the leading cities from Boston. Massachusetts, to Portland, Oregon. The distributioii ie in charge of Harry S. Myers of the Northern Baptist Board of Promotion. There are 52 lectures in the series so that, if any church desired, it might have a new lecture with a full complement of slides every week in the year whh no duplication. Some are particularly adapted to the reeds" of Sunday schools, but the majority are suited to any audience. The text which accompanies the slides is prepared in looseleaf form so that the lecture may be revised, new slides added or old ones removed without involvinj: llie preparation of a complete new manuscript. Moreover, in the latest lectures sent out the leaves in addition to bearing the slide number and the number of the negative also have pasted to them, above the reading matter, a photographic print so that the lecturer, who may have received the text the same day that he is to deliver the talk, can study the pictures in the book and will have the same view before him that his hearers see pro- jected upon the screen. Slides Cover Missionary Activities The lectures cover a wide range of material, principally relating to home and foreign mission fields and most of them include one slide with the words of an appropriate hymn. In connection with the New World Movement of Northern Baptists thirty copies each have been prepared of two lectures, one covering the five year program of the denomination at home and the other the foreign mission work that is proposed. These will be delivered hundreds of times in all parts of the country where there are Northern Bap- tist churches with a view to educating the general membership in regard to the past accomplishments and the future needs of the church. But it is not in America alone that the Baptists are making use of the stereopticon in their religious endeavor. In China, India, the Philippines, Africa, and other mission fields they have projecting machines at various mission stations and slides teaching the dangers of tuberculosis, the way to care for babies, the value of sanitation, and other practical things of which the natives are in almost abject ignorance. THE TOURISCOPE AT L ST-Lantern Slides ON FILMS Greatest Invention in History of the Stere- opticon -— 1 akes 100 slides or more . on one continuous ^ <ilm;non-inflammabl vreighing only 3 ounces attaches to or- USE The VICTOR Portable Stereopticon The Choice of.THousands of Users Send for Catalogue rOURlSCOPE DEPT. UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD 417 FIFTH AVCNUE, NEW YORK Chicago Depository. Geo. W. Bonn Slide Co., U W. Washington St. This is an Era of Visualization VISUALIZE EDUCATIONAL. AMERICANIZATION and INDUSTRIAL WORK by VICTOR STANDARD FEATHERWEIGHT SLIDE SUBJECTS Special Shdes Made from Any Copy. Catalogues and Trial Terms Mailed Upon Request The Manufacturers VICTOR ANIMATOGRAPH; CO. INCORPORATED 122 Victor Bldg. Davenport, la. 26